Migrant justice
As many from our community come from migrant backgrounds and are all too familiar with histories of persecution and fleeing, the rights of refugees to live in safety is something we are passionate about. Australia has an abhorrent track record of treatment of asylum seekers, for which it has been internationally condemned. We demand a fair, just and compassionate response to refugees seeking asylum.
AJDS Pesach Haggadah
“The festival of Passover celebrates freedom and liberation. We are here today honouring a millennia long tradition which bounds us to history, culture, ritual and lore. Today we have brought our Seder table and Haggadot to Border Force. To the very offices responsible for the cruel treatment of asylum seekers whos’ only crime was to seek safety in Australia.”
Action Archive
Pesach seder action at border force. April 2019
Placing thousands of shoes at border force and Department of Immigration. August 2017 in Melbourne and Sydney.
Social justice sit-in at Josh Frydenberg’s office. Nov 2017.
Shabbat shut down of border force, rading Hannah Arrendt’s ‘on the banality of evil.’
Nov 2017
From the blog
We too were strangers
By Robin Rothfield (originally published in the Jewish News, 30/9/16) AS we approach the High Holy Days, how should we in the Jewish community respond
Max Kaiser on Jews For Refugees
Read “Jews, Refugees and the (im)possibility of history”, an insightful piece by Max Kaiser, about the formation and reformation of Jews For Refugees, published in Overland earlier this
Visiting asylum seekers in detention: a discussion with three visitors
What’s your background? Sounds like the beginning of a joke: A librarian, a therapist and a textile designer walk into a detention centre… Our background
Refugee-Run School in Indonesia a Model for Governments to Emulate
By Dr. Sally Clark and Carly Copolov, Swinburne University A school set up by asylum seekers and refugees in the West Java town Cisarua, Indonesia,
Resources
How can we work towards refugee and asylum-seeker rights while acknowledging Aboriginal sovereignty?
Migrant Justice in Settler-Colonial Australia (published in Arena)
Shen Narayanasamy of No Business In Abuse at the AJDS 2015 annual dinner.
The Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) is receiving Australian donations to support private sponsorship to Canada for refugees who were detained on Manus Island and Nauru
https://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/canada/