indigenous

Gerry Georgatos

The compassionate left wing screams for social justice and argues for our governments and society's institutions to have a heart and help people from the bottom end up, and to desist with the proposition that they can achieve for the downtrodden by working from the top end of town and down.

The bona fide left wing is fractious and forever splintering and yet it calls out for groundswells of people power to coalesce in mass social movements which will give rise to cultural waves.

by Gerry Georgatos The Stolen Wages campaign has taken an almighty setback in Western Australia when the state government tossed up a disturbingly paltry compensation offer - and which requires one to extinguish all rights to any further claims if they accept the offer.

Newsletter date: 20 February 2012

Contents:
* "Aboriginal meetings across Australia to build national unity government" by Michael Anderson
* "The tent embassy: fact v fiction, black v white" by Chris Graham
* More on the Tent Embassy protest on Invasion Day

* "ABORIGINAL MEETINGS ACROSS AUSTRALIA TO BUILD NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT" BY MICHAEL ANDERSON:

- Media Release

Aboriginal meetings across Australia to build national unity government
http://www.indymedia.org.au/2012/02/17/aboriginal-meetings-across-austra...

Not much use a charter of rights that can't be ratified by a women's legislature since all that does is perpetuate male privilege, which is at cause of why a charter of rights is needed in the first place.

The doctrine of discovery, as with terra nullius, is male speculation intended to preserve male privilege, which wouldn't survive autonomous female scrutiny, as the collapse of these approaches with the empowerment of women attests.