Latoya Rule
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First Nations. Māori. Takatāpui. Researcher. PhD Candidate. Campaigns. Arts. Lover of sound. All pronouns. #JusticeforFella #BanSpithoods
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FELLA’s BILL IS NOW PASSED! SPIT HOODS ARE NOW PROHIBITED IN ALL PLACES IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA, FOR THE FIRST TIME ANYWHERE IN AUSTRALIA! Justice for Wayne Fella Morrison! Justice for Dylan Voller & all who’ve been killed & tortured in these hoods is yet to come! WE MUST KEEP PUSHING
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No Aboriginal child is out of place on Aboriginal Land. Aboriginal Land is not “wrong place”. Aboriginal life is not “wrong time”.
#justiceforcassiusturvey
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On this day I remember that the 7 corrections officers in the van w my brother before he was pulled out unconscious, never to wake, have told us they will claim the right to silence & the privilege against self-incrimination. This isnt your victory, Australia.
#GeorgeFloydTrial
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Video emerged late last night of a 28y/o Aboriginal man being pinned down by multiple South Australian police officers, bashed, and locked up in Pt Adelaide police station for allegedly riding without a helmet & lights on his bike. Charges laid relate only to the event at hand.
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Imagine if white women surrounded Parliament House to call for justice for dead black women.
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“Savage”... a term used in court today to explain the alleged “assault” on prison officers by my brother. My brother is dead, officers are staying silent on what happened in the van leading to his death, and they’re still at work. My brother is dead. MY brother is DEAD. DEAD.
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In response to comments that my Aboriginality got me my honours degree I think about how my incentive to graduate was to reduce murders, including the likelihood of my own death one day, in custody. So yes, my Aboriginality got me my degree, I blame my success on my Aboriginality
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We did it!
#JusticeForFella
After five years of fighting, Fella’s Bill to
#BanSpitHoods
has passed SA Legislative Council, with support of the Government & all parties. Fella’s Bill will soon be law. SA now has a future without the cruel spit hoods in which Fella took his last breaths.
#JusticeforFella
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Australia is so racist that some of its citizens are honouring the police who chased two Aboriginal children to their deaths by acknowledging they “risked their own safety in that water to catch the criminals”. More white heroes, more Black deaths.
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Invasion Day is 26 Jan, 1788 as much as it is 4 Aug 2014, as much as it is 29 Dec 2015 & 26 Sept 2016 & 22 Dec 2017 & 1 Sept 2018 & 9 Nov 2019 & 10 Sept 2020 & 18 March 2021. Invasion Day is everyday an Aboriginal person is murdered by the state. Invasion Day is everyday we mourn
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I can’t believe I’m saying this all in the space of only a few days. Another young Aboriginal person has been killed in police custody, this time in Toowoomba. Sending every bit of strength to his family. He was only 27. There is no rest.
#NoJusticeNoPeace
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The most memorable Australia Day I can recall is the day my brother was killed in custody. That’s the Australia I know. That’s a true Australia Day. Australia Day happens to us every day. Every Australia Day is a day of suffering. Abolish Australia Day. Abolish the killings.
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Past 2wks The Project & The Today Show asked me on their shows, then cancelled. The depth of storytelling from what I’m seeing displayed across mainstream western media compared to Indigenous media cannot equate - if you’re an ally pls get well acquainted with Indigenous media!
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We must continue to hold discussions in Australia around police & prison restraints. We must continue to hold the state to account for its excessive use of force, spit hoods, chairs, guns, chemical weapons etc. We must continue to do the work of advocating for abolition.
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Hey
@DanielAndrewsMP
, this is Kaurna Land where this tree is heritage listed. Simple.
#DjabWurrungTrees
In awe of this beautiful old River Red Gum in the suburbs of Kaurna Yerta - completely encircled by urbanisation but standing its ground, forcing us to go around
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Today I received a 1st Class Hons grade for my thesis! Both markers gave HDs, one gave 92%! 1st Class hasnt been achieved in my faculty since my mentor’s Dr Michele Jarldorn’s hons.! 7.0 GPA for my final year! Thanks to Ms Dhu’s family for permission to write about her life.
