The Manus Refugee Crisis – pamphlet and poster available


The situation of the
refugees who have been abandoned by Australia on Manus Island is
getting worse by the day. They have been without food, water or
medical supplies for 19 days now and many of them are acutely ill. On
Saturday, the supposedly safe new camp in Lorengau was invaded by
locals, armed with knives and machetes, who turned the electricity
generator off.





We need to get them
here now! The Freedom Shop has put together two resources that can
help spread information and raise awareness.

 






A twelve-page A5
pamphlet titled “The Manus Refugee Crisis – the story so far”
provides a bit of background on the Australian detention policy and
the history of the Manus camp, before giving a day-by-day chronology
of the events since the closure of the camps on 31 October.

Download
the un-imposed (good for reading on a screen) version here and the
imposed (good for printing) here.
















The fold-up poster
“Welcome Refugees” is a quick-read info sheet and call to
action, on the back of a poster. There are two versions with
different designs to download here and here (you will need to trim the edges a bit to be able to fold them).





Please download,
print and spread (or forward the link). Talk to your friends about
actions to take.




Jacinda Ardern’s
timid offer to take 150 of them if Australia agrees is not enough.
And her plan to spend $3m on making the new detention centre in
Lorengau more humane is simply the wrong thing. The refugees want
freedom, they don’t want a nicer prison. We need to #BringThemHere!





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