Today on Black Mask: Anarcha-Indigenism

Today at 2:30 pm (PST); 4:30 pm (CST) listen to Wendy Ross and Glen Coulthard discuss Anarcha-Indigenism :

www.ckuw.ca/index.php/listen

Black Mask

Black Power didn’t end in the ’60’s and AIM didn’t stop in the ’70’s…from an anarchist perspective, Black Mask will look at these and many more liberation movements within Turtle Island and around the globe.

Every other week will feature an interview with, or an archived lecture from people directly involved with the struggle against colonialism, capitalism, and state oppression. Black Mask airs every other Wednesday.

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Protest march 13th of July at Tent Embassy at 11am: Never Say Die


Uncles, Aunties, Brothers, Sisters, Non Indigenous Comrades and Friends, Us Brisbane mob are planning on a major mobilisation to Canberra for the third week of August, which will be the opening week
of the new sittings and probably the final sitting of the Howard parliament.

We are horrified and angered by this new wave of frontal attacks on the rights of our people in the NT and across the nation.

We despise Howard and his brutal wedge style of politics and we also say that it is time to "out" his jackie-jackies and mary-marys. Modern history has always linked the name of Adolf Hitler with the Holocaust and has neglected to further connect and expose the back room architects of the "Final Solution."

We must not make that same mistake. This 2007 attack on our people is just as deadly and just as constructed as the Nazi war against the Jewish peoples of Europe. Pearson and Gordon and their fellow travellers must also have their names written on the Shame Walls of national history and they must be condemned and driven from our camps.

They are dogs and they must be treated as dogs. Join us in Canberra to confront Howard and his corrupt and rotten government!!!

SAM WATSON
BRISBANE MURRI MAN

Me tautokona e maatou, teenei karanga ki ngaa taangata o ngaa hau e whaa!
Kia kaati te mahi tuukino rawa a Howard maa.
He Crocodile tears aana.

Naa,

Manuhiri

To our Brothers, Sisters, Friends & Allies in Occupied Australia:

Modern law is based on human equality and consent of the governed. Colonialism is illegal. The physical abuse that is happening among Aborigines and us here was learned from the first encounters with the penal colonists. They tied up our women like animals to abuse them. This is not part of Aborigine culture.

The military going into our Aborigine communities will make it worse. It will turn the clock back 100 years. The depth of the problems caused by the residential schools molestation experience shows how long this abuse can last, many generations. Even the SPCA tells animal owners they can't hit a dog or cat, but they still think its okay to hit people.

We should challenge these politicians and officials to live for one week like they are forcing us to live. They could not do it.

The government is supposed to be an instrument of the people to regulate our lives for our betterment, not as an instrument of oppression. When people work together we can do more. The oppressor class is imposing situations that the public is not aware of. They do not realize what is right or wrong. Disturbing us and the environment needs our consent. We have not consented to this kind of interference by anyone, particularly the military.

Are there any Aborigines in the Australian Parliament? If so, why is there no outcry from them? Has the legislature been given the legitimate power to impose martial law on us?

The settler cultures were a product of people abused, enslaved and displaced in the early feudal period. They belonged to the king or prince in exchange for being allowed to live. The aristocracy started pushing people off the land to raise animals instead of farming. The people migrated to the cities where they died like flies. They had no means of support and they were cut off from the land. Those sent to the penal colonies had no means to survive. They were a poor culture of a poor people They treated us the way they were treated. They don't see anything wrong with that.

We remember our reality of just over 100 years. If oppression is our only reality and we had nothing before the settlers arrived, then would we have no reason to live? But we had something that we created ourselves that sustained us so we had better lives and healthy environment. This artificial brutal reality that was brought here and forced on us has to go!

Kahentinetha Horn
MNN Mohawk Nation News

Tamaki/Auckland Tautoko for this kaupapa:

Tia Taurere 021 311 815

Joe Carolan 021 186 1450

the Solomon Islands


By Patrick O’Connor
28 June 2007

www.wsws.org/articles/2007/jun2007/ntsi-j28.shtml

A series of direct and chilling parallels exists between the Howard
government’s police-military takeover of Aboriginal communities in the
Northern Territory (NT) of Australia and its military interventions in
the Solomon Islands and other neighbouring South Pacific states.

The NT operation is being justified on the basis that the region
amounts to a “failed state” in need of an initial period of
“stabilisation”. Police and military forces are being sent in
significant numbers, we are told, in the interests of protecting
Aboriginal children from sexual abuse. The underlying motivations are
entirely “humanitarian”.

Several of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) being deployed to the
NT have previously served in the Solomon Islands. And the man
appointed as operational commander of the prime minister’s hand-picked
task force is none other than Shane Castles—former AFP officer and
Solomon Islands police commissioner.

