NT Prescribed Area delegation urgent request for funding to travel to Canberra:
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/story/nt-prescribed-area-delegation-urgent-request-funding-travel-canberra
Convergence on Canberra 2009 (on 3 February)
Hello, I’m Barbara Shaw from Mt Nancy, Mparntwe (Alice Springs).
For the past 15 months the Intervention Rollback Action Group (IRAG), which is made up of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people who give their time voluntarily, has been working to support people directly affected by the Northern Territory Emergency Response legislation (Intervention).
We are now organising to travel to Canberra again for the first day of Parliament. We want to send a strong message to the wider community from people directly affected by the Intervention. The Intervention is not working; it is not the way to work with our people to solve the problems affecting us.
To give Prescribed Area people the opportunity to share their stories whilst in Canberra, IRAG will hold workshops, public forums, film screenings and meetings with politicians and other interested groups.
To achieve this, it will cost approximately $40,000 to take a delegation of Prescribed Area people from the Northern Territory. Most people will travel by bus, camping along the way, and camping in Canberra to help keep costs down.
A national fundraising campaign is now under way. An art sale will also be held via our website as part of our fundraising effort.
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