It has been over 500 years since these papal bulls were written, yet they remain the spiritual, legal, and moral foundation for exercising jurisdiction over tribal people by nation states today
“Unfortunately, relationships between nation-states and tribal peoples in the Americas, Africa, and Oceania rests on the the doctrines that can be traced directly to three papal bulls:
Dum Diversas (June 18, 1452)
Romanus Pontifex, January 8, 1455 and
Inter Castera, May 4, 1493
These papal bulls gave dominion to Europeans over lands that our tribal nations have occupied for thousands of years, and the outright theft of entire continents from our indigenous people worldwide. It has been over 500 years since these papal bulls were written, yet they remain the spiritual, legal, and moral foundation for exercising jurisdiction over tribal people by nation states today.” Grandmother Long wrote
Grandmother Long asked Pope Benedict “to remove these Papal Bulls. An act like this would create a global healing of all the injustices suffered by indigenous people . . .and could also bring healing to those who committed these injustices.” (there is a mystical sense of healing all generations, past as well as present and future).
Timeline of the Efforts by Indigenous Nations and Peoples Calling upon the Vatican to Revoke the Inter Caetera Papal Bull of 1493
* 1972, Vine Deloria, Jr. writes about the 1493 Inter Caetera papal bull in his book, “God Is Red.”
* 1984, the ANASAZI Alliance writes to the Catholic Church asking for the papal bull of 1493 to be annulled by Pope John Paul II. The letter is channeled through the Secretary of State of the Vatican, and back to Bishop Thomas O’Brien of the local diocese in Phoenix, Arizona. The ANASAZI Alliance receives a response from the local archdiocese expressing hope that they all have jobs.
* 1992, the Indigenous Law Institute begins a global campaign to call upon Pope John Paul II to formally revoke the Inter Caetera papal bull of 1493.
* 1992, in August, Indigenous Law Institute meets with the Traditional Circle of Indian Elders and Youth in Yelm, Washington to discuss the papal bulls and their connection to the 1823 Johnson v. McIntosh U.S. Supreme Court decision and federal Indian law. A document is drafted entitled, “Traditional Council of Indian Elders and Youth Communique No. 15, Discovery – Heathens – Slavery – Religious Freedoms, 1492-1992.”
* 1992, the Indigenous Law Institute, represented by Birgil Kills Straight (Oglala Lakota) and Steven Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape) travels to Milan, Italy along with Jacquie Bird (Lakota) for a multi-city tour in northern Italy, stopping near Basel, Switzerland to publicize the papal bulls issue.
* 1993, in February, Steven Newcomb and Birgil Kills Straight travel to Aotearoa (New Zealand) for an elders gathering where they publicize the issue of the papal bulls.
* Some 60 indigenous representatives draft a resolution at the 1993 Parliament of World Religions calling for the revocation of the Inter Caetera papal bull. The resolution is approved by consensus at the plenary session of the Parliament. The vote is overturned the following day by Parliament of World Religions, Mr. David Ramage.
* 1993, the Indigenous Law Institute writes a letter to Pope John Paul II, calling upon the pope to formally revoke the Inter Caetera papal bull of May 4, 1493. The letter is delivered by the UN Human Rights Centre to the Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations. The Human Rights Centre is assured that the letter will be sent on to the Vatican in Rome. The Institute receives no response.
* 1993, Steven Newcomb travels to Cairns, Australia for an Indigenous Intellectual Property Conference. A resolution is passed calling for the revocation of the papal bulls.
* 1994-1995, the Indigenous Law Institute again travels to Northern Italy to publicize the papal bulls.
* 1997, in October, a group of human and indigenous rights activists gather outside of the Roman Catholic Diocese in Honolulu, Hawai’i to symbolically burn copies of the 1493 papal bull Inter Caetera. This becomes an annual event. Tony Castanha (Taino) and others begin effectively publicizing the issue of the papal bulls on the internet.