To grasp what Howard’s plan is really about, it is important to review
the record of his government’s recent dealings in the Solomons.

In July 2003, Howard labelled the Solomons a “failed state” and
dispatched more than 2,000 troops and federal police, along with
scores of bureaucrats. The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon
Islands (RAMSI) forces took direct control of the state apparatus,
including the police, prisons, courts, and governmental finance and
economic bodies. Howard made great play of warning that unrest in the
tiny country posed a grave threat to Australian national security. At
the same time, he sought to allay potential public opposition by
insisting that the whole affair was driven by his government’s concern
for the fate of ordinary Solomon Islanders. To that end, the mission
was prominently labelled “Helpem Fren” (Help a Friend).

The real reasons for the military intervention were bound up with the
strategic and economic calculations of Australia’s ruling elite. The
South Pacific has long been regarded in official circles as Canberra’s
“sphere of influence”, with Howard recently characterising it as “our
special patch”. Escalating great power rivalry in the region, driven
by China’s growing economic and diplomatic influence, poses a threat
to Australia’s strategic hegemony as well as its considerable economic
interests.

Howard’s decision to intervene in the Solomons constituted a tactical
shift, following the US-led invasion of Iraq that was launched just
months earlier. In launching the Iraq war the Bush administration
openly disregarded international law, utilising military force to
seize control of critical resources. As part of the quid pro quo for
the Howard government’s participation in Bush’s “coalition of the
willing”, Washington backed Canberra’s aggressive drive to assert its
direct control over the South Pacific.

Four years after the initial intervention, the continuing social
crisis facing Solomon Islanders demonstrates the fraudulent character
of the Howard government’s “humanitarian” rhetoric. The country
remains among the most impoverished in the world, with extreme levels
of poverty and unemployment. The majority of the population survives
through subsistence farming, while those living in the capital Honiara
have seen a significant decline in their living standards. The influx
of well-paid RAMSI and other Australian personnel has fuelled
inflation and driven up the costs of housing, food, and other
essential items.

While RAMSI-associated layers now dominate Honiara’s housing market,
thousands of local residents are forced to reside in squalid squatter
camps. Such is the level of social inequality that senior Solomon
Islands’ officials have recently issued a number of warnings. The
Central Bank’s deputy governor Denton Rarawa last month noted what he
characterised as the “RAMSI effect”, which was exacerbating inflation
and creating an unsustainable housing market bubble. Former Central
Bank governor Tony Hughes echoed these remarks and warned that “if it
is not reversed, inequality and widening awareness of what is causing
it will have disastrous consequences for Pacific nations... persistent
unfairness breeds bitterness, and unattended bitterness breeds an urge
to destroy”.

This situation has been directly caused by the Howard government’s
policies. Canberra commits more than $200 million in so-called aid
money each year to the Solomons, but virtually none of this money is
spent on health, education, and other social services. More than half
of the total “aid” bill, $112 million, funds the salaries of
Australian Federal Police, while half of the remaining sum is paid to
GRM—a company owned by Australia’s wealthiest individual James
Packer—largely for running the infamous Solomon Islands prison system.

Canberra spends just $2 million a year on education and an average of
less than $9 million a year on the health of the Solomons population.
Even these pitiful sums overstate the real level of Australian “aid”.
The $2 million in education money funds Australian university
scholarships for a small number of Solomon Islanders—those targetted
by Canberra as the next generation of the political elite. Nothing is
spent on schools or literacy programs within the country, despite an
estimated one-quarter of the population being unable to read or write.
Similarly, a significant proportion of the health funding is spent on
restructuring the government’s health ministry, rather than on direct
medical assistance. There remains an acute shortage of medical workers
in the Solomons, with a ratio of 10,000 patients to each doctor.

This is the template for the Howard government’s approach to the
social catastrophe that confronts the Aboriginal population of the
Northern Territory. And it will have very similar results.

Not a single additional cent will be spent on healthcare, education,
housing, employment, or any other social services. Howard, together
with his indigenous affairs minister and former military officer, Mal
Brough, has framed the entire operation in military terms. As an
article in the Australian noted yesterday: “Resources are ‘deployed’.
Situations are ‘stabilised’ and then, hopefully, ‘normalised’. Towns
will be ‘secured’. Maps are distributed. All part of a ‘three-phase
operation’ to rescue the children.”

The idea that the police and the army can halt child sexual abuse and
the myriad other social problems afflicting remote indigenous
communities, is utterly absurd—as the experiences of Solomon Islanders
demonstrates.

