anti-racism
RSP launches campaign against racism & Labor government
STATEMENT FOR GENERAL DISTRIBUTION & MEDIA
Van Rudd from the Revolutionary Socialist Party
Announces Campaign Against Julia Gillard in the Seat of Lalor
The Revolutionary Socialist Party will be running Van Rudd against Julia Gillard in the seat of Lalor for the next federal elections.
Van Rudd's campaign will take a stand against the failure of both state and federal governments to defend Indian students against racist attacks.
Many young and working people in this country are fed up with Labor and Liberal, and the parliamentary system that guarantees the privileges of the corporate rich and perpetuates social inequality and discrimination.
Open Letter to Australia Made Campaign Limited
The letter below is a response to the request by Australia Made Campaign Limited to guarantee their logo would not be used in the future in such protests as the Australia Day anti-racism action. The letter is addressed to the legal representatives of Australia Made Campaign Limited.
The request made by your client amounts to demanding that we, and by implication any other community member who has a protest to register, forfeit our freedom of speech.
While the right to free speech is not constitutionally guaranteed in Australia, the High Court has noted and defended this as an important implied right. Such a right does not and cannot preclude the use of any symbols, signs or logos, whether they are registered trade marks or not.
The request made by your client is a direct challenge to freedom of speech and will not be ceded to by us.
Racism in Australia
White Australia Policy – The Background
In the simplest means, White Australia Policy was a restrictive immigration policy pursued in Australia. But if we dig deep, it was a systematic racial approach by the capitalist ruling class. In the mid-19th century there was a shortage of labour and Chinese and Pacific Islanders were brought in as labour. By the 1880s developing trade unions were calling for a policy to protect the “White working man”. By 1890 all states had legislation to preserve the purity of White Australia, Alfred Deakin being one of its strongest advocates. The new Commonwealth government legislated to exclude non-Europeans in its 1901 Immigration Restriction Act. The main device used was to be a dictation test in any European language – with the language being chosen to ensure failure. This policy of exclusion continued until the 1950s. The Labour administration repudiated the policy in the early 1970s.
Interview with Van Rudd in the Indian Journal, Outlook
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Interview ‘The Dominant Culture In Australia Is A Racist Culture’
The leader of the Revolutionary Socialist Party who created a stir by protesting in the famous Ku Klux Klan outfit shares his views
Outlook Interviews Van Thanh Rudd
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Gerard Henderson, Sydney Morning Herald Feb 2
Australia's 'racist' tag is myth heavily hyped
Gerard Henderson
There are two pragmatic tests to ascertain the real level of racism in a country. Namely, the level of ethnic-motivated crime and the amount of inter-marriage between ethnic groups. Australia has a low level of ethnic crime and a high level of inter-marriages between all races, including indigenous people.
Herald Sun Jan 30: Rudd nephew in 'disgusting' art controversy
Sunday Herald Sun January 30, 2010
Controversial ... Kevin Rudd'd nephew, Van Rudd / Pic: Nine News Source: The Daily Telegraph
* PMs nephew in new controversy
* Art work called 'disgusting'
* Lampoons dead Aussie soldiers
Refugee activists deported from Indonesia Arrive in Australia
MEDIA RELEASE
REFUGEE ACTIVISTS DEPORTED FROM INDONESIA - ARRIVE IN AUSTRALIA, SATURDAY 30 JANUARY
URGENT ACTION NEEDED FROM AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT TO RESOLVE THE SITUATION OF MERAK ASYLUM SEEKERS
Two Australian refugee activists detained and questioned by Indonesian police in Merak have been deported by Indonesian immigration authorities, will arrive in Australia on Saturday morning (30 January).
Mass Tamil asylum seeker protest hits Christmas Island
MEDIA RELEASE
In scenes reminiscent of the early protests that rocked Woomera, Port Hedland and Baxter, under the Howard government, a mass protest by Tamil detainees at Christmas Island began at 4.30pm Christmas Island time, on Thursday, 27 January.
The protest is supported by all the Tamils detainees but, “We are hopeful that the Kurdish, Iranians and Arabs people will join us,” a Christmas
Island detainee told the Refugee Action Coalition.
Coverage from the Times of India
Australian PM's nephew leads protest against attacks on Indians
PTI, 26 January 2010, 06:49pm IST
MELBOURNE:Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's artist-activist nephew was on Tuesday fined for offensive behaviour as he dressed up in Ku Klux Klan outfit to protest racism at a demonstration outside the venue of Australian Open.
Van Rudd, who is the son of Prime Minster's brother Malcom Rudd and another man staged a protest outside the Rod Laver Arena against the recent spate of violence against Indians in Melbourne.
The protest from Van Rudd came after eight men were arrested for bashing of two Indian students overnight.
Carrying banners "Let the refugees in" and "no racist attacks on Indians", Rudd and the other man refused to move from the lawn outside the arena, saying they were protesting because the Australian Government refused to acknowledge that attacks on Indians were racist and that locking up asylum seekers was wrong.
Their protest came on what the group branded "Australia Day/Invasion Day".
After the pair refused repeated police requests to leave, a police car eventually arrived and fine them.
"I'm not surprised, but at least we got the point across," Rudd said as he was being bundled into the back of the police car ten minutes after the protest began.
"The Australian Government has to act to save innocent Indians and Tamils."
Van Rudd, who is the son of Prime Minster's brother Malcom Rudd and another man staged a protest outside the Rod Laver Arena against the recent spate of violence against Indians in Melbourne.
The protest from Van Rudd came after eight men were arrested for bashing of two Indian students overnight.
Carrying banners "Let the refugees in" and "no racist attacks on Indians", Rudd and the other man refused to move from the lawn outside the arena, saying they were protesting because the Australian Government refused to acknowledge that attacks on Indians were racist and that locking up asylum seekers was wrong.
Their protest came on what the group branded "Australia Day/Invasion Day".
After the pair refused repeated police requests to leave, a police car eventually arrived and fine them.
"I'm not surprised, but at least we got the point across," Rudd said as he was being bundled into the back of the police car ten minutes after the protest began.
"The Australian Government has to act to save innocent Indians and Tamils."