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Numerous Aboriginal women, majority of whom have died in custody, are mentioned in this article. There are thousands more just like them. Each is as deserving of being remembered as the next; each as deserving of justice. We must work to end state violence, before anything else.
My hope for the March4Justice and beyond is that we consider the plight of Black women in Australia | Latoya Aroha Rule
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The main reason I see Aboriginal people not supporting the Uluru statement is, besides the lack of veto power, the part that talks about shared sovereignty. That in order to be recognised, we have to recognise another ‘sovereign’ to the same status. The ceding sovereignty part…*
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Today I graduated from
@Flinders
with a University Medal for academic excellence. Privileged to have my family, friends and academic staff who’ve supported me during this journey there with me today, some who came from interstate. Will never forget this day. Proud! Oh and FTP 😂
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Shout out to
@rgay
for that side eye toward Teena’s colonial amnesia in response to my skype question on
#qanda
tonight. White supremacy is woven into the fabric of the colonial project that is so-called australia. We need to work to destroy it
#DecoloniseThatShit
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My brothers inquest has just now resumed in Adelaide. Thanks to those who are sitting in w my mum, & will come & join our family for the next three weeks. Please follow
@IndigenousX
for updates across this week, from then we will be posting daily updates on IndigenousX website.
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Proud to say, after a long time coming, that I submitted my honours thesis yesterday. Holding space for others meant that by the time I got to my writing I just didn’t have much left in me. And, writing about Aboriginal deaths in custody deserves all the energy, respect and time.
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Just saw 3 police officers get out of their car with semi-automatic weapons to pull over a guy walking along a city footpath. The man immediately put his hands up and stood against a wall. They then let the man go. I was scared for him... This is Adelaide City, South Australia.
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Today is the last day of the inquest into my brother Wayne Fella Morrison’s death... I’m in Aotearoa, doing my emotional admin. My mum has began the journey back to Gadigal land. I’ve said & done a lot these past almost 5 years. For right now... I say goodbye.
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Not all transgender people are safe being visible today, and some may never get that option, but a reminder to all that regardless, transgender people deserve to be loved publicly, wholly and without reservation - that’s the first step toward building safety. 💙💗
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Colonisers were literally thanked for my brothers death.
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I can confidently say you would be proud today my brother. Thank you to darling Charlotte Allingham aka
#Coffinbirth
for marking the 5-year anniversary with this illustration. Thought about Wayne standing on Kokatha country, extending his line all the way to Wirangu coast 🖤
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Can you believe it? A Blak, mostly queer, woman-led panel of scholars w lived experience doing the work every day within the community, & simultaneously resisting the institution, contributed to a Twitter-trending abolitionist panel tonight & none of them even had a blue tick!
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Please be mindful, if youre writing articles about my brothers case or our campaign on a national ban on spithoods, please dont copy my personal published works & not cite me. I dont have a ghost writer. I know Im Waynes sibling, but I also have intellectual property rights.
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For the record: at no other time have I felt validated in my grief by anyone in the court room than the last hour where Coroner Basheer told the court of her frustration, and I feel as though she sees us... and that’s important. No hope in the system, I have hope in people.
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I was today years old when I realised Willow and Jayden Smith are named after their parents. Wow.
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My brother Wayne; a dad, fisherman, artist, the creative one. Today its been 7yrs since Wayne died in custody. For 7yrs we have kept Wayne’s name & story fresh in Australias mind; in the news, through our work, in creative ways. No peace for us w/o Justice. Remember this today.
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My thoughts are with two families today who have lost their loved ones to prison and police custody. No one should die in custody. And no police should have the right to shoot any person.
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We still haven’t received my brothers coronial inquest report and it’s been more than 5 years. Multiple officers took the right to silence to avoid self-incrimination. There is so much we’ve been sitting with for years now… we have been left with nothing.
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Can’t believe my ethics application was just approved without edits! I am over the moon and honoured to finally begin recording with families who have lost their loved ones in custody. We’ve always been about truth-telling, I believe we must continue to open up space for it.
