FINALLY! I was beginning to have ActNow withdrawal symptoms… Unfortunately I didn’t come around to coming into the office last week, uni assignments were absolutely torturing me, I swear! So, I decided it was best to stay home, and do as much research as physically (and mentally) possible from my handy dandy laptop. (:
As usual, my obsession over knowing all things human rights, caused me to spend more time than I actually had browsing the net and reading a ton of books… And I spent a considerable amount of time working with my favourite organisation, A Just Australia (AJA). :P I made it my mission (along with surviving my horrible assignmenting week of course…) to keep my ears and eyes out for the mass media’s misuse of terms such as “illegals” instead of the accurate term, which is much less degrading – “asylum seeker”.
In the last two weeks, I have noticed it on a breakfast radio show (2day fm) a breakfast TV show (the Today show) and a television drama (Home and Away), I JUST CAN’T BELIEVE IT, HONESTLY!! – I won’t bore you guys with the itty gritty details of what I did (in case you’re not interested, but you SHOULD be interested!), instead, I will post all the details on a “story” that I am writing on the action taken… You will be able to find this on my profile page, under “pages I created”. Please, PLEASE check it out - for me… *bats eyelashes* k, thanks! (:
On a completely unrelated note, I got Big Day Out tickets this morning… WOOOO!! xD
ALRIGHTY THEN, nice talking to ya!
-Caterina. x