In March last year, Time magazine’s Pacific edition revealed that a
2004 report commissioned by the United Nations Children’s Fund
(UNICEF) on child sexual exploitation in the Solomons had documented
dozens of examples of child pornography, prostitution, and sex
tourism. The article, entitled “Generation Exploited”, pointed out
that the Howard government had done nothing in response to the
report’s findings and had ignored appeals from the Solomon Islands
government to provide adequate funds to address the problem. Time
noted: “Only three government welfare workers can be called on to help
the victims; they service a population of about 500,000 across a vast
archipelago.” According to the UNICEF report, which was never publicly
released, RAMSI personnel were seen “as contributing to an increase in
prostitution”.

Howard’s appointment of Shane Castles to head his NT task force is
particularly instructive. Castles’s term in the Solomon Islands was
marked by a series of provocations, characterised by an open disregard
for legal and constitutional norms and unflagging loyalty to the
political imperatives of the Howard government.

Castles was initially dispatched to the Solomons as police chief in
April 2005 in order to consolidate Canberra’s control amid mounting
opposition to RAMSI. Twelve months later, RAMSI police sparked two
days of rioting in Honiara after they fired tear gas into a political
demonstration following national elections. The Australian police
chief’s exact role in these events has never been officially
investigated. But there is significant evidence that Australian forces
were deliberately stood down during the riots in order to create
maximum chaos, and to establish the conditions for the deployment of
hundreds more troops and police to bolster the RAMSI operation. (See
“The Howard government, RAMSI, and the April 2006 Solomon Islands’ riots”)

In the aftermath of the riots, the Sogavare government came to power
and announced the formation of a Commission of Inquiry into the causes
of the violence. Fearing an exposure of its role, the Howard
government launched an extraordinary dirty tricks campaign aimed at
demonising Sogavare and several of his supporters, and destabilising
his government.

Castles was the key player. Last October, he arrested Julian Moti, a
constitutional lawyer and Sogavare’s appointee to the position of
attorney-general, who was responsible for setting up the Commission of
Inquiry. Castles then proceeded to arrest Immigration Minister Peter
Shanel and violently raided the office of Prime Minister Sogavare. The
Australian police chief contemptuously dismissed a subsequent court
ruling that acquitted Moti of the bogus charges, and threatened to
arrest him again on the same charges. However, Sogavare sacked Castles
and barred him from re-entering the Solomon Islands before he had a
chance to do so. The Sogavare government concluded that Castles’s
“continued presence here [is] considered prejudicial to the peace,
defence, public safety, public order, public morality, security and
good government of Solomon Islands”.

That Howard is involving Castles in his filthy NT operation should
serve as a sharp warning of the methods being prepared, initially
against the most oppressed and disadvantaged layers of Australian
society, but, in the not-too-distant future, against the working class
as a whole.

See Also:
Australia: Growing opposition to police-military takeover of
Aboriginal communities
[27 June 2007]
Australian government imposes military-police regime on Aborigines
[23 June 2007]
Solomon Islands’ government dismisses Australian police chief
[4 January 2007]

Subject: (en) Canada, Montreal, SUNDAY -

Support indigenous struggles for sovereignty, dignity and self-determination on Turtle Island ---- Oppose CN Rail's racism and colonialism ---- SUNDAY, JULY

1st, 1pm (sharp) Picket and Demonstration Montreal Central Train Station metro
Bonaventure (enter via the metro, or via the street at 895 de la Gauchetière
West, between University and Mansfield) ** Meet at the large departures/arrivals
sign in the main lobby of the train station. Bring your banners, placards, flags
and other symbols of dissent. ---- We demand that CN Rail drop their racist
lawsuit against Mohawk activists at Tyendinaga;

---- We stand in support and
solidarity with indigenous struggles for sovereignty and self-determination all
over Turtle Island;
---- We denounce CN Rail's role in the corporate North
American Competitiveness Council and the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP).

"When justice fails, block the rails!"
-----

CN Rail is a multi-billion dollar company, headquartered in Montreal,
whose tracks and installations occupy native lands from
ocean-to-ocean.

CN Rail is currently pursuing a multi-million dollar lawsuit against
three Mohawk activists from the community of Tyendinaga who were
actively involved in the defense of their land. CN is threatening more
lawsuits against other indigenous communities and activists who block
CN rail lines.

CN Rail and their executives are targeting indigenous community
organizers who have effectively brought the issue of land rights
violations and native sovereignty to the forefront. In the context of
appropriated native territory, which their tracks sit on, CN Rail's
actions are colonial and racist.

While CN uses the courts to attack native activists, their CEO -- E.
Hunter Harrison -- is a member of the North American Competitiveness
Council, a key promoter of the recently formed "Security and
Prosperity Partnership" (SPP) between Canada, the United States and
Mexico. The SPP continues the imposition of the neo-liberal North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), combined with paranoid
"Homeland Security" policies.

The SPP is an attack on all working and oppressed peoples, especially
the indigenous peoples of "North America". The SPP leaders -- George
Bush, Stephen Harper and Felipe Calderon -- will be meeting later this
summer, from August 20-21, in Montebello, Quebec (just 90 minutes from
Montreal).

