trapped- old growth in east gippsland (image)

 

Hope and Survival

Hope and Survival by Wallaby Poors

The land has been taken and taken over again. The ones that come and plunder the land don't know the land and its sacredness. There seems no way out from the consequences of their actions. Their system devours all that is sacred to us. We are unsure where to turn, with our survival and our hope disconnected from each other. Survival without hope for the future makes their less options for survival in the future

Hope and survival need to reconnect or we will spiral downward into a new world order where none of us will be free. Hope is what carries us on, what transcends our enslavement. Slaves carry on only with the hope of a better future. The hope for freedom. A freedom from slavery. Disconnecting from each other and our environment are our greatest threats. Not having enough supporters is worse that having many opponents.

The biological disasters the system is creating are being ignored by the profiteers of the system and the mass media. Indicators for climate change increasingly point to sooner and larger changes in the environment. The ice melts of the northern and southern poles are on, and life on earth will never be the same. Talk of rise in sea levels should have us on the coast a little worried.

The latest report from the United Nations International Union of Conservation and Nature (IUCN) on endangered species reconfirms that species extinction is running at 1000 times the natural rate. The alarm bells have been ringing now for so long that many people can no longer hear them. The mass media has tiny little coverage of what should be important global headlines. We have failed to inspect the evidence and the canary is dead.

It seems like we need to free the canary before we can free ourselves. The canary in the coalmine carried the warning of impending death. The global mine has lost its bearings and those enamoured in the excess and waste of first world imperialism have forgotten what is always in the front of their eyes but absent from their daily thoughts.

To free ourselves we must remember the ghost of the canary in our global industrial military nuclear chemical shopping mine.

The alarm bells are ringing clearly in all environmental indicators, such as the death of frogs in the riparian zones and waterways, to the plankton of the melting Antarctic to the polar bears of the melting Arctic Circle. The last of the planet's ancient ecosystems are being woodchipped under a corporate planetary banditry. Desertification is increasing through unsustainable agricultural methods.

Permaculture or permanent culture is a loose framework for a future method of survival, as industrial pesticide and petrochemical culture follows a road to extinction. We need a holistic permanent culture based on socially just and environmentally sustainable principles. A culture that blends the best of old and new knowledge. A culture that has learnt the lessons of war, genocide, ecocide, pollution and slavery. A culture that embraces the natural environment as its greatest asset and treats it as a gift that can be lost if not respected and acknowledged as such.

Biodiversity is the planet's greatest asset, and is being lost at a diabolical rate. Biodiversity is part of the Earth and not owned by gene altering chemical corporations. Minerals are part of the earth and not owned by mining corporations. The ability to survive is increasingly being illegally owned by corporations, as is DNA, and the patenting of life. Monsanto does not legally own life under any justice. Nor does Novartis or Huntingdon Life Sciences.

Living under slavery is a hard place to fight for freedom and justice from, but ignoring your slavery is no place at all.

Freedom is not forgetting the past. Lessons of the past learnt can save us from the condemnation of repeating them. It's the freedom of learning through karmic nudges not karmic sledgehammers. Sledgehammers hurt and make us more repressed.

Precautionary and reactionary behaviours appear at different times to the same problems. Precaution gives us insight and a little foresight, whereas reaction is taken when we are on the back foot.

Freedom is not forgetting the past and freedom is not forgetting the future. Decisions made for future generations on the lessons learnt from the past, done consensually by the myriad of interpretations different people compassionately and honestly bring.

Freedom is self determination, not a new IKEA coffee table made from old growth Brazilian rainforest or choice between McDonalds or KFC for dinner. Freedom is suppressed by brands and products brought to us by a litany of corporate destruction.

Self determination comes through an understanding of cause and effect. The Rainforest furniture came from the place that the big mac patties now come from. I can't support the rainforest and support McDonalds. Which benefits the planet more, the biodiversity, the cultural diversity, and therefore, myself? Which is my choice?

Self determination is for all, a freedom from discrimination in the community. Self determination requires a co-operative community that respects people for who they are. Self determination can only ever be ensured by guaranteeing it for everyone. Freedom requires the responsibility of not threatening another's freedom or survival.

It is this cornerstone idea; with the sanctity we give someone's life, which underpins our repulsion to murder. If we are repulsed by murder, we must also have a repulsion to war, which is a mass genocide of people, but harder to pinpoint in its rage of mass murder from afar. In war, many people die for some elite people's spat over glory and wealth.

Currently global decisions are being made in the interests of warmongers who direct their enslaved footsoldiers in their plans for global imperialism, from the safety and leisure of their palaces. Are we going to continue to be victims of mass murderers and thieves forever or until they destroy us all?

Rather than people gaining the freedom to self determine their best interests, and having the ability to move toward a more sustainable lifestyle, we are all getting increasingly chained to the system. We are being led like lemmings to toxic meltdown. We cannot cope anymore. People want to change but fear the government. If given the chance would people govern themselves to seek better outcomes to the entrenched problems of the current system?

A lot of people are living to protect their own interests, and where possible their children. The future that their children's children will inherit is not being considered by those who have the privilege of ignoring it. The future survival prospects of humanity are leading some white racist movements to justify ignoring AIDS in Africa. Their ideas of survival in the future have the ethics of survival at all costs, and envision a them and us mentality. The talk is of shooting your neighbour, not helping them.

It is this self-interest that is leading us to mutually assured destruction all round.

No one is free unless we are all free. To persecute difference is to persecute the natural physicality and culture someone is born into, and to persecute the way we can all express ourselves and think. To persecute others for where and whom they are born to is a persecution of lucky dip. To think that it is justified to have the freedom of hatred of others on these grounds is irrational.

The persecution of difference also leads to a reactionary persecution of those who sympathise with all of humanity, and respect global and local needs of cultural sovereignty and diversity, and a reactionary persecution of those who care for the biodiversity, ecosystems and other species on the planet.

Those who dare to dream of a better future face increasing persecutions by the state. Our war is for a better future for the earth and its inhabitants. All violence amongst any of the people benefits the state. We need to stand together. Our enemy is state, capitalism and authoritarianism, but our fight transcends these foes, as it is a fight for survival as we know it. A survival that can only be granted by collectivist means, not by huge disparities in wealth and survival for some. A survival that does not include genocide of the poor

The great idea not focussed on in evolutionary theory is co-operation, and our natural consciousness understands that we all bloom in peace and equality. Human rights can never be realised if those who receive human rights are selected by genetics or beliefs. Human rights only exist if they exist for all humans.

Our human survival depends on a humanity free of genocides. We cannot ignore continents of people suffering and do nothing. This is condoning genocide. Reprehensible ideas of feathering our own nests so our going doesn't get too tough need to be examined for their effect on people outside our community. You don't need a gated community, and if you think you do your world is based on fantasies and delusion, not justice and security.

We need to recognise that the mass genocides that have created so much upheaval cannot be repeated again in the increasing globalisation of neoliberalism. The new brand name for mass global genocide is neoliberal globalisation. It is a conversion into a new world order that wants a single culture dictated by and for the interests of the powers that be. Where people gain their food nutrition from and appreciate the diversity of the mcdonalds menu.

The waves of new technologies and their continual rebranding occupy the mental environment, making the future less certain but guaranteed to be branded. Neon lights do not trick us anymore!

People are starting to wake up to the complete darkness the powerful are leading us into. Many feel powerless to change things and some attack groups of people they feel they can hurt. This can include those who support their emancipation from slavery. (by fighting for their own emancipation)

It can be a bitterness toward people who appear free, as they fight for ideas of
freedom, but who are just struggling against the system a little louder. These same people struggling and resisting a little louder also condemn the persecution of anyone, making it an effort for people to justify their prejudices over a more rational analysis of the situation.

There is a consensus of realisation that while some of us feel a desperate need for change, others couldn't care less. This is an argument for us to keep walking forward, not going quietly into other people's oblivious disconnection. The challenge starts with ourselves and ends with ourselves in our own seeking of truth as best as we can.
Yes we need everyone else to support the need for change, but most of all, the planet needs people to not give up hope on it or each other. Let that hopeful person be you.

There is an important need for the consolidation of peace, justice, human rights, local cultural sovereignty, asylum from persecution, other specie's rights, ecological survival and clean food and water protection. There is no justice, just us. We ARE our only hope. We still care and our concerns still matter.

Those who fight for social change and environmental survival do so not because they want to be proven right. I wish I were wrong. My personal hell is to spend the last moments before a nuclear apocalypse yelling I told you so to other condemned souls.

We need to believe ourselves, and not the media lies that get fed back to us, sometimes by our own families and communities. We need to seriously consider our preparation for the outcomes of our own prophecies. Lets save seed diversity, let's recall our ancestral connection to natural timing and balance. Let's honour our home and environment. It is one and the same.

Let's celebrate with our environmental calendar, not the shopping calendar. Let us be heard on the winds, not lost on them. Hear each other over the television. Hear our neighbours over the elite benefactors of the system.

