[Green-Activist] URGENT: PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD - JUSTICE FOR MULRINJI

[Anne Goddard]

FoE Event mailing listMarch to Parliament from 2:30
meet in Martin Place ... SYDNEY

From: foebrisbane-events at yahoogroups.com
To: foebrisbane-events at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 8:16 PM

Emergency Rally - Justice for Mulrinji
From: Emma Brindal

ejbrindal{at} hotmail.com
Mon Dec 18, 2006 6:40 pm (PST)


BRISBANE
EMERGENCY COMMUNITY RALLY AND MARCH
JUSTICE FOR MULRINJI, NO MORE COVER-UPS!
Rally 12 noon Wednesday December 20 Queens Park (Cnr George/Elizabeth Sts, 
opp
casino)
March on State Parliament

Media Release - 14th December 2006 Aboriginal leader calls community rally:'Sack 
racist DPP! Justice for Mulrinji!'

"Today will live on in infamy, as the day that the Director of Public
Prosecutions, an officer of the court that is supposed to act for all
people regardless of race, gender, religion or politics, has caved in
to the thuggery of the Queensland police service," said Queensland
Aboriginal community leader and Socialist Alliance spokesperson on
Aboriginal rights Sam Watson today.

"While Deputy Coroner Christine Clements found that Senior Sergeant Hurley 
had beaten an innocent man causing his death, a man who Clements says never 
should
have been in custody, DPP Leanne Clare has failed to lay one charge
against the police involved.

"We ask the DPP: 'What value do you place on the Coroner's findings and many 
witnesses and evidence that helped produce them?'

"Indeed, Clare's report merely echoes the police excuse-that Mulrinji died 
from a 'fall'. Yet Mulrinji was a fit young man who died in his cell with 
four broken ribs and a liver split
in two, after witnesses saw him being repeatedly beaten by Hurley.

"Expert medical advice was clear that this could not have been an accident. 
Everyone knows it-Mulrinji didn't fall, he was killed. This is pure racism. 
DPP Clare is telling Aboriginal people on Palm Island, across Queensland and 
Australia, that their
lives are of no value. Mulrinji's only 'crime' was to live as an
Aboriginal man on Palm Island. The police officer who bashed him to
death will go free. This is a green light to police to kill Aboriginal
people with utter impunity.

"Ironically, Aboriginal Palm Islanders who understandably rose up in the 
wake of the brutal killing of their brother are facing serious charges, yet 
the white copper who
killed our brother is being let off scot free," Watson noted. Watson
stressed that this racist denial of justice should be opposed by
everyone who supports justice and equality regardless of their skin
colour.

"Aboriginal people and many others are furious about this. Premier Beattie 
told us to let justice run its course. We ask him-where is the justice?
Would he accept this if it was his child, his brother?" Watson asked.

We will rally next Wednesday (December 20), and march on Parliament,
to demand:

. That the DPP be sacked;
. That Queensland cops stop protecting killers in their ranks and Hurley be 
brought to justice;
. Justice for Mulrinji and his family; and
. The full implementation of the recommendations from the Royal Commission 
into Black Deaths in Custody.