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1. Why we are still protesting First Nations deaths in custody

   joined CDBR. Their mother, Aunty Pat Eatock (a veteran of the original Aboriginal tent embassy in ... cities. The case of 17-year-old TJ Hickey, killed in a police pursuit through Redfern in 2004, was taken ... through Redfern to demand justice. TJ’s impalement sparked a night of “rioting” in the Redfern Block. The ...

2. Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy declares victory

   Indigenous Wiradjuri elder Aunty Jenny Munro Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy (RATE) Nigel Scullion ... Aboriginal Housing Company (AHC) Gadigal Country/Sydney The Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy released this ... statement on August 27. The Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy (RATE) has claimed an important victory in its ...

3. Redfern Tent Embassy succeeds in fight for Aboriginal housing

   Indigenous Rachel Evans Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy (RATE) Wiradjuri elder Aunty Jenny Munro ... announced on August 31 that the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy had forced the hand of the Aboriginal ... a part of the redevelopment of The Block. The signing is due for September 1, 2015. The Redfern ...

4. Redfern tent embassy discusses Aboriginal resistance

   Indigenous Democracy Richard Fan Redfern Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy (RATE) Gadigal ... developments. But we are not going away. Redfern Tent Embassy is here to stay, and we are calling on people to ... Twitter. January 30, 2015 1039 The Redfern Block has been the site on an ongoing tent embassy and ...

5. Farewell Noel Hazard, partisan of left unity (1936-2024)

   in a series of photos. “The term ‘embassy’ was used to bring attention to the fact Aboriginal people ... Embassy in 1972. As the Museum of Democracy at Old Parliament House  records: “The Tent Embassy began its ... Coorey left Redfern and drove to Ngunnawal Country (Canberra), where they planted a beach umbrella ...

6. MUA rallies to defend the Redfern block

   Indigenous Liam Cohrs the Block Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy (RATE) Maritime Union of Australia ... for its lack of coverage of the Redfern Embassy, concluding that people internationally knew more ... by unionist supporters of the embassy. Broader support for the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy is ...

7. 'Ningla- A’Na': Restored documentary keeps the spirit of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy alive

   activists from the Redfern Black Power Group drove from Sydney to Canberra to set up an “Aboriginal Embassy ... Anti-racism Democracy Environment History Indigenous Ben Radford Aboriginal Tent Embassy Films and ... ” on the lawns of Parliament House. The idea to make the protest an embassy was, in the words of ...

8. Gary Foley: Aboriginal Tent Embassy a 'stroke of genius'

   Black Power collective play in the Tent Embassy movement? The Black Power movement grew out of Redfern ... Anti-racism Indigenous Markela Panegyres Chloe de Silva Aboriginal Tent Embassy land rights Black ... activist and historian Gary Foley about the history and significance of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. What ...

9. The proud history of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy

   Ningla a-Na about the "Aboriginal Embassy" demonstrations in Sydney and Canberra that year. The ... domain. On "Australia Day", January 26, 1972, the Tent Embassy was established in response to ... forests. The reaction was instant and dramatic as Redfern-based Aboriginal activists moved quickly to ...

10. TJ Hickey Memorial could be closer to reality

    Indigenous Raul Bassi Aboriginal Tent Embassy TJ Hickey Indigenous Social Justice Association ... but noted that longer term redevelopment plans for the Waterloo area had to be taken into account. In ... has supported the Housing Commission in Waterloo since its formation. An Aboriginal Tent Embassy has ...

11. Barbara McGrady: pictures worth a thousand words

    Photography and exhibitions art Kamilaroi Head On Redfern Visions in Black and White- Images from Indigenous ... Australia Redfern Community Centre, Sydney Until June 24, 2013. www.headon.com.au "Ngurragah," ... in Redfern, when she got up to speak. As she walked nervously to the lectern, her nephew Gumaroy ...

12. Protest at Abbott's sham constitutional recognition ‘consultation’

    others from the Redfern Tent Embassy, Michael Anderson from the Sovereign Union, Albert Harnett, Patricia ... the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy in the morning, marched with 30 others over the Harbour Bridge to ... 10 when the Aboriginal Housing Corporation takes the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy to the Supreme ...

13. The last march with Ray Jackson

    spoke of being humbled by learning of his decades of hard work. The Redfern Tent Embassy's Jenny ... Indigenous Rachel Evans Ray Jackson Gadigal Country/Sydney More than 300 people packed the Redfern ... A representative from the French embassy recalled giving Jackson and ISJA the French Human Rights Award in 2013 and ...

14. Wiradjuri warrior Ray Jackson has passed away

    court." He organised rally after rally for TJ Hickey — chased to death by Redfern cops, a few blocks from ... the grassroots Aboriginal rights movement that he could get to. The 40th anniversary Tent Embassy ... set aside differences and work with others. He was staunch to the end — present at the Redfern Tent ...

15. Gary Foley on history, Black Power and idealism

    preceded me. In the late 1960s to early 1970s, a great Black uprising that started in Redfern and in ... a protest on the lawns of Parliament House, which eventually grew into the Aboriginal Embassy. In 1972, with ... the Black Power movement and the Aboriginal Embassy, we had Australian politicians shitting ...

16. Movement leaders feature at Radical Ideas conf

    leadership role in crucial Aboriginal struggles such as the recent victory of the Redfern Aboriginal Tent ... Embassy in Sydney. Lydia Shelly is a human rights lawyer, activist and member of the NSW Council of Civil ... a long-term community activist and a National Executive member of the Socialist Alliance. Sue was a prominent ...

17. 52 left-leaning albums from 2014

    let them eat money." Fittingly, proceeds from the song went to the Brisbane Sovereign Embassy ... named after a traditional term for the summer of 1847, the worst year of the Great Irish Famine. Rise Up ... well-known Dharug language teacher- and sometime Redfern Now actor- Richard Green. Radical Son is well-known ...

18. Thousands attend Invasion Day protests around the country

    Sydney, where about 3000 protesters marched from Redfern's historic The Block to Sydney Town Hall. ... Mourning, what we now know as Invasion Day. Also on this day in 1972 the Aboriginal Embassy on the lawns of ... exploitation of Stradbroke Island. Bo Spearim of WAR and an organiser of the Brisbane protest said the term ...

19. Living Black thinks outside the idiot box

    at how advanced the indigenous people there were in terms of having a voice on the national stage, ... about education again. He took a year out of journalism to study theatre at Redfern’s EORA Indigenous ... “We've constantly been striving to make it look interesting in terms of the way we tell the story.” The ...

20. John Pilger: January 26 is Australia's day for secrets, flags and cowards

    Australia has refused to come to terms with the shame of its colonial past. A Hollywood film, Soldier Blue, ... www.johnpilger.com.]- On January 26, Indigenous Australians and their supporters will march from The Block in Redfern ... Embassy, then march to Parliament House. Like the article? Subscribe to 91������̳ now! You can also like ...

21. Impossible Odds place a strong bet on sovereignty

    we are to maintain it." Aboriginal Tent Embassy founder and sovereignty campaigner Michael ... with Georgia Corowa. illsyllable. Below, Impossible Odds talk about the use of the term ... Public Enemy hang out in Redfern and come to Musgrave Park, Snoop Dogg, Salt N Pepa, all those people. ...