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I have a story of slavery.

I share this story with my Mum who was 7 months pregnant with me & my twin sister Carol.

Question:

Guess what my 7 months pregnant Mum was doing at

10:59 am on 14 October 1968 in Meckering WA while a 40-second earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter Scale destroyed the town?

Answer:

Mum was cleaning out the bottom of a concrete swimming pool for her boss-lady and her family.

The moment the earthquake hit the swimming pool cracked and a huge water pipe feeding water to it split and a 20 ft jet of water spouted up into the air.

Mum got out of the pool just in time to watch it all go sky high.

My Mum, previous to this happening, had been followed by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs so she went into the country to get less scrutiny.

Indeed, the department kept following us after we were born and until the end of 1986.

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Prose…🍃🔅✨🌼🌳🌱🌿Wiru.

How do I describe systemic genocide that exists even now according to the United Nations genocide convention?

The ‘Stolen Generation’ as it’s named by many colonials has never stopped in Oz.

Name a thing, claim a thing…

There’s no treaties to stop it going on.

Some even say native title is just as good as a treaty but it isn’t to me.

Truth Telling, Reconciliation, Land Back and Treaty to end this war on us is the only way forward.

The big 3 then agreement 🤝🏼 unless the colonials are too afraid to look at us in the eye because they’re actively still stealing or hiding in their fragility as thieves. Vulnerable to international justice and accountability? There’s no such thing as the perfect crime of genocide. That’s because it’s the ultimate crime of contempt of humanity next to child abuse as the ultimate theft.

Don’t these thieves think we’re human too?

[my Aunty Dorothea and my Nana Mary ‘Molly’ Latham at the beach. Poster girls for Catholic assimilation 1941]

Dehumanisation is such a low life thought used by a criminal who says it to keep doing a crime against someone.

Theirs not winners in any war and that includes race wars.

There will always be dissent against the void of hate & cruelty by people with genuine love and courage for all of us here sharing and caring for this living earth we share.

Stolen Generations put in land & sea court cases are listed as ‘interested parties’ because they were stolen & have “no continual connection”? Maybe the white supremacist colonials are also trying to prove First Nations have conceded legal defeat & a capitulation to their will as thieves?

There’s no more manifest destiny or the doctrine of discovery.

Nobody living in beautiful Oz should be proud of forcing a return to innocence by stealing children as proof of its return somehow after destroying it for generations from a culture that doesn’t belong to them simply because slavery was hidden and not confronted or compensated?

Sorry means you stop it from happening again, forever. A commitment to teach what the end of hostilities means and not fear what you aren’t a part of the oldest continuously surviving cultures on this planet while celebrating what DOESN’T make us all the same here in Oz.

Nobody is a clone but there are many clowns who think it’s a joke and prefer to spread their own degenerate behaviour because they believe nobody will match their will and stop them. I’m pretty sure that how this works because that’s how it felt as a child. I used to hide from that government will just like First Nation Mums & children across the world do too right now.

There is no culturally significance given space between our humanity & whatever they think exists for them from us or are they watching us to make sure our numbers aren’t “getting out of hand” in their perfect ratio of whiteness & exposure to us First Nations manicured like every lawn of their government buildings & yes, First Nation people still get segregated overtly or not from the world they build in good spirit or in slavery.

Art and Sport….both silent pursuits.

Art & Sport as remnants allowed how they see fit or allowed to barely exist till the bitter end that rapture pendants seem to be killing the planet for as if they are the great creator of our destruction or are we a planned sadness in “ooops” like when a species disappears off the face of the earth here?

Please give the colonials some place to think….but we’re the degenerate one’s?

Are we toys to be fumbled over? 🧸

We’re ’primitive communists’ to colonial communists because….we don’t have a treaty and we’re ’degenerate’ because we can’t figure out why we don’t have a treaty? It was a test was it? Because we can’t negotiate a treaty that we’re the ultimate in degeneracy? I don’t think so.