#PhD
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My brother valued his space & freedom, but 5 years ago he took his last conscious breath, trapped in a spit hood. Tomorrow the SA parliament will vote on Fella’s Bill. SA MPs - by voting for Fella’s Bill you can
#BanSpitHoods
for good
@VickieChapmanMP
@VincentTarzia
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After 5 years of delay tactics & silence, today the Coroner ruled in our favour. Each officer will have to take the stand. They can still claim privilege, but I am thankful that they have to show up & being called to be accountable to our family.
#JusticeforFella
#BanSpithoods
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Last week I was interviewed by
@TIME
on my brother’s death at the hands of South Australian corrections, alongside other family members and leaders on the issue of Aboriginal deaths in custody. Wayne Fella Morrison - his name & story is being told globally!
#JusticeforFella
George Floyd’s death has sparked protests in solidarity on almost every continent. In Australia, it is focusing renewed attention on a longstanding problem: the deaths of Aboriginal people in custody
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4yrs ago I posted a Q to
#qanda
re:racism & Aboriginal deaths in custody. 2yrs later my bro died in custody. On what would’ve been his 30th bday I protested on Q&A again calling out racism in Aus. Lastnyt I Skyped into Q&A cus Aus racism has taken more Blak lives, esp in custody!
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As
@4corners
goes to air tonight there has been yet another death in custody of an Aboriginal person in Western Australia.
#BlackLivesMatter
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The last vigil I attended was down by a river, where our community sat to mourn the lives of three Aboriginal girls, children, who survived this world as long as they could bare. Tonight I will attend the vigil of another Aboriginal child, who also didn’t get a chance to survive.
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Add the names of Black women we should be honouring and rallying for on Monday...
#SayHerName
#VeronicaBaxter
#SherryTilberoo
#MsDhu
#TanyaDay
#LynetteDaley
#VeronicaNelson
#RebeccaMaher
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This is how police respond to a national march for justice... organised by white women. Just chilling out... In fact, the PM invited some of the organisers of today to meet with him... Lets look back to this image from last year when people marched for Black people... hmm...
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While I was sharing about the death in custody of my brother Wayne on International Human Rights Day, busker Tanya George was filming us & stating that we were “harassing” her with our presence & interrupting her cash flow. When will Aboriginal lives matter?
#BoycottTanyaGeorge
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Thanks to
@teelareid
for her response. I do hope the government will meet with us in June this year... it’s critical to our lives and justice for our loved ones.
#StopAboriginaldeathsincustody
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Australia will support our call for a federally legislated ban on spit hoods, even if it takes appealing to every state, territory, jurisdiction. We will see this through.
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For those wondering, the coroner has just adjourned the coronial inquest into Wayne’s death until her report is handed down. Despite our family & support watching on via video link, she didnt have any final words for us or our lawyers. That’s how this has ended.
#NoJusticeNoPeace
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Acknowledging your privilege without taking action to dismantle state power is simply boasting.
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Wondering when ppl will start seeing Aboriginal deaths in custody as a health issue rather than solely a criminal one...? Not to mention the grief/ loss/ trauma experienced by survivors of the prison environment... I feel that the work of prison abolitionists isn’t taken srsly...
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Keeping Aboriginal people from dying in custody means keeping Aboriginal people out of custody. It doesn’t mean recruiting more Aboriginal people to the police. The first recorded deployment of Aboriginal trackers by Europeans in Australia was in 1791, have we come much further?
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In two weeks it’ll be 6 yrs since the death in custody of my elder brother Wayne Fella Morrison in SA. We’re still waiting for the coronial report into his death! You’ve gone from Corrections Minister to Premier over this course of time
@PMalinauskasMP
, yet we’ve gotten nothing!
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5yrs worth of seeking answers into Waynes death & we’re no more saavy to what happened to Wayne in that van with those 8 officers. As expected, the state has acted in line with other coronial inquests - to dehumanise Wayne. As we set out to, our family have achieved the opposite.
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As of 2019, more than 60% of children in prison in Adelaide are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.
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A WHITE SUPREMACIST WHO SAYS HE HATES MUSLIMS AND WHO MADE BOMBS IN ADELAIDE HAS BEEN ARRESTED YESTERDAY. WHY HAS HE NOT ALSO BEEN CHARGED WITH TERRORISM?!
