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This is not a war we are going to win with steering committees and elected board members replicating the very systems that are working against us. To put it bluntly, Western free market economies and in particular neo-liberalism just doesn’t work. The United Nations no less agrees stating that privatisation and free market economies have had devastating effects on Indigenous health and wellbeing in its “State of the Indigenous Peoples Report” in 2009.
“The global ascendancy of neo-liberal economics and the entrenchment of corporate power in international and national affairs have deepened inequalities between and within nations and largely undermined efforts toward sustainable development,” the report said.
“Neo-liberalism is based on a belief the market should be the organising principle for social, political and economic decisions, where policy makers promote privatisation of State activities and an increased role for the free market, flexibility in labour markets and trade liberalisation.
“The benefits of these policies frequently fail to reach the Indigenous peoples of the world, who acutely feel their costs, such as environmental degradation and loss of traditional lands and territories.” (United Nations, 2009).
Neo-liberalism has been driven into our communities by people like Noel Pearson and Marcia Langton over the last 15 years and only last week a comprehensive report on Indigenous disadvantage outcomes revealed the adult Indigenous imprisonment rate increased 57 per cent between 2000 and 2013 and the rate of juvenile detention remained about 24 times that of non-Indigenous youth.
At what point do those in these camps admit their policies are not working and that we are seeing the same devastating effects here we have witnessed around the world when neo-liberalism has been introduced into Indigenous communities? Self-interest and individual gain are not compatible within our Original Peoples’ ideology, which relies on collective interest and community gain.
Social Justice Commissioner, Mick Gooda stated in his human rights report published last week we remain the “greatest victims” of what can only be seen as an economic lie and deception.
Gooda made note of the more than $534 million cut from Indigenous programs and said it was “concerning” the largest block of new funding was to extend the controversial income management programmes in place around the country.
“Income management programmes” are supported by the big three, Noel Pearson, Marcia Langton and Warren Mundine as cuts to legal aid services, including the family violence prevention legal service, have in many areas already resulted in closures and loss of staff, despite government assurances there would be no effect on frontline services.
“Given the extent of over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in the criminal justice and child protection systems, it is difficult to understand the rationale behind these funding cuts,” Gooda wrote.
The problem is neo-liberal theory is based on equality, not freedom. Equality is a major component of a free society but it is not its centre as the terms of reference that dictate freedom are defined by those in power. What may be equal to some, such as the right to work, becomes slavery for others.
Furthermore, the equality of modern neo-liberalism seeks equality of outcomes but without considering obstacles, class and race. As much as we would like to believe we are … we are not all born equal and though some individuals are able to overcome obstacles of race, poverty and position the majority continue to suffer.
A free society, embracing equality seeks equality and freedom of opportunity, wherein all people are granted equality and freedom under the law to seek what personal talents and hard work can get them despite the obstacles people face.
Neo-liberalism does not consider this. It also fails in addressing corporate greed. It uses privatisation to make up human disadvantage instead of voluntary charitable service. Therefore much of the aid given with one hand through philanthropy is taken with the other as we see mining and other corporations utilise disadvantage in appropriating access to the lands of the most vulnerable.
Track back and see if any of the aid provided by Andrew Forrest is occurring in communities other than ones where he has mining interests?
Funding of GenerationOne by Forrest, along with Rio Tinto and others who sponsor everything from sporting teams to academic scholarships whilst making billions of dollars from Aboriginal land and its natural resources is an example of their public relations self-interest.
OK, we can all be shaped and moulded to a certain extent. But with neo-liberal self-interest they create a world where most people care more about what they wear to work rather than the poverty that forces 12,000 of our people living in Western Australia and the Northern Territory from their Homelands. These Mobs might as well be living on the other side of the world compared to our own people benefiting from neo-liberalism living in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Cairns.
Other than greed the problem, of course, is the economic system is not functional. It’s broken. As productivity continues to increase overall, the vast majority of normal Australians are not sharing in the gains from this increase in productivity and growth with our own Original Peoples bearing the brunt of this inequality.
Wages for both the poor and the working class are not improving despite record productivity as opportunities for people to move beyond their own social class is now more difficult than ever before.
