WGAR News: Hundreds of leaders commit to attend Freedom Summit: Gerry Georgatos, National Indigenous Times (NIT)

Newsletter date: 12 November 2014

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Contents:

* News & Upcoming Event: Gerry Georgatos, NIT: Hundreds of leaders commit to attend Freedom Summit
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: John Pilger backs Freedom Summit - "We come as one but must stand as thousands"
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: "We will sleep on the earth, but we are coming" - The Freedom Summit
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Freedom Summit to reignite Black Power
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Freedom summit to galvanise First People
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Legitimate representatives of First People to meet at National Summit of Traditional Owners
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement
* Background to Treaties with Aboriginal Sovereign Nations of Australia

- News & Upcoming Event

National Indigenous Times (NIT): Hundreds of leaders commit to attend Freedom Summit
[27-28 Nov 2014 in Mparntwe (Alice Springs)]
http://freepdfhosting.com/f032dae764.pdf
29 Oct 14: Black Power legend, Sam Watson: "We’ve gone from the streets to suits. We need to get back to the rights struggle"
Arrernte Elder Rosalie Kunoth-Monks: "For the first time we now have hope of a united vision to represent all our People"
Euahlayi Nation leader, Ghillar Michael Anderson: "We need a multitude of voices both women and men"
Yamatji Elder, Sandy Davies: "The suffering has gone on long enough. Our People have got it worse than ever before"
"Organisers have been inundated with pledges from hundreds of First Nations leaders to attend the Summit for Freedom and are now hopeful at least 200 First Peoples Nations will be represented. The Summit will be held on Thursday and Friday, November 27 and 28 at the historic The Old Telegraph, Mparntwe (Alice Springs). This is where Charlie Perkins, one of the most significant leaders of the rights struggle in the 60s, was born, ... " By National Indigenous Times reporter Gerry Georgatos

- Analysis / Opinion

The Stringer: John Pilger backs Freedom Summit - "We come as one but must stand as thousands"
http://thestringer.com.au/john-pilger-backs-freedom-summit-we-come-as-on...
6 Nov 14: "With less than four weeks to the Summit for Freedom, internationally acclaimed investigative journalist and filmmaker, John Pilger released a statement from London. "The Freedom Summit is a breakthrough – for freedom in Australia. Australia is not free, and it will never be free until its First Nations people reclaim the struggle for self-determination that federal governments have systematically undermined." "Since the Tent Embassy demanded the return of lost human rights, Australia’s White elite has conducted a campaign of deceit, land theft, co-option and bribery. That can only be stopped if Australia’s First People come together at a Summit like this, then go into the streets of every city, with the clear aim of taking back control of their own lives and demanding Treaty rights that are more than two centuries overdue." ... " By Gerry Georgatos, a life-long human rights and social justice campaigner, a multi-award winning investigative journalist

- Analysis / Opinion

The Stringer: "We will sleep on the earth, but we are coming" - The Freedom Summit
http://thestringer.com.au/we-will-sleep-on-the-earth-but-we-are-coming-t...
1 Nov 14: "Planes, trains and convoys of buses and cars of the senior most Elders and leaders of this continent’s First People will converge on Alice Springs in the days leading up to what may be the largest ever most diverse gathering of First People in the one place. The senior most Elders and leaders of their People have been committing themselves to the Freedom Summit – November 27 and 28. One of the organisers, the chair of the Narrunga People, Tauto Sansbury has been inundated with attendance requests and support for the Summit. It matters not to the organisers of the Freedom Summit whether they will be financially supported, the Freedom Summit will happen. ... " By Gerry Georgatos, a life-long human rights and social justice campaigner, a multi-award winning investigative journalist

- Analysis / Opinion

The Stringer: Freedom Summit to reignite Black Power
http://thestringer.com.au/freedom-summit-to-reignite-black-power-8906
24 Oct 14: "End of November hundreds of the most senior Elders and legitimate leaders of their peoples will gather in Alice Springs for the Freedom Summit. Hundreds from right across the continent have committed to come. Many see the Summit as the opportunity to mechanise the Aboriginal rights struggle, the greatest struggle ever known on this continent, who now far too many feel fell by the wayside from the mid-1970s onwards. "We have to stay big picture with this Summit," said one of the Summit’s organisers, chair of the Narrunga People, Tauto Sansbury. "The Summit will be the most diverse and largest gathering in the one place on this continent, of this continent’s First People. We need to reclaim the Aboriginal rights struggle. ... "" By Gerry Georgatos, a life-long human rights and social justice campaigner, a multi-award winning investigative journalist

- Analysis / Opinion

The Stringer: Freedom summit to galvanise First People
http://thestringer.com.au/freedom-summit-to-galvanise-first-people-8892
19 Oct 14: "The call for a National Summit of Traditional Owners announced last week by three icons of the First People’s struggle, Tauto Sansbury, Geoff Clark and Michael Mansell, has gained momentum. They have been inundated by the true leaders of First People from all around the continent. Many Elders believe there is a tumultuous political climate and that they are seeing an inevitable fast-tracked land grab by this Government and by coteries of already wealthy predatory carpetbaggers. They believe that they are at the crossroads, that if they do not stand up united and strike back that what little has been won in the last 50 years will be lost forever. A National Summit of Traditional Owners originally intended for Tasmania will now be held in the heart of the continent, in Alice Springs." By Gerry Georgatos, a life-long human rights and social justice campaigner, a multi-award winning investigative journalist

- Analysis / Opinion

The Stringer: Legitimate representatives of First People to meet at National Summit of Traditional Owners
http://thestringer.com.au/legitimate-representatives-of-first-people-to-...
10 Oct 14: "Three well known leaders of the First People’s rights struggle, Tauto Sansbury, Geoff Clark and Michael Mansell have come together to call for a National Summit of Traditional Owners. They have declared that the Prime Ministerial Indigenous Advisory Council led by Bandjalung man Warren Mundine is not only an embarrassment to First People but it is an insult to suggest itself as an advisory body representative of the First People of this continent. According to these icons of the freedom and rights struggles, the Indigenous Advisory Council, now one-year-old, has abysmally failed First People. The National Summit will be held in November with a call out to all the legitimate representatives of First People to attend. It is expected that from the Summit an Assembly of First People representatives will be formed. There will be a representative for each Country speaking to their issues and hopes. ... " By Gerry Georgatos, a life-long human rights and social justice campaigner, a multi-award winning investigative journalist

- Background

Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

Last updated: 29 May 2013

http://indymedia.org.au/2012/04/22/background-to-the-aboriginal-sovereig...

- Background

Background to Treaties with Aboriginal Sovereign Nations of Australia

Last updated: 13 May 2014

http://indymedia.org.au/2014/02/16/background-to-treaties-with-aborigina...

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