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Escaped Detainees 'Bailed' Back Into Detention [02.Apr.02] Escaped Detainees' pleas are heard at the Adelaide Magistrates Court today; at least 50 supporters are inside the courtroom and others are outside making noiuse in soldarity with the re-incarcerated detainees. [read more] posted by: rosa deluxembourg by way of the indymedia recycler
Seeing the unseeable :: report from sunday [31.Mar.02] A number of detainees are still free today as demonstrations continued at Woomera. Protests also took place in Port Hedland and Maribyrnong Detention Centres.
Five hundred protesters managed to once again breach the exclusion zone around the Woomera Detention Centre and come face to face with their brothers and sisters inside. Through the steel fences a note was passed by the detainees pleading for help and describing the use of chemical restraints. [read more] posted by: the indymedia recycler
through and over the fences [29.Mar.02] we're all pretty exhausted, and much work still to be done. we think the police will move in today, with some violence, looking for escapees. Some of those who escaped have been in the concentration camp for two years... we hope they remain free for as long as possible. [read more] posted by: desert kids
Fences come down - will borders be next? :: report from Saturday [29.Mar.02] Events at the Woomera2002 Festival of Freedoms moved quickly as protesters dismantled fences and made a dash for freedom. Police surround Woomera2002 campsite and institute movement checks. [read more] posted by: the indymedia recycler
Berlin Solidarity Action with Woomera Protest [29.Mar.02] Early this morning in Berlin a small band of activists made a symbolic hit on an STA travel agency. The window of the shop was plastered with posters advising punters not to travel to Australia. (The smallest of the activists was seen to be laughing and egging her parents on from her vantage point in her pram.) [read more] posted by: the indymedia recycler
hello from the webjournal crew [26.Mar.02] hello all, this is the first entry into the webjournal - and it's exciting to be using a site and software developed across borders, for an event that upholds the freedom to cross borders no less!
welcome to the webjournal [23.Mar.02] the webjournal is up and running. watch this site for news and reports directly from the protest festival in woomera, australia. [read more] posted by: paul