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Unity growing in Black Lives’ struggles across continent
It was sunny and hot in Alice Springs and three hours down the Tanami Road in Yuendumu, on Monday, 26th October. In Sydney and Canberra nearly 3000 kilometres away, cold rain pelted down.
Four places, all marked like the rest of Australia by a system of ongoing genocide.
In Alice, hundreds of Warlpiri and their supporters waited to hear what charges a police officer, on bail in Canberra, would face after the shooting of a young Warlpiri man in Yuendumu last year.
In Sydney, the day after tens of thousands were allowed to attend the Rugby League Grand Final, police used Covid restrictions and decreed only 45 people could attend a protest highlighting a parliamentary inquiry into First Peoples’ deaths in custody. Hundreds arrived, despite police rules and the rain.
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