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it's invasion day, not australia day
genocide is not something to be celebrated. this invasion day, attend a rally, donate to aboriginal organisations, advocate for changing the date. stand in solidarity with your aboriginal friends.
always was, always will be, aboriginal land
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On January 26 1788, the First Fleet transporting convicts from Britian arrived on the lands of the Eora Nation and the establishment of a British colony in Australia began.
In 1938, First Nations activists declared this date a Day of Mourning. Gathering at a thousands-strong protest in Sydney they passed a resolution that:
"This being the 150th Anniversary of the Whiteman's seizure of our country, [we] HEREBY MAKE PROTEST against the callous treatment of our people by the whitemen during the past 150 years, AND WE APPEAL to the Australian nation of today to make new laws for the education and care of Aborigines, we ask for a new policy which will raise our people TO FULL CITIZEN STATUS and EQUALITY WITHIN THE COMMUNITY."
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Although the day is now official observed as Australia Day, Victorian community organisers call it “an annual reminder of invasion, occupation, genocide and the ongoing impacts of colonisation that continue to destroy our land and waters”.
As Australians ourselves, living on the stolen lands of the Kulin Nation, we encourage you to spend the day doing what you can to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Black Rainbow and BlaQ Aboriginal Corporation are two organisations working to support queer First Nations people, that you in turn can support.
[Image: 1938 photograph of First Nations adults and children protesting with signs reading ‘Aborigines Claim Citizen Rights’ in front of black-board which read ‘Aborigines Conference Day of Mourning’]
#australia day#invasion day#survival day#day of mourning#australia#australian history#aboriginal and torres strait islander#first nations
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always was, always will be ❤️💛🖤
#invasion day#survival day#day of mourning#not australia day#january 26th#australia#australia is a settler colony#australians in solidarity with palestine#genocide#from the river to the sea#always was always will be
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https://blaq.org.au/donate/
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Racism in Australia
OK so here's the statistic filled rant about the disproportionate jailing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia. (Heads up I have not proofread this)
So first of all, in a government article from 2018, adult Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up only 2% of the population (wow, I wonder why? It's not like there was mass genocide for centuries, people being put in jail therefore significantly less able to procreate, being taken from their families or lynched or anything... oh, wait). This is crazy enough. But you know what else? In the same article, Disproportionate Incarceration Rate (2018), those same ethnic groups made up 27% of the national prison population. "In 2016, around 20 in every 1,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were incarcerated". That's a direct quote. Reminder, this is a government produced article. They know how bad things are, they don't give a shit.
Between 2006 and 2016, the rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people being incarcerated grew by 41%. Yes, non-Indigenous incarceration rates grew too, but by 41%??? No.
More Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women were targeted too, making up 34% of the female prisoner population, which is higher than that of non-Indigenous men.
In 1991, RCIADIC (Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, because yes, there are so many deaths in custody we need one of those) found that a lot of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people also had their land repossessed without treat or compensation... please tell me I'm not the only one thinking "again, really??"
"In 2016, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were 12.5 times more likely to be in prison than non-Indigenous people, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women were 21.2 times more likely to be in prison than non-Indigenous women."
"It is important to bear in mind that the majority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people never commit a criminal offense." THIS IS A QUOTE FROM THE GOVERNMENT, I AM SCREAMING, THEN WHY ARE YOU JAILING THEM YOU MONSTERS??
In another article, Prisoners in Australia (2024), the Aussie Bureau of Statistics says that in the space of a year (2022-2023) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners increased by 7%. That's just in a year.
In that same article, it says that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners accounted for 33% of all prisoners, 91% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners were male, 9% female, and 78% of them had been previously faced adult imprisonment.
According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), in a 2023 article, 'Profile of First Nation's People', Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander made up about 3.8% of the population in 2021.
