Brigid is turning 90

Brigid is turning 90. Wouldn't it be great if we could raise $5000 + for the Brigidine Asylum Seekers Project for her birthday?

Let's keep it a secret because she's too busy to go onto Facebook and see this.

If you could please share this fundraiser with your friends that would be wonderful.


🔸The life and times of activist Sister Brigid Arthur
https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2021/september/1630418400/jock-serong/sister-acts

🔸One might say she’s a rebel with a cause: Interview with Phillip Adams
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/sr-brigid-arthur-on-religion-and-refugees/103432112

🔸This week's Change-maker
https://australianoftheyear.org.au/recipients/sister-brigid-arthur

https://probonoaustralia.com.au/news/2021/09/a-lifelong-fight-for-fairness/

https://www.ncca.org.au/ncca-newsletter/june-2022-2/item/2826-australian-churches-refugee-taskforce-2202062

🔸Social Justice Warrior
https://www.lawyersalliance.com.au/news/social-justice-warrior-sister-brigid-arthur-wins-victorian-civil-justice-award

🔸 8 Young People Plus One
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/05/eight-teenagers-and-a-literal-nun-are-taking-on-environment-minister-sussan-ley

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/02/a-duty-of-care-australian-teenagers-take-their-climate-crisis-plea-to-court

🔸Nun in a cage
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/compass/series/36/video/RN2111H006S00

🔸Could someone please post bail for Brigid....again!

https://news.com.au/national/eight-church-leaders-detained-for-refusing-to-leave-tony-abbotts-electoral-office/news-story/9e751176bdc31bf613cdc3754290ae5c

https://www.smh.com.au/national/cricketmad-sister-brigid-arthur-goes-into-bat-for-refugee-rights-20160216-gmvd8f.html (If you can't open this one, you can read it in the comments).

🔸The Brigidine Asylum Seekers Project website
https://basp.org.au/
If anyone prefers to make a donation directly onto the BASP page, please tag it BAB90.
https://basp.org.au/you-can-help/

You could use one of my suggestions too:
🪻Permanent Visas
🌻Close Nauru Now
🌺 Bring Manus Men to Safety
🪷A Just and Equitable Australia for ALL
🌹 Take your Hands Off my Aunt, Serco

https://www.facebook.com/share/xSVjNHhuK6jTyX7U/

Times are tough but if people could contribute $5 instead of buying a coffee, all money goes to providing housing and support to refugees and asylum seekers.
The BASP needs to find thousands of dollars to pay for the houses they rent for refugees. Let's give them a hand this month; the BASP has a staff of three (plus friends, volunteers and their Board):

- Brigid Arthur csb
Project Coordinator

- Libby Saunders
Project Coordinator

- Hana Hussein
Housing Support Officer

"Sister Brigid Arthur, the project coordinator of the Brigidine Asylum Seekers Project, says when refugees are released they still face uncertainty. They receive temporary bridging visas, a small amount of money and two weeks’ accommodation.

She says without comprehensive assistance from the government it falls on the wider community to step in and provide support.

"We’ve housed between 40 and 50 people and we’re a small non-for-profit organisation that relies on donations,” Arthur says.

“They need to be able to access the services [such as Centrelink] that are available to Australians."

"At the Brigidine Asylum Seeker Project we believe we should take steps to give some hope to refugees – even if what we can do is no way near enough. Practically, we house people who get little or no income, give food, help people with money to buy Myki cards, phone money and so on.

We advocate for reform of the oppressive and unjust system determining the fate of asylum seekers and continually try to educate the community about the reality of people’s lives – people who are only asking for protection. Many people in the community enable us to give this help."