Corporate profits and stock markets are at record highs. The rich have never been better off. But everyone else is struggling more than ever before with no light at the end of the tunnel.
It now takes two and a half incomes to support the same lifestyle one income did 20 years ago. Women’s rights have had a profoundly beneficial social change but the introduction of women to the workforce has also served to mask the erosion of the middle class, as two parents now work to provide a comparable lifestyle to that which one parent used to provide.
Women becoming part of the workforce is not the problem – all people should be allowed to increase their position in life. The problem here is in the predatory behaviour of those in power having taken advantage of women’s right to work by enslaving the increasing income of families through higher mortgages and financial dependence to the corporations such as we have never seen before.
The freedom of women in the workforce should have also freed families from financial hardship imposed by the banks but it has actually had the opposite effect.
The only direction to go is down. Combine that with the fact of decaying infrastructure as well as a desperate need to make massive economic investments to head off crises such as climate change, water shortages, antibiotic-resistant infection, terrorism and a myriad of other problems and it becomes quite obvious the neo-liberal dream itself is fundamentally a nightmare.
The greatest problem within neo-liberalism is it prioritises assets over wages. This is why despite the workforce doubling over the last 20 years with women’s rights, we are not seeing the benefits to families on the ground. Neo-liberalism prioritises assets for a variety of reasons but the biggest by far is globalisation.
The ability of the wealthy to hire anyone they like across the world for nearly any job creates pressure on wages. Remember when mining magnate Gina Rinehart stated Australians had to “make more sacrifices” because “Africans were willing to work for only $2 a day”. Also when Warren Mundine stated there was “no real poverty in Australia”?
Neo-liberalism is really nothing more than a co-dependent relationship of corruption that occurs between the financial sector and government which masks a failing economy that keeps the rich ‘rich’ by taking from the poor.
It’s time to admit the economic system itself is fundamentally broken and rapid change will be necessary to fix it as we continue to bear the brunt of this economic deception.
All of this and the reality is, despite the Prime Minister’s assurances to the contrary, Australia is witnessing one of the largest upheavals in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs thanks to large scale funding cuts, policy changes and reviews by the Abbott government.
So no, neo-liberalism is not the answer. Instead those most in need are our People who are suffering most and it is we who must endure. The simple truth is if Abbott had he gone to the Australian people with his true intentions which included cuts to the ABC as well as attacks on the poor, the elderly, our own mob and the young as well as the sick and disadvantaged at the last election, he would not have been elected.
Therefore Abbott cheated on a grand scale and became Prime Minister by deception. The inherited mess created by Labor, which allowed this to happen, rings of the same lack of credibility that Abbott now carries.
They are as bad as each other – Western democracy, capitalism, neo-liberalism, invasion and the subsequent colonisation, whatever you choose to call it, it is failing our People and we need a change.
This brings us to the only real alternative we have, the Freedom Summit held in Alice Springs on November 27 and 28. It was here our People gathered without government funding independently to take a stand. This gathering became a uniform position of determined resolution by our People in stating that not one Original Nation of this Country has voluntarily ceded its sovereignty to the White man’s Australian government.
From the Freedom Summit there have been a number of what I like to call “Cultural Ambassadors” nominated as delegates to spread the word to both the world and our communities alike that we have had enough and that we, by consensus, reject wholeheartedly these projects such as Empowered Communities as designed by Noel Pearson; the Northern Territory Intervention with both Noel and Marcia Langton as its architects (no matter how much they try and distance themselves now); and the Forrest Report.
The most significant point that came from the Freedom Summit was we will determine our own pathways to self-determination. We will establish and identify policy from within our own communities and our People.
The Freedom Summit was the coming together of the multilayered diversity of our People but in accepting our differences we remain connected as the Original Owners of this sacred land and its water and the air above us. This is our Country, it was stolen through a physical invasion and taken through force
Cultural Ambassador, Paul Spearim Jnr said it up best: “There are many of us who have been dispersed and displaced by the tyranny and genocidal practices of previous governments, which sees fragmentation in our communities, where the invaders have impacted through the denial of our own practices in Culture, our languages and ceremony. For many of us we are striving to locate that which was taken but never lost. It has come time to reclaim our Culture, our ceremony and our languages back. This is not just our civil right, this is our human right.” (Paul Spearim Jnr, 2014).