Is it we ‘might’ abuse our kids or is it because we’re a multitude of shades of skin still connected to caring for country through our thousands of First Nation cultures or at least we know the value of it to keep it alive and growing?

I mean we already die for it. I’ve lost lots of family and babanyu (friends).

Isn’t that not enough warrant for a treaty or do we go into docile & homogenised ketch cultures through the filter of fear that I can see daily? China does that too. Well then I’m a war artist, without a treaty, painting genocide as I’m living it.

No, I don’t have children.

Some white supremacist colonials take children away in situations that they created systemically & they do it with a sense of satisfaction that isn’t universally acceptable even from people on the street, neighbours or any given Good Samaritan if you happen to have trouble with a small or big injury on the road to anywhere?

Every child should come from a human story connected to a land, culture & where they’ve known generations of peace in that story.

Stop stealing children.

This is my truth.✌🏼🔅🌳

#sorrymeansyoudontdoitagain🖤💛❤️ #MissingChildrensDay

My elder and Nana Agnes Mary ‘Molly’ Dowling (nee Latham) 1918 - 2011. Taken from Moroubra Station to St.Joseph’s Claremont at aged 11 years. Returned with her husband to her mother Mary Latham (nee Oliver) 1953…25 years stolen. Then on the run with her 5 children till 1960. Her daughter Veronica (my mother) was on the run with my sister an I from birth till we turned 18 in 1986. Both my sisters name an my own were on native welfare files which began being kept by Chief Protectors and merged through time into The Native Welfare Department and then the Department for Aboriginal Affairs which we have today working with the Department of Children Services (DCP).

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Canadian Doctor coded

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Andrew Carnegie, eugenics and cricket 🎩🐇🏏

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“I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.”

– Andrew Carnegie

It’s not ‘white guilt’ it’s white fragility as racial violence about their own true white history of accountability for a system they currently benefit from. A system which every marginalised community of colour or ethnicity have to deal with from up to 17 generations of epigenetic memory in their DNA caused by generational trauma affecting health and longevity to outright racist dispossession of land and resources to maintain their white supremacist beliefs as an act of genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Land back to indigenous groups and reparations to communities and individual families for their future health is the only way forward for global peace.

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Unitarian colonial Andrew Carnegie, Crawfurd’s stolen ‘nobility’ to plutocratic empirical ‘Emperor’ Trump.

Andrew Carnegie’s father was a chartist but it appears Carnegie developed racist views on entering America through his early involvement with Pittsburgh abolition. Pittsburgh held the reputation as an active militant community of both African and white abolitionists.

To be continued in Oz ….?

In 1932, William Cooper, founder of the AAL (Aboriginal Advancement League), drafted a petition to send to King George V. The government of the day held that the petition fell outside their constitutional responsibilities. In 1937, Cooper submitted the petition, but the government did not forward it.

“Decades ago, this powerlessness was identified by Stanner, a pre-eminent anthropologist of his age. He writes in the language of the era of "Durmugam, a Nangiomeri" and evokes the image of a Nangiomeri man from the Daly River whom he clearly admired: "an Aboriginal of striking physique and superb carriage". Stanner witnessed Durmugam engage in tribal warfare in 1932 with "savage, vital splendour". He introduces us to the idea of the torment of powerlessness in relating Durmugam's story.”

How is a vote powerless unless both majority parties stifle any independent voice voted on?

It seems to me the only torment to First Nations human rights is the white fragility of white fascist millionaires and politicians and their paid appointed coercive tutors to deny First Nations people across the world their human rights?

Crawfurd;

“"He who saves his Country does not violate any Law," Trump, a Republican, proclaimed on his Truth Social network. The White House did not respond to a request for more details.

The phrase, attributed to the French military leader who created the Napoleonic Code of civil law in 1804 before declaring himself emperor, drew immediate criticism from Democrats.”

Trump: If it saves the country, it's not illegal.

