Statement for the Journey of Healing 2000 On 26 May 2000, the second anniversary of Sorry Day, all Australians are urged to participate in the Journey of Healing focused on bringing home the stolen generations... On 26 May, 1997, a report tabled in Federal Parliament shook Australia. Bringing Them Home detailed painful evidence of the removal of thousands of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander children from their families. It recommended that a 'Sorry Day� be held. A year later over half a million people responded, signing Sorry Books and taking part in ceremonies on Sorry Day. In May 1999, this people's movement launched a 'Journey of Healing'. JOURNEY OF HEALING 2000 will: * Call for the wholehearted implementation of Bringing Them Home's recommendations Only one-third of the report's 54 recommendations have been implemented, many of those only partially. This half-hearted response has prompted some of the stolen generations to seek recognition and redress through the courts � where they have found themselves opposed by Government lawyers. Our Governments need to agree that people who have been so gravely disadvantaged have a right to reparations, and work out with them how this can best be done. You can see the rest of the statement at: www.journeyofhealing.com Feel free to forward this message on. peace Liam ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/recoznet2%40paradigm4.com.au/