The challenge from here for these Cultural Ambassadors will be in prioritising the needs that must be addressed in the short, medium and long term that will provide hope and leadership to our People.
In taking back the power and unity of the Freedom Summit to our communities these Cultural Ambassadors will identify who in their communities have the capacity to take on these leadership roles on a local, regional, national and yes, international level, in staking our rightful place as the Original Peoples of this sacred land.
It is the only viable alternative we have. Wana burra-li ma-li wiima-li wana-ma-li ngiyaningunda (Let’s start making our dreams happen together)
Dr Woolombi Waters is a Kamilaroi language speaker and writer and is a lecturer at Griffith University. He writes a weekly column for the National Indigenous Times.
Background to ‘The Freedom Summit’: Alice Springs 27 – 28 November 2014
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/11/29/background-to-the-freedom-summit-alice-springs-27-28-november-2014
WGAR News: Delegation will lead sit-in on Canberra – The Freedom Summit: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/04/wgar-news-delegation-will-lead-sit-in-on-canberra-the-freedom-summit-gerry-georgatos-the
Contents:
* Audio Interview: Perth Indymedia: Tauto Sansbury and Rosalie Kunoth-Monks on the “Freedom Summit” a gathering of grassroots Aboriginal community leaders
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: “Much will change” – the Freedom Summit is the hope of the people – from Willair to everywhere
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Delegation will lead sit-in on Canberra – The Freedom Summit
* News: National Indigenous Times (NIT): Freedom Summit to converge on Canberra on Invasion Day
* Audio: Gerry Georgatos, NIRS: ‘Sit-in’ planned at Parliament House in January
* Audio: Gerry Georgatos, NIRS: Justice advocate calls for more First Nations’ summits
* Audio: Gerry Georgatos, NIRS: NSWALC Chair backs Freedom Summit
* News: Amy McQuire, New Matilda: “I Will Not Be Swallowed Up Into The Constitution”: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks
* Photos: CAAMA: The Faces of Freedom … Alice Springs 2014
* Audio Interview: Donna Campbell, CAAMA: Yorta Yorta Share Their Message at Summit [Featuring Monica Morgan]
* Audio Interview: Lorena Walker, CAAMA: Jenny Munro talks on Women’s Business [Featuring Jenny Munro]
* Audio Interview: CAAMA: More voices of the Summit [Featuring Elaine Peckham & Maurie Japarta Ryan]
* Audio: CAAMA News 1-12-14 [Featuring Tauto Sansbury, Michael Mansell & Roxley Foley]
* Audio: CAAMA News 2-12-14 [Featuring Monica Morgan]
* News: 4ZZZ: Statement released from aboriginal freedom summit
* Background: WGAR News: Communique from The Freedom Summit: Old Bungalow, Mparntwe (Alice Springs, NT) 27-28 November 2014
* Background to ‘The Freedom Summit’: Alice Springs 27 – 28 November 2014
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement
* Background to Treaties with Aboriginal Sovereign Nations of Australia
WGAR News: “Tougher rules” are racially discriminative: Tauto Sansbury, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Paul Spearim Jr, The Original Peoples Freedom Movement
This newsletter: https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/11/wgar-news-tougher-rules-are-racially-discriminative-tauto-sansbury-rosalie-kunoth-monks
Contents:
* Media Release: Ghillar Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union: ‘Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ needs serious revision says Anderson on return from Geneva
* Media Release: Tauto Sansbury, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Paul Spearim Jr, The Original Peoples Freedom Movement: “Tougher rules” are racially discriminative
* News: Amy McQuire, New Matilda: Black Australia Would Be ‘Essentially Free Labour’ Under Work-For-The-Dole Changes
* Audio Interview: Phillip Adams & Kris Short, Late Night Live, ABC RN: Indigenous work for the dole [Featuring Professor Jon Altman]
* News: Neda Vanovac, 7 News: NT dole scheme slammed as slave labour
* Media Release: Senator Rachel Siewert: Greens reject discriminatory work for the dole plans
* Media Release: Senator Rachel Siewert: Leaked work for the dole report exposes flawed ideology
* Media Release: Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara: APY Executive disappointed but looking forward to building stronger governance
* Analysis / Opinion: Helen Davidson, The Guardian: Racism claim as SA government suspends traditional landowner board
