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Freedom is not an impossible dream

Freedom is not an impossible dream

Submission to the Presiding Judge, Auckland High Court
The Appeal to be heard on 28 June 2010 at 11.45 am

(New Zealand has been modeling itself on the British social class system with tragic consequences)

Appellant
Anthony Ravlich
Chairperson
Human Rights Council Inc. (New Zealand)
10D/15 City Rd.
Auckland City.
Ph: (0064) (09) 940 9658.
www.hrc2001.org.nz

Next Monday the Auckland High Court will be hearing my appeal against a sentence in the Wellington District Court on 2 February 2010 where I was convicted and fined $200 for failing to file an election expenses return after standing as a candidate for the Human Rights Party (1) in Auckland Central.  read more »

Our battle to win legal abortion in Australia

An ignited fight for reproductive freedom won abortion decriminalization in Victoria, Australia.  The struggle continues as labor, the left, and feminist movement join together to win full reproductive rights in the land down under.  Debbie Brennan’s multi –faceted eyewitness account of the historic national march for abortion rights in Sydney will be part of her presentation.  read more »

Indonesia 'bans' film on journalists' deaths in East Timor


Malcolm Rennie, Greg Shackleton, Gary Cunningham, Brian Peters, Tony Stewart,

The Balibo five were Malcolm Rennie, Greg Shackleton, Gary Cunningham, Brian Peters and Tony Stewart


Indonesia has banned the film Balibo,
which depicts the deaths of six foreign journalists in East Timor, the  read more »

Police move in on Tasmanian forest protest

ABC - May 4, 2009

Police have launched a major operation at a forest protest camp in the Upper Florentine Valley in southern Tasmania .

The group Still threatened Still Wild says one of its members has been arrested.

Police have set up a command post in the exclusion zone where Forestry Tasmania contractors are working.  read more »

Protest ship rams Japan whaling vessel

7th February 2009 The Daily

Japanese whalers have accused anti-whaling protest ship the Steve Irwin of ramming their fleet a second time.

The Sea Shepherd ship had rammed the Yushin Maru 3 as the Japanese vessel tried to transfer its catch to the mother ship, Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research said in a statement on Friday night.

The Steve Irwin earlier rammed the stern of Yushin Maru 2 as it was hauling on board a minke whale.  read more »

27 arrests so far over Florentine protest

Jan. 21, 2009 Examiner
POLICE have now arrested 27 protesters in the Upper Florentine Valley and more people are likely to be charged after Sunday's protest rally in the forestry area.

A 27-year-old man from New Zealand was arrested yesterday for two counts of trespassing within the area of an exclusion zone in the Upper Florentine Valley.

Insp. Glen Woolley said the man was initially located within a tree-sit location but after some negotiation with police left the tree of his own volitation and was arrested.  read more »

Anti-terror squad spies on protest groups

By NICKY HAGER and ANTHONY HUBBARD - Sunday Star Times | Sunday, 14 December 2008

Police teams set up to identify terrorism threats and risks to national security are spying on protest and community groups, including Greenpeace, animal rights and climate change campaigners, and Iraq war protesters.

Police officers from the Special Investigation Group (SIG) have carried out surveillance and used a paid informer to gather information not just about planned protests but the personal lives and sexual relationships of group members.  read more »

Parallel migration forum in Manila kicks off with protest

Oct. 22, 2008 gmanews.tv

MANILA, Philippines- Foreign and local participants of the People’s Global Action on Migration, Development and Human Rights kicked of the event on Wednesday with a protest rally in Manila against the lack of protection for migrants worldwide.

A GMA News report aired over QTV’s Balitanghali said the
activists rallied at the Rajah Sulayman Park in Malate even as the
Manila City government revoked their permit to stage the event there.

With the theme,"Migrant workers are human beings, not commodities," the  read more »

QC squatters protest eviction

By Jeannette Andrade Philippine Daily Inquirer Sept. 29/2008

MANILA, Philippines -- Some 50 residents of a squatter colony trooped Monday to the Commission on Human Rights compound to protest their impending eviction from a government lot in Quezon City.

The protesters, all clad in black, sought the intervention of CHR commissioner Leila de Lima as the local inter-agency committee, headed by the Quezon City police district, gave them until Saturday to stay on the 1,500-square meter property.  read more »

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