Newsletter date: 25 February 2015
Contents:
* Analysis / Opinion: Kelly Briggs, New Matilda: The Freedom Rides: Celebrating the Status Quo?
* News Analysis: Jemma Nott, Green Left: Freedom Rides again. Has anything changed?
* News Analysis & Video: myGC: What next for Freedom Ride and bringing change to Indigenous Australia? [Video features Evelyn Araluen Corr]
* Analysis / Opinion: Ann Edwards, The Guardian: The day the Freedom Riders gatecrashed the Bowraville cinema with a colour bar
* Media Roundup: Diet Simon, Linksunten Indymedia: Fifty years on, Freedom Ride again holds up a mirror to white Australia
* Video: Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: Freedom Riders March to Walgett RSL -19 Feb 2015
* Video: Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: Freedom Song - Troy Cassar-Daley, Paul Kelly & 1965 Freedom Riders
* Video: Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: Helen and Bob Singleton were on the first bus trip with Martin Luther King to Alabama
* Video: Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: Ghillar Michael Anderson reflects on 1965 Freedom Ride at Walgett
* Video: Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: Brian Aaron describes his involvement in 1965 Freedom Ride
* Video: Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: 50th Anniversary of Freedom Ride at Walgett - RSL
* Video: Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: Ann Curthoys a student on the 1965 Freedom Ride at Q&A
* Video: Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: 50th Anniversary of Freedom Ride at Walgett-Q&A
* Background Video: Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: Walgett - Connecting to Country program for the High School staff
* Background: WGAR News: Fifty years on, Freedom Ride again holds up a mirror to white Australia: Monica Tan, The Guardian
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WGAR News - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)
- Analysis / Opinion
New Matilda: The Freedom Rides: Celebrating the Status Quo?
https://newmatilda.com//2015/02/23/freedom-rides-celebrating-status-quo
23 Feb 15: "The more things change, the more they stay the same. Particularly if you live in Moree, writes Kelly Briggs. ... The fact is, current of racism that ran through the town in 1965 still exists today. Only it now exists in an underground, more subtle way through non employment of Aboriginal people, uncomfortable feelings in certain shops, extreme racial profiling by police and law enforcement officers and white flight from certain areas. ... The poverty, racism, ill health and poor education system still exist today." By Kelly Briggs
- News Analysis
Green Left: Freedom Rides again. Has anything changed?
https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58339
21 Feb 15: "A busload of students, Aboriginal activists and musicians embarked on a commemorative trip around regional New South Wales on February 19 to mark 50 years since the first Freedom Ride. ... This year there has been renewed efforts for Aboriginal rights and land rights. Tent embassies in Canberra and Redfern are withstanding constant attacks from the government and police. The ongoing NT intervention and numerous attacks on the Racial Discrimination Act by federal politicians make the Freedom Rides just as relevant today as they were in 1965." By Jemma Nott
- News Analysis & Video
myGC: What next for Freedom Ride and bringing change to Indigenous Australia?
http://www.mygc.com.au/news/what-next-for-freedom-ride-and-bringing-chan...
23 Feb 15: "It began as a re-enactment of the past but it soon became obvious that what started 50 years ago was far from being finished. And to truly honour the past would require more than a trip down memory lane, it required definitive action – including entering communities to listen and report - just as Perkins and the student cohort had done. We also found the people we were listening to had not been heard from for a long time."
- Analysis / Opinion
The Guardian: The day the Freedom Riders gatecrashed the Bowraville cinema with a colour bar
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/feb/22/the-day-the-freedo...
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/freedom-ride-50-years-on
22 Feb 15: "Ann Edwards recalls the day 50 years ago when her hero, the Freedom Ride leader Charles Perkins, came to town, with his first stop being the racially segregated picture theatre ... On Saturday a 50th anniversary re-enactment of what was later dubbed the Freedom Ride, brought a group of original riders, members of Perkins’ family and a new generation of students from the university to Bowraville, in Gumbaynggir country. The following is an address by Ann Edwards, one of the traditional owners of Gumbaynggir and a "proud Aboriginal woman"."
- Media Roundup
Linksunten Indymedia: Fifty years on, Freedom Ride again holds up a mirror to white Australia
https://linksunten.indymedia.org/en/node/135555
22 Feb 15: "The four-day anniversary bus run took the demonstrators to the New South Wales western outback towns of Dubbo, Walgett and Moree, the Mid North Coast hinterland town Bowraville and the coastal town of Kempsey. There was shocking racism in all of them in 1965. The two-week bus ride put Indigenous rights into the national spotlight. "I think it was a rude awakening for some of the students," said the NSW Aboriginal Land Council's Roy Ah-see. "Today's re-enactment would...bring back a lot of memories for them."" Created by: Diet Simon
- Video
Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: Freedom Riders March to Walgett RSL -19 Feb 2015
https://vimeo.com/120170091
"Freedom march through Walgett in NW NSW on the 50th Anniversary of Freedom Ride at Walgett - 19 February 2015."
