AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION OF UKRAINIAN ORGANISATIONS
CALL TO ACTION
NATIONAL RALLY – CANBERRA
Saturday February 19, 2011
Commencing at 11.00am
TIME FOR AUSTRALIA’S UKRAINIAN COMMUNITY AND ITS SUPPORTERS
TO SEND
A MESSAGE OF NO CONFIDENCE IN UKRAINE’S CURRENT LEADERSHIP
and
A MESSAGE OF SUPPORT FOR THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE and minorities Ukraine who want to build a strong, national, economically and socially sound Ukraine
Proposed program
- Commencing with National Remembrance Service for Holodomor Victims at National Holodomor Memorial St Nicholas Orthodox Church – Turner
followed by a
- March and Rally to the Embassy of Ukraine to take a message that Australian Ukrainian Community stands side by side with Ukraine and Ukraine’s who believe in a free and national Ukraine and demand that the Ukrainian Government have respect for national and human rights in Ukraine
- and a Protest to the Russian Embassy to take a message to the Russian Federation
STOP MEDDLING in Ukraine’s’ affairs
Time to take a stand
Current events in Ukraine are both worrying and disturbing and should not be tolerated
FACT Democratic processes being eroded
FACT Curtailing of Free Speech and media
FACT The Holodomor being denied as an act of Genocide by Ukraine’s’ own President
FACT Heavy handed force being used and a return to the Old Soviet Methods
FACT Academics being sacked because of exposing historic truths based on facts
FACT Russification of history
FACT Ukrainian as the National language being downgraded
FACT Ukraine being De Ukrainianized
FACT Tax reform that penalises small bsuisnessand favours oligarchs
The list goes on …………………
President Yanukovych and the Azarov administrations must receive the International message –
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
The AFUO call on our Churches Community Organisations in Australia to support this Rally
A special call goes to CYM and Plast to discuss the issues at this year’s camps and the Ukranian Schools to get involved in sending parents and children to send a message We students of Ukrainian in Australia protest at the Minister for Education Tabachnyk’s moves to force the Russian language on those living in Ukraine
There is a national language Ukrainians – Support should be given to study of all languages in Ukraine but not at the expense of Ukrainian as the national language.
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For further information contact Stefan Romaniw 0419531255 or Marian Tkaczuk 0416 255715
AFUO Executive
