Join the rally for refugees on Sunday November 7, 2pm at the State Library
Rally and March
2pm, Sunday November 7
State Library (Swanston and Latrobe St, City)
The Refugee Advocacy Network, the coalition that organised the World Refugee Day march in Melbourne on June 20, has called another mass rally and march for Sunday November 7.
The focus of the rally will be to call for an end to the policy of Mandatory Detention. There are currently over 4600 people in detention centres, places that 2010 Australian of the Year, mental health advocate Pat McGorry, described as “factories for producing mental illness”.
We have a new parliament, but the old, brutal policy of mandatory detention remains. We need to raise our voices and say enough. It is time for a fundamental change in the way we treat asylum seekers.
We are organising this rally in order to demonstrate that there is strong support for refugees, and that the refugee movement is expecting humanitarian changes to refugee policy from the new parliament.
For more information or to add your endorsement email refugeeadvocacynetwork@gmail.com
ENDORSEMENTS FOR NOVEMBER 7 REFUGEE PROTEST
Amnesty
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
Australian Education Union (Vic)
Australian Services Union
Australian Tamil Congress
Australia West Papua Association
Ballarat Circle of Friends
Brigidine Asylum Seekers’ Project
Edmund Rice Asylum Seeker Project
Free Tamil Eelam
Geelong Trades Hall
Geelong Refugee Action and Information Network (GRAIN)
Humanitarian Crisis Hub
Islamic Council of Victoria
Jewish Labour Bund Inc
Justice and International Mission, Uniting Church
Labor for Refugees
Latrobe University SRC
Melbourne Unitarian Church
National Union of Students
NTEU (Vic)
Queenscliff Rural Australians for Refugees
Refugee Action Collective (Vic)
Researchers for Asylum Seekers
RISE
Socialist Alliance
Socialist Alternative
Solidarity
Surf Coast Rural Australians for Refugees
The Greens (Vic)
The Spirit of Eureka
the Tamil Coordinating Committee
The Union of Australian Women (Vic)
Victorian Council of Churches
Victorian Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Coalition
Rally and March
2pm, Sunday November 7
State Library (Swanston and Latrobe St, City)
The Refugee Advocacy Network, the coalition that organised the World Refugee Day march in Melbourne on June 20, has called another mass rally and march for Sunday November 7.
The focus of the rally will be to call for an end to the policy of Mandatory Detention. There are currently over 4600 people in detention centres, places that 2010 Australian of the Year, mental health advocate Pat McGorry, described as “factories for producing mental illness”.
We have a new parliament, but the old, brutal policy of mandatory detention remains. We need to raise our voices and say enough. It is time for a fundamental change in the way we treat asylum seekers.
We are organising this rally in order to demonstrate that there is strong support for refugees, and that the refugee movement is expecting humanitarian changes to refugee policy from the new parliament.
For more information or to add your endorsement email refugeeadvocacynetwork@gmail.com