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Forum: Can our First Nations Peoples celebrate

UN

Human Rights Day?


9 December 2014 - 5.30pm for 6pm start

Trades Hall Auditorium,
Entry via Unions NSW,
377 Sussex Street St
Sydney 2000

For Media Coverage by NITV: please click here


Forum marking UN Human Rights Day

 

Can First Nations’ Peoples celebrate UN Human Rights Day?

 

· Land theft and the Intervention

 

· Ongoing Stolen Generations

 

· World’s worst incarceration rates

 

· No sovereignty

 

Speakers

Ray Jackson, President Indigenous Social Justice Association

 

Aunty Debra Swan, Grandmothers Against Removals

 

Chris Graham, Editor New Matilda and Associate Producer of John Pilger's ‘Utopia’

 

Jeff McMullen, CEO (honorary) of Ian Thorpe’s Fountain for Youth

 

 

For the leaflet: please click here

For the poster: please click here

For the media release: please click here

Sponsored by:

 

Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney, Grandmothers Against Removals,

Indigenous Social Justice Association and APHEDA

State Government’s threat to close remote communities:
Article and background info about WA Government’s move and its far-reaching implications: please click here

 

 

Videos from the Event:

 

1. Complilation

Can First Nations’ Peoples celebrate UN Human Rights Day? - Compliation on Vimeo.

 

2. Ray Jackson

Can First Nations’ Peoples celebrate UN Human Rights Day? - Ray Jackson on Vimeo.

 

3. Debra Swan

Can First Nations’ Peoples celebrate UN Human Rights Day? - Debra Swan on Vimeo.

 

4. Jeff McMullen

Can First Nations’ Peoples celebrate UN Human Rights Day? - Jeff McMullen on Vimeo.

 

5. Chris Graham

Can First Nations’ Peoples celebrate UN Human Rights Day? - Chris Graham on Vimeo.