Struggle for Kanak Independence

“Ce souffle venu des ancêtres”
[This breath came from ancestors]
— Jean-Marie Tjibaou

In August 1975, I visited an island in the Pacific called Ouvea which is part of the Loyalty Islands group to the east of New Caledonia.… Go to Article

Ray Jackson: Media discrimination

the articles below show without argument the tragedy that is the australian press when it is 70% owned by that internationalist capitalist and self-appointed ‘king-maker’, rupert murdoch.… Go to Article

News from Freedom Flotilla to West Papua

STOP PRESS

Protest in Support of Freedom Flotilla
11am – 1 pm
Monday 2 September 2013
150 Charlotte Street, Brisbane City

As you would (may) be aware, the Freedom Flotilla to West Papua has left Cairns and is moving towards West Papua.… Go to Article

Sand-mining fears for Quandamooka

by Courtesy of Koori Mail.

QUANDAMOOKA Yoolooburrabee Aboriginal Corporation (QYAC) chair Cameron Costello is deeply concerned that a close relationship between the Queensland Government and sand-mining company Sibelco could see sand-mining on North Stradbroke Island extended without permission of the traditional owners.… Go to Article

Open letter to Rudd & Abbott: a cruel and crass act of colonialism

Kevin,

Your personal act, but on behalf of the Federal ALP, to abrogate our Human Rights responsibilities relative to the UN Declaration on Refugees has now pushed this Country and its Society over the top and we stand bare and alone in shedding our collective decency as the now apocryphal “Land of the Fair Go.”… Go to Article

Protected: West Papuan freedom flotilla arrives at the sacred fire!

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Sydney city council and rocks police assaults at occupy sydney

attached is a letter of complaint we wrote to both the sydney lord mayor, ms. clover moore, and to the nsw police minister, mike gallacher, on behalf of the rocks police, arising from a savage assault against an isja member, ms.… Go to Article

Flawed response to gail hickey

attached is the agreed media release from the sydney and melbourne indigenous social justice associations and the flemington kensington community legal centre, melbourne re the flawed response from australia to the gail hickey complaint and submission to the united nations human rights committee.… Go to Article

CLIMATE of DEATH – Justice denied means more will die

by Gerry Georgatos
July 18th, 2013

Photo: Mother Mavis Pat at her son’s Fremantle Prison (museum) memorial, September 28, 2011 – Photo, Gerry Georgatos

“We have to get rid of racist cops.… Go to Article

Photographic Exhibit – “Manuwangku — Under a Nuclear Cloud”

Photographic Exhibit is currently showing at Qld Centre of Photography (cnr Russell and Cordelia St, South Brisbane – opp. Musgrave Park.… Go to Article

We will run our country again

[Editors Note: Thanks to Callum Clayton-Dixon for this excellent video]

Half a century ago, the Yolngu people in the Northern Territory pushed for recognition of the rights of First Nations peoples – recognition of their inherent right to land ownership and to block/veto mining.

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“What do these blacks want? An education? Send them back to the bush where they belong .”

by Gerry Georgatos
June 30th, 2013

… one high level university official once said to me, “Gerry, what do these blacks want?

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Democratic Rights under fire in Musgrave Park

Bail condition prohibiting participation in Cultural Ceremony, and in Social and Political activities in Musgrave Park .

Introduction
Since May 2012 police have been using their move-on powers to interfere with and (on occasion) arrest people engaged in social, political and cultural business in Musgrave Park.… Go to Article

‘Not Guilty’

This is the Paradigm Shift broadcasting on 4ZZZ fm 102.1 This show is called ‘Not Guilty’ and is about political defence – the story begins…

Vale Clarke and Dawe

On Wednesday, 26 June 2013, the Australian Labor Party killed political satire in Australia.… Go to Article

Aboriginal Resistance and the State

Brisbane Free University is excited to announce its next session, which will be held on Tuesday June 25th (tomorrow night!) on the topic ‘Indigenous Resistance and the State.’… Go to Article

news from ray jackson – indigenous social justice

time again to join the e-world.

