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Palm Sunday March for Refugees JUSTICE. PEACE. UNITY. We can do better! #BringThemHere

Sunday 9 April, 2pm
Hyde Park North
March to Circular Quay

U N I O N S  F O R  R E F U G E E S
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Speakers
include:
MARK MOREY Secretary, Unions NSW
SAMUEL PHO Vietnamese refugee and Salvation Army National Secretary
SUE WAREHAM Medical Association for the Prevention of WarPlease join the union contingent at the Palm Sunday rally on 9 April. Let’s build on the success we had last year. We will also organise a social event for unionists after the march – details TBA.

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Please
1. Get your union to endorse the Palm Sunday rally if they have not already done so (see list at end). Donations also welcome.
2. Invite a refugee to speak at an upcoming union meeting to advertise the event. We can put you in touch with refugees who have experience doing this.
3. Circulate information about the rally internally. A graphic is below. We can deliver printed posters and leaflets to your office. Posters can be downloaded here.
4. Invite people to the facebook event here.

Why?

Ending the detention system is important for all workers – politicians consistently use it to build fear and racism of innocent people that poisons our workplaces and communities. Politicians use the detention and scapegoating of refugees to distract people from the government’s failure to provide decent jobs, health and education for all. Australia’s current refugee policy also wastes billions of dollars that could be used to help people, not to harm them. Detaining a single asylum seeker on Manus or Nauru costs $400,000 per year. When asylum seekers live in the community while their claims are processed it is much cheaper and allows them to contribute to society as well.

What is happening now?
Conditions for the refugees and asylum seekers dumped on Nauru a
nd Manus Island remain intolerable. Detention on Manus has claimed the lives of Reza Barati, Hamid Khazaei, Kamil Hussain and Faysal Ishak Ahmed, who died on Christmas Eve, following the failure to provide him with proper medical care. Last year Omid Masoumali died after losing hope on Nauru.

Malcolm Turnbull’s claim that Donald Trump will honour his US resettlement deal for refugees on Manus and Nauru is looking more and more doubtful. Refugees on Manus and Nauru are potentially caught by Trump’s extreme executive order banning Muslims and refugees from entering the US, as they face new “extreme vetting” procedures before being considered.

If the deal goes ahead, it is clear that hundreds of refugees will miss out, with a cap of 1250 people. Asylum seekers whose claims have not been fairly processed and anyone the US will not accept will remain stuck on Manus and Nauru. We still need to demand that the Australian government “Bring Them Here”.
There are also around 30,000 people seeking asylum in the community waiting for their claims to be processed, many unable to work and with only minimal income support. At most they will receive only Temporary Protection Visas, leaving them with the continuing threat of forced return and unable to reunite with their families.

Trump’s election and his hatred against Muslims, refugees and immigrants is encouraging some parliamentarians in Australia to follow suit. Trump’s belligerent language has disturbed governments and people across the planet and can only help induce more people into fleeing for safety. Australia should speak out to counter this effect. 

But Trump’s actions have also produced big protests in the US as well as here in Sydney and around the world. Support for refugees is growing here too. Last year’s #LetThemStayprotests stopped the government sending 267 refugees and asylum seekers back to Nauru and Manus Island. A majority of people now say detention of refugees on Manus and Nauru should end. Join us to step up the pressure for change. We can do better, #Bring them here.

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Our mailing address is:

Unions 4 Refugees

c/o Maritime Union of Australia

365 Sussex Street, Level 2

Sydney, Nsw 2000

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RALLY FOR REFUGEES ON PALM SUNDAY #BringThemHere 2pm Sunday 9 April, Archibald Fountain, Hyde Park north


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SAVE THE DATE 

2pm, Sunday 9th April, Archibald Fountain, Hyde Park South.

 

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 What you can do:

1. Help us leaflet on Saturday 25 February on our “Super Stall Saturday” in the suburb nearest you, see below for details
2. Invite your friends to the Facebook event here www.facebook.com/events/1790212824567225
3. Print out a poster to put up at work or near where you live. Click here to download
4. Take some leaflets or posters to advertise the rally in your local areaEmail us and we can mail you some.

Donald Trump’s election has encouraged the racist right all around the world. Malcolm Turnbull says Trump is only “emulating” Australia’s efforts to keep out refugees. The need to stand together against racism is more urgent than ever. But Turnbull is under growing pressure to end the torture on Manus Island and Nauru. His US resettlement deal looks all but finished.

#BringThemHere #WeCanDoBetter #LetThemStay

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No Muslim bans, No walls, No camps: March to welcome refugees. 2pm, Saturday 4 February, Hyde Park north (near St James station)

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Speakers include:
Rita Mallia  State President CFMEU NSW Construction Division
Mehreen Faruqi  Greens MP, NSW parliament
Dulce Muñoz  Mexican migrant, Mums for Refugees activist, and Women’s March co-organiser
MC: Ian Rintoul Refugee Action Coalition

Invite your friends via Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/1701269136837174/

Trump’s ban on people from selected Muslim countries entering the US has sparked worldwide disgust. Trump has also put a four month freeze on refugees, and an indefinite freeze on refugees from Syria.

We need to oppose this same racism here in Australia. Malcolm Turnbull claims Trump is “emulating” his own border protection policies aimed at targeting Muslims and keeping out refugees. Turnbull claims that Trump will honour the deal to resettle some of them in the US. But there is still no indication how many refugees the US will accept or how long the process will take. We need to protest to demand that Turnbull end the targeting of Muslims, welcome refugees, close the detention camps and #BringThemHere. Organised by Refugee Action Coalition

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