Antirassismus

As recently as 1928 an officially endorsed massacre of innocent Aboriginal men, women and children was perpetrated by a white policeman leading a posse of horsemen in the Northern Territory of Australia near a cattle ranch called Coniston.

Officially the killers were to capture an Aboriginal man accused of killing a white dingo hunter. All members of the mounted party shot to kill, no-one keeping a record of how many they killed, says a book about massacres and maltreatment of Aborigines since 1788, “Blood on the Wattle” (ISBN 1 86436 410 6, cover pictured).

According to historians, riders led by Constable William George Murray shot dead more than 50 men, women and children at at least six sites between August and October 1928.

But Warlpiri, Anmatyerre and Kaytetye people say that up to 170 innocent people were indiscriminately slaughtered as the horsemen roamed up and down the Lander River. The official figure stated in court was 17, all allegedly shot in ‘self-defence’ against Aborigines bearing spears and other wooden weapons. No charges were ever laid; a board of inquiry set up to investigate the killings ruled the party had “acted in self-defence”.

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Australia’s shocking treatment of Indigenous people has been laid bare with the publication of new figures by the Guardian showing 147 Indigenous people – some of them children – have died in custody in the past 10 years.

Opposition parties have declared it a “national shame” and Aboriginal groups have demanded the government immediately allow independent monitoring of all detention centres, with Indigenous prisoners as the priority.

Just 2.8% of the Australian population identifies as Indigenous. Yet Indigenous people make up 27% of the prison population, 22% of deaths in prison custody and 19% of deaths in police custody.

Guardian Australia’s investigation into 10 years of deaths in custody cases found serious systemic failings.

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Demonstration | Dienstag, 28.08.18 | 20 Uhr | Rote Flora/ Achidi-John-Platz 1

Am Sonntag haben sich in Chemnitz ca. 1.500 Faschos versammelt und sind als Mob durch die Stadt gezogen. Bereits am folgenden Tag mobilisierten erneut bundesweit faschistische Gruppierungen und Strukturen wie die rechtspopulistische Bewegung „Pro Chemnitz“ nach Chemnitz, um einen Todesfall, der sich auf dem dortigem Stadtfest ereignet hat, für ihre rassistische Hetze zu instrumentalisieren.

Mumia Abu-Jamals gerichtliche Anhörung über die Neueröffnung seines Revisionsverfahrens steht vor der Tür. Diesen Donnerstag, am 30. August 2018 geht es erneut um die ausstehende Entscheidung von Revisionskontrollrichter Richter Tucker. Inhaltlich geht es (noch immer) um die an sich ertaunliche Frage, ob es "rechtsstaatlich" sei, wenn ein im Verfahren involvierter Staatsanwalt später als Revisionsrichter die Berufung leitet (und als unbegründet einstellt, wie es 1994 in Mumias Fall geschehen ist).