Lets talk under trees, not over old growth timber coffee tables. Look after your connections and your connections will look after you. That being a universal existence and a connection to all

Wallaby Poors 2004 Soil Liberation Frontyard Publications
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The Concrete Apocalypse-Prelogue-Leave That Gum Alone

The Concrete Apocalypse

Prelogue Leave That Gum Alone

by Wallaby Poors
sustainablesnail@riseup.net

A Soil Liberation Frontyard Publication



Soil Liberation Frontyard Get out the jackhammers and start hammering for the next generation. Leave that Gum alone!

On the day a young gum tree was killed for no good reason

As a million thoughts swamp through my mind, today is the day that I mourn the young gum tree cut down over my back fence. Like the many people being cut down in the prime of their life, so are the young trees planted in places that we eventually don't want them in.

The gum tree would have been planted after the land was sold to property developers probably only a decade ago. Who decided to plant the gum tree in the small backyard and then cut it down as the young healthy tree became established? I am not sure of the species of gum, (which I can't verify now as it has been demolished in the chipper) but I believe it was a lemon-scented gum. The foliage of these gums is high up the trunk, making it too hard to climb up. The high fence between our backyard and the former tree's position a metre away never allowed my treehugging tendencies to eventuate.

Perhaps a pair of honeyeaters relying on the Merri Creek nature corridor for survival could of nested there in the future. That is if the Indian Mynas didn't bully them out like in the oak tree next door this summer. (For a study of modern human behavior, comparisons can be made to that of the Indian Mynas in the bird world.)

The tree gave our backyard a presence of health, joining with the other native trees and our backyard garden and the house and garden next door in creating a semi-oasis on a main road surrounded by blocks of flats, petrol stations and car repair yards. The only saving grace is the tramline for those of us living carless in car culture and the park in front of the commission flats.

The tree is an anti-thesis of the culture surrounding these two houses joined together as an island in Melbourne's gentrified inner city. Our island is surrounded by places now dedicated to car culture. Petrol stations on either side of the road that have no one responsible or knowledgeable about the history of soil contamination. Across the road the majority of business are car repair yards. No community gardens, food
outlets or art or cultural centres, no places for people to gather

Next to us is a cemented car park for the residents of the flats. Telling signs of the people's lifestyle is when it is unsafe to walk your dog off lead past the car park driveways during peak hour traffic times. The
little boxes called flats on impervious concreted areas of land is what they now call home. A fair percentage of the space they rent in these housing developments is their car space.

Gardens, the one thing that can allow people to reconnect to nature and natural cycles are not included in their housing package. Everyone gets a car park but not a garden plot. On one of the minority of roads in
metropolitan Melbourne that gets a decent tram service, the developers deem that it is car parking, not food growing that they need.

Whose fault is it if people believe that all they need is a two or three roomed box and a car park to live in, when they have been immersed only in the technology culture, with 'the office', 'the bar', 'the flat' and 'the road' being the main theatres of life? How can they scratch the earth with their toes and smell the flowers when the trapped in the prison of the Concrete Apocalypse?

The flats behind our house have balconies that were rarely sat on during our long, warm summer. The gum tree killed today provided shade for the residents on the balcony, and no branches of this young gum threatened anyone. How can branches fall on people who don't even spend time in their small backyards anyway? Why are they not thankful for the sunsets they could witness under the shade of this small gum tree on their balcony?

Why do trees get chopped down under the fear of public liability claims when no one even takes the time to sit under them anyway? Why does every description of reality under capitalism sound so ridiculous to common sense? Why did this have tree have to suffer and die due to this bullshit?
Why are the reasons to these questions also responsible for the destruction of life around the globe, epitomised in the destruction of the giantly vast Amazon rainforest, described as the 'lungs of the earth'?

My connection to the Earth feels the loss of the gum tree over my back fence. Likewise the loss of ancient forests all over the planet affects the collective consciousness of humanity everyday.

If you can't feel the loss of the ancient forests, and the ancient landscapes of every ecological variety from deserts to oceans,, and the loss of ancient human cultures that lived in synchronicity with the land, then you have been deadened.

You have cut off yourself from your heart because it hurts too much to face the destruction that surrounds you. You are hiding behind the lies that are presented to you conveniently everyday, because what is being
destroyed, from down the street to around the world is connected to you. Ultimately.

On a sunny day the log trucks are being filled up with log after log, every day of our lives, and now the industry is able to log longer into the winter due to the draught and due to ignoring the health and safety of
workers. The hundreds of football ovals of ancient forest lost every day is a byproduct the same as the thousands of starved to death children living in impoverished nations are everyday. The dominant economic system, capitalism, the pursuit of power dictated by money is the cause.

You will also know that the same thing is attacking you. Greed and money and the corruption of power. The war that dominates the news is over oil, the oil that we need to run our cars and systems. More cars and
less trees make every human lung system sick. Perhaps cars need warnings like packets of cigarettes. Your car harms others, your car harms your unborn baby, your car gives you lung cancer.

There are so many alternatives. Bioregionalism of production, which comes with the knowledge granted through anarchic and consensual debate in a community. Everyone has an ability to voice their needs. That way everyone has a job that the community needs as a whole to have done. Everyone has a job worthy of respect in the community because the community works together and plays together. A community that talks to each other has inbuilt support networks naturally in it. Those who are in the need of care receive it collectively from the community. Asylum seekers are recognised as needing refuge in our community.

The pressures of the outside world that can lead to domestic abuse is eroded by a community of people looking out for each other's health and stresses, and each other's kids. Included in a bioregional community is the recognition of the needs that people have in relation to land and having the need of sanctuary, and the needs to sustainably survive at heir disposal.

Bioregional community co-operation and production reduces the need of transportation. We can also be less reliant on oil by turning to renewable and less ecologically damaging fuels. SUVS taking up people's lives? Make cars smaller to fit on the paths that what would be more dominated by bicycles. Help people who don't have the ability to get around on bikes get around. The sustainable energised mobility of people just takes a little common sense.

Decision making is not fair. The decision making is being done by those who champion the free market, and the decision makers who champion the free market benefit out of the outcomes of the 'free market', which they devised to reflect their interests in money and power.

The departments and authorities are filled with everyday people always (with exception of revolution), answerable to the minister, who is answerable (and related) to the monarch or the president?

Why are the same families in control of everything, with owners of corporations and US presidents related to the European aristocracy, which in turn goes back to the ancient worlds of Egypt and Rome? The evidence is in their palaces.

Why aren't the people that have looked after the land for an ancient amount of time listened to?

Most of us live in this southern continent as descendants of migrants. Why is the same monarch of England in control of this land under the Australian constitution, when she is responsible for all the genocide that occurred in her name here and across the world, just like her relation, the US president is also responsible for?

When someone is said to have supreme power, but does not exercise it, as it is merely symbolic, you know you've been told a wobbly.

Getting people just trying to feed their kids, to implement your false authorita, who never realise the centralised, fascist state they live under. It can be hard to wonder who the fuck gives you queen or president the right to decide who lives and dies at the flick of a switch?, when you're just trying to survive.

How can we avoid the red tape of the system that tangles the youth of today like the young tree cut down? Let there be no illusion to the colour of red in red tape. Red tape as the red blood it spills. It forms a system that cannot deny its' sole purpose is the pursuit of money.

A healthy community requires community decision making, not communitybconsultation by government and its bureaucratic arms. Consulting people aout decisions you have already made to the dictates of those making the oney out of it is not a consultation process. It doesn't work if you on't listen. When no one in this system can hear because their ears are rapped in the bureaucratic red tape of 'what can be achieved under the
current system', it shows that the system we live by is mad.

We live under its control, and we are identified by Centrelinked incomes, taxes and bank accounts as essentially nothing more than worker ants at some point in the chain of command, or as mechanised cogs in the wheels of
capitalism. The market rules because the market forces rule us all.

The controllers of the tyrannical free market do not barter, they erect. bigger and bigger fences and more dangerous weaponries and mind controlsto keep us down. They starve us while they benefit from their planetary destruction. This planetary destruction is personal. This destruction is of our collective homelands and cultures and can be felt at a personal level and on any local and global scale you care to measure it on.

Like any hierarchical structure, those bringing in the New World Order have a hierarchical structure to the top chain of command. Those leading the resistances to the new world order around the world know that they all fight as equals, thus making their success much more likely. It is the kind of equality that is like looking someone in the eye, knowing that they will stand by you, giving you the respect to offer you support and protection if needed.

To break the chains of lies we must speak the truth

We are all sick whether we understand it or not, and are trapped in this system. My liberation is wound up in the people's liberation in the housing commission flats next to the park down from us. At least some of
them hang out in the park sometimes.

What of the neighbours in the 'yuppie flats'? Are they really selfish yuppies that deserve to go to hell or are they disconnected to the nature of life? Neighbours looking after each other's kids is an example that
community still occurs, if briefly in this kind of modern living.

