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Alvie Booth recently passed away at the grand age of 98.
Alvie was a wonderful woman who never missed an opportunity to campaign for peace, women's rights and issues of social justice, she was a real activist who even at the age of 92 travelled to the Northern Territory to demonstrate against the mining of uranium, where she was actually arrested and charged with an offence (
The example she set for us all and the message she left for us is to never give up the fight for justice and what you believe in and you are never too old to make your mark and deliver your protest!
Vale Amal Basry, a woman of great courage and humanity, who died in Melbourne on Saturday. After fleeing Iraq with her son, Amal boarded the SIEV X on her journey to Australia. *On October 19, 2001* when the boat went down, Amal survived 15 hours in the cold dark ocean with her son.
Not content with surviving Amal became the witness to that terrible voyage. She retold the story of that night over and over so that those who drowned would not be forgotten. Amal reminded us that *46 children, 142 women and 65 men* lost their lives in their flight to freedom and reunification with their families in Australia. Only 7 made it to
Australia.
In this fifth anniversary year of the Siev X, the Tampa and the Children Overboard boats, we will not forget this brave woman who reminded us that life for refugees is a struggle requiring great courage and humanity.
Alvie was a wonderful woman who never missed an opportunity to campaign for peace, women's rights and issues of social justice, she was a real activist who even at the age of 92 travelled to the Northern Territory to demonstrate against the mining of uranium, where she was actually arrested and charged with an offence (
The example she set for us all and the message she left for us is to never give up the fight for justice and what you believe in and you are never too old to make your mark and deliver your protest!
Vale Amal Basry, a woman of great courage and humanity, who died in Melbourne on Saturday. After fleeing Iraq with her son, Amal boarded the SIEV X on her journey to Australia. *On October 19, 2001* when the boat went down, Amal survived 15 hours in the cold dark ocean with her son.
Not content with surviving Amal became the witness to that terrible voyage. She retold the story of that night over and over so that those who drowned would not be forgotten. Amal reminded us that *46 children, 142 women and 65 men* lost their lives in their flight to freedom and reunification with their families in Australia. Only 7 made it to
Australia.
In this fifth anniversary year of the Siev X, the Tampa and the Children Overboard boats, we will not forget this brave woman who reminded us that life for refugees is a struggle requiring great courage and humanity.
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