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The Refugee Advocacy Network is calling on all groups and individuals who support refugee rights to come together and send a clear message to the government: it’s time to end mandatory detention.<\/p>\n

The crisis in Australia’s detention system has reached a critical point. There are now almost 7,000 people locked in detention centres across the country. Increasing number have been incarcerated for long periods of time – months or even years.\u00a0 Asylum seekers and refugees in the camps are increasingly despairing and desperate.<\/p>\n

Something needs to change. And yet the government’s response has been to simply blame detainees for the problems in the centres and implement draconian measures against those it considers “troublemakers”. We need a completely different approach. The core of the problem is mandatory detention – an inhumane policy that victimises people who have committed no crime, and simply want a better life for themselves and their family.<\/p>\n

We will be meeting at 12.30pm at the Nicholson st entry to the Royal Exhibition Centre in Carlton<\/strong> (near Gertrude st). After speeches there will be a mass march to join the EMERGE festival in Fitzroy.<\/p>\n

If your organisation can endorse the event please email us at refugeeadvocacynetwork@gmail.com. Email the same address to arrange to have flyers sent to you or your organisation for distribution.<\/p>\n

44 groups have so far endorsed the “unite to end mandatory detention” protest and march, to be held in Melbourne this Sunday June 19 (meet 12.30pm, Nicholson St entrance to Royal Exhibition Centre, Carlton). The rally has been organised by the Refugee Advocacy Network.<\/p>\n

To add your group’s endorsement email refugeeadvocacynetwork@gmail.com<\/p>\n

Groups supporting World Refugee Day protest<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Act for Peace \u2013 National Council of Churches in Australia<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Asylum Seeker Resource Centre<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Australia Asia Worker Links<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Australian Education Union<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Australian Greens, Victoria<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Australian Nursing Federation<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Australian Services Union<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Australian Tamil Congress<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Australian Western Sahara Association<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0\u00a0Australian Workers Union<\/p>\n

11.\u00a0\u00a0Brigidine Asylum Seeker Project<\/p>\n

12.\u00a0\u00a0CEPU (Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union)<\/p>\n

13.\u00a0\u00a0Darfur Australia Network<\/p>\n

14.\u00a0\u00a0Edmund Rice Network Victoria<\/p>\n

15.\u00a0\u00a0Eritrean People\u2019s Movement<\/p>\n

16.\u00a0\u00a0Eritrean Community Support\u00a0Group<\/p>\n

17.\u00a0\u00a0Fitzroy Learning Network<\/p>\n

18.\u00a0\u00a0Geelong Trades Hall<\/p>\n

19.\u00a0\u00a0GetUp<\/p>\n

20.\u00a0\u00a0Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand (GSANZ)<\/p>\n

21.\u00a0\u00a0GRAIN (Geelong Refugee and Action Network)<\/p>\n

22.\u00a0\u00a0Hotham Mission Asylum Seeker Project<\/p>\n

23.\u00a0\u00a0Humanitarian Crisis Hub<\/p>\n

24.\u00a0\u00a0Islamic Council of Victoria<\/p>\n

25.\u00a0\u00a0Labor for\u00a0Refugees<\/p>\n

26.\u00a0\u00a0Maritime Union of Australia<\/p>\n

27.\u00a0\u00a0Middle East Solidarity Group<\/p>\n

28.\u00a0\u00a0National Tertiary Education Union<\/p>\n

29.\u00a0\u00a0Queenscliff Rural Australians for Refugees (Queenscliff RAR)<\/p>\n

30.\u00a0\u00a0Refugee Action Collective<\/p>\n

31.\u00a0\u00a0Researchers for Asylum Seekers<\/p>\n

32.\u00a0\u00a0Revolutionary Socialist Party<\/p>\n

33.\u00a0\u00a0RISE (Refugees, Survivors & Ex-detainees)<\/p>\n

34.\u00a0\u00a0Socialist Alliance<\/p>\n

35.\u00a0\u00a0Socialist Alternative<\/p>\n

36.\u00a0\u00a0Solidarity<\/p>\n

37.\u00a0\u00a0Surf Coaust Rural Australians for Refugees<\/p>\n

38.\u00a0\u00a0Synod of Victoria and Tasmania, Uniting Church in Australia<\/p>\n

39.\u00a0\u00a0Tamil Refugee Council<\/p>\n

40.\u00a0\u00a0Textile, Clothing & Footwear Union<\/p>\n

41.\u00a0\u00a0These Machines Cut Razorwire<\/p>\n

42.\u00a0\u00a0United Voice (formerly LHMU)<\/p>\n

43.\u00a0\u00a0Victorian Council of Churches<\/p>\n

44.\u00a0\u00a0Victorian Immigrant and Refugees Women\u2019s Coalition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Refugee Advocacy Network is calling on all groups and individuals who support refugee rights to come together and send a clear message to the government: it’s time to end mandatory detention. The crisis in Australia’s detention system has reached a critical point. There are now almost 7,000 people locked in detention centres across the country. 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