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Palm Sunday Peacy ONLINE ACTION For Refugees 2020

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From the Palm Sunday Walk Facebook page:

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The 2020 Palm Sunday Walk for Justice for Refugees has been cancelled due to COVID-19, but we must not forget that refugees and people seeking asylum in Australia, and those held offshore, are still struggling with the injustices, insecurity and cruelty of the current polices. This is a time for us to speak up for justice, and for a safer future for all - especially those who are most vulnerable in our communities.

JOIN US ONLINE ON APRIL 5, PALM SUNDAY, TO SPEAK UP FOR JUSTICE FOR REFUGEES.

#justice4refugees #palmsundaywalk


At 11am on Palm Sunday, we will be posting videos from refugees and advocates. Help us spread their message and be part of the call for change.

1. USE THE HASHTAG #justice4refugees
- Post a self with a sign calling for refugee justice
- Tweet out a message of solidarity or protest
- Post a one-minute video describing the changes you want to see
- Tag Alan Tudge MP and Jason Wood MP in your post

2. Use the Justice for Refugees FACEBOOK FRAME

3. Sign our PETITION https://bit.ly/2JnzG03

4. SHARE OUR VIDEOS with your social network

5. Have friends who aren't on social media? Help them email their selfies and messages of solidarity to palmsundayrefugeemessages@gmail.com and we will share them on the day!


Together we call for A FAIR GO for REFUGEES and PEOPLE SEEKING ASYLUM.

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Click here for Facebook event page.

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Click here for Refugee Advocacy Network event info page.

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Taken from Palm Sunday Rally Sydney Facebook page

 

CANCELLED

See ONLINE ACTION ABOVE

Palm Sunday Peacy Rally and March For Refugees 2020

 

Speakers include:
Craig Foster (Football legend)
Most Rev Vincent Long (Catholic bishop of Parramatta)

End the torture on PNG and Nauru
There are still 400 refugees and asylum seekers in PNG and Nauru. With the US deal close to exhausted, those remaining have few hopes of resettlement. After almost seven years their situation is increasingly desperate. Those in PNG have been moved into a vulnerable situation in the community where they are being forced into poverty. The shameful repeal of the Medevac Bill shows that the government is determined to continue its cruelty towards refugees.

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Taken from Palm Sunday Rally Sydney Facebook page

 

From the Justice For Refugees Facebook event site:

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We call for the government to provide:
1 - Permanent Protection Visas not TPVs
2 - Allow Family Reunion Rights
3 - Fair processing of asylum claims

Join us to say refugees must have the right to family reunion like anyone else in the run up to Christmas.

We seek your support on behalf of more than 30,000 asylum seekers who have been living in Australian since 2012. We have been separated from our families and children for up to 8 years. Visa processing under the 'fast track' system is unfair. Some of us have faced homelessness as we get no government support. All of us face permanent insecurity. Temporary protection visas are cruel. We want the same human rights as everyone in Australia.

Who we are: We are a movement called ‘Justice for Refugees’, established on 1st of August 2019. We have lived in Australia for more than seven years under policy that discriminates against us based on our method of arrival. We sought humanitarian aid and escaped from conflict, violence and persecution in our homelands. We are now suffering under Australia’s inhumane policies that offer us no secure future and further persecute us for seeking protection. 

www.j4r.com.au
facebook.com/j4r

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Documentary Film Screenings: For Sama and Syria's Disappeared

 

From the Syria Solidarity Australia Facebook website: 

 

As part of the exhibition by Syrian refugee artist Miream Salameh (opening on Thurs 5 December), Syria Solidarity Australia are presenting a free screening of two vitally important documentaries about Syria, Syria's Disappeared, and one of the first Australian screening of the brilliant and multi award winning 2019 film FOR SAMA.

Syria's Disappeared: The Case Against Assad
2017 ‧ Documentary ‧ 50 mins
DIRECTOR & PRODUCER
SARA AFSHAR

This documentary tells the hidden story of tens of thousands of men, women and children disappeared by the regime of President Bashar al Assad into a network of clandestine detention centres.

The film weaves together the powerful personal stories of three Syrians with evidence gathered from regime documentation smuggled out of Syria.

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Syria, Art, Disinformation: the Quest for Middle East Freedom

 

From the Syria Solidarity Australia Facebook website: 

 

As part of the exhibition by Syrian refugee artist Miream Salameh (opening on Thurs 5 December), we are hosting this important forum featuring a number of Middle East activists.
We will address the role of art in combating the systematic disinformation about Syria, update on the situation inside Syria as well as the inspiring new wave of protests in the region such as in Lebanon, Iraq and Iran.

Speakers: 
Miream Salameh (Syrian artist)
Rifaie Tammas (Syrian writer)
Paula Abood (activist for Palestine and Middle East freedom)
Chair: Michael Karadjis

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Click here for Facebook event page.

 

Miream Salameh - المنفردة ١٨٥,١٨٠ /The Isolation Cell 185,180
A solo exhibition of paintings and sculpture 

This exhibition addresses the condition of Syria over the last 9 years. The title describes the physical scale of the country (185 x 180 square kilometres) likening it to a large isolation cell, beneath the brutal dictatorship of the Assad regime. Torture and isolation are common forms of punishment in the regime’s secret prisons for anyone who stands for human rights or political freedom. Prisoners who are subjected to isolation have an extended and intensified experience of time, which they endure over weeks, months and years. This is likened to the experience of Syria today, which is pulverised by Asad’s allies and abandoned by the international community.

Exhibition runs Thursday - Sunday 1 - 6pm until 19 December