Melbourne Palm Island Solidarity Rally
Saturday 5 April, 12 noon
Assemble outside the Aboriginal Health Services
186 Nicholson Street, Fitzroy

• Drop all Charges against Lex Wotton! Justice for Mulrunji!
• Stop all Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Now!

Respected Palm Island resident, Lex Wotton, is facing charges of "riot with destruction" ‹ a charge that could lead to a jail sentence of more than ten years. Wotton¹s trial commences in Brisbane on 7 April 2008. With 400 others, Lex participated in the November 2004 protest against the killing of his friend Mulrunji in the Palm Island watch house while in police custody.

Lex Wotton continues to be harassed and persecuted as part of the crackdown that followed.

Far from being a "riot", the Palm Island protest was an act of anti-racist resistance. And, when injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty! Anyone who has ever protested against injustice has a stake in the outcome of Lex Wotton's case. Stop the racist political persecution of this Palm Island resident. Defend the right to oppose racist state brutality. Drop the charges now!

March up Johnston Street, then rally outside the Fitzroy Police Station

Organised by the Indigenous Social Justice Association ‹Melbourne