Canada Military News: Australia's horrific abuse and prejudice against their First Peoples (#Indigenous) ... WAIT A MINUTE.... that's us... that's Canada ... Oh F**K it's 2016/ So let's make it up to our First Peoples Canada and open our minds to the horrific abuse in the Inquiry for MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENIOUS WOMEN OF CANADA - Highway of Tears #IdleNoMore #OneBillionRising #NoDKPL #natives #FeelTheBern @TheDailyShow
pssssst... always links on my blogs.... and pardon spelling of indigenous... used to First Nations, Inuit, Metis and non-status.... Aboriginal and Indigenous ...kinda mess up... but my hearts in the right place baby...... am old ... smart... and cranky.... #OneBillionRising :)
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August 5, 2016 ... LAST NITE....
There was an interview with the social leader of an Australian Indigenious group.... and the more I listend to BBC news.... the more ashamed I became.... how dare think have been doing enough for our sisters.... in our fights over the years for women and children...
Australia... she said this isn't about systemic abuses of all governments... it's about the horrific indifference of the Australian people over the people who were on Australia first.... well it's how you raise your kids... why don't u do better...
THINK ABOUT THAT...
Australia throws us in isolation and forgets about us totally.... they treat refugees better... and the media... what media??? We live in shacks with/without running water (dirty) electricity - bare essentials... lower paying than all other people.... lousy or no school system... and hand me downs.... u wouldn't be caught in.... this is our land..... u stole our land... and stole our souls...
Refugees in their own land: how Indigenous people are still homeless in modern Australia
Without anywhere that is home, Indigenous people have been without a physical space to reinvent themselves and their culture in modern Australia.
Since colonisation, Aboriginal people have been internally displaced from their country. The doctrine of terra nullius – a land without people – was established under British colonial government and persisted in Australian law until 1992). It served to reinforce the concept that Indigenous land was “empty”; it belonged to no one and so could rightly be claimed for Western exploitation or settlement. This doctrine arguably still persists in the collective Australian psyche, evidenced by social policies and government interventions which impact harmfully on Indigenous people and their connection to their land.
The Stolen Generation, in which Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families between the 1900s and the 1960s, is one government policy that led to Indigenous dispossession in the broadest sense of the word. Important Indigenous constructs around family, culture, community and the physical land were affected, and the impact was inter-generational . The Northern Territory Emergency Response Act (NTER) 2007 – often referred to as “The Intervention" – represented a suit of legislation that was enacted to address child abuse in remote communities through mandatory changes to welfare provision, land tenure, child health checks and law enforcement. It has been criticised nationally and internationally for ineffectual, non-consensual and mandatory measures, impacting on the autonomy of Indigenous people and causing humiliation, fear, and confusion among Indigenous communities. Evidence suggests that the intervention has also “increased levels of itinerancy and homelessness among Aboriginal people who have left their home communities in order to avoid the punitive and paternalistic aspects of the NTER”.
Town Camps
Warlpiri Transient Camp, established near the town of Katherine in the Northern Territory, has an interesting history that reflects Indigenous dispossession. In 1949, Lajamanu was forcibly established as an Aboriginal settlement on land that traditionally belonged to the Gurindji. Several hundred Warlpiri people – Australia’s largest tribal group – were trucked there against their will due to government concerns about overcrowding in Yuendemu, 600km to the south. Many simply walked back, with multiple walk-backs happening until 1968. Amid this, a large number of transient Warlpiri “mob” began coming to Katherine to camp, disconnected from their land.
A large number of homeless and itinerant Indigenous people now live in Katherine in town camps such as Warlpiri Transient Camp. These camps serve as a halfway house in towns, away from dilapidated and overcrowded housing and social decline in remote communities.
Conditions are unhealthy, overcrowded, and, at times, dangerous. Violence is common: cases such as the murder of a mother of five occurred in 2014 in Warlpiri Camp. Infrastructure is severely limited and neglected. This led to legal action by residents of Santa Teresa earlier this year.
Lack of a future
Imagine being a young person in Ngukurr, on the Roper River in Arnhem Land. There are very few employment opportunities and limited community infrastructure and housing. If you want a way out, Katherine is your next stop. However, there is a prolonged waiting time for public housing. According to the Northern Territory Department of Housing, the wait is now at least five years – that is to say, if you know how to apply. In reality, if you are a young person wanting to move to Katherine, then you are likely to end up homeless.
The situation has become so normalised that this is exactly what young people do on a regular basis. And while such issues are widely known, they are rarely spoken about.
Between neglected housing in remote communities and dangerous town camps, Aboriginal people live displaced from their land and culture. As Simon Quilty, head physician at Katherine Hospital, put it: “Indigenous people are like long-term refugees displaced on their own land. Nothing has changed and nothing has been done about it.” The staff also found that Indigenous people were attending the hospital with worrying regularity.
