Action Alert Demo Called By Traditional Owners Victoria

THE GREATEST ATTACK ON TRADITIONAL OWNERS RIGHTS WILL BE DONE BY THE 

VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT ON MONDAY 9.00AM 21 MARCH 2011 THE FEDERAL COURT

DIRECTIONS HEARING FOR ALL NATIVE TITLE CLAIMS HEARING WILLIAM/LATROBE 

STREET CBD MELBOURNE. BLACK PEOPLE GETTING SCREWD AGAIN.

..SPREAD THE WORD, DEMO OUT THE FRONT...8.30AM

Police Racism & African Youth in Melbourne

Shortly after Liep Gony was killed in Noble Park last year, a group of African people, including people from the Sudanese community, approached the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commision, asking them to do conduct an inquiry into racism experienced by African Young People in the City of Greater Dandenong.

In response, the VEOHRC is currently undertaking the 'African Young People Research Project' in the City of Greater Dandenong. The report will be handed down sometime in the next couple of months.

The Southern Ethnic Advisory and Advocacy Council (SEAAC) prepared a submssion to VEOHRC regarding Police discrimination against African Young People in the City of Greater Dandenong.

Young people commonly report a general feeling

that the police treat them unfairly because of their race. The most commonly reported
specific complaints are:

• Young people being regularly stopped and questioned by Police in public,
sometimes up to several times in a single day.

• Police asking young people to ‘move on’ without citing a legitimate reason.

• Racist comments being made by Police.

• Young people being searched in public.

• Police refusing to submit their details if young people request them. This request
often acts as a trigger for police aggression.

• Police refusing to respect young people’s right to silence — beyond submitting
name and address. Again young people asserting this right to silence often acts
as a trigger for Police aggression.

Full Report follows:

Spin Cycle

This appeared in the embedded 'jurno' wipe ya Herald Sun, Victorian police officers in limbo after G20 protests

What complete pig spin, are the press aware that they are the Police Associations PR? Because their reputation is being trashed at the moment, rotting from the inside with corruption, racist policing of the African communities in Flemington, looks like the only positive pr they can get in this climate is to have another go at us mob and hide the fact that they brutally bashed people outside the museum.

Tactical and orchestrated on their part for sure. Check this out :

CASE STUDY: Victoria Police at G20

Situation: Victoria Police are involved in crowd control at
major events and protests. The aim of these events is to keep
the crowd peaceful and act quickly if things escalate.

Challenge: During an event, on-site officers move amongst
the crowd reporting activities and crowd behaviour to the
Police Operations Centre (POC) and/or Forward Command.
Traditional approaches to crowd management involve officers
patrolling in-the-field and then relaying information via radio.
Incidents can often only be dealt with in a reactive manner
once they are occurring.

The G20 meetings, held all over the world, often result in
protests and demonstrations. In anticipation of Melbourne
hosting the G20 Victoria Police wanted to investigate the
how live video streaming could assist with more accurate
information gathering and quicker decision-making.

Solution: Officers moving around in the field used the
fully mobile m-View GoPack, allowing experts at Command
and Control to watch the action as it happened. Police
captured and streamed video from the protest live to POC and
Forward Command. Many high-quality snapshots were taken,
recording crowd behavior and evidence.

http://momentumgroup.com.au/

Police attack G20 protesters at Melbourne Museum

Sunday afternoon a group of 50 demonstrators were beaten and trampled by police during a peaceful anti-G20 protest inside the foyer of the Melbourne museum. A woman was severely injured after police used batons and fists to disperse the small group of singing, dancing demonstrators. Several hundred police, including two divisions of riot police, were deployed in the incident.

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Sunday afternoon a group of 50 demonstrators were beaten and trampled by police during a peaceful anti-G20 protest inside the foyer of the Melbourne museum.

A woman was severely injured after police used batons and fists to disperse the small group of singing, dancing demonstrators. Several hundred police, including two divisions of riot police, were deployed in the incident.

The group consisted mostly of women and included musicians and children. “We were given no warning and were not asked to leave before police charged.” Said one of the demonstrators. Members of the group were badly shaken after the event, and the severely injured woman was hospitalised with suspected broken ribs.

“We were singing and dancing at the front of the Melbourne Museum, as a non-violent way of publicly raising our concerns about the G20”, said one of the demonstrators. “Without warning we were baton-charged by heaps of cops. It was frightening, especially when a couple of busloads of riot police turned up afterwards.”

Police only called an ambulance to attend to the injured woman 10 minutes after the incident, despite repeated requests from members of the group.

Protesters afterwards attempted to disperse peacefully, but were followed for twenty minutes by a large police contingent.

Today's incident follows on from two days of protesting against the G20, a gathering of finance ministers, reserve bank governors and the heads of the IMF and World Bank.

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Boris Franteschini

some excellent Melbourne Anarchist history from Takver:

On August 26, 1986 Boris Franteschini died due to complications caused by lung cancer.

Boris was one of the last active members of the Italian Anarchist Movement in Melbourne. His commitment and enthusiasm for anarchism was something he maintained until his death.

Boris was born in 1914 in the United States, into a family of anarchist militants. At the age of 7 he returned to Italy with his family. In 1927 due to the increasing repression in Italy associated with the rise of fascism, Boris and his family immigrated to Melbourne.

He worked for a time on his father's small crop farm in Narre Warren, then latter as a woodcutter; a concreter; and finally settling into the marble business.

In the 1930's and 1940's Boris was active in the Italian anarchist Movement in exile in Melbourne. This group worked amoung the Melbourne Italian community, put out a newspaper and were involved in anti-fascist activity. They also gave support to anarchists in need overseas, particularly in Italy and Spain.

With the death of the older more experienced comrades Boris eventually found himself as a centre-point for Italian anarchist activity in Melbourne after the Second World War.

Between 1950 and 1965 there were about 30 people involved in the Italian Anarchist Movement in Melbourne - most of them were anarchists who had migrated to Australia.

Unfortunately this group carried out its activities in relative isolation. They didn't speak much English, there was no indigenous Australian Anarchist movement, and amoung the second and third generations of Australian-Italians there was little interest in Anarchism.

http://www.takver.com/history/franteschini.htm