Professor Angela Davis speaks at the Blackfella-Palestinian solidarity symposium in Magan-djin. This feels like an unprecedented time. A time when we can see clearly the machinations of settler-colonialism and how we are all linked as Indigenous peoples. Last week, in Magan-djin (Brisbane), there were a number of events that brought this message into sharp focus. One was the Blackfella Palestinian Solidarity Symposium, and the other was the Sisters Inside Abolition Feminism Now conference. At both events, we heard from Palestinian, Aboriginal, and international voices, people like Rihab Charida, Jamal Nabulsi, Boe Spearim, Uncle Lionel Fogarty, Uncle Shane Cogill, and the legendary Professor Angela Davis.
Amy: Exactly so - you always cut directly to the point - of colonial power, invasion and displacement - and genocide. It is Australia's story - it is the story of the First Nations in the US and in Canada (through both countries I have been travelling these past two months - reading Richard Wagamese and Tanya Talaga - visiting Museums dedicated to First Peoples of North America and to associated Museums telling the ugly stories of those shipped from West Africa to be slaves) and from October 7 - five weeks+ ago - following the genocidal activities of the criminal Zionist Netanyahu and his thuggish supporters - Bliden, Sunak, Trudeau, Albanese - and NZ too? The closed-eye Five Eye countries - the US-UK-A (read it as one word) led ignorant - the history ignorant - the cold-hearted bought-by-the-Jewish-Lobby betrayers of humanity. Just this afternoon from my digs on the 18th floor in downtown Vancouver I heard a rhythmic cacophany of sound from way below - penetrating my consciousness. I looked down - a demonstration marching along W Georgia Street. Pro-Palestine? Nope - not a Palestinian flag in sight - a few Canadian Maple Leaf flags - the rest representing the genocidal apartheid (for which the correct pronunciation is "apart-hate") land controlled by the Zionists - though actually Palestine. I felt sick as I watched the approximately 100 baby-murdering, Palestinian murdering people walk on beyond my view. Thank-you for your writing! Jim KABLE (retired teacher, 74 - not so old...)
Thank you for sharing this excellent speech. We like to think we’re advanced and civilized in 2023 but the same human behaviour and privileged colonial power holds on strong, as it has for hundreds of years. Resistance will continue.
This is powerful thank you for speaking such potent truth ❤️ love your work sister xx
Amy: Exactly so - you always cut directly to the point - of colonial power, invasion and displacement - and genocide. It is Australia's story - it is the story of the First Nations in the US and in Canada (through both countries I have been travelling these past two months - reading Richard Wagamese and Tanya Talaga - visiting Museums dedicated to First Peoples of North America and to associated Museums telling the ugly stories of those shipped from West Africa to be slaves) and from October 7 - five weeks+ ago - following the genocidal activities of the criminal Zionist Netanyahu and his thuggish supporters - Bliden, Sunak, Trudeau, Albanese - and NZ too? The closed-eye Five Eye countries - the US-UK-A (read it as one word) led ignorant - the history ignorant - the cold-hearted bought-by-the-Jewish-Lobby betrayers of humanity. Just this afternoon from my digs on the 18th floor in downtown Vancouver I heard a rhythmic cacophany of sound from way below - penetrating my consciousness. I looked down - a demonstration marching along W Georgia Street. Pro-Palestine? Nope - not a Palestinian flag in sight - a few Canadian Maple Leaf flags - the rest representing the genocidal apartheid (for which the correct pronunciation is "apart-hate") land controlled by the Zionists - though actually Palestine. I felt sick as I watched the approximately 100 baby-murdering, Palestinian murdering people walk on beyond my view. Thank-you for your writing! Jim KABLE (retired teacher, 74 - not so old...)
Thank you for sharing this excellent speech. We like to think we’re advanced and civilized in 2023 but the same human behaviour and privileged colonial power holds on strong, as it has for hundreds of years. Resistance will continue.