Katherine Hospital
Under the leadership of Quilty, Katherine Hospital is addressing homelessness as a health issue using a socially oriented approach. A team of doctors, nurses, social workers and Aboriginal liaison officers are looking at the factors behind why people are driven to attend the hospital so frequently. Using retrospective emergency department admission data, a recent paper published by the team found that some people attended the emergency department for non-medical conditions as frequently as every two weeks.
Such people were driven by issues such as homelessness, alcohol use, weather (including rainfall) and Indigenous identity. The study showed that people who frequently presented to the emergency department were more than 16 times more likely to live in temporary accommodation or be homeless. They were 2.2 times more likely to identify as Aboriginal, and 2.7 times more likely to have alcohol linked to their admission.
Ordinary life overshadowed.Pixculture, CC BY-SAAlthough alcohol is commonly labelled as responsible for “the problems” in the town of Katherine, the study clearly showed that the fundamental issue was homelessness. Other recent research demonstrated that homelessness was a profound problem across the Northern Territory. Homelessness rates in the territory are 15 times the national average: 12% of all people in the Katherine region are homeless; six of the ten regions with the highest homeless rates in Australia are in the Northern Territory, regions that cover almost the entire state. An astonishing 28% of the population of East Arnhem are considered homeless.
Following these findings, the Katherine team is now implementing a social care pathway that provides a culturally appropriate intervention that addresses the whole range of problems experienced by those who present to the emergency department. The programme builds on existing evidence that social interventions for frequent presenters and homeless people, including housing provision and case management, reduces the number of people who attend emergency departments.
Patients who present themselves at the emergency department on more than five occasions within a year will trigger a “frequent presenter pathway”, where social, medical, drug and alcohol problems will be identified and addressed by trained professionals prior to discharge. This model of care has been investigated in urban, predominantly non-Indigenous settings only and this will be the first time such an investigation takes place in a rural Indigenous setting, with a large randomised trial planned for later in 2016.
Ultimately, health outcomes – including frequent presentation to hospital – are reflective of social conditions, especially homelessness. Health, as we are witnessing in remote Indigenous Australia, is a reflection of individual, community and life circumstances. By taking a socially-focused and compassionate approach to medicine, Katherine Hospital staff hope to alleviate unnecessary presentations to an already overburdened system, and focus on the drivers of overall health and community well-being.
Australian Detention Center Tortured Indigenious Children
ABC’s Four Corners show has released disturbing footage showing six young boys being tear-gassed and held in isolation at the now-shuttered Don Dale Youth Detention Centre in Darwin, Australia.
The tear-gas incident occurred in August 2014. Before the video evidence emerged, it was referred to as a "riot" by officials, with media reporting that multiple boys had escaped their cells and threatened prison staff with weapons.
But it is clear from the newly released CCTV vision and handy-cam recordings made by staff that only one boy escaped his cell, and that because a guard had left it unlocked.
Former corrections commissioner Ken Middlebrook told ABC last year that no overuse of gas took place, as there were just "two sprays from an aerosol in the area." But the video shows 10 bursts of tear gas sprayed into an enclosed area within 90 seconds.
Although most of the inmates obeyed orders, they were still exposed to the tear gas. The footage shows the boys running to the back of their cells, gasping for air and weeping.
Some two years ago a group of lawyers accidentally discovered young boys in the isolation wing of the prison while they were on a tour of the site.
Teens were reportedly locked in their cells for up to 17 days with no running water, little natural light and no access to educational materials.
In the video aired by Four Corners, the 14-year-old boy who escaped his cell can be seen repeatedly asking how long he had been in isolation and requesting to talk to staff. Instead of talking to the boy, the staff laughs and mocks him.
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Image caption Bill Leak's controversial cartoon was published in The Australian newspaper
One of Australia's most prominent cartoonists is under fire for an unflattering drawing of an Indigenous man.
A Bill Leak cartoon published in The Australian newspaper on Thursday depicts an Aboriginal man who has forgotten his son's name.
Indigenous groups said the cartoon was "ugly, insulting and embarrassing".
But the paper's editor said the cartoon brought a "crucial issue" into the public domain.
In the cartoon, a police officer is shown bringing an Indigenous child to his father, saying: "You'll have to sit down and talk to your son about personal responsibility."
The father, who is barefoot and holding a beer can, asks: "What's his name then?"
Image caption Leak is one of Australia's best-known cartoonists and often courts controversy It appears to be a response to comments from Indigenous leader Noel Pearson, who said this week that Aboriginal people needed to take more responsibility for the behaviour of their children.
The SNAICC, a non-governmental group for Indigenous children and families, called the cartoon "disgusting, disrespectful, and hurtful", adding: "Those involved in publishing such a clearly racist cartoon should be ashamed and should issue a public apology to all Australians."