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara to fight ‘cancer’ alongside Freedom Movement
* Analysis / Opinion: Dr Woolombi Waters, The Stringer: Freedom struggle to relieve First Peoples from cruelties of neoliberalism
* Background to ‘The Freedom Summit’: Alice Springs 27-28 November 2014
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement
* Background to Treaties with Aboriginal Sovereign Nations of Australia
WGAR News: “Tougher rules” are racially discriminative: Tauto Sansbury, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Paul Spearim Jr, The Original Peoples Freedom Movement
This newsletter: https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/11/wgar-news-tougher-rules-are-racially-discriminative-tauto-sansbury-rosalie-kunoth-monks
Contents:
* Media Release: Tauto Sansbury, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Paul Spearim Jr, The Original Peoples Freedom Movement: “Tougher rules” are racially discriminative
* Audio: Damien Williams, CAAMA: New work for the dole regime will force many people from their homelands [Featuring Tauto Sansbury]
* News: Amy McQuire, New Matilda: Black Australia Would Be ‘Essentially Free Labour’ Under Work-For-The-Dole Changes
* Audio Interview: Phillip Adams & Kris Short, Late Night Live, ABC RN: Indigenous work for the dole [Featuring Professor Jon Altman]
* Audio: NIRS: Proposed remote jobseeker requirements flawed: Expert
* News: Neda Vanovac, 7 News: NT dole scheme slammed as slave labour
* Media Release: Senator Rachel Siewert: Greens reject discriminatory work for the dole plans
* Media Release: Senator Rachel Siewert: Leaked work for the dole report exposes flawed ideology
* Audio: Ellen Leabeater, The Wire: Remote communities to work for dole- if they can get a job first
* Audio: NIRS: Ngiare Brown: Gov’t must listen to remote communities on dole changes
* Audio: NIRS: GenerationOne CEO backs remote welfare changes
* Background to ‘The Freedom Summit’: Alice Springs 27-28 November 2014
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement
Dear Dr Waters,
Many thanks for sharing – it is important to know that we are living in the ramparts of a geo-political and socio-economic “system” that was “progressive” barely over a generation ago, i.e. when even push-button LAND telephones as well as facsimiles were revolutionary and when nobody in the First World knew who Михаил Сергеевич Горбачёв was.
It is also important to know that at about the time of the MOON LANDINGS, the maximum income taxes in First World Countries was around 75% and I need NOT have to say what China and India were like then.
Unsurprisingly, it is NOW the most vulnerable who are PAYING for the illusion of “progress” then.
WGAR News: Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) to fight ‘cancer’ alongside Freedom Movement: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/12/wgar-news-anangu-pitjantjatjara-yankunytjatjara-apy-to-fight-cancer-alongside-freedom
Contents:
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara to fight ‘cancer’ alongside Freedom Movement
* Analysis / Opinion: Helen Davidson, The Guardian: Racism claim as SA government suspends traditional landowner board
* Media Release: Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara: APY Executive disappointed but looking forward to building stronger governance …
* Analysis / Opinion: Dr Woolombi Waters, The Stringer: Freedom struggle to relieve First Peoples from cruelties of neoliberalism
* Media Release: STICS: First Nations’ activists condemn ongoing “colonial apartheid” in Australia …
WGAR News: 43 years to the day since Tent Embassy; sit-in by true leaders [Featuring Mr Sansbury]: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/20/wgar-news-43-years-to-the-day-since-tent-embassy-sit-in-by-true-leaders-featuring-mr
20 Dec 14: “Contents:
* Video: NITV News featuring Tauto Sansbury, a convenor of the Freedom Summit [Tauto is interviewed 3min 50sec into the program; nitv video expires 25 Dec 14]
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: 43 years to the day since Tent Embassy; sit-in by true leaders [Featuring Mr Sansbury]
* Analysis / Opinion: The Stringer: Redfern deaths in custody forum talks about ways forward
* Background to ‘The Freedom Summit’: Alice Springs 27-28 November 2014”
WGAR Background to the National Freedom Movement
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/26/wgar-background-to-the-national-freedom-movement
WGAR News: “Freedom Summit goes national and is now known as the Freedom Movement. The Sit-In in Canberra will commence January 26.”