* 1999, in February, the United Church of Christ, sponsored a UCC Resolution, passed by Pacific Islander and Asian American Ministries (PAAM), resolving that “President Paul Sherry on behalf – 2 – of the United Church of Christ urges and calls upon people of conscience in the Roman Catholic hierarchy and in other organized religions to persuade Pope John Paul II to revoke the papal bullDum diversas of 1452 and Inter Caetera of 1493 by the year 2,000.”
* 1999, the Indigenous Law Institute attends the National Catholic Gathering for Jubilee Justice, at the UCLA campus. A committee of Catholic laity draft a petition titled, “National Catholic Gathering for Jubilee Justice: A Call for the Revocation of the Inter Cetera Bull.” The petition called upon Pope John Paul II to revoke the Inter Caetera papal bull of 1493. It is hand delivered along with the pamphlet “Pagans in the Promised Land” to Cardinal Mahony of the Archdiocese in Los Angeles, and to Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, Pope John Paul’s personal emissary to the Jubilee event.
* 1999, Tony Castanha is invited to be on a panel at the Hague Appeal for Peace in the Netherlands to discuss the papal bulls. He drafts an essay for the occasion entitled, “Christian Universalism and the Movement to Revoke the Papal Bulls.” Nalani Minton (Kanaka Maoli – Hawai’i) and Steven Newcomb draft “The Pu’uhonua Peace Pact” that, among other things, asks the world community to call for the revocation of the papal bull of 1493.
* 2000, in August, a letter to the Prefecture of the Papal Household and to the Most Reverent Eminence Re is co-written by Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo, Diocese of Honululu, and Tony Castanha, Project Director for the Matsunaga Institute for Peace – requesting a private audience with Pope John Paul II on Wednesday 11 October 2000. Others who were advising the effort to organize a trip to the Vatican were Daniela Minerbi (Italy), Dr. Ralph Summy (Australia), Steve Newcomb, Naniki Reyes Ocasio (Taino), Birgil Kills Straight, Nalani Minton, Russell Means (Oglala Lakota) John Trudell (Santee Sioux), Rev. Kaleo Patterson (Kanaka Maoli), Lynette Cruz (Kanaka Maoli), Hank Raymond (Okanogan), Dr. Johan Galtung (Norway), Dr. Lou Ann Ha’aheo Guanson (Kanaka Maoli), Robert Borrero (Taino/Boriken), Richard Salvador (Belauan/:Palau –Micronesia), Eric Po’ohina (Kanaka Maoli), and Joshua Cooper (Hawai’i).
* 2000, in October, a delegation of Indigenous representatives travel to Italy, where they meet with the Vatican Council for Peace and Justice, travel to northern Italy, and later hold a prayer circle at the Vatican on October 12, 2000. Steven Newcomb symbolically returns the Inter Caetera papal bull to the Vatican by carrying a copy of the bull up the steps to the entrance of the papal residence and asks the Swiss guard to have it delivered to the pope.
* 2001, in June, “National Conference on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution 2001,” on the occasion of the 10th Biennial Conference JustPEACE Training Institute & Summit, George Mason University, General Plenary Session, June 9, 2001, Address on the Revocation of the Papal Bull Inter Caetera, edited by Tony Castanha for the Kosmos Indigena, Matsunaga Institute for Peace and the United Confederation of Taino People.
* 2003, the Seventh Annual burning of the papal bull takes place in Honolulu Hawai’i.
* 2004, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers forms as a global alliance of prayer, education and healing for our Mother Earth. They will eventually call for the revocation of three papal bulls from the fifteenth century.
* 2004, the Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples in Quito, Ecuador addresses the issue of the papal bulls.
* 2005, in May, a side-event is convened at the United Nations Church Center, during the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. The event, co-sponsored by the American Indian Law – 3 – Alliance and the Flying Eagle Woman Fund, is entitled “Challenging the Doctrine of Discovery, Christianity, the Papal Bulls, and Manifest Destiny.” A letter is written to Pope Benedict XVI calling upon him to formally revoke the Inter Caetera bull of 1493.