By Doina Chiacu

Reuters: February 16, 20257:57 AM

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Gothic Churches & needles with eyes…

The Joker Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah

Some call me the gangster of love

Some people call me Maurice

'Cause I speak of the pompatus of love

[Verse 2]

People talk about me, baby

Say I'm doing you wrong, doing you wrong

Well, don't you worry, baby, don't worry

'Cause I'm right here, right here, right here, right here at home

[Chorus]

'Cause I'm a picker, I'm a grinner

I'm a lover and I'm a sinner

I play my music in the sun

I'm a joker, I'm a smoker

I'm a midnight toker

I sure don't want to hurt no one

I'm a picker, I'm a grinner

I'm a lover and I'm a sinner

I play my music in the sun

I'm a joker, I'm a smoker

I'm a midnight toker

I get my lovin' on the run

Woo-ooh, woo-ooh

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3]

You're the cutest thing that I ever did see

I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree

Lovey-dovey, lovey-dovey, lovey-dovey all the time

Oee, baby, I'll sure show you a good time

[Chorus]

'Cause I'm a picker, I'm a grinner

I'm a lover and I'm a sinner

I play my music in the sun

I'm a joker, I'm a smoker

I'm a midnight toker

I get my lovin' on the run

I'm a picker, I'm a grinner

I'm a lover and I'm a sinner

I play my music in the sun

I'm a joker, I'm a smoker

I'm a midnight toker

I sure don't want to hurt no one.

Maurice de Sully who died 11th September 1196.

He built Notre Dame Cathedral.

On 15 April 2019, at 18:18 CEST, a structural fire broke out in the roof space of Notre-Dame de Paris, a medieval Catholic cathedral in Paris, France.

In my Badimaya First Nation beliefs the Great Creator (God) is Beermurra. 🐝🍃🌳

Artists don’t make bargains with any evil entity in order to paint or make any form of artistic expression. We aren’t lustful, sinful, dangerous or possessed to make art. Art is natural communication with other people and are also gifted by the great creator when you believe it to be true.

In this 1974 promotion for Hess's department store, Petit tight roped across Hamilton Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

There’s also the story of Mithras and maybe Jesus was the embodiment of that or he was and still is a resistance fighter against the prosperity doctrine out of the Middle Ages with all them gothic churches where the only way you’d get into heaven was to buy your way in but then there’s always those camels & needles 🐪🐫🪡

One lump or two? 🫖🍵☕️🍪

Artists in history and in the Renaissance such as Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were still given more ‘freedom’ to paint because they were still men regardless of their sexual preferences…whereas women artists were and still are considered by some men as at best extremely unreliable and at its worst not even human. This is why misogynistic and misogynoir (racist hate of black women) & male fragility is a rival to world peace then as it is now.

Portrait of a Lady, Three-Quarter Length Seated, Dressed in a Gold Embroidered Elaborate Costume, oil on canvas by Artemisia Gentileschi, 17th century. 128.3 × 95.9 cm.

“I will show you what a woman can do.”

- Artemisia Gentileschi

Letter to Don Antonio Ruffo 7 August 1649

#RespectAllWomenAndGirlsNow

#EndRacismBuildPeace

#EndFascismBuildPeace

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Taxing with racism…and Hold my beer 🍺

Crime has actually fallen but the amount of black deaths by police has increased.

Low education levels are not good economically for any country but perfect for oligarchs looking to create feudal empires based on estate taxation being abolished.

Art of the Deal…?

Who ended her days living off of welfare.

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The ripples of Scientific racism creating Communism & Prime Minister Billy Hughes of Oz using the White Australia Policy on the world at the Treaty of Versailles and its impact on today’s world.

Yeah, communism is colonialism because First Nations aren't 'primitive communists'. Marx & Engels culturally appropriated everything we did because women have equal authority & they were & still are a bunch of misogynists to us women here.

