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lots of learning this weekend starting with #utsthinkbig forum  rethinking nationism  with  Distinguished Professor Larissa Behrendt (UTS) – Moderator Alison Whittaker (UTS) Associate Professor Pauline Clague (UTS) Patricia Cornelius (Anthem) Professor Susan Page (UTS) – Facilitator Procession from Town Hall to Barangaroo Eora Nation Truck Marshalls guide walkers around camouflaged trip hazard installed in the middle of a pedestrian crossing at Curtain Place on George Street. Procession through the Rocks Barangaroo After a short slow tram ride, joined the procession down George Street from Town Hall to Barangaroo - at the tail end with the Eora Nation Fire Truck Watched opening of show but didn't stay for the vigil.       Buruwan Park Tyres, Buruwan Pk After  a morning of Bushcare weeding at Cadigal Reserve (with bonus bush turkey s...

Snap Action at 107 Redfern, 23 Jan 2019 Last night I attended a 'Snap action Solidarity fundraiser' organised by  Indigenous Social Justice Association ( ISJA Sydney ) and Fighting In Resistance Equally ( FIRE ). ISJA meets every Wednesday at Redfern Community Centre David Dungay The "Snap Action" was to raise money for the family of David Dungay who died in custody at Long Bay Prison at Malabar in Sydney. The NSW Coroners investigation into Dungay's death was adjourned last July and will resume on Wednesday 6 March 2018 . "Mr Dungay was just weeks away from release, when he died during a cell transfer at Long Bay jail hospital in December 2015. He was held down by five prison officers after he was told to stop eating a packet of biscuits. The court was played footage showing Mr Dungay transferred to the second cell while handcuffed and then injected with the sedative midazolam. Mr Dungay said 12 times that he couldn’t breathe." -  Fa...