* 2005, in July, the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations writes to Steven Newcomb at the Indigenous Law Institute responding to a request for information on the work of the Pontifical Committee for Historic Sciences regarding the papal bull Inter Caetera. No information had been found. In the letter, Archbishop Celestino Migliore states that “taken from the context of the political climate at the time, the notion of international law and the geographical notions then extant, the bull Inter Caetera, like other documents of that era, has become ipso facto obsolete and with no effect.”
* 2005, in October, the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers writes to Cardinal Kasper at the Vatican, calling upon Pope Benedict XVI “to retract the Dum diversas bull, the Romanus Pontifex bull, and the Inter Caetera bull [and] all related doctrines. They received no response.
* 2005, in November, Tlahtokan Nahuacalli delivers “The Legend of Truth and the Doctrine of Power,” to the Secretariat of the Continental Indigenous Summit. In part, the document calls attention to the issue of the Papal Bull Inter Caetera of 1493.
* 2006, in August, Summit of Indigenous Nations convened at Mato Paha (Bear Butte) passes a resolution calling for a rescission of the doctrine of discovery and related documents, specifically the Inter Caetera bull of 1493.
* 2007, in May, a small delegation of Indigenous representatives sit down with Archbishop Migliore for a meeting regarding the effort to have the papal bull of May 4, 1493 formally revoked.
* 2007, in July, Chief Oren Lyons (Faithkeeper, Onondaga Nation) receives a letter from Archbishop Migliore saying that in the view of the Holy See, the papal bull Inter Caetera has been abrogated a number of times in a number of different ways.
* 2008, in April, at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York, Chief Lyons, Tonya Gonnella Frichner (Onondaga) and Steven Newcomb deliver a letter and document of response to the representative of the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations, along with a copy of Steven Newcomb’s new book, “Pagans in the Promised Land: Decoding the Doctrine of Christian Discovery” (2008).
* 2008, in July, International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers travel to the Vatican to deliver a statement calling for the revocation of bulls Dum diversas, Romanus Pontifex, and InterCaetera from the fifteenth century.
“We need to understand these liberals want to monetise and take all they can from our misery, pain and death”.
No money raised by Black Lives Matter, made it to the Brown Family and they were raising money in their sons name. That should tell you something.
You will find a direct link to Soro’s with the money coming in and going out of the movement, but most of it is being funneled into one organisation, then another and another. Making it harder to trace if you don’t know the Soro’s connection etc
Just like the money raised in Haiti, none of that made it to any of the community. But the Clinton’s are sitting pretty.
Who are the major share holders of the Companies controlling everything???
Vanguard & Blackrock Inc
They also control and own the United Nations – The World Health Organisation – The World Economic Forum
Who owns & controls Vanguard & Blackrock Inc???
Rothschild Foundation – Rockefeller Foundation – JP Morgan Foundation – Gorge Soros Open Society Foundation – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – The Bush Family Foundation – Clinton Foundation
These are known as the Parasitic Elites
Why on earth would these Parasites want the YES vote to succeed???
Time to put on your CRITICAL THINKING caps PEOPLE
To complete their 2021 – 2030 New World Order Agenda here in Australia these Parasites must get the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people to form part of the CORPORATE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION.
They will lose their Tribal Sovereignty Forever.
Australia Taken Over By The Fabian Society? Julia Gillard caught out on stage
Starting this Friday, Every Friday until the Globalist System Crumbles
The Tribal people of the world offer many solutions and are key to any successful movement.We are now faced with a decision, do we continue down the same track we are on or is it time to take stock, reassess and replan a better way forward now that we know what we know from events unfolding over the last 2 years. We know the globalists are hell bent on a take over and keeping us all as their slaves. We know they want us all using the digital identity to make life miserable for those who don’t comply. We know who is behind it and we know unless we keep standing up globally, they will have their way with us through their controlled puppets in power.
The biggest company in the world –
Think about this, the same power structures that bamboozled so many of us and family and friends are also the same ones brainwashing people in their institutions and responsible for the lack of awareness of the importance tribal people have in maintaining the old earth law and laws of nature. Its time to really get back to our roots and grow stronger in the knowledge systems they are trying to keep us from learning, those that are based on peace, balance and harmony. That’s what they don’t want, us coming together and living as tribal people did. Right now, getting back to basics is probably the number 1 act of rebellion we could partake in.
