Supporting the Sovereign Tent Embassy in Brisbane
22 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Brisbane, Community, Events, I Support Tags: Human Rights, Indigenous Land, Sovereignty, Treaty
On the Land of the Nation gathered
The Elders of the Nation
The Youth of the Nation
The Children of the Nation
The People of the Nation
The Visitors to the Nation
In fact, it is the state, Territory and federal governments of Australia who should now be seeking legal advice on the true nature of the Aboriginal sovereignty claim as it will not be going away. Our assertion of sovereignty over this continent is real and legally just. It is in English Law, and the English and the Australians have no choice but to deal with it in a mature and just manner.
We expect that the Australian governments will now depend very heavily upon their police to terrorize our sovereignty movement, rather than speak to us as one would expect diplomacy would dictate. But the use of force will clearly demonstrate that each of the governments, from the Federal level down to the municipal councils, will demonstrate to the Australian public that they find themselves under siege. Consequently, they will choose to use superior force.
We are in the process of alerting Secretary-General of the United Nations to our sovereignty movement and are calling upon him to invoke UN General Assembly resolution 2625 (XXV)(A 8082) 24 October 1970, called:
The Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning friendly relations and co-operation among States in accordance with the charter of the United Nations.
Just Dates: May
26 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
May is Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month
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7-12 International Composting Awareness Week
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9-15 Social Sector Financial Literacy Day
13-19 Food Allergy Awareness Week
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15 International Day of Families
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- World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
- International Day Against Homophobia
- Walk for Justice
20 National Palliative Care Week
21 World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
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22 International Day for Biological Diversity
25 Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories
27-3 June Reconciliation Week
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30 World MS Day
Just Dates: April
02 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
13-22 National Youth Week
22 Earth Day
23 World Book and Copyright Day
Just Dates: March
01 Mar 2012 Leave a Comment
National Epilepsy Awareness Month
10-18 Bike week
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31 Earth Hour
Just Dates: February
30 Jan 2012 Leave a Comment
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6 Waitangi Day Aotearoa New Zealand
12 Indigenous Freedom Ride Anniversary 1965
13 Stolen Generations Apology 2008
14 Act for Kids
20 World Day of Social Justice
Welcome 2012
01 Jan 2012 2 Comments
Welcome to January 1st. In the “Land of the Long Weekend” this is the day to recover from the NYE parties and celebrations. It’s a day at the beach or home with a ‘Barby“.
The Church struggles to get a full house on this day although there is a bonus when it falls on a Sunday as has happened this year. In good old Catholic Tradition this day was known as the Feast of the Circumcision of the Lord. Yes, it is the only Catholic feast for a medical procedure. As with all great Biblical accounts there is a picture gallery available on Google.
Circumcision gets some pretty good press in the Scriptures as a popular practice and metaphor. By the time you have worked through the Hebrew Scriptures and made your way to some of Paul’s letters you get to the most cutting of his statements: “Beware of the cutters,” (Ph.3:2). So, there you have it, time to stop infant circumcision!! If Paul was around today he would probably join one of the Facebook pages against infant circumcision.
Thanks to this feast we also have a great new word for scrabble: prepuce. The Holy Prepuce or the story of the foreskin relics is another contribution of Catholicism to the religious entertainment industry. It seems that we can also learn a bit from Michelangelo about this practice.
The United Nations Theme for 2012: The International Year of Cooperatives
In Australia we will celebrate The National Year of Reading
And to sing in this New Year I suggest we can do nothing better than join the chorus of We Are the Many
The 12 Days of Christmas
31 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: 12 days of christmas, christmas day, days of christmas, holy innocents
As we celebrate the 12 Days of Christmas I invite you to visit my Holy Irritant Blog for reflections on each of these days.
Second Day of Christmas:The Essential Nativity Extra
Third Day of Christmas A Holy Day for Queers
Fourth Day of Christmas : The Holy Innocents
Gifts That Celebrate Christmas
10 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
in Events, Uncategorized Tags: East Timor, From Little things Big Things Grow, Timor Leste
New Title from Timor Leste
The children of Delecu in Timor Leste have written and illustrated a lovely book. The story of the book is itself an amazing tale of cross cultural experience. When Katrina Powell read ”From Little things Big Things Grow” to her class in Delecu she had no idea it would unleash a new partnership of language and community as her students took the text and story and made it their own.
The Kev Carmody/Paul Kelly iconic song From Little Things Big Things Grow is now an inspiration for the dreams of a new generation of kids in Timor Leste.
Edita de Jesus one of the young students and teacher Katrina Powell spoke about the inspiration of the Gurindji people, having chalk for school and going shopping in Brisbane, during their book launch tour here in Australia.
You can purchase this book online. Funds raised from sales will assist the Edmund Rice Primary School and distribution in East Timor.
Just Dates December
30 Nov 2011 Leave a Comment
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31 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
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