- Video
Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: Freedom Song - Troy Cassar-Daley, Paul Kelly & 1965 Freedom Riders
https://vimeo.com/120179356
"Concert at Walgett Oval - Freedom Song - Troy Cassar-Daley, Paul Kelly & 1965 Freedom Riders on 50th Anniversary of Freedom Ride at Walgett - 19 February 2015."
- Video
Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: Helen and Bob Singleton were on the first bus trip with Martin Luther King to Alabama
https://vimeo.com/120196791
"Helen and Bob Singleton were on the first bus trip with Martin Luther King to Alabama. They came to Walgett to be part of the 50th Anniversary of Freedom Ride at Walgett"
- Video
Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: Ghillar Michael Anderson reflects on 1965 Freedom Ride at Walgett
https://vimeo.com/120187655
"Ghillar Michael Anderson reflects on 1965 Freedom Ride at Walgett"
- Video
Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: Brian Aaron describes his involvement in 1965 Freedom Ride
https://vimeo.com/120229972
"At the 50th Anniversary of Freedom Ride at Walgett Brian Aaron describes his involvement in 1965 Freedom Ride. He is speaking at the Walgett RSL, which had a colour bar in 1965 and banned entry to Aboriginal people and the Freedom Ride students."
- Video
Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: 50th Anniversary of Freedom Ride at Walgett - RSL
https://vimeo.com/120230094
"50th Anniversary of Freedom Ride at Walgett. Colin Blaxford describes his involvement as a student on the 1965 Freedom Ride with Charles Perkins"
- Video
Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: Ann Curthoys a student on the 1965 Freedom Ride at Q&A
https://vimeo.com/120230261
"Ann Curthoys was a student on the 1965 Freedom Ride and has since written a book on the 1965 Freedom Ride. Here she is speaking at the Q & A held in the Walgett RSL which which Aboriginal people in 1965."
- Video
Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: 50th Anniversary of Freedom Ride at Walgett-Q&A
https://vimeo.com/120230517
"At the 50th Anniversary of Freedom Ride at Walgett in NW NSW, Virginia gives a potted history of the civil rights movement for freedom in the RSL, which famously banned entry to Aboriginal people 50 years ago."
- Background Video
Eleanor Gilbert, Vimeo: Walgett - Connecting to Country program for the High School staff
https://vimeo.com/119919172
"Community video from Walgett, NW NSW where the 1965 Freedom Ride re-enactment will be tomorrow 19 February 2015. The Connecting to Country program was an attempt by the local Aboriginal community to educate staff at the high school about the need to understand where the Aboriginal students are coming from psychologically and historically. This film was shot on 12 September 2014."
- Background
WGAR News: Fifty years on, Freedom Ride again holds up a mirror to white Australia: Monica Tan, The Guardian
https://indymedia.org.au/2015/02/21/wgar-news-fifty-years-on-freedom-rid...
22 Feb 15: "Contents:
* Audio Interview & Videos: 2UE: 50th anniversary of The Freedom Ride [Featuring Kyol Blakeney]
* Video: Danny Teece-Johnson, NITV News: Freedom Ride's 50th anniversary marked at Sydney University
* Video: NITV News 18 February 2015: Freedom Rides Again
* Video: NITV News 19 February 2015: 1965 Freedom Ride Awoke Nation to Racial Segregation of Aboriginal People
* Video: NITV News 20 February 2015: Freedom is more than just a word: Moree remembers original freedom ride
* Analysis / Opinion: Monica Tan, The Guardian: Fifty years on, Freedom Ride again holds up a mirror to white Australia
* Analysis / Opinion: Ann Curthoys & Brian Aarons, ABC: Freedom Riders Ann Curthoys and Brian Aarons reflect on NSW Ride 50 years on
* Analysis / Opinion: Solidarity: Racism and Aboriginal rights: Fifty years since the Freedom Ride
* Analysis / Opinion: Monica Tan, The Guardian: Freedom Ride returns to Walgett, the town where the RSL banned black diggers
* Analysis / Opinion & Video: Monica Tan, Fred McConnell, The Guardian: Freedom Ride: plenty of lessons to be learned at Dubbo juvenile justice centre
* Analysis / Opinion: Monica Tan, The Guardian: Freedom Ride: revisiting the dip in the pool that changed a segregated town
* Audio Interview: Let's Talk: Troy Cassar-Daley talks about his new album "Freedom Ride" with Tiga and the story behind the title track ... "
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