Why can't we have a gate in our backyard fences, so they could have access to our vegie patch, and sow a crop of beans or broccoli of their own? Why is even the dismantling of fences tied in bureaucratic red tape?

Property boundary disputes.

What of the property disputes that have never seen any justice, the original property dispute of this land, between the property LAWed English army and the environmentalist Indigenous nations of this continent? Who ever asked them about whether these fences should be erected? Who stole their land and erected these fences that continually encapsulate smaller and smaller areas?

Why did the Mabo judgement recognise the lie of Terra Nulius (making the Australian constitution invalid under international law) but was based on the fences that were put up by the Indigenous people of Mabo Island near the beginning of the European invasion of their land?, and can't be applied in the same way on mainland Australia.

Why as Robby Thorpe (Gunai) argues, is this finding of law, (the Mabo case) then liquidated down by the Howard government to be under the jurisdiction of pastoral leases, which is for the white man's cattle and sheep? Why are the most ancient cultures on the planet disrespected so much?

With this re-understanding of the significance of what land is to us, comes the recognition of the Indigenous people's connection and sovereignty of land. Indigenous people's families are the longest locals in town by an eon of time. Why do we not even grant them the average spoils of the average white person in society, on the land stolen from them?

We didn’t even ask if we could come here, it was a colonial invasion. Why don't we recognise that we live in a Western first world enclave in the southern Hemisphere, usurping cultures of people that were mass murdered by the English army, beginning in the 18th century, by both biological terrorism (small pox, plaster of paris, poisoned waterholes) and the gun.

It is time to learn the laws of genocide. It is time to break down the fences that fence people and nature away from each other. It is time to reconnect. We can make a difference in this world. To begin with is requires listening. Respect is the word shouted in hip-hop for due reason.

The eucalypt need not be chopped down because of branches falling on places we no longer sit

Respecting yourself and all that is outside of yourself will lead to "the interconnectedness of all being the protection of all"

Sustainable Snail Archives 2004 Deprogram and Avoid Microchipping Productions 2004

The Concrete Apocalypse second mark Flowering Indigenous geraniums

The Concrete Apocalypse,

second mark

By Wallaby Poors

When the sunflowers died, I knew that the long legged fairy would flower in indigenous geraniums, how will my hope in the fairy survive now under concrete?

My house became a sanctuary ironically in an area suffering from the great loss of sanctuary, known as the process of gentrification.

Our save old growth forest banner flew in the wind whether or not a parked four wheel drive obscured its view on this yuppie land roving front of inner city Melbourne, the once working class area of North Fitzroy.


It had succumbed to the full-blown effects of yuppies and their unthinking, uncaring self-absorbed lifestyles. Much like the football team it lay north of in an era not so long ago when community and sport were simple and needed no corporate overseeing.

Overshadowed by triple storey flats of the yuppie dreaming, and terrorised by fossil fuelled vehicles, the two lots of land left with houses and backyard are now up on the auction’s block too, our rental ‘property’ being home to eight animals all up, plus many visitors and long stayers.

The landless gardener is set asunder by the real estate redevelopment machine and those with the title deeds. My kangaroo apple will keep growing, my wedge leaf hop bush will keep my huge palm tree company, and I will be gentrified out, knowing that the garden was only mine, because I allowed it to live, and I too belong to the land.

In this reality, money kills everyone’s dreams of flowering indigenous geraniums. Never mind those who mourn the passing of the parcels of land carved up into oblivion, where your feet walk on the unhealthy surface of cement and you lose your connection to natural vegetation.

I wish real estate agents could feel my fear of homelessness. I wish landlords believed in the fairies at the bottom of the garden and could see them flowering in indigenous geraniums. I more wish the total obliteration of these thieving types who have no legal jurisdiction, other than a genocidal capitalists system that their murdering criminal forebears made up and imposed on cultures all over the Earth;.

We all know how wrong money is but we all scramble for it as we know no other way to survive. This is disconnection. A lot of us want an equitable, sustainable and simpler lifestyle but we have no land or collective to empower ourselves. This is dislocation and inability to come together before the going gets too tough.

A lot of talk comes from those who have money about what we should do about those who don’t have any, and little is put where there gourmet fed mouths are. Can only those in poverty understand it, when those who can make it more equitable inherent the legacy of wealth and the ease of inherited prosperity?

I ask a lot of questions because we as a society are not asking the right questions, and therefore not finding the answers to our many problems. Why can’t we collect the water that falls on our roof and goes into stormwater? Why can’t we eat the foods that humanity has evolved on without poisoning it? Why do we have so much food stored or dumped when so many people are starving? Why can’t we afford someone who looks or thinks differently equal human rights?

If we can collectively answer questions we throw up individually at each other, and that many, or most of us are asking, how would they be answered?

The society that would be able to find answers would have to have be a compassionate and egalitarian culture that could listen to the excluded. Currently we are living in a society that is based on increasing layers of exclusion. It teaches us to hate each other rather than the ones that leach off the rest of us, the ones who literally make a mastercard purchase and gobble up the resources that would sustain the starving. A culture called western that makes us guilty, apathetic, Xenophobic, trapped and scared. One cannot blossom in these conditions without class privilege.

Not many of us under this culture believe we can sacrifice what most people on the planet have never had. This is a lie. We can survive, if we begin adjusting to a slower, simpler, sustainable, collectivist culture. We could begin teaching our kids so they can inherit a world with an ethical value system and an ecological understanding for the future.

The western world creates wars for oil and other resources, and strategic trade routes, and then imprisons people fleeing from war and extreme poverty. Unthoughtful consumer demand leads to so many unethical and deadly realities. Among these market-based decisions is littered our history of war and genocide, earthmining and deforestation, repression, stolen lands and starvation.

Western cultures need to stop taking from people located in other places of the world, and stop destroying the Indigenous cultures they have usurped. In spite of this usurping, Indigenous cultures remain spiritually strong, and have a culture that is so naturally sustainable it makes sense as a future blueprint for all of us to take stock of our lives by.

A first step to this is to understand imperialism and genocide, and make reparations as much as we can at a grassroots level. Indigenous cultures are threatened around the world and on this continent, now called Australia. Natural balance cannot occur without the natural balance understood and brought about in harmony with nature by Indigenous people’s cultures and sacred knowledge of place.

Imperialist greed has left the earth with many scars, scars that cannot ever heal or return to an equibrilium, as fresh wounds are opened up all over the place. Land cannot heal if we prevent it from occurring naturally.

There is no game called people versus nature. People are part of nature, however through disconnection, brought on by a brainwashing of the collective, we are hurting nature. The suffering of humanity reflects the suffering of the earth and the suffering of the billions of species that are dropping off in the highest extinction rate ever.

Planet Earth has never been industrialised before! That’s why no one can guarantee, (and those who try to for their own greed only lie) that industrialisation won’t eventually, sooner or later destroy the Earth. The evidence has been coming in for a while now. The rapid advances of technology and its increasingly rapid natural consequences are becoming more apparent by our increasing technological ability to observe it.

Reports have come in that the ocean may be poisoning itself by absorbing co2 to prevent atmospheric change caused by human induced climate change by the burning of fossil fuels and destroying the Earth’s ecosystems. This absorption of co2 is causing the ocean to become more acidic.

As you sit on your couch, is the ocean doing what you should be doing?

You are not the only one with a broken heart, broken muscles, broken body, broken mind, broken spirit. The earth that keeps you alive is broken and we need to help it heal itself. A whole lot of us would do better to sit back and refrain from our careers in the system.

Can I Please assert, the SYSTEM IS NOT A GAME IT IS A GENOCIDAL, ECOCIDAL REALITY AND WORKS ON PREMEDITATED SYSTEMATIC MASS MURDER.

The lies of the system will deny and poke ridicule at its critics, and the subservient trust their masters more than their master’s critics who are also enslaved. As rack and ruin continues across the earth, and our energies get depleted, we need to consolidate. For the future will be doomed if we don’t do something now

Wallaby Poors aka.susitainablesnail 2004
A Deprogram and Avoid Microchipping Production for Soil Liberation Frontyard Publications

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The Concrete Apocalypse third pawprint- Grassprouts versus Tanks n' Banks

The Concrete Apocalypse, third pawprint

Grass Sprouts versus Tanks n’ Banks
By Wallaby Poors
Who wants to be a heroic tank,
When you can be a wild grasssprout?

Time to breathe the spirit that is around us
Time to hear the voices of our ancestors
Time to recognise what needs reparation
Time to let the land heal from destruction

Where are we at, in a world dominated by repression and hysterical manipulations of the truth to hide the great wrongs done?

What is wrong with our understanding of the dominant paradigm increasingly restricting our own abilities to survive and express ourselves?

How do we survive?

How will we survive in the future?

How do people learn how to survive if they don’t know they need to learn it?