"Canada" is a country built on stolen land and genocide: we come
together on July 1, in solidarity with native protests across Turtle
Island, as non-natives in opposition to Canadian colonialism and
racism. Join us for an anti-colonial anti-Canada Day!

Organized and endorsed by:
Block the Empire-Montreal
Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement
Liberterre
No One Is Illegal-Montreal*
Pointe Libertaire
Solidarity Across Borders
Tadamon! Montreal
and others.

INFO: 514-848-7583, noii-montreal (at) resist.ca

========================================
* An antiauthoritarian anticapitalist initiative

Tia Taurere will be reading a statement of solidarity to our
Aboriginal brothers & Sisters.

WHEN: Mon 2nd July 2007 @ 4:30PM

WHERE: Auckland, Meet @ QEII Square(Britomart) then head to Australian
Consulate

WHY: To show solidarity to the Aboriginal communities and
beneficiaries of our neighboring Australia.

Tamaki Tautoko for this kaupapa:

Tia Taurere 021 311 815

Joe Carolan 021 186 1450

Endorsements for National Day of Action July 14.7.07
Kulin Nations (Melbourne)

Stop the Genocide on Stolen Aboriginal Land! from Aotearoa are;

Whakaminenga o Te Paatu
Te Ata Tino Toa
Conscious Collaborations-Global Indigenous network
Mana Wahine
Solidarity Union
Socialist Worker (Aotearoa)
Human Rights Project Aotearoa
Wellington Wildcat Anarchist Collective
Aocafe (Aotearoa Cafe)
Green Party Aoteatroa

In the spirit of Indigenous Unity, Struggle & Solidarity

Endorsements for this rally from Aotearoa to date are:

Whakaminenga o Te Paatu
Te Ata Tino Toa
Conscious Collaborations-Global Indigenous network
Mana Wahine
Solidarity Union
Socialist Worker (Aotearoa)
Human Rights Project Aotearoa
Wellington Wildcat Anarchist Collective
Aocafe (Aotearoa Cafe)
Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
Radical Youth (Auckland)

On the 07/07/07, Yungarri Knuppanunka Aunty Sue Charles Rankin,
Aboriginal Mother and Grandmother from the Kulin Nation, (Melbourne,
Australia) in her fiftieth year will set off from Kaurna Country
(Adelaide, South Australia), to walk a journey of a 1,500 kilometers
to Uluru in Australia’s Northern Territory to bring world-wide focus
on Mother Earth changes and the continued deplorable treatment and
living conditions of Aboriginal Peoples in the homelands of her Ancestors.

Our people say if country is sick, people are sick. We have forgotten
that we are all connected, we no longer listen to our Mother Earth and
each other in a healthy manner.

In setting out upon this peaceful journey, my intention is to promote
awareness of and better our relationship with our Mother Earth and
each other. We, each of us cannot continue on the course we are
currently on and just hope everything will be ok. My people have
sought always to maintain balance and its restoration through
reciprocal relationships with all things this is expressed through our
shared values, beliefs and practices.

There must be a shift in attitude we must become conscious of our
relationship with each other and our Mother Earth, we are all
connected. Each of us is responsible. We cannot continue to close off
our ears and eyes to the continuing plight of my People and our Mother
Earth. This time of ignorance, greed and complacency must end.

I look forward to sitting down with people in communities along the
way, to share our stories and to see how we can all work together to
bring about peaceful change for the betterment of all people and all
life.” All life is sacred, I am walking this ancient earth as my
Ancestors have done from time immemorial I walk it for all those who
have brought us here and for all those still to come.
ALL WELCOME
People who can make it to Adelaide are encouraged to come down to see
the walkers off and share a farewell BBQ Breakfast

DATE: Saturday the 07/07/07.

TIME: 6am Depart by 7am

WHERE: Tauondi Aborignal College
11 Lipson street Port Adelaide South Australia

Alternatively, people can share art, music or words of support online at:
www.peacepilgrimage.net/sacredlife or www.myspace.com/peacepilgrimage

For media enquiries please contact:
sacredlife_media@...

For further information about the walk please visit:
peacepilgrimage.net/sacredlife

Aunty Sue is a long time campaigner for Aboriginal Rights:

TODAY AT HIGH COURT - CALL TO END GENOCIDE
by Genocide prosecutors Wednesday April 13, 2005 at 01:17 PM

Photo's and rundown of today's action at the High Court Registry
Melbourne...Aboriginal elders calling an end to the Genocide

melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/90701.php

MEDIA ADVISORY
for immediate release
July 2, 2:45 pm

Indigenous activists face police at roadblock

First Nations activists are continuing the days of action with a blockade in
Saanichton at this hour. Around 30 people are risking arrest on West Saanich
Road between Stelly's Road and Mt. Newton Cross Road. (See map link below).
Members of the Tsartlip Band, other First Nations and their supporters are
preventing traffic from passing as they protest injustice against native
people.

