SYDNEY: The 2021 March for Justice, to take place in Sydney's CBD on Saturday 24th April, will be co-sponsored by the peak advocacy groups representing the Armenian-Australian, Assyrian-Australian and Greek-Australian communities, reported the Armenian National Committee of Australia.
The Joint Justice Initiative, which is represented by the Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC-AU), the Assyrian National Council – Australia and the Australian Hellenic Council, are calling on their respective communities to turn up to The Domain in Sydney to begin the March for Justice, which sends a clear message to Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his government – that these communities demand Federal Government recognition of the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides.
This cooperative expression of demand is a graduation of the Joint Justice Initiative's activities from the strictly political to the grassroots. Since the three communities' advocacy arms formalised their cooperation with a launch in February 2020, over 40 Federal parliamentarians have signed up to the Joint Justice Initiative, pledging allegiance to national Australian recognition of the 1915 genocides.
The annual March For Justice will begin at 3pm (AEST), and typically attracts thousands of marchers. This year's procession will begin at The Domain and proceed through Sydney’s Central Business District before concluding with a special programme at Sydney Town Hall.
Led by the Homenetmen Scouts Marching band, the leading delegation will also include political representatives, clergy, community leaders, youth groups and school students from the Armenian-Australian, Assyrian-Australian and Greek-Australian communities.
"Most Armenian-Australians, as well as many Assyrian-Australians and Greek-Australians, are direct descendants of survivors of what we commemorate as the Armenian Genocide," said ANC-AU Political Affairs Director, Michael Kolokossian. "Many of us have been directly impacted by the the Turkish State's genocidal policies, execution and denial in our own ways, and us Armenians saw this manifest again during the 2020 Nagorno Karabakh War."
“We are pleased to be standing in solidarity with our sisters and brothers from the Assyrian and Greek communities at this year's March for Justice, and are determined to project our voices all the way to Canberra."
A number of buses will be transporting participants to and from the March for Justice. They will be departing from:
Armenian Cultural Panoyan Centre - 682 Cabramatta Road Bonnyrigg at 1:15pm.Ararat Scout Hall - 255 Quarry Road, Ryde at 1:45pm. Armenian Cultural Centre - 259 Penshurst Street, Willoughby at 2:00pm.
The March for Justice is also co-sponsored by the Armenian Genocide Commemorative Committee and organised by a group of the largest Armenian-Australian organisations.
A similar group of organisations in Melbourne have announced a Melbourne March for Justice for the same day, 24th April 2021.
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