(Side note: my dad, who used to work with ALS (Aboriginal Legal Services) coordinated with the CEO a decade ago with a business plan for bail houses - which would have helped keep Indigenous kids out of jail when they couldn't pay bail, thus staying out of the jail system so less likely to go back...It would have saved the government $4 million AUD... the state government turned it down. I wonder why)
Guys this is just after reading a few articles and talking with my dad. Spending not even an hour of research and writing. There is so much more going on behind the happy facade of the Closing the Gap initiative. Please, don't let this slide. Educate yourselves and fight against this growing injustice. And please, reblog this.
#rock rambles#delete later#tw racism#tw jail#invasion day#survival day#australia day#statistics#fight the system
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26 January 2024 marks 236 years since the British First Fleet invaded First Nations land. It is not a day of rejoicing – it is a day of mourning, commemorating 236 years of dispossession, inequality and destruction which still continues today. This is the first major national moment since the referendum to show your solidarity with First Nations people.
On this day every year we have a national conversation that can go one of two ways – marking the start of colonisation or showing solidarity with the oldest living culture on earth. Now more than ever, your voice is powerful.
#australia#aboriginal#aboriginal australian#Survival Day#indigenous women#personal post#culture#Black Fulla#Invasion Day#january 26#ausgov#Blak
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I found out there's a lot of invasion day events happening this year and I wanted to spread the word. I think it's fine to say that I might be going to one of them
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Brilliant article about the history of January 26. Something every white Australian should read imo
List of First Nations orgs to consider supporting this Invasion Day
Another list
#january 26#invasion day#day of mourning#indigenous rights#survival day#not a date to celebrate#im not making this into a massive masterlist because im white so i dont feel like that is at all my place to do so#if any first nations people want to add onto this post please do!!
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What I'm about to say is based mostly on what I've heard/learned and may not be entirely correct, please do more research and help first nations people change the date.
If you're Aussie/live in Australia, you'll know that today, January 26th is Australia Day or Invasion day. Today is not a day to celebrate. When the first fleet arrived and 'claimed' Australia as part of Britain, it was an invasion as there was already indigenous people here. It is a disgrace to Australia and it's people to continue supporting racism and celebrating invasion. We need to change the date right now.
Again, please go and educate yourself on the history of this day and how we can change the date
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A report just came out from a Palestinian hostage saying he was strapped with bombs and sent into a Hamas tunnel, with Israel prepared to blow the tunnel up with his body if fighters were found inside and yet people are still making the “Hamas uses human shields” arguments that have been confirmed to be a myth with no supporting evidence
#the hostage also said the same thing happened to a 15 year old boy hostage#both of them did survive as they were pulled out of the tunnel when no fighters were found and then released a few days later#the amount of people (including the US president) who still talk about the Hamas human shields is alarming#since no one has evidence of it and we have more then one piece of evidence of Israel using human shields#palestine#🦢
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#survival day#invasion day#indigenous rights#aboriginal#australia#torres strait#petition#call to action#land back
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Bisan is calling for another global strike!
I saw some posts just outlining Jan 21st, and wanted to clarify that Bisan has called for a full seven days of action.
What a global strike would look like is:
calling in sick to work
purchasing bare essentials ahead of the week so you can observe the general boycott of goods / buying as little as you genuinely can
putting in a concerted effort to elevate Palestinian voices and make it clear that this strike is in support of a permanent ceasefire!
For those who will have to purchase necessary goods during this time, please observe the brands that the BDS movement is asking us to boycott!
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Right now is also a good time to mention some better uses for your money during this week.
Available e-sims in Gaza are running low!!
Mirna El Helbawi and her team are working round the clock to continue to connect Palestinians as Israel does its best to cut them off from the rest of the world.
You can learn how to purchase and send e-sims here, and below you’ll find a list of what is currently needed (the areas in brackets indicate what region you should select to buy e-sims in).
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CareforGaza is an organisation that does verifiably good work, distributing supplies directly to Palestinian families.
They have a Gofundme set up at the moment, but because of Gofundme’s poor track record regarding refusing to transfer funds to Palestinians, I’d recommend continuing to donate directly to their PayPal here.
Good luck to all of you. Don't turn away from Palestine!