Every little thing we purchase just about can be traced back to the same billionaire companies. This is where our power comes in, the thing that feeds the beast is our money overall else. If we want to cut the head off the snake we have to hit it where it hurts, in the pocket. The only way they are keeping us oppressed globally is by financial control, so its time we take our power back.
While we are protesting there are many other actions we can get proactive with. We could organise a vote of no confidence in the government and use all the rallies as opportunities to get letters signed, because petition signatures don’t get half as much attention as signed letters.
We could push for Australia to be removed as a signatory of the UN’s IHR (the legally binding document behind the pandemic response) or to leave the UN and the WHO altogether. Whatever we do we must be led by the tribes if we have learnt anything from history.
All We Have To Do Is Stand Up And It’s Game Over
Did you know it would only take .025% of the global population to be self sufficient for the whole gloablists financial system to come crashing down? It’s a proven fact and we don’t all have to move off grid, growing and making everything we use in life either. With global pushback we could have an equivalent effect by doing other things that together, all add up to have the same outcome.
This was a solution we hit up all the influencers and organisers with, asking for them to share and get behind it to help us build momentum. Strategic global economic boycotts. Starting this Friday and continues for as long and as much as you like.Don’t ever want to shop with the big names again? Great take it all the way, share this message to start the ripple effects so others can follow.Set up alternative shopping precincts (just a fancy name for markets and street food on a weekday) outside major retailers once a week to give people an option to buy direct from farm etc.
In a nut shell don’t spend your money on any of the big corporations on Friday’s.No fuel,No banking,No shopping at major retail outlets,No trading with anyone other than local business.No posting on social media (other than about the economic boycott)
Change Your Profile Pic To Join The Ongoing Global Boycott – Buy A Shirt To Spread The Message Like Wild Fire
Why? Proven fact- It would only take .025% of the global population to become self sufficient, for the entire financial system to come crashing down.
Printing shirts soon, hoping to start some waves. Spark some curiosity and show people that the biggest statement we can make is the way we live our lives. Choose wisely where your money goes and keep your family safe.These are solutions taught to us by our elders, that I feel its time to share. The next step they taught us was to come together around the things that matter to everyone – Land, Clean Water, Air and Food.
Come together forming recirproccal relationships based on good will.Callout for anyone interested in the formation of a lobby group to get organised around these things and led by the tribes here in the landmass known today as Australia.
Our Friday Fun – Let’s Start Something Organically Aussie led by the Tribes!
– We are still under the British system of parliament, not an Independent nation. Just a colony of Britain
– We will still be signatories to the globalists Pandemic Treaty, giving the UN legally binding powers to contol countries signed up
– We still have a misinformation bill being passed, surpressing free speach in Australia
– We still wont have a bill of rights protecting the people from government abuse of power or our own constitution (its a British act of parliament)
– We still have genocidal practices in place affecting the oldest culture in the world, the gap is widening
– We still dont recognise the original inhabitants as the true sovereigns of the land
– We still have a set of old laws making it legal to rape, pillage and plunder all over the world
So when this referendum is over, we still have a hell of a fight.
“It has been over 500 years since these papal bulls were written, yet they remain the spiritual, legal, and moral foundation for exercising jurisdiction over tribal people by nation states today.”
Revocation of the papal bulls will remove the keystone of legal authority upon which the doctrines of Christian conquest, discovery, and dominion were constructed and continue to exist. We, the International Council of the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, therefore call upon Pope Benedict XVI to retract the Dum Diversas Bull, the Romanus Pontifex Bull, and the Inter Caetera Bull, and all related papal doctrines, thereby reaffirming the Roman Catholic Church’s recognition that all peoples on the Earth are equal before our Creator, and that our nations and peoples have the inherent right to live free of all forms of domination.It has been over 500 years since these papal bulls were written, yet they remain the spiritual, legal, and moral foundation for exercising jurisdiction over tribal people by nation states today.”