Our ability to support ourselves self sustainably lacks being able to be readily understood and available to the majority of people. Pushed outside the loop of the mainstream, the capitalist system, how does a grassroots movement for change significantly alter the control of people, land and all they call “resources’ from out of touch elites hiding behind tanks in banks?

The assorted numbers assigned to you for life, the electronic transactions that enable your very survival, the heartbeat as you enter the unemployment office, the crutches of addiction used as coping mechanisms, the bombardment in waking hours of advertising, the dreams flashed back to us when we are asleep from the wired up mental environment of our waking hours, the failure to live up to our impossible and deluded dreams of success and development, the poverty that disempowers our ability to change our lives.

I stand in a barren city, hungry, and have no where to go I can’t scratch the earth for there’s little sandy soil left now we just build over the last environmental disaster
where is the place where I can go for sanctuary all the church doors are locked cos there’s no way in nothing to live for when you have to work in fraud the fraud of modern society where money is king
and you are penalised for not having any.

I have never ever been able to cope with this system. Where does this leave me?
The call of the Zapatistas. You are no longer You. Now You are Us.
I am the other. You are the other. Think like the other walk in the other you are the other

What does this mean? It could be taken as recognising the courage of the other, the unrepresented minorities. How does the other be affected by my actions? It takes a compassionate leap that must be unassuming. If you are to recognise the other, and be the other, then how can you not assume?

Perhaps it is through seeking the voices not represented, the views not considered, that we can understand the other.

The truth is that our system is based only on the pursuit of money, and through the control of more money, the holding of power over others,. The class caste system goes down to the downtrodden classes forgotten. Perhaps this is the other that we are meant to understand, that we are meant to elevate our identities to being.

The ones with nothing to lose but their lives themselves. The ones with nothing to protest with but their own bodies. The ones living and dying in jail for the principle of self-dignity and the protection of their own culture. The persecuted whose affections are frowned upon by their own culture. The majority of children that we didn’t see die on the TV news. Those abused behind closed doors and sealed off family units. Those addicted to sticking needles in their arms.

The grand narrative of modern society is a belief system that some forcefully and subtlety demand that you concur with. Labels are applied to those who don’t, and the fearful people of the lower classes propel these myths given to them on a platter by their ruling class masters, who laugh at the ignorance of the brainwashed all the way to the bank.

We know the labels, the ugly buzzwords, hippie feral terrorist anarchist dole bludger unwashed commie pinko greenie ratbag disrupter troublemaker rabble-rouser. Some labels are made up for us, some we are proud of, some are manipulated into different meanings, some are nasty and some are hilarious. The corporate media is full of shit

Do we dream to live the futures of hollywood movies, detached, disengaged, disconnected? Could we live without the modern day amenity and convenience?
Could we live well and mighty off the refuse of the last generation? And who is going to clean up our stinkin mess?

The secret to sustainability is hidden in our rubbish bins. Reusing and recycling and not creating useless waste in the first place is key. Supermarkets are based solely on profit margins., with underpaid, overworked staff, over packed, unethical, unnatural, genetically modified products. You can’t eat from the bin as its padlocked too make sure you buy the next shipment, containments of goods mass produced by slaves in less fortunate places. The sweat and tears end up in landfill, like the memories of our time.

So much profit for such a loss of value to everything, all that is in our world, the very rocks that are broken and sorted through, often with chemical conditioners like the deadly cyanide, to get the earth’s hidden treasures, treasures to some that are tribulations to all.

No plans are forthcoming to heal from the poisons of tribulation.

Governments focus on building bigger missiles to knock other missiles out of the sky, rather than tackling it on the ground and agreeing diplomatically that we don’t want to shoot each other with nuclear weapons, dismantling and understanding that negotiation and equality are solutions that prevents war from destroying us all.

When darkness is brewing on every side, don’t listen to the television. Life is always feeling, it is not just when the television pauses to remember and be remorceful when pain inflicts acceptable ‘unacceptable’ people. Don’t be sucked into the horrible oblivion of the corporate media.

Screaming, screaming can be good.

Focus, focus, just because the world is fucked doesn’t mean you don’t have to do anything-

With no people to walk down the street in solidarity with, do we do it with our messages painted on walls, do we think of people in other places that we can’t afford to get airfares and visas and visit. Is life just a less poignant Orwellian text because it fits our reality, rather than just in a dark black and white movie or novel.

How spoilt are you, why do you have so much, when did you get ahead of the others and who are the others, the ones that can’t afford organic gourmet tarts? And where does the guilt end and responsibility begin? Where does the depression end and the hope begin?

How do we break down the hierarchical layers of our existence so it doesn’t chain us up, with all of us linked in chains from top to bottom?

Wallaby Poors (aka susitainablesnail) 2004 A Soil Liberation Frontyard Publication Deprogram and Avoid Microchipping

The Concrete Apocalypse fourth pawprint Taking Everything for Granted

The Concrete Apocalypse

fourth pawprint

Taking Everything for Granted


By Wallaby Poors

The elements of this world are not being respected. The continued evolution of nature is being attacked every day we wake. You can go to sleep knowing that somewhere else, the destruction of our planet is continuing. How many of us realise this?

If humanity is bursting its bubble (our planetary atmosphere) then we need to be sure that we have the right cause of this unsustainability. Most people on the planet barely have enough to survive. They are the majority of humanity who are not raping and pillaging the land for their share portfolio; not buying imported cocacola products at the expense of a local community’s water supply in India.

Many people pass judgement on humanity in general and let themselves off the hook, and if this idea gathers momentum, we are all doomed.

Our hope is now under attack. The belief that people generally will do the right thing has to be questioned. Is it ignorance, and mass manipulation of truth by the powers that be, or are the powers simply lucky that many people will keep quiet if their own lives appear relatively secure?

People in the “third world� don’t have the luxury of not caring. They don’t have air conditioners to hide from climate change. They don’t have super ginormous gas guzzlers to prevent their children from getting blisters on their feet.

You can’t hide in your climate friendly energised house when there are power shortages. People in the western world are vulnerable to climate change. Some may be able to pay to go to somewhere safe if they’re of the select few, but chances are you’re not.

Unless you rely on your own independent, renewable energy sources, you are reliant on a huge energy system that can be crashed by the force of nature, now encouraged by unprecedented climatic change.

In a cycle of injustice, it is still those that don’t have modern technology at their fingertips that suffer.

Climate change is expected to bear the brunt on many southern continent, tropical and island countries, so the world’s poorer people will disproportionately be more affected

No consideration is given to the millions of environmental refugees of the future. The western world is preoccupied with creating wars for oil and other resources, and strategic trade routes, and then imprisons people fleeing from war and extreme poverty.

While humanity’s industrial revolution war with the heavens is leading to a shaky and dangerous future, humanity is still at war with itself. Greed takes power and power stomps everything in greed’s way.

The corporate controllers of media communications use open class war and mind manipulation techniques. People interpret ancient religions the way that suits their plan for imperial domination and the killing of non-believers, and blame it on God’s will.

We all grow up with the beliefs of our families and societies surrounding us. However, Generation X was perhaps the first generation to really be born into an advertising mental environment blitz in an increasingly globalised, commercial, unethically profit driven world. Epitomised in the image of the 1980s. It is almost like a virtual reality convenience world, when considering its connection to nature, or recognising the land we walk on.

The powers that be manipulate what could be seen as flaws in the human psychology. People need to reclaim their natural bullshit detectors. Disconnect people so much, and tell them to hop skip and jump. Chances are they’ll be hopping before their asking why

Is apathy the logical step if life doesn’t come down to basic survival needs?. Apathy is such a privilege, and the enslaved aren’t waking up to the lack of privileges they really have, and their rapidly weakening rights.

Its not a dog eat dog world, it’s a human eat human world, and I know that most of us want to live in peace. Defending freedom doesn’t mean spying on people from different cultural backgrounds, it means supporting everyone’s freedom, and because they are threatened so much, especially coming to the support of people detained at Baxter Detention Centre

Is the psychology of humans such, that a hierarchical class system will always keep all the classed people under the thumb of the most powerful? Or is there a cultural bombardment of fear that has led to this predicament. Has it always occurred? It hurts more to believe that people, even when presented with enough information that change is needed, would simply choose to not care. Is this lack of empathy due to fear, xenophobia, brainwashing or just callousness?

In our saturated marketplace culture, and the far removed luxuries of the first world, a starving third world child becomes a mere concept, another sad statistic of a destined ‘globalised’ world that is best not to think about.

The excesses of capitalism don’t carry the cries of starving children. The trickle down effect of market economics doesn’t ever come into effect in reality, especially when ‘structural adjustments’ to the economy seal over the cracks in the trickle down of wealth to the poor.

Election campaigns, once fought in a more of a notionally democratic way, have become periods of big business propaganda over the mass media, with every major newspaper editorial written in support of the Government in spite of every reason why it deserves rejection, not support.

With the Australian continent and territories under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth Government, if one is to vote in this illegal, illegitimate system, then their responsibility would be to consider the 4% of the Earth’s land mass under the (illegal but real) jurisdiction of the people they vote for.