#i know that for some people their first instinct will be to scoff. how can anyone just not buy things for a full week?#what about groceries? rent?#and personally. i wanna say yes. there are some things that we have to spend money on to survive.#but it is possible still to make a concerted effort in your life#to carve out seven days where you can minimise that amount of money#i know its a lot.#for some people who are living on a tight budget. i know its not possible and i dont fault you for that#but i know for a fact that so many of us would be able to take out a few daily purchases in observance of this strike#do your best#dont turn away from palestine#free palestine#palestine#from the river to the sea#call to action
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In Honour of Invasion Day <3 (/sarc)
I would like to be proud of my country. I want to celebrate the culture of mateship, siding with the underdog, telling the pollies to piss off and multicultural diversity... but how can I??
How can I be proud of my country when the day we celebrate the country is the very day that this nation got stolen from the 'traditional owners'. There's already a problem with that term, see, a lot of Aboriginal people (First Nation Aussies and Islanders) see it as they belong to the land, not vice versa. I would like to appreciate Kevin Rudd's apology speech back in 2008, but not much changed, so where's the apology in that??
The people who's land I am currently writing this on deserve better than being seen as "lesser". What people don't realize is that the racism in this country is far from gone. Did you know that the stolen generation legislation didn't stop being a thing until 1969? Sounds a long time ago, right? That was only 55 years ago. My mother is older than that. Let that sink in. There are 55 year old men and women out there who were stolen from their families and given to white people for some wankery of an excuse "so they can have a better life" more like so they can be "civilized" and assimilated to our culture which we deem correct and anyone who stands in the face gets murdered, thrown in jail or worse.
I would love to celebrate, crack open a tinny, play some cricket and sing waltzing fucking matilda but that's not right. I have no rights to celebrate when fellow Australians have little rights in general and are being put in jail left and right, beaten to a pulp and left to die in prisons. And of course their deaths get covered up. The police brutality in Australia is horrific because it's insidious (I'm about to write another post about this with statistics, so stay tuned). A lot of cops around here will let you off with a warning, chilled out... but that's my experience. As a white girl who can cry tears at her "mistakes". I remember once I talked myself out of a $200 on the spot fine for sneaking onto a train, said I lost my ticket and fake cried over it (shitty move, right? But to be fair, I couldn't afford the train ticket, let alone a fine). The officers were nice, gave me a warning. But how nice would they have been if I weren't white? I'd probably have been taken in to the station even if I genuinely had been crying, bought a ticket, and lost it.
There is so much fucking racism in this country. I remember being 10, disgusted as the class threw the new, Aboriginal kid under the bus for a missing toy in the class room. He didn't steal it. We found it months later. But the hell he got as the students and teachers blamed him for it? He moved schools (Darren, if you're reading this, I'm so fucking sorry for not doing more). This system is against them. And my country, my people, have the nerve to celebrate this culture on the day that marked genocide of people who were perfectly happy just living??
Sometimes I hate being white. It's an unfair advantage and I don't want anything to do with those colonizing aka land stealing genocidal bastards, but what the fuck is the point in having this privilege if I don't use it? If Indigenous people aren't getting heard then I'll stand with them, maybe this racist system will listen to a white girl.
(Final note, you're not punk if you don't fight the system, you're a poser, if you don't stand up for people who are dying you're an asshole, if you're part of a minority and let other minorities get squashes what the fuck is wrong with you, and last but not least, if you don't have an opinion on things like this, you might want to check your privilege.)
#rock rambles#delete later#invasion day#australia day#survival day#aboriginal people#indigenous people#stand for something#boost this#tw stolen generation#tw racism#we need to talk about this#we need to do better#Spotify
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Unfriendly reminder that today is Invasion Day/Survival Day, not Australia Day, and you may want to educate yourself on the blatant racism of the day <33
#scarlet screeches#delete later#stand with first nation people against this system#because celebrating on a day marking the start of genocide is bullshit at best#invasion day#survival day#australia day
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