Bob Marleys song lyrics
“The stone that the builders refuse, will be the head cornerstone”.
Checkmate
The papal bulls have been repudiated but not revoked, so they are still in actual affect globally. Time to form strong alliances and take this beast down one time
More on papal bulls:
Warning: post contains images of elders no longer with us, across the seas
For the past 500 years every Pope of the Catholic Church has ignored repeated requests to rescind doctrines which grant the authority to essentially kill, enslave and confiscate the land of Indigenous People who do not accept Catholic religion and remain so called “pagan /heathens” from having other faiths.
With all due respect this is not to say that Catholic’s agree with these doctrines, as many do not even know they exist. As Grandmother Agnes Baker Pilgrims says so clearly, “ No one is even alive today that had anything to do with the creation of these Doctrines.”
“Unfortunately, relationships between nation-states and tribal peoples in the Americas, Africa, and Oceania rests on the the doctrines that can be traced directly to three papal bulls: Dum Diversas (June 18, 1452). Romanus Pontifex, January 8, 1455. and Inter Castera, May 4, 1493. These papal bulls gave dominion to Europeans over lands that our tribal nations have occupied for thousands of years, and the outright theft of entire continents from our indigenous people worldwide. It has been over 500 years since these papal bulls were written, yet they remain the spiritual, legal, and moral foundation for exercising jurisdiction over tribal people by nation states today.” Grandmother Long wrote
Grandmother Long asked Pope Benedict “to remove these Papal Bulls. An act like this would create a global healing of all the injustices suffered by indigenous people . . .and could also bring healing to those who committed these injustices.” (there is a mystical sense of healing all generations, past as well as present and future).
The Experts Conning Australians To Vote Yes In The Upcoming Referendum
Anyone who calls this place home today should be deeply disturbed by the blatant lies being told to the entire population, assuming we are a dumb, lazy and complacent nation that will never be intelligent enough to work out what they are up to.
Here is the undeniable proof they are lying to us all, see what professors in constitutional law, Lawyers belonging to the tribes, Elders and long time activists have to say here:
Myth: Sovereignty and Land In Australia Was Acquired By The Crown
Although the Court in Mabo (No 2) said Crown sovereignty could not be challenged domestically (and the plaintiffs did not seek to do so), some important references were made to the notion of Indigenous sovereignty. For example, Brennan J noted a Select Committee report to the House of Commons in 1837 that the state of Australian Aborigines was ‘so entirely destitute… of the rudest forms of civil polity, that their claims, whether as sovereigns or proprietors of the soil, have been utterly disregarded’.[90] He also referred a number of times to the ‘change in sovereignty’[91] that came with British colonisation, with the obvious implication that Indigenous sovereignty operated at least prior to 1788. Implication became express statement when Brennan J referred to ‘fictions … that there was no law before the arrival of the British colonists in a settled colony and that there was no sovereign law-maker in the territory of a settled colony before sovereignty was acquired by the Crown’.[92]
Wrong Legal Advice Given To The Referendum Council
16:10 it will cede sovereignty
19:00 worst than Captain Cook
Michael Anderson (One of the Original four men who founded the Tent Embassy Canberra, prominent Aboriginal lawyer and activist)
Myth: Sovereignty and Land In Australia Was Acquired By The Crown
Although the Court in Mabo (No 2) said Crown sovereignty could not be challenged domestically (and the plaintiffs did not seek to do so), some important references were made to the notion of Indigenous sovereignty. For example, Brennan J noted a Select Committee report to the House of Commons in 1837 that the state of Australian Aborigines was ‘so entirely destitute… of the rudest forms of civil polity, that their claims, whether as sovereigns or proprietors of the soil, have been utterly disregarded’.[90] He also referred a number of times to the ‘change in sovereignty’[91] that came with British colonisation, with the obvious implication that Indigenous sovereignty operated at least prior to 1788. Implication became express statement when Brennan J referred to ‘fictions … that there was no law before the arrival of the British colonists in a settled colony and that there was no sovereign law-maker in the territory of a settled colony before sovereignty was acquired by the Crown’.[92]
Australian laws do not provide for ‘Indigenous rights’ or ‘human rights’ protection, instead, the Australian Constitution continues to embed powers which enable the commonwealth to legislate racist laws, as was acknowledged in the High Court decision of Kartinyeri, where the court decided the power to legislate is not limited by human rights considerations
If the Voice, is it, we cannot vest any hope in it. Hope lives in our Aboriginality, our ways of being, our un-ceded sovereignty and our dreamed futures. First Nations have already stated what we want, we need action, and the timing is critical.
