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“Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.”
Edward Said (1994)
Category Archives: Race
On Rage: Germaine Greer
Intellectual powerhouse provocateur Germaine Greer is always good for some brain food. Here she offers a thought-provoking talk on her ‘rage’ thesis about colonialism, militarism and the current state of indigenous or occupied peoples. This is a keynote address from … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Australia, Colonialism, Gender, Militarism, Military, Race
Tagged Germaine Greer
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Salute: Brothers of the Fist
The year was 1968, the occasion the Mexico City Olympics. In one of the most powerful moments in Olympic history, Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos gave the Black Power Salute alongside their silent (but active) supporter, Australian Silver Medalist … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Human Rights, Race, Sport, Video
Tagged John Carlos, Peter Norman, Salute, Tommie Smith
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Danny Glover: Race and the Obama Administration
Actor-activist Danny Glover takes a principled stand on calling for the Obama administration to display genuine leadership on the second Durban racism conference. In 2001 I traveled to Durban, South Africa, to join the tens of thousands of people who … Continue reading
Geoffrey Robertson on Why Britain Should Say Sorry To Australia’s Aborigines
What really leapt out in this Guardian piece from Geoffrey Robertson is that the English Fabian Socialists, almost always looked up to by many of us in the labour movement and culturally lionised, were eugenicists who advocated the assimilation or … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Genocide, Hegemon-watch, History, Human Rights, Indigenous peoples, Race, Racism, UK
Tagged Aboriginality, AO Neville, Australian Aborigines, Britain, Chagos Islands, eugenics, Fabian Socialists, Genocide, George Bernard Shaw, Holodomor, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Russian Revolution, Sydney and Beatrice Webb
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