Regarding the list of Protests mentioned in the above post, Ana just sent me the details….

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Alice Springs
Alice Springs Council Lawns
Saturday July 14th
12:30pm
For information, contact Hilary on 0419244012

Kulin Nations (Melbourne)
Saturday 14 July, 12:30 pm — City Square, corner of Swanston and Collins Streets

- Stop the Genocide on Stolen Aboriginal Land!
- End Aboriginal deaths in Custody! Justice for Mulrunji and all killed in custody.
- Implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody!
- Land rights not mining rights! No new mines, no new dumps!
- Fund community controlled services, not troops, cops and martial law!
- Social well-fair, not social control!
- Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs! Treaty NOW!

Turrbal country, Brisbane
Saturday 14 July 2007, 11:00am — Queens Park (Cnr George & Elizabeth Sts) Ph Sam 0401 227 443.

Stop black deaths in custody. Oppose Howard’s racist treatment of Aboriginal communities.

Gadigal Eora Nation, Sydney
Rally at 10:00am at the Block (next to Redfern Station) for the march
Stand up with the Aboriginal community on Saturday 14th July at 10:00am at the Block to demand:

- Stop the genocide, end Indigenous deaths in custody
- Land Rights not mining rights - no mines and no dumps
- Funding for community controlled services not cops and troops

Canberra
Aboriginal Tent Embassy — Saturday 14th July 2007, 11.am

Join us in a march from the Tent Embassy to Garema Place, Civic.

How can we celebrate NAIDOC when the government occupies Aboriginal Communities with armed forces? Invasion is happening again in Australia. The Howard regime similar to Hitler’s regime has occupied communities. While they say it’s in the best interest of the Aboriginal people we know it’s a land grab. Fight for Justice for Aboriginal people.

Noongar country, Perth
RALLY 1pm SAT JULY 14 - Wesley Church — Corner Hay and William Streets, Perth — Phone 9218 9608

Aboriginal Rights: National Day of Action - PERTH
- Stop Aboriginal deaths in custody
- Jail police who kill
- Implement all recommendations from the 1990 Royal Commission, and open a new Royal Commission into all deaths since - including Mulrunji’s death in the Palm Island watchhouse…
- Fund health, housing, education & jobs for Aboriginal communities NOT troops, cops and racist laws
- Black control of Black affairs & land
- Land rights not nuclear waste dumps

Aotearoa

Te Upoko o te Ika /Wellington Aotearoa/NZ
Rally and march in solidarity with the indigenous peoples of Australia’s Northern Territory !
12-2pm Saturday July 14th, rally and march from Midland Park to Te Aro park

Central Wellington . Please show your support by joining the rally.

We aim to
- Send a loud and clear message of solidarity to the indigenous peoples suffering from Howard’s racist attacks on human rights.
- Raise awareness of issues concerning colonisation and stolen land, racism, family violence, and how indigenous peoples throughout the South Pacific face further loss of land to big mining companies.
- And raise some money for communities which are suffering from Howard’s policies.

Also the day before the solidarity rally, please come and protest Australia’s racism at the Australian embassy.

12:30-1:30 pm Friday July 13th, demo at Australian Embassy

(Hobson St, Thorndon). Meet at the park over the road from 12:15pm.
For further info email Mark lifesariot@… or ph 021 2333 424.

Tamakimakaurau/Auckland
Auckland: Protest this Saturday | Stop the Invasion of Aboriginal Communities

Rally and march in solidarity with the indigenous peoples of Australia’s Northern Territory!

11am to 12pm Saturday July 14th, rally and march from Britomart Transport Centre to Australian Consulate.

Please show your opposition to Howards’s racist attacks by joining the rally. Bring banners and placards if you can but some will be provided. Organised by A Space Inside anarchists, visting Australian students and Socialist Workers.

We aim to:
- Send a loud and clear message of solidarity to the indigenous peoples suffering from Howard’s racist attacks on human rights.
- Raise awareness of issues concerning colonisation and stolen land, racism, family violence, and how indigenous peoples throughout the South Pacific face further loss of land to big mining companies.

We stand in solidarity with the International Day of Action against Howard’s land grab-

*Stop the Genocide on Stolen Aboriginal Land
*End Aboriginal deaths in Custody! Justice for Mulrunji and all killed in custody.
*Implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody!
*Land rights not mining rights! No new mines, no new dumps!
*Fund community controlled services, not troops, cops and martial law!
*Social well-fair, not social control!
*Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs! Treaty NOW!

Otepoti/ Dunedin
12pm onwards in the Octagon. The crew in Dunedin will be setting up a Tent Embassy.

This is what our letter looks like now (see below).

Please feel free to comment. It is posted at my site.

I think Ahni is right, we should turn this into a petition so we can collect signatures.

A letter writing campaign will be ignored and it is impossible to measure in terms of numbers.

OK, so we should have this running by the end of this week.

Ahni thanks for the additional resources you posted on my site.

Peace and struggle,
Ridwan

Ambassador Dennis Richardson
Embassy of Australia
1601 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington D.C., 20036

Dear Sir,

I am writing to inform you that I am participating in a boycott by foreign tourists against Australia.

The tourist boycott is in response to Prime Minister Howard’s recently adopted plan to institute what I consider draconian measures against Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory. In particular, I am protesting the intention to institute compulsory medical examinations of Aboriginal children.

I consider the overal effect of Prime Minister Howard’s stated plan to be racist, immoral, and illegal in terms of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.

I have no wish to make this boycott last any longer than necessary. But I will continue to participate as long as the policies above remain in force.

Sincerely,
[signed]

As of this writing we are putting together a letter aimed at the Howard.

Please stop by and tell us what you think. Make an input into the wording and content of the letter.

I appreciate this forum very much.

Peace and struggle,
Ridwan Laher