Irene Watson belongs to the Tanganekald, Portuwutj, Meintangk and Bunganditj Peoples and works at the University of South Australia as the Pro Vice Chancellor of Aboriginal Leadership and Strategy, and Professor of Law, and has published extensively on colonialism and Indigenous Peoples
Science Agrees We Are Right To Resist Constitutional Recognition And To Demand That The Elders Who Have Been Politically, Actively, Using Their Voices For A Very Long Time Are Listened To
Interesting scientific paper examining internet data to see how well are non indigenous people listening to indigenous people, which reveals ‘constitutional recognition’ as a pursuit of establishment elite, while formal acknowledgement of Sovereignty and truth telling are the pursuit of the grassroots.
Obviously, I have a tendency to agree that we whitefellas need to put away our neo colonialistic paternalism and learn to listen to the originals.
Also, from this paper I would deduce that science agrees we are right to resist constitutional recognition and to demand that the Elders who have been politically, actively, using their voices for a very long time are listened to. not corporate shills.
Michael Detmold is the author of The Australian Commonwealth (1985), whose argument foreshadowed Mabo. He is Professor of Law (emeritus), University of Adelaide
Uncle Ghillar Michael Anderson, Euahlayi Elder, talks about ‘the voice’ referendum
There is a wealth of literature discussing the discriminatory assumptions embedded in the conclusive presumption that Indigenous and non-state societies lacked sovereignty
This independent Indigenous funded film is an unflinching presentation of how the dominant paradigm has forced itself upon the lives of First Nations people, creating chaos and devastation to their everyday lives, their culture and their law.
When it was first published in 1987, “The Law of the Land” reassessed the legal and political arguments traditionally used to justify European settlement of Australia. Henry Reynolds argued compellingly that the British government in fact conceded land rights to the Aborigines early in the nineteenth century.
Gurindji Brenda Croft told a Women for Treaty event, ‘The older I get, the angrier I get. I am in a privileged position, able to come and go from my own land, but there’s people living on their own country with governments telling them what to do. The lack of engagement with Indigenous people, it still shocks and floors me…What we already have is continually stripped away. It’s theft upon theft upon theft!’
Some Aboriginal leaders became enraged by the failure to address the horror their communities were facing. They felt governments, of all persuasions, had let communities fall into dysfunction. The staggering murder rate of Aboriginal Women is testament to this.
“Facing despair, it’s small wonder that when corporations, awash with money and power, with governments at their beck and call, promise order imposed on chaos, employment, education, high order skills, ways to get money and training to solve problems, unlike Brenda Croft, some choose to collaborate.
Marcia Langton is one of those. Noel Pearson is another. Co-chairing the Garma’s Key forum on Corporate Australia and Indigenous Economic Development, Marcia Langton said, ‘We need fast injections of capital…We need the government to step aside, and actually become more efficient and less interfering and stop holding us back with these ridiculous rules. And we need the private sector to move in!’
In 2013, Crikey exposed Langton’s failure to disclose significant funding from Woodside, Santos and Rio Tinto in her four pro-mining Boyer Lectures on the ABC the same year, in which she specifically praised Rio Tinto.” (p.81)
“But for the BCA and its multinational corporations, overwhelmingly foreign owned, there’s an ulterior motive here. It comes back to those ‘priceless lands’ that Mark Smith spoke of at Garma, it comes back to divide and conquer, and to blackwashing their tattered reputations, so they can go on avoiding tax, destroying the environment, ripping off ordinary people, and demanding government subsidies to keep doing it. (p.82)
“A banner at the Tent Embassy sums up what Treaty embodying Sovereignty means. It says, ‘Land. Life. Language. Liberation.’ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples want enough to walk their lands, to live safely, to regain what they can of their languages and culture, and – as Sovereign Peoples – to throw off the chains of invasion and build a future full of opportunity for their children.