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/26/wgar-news-freedom-summit-goes-national-and-is-now-known-as-the-freedom-movement-the-sit
Contents:
* Events: The Stringer facebook: Upcoming Information Events: “Freedom Summit goes national and is now known as the Freedom Movement.”
* News: Gerry Georgatos, National Indigenous Times (NIT): Rally call goes out for an Invasion Day protest in Canberra
* Analysis / Opinion: Al Jazeera, Sudan Vision: A New Revolution in Australia
* Press release from the Freedom Movement – “the Aboriginal struggle and our voices will be reclaimed, January 26”
* Background to ‘The Freedom Summit’: Alice Springs 27-28 November 2014
WGAR News: New ‘National Freedom Movement’ website
https://indymedia.org.au/2015/01/06/wgar-news-new-national-freedom-movement-website
Contents:
* Homepage of New ‘National Freedom Movement’ website: http://freedommovement2014.wix.com/freedommovement
* About: National Freedom Movement What’s it about?
* Freedom Summit – The Delegates
* Upcoming Forums: Stringer Facebook: “Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide forums in the next couple of weeks are an opportunity to hear about the Freedom Movement’s Sit-In at Canberra commencing on January 26.”
* Audio Interview: 4ZZZ Brisbane: Indigi-Briz interviews Michael Anderson about the Freedom Summit …
* WGAR Background to the National Freedom Movement
* WGAR Background to ‘The Freedom Summit’
WGAR News: Aboriginal Sovereignty Day, Invasion Day, Survival Day & Day of Mourning Events
– Monday 26 January 2015
https://indymedia.org.au/2015/01/10/wgar-news-aboriginal-sovereignty-day-invasion-day-survival-day-day-of-mourning-events
Contents:
* Background to Aboriginal Sovereignty Day, Invasion Day, Survival Day and Day of Mourning
* ‘National Freedom Movement’ sit-in at Canberra
* Adelaide events
* Brisbane events
* Melbourne events
* Sydney events
– ‘National Freedom Movement’ sit-in at Canberra
Homepage of New ‘National Freedom Movement’ website:
http://freedommovement2014.wix.com/freedommovement
“They gathered at the Old Bungalow at Mparntwe
(Alice Springs) from across the continent and for two days
in the centre of this continent, those at the Freedom
Summit spoke of the continuing tragedies and attacks
against their people and of the ways forward. A delegation
of 20 was endorsed by the Freedom Summit to mobilise around
it the First Peoples of this continent to stand up united
and reclaim the “Aboriginal Rights Struggle”. In the
meantime, the Federal Government has responded to the
Summit’s organisers with the offer of a meeting.
But on January 26, the delegation will converge on Canberra
– and begin a sit-in right outside Parliament.
Thousands will join them, and in so doing, so will the
world’s press” (The Stringer – Gerry Georgatos 2014)
[Includes updated Forum flyers for Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane]
WGAR News: Call out for people to attend the ‘National Convergence on Canberra Sit-In Protest’ on the 27th of January 2015
https://indymedia.org.au/2015/01/21/wgar-news-call-out-for-people-to-attend-the-national-convergence-on-canberra-sit-in
Contents:
Urgent plea to the Nation to come to Canberra for the Sit-In: http://vimeo.com/117165236
Homepage of the National Freedom Movement: http://freedommovement2014.wix.com/freedommovement
Events for 25th, 26th and 27th of January 2015 National Convergence on Canberra
National Freedom Movement What’s it about?