Criticism of the idea of primitive communism relates to definitions of property, where anthropologists such as Margaret Mead argue that private property exists in hunter-gatherer and other "primitive societies" but provide examples that Marx and subsequent theorists label as personal property, not private property. Similar arguments have been made by other academics, such as the economist Richard Pipes. The idea has also been critiqued by other anthropologists for being based on Morgan's evolutionary model of society and for romanticising non‐Western societies.

Western and non-Western scholars have criticised applying models that are too ethnocentrically European to non-European societies. Western scholars, including Leacock, have also criticised the ethnocentric point of view and biases in previous ethnographic research into hunter-gatherer societies.This is similar to criticism of adhering to stadialism in analysing cultures. Feminist scholars have criticised the idea of the lack of subjugation of women as suggested from the works of Engels, while Marxist feminists have been critical of and have reassessed Engels' ideas in The Origin of the Family related to the development of women's subjugation in the transition from primitive communism to class society.

The Marxian economist Ernest Mandel criticised the research of Soviet scholars on primitive communism due to the influence of "Soviet-Marxist ideology" in their social sciences work.

David Graeber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything challenges the notion that humans ever lived in precarious, small-scale societies with little surplus. While they provide examples of sharing egalitarian societies in pre-history, they claim that a huge variety of complex societies (some with large cities) existed long before the supposed agricultural and then urban revolutions proposed by V. Gordon Childe. Graeber and Wengrow's understanding of hunter-gatherer societies has, however, been questioned by other anthropologists.

Anthropologist Manvir Singh argued that while some indigenous groups, such as the Aché of Paraguay, exemplified primitive communism, this did not apply to all indigenous groups, such as the Hiwi, using the example of the unequal distribution of meat from hunting. Singh asserts that many hunter gatherers, including the Andaman Islanders and Northern Paiute, recognized private ownership over land and trees, and claims that all hunter gatherers had private property, but provides examples that Marx and subsequent theorists label as personal property, not private property, such as personal "bows, arrows, axes and cooking implements".

The use of the term "communism" to describe these societies has been questioned when put in comparison with a future post-industrial communism, particularly in relation to the difference in scale from small communal groups to the size of modern nation-states.

Use of the term "primitive"

The term "primitive" in recent anthropological and social studies has begun to fall out of use due to racial stereotypes surrounding the ideas of what is primitive.Such a move has been supported by indigenous peoples who have faced racial stereotyping and violence due to being viewed as "primitive". Due to this, the term "primitive communism" may be replaced by terms such as Pre-Marxist communism.

Alain Testart and others have said that anthropologists should be careful when using research on current hunter-gatherer societies to determine the structure of societies in the paleolithic, where viewing current hunter-gatherer communities as "the most ancient of so-called primitive societies" is likely due to appearances and perceptions and does not reflect the progress and development that such societies have undergone in the past 10,000 years.

There have been Marxist historians criticised for their comments on the "primitivism" and "barbarism" of societies prior to their contact with European empires, such as the comments of Endre Sík. Such views on "primitivism" and "barbarism" are also prevalent in the works of their non-Marxist contemporaries. Marxist anthropologists have criticised and denounced Soviet anthropologists and historians for declaring indigenous communities they were studying for primitive communism as "degenerate".

Anarchist, Communist & Socialist colonials must stop & see that First Nations are the 1st anti-fascists. Us Mob in Oz endured genocidal policies imported to fascist Germany using the 1905 Act & Billy Hughes (WW1) turned Japan into Hitler's flying monkey.

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The demonisation of my Badimaya First Nation matrilineal & matriarchal woman elders & me;

Who are the Badimaya First Nation?;

My people.

When, why and how were the Badimaya First Nation invaded by waves of colonials?;

1st wave: 1846 by Gerald de Courcy Lefroy & Alfred Hillman.

Was there French sexual colonialism in my country?

I recon there was because there was some guy with a French sounding name ( Gerald de Courcy Lefroy) who first went around lake Moore as they called it later in 1846.

I think he and his mate Hillman would have found resistance to that invasion by women warriors? Yes 100%.

Badimaya country is known for its flowers too but we aren’t evil lesbian flower demons, Estries, Sirens, Alukah, Shedim, Vampires, or Amazon’s.