None of this has been given, so they will fight for sovereignty and for unity, against all like the BCA who, under the guise of empowerment, try to divide them.” (p.87)
“Sovereignty has never been ceded, but the exercise of that sovereignty has been consistently denied by those who invaded, robbed, murdered and covered this continent with gaols for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
“We have been fighting this s*** for 12 years, this ain’t our first rodeo!
Here’s the spearhead of our campaign:
Alice Haines graphically describes the dangers for Aboriginal People being included in the Australian Constitution and the proposed changes to section 51(26), as well as the horrendous origins of the ‘R’ symbol”.
Security agreements are an increasingly hot topic in the Pacific as Australia, the US, China and New Zealand seek broad arrangements across the region. Melanesian countries have attracted the most attention; over the past 15 months, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands have each signed agreements with at least one partner.
On 1 June, Prime Minister James Marape announced that Papua New Guinea wasn’t ready to sign the bilateral security treaty it has been working on with Australia due to concerns that the wording encroached on PNG’s sovereignty.
The Experts Conning Australians To Vote Yes In The Upcoming Referendum
Anyone who calls this place home today should be deeply disturbed by the blatant lies being told to the entire population, assuming we are a dumb, lazy and complacent nation that will never be intelligent enough to work out what they are up to.
Here is the undeniable proof they are lying to us all, see what professors in constitutional law, Lawyers belonging to the tribes, Elders and long time activists have to say here:
Wrong Legal Advice Given To The Referendum Council
16:10 it will cede sovereignty
19:00 worst than Captain Cook
Michael Anderson (One of the Original four men who founded the Tent Embassy Canberra, prominent Aboriginal lawyer and activist)
Myth: Sovereignty and Land In Australia Was Acquired By The Crown
Although the Court in Mabo (No 2) said Crown sovereignty could not be challenged domestically (and the plaintiffs did not seek to do so), some important references were made to the notion of Indigenous sovereignty. For example, Brennan J noted a Select Committee report to the House of Commons in 1837 that the state of Australian Aborigines was ‘so entirely destitute… of the rudest forms of civil polity, that their claims, whether as sovereigns or proprietors of the soil, have been utterly disregarded’.[90] He also referred a number of times to the ‘change in sovereignty’[91] that came with British colonisation, with the obvious implication that Indigenous sovereignty operated at least prior to 1788. Implication became express statement when Brennan J referred to ‘fictions … that there was no law before the arrival of the British colonists in a settled colony and that there was no sovereign law-maker in the territory of a settled colony before sovereignty was acquired by the Crown’.[92]
There Is No Hope In A Voice To Parliament Australian laws do not provide for ‘Indigenous rights’ or ‘human rights’ protection, instead, the Australian Constitution continues to embed powers which enable the commonwealth to legislate racist laws, as was acknowledged in the High Court decision of Kartinyeri, where the court decided the power to legislate is not limited by human rights considerations
If the Voice, is it, we cannot vest any hope in it. Hope lives in our Aboriginality, our ways of being, our un-ceded sovereignty and our dreamed futures. First Nations have already stated what we want, we need action, and the timing is critical.
Irene Watson belongs to the Tanganekald, Portuwutj, Meintangk and Bunganditj Peoples and works at the University of South Australia as the Pro Vice Chancellor of Aboriginal Leadership and Strategy, and Professor of Law, and has published extensively on colonialism and Indigenous Peoples
Science Agrees We Are Right To Resist Constitutional Recognition And To Demand That The Elders Who Have Been Politically, Actively, Using Their Voices For A Very Long Time Are Listened To
Interesting scientific paper examining internet data to see how well are non indigenous people listening to indigenous people, which reveals ‘constitutional recognition’ as a pursuit of establishment elite, while formal acknowledgement of Sovereignty and truth telling are the pursuit of the grassroots.
