International Indigenous Peoples March 2019 Fund
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Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance (WAR) have been invited to speak and workshop at the World Indigenous Peoples March #IPMDC2019 in Washington, DC mid-January! We desperately need your help to get there...
Event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/indigenous-peoples-march-registration-52994200079
Aboriginal deaths in custody are a growing issue in Australia with over 400 more occurring since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991. There has never been a conviction for any of these brutal deaths! Our lands are also being massacred while our animals are suffering and threatened with extinction. This has an unimaginable impact on our cultural practices, let alone the lives of all peoples living on our continent and the trauma this is causing. THIS IS GENOCIDE! Further international attention to call on the australian and global governments is necessary in our fight for justice - to save our lives, our cultures and secure our futures.
We are sending over two young Aboriginal delegates, their bio's speak to why this trip is so important to us and our communities:
Latoya Aroha Hohepa is a Wiradjuri and Māori Woman residing on stolen land on Kaurna country (Adelaide). She has worked on Aboriginal rights campaigns over the past 5 years, particularly surrounding the issue of state-sanctioned brutality against Black bodies in Australia. Sadly Latoya’s own brother Wayne Fella Morrison died on remand in Yatala prison merely two years ago from causes including spithood and restraint asphyxia. While the coronial inquest into Wayne’s death is currently underway, Latoya is simultaneously working to complete her honours thesis in Social Work, a discourse analysis focusing on the further criminalisation of Ms Dhu following her death in custody in 2014 in Western Australia, and hopes to move onto her PHD looking at a comparative analysis of restraint mechanisms and procedures between Australian and American prisons. When she’s not studying, Latoya tutors Indigenous students in Social Work, Politics and Sociology topics at Flinders University and has guest lectured in Indigenous Studies. Just recently, Latoya was a keynote speaker at Sisters Inside Conference in Meanjin (Brisbane).
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Kaleesha Morris is a Gumbaynggirr & Kulkalgal woman working in the areas of Indigenous & Environmental social justice. She currently works to promote and integrate Indigenous ecological knowledge within the recovery work of threatened native species, and natural resource management structures within New South Wales. Kaleesha is passionate about Indigenous language revival and resurgence, and has a background in facilitating collaborative governance – designing Indigenous – led concepts and strategies of success & development through Decolonial, re – Indigenizing, social justice frameworks. Kaleesha has worked within local, regional, national and International Indigenous human rights policy spheres, including shadow reporting at the United Nations Permanent Forum of Indigenous Issues, and campaigning for Indigenous climate justice rights within networks covering south – east Asia and the South Pacific.
There will be opportunities upon Latoya & Kaleesha's return to feedback to community the outcomes of the trip - we expect to expand preexisting relationships with Indigenous leaders and nations, and develop new working relationships that can impact nation-building efforts in future.
If you are from an organisation/ union/ university etc. and can donate a larger amount of money please email us:
[email redacted]
Thank you for assisting us in building up our campaigns internationally!
#STOPABORIGINALDEATHSINCUSTODY
#STOPTHEGENOCIDE
#JUSTICENOW
Event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/indigenous-peoples-march-registration-52994200079
Aboriginal deaths in custody are a growing issue in Australia with over 400 more occurring since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991. There has never been a conviction for any of these brutal deaths! Our lands are also being massacred while our animals are suffering and threatened with extinction. This has an unimaginable impact on our cultural practices, let alone the lives of all peoples living on our continent and the trauma this is causing. THIS IS GENOCIDE! Further international attention to call on the australian and global governments is necessary in our fight for justice - to save our lives, our cultures and secure our futures.
We are sending over two young Aboriginal delegates, their bio's speak to why this trip is so important to us and our communities:
Latoya Aroha Hohepa is a Wiradjuri and Māori Woman residing on stolen land on Kaurna country (Adelaide). She has worked on Aboriginal rights campaigns over the past 5 years, particularly surrounding the issue of state-sanctioned brutality against Black bodies in Australia. Sadly Latoya’s own brother Wayne Fella Morrison died on remand in Yatala prison merely two years ago from causes including spithood and restraint asphyxia. While the coronial inquest into Wayne’s death is currently underway, Latoya is simultaneously working to complete her honours thesis in Social Work, a discourse analysis focusing on the further criminalisation of Ms Dhu following her death in custody in 2014 in Western Australia, and hopes to move onto her PHD looking at a comparative analysis of restraint mechanisms and procedures between Australian and American prisons. When she’s not studying, Latoya tutors Indigenous students in Social Work, Politics and Sociology topics at Flinders University and has guest lectured in Indigenous Studies. Just recently, Latoya was a keynote speaker at Sisters Inside Conference in Meanjin (Brisbane).
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Kaleesha Morris is a Gumbaynggirr & Kulkalgal woman working in the areas of Indigenous & Environmental social justice. She currently works to promote and integrate Indigenous ecological knowledge within the recovery work of threatened native species, and natural resource management structures within New South Wales. Kaleesha is passionate about Indigenous language revival and resurgence, and has a background in facilitating collaborative governance – designing Indigenous – led concepts and strategies of success & development through Decolonial, re – Indigenizing, social justice frameworks. Kaleesha has worked within local, regional, national and International Indigenous human rights policy spheres, including shadow reporting at the United Nations Permanent Forum of Indigenous Issues, and campaigning for Indigenous climate justice rights within networks covering south – east Asia and the South Pacific.
There will be opportunities upon Latoya & Kaleesha's return to feedback to community the outcomes of the trip - we expect to expand preexisting relationships with Indigenous leaders and nations, and develop new working relationships that can impact nation-building efforts in future.
If you are from an organisation/ union/ university etc. and can donate a larger amount of money please email us:
[email redacted]
Thank you for assisting us in building up our campaigns internationally!
#STOPABORIGINALDEATHSINCUSTODY
#STOPTHEGENOCIDE
#JUSTICENOW
Organizer
Latoya Rule
Organizer
Adelaide SA