"This is an action in solidarity with other First Nations across Canada,"
Victoria activist Rose Henry said by phone at 2:30 pm Monday. "We are tired
of the poor living standards, tired of poverty, tired of having no housing,
and tired of the treaty process."

"The police are here now. More police are arriving," Henry said. She
requests supporters bring friends to help and bear witness, water, banners,
and other supplies for the protest. Henry said the protest will go on until
5:30 pm today, assuming police don't move to break it up before then.

Contact: Rose Henry 250-812-0199 cell
Map:*
tinyurl.com/ywcjbv*

ZoeBlunt (at) gmail.com

earth_first (at) resist.ca
250.361.1876

angryindian.blogspot.com/2007/07/aotearoa-imc-he-karanga-tenei-ki-nga.html

intercontinentalcry.org/open-letters-from-the-national-indigenous-human-rights-congress-australia/

PROTEST


Hi people there has been changes to Saturdays protest 12:30. march
from the Tent Embassy to march to Garema Place Civic, and rally at

Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Saturday 14th July 2007
Saturday 12:30.

Join us in a march from the Tent Embassy to new Parliament House.

How can we celebrate NAIDOC when the government occupies Aboriginal
Communities with armed forces?

Invasion is happening again in Australia. The Howard regime similar to
Hitler’s regime has occupied communities. While they say it’s in the
best interest of the Aboriginal people we know it’s a land grab.

Fight for Justice for Aboriginal people.

Yours in the Battle

Kerry

Kerry Reed-Gilbert

Associate Dip Adult Ed (Aboriginal)

BEd (Adults)

Kuracca Consultancy & Communications

PO Box 623

Dickson ACT 2602

Ph/Fax: 02 6241 7346

Mobile: 0415 469 512

Web: www.kuracca.com

Kia Ora

Updated poster for International Day of Action

Kia kaha tatou

In case you were unable to open up the PDF Communique, you can have a
look at the Blog spot for updated pictures.

harrietspirit.blogspot.com/

INDIGENOUS ANTI-CANADA DAY
NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AND RESISTANCE
COAST SALISH TERRITORY

On July 1st 2007, over 200 Indigenous women, children,
Elders and men took the streets and the train tracks
on a march and blockade to mark their resistance to
Canada as an oppressive force against their people.
The march began at Grandview Park and proceeded down
Commercial Drive to Venables Street where the CN rail
lines were occupied and blocked for over an hour.

During the blockade a Canadian flag was burned on the
tracks by an Indigenous person, and several other
Canadian souvenir flags that had been painted with the
words �No Justice on Stolen Native Land� were burned
by about 40 Indigenous people at the action.

The group stayed strong throughout the blockade in a
show of force to let the Canadian government know that
Indigenous people will not take state oppression any
longer.

The march returned to Grandview park, again blocking
traffic on the roads and intersections. The police
presence was small, consisting of mostly bicycle
units, and efforts to direct traffic were non-existent
for at least an hour.

U-Tube Videos to come

____________________________________________________________________________________Ready

"Today we are remembering our eldest elders, those who initiated the long
struggle of resistance against the arrogance of Power and the violence of
money. They, our ancestors, taught us that a people with pride are a
people who do not surrender, who resist, who have dignity." - from Our
Word Is Our Weapon

INDIGENOUS ANTI-CANADA DAY

On July 1st 2007, over 200 Indigenous women, children, Elders and men
(and non-native supporters) took the streets and the train tracks on a
march and blockade to mark their resistance to Canada as an oppressive
force against their people. The march began at Grandview Park and
proceeded down Commercial Drive to Venables Street where the CN rail
lines were occupied and blocked for over an hour.

During the blockade a Canadian flag was burned on the tracks by an
Indigenous person, and several other Canadian souvenir flags that had
been painted with the words “No Justice on Stolen Native Land” were
burned by about 40 Indigenous people at the action.

The group stayed strong throughout the blockade in a show of force to
let the Canadian government know that Indigenous people will not take
state oppression any longer.

The march returned to Grandview park, again blocking traffic on the
roads and intersections. The police presence was small, consisting of
mostly bicycle units, and efforts to direct traffic were non-existent
for at least an hour.

Actions of this nature will continue to happen, not only at every
Anti-Canada Day but also at other events in the true spirit of
Indigenous resistance!