#destroywhitesupremacy
The bomb squad has undertaken a controlled detonation at a Davoren Park property after explosive materials were found in a shed. The latest in 7NEWS at 4pm and 6pm.
#7NEWS
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My first & last impression of Penny Wong was when she told a local Kaurna Elder on whose Lands she was on that she was being rude and out of line in South Australia, when our Elder was there to do a Welcome to Country at a Women’s Day breakfast & no-one even saved her a seat!
The scenes from the explosion at a Gaza City hospital are deeply distressing. It is clear there has been a devastating loss of life.
Our thoughts are with those killed, those injured and their loved ones.
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The fundamental issue w ‘Australia Day’ is not the date, but the ‘Australia’. To ask anyone to love their abuser is violent. Wheres the
#metoo
on this one?
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Imagine thinking the BLM movement in so-called australia began in 2020.
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Passed my Stage 1 review for my PhD earlier today, I’m now an official UTS PhD Candidate. I was interviewed afterwards by
@Bhuva_at_UTS
to articulate my thoughts on the importance of Communication in Research. Its a pleasure & privilege to be supported & to have a voice here. 👍🏽
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#JusticeforFella
front and centre, as it should be... thank you.
The front page of The World section in today’s
@washingtonpost
looks at the Australian struggle for justice for people like
@latoya_aroha
‘s brother Wayne, who died in custody
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Witnesses say they were pepper sprayed for screaming for help. They also say they called an ambulance twice - none came. There were approx. 10 police cars present that shut down the street, some 4x4 unmarked. Majority of the police had body cameras, some allegedly switched off.
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We are seeking media support this morning to call on Premier & Aboriginal Affairs Minister
@marshall_steven
to release this man & charge the relevant SA police officers with assault. Contact: 0432 389 117. We will be present at Pt Adelaide police station as necessary this morning
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I’m just gonna say it for those in the back, if you’re an academic spending university funds to sit in on deaths in custody inquests and then write papers about YOUR experience as an observer, but provide no assistance to that actual family, your words aren’t that important sis.
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Happy Birthday to our brother Wayne, he would’ve been 35 today. Hug your loved ones for me…
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To those who shared their stories on
#IncarcerationNation
, thank you. Voices of those with lived experience must always be centered. Much deliberation went into this & we’re glad our perspective can be shared amongst the range of others circulating.
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I’m furious that Yes23’s response to the referendum loss has been to orchestrate a week of silence. This does not send a message of empowerment, unity, resilience, resistance or defiance, it sends a message of defeat. You’ve left people in a state of despair, without hope! SHAME!
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We demand the immediate release of this man. He should not have had to spend the past approx. 8+ hours in custody, especially after being brutally assaulted by SA police.
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I hope people can support us for the final month of my brothers coroners court, beginning April 27th. I’ve heard a bit of silence from this space lately... Are we going to accept the corrections officer’s silence in the court room when we go back? How can we challenge this?
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Honoured to be named among such incredible finalists for the
@AusHumanRights
Human Rights Medal this year.
We're thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2022 Human Rights Awards, and celebrate people who have worked with dedication and compassion to improve human rights in Australia.
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Incredible honour to be included as one of
@TIME
’s racial justice organizers for 2020.
#JusticeforFella
has always been a community effort, the recognition is to us all. 2021 is the RCIADIC 30th anniversary & Blak ppl are still dying.
@ScottMorrisonMP
@marshall_steven
its on u!
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What are peoples follow-up responses to an answer of ‘no’ to
#RUOKAY
? An Elder once told me, ‘If you ask the question you have to honour the answer.’ Ensure when you’re investing in peoples social and emotional wellbeing it isn’t merely as a token and to make yourself feel good.
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ANOTHER delay. No court today or tomorrow. The coroner will hand down her determination tomorrow morning. Media release to go out today by us - we will rally in Tarndanyangga @ 1:30pm tomorrow. We are sick of being pushed around by this process - NO MORE SILENCE!
#JusticeforFella
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One of my brothers bought a really lovely house yesterday. I cried so hard. He was homeless at 13, and before that we had run away a few times already. My nephews have the most hard working dad, who will never go without. I’m proud to have strong Blak fathers in my family.