Democracy is a broken and twisted wreck with no sign of recovery under the current system. It appears destined for a long term death. As much as ‘socialism’ was realised to be a fraud in the Soviet Union, so too has ‘democracy’ to people in both old and new democratic countries

We can either live in this fantasy and accept further fascism in every aspect of our lives or we can look for other possibilities

It appears the only way for change is if we all get to together outside of this system. We may feel bound to the system but we can work outside of it, around it, over it and under it.

There is lots of way to exploit the system. Peoples’ compassion needs to be empowered, and community solidarity needs to be built to actualise compassionate outcomes for the excluded.

There are Landless People’s Movements that are creating communally what they need to survive, especially on the South American continent.

These communities of people have no luxuries to hide behind, and cannot cut off from each other the way that first world people ‘luxuriously’ believe they can. They have to squat on land, often no longer wanted, such as contaminated industrialised sites, because they have nowhere else, and no one but each other.

It is perhaps these Land Movements overseas that can become living examples to those pushed to the impoverished fringe in the first world, and those fighting for justice and sustainability in the waste piling, first world enclaves where people are obsessed with the need for money and the want for more if it.

Is it not also the struggles of refugees, who have seen tragedy and war beset their homelands, which would inspire all people in local communities to work together for a more equitable and ecological future.

Wouldn’t it be good to become positively ANTI WAR, organising and joining in anti war protests, no matter what their scale and mainstream support.

Bringing the war, locally and globally, into the visual memories of people in your local community can break up the stunning inaction of ignoring the mistakes of history.

The continued effects of the imperialist war, called Australia, are still being counted and remembered. This imperialist war needs to be called off. Indigenous Cultures need to be respected. We would all benefit to acknowledge whose land we walk on

The choice to move toward a better planet is ours, but the clock is clicking closer to midnight

Wallaby Poors, 2004
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The Concrete Apocalypse the 5th leap Need To Love A Bit More

The Concrete Apocalypse
The 5th Leap Need to Love a Bit More

The sacredness can be heard in the echo

Time for joyous uprising of NO

By Wallaby Poors

You know, sometime I get so angry I just want to burst out my door and ask why are we making the whole world so sick I just want to scream and take off all my clothes and climb the highest building and drop a huge banner saying wake up or climb the highest tree and say not this one fuckers or hack a bank and give money to pensioners and dole recipients

How do we go on when all we hold dear is being destroyed? Everything is up for sale and everything stands to be lost. Our homes, our communities, our environment. Repression of people and destruction of nature will lead to the destruction of us all.

Not much of an example of hope at hand, must look to what is around me. The corruption of the system can give nothing but contempt to us, as authoritarian, capitalism has shown contempt for the planet. The version of globalisation being pushed is continued ecological destruction of ecosystems all over the planet, and also the genocide of humanity’s cultures and peoples. Ultimately there may be no one left for them to destroy

peace 2004

hope we get out

That’s the wrap ,the conclusion, time to say I love you and some bright stuff. Maybe this is best left up to you.

How are you going to try and help STOP the destruction. We need healthy streams of water, ones where not long ago we could drink and swim. What evolutionary devo idea was it to put clean, healthy rivers down the list of priorities? Most people live near a freshwater river, although most are polluted. Floodplains are developed forgetting the nature of floodplains. Nuclear reactors most commonly reside next to rivers. Would you like uraniam with your water?

Chlorine and fluoride are added to water in some half baked experiment to poison us to protect us. Fluoride is said to dull the mind and accept compliance. Fluoride or not, we have a responsibility to change our thinking by thinking about what we are neglecting- a healthy environment and a fair community

Every time we defer our willingness to address the issues at hand, we must see an 8 year old child, a newborn baby. Instead of worrying about it ourselves, just ask them to deal with it, in 30 years, no 60 years, (if we follow the baby boomer generation’s lead) Think about it or force future generations to suffer the consequences.

You have the chance to be the hero you always wanted to be! Take a stand for what you know to be true and fair. We need radical change now for conserving our home. IF people don’t care now, they will when the whole world is polluted and damaged beyond repair in the future. Your world now could be tomorrow’s idea of a past walk in the garden of Eden.

Can you look into a child’s eyes and know through your actions or inactions, they will suffer a much harsher future than we have even known?

No doubt water and nuclear waste problems will be a lot more problematic then, they’ll have to cope.

The pushers of the nuclear age have committed genocide on humanity Genetic Engineering is biological terrorism and genocide on humanity

Cultural genocide is occurring everywhere. Systematic ecosystemcide is rampant . the math is coming in and our continued health as a planet is spiralling downward.

People can decide what they choose, but do we have a responsibility to consider the effects of our actions?, (whether individually, perhaps requiring individual change, or collectively, perhaps requiring collective change.)

Everyone has a right to alternative news services and opinions, but one must seek it out. It is not supplied in this society, whereas in a real democracy, different groups, (not just the wealthy) would be able to publish and distribute their news and concerns

The corporate media makes it easy for people to detach and watch nauseating yuppyrich reality shows and prejudiced, middle class hypocrisies masked as current affairs. How many people watching these shows are blotting out the horrendous realities that are occurring in the world? The reality of Redfern? Palm Island? The long grasses of Darwin? Baxter Detention Centre? Palestine? Iraq? Venezuala? Columbia? South Africa? Bangladesh? Afghanistan? The United States Of America? China?

It appears many people in the western world believe they have the right to look after their own interests in spite of greater hardships affecting other people locally and globally. Maybe there is more to it than that, and is more based on people’s fear for change, or change to a worse situation, even if the current course of behavior is leading us toward destruction.

We seem to adapt well too new technology creature comforts, but want to hold on to old, prejudiced ways of interpreting the world. The decolonialisation process has not yet come through in the thinking of the colonisers. We need to examine our past to understand our future. We need to empower our present.

The colonising assumptions are everywhere in the mainstream media and political domains, creating a constant barrage of brainwashing assumptions to take with you into your life..

An old adage is that it is just the way that it is. People colonise and take over, they say. Fit into the preferable categories of the dominant paradigms. Only in the brand names will you find this perfection, so keep buying our products. We will brand words and you can remember the corporations by them.

Commercial advertising constantly infiltrates our mental environments. There’s always space to sell nature for profit, never enough time to show real concern for nature. The money hierarchy is totally out of control in the worst possible way. SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOS SOSSOS

The mass media encourages xenophobia and lack of sympathy in the community, by trumpeting their corporate owner’s racist prejudices. They ignore our SOS calls. People don’t have the access and the time to hear and evaluate alternative voices and a whole range of issues ignored by the mass media. A True corporate-industo-military-state- mass-media complex and bio-nuclear nightmare.

Maybe it will be left to the cockroaches to get along as our mutually assured destruction and pre-emptive strike policies collide into Armageddon.

Meanwhile, I’ll work for a future vision one that gives future generations an abundance of free organic clean water.

The Concrete Apocalypse the sixth adventure Go the Nuclear Bio-Industrial Survivors

The Concrete Apocalypse

The Sixth Adventure

Go the Nuclear Bio-industrial survivors!

Time to protect the last healthy ecosystems that are being destroyed by an accelerating, churning capitalist system.

Run to the old growth forests before there’s none to run to!

Stop the salt by stopping the land clearing and replanting salt tolerant and where possible (and preferably) indigenous vegetation to the salt affected lands.

Let’s do it now! The government steals our ability to managing these problems ourselves and champions an economic system that will run the ecosystems to the ground if they are not stopped.

The grassroots environmental movement will continue fighting, no matter how much propaganda spews forth from the modern day demon corporate machine.

We don't just have to work together, we have to live together, accept our diversities, and save our collective home

We need to get some grassroots foundations where we can build our own examples of self-sustainable and equitable living.

This starts with not asking politicians and business if we can. We will need to keep asking for scraps of upper class criminals, or we can get our shit together and show to people that don't have much hope or care, that there is an alternative way of living

We all know how easy it could be to live a back to earth lifestyle, especially if we were able to reach our full potential and put our energies to solving our collective problem/s, instead of making money. (For ourselves, and more so for upper class criminals)

We don't all have the conditions to reach our full potential; there is no justice JUST US.

We have forgotten those that have not been exposed to the life lessons we have. Every one has responsibility for what they do and what they allow to occur, but how do we know the extent of grand manipulations of society, let alone inform others who don't perceive the manipulations

People are scared. It’s just that the majority of people outside of privilege don't exactly know what it is they are petrified of. Is it terrorists? Is it interest rates? Foreign invaders? Hippies? Bike riders? Children from the Middle East?

Meanwhile, people like us know it is the ones telling us what to be scared of that are the ones to be scared of.

Communicate with other people, maybe we should do it softly, softly, but then maybe we should be bold and shocking. Putting a stronger case for change politically will only come if people are to connect with themselves, and through recognising the people and communities excluded and struggling to survive.

