all 'sides' are looking inward and searching for 'origins' and 'identities' it
seems
let's not diminish any energies in our respective searches, by confronting
eachother with our different levels of understanding and information about 'our
past' and it is 'our past'
- ie a shared past, with sh*tty bits on all 'sides' - more has stuck to some
than others
which is why 'we' today are having to deal with it now so that children can
settle and a sovereign peoples can thrive, no matter 'who' they are OR 'where'
they 'come from'
indigozians 'were herded' and are still being 'herded' today
- redfern gentrified and the indig population forced out thru high 'rents'
among other things
- bulldozing the block in redfern is specific eg - homes - what the people who
live there want, not to be moved to 'somewhere else', they have already come
from somewhere else to the block, or moved back and will be moved on no more
everyone looking for their 'roots' has the privilege of staying still long
enough to begin the search, and energy enough to fight with eachother
others are still too mobile and tired to fight - the one resident left in a
street, may be consumed by thoughts of where they are going to rather than
coming from
- she is fighting for her future as well as her past and present
only the depth varies
the practice of herding - moving groups from here to there or just away from
'here' - regardless of method eg guns/bulldozers/high rents/company lore/
progress/equal pay/common lore etc - is the 'dispersal of communities' -
experienced by country youth now as well - 'forces' have had consequences that
result in die back of towns and before that - indig communities
- redfern's gentrification is equivalent in consequence to 'ethnic cleansing'
of particular areas of other cities around the world where religion or party
dominate
in redfern and surry hills and ... 'the most violent' consumption of
neighbourhoods continues to occur - total obliteration of the existing
community to build a new one as need arises - regardless, of what, or who, is
in front of, or driving, the 'bulldozer' it seems
- in bush terms - elkedra - 'gentrification' is the exclusion of indigozians
from their neighbourhood ie those willing to be most violent consumers of
neighbourhoods by making them 'their own' - fenced off, then thrown off again
when equal pay was raised and now and imprisoned for tresspass in a national
forest etc
THERE IS NO PLACE FOR INDIGOZ AND MANY NONINDIGOZIANS TO WALK WITHOUT THREAT OF
REMOVAL OR CHALLENGE
CENSORSHIP ON SPEAKOUTS OCCUR TO EITHER IGNORE THE FACTS OR MAKE IT PALITABLE
ENOUGH FOR SOME TO EVEN THINK ABOUT READING OR SIGNING OR MARCHING
what's in a word?
indigozians 'come from' here = not ethnic so not 'ethnic cleansing'
indigozians 'come from' here = so not 'refugee'
indigozians 'come from' here = but not from english speaking background - no
interpreters
indigozians 'come from' here = but are not all 'land/property/home owners'
indigozians 'come from' here = so not terra nullius
indigozians 'come from' here = but not = sovereign selves
that's what's in a word
manyozians 'come from' here = but do not know their origins
many others don't know where they are headed
cheers
susanne
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