We are an ancient matriarchy where women are seperate but equal to men.

When an our menfolk find a spouse he leaves our country to go to his woman’s country and yes, he does return for trade.

We aren’t like Dante assumes while talking to Ulysses in hell that you “you can never go home”.

https://www.byarcadia.org/post/ulysses-shipwreck-in-the-divine-comedy

So all other cultures are in hell on earth outside the church unless convert and never go home?

That’s genocide.

The Divine comedy is used by colonials to commit genocide by stealing children later with chief protector A.O Neville.

2nd Wave of invasion; John Forrest first premier of Western Australia 1876 (with traditional assistance from Tommy Windich)

Both would die young under mysterious circumstances and blamed on witchcraft sinned at Badimaya First Nation women.

John Forrest described Badimaya cannibals which has no scientific or social evidence.

On the Natives of Central and Western Australia’ by John Forrest

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2840893

3rd Wave of invasion The witch Hunt and demonisation begins towards assimilation and genocide.

Authors begin to target Badimaya country because its women’s country with pure forms of sexual colonialism and misogynoir.

Authors led by Bram Stoker, possibly Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Charles Baudelaire and many other artists linked in codified racist terms to Badimaya country after massive poisoning techniques used by German colonials throughout The continent of Africa.

Kalgoorlie, Wongi First Nation country was targeted because many First Nations went there for refuge in the gold rush mayhem. It was also a proofing ground for white colonial manhood from England and other places to prove they weren’t gay or it became a secret refuge for them.

Many Badimaya First Nations women and girls were targeted & murdered on sight and poisoned in witch and demon hunts. Human sport. The last colonised places on the planet after Terra Nullius began in 1788.

I also wonder about the reason why invaders (‘explorers’) thought it was some kind of proof of manhood to do invasion?

Was there a singular manhood proofing ground in ‘exploration and surveying during colonization? Yes.

Is that why Percy, Oscar Wilde’s lover was sent to Kalgoorlie to get conversion ‘therapy’ in the goldfields by his Dad the Marquess of Queensberry?

Were they worried they were possibly unmanly and gay? Yes

Homosexuality meant imprisonment.

Rape was a hanging offence but not of black or Asian women.

Bram Stoker looks like Sir John Forrest.

Dracula was written in 1876 the same year John Forrest invaded Badimaya country and the same year his Noongar guide Widatchi may have been poisoned.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1346114

“Racialization, Capitalism, and Aesthetics

in Stoker's Dracula

PATRICIA MCKEE Henry Mayhew introduces his survey of London Labour and the London Poor (1851) by identifying throughout the world "two distinct and broadly marked races, viz., the wanderers and the settlers." This division also distinguishes, as races, outsider and insider, "the vagabond and the citizen." When he compares the poor in England to "Bushmen," "Lappes," and "Arabian Bedouins," Mayhew effectively locates these "wandering tribes" in imaginary spaces outside the bounds of national life. Mayhew further depicts this vagabond class "preying upon" the nation's citizens, whose movements-as tourists and imperialists, for example-he ignores (1). In Dracula, published in 1897, Bram Stoker complicates Mayhew's social order when he suggests that at the end of the century the mod- ern citizen claimed no settled identity, but a mobility even more extensive than that of Mayhew's "wandering races." The vampire Dracula, who in the novel is identified as primitive and alien and who certainly preys upon citizens, is a wanderer, according to the peculiar logic of the "undead." But those in the novel

who eventually defeat Dracula are characterized by unsettled behavior as well. Not quite insiders, they comprise a group of Western citizens who belong within no single nation or social class and who are experienced travellers. What endows the movements of these characters with cultural privilege is their power to capi- talize upon mobility, to convert changes of place into opportunities for invest-

ment. Dracula has been understood to respond to the fears of late Victorians, due in part to Darwinian thought, that degeneration threatened both the British "race" and the British empire. Stephen Arata points out that, insofar as Stoker's "vam- pires are generated by racial enervation and the decline of empire," they exploit fears of the genetic and social deterioration that many of Stoker's readers "per- ceived as characterizing late-Victorian Britain" (115). But the characters who op- pose Dracula also learn new means by which to regenerate racial dominance. In an effort to explain this regeneration, my focus here is on the alliance in the novel of a construction of modernized whiteness with the productivity of late capital-

ism and on how that alliance allows whiteness to claim regenerative powers.”