Freedom Summit – The Delegates
NITV News: WA Protestors get on board for Survival Day’s “Sit In for Freedom” in Canberra
National Freedom Movement – Reportbacks on the lead-in forums to the January 27 Sit-In, Canberra:
Read about how the Adelaide forum went:
– Mobilising for Canberra 2015-our chance at history, to reclaim the Aboriginal rights struggle and the justice
Read about how the Sydney forum went:
– ‘The Opportunity for real change’
– People urged to attend Canberra First Peoples sit-in
Videos about how the Sydney forum went:
– Respect and Listen: National Freedom Movement: http://www.respectandlisten.org/freedom-movement.html
– National Freedom Movement – Sydney Forum: Respect and Listen vimeo
— Aunty Jenny
— Jeff McMullen
— Gerry Georgatos
— Felon and Uncle Ben to come
WGAR Background to the National Freedom Movement
WGAR Background to ‘The Freedom Summit’
WGAR Editorial note: Some sources have said the Sit-In is on Monday the 26th of January 2015 and some say Tuesday the 27th of January 2015. Apologies for any confusion.
WGAR News: Delegates speak about the National Freedom Movement’s Parliament House Sit-In in Canberra
https://indymedia.org.au/2015/01/23/wgar-news-delegates-speak-about-the-national-freedom-movements-parliament-house-sit-in-in
[Ed. note: Some sources have said the Sit-In is on Monday the 26th of January 2015 and some say Tuesday the 27th of January 2015. It could be either day.]
Contents:
* Audio Interview: National Indigenous Radio’s ‘Weekly News-in-Review’
“The Freedom Movement’s Tauto Sansbury and Gracelyn Smallwood discuss a national protest in Canberra on January 26”
* Audio: Warren Barnsley, NIRS: Northern Territorian of the Year to attend Freedom Movement protest [Featuring Rosalie Kunoth-Monks]
* Audio: Gerry Georgatos, NIRS: Jenny Munro urges mob to attend Parliament House protest
* Audio Interview: CAAMA: Roxley Foley….Momentum Grows for Canberra
* Audio Interview: Radio Adelaide: Christine Abdullah (Ngarrindjeri) S.A. Delegate for the Original Peoples Freedom Movement
* Audio: Gerry Georgatos with Warren Barnsley, NIRS: Noongar delegation heads to Canberra freedom protest
* WGAR Background to the National Freedom Movement
* WGAR Background to ‘The Freedom Summit’
WGAR News: Angry Protesters Sit-In: The ‘National Freedom Movement’ marches on Canberra’s Parliament House on the ‘Day of Resistance’
https://indymedia.org.au/2015/01/28/wgar-news-angry-protesters-sit-in-the-national-freedom-movement-marches-on-canberras
Contents:
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Date with destiny – February 9 – First Peoples will Sit-In
* Analysis / Opinion: Shalailah Medhora, The Guardian: ‘We have no friends in parliament,’ Indigenous protesters tell Canberra
* Video: NITV News – 27 January 2015: Angry Protesters – The ‘National Freedom Movement’ marches on Parliament House on the day after Invasion Day [Featuring Michael Anderson, Ken Canning, Jenny Munro & Marianne Headland Mackay]
* Audio: Gerry Georgatos, NIRS: Freedom Movement to return on resumption of parliament [Featuring Michael Anderson]
* News: National Indigenous Times: Freedom Movement to confront politicians on February 9
* Homepage of the ‘National Freedom Movement’: http://freedommovement2014.wix.com/freedommovement
* Audio & Photos: CAAMA: Nyoongar Mob cross Nullarbor to share their struggle! [Featuring Marianne Mackay]
* Audio: Let’s Talk: Canberra Tent Embassy Invasion Day [Featuring Tauto Sansbury]
* News: CAAMA News: National unity protest action on Survival Day in Canberra [Featuring Marianne Mackay]
* Audio: Gerry Georgatos, NIRS: Stolen Generations representative among attendees at Canberra rally [Featuring Eileen Cummings]
* News: Henry Belot & Emma Kelly, The Canberra Times: Day of mourning and hope at Canberra’s Aboriginal Tent Embassy
* Photos: Sovereign Union: Freedom Summit Side Events: Canberra 2015
* WGAR Background to the National Freedom Movement