for some 16 days of a crashed white-mans-magic box (and many many thanks to jp for his assistance in bringing it back to life), including an 8 day stop in hospital to work on the diabetic ulcers on my left foot.… Go to Article

Vale Ross Watson

Ross Watson – a leader of the 1982 Commonwealth Games protests and founder of the Murri school and of Murri radio (fm 98.9) in Brisbane – died this week.… Go to Article

Why the sacred fire is important to everyone

A week ago, Jagera elder, Kevin, was kicked out of his housing commission home. Tonight Kevin is in jail for re-lighting the sacred fire.… Go to Article

PShift: We are products of the system

Went to court and saw Garcia Lorca poem ‘Casida of the Dark Doves’ written on the wall:

"Through the laurel branches
I saw two doves of darkness.

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Corroboree marks first anniversary of the Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy

corroboree Speech by Wayne “Coco” Wharton
March 24 2013
Today marks twelve months since we first come back down here, when we first put the Embassy up.… Go to Article

Corroboree! — Brisbane Blacks Monthly

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Brisbane Sovereign Tent Embassy – upcoming events

And don’t forget the anniversary of
the establishment of the Brisbane Sovereign Tent Embassy in Musgrave Park

Corroboree
12 noon, 24 March 2013
Musgrave Park

program

12 noon up the top on jagera deed-of-grant-in-trust (dogit)

welcome to country
minute silence

tree planting by the families on the ridge on the way down to the bora ring
honouring the old people
planting paper bark trees to commemorate old warriors, men & women

walk down

1.30pm down the bottom near the bora ring

corroboree

smoking ceremony

speeches

dances

contemporary stuff – music – bands

yarning circles

people running activities for the kids

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Sacred fire burns in Musgrave Park!

A question arises from the ‘not guilty’ verdict handed down in Brisbane Magistrate Court today:

How does this verdict affect the question that Jagera land in the southern end of Musgrave Park should be used ‘for aboriginal purpose’ as specified on the title deed and the deed-of-grant-in-trust?… Go to Article

Traditional owner supports tent embassy in Musgrave Park

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DOCS drug and Label Colleen’s normal stolen grandson with autism.

my apologies for the lateness of this statement but i became tied up in other areas.

isja has been approached by the fuller/apps family to seek assistance in the return of their grandson and son from the clutches of docs.… Go to Article

Council’s case against Homer reaches new depths

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.”… Go to Article

Stradbroke island sand still being sold unlawfully

Stradbroke island sand still being sold unlawfully – http://www.riversideindustrialsands.com.au

The Supreme Court in 2010 ruled that the company could not sell silica sand under its mining leases for purposes such as mortar and render.… Go to Article

Deepen the Conversation: A Burning Landscape

Historian Bill Gammage explodes the myth that pre-European settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness, revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people.… Go to Article

‘OPERATION SATOUR’: The 1971 Springbok Tour of Queensland

‘OPERATION SATOUR’: The 1971 Springbok Tour of Queensland Queensland Police Headquarters: Sunday 24 February 2013: 10.30 am to 12.30 pm Inquiries to : Ms Lisa Jones (Police Museum Curator) on 3364 6425
Time	Speaker (Participants’ biographical details overleaf)	Topic or comment
1030	Mr David Fagan	Chairperson
1035	Professor Mark Finnane	‘Australia, South Africa and apartheid’
1045	Mr Terry O’Gorman	‘The Right to protest in 1971 and looking ahead to the G20 conference to be held in Brisbane 2014’
1105	Professor Alan Knight	‘Queensland radicals and the Springbok protests‘
1125	Questions from the floor to Professor Finnane, Mr O’Gorman or Professor Knight.

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Black, Red and White Wars

Most people in the U.S.A. have heard of Crazy Horse
that Indian folk hero who demolished Custer's force
'Sitting Bull', the Nez Perce 'Joseph' 'Cochise' 'Geronimo'
Indigenous Americans whose deeds of long ago
brought a blaze of glory to the red man in his land
But do we heed our native heroes who trod this southern strand?

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