U-Tube Video on its way!

photos of Anti-Canada Day in vancouver:
harrietspirit.blogspot.com/

photos of Anti-Canada Day in montreal:
photos.cmaq.net/v/anti-canada-day/

more photos & reports of continental actions:
wiinimkiikaa.wordpress.com

other links:
no2010.com
ourfreedom.wordpress.com

"they are dogs and must be treated as dogs"I take exception to this ,Dogs are loyal,loving animals and treated with respect will be your life long mate.This mob can get stuffed if they have no respect for our animal friends.

Save your dog comment, how rude of you to undermine a peoples struggle with your crap.We have been treated worst than dogs clown, thats the point.

---------- Forwarded message ----------

Date: Jul 5, 2007 6:23 PM
Subject: [Fwd: Maori support for Australian Indigenous Peoples]

- Hide quoted text -

Dear Brothers and Sisters of our nearby land of Aotearoa,

This is an open letter to THANK ALL OF YOU who participated in the occupation of the Australian Consulate in Auckland,this week.

My name is Di Stewart & I am an Indigenous woman from Nth Queensland,in Australia. As you are aware we as Aboriginal people are currently under direct attack,from John Howard's Gov't,which is a very RACIST,BIASED,GREED DRIVEN Organisation.The majority of Australians would like to imagine themselves to be a people who "give people a fair go"...what a load of ROT!!!!

We are and have always been a thorn in the sides of the Colonial Invaders ever since they put foot on OUR LAND and declared it for English rule. We have never surrenderd our lands or sold them....they were and continue to be STOLEN from the Original Australians. We are and have always been treated like, nothing worse than animals,in fact the animals have been treated better than us.Our people have been decimated,hunted,stolen from their Homelands and then they "Governments of Australia"have the audacity to BLAME Aboriginal people for their plight.

We are not a 3rd World country,but to see many of our countrymen/women & children being forced to live in 3rd World conditions is beyond belief. John "Hitler"Howard and his cruel Liberal Government and I use the word Liberal.. lightly, have much to answer for and undoubtably will earn himself the title of a Great Criminal for his part in the genocide of our Indigenous Australians.This latest ploy of the Aust Gov't has seen "Hitler Howard",begin his stand for Martial Law in Australia,and if the rest of the Australian population thinks that this will just stop with Aboriginal people then they are in for a VERY RUDE awakening.... This is just the Beginning.!!

Whilst there is indeed Child Neglect & Abuse in our communities,there is also the same happening in White Anglo homes as well.I ask the question does he intend to Invade their homes with the NATIONAL GUARD as well?...of course not.This is our privilage and only ours alone...we have been set back in this country to 200 and so many years again. I applaud the Maori people for their support of my countrymen,women and children,but that alone will not solve the problem.Although it is very heartening to hear that we are at least being watched and cared for in this world.Sometimes it doesn't feel like we as a Nation of people have any hope at all. My personal belief is,that to bring about change of a substanial nature we have to SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE. There is no Aboriginal Leader/s so to speak of and it is my greatest wish to see all Original Australians stand together against the tryanny & injustice that we all face on a day to day basis.
We must also acknowledge the support that many white Australians give to us,and to not let this become a BLACK/WHITE issue... which is exactly what Howard wants,for him to go ahead and impose TOTAL Martial Law on us.Ironically we have recently "Celebrated?"the 40th Anniversary of the Referendum which overwhelmingly gave us the "RIGHT TO VOTE"... and to be recogised as Citizens within our own Country. How Generous....

Their are many capable,educated,intelligant and willing Aboriginal people who are already doing the Hard work on the ground,but lack of goodwill and funding by this and previous Governments in this country, intend to keep Aboriginal People where they think they should be: UNSEEN & UNHEARD. Better still get rid of us altogether and therfore no more problem. I AM ASKING FOR HELP...AS A MOTHER & GRANDMOTHER FOR ALL OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THIS PLANET, TO PLEASE UNITE AS ONE FORCE AS WE ARE ALL THE TRUE CUSTODIANS OF MOTHER EARTH, to help us in our fight against the injustices that are occurring in OUR ANCIENT,SPIRITUAL,LAND,,, AUSTRALIA.

May your Ancestors be with you all in your struggles as well,
Di Stewart....Dulguburra Yidinji Woman of North Queensland. Email Address: di_di_61 (at) bigpond.com

Kia Ora whanau

Tautoko from Great Turtle Island

American Indian Movement

MNN Mohawk Nation News

Leonard Peltier Defense Committee

Chur
Respect & Regards
In the Spirit of Indigenous Unity , Strength & Resistance

just because youve been treated like crap doesnt mean you should make comments advocating the abuse of another speices,maybe you should start getting some self respect first

Ngā iwi e, Ngā iwi e
O people, O people
Kia Kotahi ra, Te Moana-nui-a-kiwa
Join together as one the Pacific Ocean.
Ngā iwi e, Ngā iwi e
O people, o people
Kia Kotahi ra, Te Moana-nui-a-kiwa
Join together as one, the Pacific Ocean

Kia mau ra, kia mau ra
Hold fast, hold fast
Ki te mana motuhake me te aroha.
To self-determination and to love.
Kia mau ra, kia mau ra
Hold fast, hold fast
Ki te mana motuhake me te aroha.
To self-determination and to love.

www.justfocus.org.nz/articles/2006/08/11/pacific-youth-hold-fast-we-cant-ignore-colonisation/

Photos attached, and higher resolution ones available.

