Aboriginal Australian voices

Samantha Chalmers speaks her mind on the site of the Aboriginal Embassy, Australia, on Invasion Day (Jan 26th) 2009.

"I can't walk around with my shoes on, my natural shoes that I was born with - the 60,000 year old shoes? I can't apparently. I shouldnt; people worry for me. Consider your cultural design people. You're stopping yourself from living."

This is the very first video interview by the Juice Media.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

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• Indigenous
• Australia
• Day
• invasion
• Aboriginal
• Tent
• Embassy
• Justice
• Sovereignty
• treaty
• land
• colonialism
• empire

[Beardedyoungman]

We don't need no stinking shoes! Oil clogged pores does suck though so parking lots are not great.. but your feet naturally out of shoes breath out toxins. In a shoe it can't so it learns to absorb to keep from getting too greasy in there....

And gravel is fine in the shoe your feet tense up to hold onto the shoe and not get blisters. But free they relax.

Yes your feet are wise!

This talk is pure wisdom

Thank you for making space

[ddchalmers]

"We employ them..... that's our government..... we've had enough..." (re today's Canberra 'white shoe brigade') LOL But can't tell white invader 'settler society' anything, tho. They R desperately trying to express their own ancient lost identity through grabbing from others, stealing + denying + usurping thru their insane legalism.

[MegaOxygenman]

We need more of Samantha Chalmers, good work keep it up sister.

[LegionCommander]

Everyday people have had enough.

[cwpmtp]

bull shit

[curaezipirid]

how about time for featherfooted mob stop demanding blood for our urban consumer breed footwear huh, sure, it not good for our feet to wear shoes, because we need to feel the Earth, but also, our body's balancing ways are of many tiny movements with every footstep: just watch yourself walking bare foot, and see how much the muscles and bones are adjusting to the Earth, and know, it is long time past time we stopped letting society be blaming one another for wearing shoes, and stop imagining need

[prolelicious]

Can't hear a thing she's saying due to the music, someone needs to remix that. It's very distracting.

[CHRISWPARRISH]

real courage from this young woman

liz simpson

[craiganthonycruse]

rubbish mad,mad woman found a man thing. Wanna help? Learn my people history 150yrs before you. then might have a chance. break culture everywhere you go!

[craiganthonycruse]

rubbish mad,mad woman found a man thing

[Nidiurd]

beautiful girl :)

[BrutusCass]

The lost wisdom will be rediscovered. Some people may laugh at my words here, but the standard agruement used by many when they put down these other cultures based on the fact that the western culture has dominated over them is laughable as it only say that we have used strength of arm as bullies to push the strength of mind out of existence, anyone who doubts me on this should try to live in the outback in their birthday suit.