Boycott #IHMS. They work for governments & corporations, not patients

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A very brief history of Australia’s for-profit detention industry | #Serco #Transfield #G4s

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UniSuper Divestment Brochure | #Transfield #AsylumSeekers #NTEU

UniSuper Divestment Brochure [ download pdf ]

Taking the risk for a world without internment camps

As discussions about the sponsorship of the Sydney Biennale quickly turned to calls for a boycott, as various articles appeared in arts media on the boycott and elsewhere on Transfield, as open letters were sent by participants in the Biennale to its Board requesting they sever their ties to Transfield and, not least, as these discussions were taking place against the backdrop of terrible events—including one death—at the Australian Government’s detention centre on Manus Island, the question that kept emerging in various ways throughout these conversations has been that of risk

Transfield Services Ltd, Transfied Holdings, Consolidated Financial Report for the 2012-13 Financial Year

 

We’ll append more information on this and related matters soon. For the moment, note the shareholdings as recorded in that consolidated accounting report.

Transfield, Risk-shifting and the Value of the Biennale

The Transfield Foundation is the major sponsor of the 19^th Biennale of Sydney.

Operational Matters, Working Paper

This last few weeks has provided a quick lesson in the myth and mechanics of border policing in and beyond Australia. Below is a Working Paper on ‘operational matters’ in the related campaigns. It is meant to provoke a focused discussion about how to bring about change. [An earlier version of this was distributed on January 26, 2013.]

Summary:

1. Violence is integral to the policies of Operation Sovereign Borders and mandatory detention. That violence can only be justified by giving credence to and encouraging racism.
2. Successive Australian government policies are a global problem that require a range of global responses.
3. The subcontracted, multi-agency character of internment, deterrence and expulsions makes everyone complicit. It also makes active non-compliance and refusal possible at each step in the supply-chain.
4. Campaigns in support of asylum seekers and refugees have to confront their own “positional errors” and “unintentional-but-repeated” reiterations of colonial sovereignty.

[Read the rest of the discussion paper here]