Obviously, I have a tendency to agree that we whitefellas need to put away our neo colonialistic paternalism and learn to listen to the originals.
Also, from this paper I would deduce that science agrees we are right to resist constitutional recognition and to demand that the Elders who have been politically, actively, using their voices for a very long time are listened to. not corporate shills.
Michael Detmold is the author of The Australian Commonwealth (1985), whose argument foreshadowed Mabo. He is Professor of Law (emeritus), University of Adelaide
Uncle Ghillar Michael Anderson, Euahlayi Elder, talks about ‘the voice’ referendum
There is a wealth of literature discussing the discriminatory assumptions embedded in the conclusive presumption that Indigenous and non-state societies lacked sovereignty
This independent Indigenous funded film is an unflinching presentation of how the dominant paradigm has forced itself upon the lives of First Nations people, creating chaos and devastation to their everyday lives, their culture and their law.
When it was first published in 1987, “The Law of the Land” reassessed the legal and political arguments traditionally used to justify European settlement of Australia. Henry Reynolds argued compellingly that the British government in fact conceded land rights to the Aborigines early in the nineteenth century.
Gurindji Brenda Croft told a Women for Treaty event, ‘The older I get, the angrier I get. I am in a privileged position, able to come and go from my own land, but there’s people living on their own country with governments telling them what to do. The lack of engagement with Indigenous people, it still shocks and floors me…What we already have is continually stripped away. It’s theft upon theft upon theft!’
Some Aboriginal leaders became enraged by the failure to address the horror their communities were facing. They felt governments, of all persuasions, had let communities fall into dysfunction. The staggering murder rate of Aboriginal Women is testament to this. “Facing despair, it’s small wonder that when corporations, awash with money and power, with governments at their beck and call, promise order imposed on chaos, employment, education, high order skills, ways to get money and training to solve problems, unlike Brenda Croft, some choose to collaborate.
Marcia Langton is one of those. Noel Pearson is another. Co-chairing the Garma’s Key forum on Corporate Australia and Indigenous Economic Development, Marcia Langton said, ‘We need fast injections of capital…We need the government to step aside, and actually become more efficient and less interfering and stop holding us back with these ridiculous rules. And we need the private sector to move in!’
In 2013, Crikey exposed Langton’s failure to disclose significant funding from Woodside, Santos and Rio Tinto in her four pro-mining Boyer Lectures on the ABC the same year, in which she specifically praised Rio Tinto.” (p.81)
“But for the BCA and its multinational corporations, overwhelmingly foreign owned, there’s an ulterior motive here. It comes back to those ‘priceless lands’ that Mark Smith spoke of at Garma, it comes back to divide and conquer, and to blackwashing their tattered reputations, so they can go on avoiding tax, destroying the environment, ripping off ordinary people, and demanding government subsidies to keep doing it. (p.82)
“A banner at the Tent Embassy sums up what Treaty embodying Sovereignty means. It says, ‘Land. Life. Language. Liberation.’ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples want enough to walk their lands, to live safely, to regain what they can of their languages and culture, and – as Sovereign Peoples – to throw off the chains of invasion and build a future full of opportunity for their children.
None of this has been given, so they will fight for sovereignty and for unity, against all like the BCA who, under the guise of empowerment, try to divide them.” (p.87) “Sovereignty has never been ceded, but the exercise of that sovereignty has been consistently denied by those who invaded, robbed, murdered and covered this continent with gaols for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
“We have been fighting this s*** for 12 years, this ain’t our first rodeo! Here’s the spearhead of our campaign: Alice Haines graphically describes the dangers for Aboriginal People being included in the Australian Constitution and the proposed changes to section 51(26), as well as the horrendous origins of the ‘R’ symbol”. – Kaiyu Moura ✨️
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This is why i fight, born in the frontline. this photo was taken 40 years ago. My Mum on the ground in front of pram being arrested by the dogs and leaving me n sister to be taken home by family at games protest 82 — Stolenwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia. This government dont care about children, didnt then and dont now. Photo courtesy of Juno Gemes
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