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The Conch end of year FIESTA LATINA

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The Conch LATIN FIESTA

Let the Refugees in!

7pm, Saturday, December 12

MUA Hall 46 – 54 Ireland St West Melbourne

Join THE CONCH & friends to support the struggle to let refugees into Australia, to celebrate another year of solidarity and activism, another year of revolution in Latin America & another year of comradeship in Melbourne!
go to www.theconch.org …
Info ph Jo 0435 519 610 or Roberto 0425 182 994.
Bar & food available. Entry $10/5.
Proceeds to the Refugee Action Collective (RAC-Vic), Centre for Latin America Studies & Solidarity (CLASS) & Direct Action Activist Centre.

Labor stirs anti-refugee hysteria

By Kerry Vernon. from www.directaction.org.au

Tamil asylum seekers from Sri Lanka, diverted from entering Australia and put on the Australian Customs ship Oceanic Viking, had been refusing food for two days and refusing to leave the ship at Kijang for the Indonesian immigration detention prison, Tanjung Pinang, on Bintan Island on October 26. It had been more than a week since the 78 asylum seekers, including a sick 12-year-old girl, were put aboard the Australian ship after being intercepted by the Indonesian navy on October 11 and diverted from reaching Australia in a deal between Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

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World Citizen

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Try It

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