Reflecting on the Legacy of Climate Promises
Climate change is now. There is no more time for empty pledges.
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November 5, 2024
Assimilation / Corporate profit / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Environment / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide / Genocide by stealth / Human Rights / Law / Mining / Neo-Colonialism / Racism / Reconciliation / Rule of Law
#IdleNoMore – Transnational Indigenous Solidarity
#IdleNoMore is a growing movement of indigenous activism that started with Canada's First Nations taking a stand against a long history of systematic, institutionalized abuse from the Canadian authorities.
January 22, 2013
Archaeology / Art / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Environment / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Mining / Racism / WA government / Yindjibarndi
Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation Media Statement
YINDJIBARNDI ABORIGINAL CORPORATION MEDIA STATEMENT—Thursday 29 November 2012 http://yindjibarndi.org.au/ YINDJIBARNDI WANT SOLUTION TO FMG DEBACLE Yindjibarndi Elder Bruce Woodley joins Sue Singleton, Brad Goode and Kerry Savas in…
November 29, 2012
Accountability / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Culture / Environment / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide / Government / Human Rights / Law / Mining / Neo-Colonialism / Rule of Law / WA government / Yindjibarndi
Another Whistleblower Drops FMG Mining Deal Bombshell
Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation—BULLETIN http://yindjibarndi.org.au/ Wednesday 31 October 2012 No amount of corporate spin, bulldust or threats can save Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) from the continuing revelations of whistleblowers and freedom…
November 1, 2012
Asia-Pacific / Corruption / Globalisation / Human Rights / Indonesia / International Law / Julian Moti / Neo-Colonialism / Pacific Neighbours / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / United Nations / West Papua
A process of truth and judgement
Judgement is our oldest belief, our most habitual holding-true or holding un-true, an assertion or denial, a certainty that something is thus not otherwise, a belief that here we really…
October 9, 2012
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YINDJIBARNDI ABORIGINAL CORPORATION MEDIA RELEASE
FMG ‘DECLASSIFIED’ THEN DESTROYED YINDJIBARNDI HERITAGE SITES Recent reports that, Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) is pushing ahead with the “low-cost Firetail deposit” at its Solomon Project, while scaling back…
September 13, 2012
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“Freeport is a symbol of everything that is wrong with Papua”
PT Freeport Indonesia's newly appointed president director, Rozik B. Soetjipto, announced this week that the company is willing to renegotiate its contract with the Indonesian government for the continuation of…
July 14, 2012
The stories, art and dance of Arnhem Land, the longest running show in history
NAIDOC week seems a fitting time to diverge a little from the normal themes of Blak and Black and have a peak into what was our culture prior to the…
July 3, 2012
Commonwealth Government / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Environment / Government / Law / Mining / Rule of Law / WA government
Amendments to WA’s Aboriginal Heritage Act: a mining ‘industry-friendly’ high jacking
Everywhere, people attach powerful emotions to the deaths of others and feel the need to dispose of the bodily remains of the dead in a suitable manner. In Australia, there…
June 27, 2012
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Law is The Law, but not if you’re an Aborigine
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices, which they have imbibed, they cannot trace how, rather than to root them out. The mind must be strong…
June 22, 2012
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70 butchered Congolese: a small price to pay for our blood copper and silver!
It will be a marvellous thing – the true personality of man – when we see it. It will grow naturally and simply, flower-like, or as a tree grows. It…
May 31, 2012
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Australia: a parable on authoritative oppression and the nature of conformity
I am not pessimistic. I just see everything as it is. When one lives in a society that is essentially not free, it is the obligation of every thinking person…
May 30, 2012
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300,000 dead West Papuan’s: a fair price for our golems?
Sydney: city of mystery, city of marvels. Sydney: its foreshores once teeming with Gadigal; now a captive city pregnant with memories, enveloped by memories of a Gadigal Atlantis. The traditional…
May 24, 2012
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Beware there be Jinn in the forests: Indonesia and West Papua, a clash of cultures
Last weekend I took a stroll through the Mesopotamia exhibition at the Melbourne Museum. While reading the commentary attached to a number of the artefacts I realised, in a profound…
May 20, 2012
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Portia’s Lament: Western greed and the death of the indigenous cultures of West Papua
Fragments from the Alfoxden Notebook There he would stand In the still covert of some [lonesome?] rock, Or gaze upon the moon until its light Fell like a strain of…
May 9, 2012
The Yindjibarndi lose a guiding light
Blak and Black is saddened to hear of the passing of Yindjibarndi Elder Mr Ned Mayaringbungu Cheedy at the age of 105. Mr Cheedy was custodian of the Yindjibarndi stories…
April 16, 2012
ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Environment / Government / Law Enforcement / Mining
Aux objets répugnants nous trouvons des appas
While travelling the highways and byways of Queensland taking statements in support of my application to the United Nations alleging ongoing and systematic human rights violations against Australia’s Aboriginal and…
April 5, 2012
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Silence no longer so golden
Complicity takes many forms, as discussed in posts by both Bakchos and me. Many believe that silent complicity is the least culpable, but to my mind if the silence enables…
March 14, 2012
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Mohamad v. Palestinian Authority, the concept of corporate accountability
This case arises from the petitioners’ claim that Azzam Rahim was detained, tortured, and killed by “the security forces of the Palestinian Authority” in late 1995, around the time the…
March 7, 2012
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Corporate crimes against humanity a product of our global economy
Crimes against humanity, torture, prolonged arbitrary detention, extrajudicial executions -- all of those human rights norms are defined by actions. They're not defined by whether the perpetrator is a human…
March 1, 2012