* WGAR News: Invasion Day / Survival Day Rallies and Marches Across Australia: NITV News; SBS News; Occupy Sydney
* WGAR News: The day I don’t feel Australian? That would be Australia Day: Chelsea Bond, The Conversation
* WGAR News: Updated 26 January 2015 Events: Aboriginal Sovereignty Day, Invasion Day, Survival Day & Day of Mourning
WGAR News: Breaking News: Insiders confirm Sit-In last straw for Prime Minister – leadership change: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer
Freedom Movement Sit-In for Aboriginal rights at Parliament House, Canberra, on 9 February 2015
https://indymedia.org.au/2015/02/02/wgar-news-breaking-news-insiders-confirm-sit-in-last-straw-for-prime-minister-leadership
Contents:
* Breaking News: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Insiders confirm Sit-In last straw for Prime Minister – leadership change
* News: Green Left: In Brief: Parliament sit-in for Aboriginal rights
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: In Australia, there is the Aboriginal rights struggle
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Date with destiny – February 9 – First Peoples will Sit-In
* Audio: Gerry Georgatos, NIRS: Freedom Movement to confront Federal politicians [Featuring Christine Abdulla]
* Audio: Gerry Georgatos, NIRS: Freedom Movement to confront politicians in Canberra [Featuring Vanessa Culbong]
* Audio: Gerry Georgatos, NIRS: Freedom Movement to return on resumption of parliament [Featuring Michael Anderson]
* News: National Indigenous Times: Freedom Movement to confront politicians on February 9
* Video: Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: 10 Minute Video Footage of Tue 27th of January 2015 National Freedom Movement Sit-In at Parliament House Canberra
* Homepage of the ‘National Freedom Movement’: http://freedommovement2014.wix.com/freedommovement
* WGAR Background to the National Freedom Movement
WGAR News: Footage of Tue 27th of January 2015 ‘National Freedom Movement’ Sit-In at Parliament House Canberra: Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo
https://indymedia.org.au/2015/02/02/wgar-news-footage-of-tue-27th-of-january-2015-national-freedom-movement-sit-in-at
Contents:
* Video: Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: 10 Minute Video Footage of Tue 27th of January 2015 National Freedom Movement Sit-In at Parliament House Canberra
* Video: NITV News: Freedom Movement’s Canberra Sit-In on ‘First Day of Resistance’
* Video: NITV News: Heavy Handed Policing During Invasion Day Marches: Video
* Video: NITV News: Always was, Always will be Aboriginal Land: Rallies Across Australia on Survival Day 2015
* Video: More Invasion Day Videos from Eleanor Gilbert & Respect and Listen
* Audio: Invasion Day Radio
* Homepage of the ‘National Freedom Movement’: http://freedommovement2014.wix.com/freedommovement
* WGAR Background to the National Freedom Movement
WGAR News: Flyer: First Nations Freedom Movement – Parliament House Sit-In – From 9th of February 2015 – Every day 10am till 4pm – Until Our Voice Is Heard
https://indymedia.org.au/2015/02/04/wgar-news-flyer-first-nations-freedom-movement-parliament-house-sit-in-from-9th-of
Contents:
* Appeal: National Freedom Movement: Save the National Indigenous Times
* Analysis / Opinion: Dr Woolombi Waters, Indymedia Australia: Litigation now the new censorship in reporting the news in the 21st century – National Indigenous Times
* WGAR News: Gerry Georgatos on the future of the National Indigenous Times: NITV News
* Flyer: First Nations Freedom Movement – Parliament House Sit-In – From 9th of February 2015 – Every day 10am till 4pm – Until Our Voice Is Heard
* Flyer: National Freedom Movement – Sit in protest 9th of February outside Parliament house Canberra 10am til 4pm every day
* Event: Indymedia Australia: Freedom Movement Sit-In at Parliament House, Canberra, on 9 February 2015
* News: National Indigenous Times: First Peoples to confront politicians on February 9 in Canberra
