“This is a very important film that everyone needs to see… It will change your life” John Butler, of the John Butler Trio

“The truth in this film is like a red hot poker driven into the conscience of a nation. Aboriginal voices, unheard or ignored, make it plain that they are ‘of their land’ and that they will not trade off their lawful rights. This film is a plea for reason. Are we listening? Will we act?” Jeff McMullen (former ABC Foreign Correspondent)

“If ever Australia had an Inconvenient Truth, this is it. Our Generation is a highly emotional, powerful journey into territory that we have chosen too long to ignore. This is a film every Australian needs to see.” Cathy Henkel (director of The Burning Season)

"From the ongoing controversy of the Northern Territory Intervention, to being forced off their traditional lands into larger townships crippled by social dysfunction, to their languages being removed from school education, to mining deals sidelining traditional owners, the Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory are fighting for freedom.

Our Generation is their untold story; of a struggle hidden from the eyes of mainstream Australia."

-Come get informed and share ideas on how to help.

- All proceeds go to Aboriginal Rights Coalition 

-donation based, suggested $5-$10

7pm at FERN, corner of High St and Montreal

NEED I SAY MORE? Bring a deck chair or a cushion as we'll be screening outside.... SEE YOU THERE.

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Our Generation

Fremantle Launch - Wed 6 October

Fremantle Arts Centre, 1 Finnerty St, Fremantle

The new, groundbreaking documentary on Aboriginal rights, presented by the film makers.

"This is a very important film that everyone must see. It will change your life." - John Butler.

Tickets $15/$10 on the door
Gates open 6:30pm. Film starts 7:30pm.

www.ourgeneration.org.au

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The Northern Territory Intervention, the NT government’s policy of withdrawing resources from Aboriginal homelands and bans on education in Aboriginal languages all form part of a savage assimilation agenda in the NT. Racist legislation is fueling apartheid style conditions in urban centres like Alice Springs. An explosion in uranium exploration and the push for an NT nuclear waste dump are also increasing pressure on communities.

These attacks are being met with strong resistance from a growing protest movement. And in the recent federal election, anti-Intervention Greens candidates outpolled both Labor and Liberal across Central Australia. Come along, participate in discussion and hear analysis and updates from Aboriginal rights activists based in Alice Springs.

Speakers:
Nat Wasley (Beyond Nuclear Initiative)
Paddy Gibson (Intervention Rollback Action Group)

Monday 27 Sept

6:30pm Earthwise (315 Bagot Road, Subiaco)

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The "Intervention Walk-off" and human rights in NT

By Richard Downs (Alywarr spokesperson for the intervention walkoff)

6 for 6:30pm
Thurs 24 June

Centre for Aboriginal Studies, Blg 211

Curtin University of Technology.

"When I first heard Downs speak ... I knew that an exciting new chapter in the struggle of Indigenous Australians had opened. One of the most important political events of my lifetime was the long strike by the Gurindji people when they walked off the cattle station at Wave Hill in the Northern Territory in August 1966.

"The issues which the Gurindji brought to light — the denial of basic human rights, the lack of proper living and working conditions and the racism — are no different in principle from those described by Downs and other Alyawarr elders since their own historic walk-off in July last year." (John Pilger, April 2010)

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National day of action against the NT intervention

JUSTICE NOT RACISM

* Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs
* End the NT intervention
* Restore the Racial Discrimination Act
* End welfare quarantining
* Land rights not leases
* Stop Black deaths in Custody
* Terminate the GSL/G4S prison transport contract
* Support jobs, housing and education for all

SAT 13 FEB 2010
12noon, Wesley Church (cnr William & Hay Sts, Perth)

Speakers include:
Scott Ludlam (Greens Senator)
Carmen Lawrence (former ALP parliamentarian)
Natasha Moore (Aboriginal Rights Coalition)
Marianne Mackay (Deaths in Custody Watch Committee)
Ted Wilkes (tbc)

Organised by Aboriginal Rights Coalition
Ph Natasha 0431 017 157, Sanna 0417 852 628, Mick 0410 059 693.

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