The Federal Intervention is manifestly oppressive
to Aboriginal people
Berrimah
prison is full - (I was in there earlier
this year ('07) for an anti-racism protest
in '02) - The NT State's preferred
option is more black prisons
These
prisons are used as POW
camps in the ongoing war of invasion
against Aboriginal people
Two
PARIAH members were also imprisoned in
Berrimah in 2001 for their part in a protest
to support the people of East Timor in
1999
Mick
Lambe- August 07
Nationalism
+ Militarism + Racism = Fascism*
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Image depicts Australian Federal Parliament
flagpole atop Uluru
WA POLICE have been accused of using excessive force to break up a protest at the Subiaco office of Federal Science Minister Julie Bishop.
Several protesters were arrested and one was treated by St John paramedics after officers used batons and pepper spray to remove anti-nuclear waste dump campaigners from the minister's Rokeby Rd office.
Ms Bishop was surrounded by a rowdy mob when she drove into her car park at about 3pm and retreated upstairs as protesters continued to shout at her.
Several protesters from the group of about 50 then entered the office and allegedly refused to leave.
Protester Natalie Wasley said she was negotiating a peaceful exit with police officers inside the building drew their batons.
"We didn't get a chance to leave peacefully," she said.
"The police just started pepper spraying people, hitting them with batons and throwing them to the floor.
"It was absolutely shameful."
The protesters had travelled from around the country to deliver a letter to Ms Bishop requesting she visit Northern Territory communities before deciding to go ahead with a proposed waste dump.
Dozens of police swooped on the office and closed Rokeby Rd as the protesters, some with their eyes streaming after being pepper sprayed, retreated to a nearby park.
Ms Walsey denied the the group had provoked the violence.
Police spokesman Sgt Graham Clifford was unapologetic, saying they had responded appropriately.
"Police use appropriate force," he said.
"When they start breaking into a place and spraying graffiti then police will take firm and appropriate action."
A spokesman for Ms Bishop said the minister was shaken by the events.
PRIME Minister John Howard has branded the attack at the office of Education Minister Julie Bishop's office in Perth as total thuggery.
"That kind of thuggery is totally unacceptable and the people who engage in that type of conduct should be dealt with in accordance with the law,'' Mr Howard said.
A police officer and an anti-nuclear protester sustained head injuries in the clash outside the minister's inner city Subiaco office yesterday.
Five protesters were arrested, with four charged with disorderly conduct and one with assaulting a public officer, police said.
Mr Howard said: "I have spoken to Julie Bishop and she was plainly shaken by the incident and who wouldn't be if they were surrounded in their office by 50 thugs.
"And that kind of behaviour or the mealy mouthed explanation about police brutality don't impress me and they won't impress the great majority of the Australian public.''
Asked who he thought was behind the attack, Mr Howard said: "That is a matter for police to deal with, but I have seen enough and you have seen enough to know what kind of incident it was.''
The fracas developed after about 50 protesters arrived at Ms Bishop's office to deliver a letter at 3.45pm yesterday.
Ms Bishop said yesterday that police were called when they followed her into the office chanting. Protesters claimed the police used pepper spray and beat them even though it was a peaceful demonstration.
Police said the protesters were throwing rocks.
One police officer was taken to hospital with a gash to the head, and one protester was hospitalised with what police described as a "rock wound'', also to the head.