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The Aboriginal man was refused bail & it is uncertain why he is being held. He allegedly yelled for medical assistance. At this stage it is uncertain whether he has received any medical support or otherwise, as Pt Adelaide police & SA police headquarters hung up on me 3 times.
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Today we gathered at Tarndanyangga to remember Wayne and call for the immediate ban of spit hoods. If spit hoods were banned, Wayne might still be here. My brother was a loving father, an artist and a fisherman. We love him, we miss him, and we want justice
#JusticeForFella
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My friends, we are only 200 supporters away from reaching 10,000 signatures who are signing to BAN SPITHOODS nationally, permanently, in every carceral setting incl. medical facilities. Have you signed?
#JusticeforFella
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From Dec 2019 to March 2020, South Australia recorded the highest national increase of daily numbers of people in prisons, at 6% or 170 people. SA is also the third highest incarcerator of Aboriginal peoples after NT & WA.
@marshall_steven
Free this Aboriginal man NOW!
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Yesterday my brother,
#1
in Aust for powerlifting, called out the president of the Global Powerlifting Association Aust for his negative comments regarding the name change of Cheer Cheese. Today Patrick has had the word ‘coon’ put across his image. This is violent racism.
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NSW Premier Gladys just announced an additional 500 punishment officers will be in Sydney from next week... incl. the riot squad. The increased danger to Black lives is terrifying.
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#JusticeforFella
has always been a community effort, the achievement and success rests with the community on this one - from far and wide. Thank you, everyone. Thank you especially to the
#BanSpitHoods
Collective. We will see this national ban to fruition, with many more of you.
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Happy Birthday to my brother Wayne, who would’ve been 33 today... today I remember you dancing. ♥️
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All power and love to Bowraville mob who after 30 years are still fighting for their babies.
#NoJusticeNoPeace
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Dr Lilly Brown,
@nat_ironfield
& I have written a response to
#IncarcerationNation
, published tomorrow for
@ConversationEDU
. Due to scenes of explicit violence, in our review we give a warning to mob, as we don’t feel this film has been made for a Blak audience.
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Today marks 6 years since Wayne’s death… and I think maybe I’m just speechless, and don’t have words this morning. If you knew him I hope you can take comfort in the positive memories you shared…🕯
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This woman deserves justice! No one should be spit hooded! with a PILLOW CASE in a hospital setting for someone with serious mental health?! Im glad we achieved a statewide legislated ban on spithoods in SA in 2021, but this ban must be taken into account in her case from 2019!
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Honours thesis I submitted yesterday is called... ‘But don’t you think that sometimes they bring it upon themselves?’: Implicating the colonial project in the death in custody of Ms Dhu.
#JusticeforMsDhu
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Over my Blak lawyer friends telling me again how theyre approached when they step into court & how theyre told to stand in a booth/ asked where their lawyer is/ to fill in a form with their name & address... its general knowledge how Aboriginal people are perceived by the system.
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Due to Covid19 restrictions no one is able to enter the police station, including the Aboriginal Legal Rights after hours visitor. Pt Adelaide police were limited in the information they would provide to the visitor. It’s uncertain if the Aboriginal man’s family has been notified
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Today we are pained and we are grief-stricken. 28 years is a tiny snapshot of the 230+ years of colonial murders we have been resisting.
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Just a heads up, tomorrow is the (expected) second to last day of the coronial inquest into Wayne’s brutal death. The pathologist will be giving their evidence likely til Monday. My mum is no longer able to provide media comment or sit in court, & I am currently on Maori whenua.
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@IndigenousX
I can’t support this - people in prison should be freed, not have to work or use this to lessen a sentence. Its not “lack” of activity in prison that makes prison worse, nor lack of training that causes people to enter prison. We must DIVEST from the prison industrial complex!!!
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Changing the date of australia day means celebrating genocide on another date. It’s still genocide. It’s still the murder of Aboriginal peoples. Is this really the best we can do? Let’s demand more. We deserve more.
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EVERYONE GUESS WHAT! I’m booked for Pfizer today at 2:30! Shout out to the one, and only, my mum - thanks Mum! And everyone who gave great recs throughout the past two weeks ✊🏽🖤
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