We can’t make people change if they don’t feel that change for the better is possible. With less unionised workplaces and less community interaction, people are becoming further isolated from the support that they need when they are being exploited.

Due to the overwhelming capitulation the system, through fear and propaganda, has forced people into, many on the battlelines in the local fronts of the ‘resistance as global as capital’, can feel isolated and distraught fighting corporate Goliaths.
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It seems that gradual environmental improvements in policy are just green wash. Environmental impact statements are non-existent or completely dodgy if the environment is to be completely altered or destroyed, such as blowing up the heads of the bay to allow bigger ships (and especially US military ships) to port.

Where? well ports across Australia, including Melbourne (south east), Port Adelaide (south-central) and Freemantle (southwest)

These are the secret plans of the government that most people voted for again, in spite of its history of lies and manipulations. The current Thatcher like governments proves that the road to equality and sustainability does not have a stop called parliamentary reform.

The legal and parliamentary system opposes natural law and was set up by genocidal, colonial fascists. Stop mining Aboriginal Lands!

We need to love a bit more. Yeah, we need to wake up a little bit first. Do we want heaps more US troops and nuclear vessels here? Do we want to be a base for US ships, so they can refuel here, and thus be at war in the Middle East longer. Do we want to be involved in wars in the Middle East which benefit the rich oil corporations?

If you don’t want to go to war, then don’t be so apathetic. Life is so hard for all of us, but it is only through coming together and supporting each other’s struggles that people can feel empowered and less scared.

There is a cultural gap between people active for equality and ecology and people who are more absorbed in their own lives or survival. These cultural gaps are presented in media stereotypes and further ingrain xenophobic and alienating attitudes in society toward activists.

I do not know how we move ahead if most people are not connected to independent media and rely solely on the Murdoch-packer-fairfax juggernaut of bias toward big business, and more independent communal spaces and natural environments are being destroyed and remade into commercial spaces.

Apart from the inner-city areas or the bohemian locales that may support student spaces at uni, Trades Halls, NGOs, and ethical and environmentally based shops and food outlets, where else do we distribute alternative and independent literature in the suburbs dominated by big shopping centres?

And what about the computer illiterate, not connected to the Internet?

I do not know how to create more awareness of what is really going on in the world, but it surely involves an active and closer community of people. It also involves each one of us to spend time on our own troublemaking for the greater good.

This is the way to liberate your soul from capital and state, subvert, scream angst, poke fun. Stand your ground, secretly monkeywrench the system for your whole life!Go back to basics, use materials and styles that you learnt as a kid, available in most newsagencies and hardware shops as five finger discounts. Remember don’t pay Bunnings to subvert there logo.

Make them supply the materials that you can expose them with. You must stay two steps ahead, and do it on your own time and scale, as you want to stay ahead of the system, not get imprisoned further in it. Capitalism’s dumping of useful objects can be used against it. Re use and Give away stuff discarded in dumpsters and the environment

Remember who the real terrorists are, and remember that terrorist leaders are the richest CEOS, Who is the fucken terrorist?!!

THE CORPORATIONS ARE THE BIGGEST TERRORISTS ON PLANET EARTH

My friend describes people as stupid earth monkeys. When will we, the stupid earth monkeys, rise up? Hey we couldn’t make things perfect, and we earth monkeys would never agree on what perfect is, and whether it can actually exist,

When described as a Utopian, I always reply in realism, that we could do a helluva lot better than we are doing now. Why not aim high but remain down to earth about the realities we face? Can’t we move at least in the general direction?

Anarchist ideas and decision making should not be ignored because we could never agree on everything perfectly; it is because of this that Anarchist decision making should be applied.

To best accommodate all the people, not just the ones who luckily fall into the majority category, which appears often to be the category of denial and apathy. This apathy is best described, in my opinion, as where "the majority of us remain struck dead in our tracks, and our whole world may keel over before we wake up and act�

A wise considerate person will tell you to care about and listen to others. So why are we still following a pack of fools, who aim to impose their apocalyptic vision of death and doom on all of us?

Apathy is not endearing or a right, it is a privilege that comes on the backs of the slaves the privileged chose not to care about. Apathy prevents us recognising the dead “canary in the coalmine�. Watch out for martial law. As Public Enemy sing, “know where to run when they come, come�

Need to Love a Bit More. It certainly makes me angry that we as a society don’t care enough to stand up and say no. It is only the people saying no to the upper class in the past, that have put most of us in a more comfortable position in the workplace. Now we are willing to let go of all those community and worker fought rights?

Need to Love a Bit More. How about reconsidering as a society, the value and usefulness of the work we do and companies we work for. Sure we all have to survive currently, and some of us feel little option but to take a job in a big corporation, but this doesn’t take anyone’s autonomy to question, even if just with themselves, the value of what we are doing and whether it is aiding a company actively harming people and nature.

For those arguing that they fight within the system, they should remember to fight and not get so cosy in their paychecks and richer lifestyles. Learning is more valuable than money rewards, and less of the latter leads to more of the former.

There will be pain for people on the personal level that will lead to greater understanding of the common struggle and repression across the globe. People need to be able to project their own personal problems into the global sphere, and realise what gives them dis-ease and unfulfilment is placed in a bigger picture, a greater context of suffering.

To tell our stories amongst those who will listen for those who will listen in the future and hear themselves.

How people change the story of the future is perhaps up to them. How can people become what is known as green, the colour of concern for the planet. Are we born green, are we turned green, and are we green due to negative or positive experiences with nature? The acknowledged necessity of a planet to live on is now needed.

There are a lot of people deadset against people with green outlooks, but then you always get rednecks. Perhaps being green is through an understanding of interconnection and the realisation of the shared home space of our planet.

Seek out the cracks among the concrete apocalypse and get down to earth. Remember your hope when you see cracks in the concrete path, and remember that plants can and would break the concrete slabs if allowed and that society’s unhappy relationship with nature will not last forever, and plants will return to places where they have been banished.

Witness the survival of indigenous grasses on the fringes of the concrete monolithic paths of society. Say no to Herbicides! Feel the truth in the vast ocean. We have no right to poison the ocean, rivers and lands. Prioritise protection of the biosphere.

Support the survival of Indigenous cultures and re-examine the genocide and repercussions of colonialisation. It always is Aboriginal Land.

Australia is illegal under international law. Sovereignty has never been ceded and the Traditional lore systems of Indigenous people have never been allowed to be heard, let alone respected, under this genocidal, imperialist, capitalist system.

Realise that at some point, our ancestors were too colonised and that the wisdoms of ancient cultures around the world carries the message of the strong heart, bound to the mother earth.

Lets stop the destruction we witness unfold in this Concrete Apocalypse. Time for joyous uprising of NO. Join up with the inspiration of every day people, with no media coverage or financial backing fighting in the grassroots communities for something better than neoliberal globalisations.

It is our seeking out of an alternative globalisation that can give our movement for positive social change and ecological balance, the strength to do something in our local spheres of the globe.

The whole world may not always be watching, (in spite of our chant to authority) but there are a lot of people that will find out about our injustices, from our own independent communication networks. There are chances amongst all of us to share mutual solidarity.

So don’t give up yet.

Through our collective despair comes our many sparks of hope. Lets restate and reaffirm our global resistance, and keep fighting for our collective future.

Wallaby Poors 2004Copyleft nonprofitreprintonsustainablepaper
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Broken eyes and unearthed spirit

Broken eyes and Unearthed spirit

Chaotic destruction of the biosphere
Driving the pain inside my head
Imprisoning and killing those that resist
The apocalypse is upon us
Leave the sacred places
Don't clear and burn the land
The water, the earth, the fire, the wind
wetland rainforest dry forest coastal forest

Shall there be evil left in the offices
Or shall they burn before all of us
The books of lies written for all of us
The disconnection of the fallen
The incomprehension of the shamed
The twisted fallen broken ashes
The memory of the victim
The torment of the mad

It doesn't always work in my head
It breaks down a lot sometimes
I've had too many lives
To give up on this one just yet
I lie in my guilty programming
Unearthed if only someone would notice
I stand here exposed
Controlled and rebelled

I am for ever dying in the crossfire
And my words go down with the computer
Machine machine go away
Let me write with hand today
I am but a liar in the new world chaos
To survive is to bleed humanity
To obey is to not take notice
When someone screams for help in the street

University, Anarchy and the Outside World

University, Anarchy and the Outside World

non graded notes by wallaby poors
Can University make you mad?

University has an image of a thinking institution but has it an Orwellian twist?

"Perhaps the thought police learned from the bleakness of the world in George Orwell’s novel 1984 and decided to glitz life up Las Vegas style,

while we all suffer the fate of the lost Las Vegas gamblers, gambling our lives on white goods, choking on our mass collection of plastic bags, as the state makes mind boggling amounts of poisonous weapons of mass destruction" Sustainable Snail 2003

University is state sponsored education and
in an Orwellian text would be the Department of Truth, the home of the thought police.

