Aboriginal Embassy active in Sydney

The Aboriginal Tent Embassy has set up again in Victoria Park. The space has been chosen by Aboriginal activists as a site to push for recognition of their rightful sovereignty since the 2000 Olympic Games where Auntie Isabel Coe set up an embassy to draw attention to the indigenous cause while the world media was in town for the Olympics.
Darren Bloomfield a veteran of the Canberra embassy has brought the sacred fire to the park once again setting up while APEC was on in early September. The Embassy briefly moved to Sydney Park st Peters, three weeks after Earthdance the police and council moved in and evicted the tent embassy. Now it is back in Victoria Park and building up the energy to rally the community around the indigenous sovereignty cause.

This film is based around an interview with Darren Bloomfield and shows how the Police have acted aggressively towards a peaceful action on an issue that is pressing. Australia is seen overseas as backwards in its dealing with indigenous issues and we are living in a colonial pipedream as long as Aboriginal Sovereignty is not recognized in this country.
On Thursday the 1st November 2007 there will be a Welcome to Country starting at about 4.30pm and featuring indigenous speakers, sacred fire and live bands and D.J's including The Fuji Collective, Combat Wombat and the maker of this film, D.J Mashy P.

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[jdnice1000]

how the hell can this go on in this day and age its f**ing crazy people need to now about this im from the uk and never even new it was this bad you need to get your message to the masses not just there but worldwide

[Yuriel45]

It's called australia day, get used to it.

[artsglobal]

Hi guys,

It's ken cooper(The Paranoia Club) I was there with darren and our friendly forces. I love how you have put this together and can't wait to get back. Love ya art works Darren. The Paranoia will play the Tent Embassy Canberra on Invasion Day. I hope you can all join us.

[hateturbonerds]

thats better. thankyou.

[hateturbonerds]

so much for democracy. I can't even get my comments posted.

[hateturbonerds]

Lord Howe island was a first settlement of mixed cultures that has not had its terrortorial rights recognised at any time in History. Even though the handling of the island has been openly administered by policies of subtle dispossession contrary to statutes in place in the 1800's and 1900's.

I recommend giving Federal Parliament a full dose of the magic Alinga. It would make Akala very happy.

[electroteque]

Please read from bottom to top damn, comment limits !

[electroteque]

It's the legacy that many people must hold and do something about it. Why is it that we still have this kind of oppression, why are governments like children and sandpits, why dont these people have the right to claim royalties for every single peice of property bought and sold here at someone elses profit and gain, why dont they have the right to say NO to mining in their lands, who knows your house could be on a tribes graveyard.

[electroteque]

The tasmanians fought genecide and christian assimilation until there was only a few left and were shipped off the island.

[electroteque]

If anyone has ever heard of squatters, its literal to the term, ex convicts moving into someone elses land and home and setting up their own ranches. Imagine somebody coming into your home with a shotgun to your head and saying 'this is my home'. Terrorism, obviouslly not a new topic either, is what many tribes endured, poising of whole families and tribes via their water sources etc etc.