Holly Creenaune
Australian Student Environment Network
holly (at) asen.org.au
0417 682 541

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am justing posting this anywhere and everywhere...

Wellington (Aotearoa) solidarity protests:

July 13th 12:30-1:30pm demonstration at Oz Consulate (meeting 12:15pm at park across road, Hobson Street, Thorndon).

Saturday July 14th 12-2pm, meet 12pm at Midland Park on Lambton Quay to rally and march to Te Aro Park as part of the international day of action. DIY protest but speakers and musicians organised at some points....

Subject: National Day of Action in Solidarity with Australian Indigenous People
Name: Jo Kamira
Date Posted: Jul 14, 07 - 6:27 PM
IP Address: 210.11.146.219
Email: jokamira (at) kamirastacey.com.au
Message: Tena kotou katoa,

We have just had a National Day of Action to protest John Howards Racist policies regarding Indigenous people. These policies, ostensibly aimed a 'protecting' children are actually a back door way of taking the land off the tangata whenua to allow mining , particularly of uranium.

The reason why Howard has done this in the Northern Territory is because it does not have the same status as the States do here in Ahitereria. The Constitution here basically says the States are sovereign whereas Territories can be overidden by the Commonwealth Government. If the Commonwealth gets hoha with the States, they cut funding. If they get hoha with the territories, they will override and law made.

This means that here in the Australian Capital Territory (Canberra) where I live with my Koori husband and Maori/Koori (Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri and Wodi Wodi)children, those same racist policies can be enforced here.

This includes enforced medical examinations of Indigenous children for signs of sexual abuse, quarantining of welfare payments if children wag school and sending the POLICE and ARMY in to enforce these laws.

Unfortunately, I was the only Maori at the protests today.... which may indicate an apathy amongst the rest of the Mozzies here. I am disgusted to think that the genocidal policies of the past are being reinstated in the 21st Century and that tamariki from our iwi are affected by these policies.

If you don't think it affects you, have a look at the UN site or CERD where NZ, Australia, Canada and the US have been trying to change the rights of Indigenous people regarding the use of military power on Indigenous people. They are advocating that military force can be used on Indigenous people IN AN EMERGENCY. Could this mean that if a PM didn't like the hikoi he or she could call a state of emergency and turn the army on to us?

Here are some of the questions being asked here:

" The Australian Indigenous Doctors Association say that Aboriginal
children are dying three times more often than non Aboriginal children
and so why has this not been an emergency now and in the past?
*Why have pleas from Muriel Bamblett representing Aboriginal children's
groups and recommendations in numerous reports been so parsimoniously
responded to during the decade in which John Howard has been in power?
* Does it take the Royal College of Paediatricians to warn that medical
examinations for children suspected of being abused needs to be
professionally carried out by forensic paediatricians, before it is
announced medical checks of all Aboriginal children are not going to
be compulsory but voluntary?
* How did this compulsory medical examination plan come into being when
this was not part of any of the 97 recommendations made by Rex Wilde
and Pat Anderson? Who suggested this, we need to know?
* How are we to deal with the PM's plan for Land Councils when Pat
Turner asks if the PM's proposals in the NT is a Trojan horse for
clawing back land rights Aboriginals have fought so hard for?
* Why did the PM not listen to Professor Mick Dodson author of the
"Stolen Generation" report about the desperate plight of Aboriginal
children in 2003 and to Senator Aden Ridgeway during his term in Parliament?
* Why did the PM not declare an emergency in 2003 for Aboriginal
children and for all children in 2004? Just before the last election
Bill Glasson the former president of the AMA provided him with a
resolution from a child abuse summit we attended. This noted that in
Feb 2004, the figure for child abuse notifications was 40,000+
children a year and if this was a disease, it would constitute a
pandemic for all our children. The response after the elections was to
abolish the Ministry for Children and to subsume it within the
families portfolio. Did this show contempt or commitment?
* Where is the funding for basic services, like maternal child heath
centres, child care facilities, schools and school transport, not to
mention adequate housing, clean water and sewerage systems for all
Aboriginal communities?
* Why has the emergency declared in Mutitjulu resulted in no police, no
clinic and no child care services? How many specialist trained staff
to deal with child abuse are there compared to police and army in the
PM's plan? Western Australia has offered these, and where is the plan
for compulsory checks for all paid and voluntary workers?
* What training in prevention and dealing with child abuse do those that
the PM intends to "deploy" in this "mission" have? Really need we use
military language?" (Patmalar Ambikapathy
Barrister and Human Rights Consultant for Children)

I would like to invite you to send messages of support to the mob at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and the tangata whenua here.