Where does anarchist thought fit in the state university world. ?
Anarchists are aware of the hierarchy present in our society and its impact on the world.

Universities appear dictated by
hierarchies of power and knowledge,
privilege and exclu$ion,
with knowledge only for the benefit of greedy corporate arrangements
and not for the seeking of truth
the cold regal vice chancellor rule is by
market force,
(( known as capitalism, ))

"There is many a repeated lecture hall line on reformism from
capitalist apologists and sympathisers".Havy A. Brain,1996

There is no room for revolution in university curriculum
but is there room for revolution at university?
It has happened before,
( Amazingly forgotten but true! university students were killed in Papua New Guinea 2 years ago during largescale protests against IMF and World Bank policies)

(the place that hides the genocide (not so) nicely swept under the rug )
“Australia�, historically founded in the great white lie,
will perhaps not be forever without reason to have revolutionary circumstances created.

"Once a significant number of people get so fucked over they will revolt."
Joe Wombat, 2002

The state has to gamble on how much it can take and how much it can break the people without the people fighting back and breaking the state.

Apart from making the free marker freer, Restricting funding to universities, schools, kindergartens, creches and hospitals also aids in stopping the people fighting back. Underresourced universities will give less power to people

knowledge is power

Restricting education “benefits so students have to work more will also reduce time for revolutionary thought. It is similar to how they are making workers work longer

"until they look up from their work and think Hey I am being screwed over!"
Casey Cucumber,1999

the class war at university has been restricted by its upper class legacies.
And as full fee places double, I don't want to sit in class and learn about slavery with multiple clones from
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"Is this whole idea too much for you to deprogram your well held beliefs in democracy, university and the American way?" Get with the Program Joe, 2004

Manage This!!! #$$%^^&&!!!

Notice how if there are social or environmental problems,
(Which seem to be everywhere/all over the place/kind of the doing something about it time is now)
these problems need to be managed and you are to be a trainee manager of these serious problems in society. You are going to be it when the university gives you the piece of paper and you go and be it, the “manager� of what it says on your piece of paper

But the problem that you are to manage just never goes away and often gets worse The problem is going to keep happening because that is just the system that we live in. And now that problem is part of the system, but the system is really the problem

And now it is a multiweaven global connundrum system.

So must work at finding solutions, something that be juggled with the system that you must in when you graduate to jobhood.
So you just wrap yourself in red tape, (=) that is really stained the colour of bloody apathy. You just watch, and feel numb now, wiser and stupider.

"The revolution would not work well with the new kitchen tiles" Yoolie Yuppie, 2000.

The system has silently hacked and lobotomised you without you even knowing.
And when you find out, you will SCREAM but it is too late now as noone can hear you
and noone can hear anyone except the disharmonious drones of the system

But as you state the easy sum of 1 plus 1 equals 2, or capitalist growth equals planetary devastation, the teacher will shrug and say it is the system. So if you can’t REVOLT what can you do?

Does the teacher think Twiddlling your thumbs at university thinking about it is not as productive as being a slave to market forces? Or do they acknowledge in some way or another that it is indeed revolution that is needed, but cannot express acknowlegement fully in their role as “tutor� or “Lecturer�? Have they gotten jaded? Do they just need a big bear hug?

For all the valuable knowledge and wisdom the teachers have gained, the less the agenda of the corporatised curriculum makes their knowledge useable to the student in the outside world.

And so it isn't just that they are hiking up your fees exponentially and selling your degree to the highest bidder

The more confrontational flavour of the modern thought police known as the “Corporations� are likely to restrict feer flowing and alternative thinking than the governmental based state.
Corporations and states are one and the same
but under free trade, corporations gain even less regulation over their destructive activities





University is about becoming enmeshed in a role or a “job� of the state.
Indeed university, whether it is really folklore or fact, is supposed to be a foundation in society of freer thought.

But think too hard at university and it might hurt.

You may feel that the world is completely screwed. The combination of hours at the pub with your uni mates, and increasing realisation that the planet is fucked by these baddies, the same ones that rose your hecs fees, is a likely cause of another bout of depression.

The revolutionary vanguard seems the only way but seems very lacklustre with just your two drunken buddies looking for some kind of revolution or escape valve from the next “boring university lecture�

So everywhere the pressure is to conform back into the system that you were born into, that system you were taught poorly in, and had to blindly feel around in to interpret “the meaning of life�
“reformism “, “Kidding ourselves� is embraced as the false idol that it is in university doctrine

"Negotiations with corporations is similar to saving one of your fingers and letting them cut the other nine off"Sustainable Snail, 2004

. The choices are never granted to us to make in this situation, so our choice is whether we should act to change this situation

Reformism, while lending further legitimacy to the state mafia, also keeps a greater “status quo" on further oppressive state moves. It is like the wardrobe pushed up against your front door, trying to avoid the incoming corporate onslaught.

University is based in reformist dogma. Tutors are supposed to teach us the ways of the state,
but encourage us to be critical to a certain point. Step over that point and there is no return. Tutorials are not designed for you to examine truthful concepts of our perception of reality. They are designed to facilitate and manufacture state written “truths� of what we can and can’t do. The final limit of the boundary we are allowed to venture to.

The revolution will not appear on a university timetable

University is a place of thought and knowledge advancement, so we are “led to believe�. Being led to beliefs usurps expressing beliefs freely. There is no freedom for anarchist concepts like rejecting hierachial “leaders’

University is a state sponsored institution of how to fit into the state, not smash the state. Anarchist principles are rejected blindly when you are in the belly of the beast, (or state) and it is not appropriate to question the role of the state, and it is even more not appropriate to question the necessity of the state.
Some basic rules of nature mixed with a generous dose of fairness are ridiculed as “ludicrous� “troublemaking� “radical� or the province of the unwashed bleeding heart ferals.

University is a threat to one’s mental health Because while it may appear that thinking outside the square is encouraged, actually thinking outside the square never fits into the curriculum. If sheep were to go to university it would be similar to university in 2004. Yes Sir Yes Sir Three bags full Sir Baa Baa Baa

"The question remains : when will we wake up from the virtual realities we have learnt at school and on tv, which are both institutional learning facilities teaching us how to fear, how to be ashamed and how to be normal" Sustainable Snail, 2003

How can we learn about the real world and how to solve the problems of our world when (the decision makers) University Councils have the same CEOs sitting on them as the corporate boardrooms creating our world's problems? When will the Economics Faculties start counting the real costs of capitalism?

The environment is our physical “reality� as compared to the abstract concept of the “market economy�. An abstract concept is being used and promoted as our best possible reality to judge things by, when it is the biggest rort ever for those who benefit from it.

Universities are massive resource consumers and business lackeys and the lack of true sustainability in the operation of a modern university reflects the lack of true skills in sustainability it is able to teach and project into the outside world.

We are not students of industry. We are citizens of this planet and we need constructive dialogue to find solutions that aren't about making more capital, or dealing with cleaning up the toxins and wastes left after the excesses of capitalism. Universities need to engender learning experiences that teach social justice, benefit communities and help restore the ecological balance.

The student needs some justice on both the practical and purposeful outcomes of their life. We do not want to be fed state propaganda. We cannot afford to ignore the greater problems in our society that we need to learn and talk about more. As we learn more about our environment, our place in it and our own evolutionary history, we can't dispatch from nature and live in an information technology-sphere

"Nature is now idealised as not being where we are. Ecosystems are funny concepts that David Attenborough (kudos) presents on tv“nature specials�, and are disguised in the real world by 7-11s, freeways and gossip magazines. This is a closer “reality� to a generation that inherited the toxic waste build up in the era of 'modern convenience'. Playstations replaced running in the fields as childhood experiences. Nature has been veiled by capitalist thought to be merely a (irrelevant) component rather than the actual essence of our “reality�. There is a failure to recognise that our environment proceeds the ecomonic system, which is percieved, created and maufactured purely by the human species. " Sustainable Snail,2003

The links between university and political and philosophical debate is being quickly eroded by neoliberalism:�, a new breed of fascism with new genetic technologies and weoponry abilities at its disposal Where will the ethical voices be in universities to avoid inappropriate developments of these technologies? Who will research the dangers facing a community when a development threatening it is in a corporate donor's interest? Who can understand poverty when it is only the rich that can afford to study it?

I have no future, I have no job, I am sure to drop out before this brain numbing “education� comes to an end But I feel FREEDOM as I chose to be a loser, and in ironic terms win the freedom of thought.
Many would argue I know too much. Many would say I don't know much at all. But I can only know more when I realise that I don’t really know much at all, apart from this (Fair) certainty

Even after all this horrid examination, similar to staring Freedy Krueger in the face after a mouthful of nodos, that piece of paper seems better than work for the dole. And even better than bomb Iraq for Gulf Syndrome.

