World Refugee Day Rally - It's time to end Mandatory detention

WORLD REFUGEE DAY - MARCH AND RALLY

Information taken from the official Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=170456896347356

Where: Sydney Townhall
When: Noon (12pm), Sunday June 19

At the rally we have great speakers including Sarah Hanson Young (Greens), Renuka Balasubramaniam (Lawyers for Liberty, Malaysia), and Abdul Karim (Hazara refugee and ex-detainee).

We have had an overwhelming response from our call out for endorsements (see our current list below). People are coming to join the march from all around Sydney and as far as the Blue Mountains, Bathurst, Newcastle and Wollongong.

So we hope to see you all on World Refugee Day to make clear:
‘It’s time to END Mandatory DETENTION’

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Help us build the rally:
1. A poster you can print out and stick up at work or near home is attached.

2. Talk to your friends and family and neighbours and work colleagues about World Refugee Day rally and invite them along! Invite your friends to this Facebook event!

3. Ask us for flyers and posters to distribute in your workplace, campus or local area. Call Jemima 0433 584 050 or email jemima.mowbray@sydney.edu.au
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Current endorsements: AID/WATCH, Australian Council for International Development, Australian Council for International Development, Australian Tamil Congress, Balmain for Refugees, Bathurst Refugee Support Group, Blue Mountains Refugee Support Group, Braidwood Greens, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney, ChilOut, Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (NSW), Cross Border Collective, David Shoebridge (MLC, Greens), Dr Claudia Tazreiter, UNSW, Edmund Rice Centre, Eva Cox (Research Fellow, Jumbunna, UTS), Fairfield Liverpool Greens, Friends of the Earth, Sydney, Greens NSW, Inner Sydney Greens, Jamie Parker, MP, Greens (Member for Balmain), Justice John S. Purdy, Labor 4 Refugees (NSW), Lake Macquarie Greens, Marie Coleman, Women’s Advocate (Senior Australian of the Year 2011), Maritime Union of Australia, Sydney Branch, Multicultural Disability Advocacy Association of NSW, Muslim Youth of Sydney, National Tertiary Education Union NSW, Newcastle Greens, Northern Beaches Greens, NSW Council for Civil Liberties, Paramatta Greens, Refugee Action Coalition, NSW, South Sydney Greens, Student Environment Activist Network - NSW & ACT (SEAN), Sydney Peace Foundation, Tweed Greens, University of Sydney, Sydney University Anti-Racism Collective, Union Aid Abroad/APHEDA, UNSW AntiRacism Club, UNSW Student Representative Council, UTS Anti-Racism Collective

Please also visit musician Cam MacKellar’s blog and download two beautiful (and free) songs highlighting Australia’s treatment of refugees. Share them with everyone you know! (http://cammackellar.tumblr.com/)

There are World Refugee Day rallies in:

Melbourne
Sunday June 19, 12 pm
Nicholson St entrance of the Royal Exhibition Building
http://refugeeadvocacynetwork.org/

Brisbane
Saturday June 25, 1 - 4pm
Brisbane Square, CBD
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=107823975970724

Perth
Sunday June 19, 12 - 3pm
Wesley Uniting Church
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=150071311730304
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