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Last Friday night there was a rally at King George Square and members of the Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy and the Brisbane Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance movement shut down the city in protest of the shutting of 150 Aboriginal Communities and the turning off of essential services to those communities forcing the people into already over crowded troubled large townships where violence and addiction are rife and services are already stretched to breaking point.
The City of Brisbane is one of my favorite cities of Australia. I grew up there in my teenage years and went to school and was kept by the government in their dodgy children's homes as a child in government care there. I know what the government are capable of and I have never stopped trying to tell others.
Sadly, most thought I was just being vindictive about my upbringing and was just whinging. They could not have been further from the truth.
I used to say years ago before getting certified with my Community Services Welfare Cert IV that the system that is here we think is in place to protect us is not real. It is a figment of our imagination and Lord help us if we ever have to test the system. By the time we have to test it, it will all be too late to do anything because its just not ever really been there.
This is where we are at today in our screwed society. This is what is happening to both the black and white communities and all in between. Everyone is being hammered by warped government policy and its a facsist neo liberalism at its best because both the corporations and the Government are playing hand in hand. The corporations are getting the privileges which are the peoples birth rights.
The basics card, Children's Services stealing children, Closing Communities, Trashing sacred areas, Disconnecting Families, Low Income bashing, all of this is not a mistake. This policy was planned a very long time ago like all of the government strategies are. There are advisers working overtime to work out ways to use and abuse the general public and dress it up so as the poison is no longer detectable in their genocidal policies. Steal the children and brain wash them to their way of thinking and you have a powerful movement of people disconnected from truth who think they are doing the right thing and going on thoroughly unawares.
Hundreds of police were present through the walk through the city streets after we left the square and absolutely no media were present anywhere.
All that ruckus and no media and we shut down the center of Brisbane for approximately two hours through the streets of Adelaide, Edward, Anne, George and Queen Streets and then we stopped the traffic on the Captain Cook Bridge.
No one wants to have to go to these measures or even upset others. I simply have to do what is right and tell others who have a right to know this is happening in Australia. Somehow it helps the pain of my past wrongs if I save others from feeling how I have felt. I send love to all who are struggling through this.
We are trying to brain storm ideas to help. Solar power and humidifier statues were a suggestion. Now to make that a reality.
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BASE seeks to raise awareness of Aboriginal sovereignty, provide
sanctuary for Aboriginal people and a place for ceremony. Meetings 6pm
Wednesdays
Website
http://www.brisbaneblacks.com/
Why An Embassy In Our Own Land?
Definition: An embassy is an outpost on foreign soil usually, offering security and diplomatic asylum; a body of persons entrusted with a mission to a sovereign or government.
Arising from a growing sense of alienation – a belief that Aboriginal
people had, effectively, been made foreigners in our own land – an
embassy was launched in Canberra on 26 January 1972 (Australia/Invasion
Day). At first literally a tent and later a shed, the embassy is located
near the front steps of what was then Parliament House (now known as
Old Parliament House).
The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is a
national icon for the Aboriginal sovereignty movement, which has
consistently challenged the legitimacy of the sovereignty of the
colonial regime. This January on the 40th anniversary of the embassy in
Canberra Aboriginal people from across the country gathered and decided
to further our campaign for sovereignty by setting up embassies across
the land.
Like other sovereign embassies, the Brisbane
Sovereign Embassy seeks to raise awareness and discussion of Aboriginal
sovereignty, provide sanctuary for Aboriginal people and a place for
cultural, spiritual and ceremonial activity,
focused on the sacred fire and circle that have been established as part of the embassy.
What is Sovereignty?
Definition: Sovereignty is the law of the land and the power to use it -
the legitimate power to govern. If we had our law in practice when we
were invaded, our law is the law of the land until conquered in war or
treaties signed.
Sovereignty can be an important building block
for the right of peoples to self-determination. In the international
system of states, these principles of self-determination and
independence form the basis of international relations and international
law.
Always was, always will be Aboriginal land!
On
the 22nd August 1770, Captain James Cook planted a foreign flag on an
Island belonging to Aboriginal nations, now called Possession Island,
taking illegal possession of our lands and its resources, without the
permission or knowledge of any Aboriginal people.
Aboriginal
activist and lawyer Michael Anderson says a recent appeal court decision
implies that Australian courts have no jurisdiction over Aboriginal
people because they have never given up their sovereignty, that there
had never been a defeat in a declared war, that Aboriginal land had not
been ceded and that the British crown had not asserted sovereignty over
Aboriginal people. In fact, Queen Victoria made it illegal for agents of
the to crown to claim sovereignty over Aboriginal people and their
lands in the Pacific Islander Protection Act, 1875. Even under their own
legal system, the Australian and
State Governments have no legitimate claim of sovereignty over this land.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples continue to maintain, to
this day, their sacred, spiritual, social, political and economic
connections to their lands since time immemorial.
A new society
By asserting and struggling for Aboriginal sovereignty, we are not just
righting the long standing injustice against Aboriginal people.
Sovereignty provides a chance for all who live on this land to build a
new society based on Aboriginal culture and values. A society ruled by
social need and environmental sustainability, not one of greed and
discrimination. A unique society with a definative system of laws and
customs to govern it, based on the world’s oldest living culture, that
will allow Australia to proudly take its place on the world stage for
the first time in history.
Embassy meetings: Every Wednesday, 6pm, 121 Cordelia St, South Brisbane (between Jagera Hall and Musgrave Park)
Email: brissovereignmedia@gmail.com
Facebook: Brisbane - Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy - Media
