Please distribute widely.....
The Indigenous Student Network & the Victoria Park Tent Embassy invited you to:
SLEEP OUT FOR SOVEREIGNTY - 18, 19, 20 August
jion the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Victoria Park, Sydney
cnr City Rd and Broadway
-Bring family, friends, instruments, food, tent, cooking equipment, blankets,
utensils etc. NO drugs or alcohol allowed.
For more information contact - Joel or Laura-Lee from the Indigenous Student
Network on (02) 9660 5222
SOVEREIGNTY
As of twelve noon, 14th July 2000 organisers of the official Aboriginal Tent
Embassy in Canberra began its historic (re)establishment in Sydney. The
Embassy was set up in Canberra to call for Justice and Sovereignty for
Aboriginal peoples, and has set up a satellite camp in Sydney to raise the
pressure on the Gvoernment to recognise and act on the past and present
injustices faced by Aboriginal people.
The Australian government has done everything possible to white was their
treatment of Aboriginal people in the lead up the Olympic games when the eyes
of the world will be on Australia. It is precisely because of this that
Aboriginal activists have taken up the call from around Australia to expose
the
racism of the Liberal Government and to call for real reconciliation justice
and sovereignty.
Australia, alone out of four English speaking countries where the white
invaders ultimately came to constitute a numerical majority, ahs failed to
recognise Aboriginal sovereignty in any form. New Zealand, the United States
and Canada all have concluded treaties with the Indigenous peoples within
their
borders. In Australia, this was not permitted as a result of the legal
ficition (terra nullius) that Aboriginal people had "no sovereignty".
In the USA, the Native American nations are recognised as sovereign nations.
This recognition is entrenched both through treaties and US govt policy.
Sovereignty rights (or powers) are dived up between the US Fed Govt, the
States
and the Indigenous Nations.
What is stopping Australia from recognising the inherent sovereignty rights of
Aboriginal people?
LL.NH
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