RALLY ON INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY

Saturday, December 10, 2016 - 13:00

Out of prison, out of foster care - Bring the Children Home
Unite with Aboriginal people’s defence of Human Rights

MARCH ACROSS THE ICONIC SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE.

Human rights abuses against Aboriginal people are at a crisis point. More children are being forcibly removed than at any time in Australia’s history. The torture of black youth in the Don Dale detention centre in Darwin is happening across the country and examples of extreme police brutality and killings of Aboriginal people in custody are being exposed every week. These abuses are rooted in a continuing invasion and denial of First Nations sovereignty.

At this rally, Aboriginal leaders will be joined by representatives from other campaigns and marginalised peoples standing up against brutal human rights abuses by the Australian government. It is the same government torturing refugees in offshore detention, persecuting Muslims, destroying the environment and denying equal marriage and trying to criminalise trade union activism in the building industry and beyond.

This demonstration on Human Rights Day has been initiated by the Grandmothers Against Removals Sydney branch, fighting for the return of Aboriginal children to their families and self-determination in child welfare. The vision is to unite and show the government we will come together as a community and resist abuses of human rights wherever they occur. Join us in solidarity for a major demonstration on Human Rights Day and together we can make a change.

The March will commence at Custom House, Circular Quay at 1pm, which then we will all join together in solidarity to MARCH ACROSS THE ICONIC SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE.

Groups that have endorsed this action:

Stop the Intervention Collective, Sydney
Indigenous Social Justice Association
Fighting In Solidarity Towards Treaty
Refugee Action Coalition Sydney
Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association
350.org
Latin American Social Forum, Australia
Friends of the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front (Chile), Sydney
Australia -Venezuela Solidarity Network-Sydney
Committee for the Human Rights in Chile
URNG-MAIZ National Revolutionary Unity of Guatemala
Committee for Human Rights in Guatemala
Mexican Support Committee
Committee for the Support of the People's Revolution in Ecuador
FMLN Support Committee (El Salvador), Sydney
Ibiray (Uruguay), Sydney
Mapuche Group Mawida, Sydney
United for Colombia
Community Action Against Homophobia

Organised by FIRE (Fighting in Resistance Equally)

At the moment there are weekly planning meetings being held on Monday nights at 6:30pm at Redfern Community Centre which protest organisations, groups and individuals are encouraged to attend to assist with planning and display.

FIRE- Fighting In Resistance Equally