4th Wave : oblivion, child removal by A.O Neville a warning on man made Armageddon?

Gurgurdung ‘Everlasting daisies’ on Badimaya country.

I and my twin are some of the last direct matrimonial line of the Warida Badimaya First Nation. We are facing genocide if we can’t carry on our cultural bloodline to the next generation of girls.

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#happyearthday🌎

#makeeverydayearthday

#manalalu

#istandwithmomoa

#peace

#waterislife

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'Unknown: Nanny with green shawl' 2017 99.5 x 126cm Acrylic, red ochre and gold leaf on canvas. http://www.juliedowling.net

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Jay Ryan in Warra Warra {2004}

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Image 1:

Pascal Maitre, Bata children after their first Communion.  Equatorial Guinea, 1989

Image 2:

Julie Dowling, The Ungrateful, Australia 1999

When I stumbled across Pascal Maitre's Bata Children After Their First Communion, I was instantly reminded of  Julie Dowling's most famous painting The Ungrateful,   which comments on the affects of European colonialism on its victims. The Ungrateful presents a young white woman surrounded by her adopted Aboriginal children dressed in their Sunday best. The composition, expressions and body language of this multiracial family belie, in a very subtle manner, the impression of a close family that such portraits are meant to convey. There is almost nothing to signify trouble except the slightly stiff comportment of the figures and an absence of camaraderie or affection between them. This is a Stolen Generations family, whose member have been forced together by the church and the state.

Dowling paints in what Jeanette Hoorn calls a “global style,” incorporating a range of traditions that on the surface of it could not be more diverse. They include those deriving from Australian indigenous art, from the history of icon painting, from Pop art and surrealism, as well as those stemming from the history of European Social realism. In addition, the art of the Mexican retablo finds echoes in her work

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An eye I just made with SAI digital paint... Download it here; https://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/

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I would ask all my friends to make this their cover photo for 24hrs to stand with the people at Kings Bay Western Australia as they remember their relatives killed during the Flying Foam Campaign that began on the 17th February 1868 with the Murder of Men, Women and Children. "There is a Gathering of people at Kings Bay Western Australia on Sunday 21/2/2016 to Commemorate a campaign of Genocide on the Yabuara people of the Pilbara region in Western Australia.. On this Day in 1868 English colonists began three months of systemic massacre against the Yaburara people of what we know today as the Burrup or Dampier Island. We pay our respects to past peoples of the Burrup, ancient peoples who left their message for future generations in some one million rock art paleolithic, the oldest and largest group known to ever exist on earth. We pay our respects to the many generations who over millennia assumed guardianship of what many regard as the Australian original peoples Rosetta Stone. We Stand in honour of the peaceful unarmed and non-combative Yaburara people whose hand of friendship extended to the newly arrived colonists was grabbed with greed as colonists sought not merely the hand of friendship proffered nor contentment with the arm but a greed driven desire to take the life out of the whole body of all of the Yaburara people. Today we Stand in honour of the Yaburara who were Massacred in the three month evil known today as the Flying Foam Massacre. It is because of this massacre that Colonial Australian Courts recently disallowed a Native Title Claim, in effect rewarding the colonial society whose rights descend from the Flying Foam Massacre .We honour those slain. We Stand in solidarity with the the Ngarda Ngarli Aboriginal people of the West Pilbara with Senior lawman and spokesman Wilfred Hicks and Tim Douglas by whose consent this Event takes place. We also acknowledge and act with the consent of tribal elder Audrey Cosmos . Idle No More Solidarity Sydney , The Indigenous Social Justice Association and Occupy Sydney join with Global Stand up for the Burrup, supporters and friends in calling for UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE LISTING of the Entirety of The Burrup Rock Art and its surrounding area. Recently the West Australian Government gazetted 44% of the Burrup as a National Park Conservation zone. This is the first response since requests petitions protests and negotiations for such conservation began in 1965 in response to acts of industrial destruction and wanton desecration. It is a small step in the right direction and for the first time gives UNESCO the scope to consider Heritage listing under its Charter. We call for the West Australian Government to extend all declared National Park to all of the Dampier Archipelago. To conserve 44% is the equivalent of Egypt preserving one pyramid knocking a second down to develop a high rise building and allowing the third to be converted to an hotel. It couldn't happen in Egypt and it shouldn't happen to the oldest and largest paleolithic collection in the world. The fact that parts of The Burrup have already been destroyed to serve the short term profit interests of mining and gas extractors from far away makes the prospect even more abhorrent. Today we join with our Brothers and Sisters in grief and remembrance and demand UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE LISTING FOR THE BURRUP." - Lanz Priestly

