End of November hundreds of the most senior Elders and legitimate leaders of their peoples will gather in Alice Springs for the Freedom Summit. Hundreds from right across the continent have committed to come. Many see the Summit as the opportunity to mechanise the Aboriginal rights struggle, the greatest struggle ever known on this continent, who now far too many feel fell by the wayside from the mid-1970s onwards. “We have to stay big picture with this Summit,” said one of the Summit’s organisers, chair of the Narrunga People, Tauto Sansbury. “The Summit will be the most diverse and largest gathering in the one place on this continent, of this continent’s First People. We need to reclaim the Aboriginal rights struggle. We need it more than ever before, because we are at the crossroads. If we do nothing or go the way some have with assimilation then we face the decimation of our dreams and hopes, of who we are and who we want to be. We have to step up now. Young and old have to come together and the body politic has to be about the big picture. All our issues will be represented through the rights struggle and its reclamation. If we stand solid, put aside individual histories and agendas, put aside individual issues, and stand solid in big numbers, without waiver, we will win.” “We have hundreds coming, and they are the legitimate leaders of their people.”
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:52:18 +0000