* Audio: Gerry Georgatos and Warren Barnsley, NIRS: Protesters set to descend on Canberra [Featuring Freedom Movement supporter Josh Collard]
* Homepage of the ‘National Freedom Movement’: http://freedommovement2014.wix.com/freedommovement
* WGAR Background to the National Freedom Movement
WGAR News: Aboriginal Sovereign Manifesto of Demands – National Aboriginal Freedom Movement
https://indymedia.org.au/2015/02/10/wgar-news-aboriginal-sovereign-manifesto-of-demands-national-aboriginal-freedom-movement
Contents:
* Manifesto: Aboriginal Sovereign Manifesto of Demands – National Aboriginal Freedom Movement Aboriginal Embassy, Canberra, Australia
* Audio: Adam Evans, NIRS: Protesters come face-to-face with politicians during ‘sit-in’ [Featuring Tauto Sansbury and Gerry Georgatos]
* Audio Interview: Living Black Radio: 090215 ACT Freedom Sit In [Featuring Tauto Sansbury]
* Analysis / Opinion: Amy McQuire, New Matilda: They Came For The Abbott Spill, And Missed The Only Real Story In Town
* Audio: Ninah Kopel, The Wire: Protesting worlds worst child removal rate [Featuring Sue-Ellen Tighe, Michael Anderson and Tauto Sansbury]
* Video: NITV News – 9 February 2015: “GMAR groups from across the country rallied with Freedom Movement campaigners on the grounds of Parliament house to deliver a set of demands … ”
* News & Photos: CAAMA Radio at First Nations Freedom Movement Canberra 2015
* News & Photos: 9 News: Protesters attempt to derail TODAY Show’s Canberra broadcast to bring attention to indigenous deaths in custody
* Photos from the Sit-In: Sovereign Union & Stop Stolen Generations Facebook
* Current Event: Freedom Movement Sit-In at Parliament House, Canberra, from 9 February 2015
* WGAR Background to the National Freedom Movement
WGAR News: Aboriginal Protestors Deliver List of Demands To Parliament: CAAMA Video
https://indymedia.org.au/2015/02/11/wgar-news-aboriginal-protestors-deliver-list-of-demands-to-parliament-caama-video
Contents:
* Video: CAAMA: Aboriginal Protestors Deliver List of Demands To Parliament
[Featuring Clive Palmer, Tauto Sansbury, Michael Anderson, GMAR, Jenni Munro, Les Coe & Roxley Foley]
* Video: Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: Freedom Movement delegates report back on the meeting with Nigel Scullion
* Video: Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: Freedom Movement Sit-In protesters present Manifesto to Bill Shorten
* Video: Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: Clive Palmer responds to National Freedom Movement presence
* News & Photos: CAAMA: Nigel Scullion Visits Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra
* News: CAAMA News: “Aboriginal Rights advocates say they could soon send a delegation to England to present the Queen with a list of issues … ” [Featuring Tauto Sansbury]
* Audio: Gerry Georgatos, NIRS: Freedom Movement meets with Indigenous affairs minister [Featuring Tauto Sansbury & Nigel Scullion]
* Audio Interview: Let’s Talk’s Tiga Bayles interviews Michael Anderson on the Sit-In
* Audio Interview: CAAMA Radio: Young Voices… [Featuring Timothy Wilkey & Bud Spearim]
* Video: Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: Vanessa Culbong, Perth, speaks out at the Sit-In
* Video: Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: Sisters speak out at the Sit-In: Deaths in Custody
* Audio Interview: The Stringer Audio/Radio News: Gerry Georgatos interviews Bill Shorten on Aboriginal issues
* Audio Interview: The Stringer Audio/Radio News: Gerry Georgatos interviews Clive Palmer on Aboriginal issues
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Leadership squabbling, not Aboriginal rights struggle, consumed by mainstream media
* Media Roundup: Diet Simon, Linksunten Indymedia: Aboriginal protesters come face-to-face with politicians during Canberra ‘sit-in’
* Photos: Sovereign Union: Canberra Sit-in Gallery – 9 February 2015
* Event: Freedom Movement Sit-In at Parliament House, Canberra, on 9 February 2015
* WGAR Background to the National Freedom Movement