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On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Gary MacLennan via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Mark wrote: > > 'Meanwhile, they were putting up statues to the idols of the master class > that tried to destroy a nation when they couldn't rule it anywhere. > > It puts a whole new light on what "Reconstruction" meant and never meant.' > > Well said, Mark. Here in Oz, there is a campaign against the statues and > monuments of some of the worst of the colonists. There is a special focus > on the statue of Captain Cook and the claim that he "discovered" > Australia. That is as claim which is deeply offensive to the First Nations > people who have been here for around 60k years. > Very much related to campaigns against monuments to Cook and others is what is probably the highest profile current battle against reactionary tradition, the battle to de-recognise as "Australia Day" the date of Cook's landing, January 26. Four local councils have now done something about this, including not coincidentally the three where socialists have a seat < https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/moreland-council-drop-references-january-26-australia-day>. The other council happens to be where I live. They've also pleasingly agreed to rename a park named after the utter bastard John Batman, involved in mass dispossession in Victoria and genocide in Tasmania: < http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/north/batman-park-in-northcote-to-be-renamed-gumbri-park/news-story/5c8c6617e18cb26b97238246b8ed44ec > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
