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Guantanamo protest
Scenes from a canberra street

*CHRISTMAS AT GUANTANAMO BAY*
*SOLIDARITY WITH VICTIMS OF TERROR LAWS - AT HOME AND ABROAD*

AUSTRALIA:CAN/CUBA: For most people, Christmas means the freedom to spend time with your friends and loved ones. But for the inmates of Guantanamo Bay, and for the victims of Australia's terror laws, this Christmas will be one of injustice, isolation,uncertainty ... even torture.

After four long years, David Hicks - and scores of others - have been confined in steel cages in Guantanamo Bay, without trial or charge. Here in Australia, draconian anti-terror laws abolish some of our most cherished freedoms, and give ASIO and the Australian Federal Police carte blanche to treat the Islamic community like criminals.

*Join our speakout against the terror laws*
*Friday 16th December 5pm*
Bourke St Mall, near Myers Christmas Windows.

Join us to:
- erect our alternative Christmas window display - Guantanamo-style cages to remind us of the victims of the terror laws
- defy the new terror laws by signing our seditious petition
- hear performances by artists in opposition to the terror laws
- speak out against the laws yourself
- send a message of solidarity to the victims of terrow laws and their
families

0407 856 628

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More:  http://perth.indymedia.org/index.php?action=newswire&parentview=14817

International Human Rights Day Action

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12 Midday Saturday 10 December 2005

 http://sydney.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=61951&group=webcast

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More:  http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/12/100659.php

China Human Rights Rally

This Human Rights Day, join us in appealing to the Australian Government to:
Take China's human rights abuses seriously!

GET REAL about the collapse of Chinese Communism happening right now

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SYDNEY: SUNDAY 11 DECEMBER, BELMORE PARK, Hay St, Sydney (near Central Station)

More:  http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/100479.php

For Van Nguyen and all the other Lost Souls

Death penalty: barbaric and inhuman

Pre-determined murder

No man should have the power to determine Life and Death

For Van Nguyen and all the other Lost Souls

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For Van Nguyen and all the other Lost Souls

Rest in Peace...for the struggle continues for the rest of us.

 http://www.geocities.com/freedom2rein/NguyenTuongVan.html

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More:  http://sydney.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=61788&group=webcast

6 Peace Activists Arrested at Pine Gap

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More:  http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/9697

Terror scapegoats to be relocated without warning

Threats and intimidation in custody

More:  http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/9692

Tight security impedes scapegoat case

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