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I would ask all my friends to make this their profile picture for 24hrs to stand with the people at Kings Bay Western Australia as they remember their relatives killed during the Flying Foam Campaign that began on the 17th February 1868 with the Murder of Men, Women and Children. "There is a Gathering of people at Kings Bay Western Australia on Sunday 21/2/2016 to Commemorate a campaign of Genocide on the Yabuara people of the Pilbara region in Western Australia.. On this Day in 1868 English colonists began three months of systemic massacre against the Yaburara people of what we know today as the Burrup or Dampier Island. We pay our respects to past peoples of the Burrup, ancient peoples who left their message for future generations in some one million rock art paleolithic, the oldest and largest group known to ever exist on earth. We pay our respects to the many generations who over millennia assumed guardianship of what many regard as the Australian original peoples Rosetta Stone. We Stand in honour of the peaceful unarmed and non-combative Yaburara people whose hand of friendship extended to the newly arrived colonists was grabbed with greed as colonists sought not merely the hand of friendship proffered nor contentment with the arm but a greed driven desire to take the life out of the whole body of all of the Yaburara people. Today we Stand in honour of the Yaburara who were Massacred in the three month evil known today as the Flying Foam Massacre. It is because of this massacre that Colonial Australian Courts recently disallowed a Native Title Claim, in effect rewarding the colonial society whose rights descend from the Flying Foam Massacre .We honour those slain. We Stand in solidarity with the the Ngarda Ngarli Aboriginal people of the West Pilbara with Senior lawman and spokesman Wilfred Hicks and Tim Douglas by whose consent this Event takes place. We also acknowledge and act with the consent of tribal elder Audrey Cosmos . Idle No More Solidarity Sydney , The Indigenous Social Justice Association and Occupy Sydney join with Global Stand up for the Burrup, supporters and friends in calling for UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE LISTING of the Entirety of The Burrup Rock Art and its surrounding area. Recently the West Australian Government gazetted 44% of the Burrup as a National Park Conservation zone. This is the first response since requests petitions protests and negotiations for such conservation began in 1965 in response to acts of industrial destruction and wanton desecration. It is a small step in the right direction and for the first time gives UNESCO the scope to consider Heritage listing under its Charter. We call for the West Australian Government to extend all declared National Park to all of the Dampier Archipelago. To conserve 44% is the equivalent of Egypt preserving one pyramid knocking a second down to develop a high rise building and allowing the third to be converted to an hotel. It couldn't happen in Egypt and it shouldn't happen to the oldest and largest paleolithic collection in the world. The fact that parts of The Burrup have already been destroyed to serve the short term profit interests of mining and gas extractors from far away makes the prospect even more abhorrent. Today we join with our Brothers and Sisters in grief and remembrance and demand UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE LISTING FOR THE BURRUP." - Lanz Priestly