Justice not racism - rally against the NT intervention

National day of action against the NT intervention

JUSTICE NOT RACISM

* Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs
* End the NT intervention
* Restore the Racial Discrimination Act
* End welfare quarantining
* Land rights not leases
* Stop Black deaths in Custody
* Terminate the GSL/G4S prison transport contract
* Support jobs, housing and education for all

SAT 13 FEB 2010
12noon, Wesley Church (cnr William & Hay Sts, Perth)

Organised by Aboriginal Rights Coalition
Ph Natasha 0431 017 157, Sanna 0417 852 628, Mick 0410 059 693.

Haiti: the politics of a natural disaster

Haiti: the politics of a 'natural' disaster

Socialist Alliance meeting:

Thurs 21 January

6:30pm, Perth Activist Centre (15/5 Aberdeen St - next to McIver station)

The world has been moved by the devastation of the earthquake in Haiti, the result can not be put down to a simple “natural disaster”.

While any large city would have suffered extensive destruction by a similar earthquake, the disaster in Haiti has social causes - including impoverishment colonial exploitation and ongoing imperialist interventions.

This meeting will take a look at the politics behind the “natural” disaster and the solidarity effort that is needed.

[This meeting will also report on the outcomes of the Socialist Alliance national conference.]

---

READINGS ON HAITI
AN URGENT APPEAL FROM THE HAITI RELIEF FUND

FIDEL CASTRO: THE LESSONS OF HAITI
January 15, 2010 -- Two days ago, at almost six o’clock in the evening Cuban time and when, given its geographical location, night had already fallen in Haiti, television stations began to broadcast the news that a violent earthquake -– measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale -– had severely struck Port-au-Prince. The seismic phenomenon originated from a tectonic fault located in the sea just 15 kilometres from the Haitian capital, a city where 80% of the population inhabit fragile homes built of adobe and mud. >>MORE

THE WEST'S ROLE IN HAITI'S PLIGHT
January 14, 2010 -- If we are serious about assisting this devastated land we must stop trying to control and exploit it.
Any large city in the world would have suffered extensive damage from an earthquake on the scale of the one that ravaged Haiti's capital city on the afternoon of January 13, but it's no accident that so much of Port-au-Prince now looks like a war zone. Much of the devastation wreaked by this latest and most calamitous disaster to befall Haiti is best understood as another thoroughly manmade outcome of a long and ugly historical sequence. >>MORE

HAITI EARTHQUAKE CAUSED BY 'PACT WITH THE DEVIL'

HAITI: MORE ARTICLES ON THE CRISIS

WHERE IS THE AID IN HAITI?