WGAR News: Land Grab In The Outback: Australia Unites Against Genocide of First Peoples with Gerry Georgatos and Elders: Global Freedom Movement Media

https://indymedia.org.au/2015/04/16/wgar-news-land-grab-in-the-outback-australia-unites-against-genocide-of-first-peoples

Contents:

* Extended Insightful Audio/Video Interview: Aimee Devlin & Brendan D. Murphy, Global Freedom Movement Media:
Land Grab In The Outback: Australia Unites Against Genocide of First Peoples with Gerry Georgatos and Elders [Featuring Bella & Herbert Bropho] …

* News Analysis: NACCHO Health & Justice News: Aboriginal Deaths in Custody 24th anniversary but still in crisis
* News Analysis: NACCHO Prison Health News: Prisons are a poor substitute for primary and mental health care
* News Analysis: Melissa Sweet, Croakey – the Crikey health blog: Change the narrative to stop Aboriginal incarceration
* News Analysis: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: We are about to stop jailing fine defaulters – to the critics, do not naively criticise this away …

* WGAR Background: Justice Reinvestment, Aboriginal imprisonment and Aboriginal deaths in custody …

Fritz, the deceased is my uncle. One afternoon in 1990 when l had returned from school l saw mother and grandmother weeping uncontrollably. They are all dead now. Upon inquiry, l was told that my uncle had committed suicide at the police cell with a blanket at Sydney Police cells.

Could you please inform me about the actual cause of his death? There are different accounts in Ghana about the death of my uncle. Could you please confirm whether he committed suicide in the cell? After 25 years, the death of Fritz is still fresh in my mind. I have never stopped dreaming about him and anytime l see him in my dream, l weep. This has occurred for several years.

It is my wish to visit his burial place one day soon in Sydney Australia since no family member knows where he was buried. Could the Sydney Police assist me to trace where he was buried. l am currently writing from Ghana in West Africa.

I would be extremely if you could write back. Please, I just want a clarification.

Thank you for your co-operation.

Yours faithfully,
Frank Kwadwo Boateng
frankboat99@yahoo.com

https://indymedia.org.au/2015/02/06/wgar-news-justice-for-julieka-campaign-deaths-in-custody-watch-committee-wa

Contents:

* Bulletin: January edition of the Deaths In Custody Watch Committee WA Inc ‘iNSiDE Out’ E-Bulletin
* Campaign: Deaths In Custody Watch Committee WA: Justice for Julieka Campaign
* Petition: Deaths In Custody Watch Committee WA: Petition in relation to the Death in Police Custody of 22 year old Ms Dhu
* News: Amy McQuire, New Matilda: Julieka Dhu’s Family Slams Barnett Govt Over Death In Custody And Town Closures
* News: Human Rights Law Centre: Still no answers for the family of Julieka Dhu
* News: Caitlyn Gribbin, ABC News: Ms Dhu’s family call for urgent inquest into Aboriginal woman’s death in police custody
* Audio: Warren Barnsley and ABC News, NIRS: Calls for answers on Ms Dhu’s death continue six months later [Featuring Ms Dhu’s grandmother, Carol Roe]
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Family of Ms Dhu still waiting for answers

* Analysis / Opinion: Nancy Jeffrey, The Daily Telegraph: Statistics that tell us things have to change
* Analysis / Opinion: Chris Sarra, The Guardian: We must look to our humanity to solve the crisis of Indigenous incarceration
* Audio: Jordan Curtis, The Wire: Campaign to lower young indigenous incarceration [Featuring Sarah Hopkins, Chairperson of Just Reinvest & Mick Gooda]
* Analysis / Opinion: Jason Thomas, SBS News: How much does it cost to keep people in Australian jails?
* Analysis / Opinion: PS News: Call for justice on legal aid cuts
* News: Land Rights News – Northern Edition: APONT raises concerns over youth in detention
* Analysis / Opinion: John B. Lawrence SC, Land Rights News – Northern Edition: Lock-up mania: NT leads the world
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: 11 years on, the protests remain large but no justice for TJ Hickey family

* WGAR Background: Justice Reinvestment, Aboriginal imprisonment and Aboriginal deaths in custody

https://indymedia.org.au/2015/02/01/wgar-news-grandmothers-against-removals-call-for-support

Contents: …
* News: SNAICC: We must look to our humanity to solve the crisis of Indigenous incarceration
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: More than 15 % in jail for unpaid fines
* WGAR Background: Justice Reinvestment, Aboriginal imprisonment and Aboriginal deaths in custody

https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/24/wgar-background-justice-reinvestment-aboriginal-imprisonment-and-aboriginal-deaths-in

https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/09/wgar-news-sisters-on-the-inside-babies-on-the-outside-the-wire-featuring-debbie-kilroy-dr

Contents:

* Audio: Laura Corrigan, The Wire: Sisters on the Inside, Babies on the Outside [Featuring Debbie Kilroy, Dr Jennifer James & Kat Armstrong]
* Media Release: Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: Prime Minister lacks commitment to reducing incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
* Audio: Daria Norman, The Wire: Indigenous incarceration rates continue to rise [Featuring Sarah Hopkins & Mick Gooda]
* Background to Justice Reinvestment, Aboriginal imprisonment and Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

* Audio: NIRS: Mentally-impaired men imprisoned without conviction for ‘exceptional’ periods of time
* Audio: NIRS: Mentally-impaired man didn’t receive appropriate care in prison: Guardian
* Audio: NIRS: Mentally-impaired people in jails ‘trapped in legal no man’s land’
* Media Release: Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: Attorney General fails to address human rights issues over detention of four Aboriginal men with cognitive impairment
* Video: Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: Human Rights report into imprisonment of people with a cognitive impairment
* Background: WGAR News on Continuing Stolen Generation, Aboriginal deaths in custody, and Aboriginal suicide

https://indymedia.org.au/2014/11/26/wgar-news-productivity-commission-statistics-highlight-continuing-stolen-generation

Newsletter date: 27 November 2014

Contents: …

* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: 600 Black deaths in custody by 2025 & jail numbers to soar
* News: Amy McQuire, New Matilda: Family Of Man Shot By Police Protest Ongoing Practice Of Cops Probing Cops
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Police shot man dead who had no firearm
* Audio: Mark Colvin, ABC PM: Campaign to stop jailing mentally ill without conviction grows
* Audio Interviews: Cassandra Tim, National Indigenous Radio’s ‘Weekly News-in-Review’ …