The New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council criticised the cartoon, saying it was "embarrassing for Australia's national newspaper to publish it".
"Sadly racism and discrimination is a fact of life for Aboriginal people who have lived on and cared for this country for more than 60,000 years," the statement said.
"It is time the decision-makers at The Australian accept personal responsibility for the hurt they have caused Aboriginal people today."
The Australian newspaper typically takes a right-wing position on social affairs, favouring individual responsibility and free-market economics over government spending and intervention.
But it dedicates substantial resources to Indigenous affairs and has in the past won praise from Aboriginal leaders for its coverage.
The newspaper's editor-in-chief, Paul Whittaker, stood by the cartoon, saying too many people skirted around issues in Indigenous affairs.
"Bill Leak's confronting and insightful cartoons force people to examine the core issues in a way that sometimes reporting and analysis can fail to do," he said in a statement.
CANADA AND NOVA SCOTIA- please
stop pimping booze, gambling and tobacco 4 ur profit- ur killing us...ur
killing us...(UVE CREATED HORRIFIC HOMELESSNESS) . Every Political Party in
Canada and Nova Scotia PROMISED 2 ELIMINATE- GAMBLING.... every one.... and
...u ...doubled...it...Seriously.... /CANADA HAS A RACISM PROBLEM (Well don't
all Nations) -love u Winnipeg 4 stepping up 2 this and First Nations needs 2
protect their women and children and $$$$ goes 2 their First People instead of
Chiefs and Band Councils-/Canada and Nova Scotia pls. fix the underbelly of
booze, gambling and tobacco...and by the by First Nations own their lands and
their taxes
A documentary which is exploring the impact of racism on a global scale, as part of the season of programmes marking the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery. Beginning by assessing the implications of the relationship between Europe, Africa and the Americas in the 15th century, it considers how racist ideas and practices developed in key religious and secular institutions, and how they showed up in writings by European philosophers Aristotle and Immanuel Kant.
Looking at Scientific Racism, invented during the 19th century, an ideology that drew on now discredited practices such as phrenology and provided an ideological justification for racism and slavery. These theories ultimately led to eugenics and Nazi racial policies of the master race. Some upsetting scenes.
The third and final episode of Racism: A History examines the impact of racism in the 20th Century. By 1900, European colonial expansion had reached deep into the heart of Africa. Under the rule of King Leopold II, The Belgian Congo was turned into a vast rubber plantation. Men, women and children who failed to gather their latex quotas would have their limbs dismembered. The country became the scene of one of the century’s greatest racial genocides, as an estimated 10 million Africans perished under colonial rule. Contains scenes which some viewers may find disturbing.
Episodes included: 1. The Color of Money, 2. Fatal Impact, and 3. A Savage Legacy.
Watch the full documentary now (playlist - 2 hours, 56 minutes)
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IDLE NO MORE CANADA-USA-MEXICO-AUSTRALIA-NEW ZEALAND- Suicides- Residential
(boarding) School Assimilation- 1800s- 1900s- here's the facts- our First
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http://nova0000scotia.blogspot.ca/2013/08/idle-no-more-canada-usa-mexico.html ---- Colonialism No More - Solidarity Camp Regina collective. Statement by Facebook message. Colonial Amnesia: Many Canadians, including former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, believe Canada is not, and has never been, a colonial state. In Harper's words, Canada "has no history of colonialism."
How, then, do we account for:
The 1876 Indian Act which enshrines white settler domination and supremacy and Indigenous subjugation?
The forced dispossession, displacement, and containment of Indigenous peoples under Canada's reserve and pass systems -- systems that made Indigenous lands available for European settlement?
The genocidal residential school system, for which Harper himself apologized?
Colonialism Today: Canadian colonialism is not only a historical fact. It is also a present reality.
White settler supremacy remains intact. In education, housing, employment, the justice system -- indeed, almost everywhere in Canadian society -- whiteness is an advantage and Indigenous identity a disadvantage.
51 per cent of First Nations children live in poverty. The rate rises to 60 per cent for children who live on-reserve. The numbers are even worse for Saskatchewan where 69 per cent of on-reserve First Nations children live in poverty -- compared with a non-Indigenous child poverty rate of 13 per cent. (These figures are taken from a May 2016 report by CCPA: Shameful Neglect: Indigenous Child Poverty in Canada.)
Canada's dispossession of Indigenous peoples is ongoing, as the Canadian state continues to grant corporate access to Indigenous land and resources.
AUSTRALIA 
A documentary which is exploring the impact of racism on a global scale, as part of the season of programmes marking the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery. Beginning by assessing the implications of the relationship between Europe, Africa and the Americas in the 15th century, it considers how racist ideas and practices developed in key religious and secular institutions, and how they showed up in writings by European philosophers Aristotle and Immanuel Kant.
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