Please either e-mail me directly and I will ensure they are passed on to the Aunties and Uncles and direct onto the Indigenous E-network.

Hei kona

Jo Maarama Kamira
www.terarawa.co.nz/frames.htm

Subject: National Day of Action in Solidarity with Australian Indigenous People
Name: Jo Kamira
Date Posted: Jul 14, 07 - 6:27 PM
IP Address: 210.11.146.219
Email: jokamira (at) kamirastacey.com.au
Message: Tena kotou katoa,

We have just had a National Day of Action to protest John Howards Racist policies regarding Indigenous people. These policies, ostensibly aimed a 'protecting' children are actually a back door way of taking the land off the tangata whenua to allow mining , particularly of uranium.

The reason why Howard has done this in the Northern Territory is because it does not have the same status as the States do here in Ahitereria. The Constitution here basically says the States are sovereign whereas Territories can be overidden by the Commonwealth Government. If the Commonwealth gets hoha with the States, they cut funding. If they get hoha with the territories, they will override and law made.

This means that here in the Australian Capital Territory (Canberra) where I live with my Koori husband and Maori/Koori (Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri and Wodi Wodi)children, those same racist policies can be enforced here.

This includes enforced medical examinations of Indigenous children for signs of sexual abuse, quarantining of welfare payments if children wag school and sending the POLICE and ARMY in to enforce these laws.

Unfortunately, I was the only Maori at the protests today.... which may indicate an apathy amongst the rest of the Mozzies here. I am disgusted to think that the genocidal policies of the past are being reinstated in the 21st Century and that tamariki from our iwi are affected by these policies.

If you don't think it affects you, have a look at the UN site or CERD where NZ, Australia, Canada and the US have been trying to change the rights of Indigenous people regarding the use of military power on Indigenous people. They are advocating that military force can be used on Indigenous people IN AN EMERGENCY. Could this mean that if a PM didn't like the hikoi he or she could call a state of emergency and turn the army on to us?

Here are some of the questions being asked here:

" The Australian Indigenous Doctors Association say that Aboriginal
children are dying three times more often than non Aboriginal children
and so why has this not been an emergency now and in the past?
*Why have pleas from Muriel Bamblett representing Aboriginal children's
groups and recommendations in numerous reports been so parsimoniously
responded to during the decade in which John Howard has been in power?
* Does it take the Royal College of Paediatricians to warn that medical
examinations for children suspected of being abused needs to be
professionally carried out by forensic paediatricians, before it is
announced medical checks of all Aboriginal children are not going to
be compulsory but voluntary?
* How did this compulsory medical examination plan come into being when
this was not part of any of the 97 recommendations made by Rex Wilde
and Pat Anderson? Who suggested this, we need to know?
* How are we to deal with the PM's plan for Land Councils when Pat
Turner asks if the PM's proposals in the NT is a Trojan horse for
clawing back land rights Aboriginals have fought so hard for?
* Why did the PM not listen to Professor Mick Dodson author of the
"Stolen Generation" report about the desperate plight of Aboriginal
children in 2003 and to Senator Aden Ridgeway during his term in Parliament?
* Why did the PM not declare an emergency in 2003 for Aboriginal
children and for all children in 2004? Just before the last election
Bill Glasson the former president of the AMA provided him with a
resolution from a child abuse summit we attended. This noted that in
Feb 2004, the figure for child abuse notifications was 40,000+
children a year and if this was a disease, it would constitute a
pandemic for all our children. The response after the elections was to
abolish the Ministry for Children and to subsume it within the
families portfolio. Did this show contempt or commitment?
* Where is the funding for basic services, like maternal child heath
centres, child care facilities, schools and school transport, not to
mention adequate housing, clean water and sewerage systems for all
Aboriginal communities?
* Why has the emergency declared in Mutitjulu resulted in no police, no
clinic and no child care services? How many specialist trained staff
to deal with child abuse are there compared to police and army in the
PM's plan? Western Australia has offered these, and where is the plan
for compulsory checks for all paid and voluntary workers?
* What training in prevention and dealing with child abuse do those that
the PM intends to "deploy" in this "mission" have? Really need we use
military language?" (Patmalar Ambikapathy
Barrister and Human Rights Consultant for Children)

I would like to invite you to send messages of support to the mob at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and the tangata whenua here.

Please either e-mail me directly and I will ensure they are passed on to the Aunties and Uncles and direct onto the Indigenous E-network.

Hei kona

Jo Maarama Kam

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