Archive for 'Australia Day'
What’s to celebrate on Australia Day?
Posted by John, January 26th, 2013 - under Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Australia Day, Invasion day.
Comments: 16
This pamphlet, written 75 years ago, appeals, in such blistering tone, to take “pause in the midst of your…rejoicings” and is well worth repeating on this, the 225th anniversary of invasion.
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Australia Day celebrates genocide
Posted by John, January 20th, 2013 - under Australia Day, Genocide, Racism.
Comments: 7
Australia Day perpetuates the country’s ‘founding’ racist myths and is part of the system that enslaves our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander brothers and sisters and as a consequence, all of us here. In the spirit of true reconciliation let’s abolish this celebration of genocide. Let’s instead celebrate the 65000 years of indigenous history and stewardship of this land. Recognise aboriginal sovereignty, negotiate a treaty and pay the rent. It is time to fight for justice.
Australia Day celebrates racism and genocide
Posted by John, January 26th, 2012 - under Aborigines, Australia Day.
Comments: 8
Australia Day perpetuates the country’s ‘founding’ racist myths and is part of the system that enslaves our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander brothers and sisters and as a consequence, all of us here. In the spirit of true reconciliation let’s abolish this celebration of genocide. Let’s instead celebrate the 65000 years of indigenous history and stewardship of this land. Recognise aboriginal sovereignty, negotiate a treaty and pay the rent. It is time to fight for justice.
‘Aliens in their own land’
Posted by John, January 25th, 2012 - under Aboriginal Embassy, Aborigines, Australia Day, Tent Embassy.
Comments: 1
A major protest has been called for Thursday 26 January in Canberra to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the Tent Embassy and to continue the ongoing struggle for Aboriginal rights. There is still plenty more to fight for with both Liberal and Labor governments relentlessly continuing their racist assault on Aboriginal people, graphically illustrated by the appalling Northern Territory intervention.
Australia day and reaction
Posted by John, January 25th, 2011 - under Australia Day, Reaction.
Comments: 3
Without a left-wing political or industrial focus some of the exploited, the forgotten and the marginalised have turned to nationalism and its twin, racism, as crutches for the loss of working class community and working class strength in action.
Australia Day celebrates racism and genocide
Posted by John, January 22nd, 2011 - under Aborigines, Australia Day.
Comments: 16
If Wikileaks teaches us anything it is that our leaders lie. And lie. And lie. Australia Day will be no different. Bourgeois cliches about the lucky country (what irony!) and our great nation will compete with bullshit about our brave soldiers overseas and how we all in this together. It’s time for some truth about [...]
Australia Day
Posted by John, January 25th, 2010 - under Australia Day, Australian bourgeoisie, Australian economy, Australian politics, Invasion day, Strikes, The Left.
Comments: 6
Without a left-wing political or industrial focus some of the exploited, the forgotten and the marginalised have turned to nationalism and its twin, racism, as crutches for the loss of working class community and working class strength in action.