Gary Foley at NT Intervention 2nd Anniversary protest - 20 June 2009

This is a re-post of footage originally posted at the time. Rallies were held across Australia on Saturday 20 June 2009 to mark the 2nd anniversary of the NT Intervention. Around 200 attended a rally at the State Library in Melbourne, and a large proportion then marched or otherwise made their way to Trades Hall for further discussions and planning. Music played a big part in the rally, with contributions from Indigenous hip hop artists including Tjimba and Little G., as well as Jake Hapeta, who was joined by MC Stan Dryden, Shiralee Hood, and Tjimba in a rendering of 'Australia's new national anthem', and Ezekiel Ox, representing Musicians against Police Violence. Speakers included Robbie Thorpe, Sina Brown-Davis (one of the G20 arrestees due to face trial the following week), Frederick (a West Papuan refugee), Gary Murray, Aletha Penrith from Redfern, David Thomason-Koolmatrie and Lisa Koolmatrie (relatives of Mr Ward, who died, as is well-known, in custody in WA), veteran Indigenous activist Gary Foley, and Valerie Martin from Yuendumu NT. Some of the speeches, including those of Valerie Martin, Aletha Penrith and Sina Brown-Davis, are available on this site. Gary Foley's is given here in full.

See also:

http://stoptheintervention.org/
http://rollbacktheintervention.wordpress.com/

The 3rd anniversary was marked in Melbourne by a protest at Casselden Place focussing on the infamous 'Basics Card' - http://melbourneprotests.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/basics-cards-a-racist-card-...

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News & Politics

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• NT Intervention
• racism
• Indigenous Australians
• Melbourne
• Gary Foley

[TheNarcMan]

T.V ads say that 1 in 5 little girls in Australia will be abused by the age of 18. Not that many people are aboriginal much less little aboriginal girls. Where is the intervention for non-koori children? Why was no such action taken against the Catholic church? Why no such action against private schools when teachers are found to be carrying about abuse?

Long story short you can intervene in the Northern Territory but if you tried it in the Northern Suburbs of Sydney people would go ape shit.

[ThePsyn]

OMG... how can politicians honestly do this and rob people of their entitlements and sleep at night. It is beyond my comprehension!