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I remember a TD [Irish politician] suggesting that Travellers needed to win over the hearts and minds of the settled population. This struck me as impossible, one can not change the minds of 4.5 million people. Overwhelmed by guilt, shame, and failure, I struggled to fully express my thoughts and my years turned into lifetimes. These colonial labels, Traveller, Itinerant, and Tinker predate me. They represent centuries of oppression and yet, no one can explain their origins. You judge me by your own standards, your class based values and forgetting that every institution you deem Irish actually stems from Westminster, England. From childhood, we're told we're broken, different, outsiders. This relentless message never ends and today Traveller children die so the Settled Irish can maintain their illusions. Colonisation persists, and those who call themselves Irish are themselves psychologically colonised, unaware of how their systems perpetuate English colonial rule. Settled Ireland has no right to speak of Gaelic history when they continue to harm Travellers daily, even under the guise of help. We can never win the hearts and minds of a people whose souls are bound to empire and a false sense of identity. @MichealMartinTD @fiannafailparty Your party's desperate chase for global recognition as 'the default Irish' has led to the deaths of Traveller men, women, and children. By perpetuating colonial institutions and fostering an English mentality under the guise of Irish identity, you've failed us all. This may be the root of Ireland's mental health crisis. #Decolonisation is the only path to true peace and a united Ireland. #Healing
The making of the Irish Traveller Community: 1950-2010
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Did you catch our blog about Juneteenth? If you missed it, check it out by clicking the link: https://hubs.ly/Q02Cf8Gl0 #globalmobility #juneteenth
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Delivers strategic advice and guidance, communication and engagement services, specialising in Aboriginal communities and social policy
If you want to Acknowledge Country meaningfully and with integrity, can you answer the following questions? 1. What is the Aboriginal Country Nation you were born on 2. What is the Aboriginal Country and Nation you grew up on as a child 3. What is the Aboriginal Country you now live on and raise your family? Start with Country. If you cant answer these questions how can you ever meaningfully or authentically 'acknowledge' country if you don't first yet understand your own connection to Country and Place. Im tired of the commodification of this protocol that as a process can easily be accessed and understood for free in a quick google search. The problem is not in the how. The challenge is in the Connection. Reflect on the above questions and your personal memories and connections to these places, once that is fully understood your capacity to confidently engage with and deliver Acknowledgement of Country will be much stronger, trust me. And if not reach out and I'll give you any further advice and guidance that can support you. Can you answer one or all of the above? let me know in the comments, would love to see Country and Place Names light up the comments.
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Today is International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. The Whanagnui River is a perfect example of water and Indigenous communities crossing over. 💧In March 2017, the New Zeland Government gave the river legal personhood status. Meaning it has all the rights, powers, duties, and liabilities of a legal person. 💧 This happened to help protect the river from further degredation and to recognise the inalienable connection between the tribes and the river culturally and as custodians. 💧This has changed the relationship to one of responsibility over the river's wellbeing, rather than one of rights to resources. 💧 In practise, it means that the Whanagnui River has legal representation for any activity on the river, as well as ensuring protection of the river so that all communities are responsible for its wellbeing. Read more about this world leading case study here: https://ow.ly/bign50PvReZ
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This is one of my absolute favourite water + people case studies 💙 Are human rights for nature the gold standard for what should be the norm in the future? The full case study can be discovered here: (with great pictures!) https://lnkd.in/dvkYBEYa
Today is International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. The Whanagnui River is a perfect example of water and Indigenous communities crossing over. 💧In March 2017, the New Zeland Government gave the river legal personhood status. Meaning it has all the rights, powers, duties, and liabilities of a legal person. 💧 This happened to help protect the river from further degredation and to recognise the inalienable connection between the tribes and the river culturally and as custodians. 💧This has changed the relationship to one of responsibility over the river's wellbeing, rather than one of rights to resources. 💧 In practise, it means that the Whanagnui River has legal representation for any activity on the river, as well as ensuring protection of the river so that all communities are responsible for its wellbeing. Read more about this world leading case study here: https://ow.ly/bign50PvReZ
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Bellingen, NSW came out for #Yes, yesterday! It's heartening to see the community support for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice: a modest, yet significant proposal to afford First Nations people full expression of their human rights. Establishing the Voice will fulfil Australia's obligations to numerous international human rights instruments, most notably the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People which informed the development of the Uluru Statement from the Heart. The Voice is a common-sense, rights-based proposal. Evidence shows us that when First Nations people have a say in developing laws and policies that affect their lives, more effective approaches are created and lives improve. When I #writeyes on October 14, this is what I'm saying yes to: ✔ Yes to Voice. ✔ Yes to Treaty. ✔ Yes to Truth-telling. ✔ Yes to listening to First Nations people who have always had the solutions to the issues their communities face but have never truly been heard, trusted and resourced. ✔ Yes to taking advantage of this moment to continue the fight for transformative justice and rights that mob have sustained for generations. ✔ Yes to rejecting the status quo and imagining a different future is possible for this country: one in which First Nations people are centred, celebrated and respected to lead the way in determining their own futures. Everything to gain. Nothing to lose. #Yes23 Yes23 The Uluru Statement from the Heart - Uluru Dialogue (Official) Thomas Mayo Professor Megan Davis
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@NewsAndAid always here to inform you! Read this interesting article
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Learn a few historical things about Jamaica. Did you know that Jamaica has a railway system long before America? In fact Jamaica was the second country in the world after England to have a railway with trains running. https://lnkd.in/dnCPJMeX
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My Sunday musing. The potential for darkness and light reside in us all, the potential for both echoing through the halls of the human psyche. Choice is the substance that catalyses our actions: love or hate. I choose love and light over darkness and hate. What is your choice? Choose well, for you alone wield the power: the agency is yours! The societies in which we exist are social constructs forged at the intersection of our collective thoughts and actions. They are the Genesis of our zeitgeist and the foundation blocks our social contracts. Society and culture are not geographically bound; they are ideologically bound, socially constructed entities. Let us put that in context: Ireland is geographically bound; to be 'Irish' is not. Irish communities and their culture are flourishing globally. Just because the Irish may not live in the physical geographical jurisdiction does not remove Irishness from people. Culture and society transcend physical boundaries and reside within the ether of communal thought. I use Ireland as an example because my family left Ireland during the famine and never forgot where they came from or the culture. My concept applies to other cultures and societies as well. #SundayThoughts #IrishDiaspora #Culture #Philosophy The picture was generated by Dalle-3 because I do not even stick pictures well. 😉
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On this Indigenous Peoples Day, we recognize that we are all on native land. And we celebrate Native Americans' centuries-long history of resilience, while realizing the atrocities they endured. Research the Indigenous territories where you live with this interactive map >> https://loom.ly/4J2-k4s
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