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TALL TREES TALLER FENCES – a film produced by Arash Kamali Sarvestani

TALL TREES TALLER FENCES

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This  ‘film as resistance’ goes behind the scenes of Chauka, Please Tell Us The Time, the film shot by refugee Behrouz Boochani inside the Manus detention centre.

Tall Trees Taller Fences is a  documentary film produced by Arash Kamali Sarvestani which follows the lives of the two strangers as they communicate via WhatsApp voice messages from half a world away and try to put the film together. Extra footage shot on Behrouz’s phone gives another insight into what the refugees endured while imprisoned in the detention centre.

Representatives of Filef, RAC and VDSA will briefly introduce the film. Link to introduction here

RAC (Refugee Action Coalition) is a grassroots group campaigning for refugee rights in Australia since 1999. Their strategy is based on the idea that progressive change comes from below. They work towards shifting public opinion so that politicians have no choice but to abandon Australia’s harsh stance on refugees.

VDSA (Valerio Daniel De Simoni Association) honours the life of Valerio Daniel De Simoni. It is a benevolent, non-profit institution, independent of any religious ethnic or political group, organized for the direct support of refugees and asylum seekers in Australia as well as indigenous youth.

Link to film here

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Against Our Oath

27 February 2020

Against Our Oath

Filmed over four years by journalist, Heather Kirkpatrick, 2013 Walkley Award finalist and the winner of a 2014 United Nations Media Peace Prize.

Screening of a documentary feature film on doctors working with asylum seekers who arrived in Australia by boat and are detained on the remote Pacific islands of Manus and Nauru. Ethical conflicts erupt as the Australian government overrides the clinical decisions made for refugee patients. If doctors cannot follow their medical ethics what will happen to their patients?

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Five years too long: Evacuate Manus and Nauru! 21 July at 13:00–15:00 Sydney Town Hall

Hosted by Refugee Action Coalition Sydney RAC

This July marks five years on Manus and Nauru for refugees dumped there by the Australian government.

The situation remains urgent. On 15 June, Fariborz became the 12th person to die as a result of offshore detention. He had warned repeatedly of his declining mental health, but never received the help he needed.

There are 1600 refugees and asylum seekers still stranded on the islands. Around half of all those on Manus and Nauru are blocked from the US by Trump’s travel ban. Iranian, Somali, Sudanese and Iraqi refugees are all being refused resettlement.

The more the election approaches, the more Peter Dutton and Malcolm Turnbull are trying to beat up fear about refugees in the hope of winning votes. Yet they still trail badly in the polls.

The outrage in the US over Donald Trump’s separation of immigrant and refugee families at the border shows that racist policies can be fought. Trump has been forced to back down and promise to keep families together.

Australia also separates refugee families between Australia, and Nauru and Manus Island. And there are still children in detention on Nauru.

There is now majority support for bringing the refugees off the two offshore prison islands. Yet Labor’s Bill Shorten also refuses to adopt the only solution that could get them to safety—to #BringThemHere.

Until all the refugees and asylum seekers are brought to Australia, we have to keep fighting to close Manus Island and Nauru.

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Palm Sunday Rally, 2pm Belmore Park, Sunday March 25

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Sydney Palm Sunday Rally for Refugees 2018 Sunday, March 25 at 2 PM – 4 Central SydneyPM

Sydney Palm Sunday Rally for Refugees 2018
Join us to demand justice for refugees, and the immediate evacuation of those on Manus and Nauru.

The asylum seekers on Manus have been forced into new detention camps. But the crisis there is not over. Some of the new camps face regular cuts to power and water. And the threat of attack is constant.

In January another small number of those on Manus and Nauru will go to the US for resettlement. But there are still over 1500 recognised refugees left behind. We still need to demand that the Australian government “Bring Them Here”.

There are also over 10,000 people seeking asylum in the community still waiting for their claims to be processed, many unable to work and with only minimal income support. Almost 2000 have already been refused refugee status under unfair new “fast track” processing rules that now apply and face deportation.

Join us on Palm Sunday to raise our voices and demand justice and freedom for refugees.

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Nauru burning: An uprising and it’s aftermath. A night with refugee advocate and author Mark Isaacs.

THURSDAY 30TH NOVEMBER 6.30PM
WAVERLY LIBRARY THEATRETTE 32-48 DENISON ST
BONDI JUNCTION
RSVP: http://bit.ly/MarkIsaacs

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Mark Isaacs will present on his Nauru experience, and the real story of offshore detention, including moving and disturbing narratives of asylum seeker torment.

Hosted by Amnesty International Australia Eastern Suburbs and the NSW Refugee Network

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ASYLUM SEEKERS AND REFUGEES: we can make a difference FRIDAY 26 MAY 6:30pm


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Australia contravenes international laws by keeping more than 2,000 refugees and asylum seekers languishing in camps in Nauru and Manus Island. More than 1,300 are detained in Australia. Almost 25,000 live on temporary bridging visas in the community, with no certainty of a future in Australia.

Filef and Valerio Daniel De Simoni Association invite you to an information evening with representatives of organizations active in various ways to support refugees trying to seek asylum in Australia.

Participating organizations include:

Amnesty International   Refugee Action Coalition   People Just like Us
Mums 4 Refugees   Grandmothers Against Detention of Refugee Children   One step  Valerio Daniel De Simoni Association

Q&A and light refreshments will follow Entry by donation

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