"Think for yourself and express your thoughts randomly You can’t always be right but you may not know when you are right until you verbalise it Fuck with the system that has been imposed on you by your parents, your teachers, your boss, your high school fashion police, your university, the current economy that you desperately want to escape from Fuck the puppet masters that hide behind the scenes and suck your vitality on their machine of corporate doom" Sustainable Snail, 2003

Its time to Smash the tute and smash the state

Stop The New World Order before it stops you
A Soil Liberation publication, by Wallaby Poors, printed on recycled paper Copyleft 2004

Green Movement should split from corporate sponsored NGOs

Green Movement should split from corporate sponsored NGOs

With the inundation of the corporate greenwash upon us, NGOs may be replaced by more independent, decentralised groupings, seen as more ethical by the community- Non corporate and government organisations. (NCGOs?)

However, to stop the abuse of power that has seen many once respected environmental NGOs become corporate sellouts, there is a need for these new groupings to also be NHOs- non hierarchical organisations

The great greenwash sell out is here. It appears that greenwashing is one of the biggest concerns now facing the environmental movement. It threatens to compromise, and eventually destroy the very movement that is trying to protect the planet from destruction.

Due to this threat, greenwashing is up there with logging, nuclear proliferation and species extinction as a concern to many anti capitalist greenies. The co-option of certain environmental groups to big business funding also threatens the viability of groups that choose to take an independent path.

The image of green white collar greenies compromising the environment will begin to permeate into the general public’s view. World Wildlife Fund and Rio Tinto will sit comfortably together in one’s mind while the green group takes cash from the current destroyer of Kakudu.

How can we stop this co-option of our planet? Green anti capitalists recognise that ecology and capitalism are at odds with each other. Green anarchists recognise that both the state and capitalism are at odds with ecology. Green capitalists endorse the very system that is destroying the planet at an alarming rate. They endorse reformist green market responses and ignore the need for class analysis and social equity.

Green capitalists tell anti capitalist greens to get in the real world. They say we can’t change the system but we (well actually they) can provide results in the real world by making capitalism more benevolent and green. Anti capitalist greens tell capitalist greens to get in the real world and recognise that they are endorsing the system massacring the forests, ruining the oceans, creating rapid climate change and colossal amounts of radioactive and toxic wastes. Their corporate reforms really equal sweet fuck all, yet lend respectability to the most greenwashing corporations of all, as our planet runs out of time.

Endorsing a company such as BP as the most green oil company beggars belief. Have BP given up any oilfields in the name of environmental conservation? (Well ACF?) Endorsing a corporation that gives an inch to take a mile is hardly a win for the environment, but is another nail in the coffin of the environment movement’s reputation. Yet some legitimacy is given to these corporations, allowing them to co-opt their fierce critics with appearances of ‘dialogue’ or ‘engagement’ while generating invaluable public relations for the corporation.

If NGOs are being co-opted and threaten the reputation of the NGO concept, how can we ensure groups keep true independence from corporate and state interests? How can we prevent non corporate and governmental organisations from replicating the hierarchies of their opponents that has led some NGOs to sit with their opponents?

The concept of non corporate and governmental organisations would signal a much needed split in the environment movement. This split will benefit the real environmental movement (i.e. the movement fighting the planet’s biggest enemy-capitalism) and leave the green corporate sell outs exposed and in the hands of big business. The environment movement should look long and hard at the prospect of being diluted permanently by corporate sponsored green groups.

This idea may seem radical at this point, to some in the environment movement who recognise the vulnerability of fragmentation. Many green NGOS work together to pull resources for a particular campaign, which increases the ties between the independent and not so independent groups.

Financial ability to operate is a serious issue for environmental groups, but surely corporate money that pays off a corporation’s bad environmental interests is a conflict of interest for any NGO committed to environmental sustainability.

Some NGOs recognise the importance of supporting Indigenous people’s own advocacy against colonial, state and corporate interests. NGOs work with local communities, unions, religious groups and concerned individuals from various political persuasions. Many environmentalists working with corporate friendly NGOs are dedicated individuals. This is a critique of the structure of those NGOs that have led the green movement to corporate involvement.

While NGOs can be seen as being far from the public service bureaucracy, a ‘green’ bureaucratic hierarchy creates attachment to the interests of the green group’s viability, reducing emphasis on actually saving the environment. A raffle for the organisation, rather than a raffle for the forest.

Many on the inside and outside of environmental organisations may fear speaking up about negative aspects in them. It is trendy to critique socialist tactics, but not always green group’s tactics. The just and sustainable planet that NGOs strive for can hardly become reality without an honest look in the mirror by NGOs and the entire green movement. The causes of environmental destruction must be recognised, beginning with POWER HIERARCHIES amongst humans.

As the greenwash issue receives greater contemplation, more will come to the conclusion that there needs to be a split between independent and corporate sponsored NGOs.

It is not radical versus conservative or green office bearer versus feral (although these stereotypes can resemble reality) that is the reason for the split- it is the protection of our planet versus those co-opted by the capitalist force destroying it. Independent NGOs refusing to split due to relationships and entangled campaigns with co-opted NGOs could quickly come to resemble trade unionists sticking up for the corporate loving ALP.

To prevent powerplays and domination undermining a group of people committed to a greener outcome, non hierarchial organisation is needed. A green group healthy on the inside with a united, non hierarchial front will not be co-opted by corporate spin doctors. In fact the corporate hijackers will be less likely to even attempt co-option. As with the police, there will be great bafflement with a group espousing a lack of leaders or official spokespersons.

It is time to stop the turf war in the environmental movement. It is time for those who are co-opted by corporate funding to be turfed out of the green movement. Corporate funding is blood money for the Earth. Green organisations need to remain free of blood money from the military-industrial-nuclear-chemical-pharmaceutical-deforestation-slave labour-genocidal-corporate complex. Choose your side and don’t dilute the playing field. (which is the planet Earth’s survival)

A green group with a hierarchial structure can cause ego and personal ambition to cloud the group, and reduces the recallability of office bearers by the grassroots membership. A green group with a more economic outlook (i.e.capitalist) will employ people with a greater emphasis on economics and a smaller emphasis on the systematic threat to the environment.

As well as non-hierarchial decision making, a group needs to prevent an information hierarchy from being created. An information hierarchy forms when a group features a handful of individuals with great knowledge and experience on the issue the group is fighting for. Their experience leads them to dominate decision making and discussion to a point where the less knowledgeable or experienced become disempowered.

The great asset the more experienced person brings to the group can actually negate the group’s effectiveness. While it is very logical for the less experienced to listen to the more experienced, it does not mean they are excluded from decision making. A person new to a cause or idea are not to be made voiceless. An information hierarchy relies on the ability of the few, rather than pooling the ability of the diverse many. The wise experienced campaigner disseminates their information and (as information = power) power to the rest of the group.

The valuing of people’s involvement in a campaign will keep those people involved. The last thing a person new to a group wants to see is a display of negative group power dynamics or feel useless to the cause. The ecological principle of interconnectedness is the outlook that is needed in the green struggle. The environmental problems are all of our problems, so we should all chip in, and feel free to chip in. Non hierarchical decision making will give everyone involved a chance to work to their ability.

This is the best chance for a green domino effect that crushes the corporate empire. We need way more direct action people! Run to the hills. Let the land you want protected guide you. Let the people of the land teach you. Have the spirit to fight back against the eco-logical apocalypse.

Those responsible, corporations and states, must stop the environmental destruction, not create meaningless, pr driven engagement with green traitors. They must clean up their toxic wastes, give back all they have stolen from the Earth and its inhabitants, and then they must dissolve.

These corporations are killing our Mother Earth. Why are some greenies getting engaged to their Mother’s murderers?

-The Nazis systematically ambushed the German people with propaganda

The question of whether teaching the masses to be less gullible could stop regimes like Hitler’s coming to power is difficult to decipher, if one considers the reasons behind the rise of Hitler in a holistic sense. On face value, the idea that a less gullible citizenry would reject Hitler seems correct.

However, in politics there is often a level of deceit or distortion, and this was magnified under the Nazi regime with a specialised ministry catering in propaganda. It appears that a citizenry must not only be less gullible, but constantly on guard to prevent personalities lie Hitler, and ideas that the Nazi regime stood for, coming to fruition. A less gullible and more informed citizenry

The Nazis systematically ambushed the German people with propaganda, making them think the Nazis would benfit them, using the common political tactic of promising the people a better, more secure future, striking a chord in a nation under severe economic hardship. The future that the Nazis eventually imposed on Germany would be ghastly to the German people, and more so to ethnic groups such as Jews and Gypsies.

Joseph Goebbals was the architect of Nazi propaganda, and became the Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany. In 1930, he set up ‘propaganda apparatus centrals in most German cities. Nazis studied commercial advertising techniques, but adopted their propaganda to appeal to more long term values. Propaganda wardens were trained to lead the entire local propaganda effort. The centrals had complex and hierachial structures and were a pre-government department of propaganda.

Once in power, that department became the Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda. Goebbals often reflected on propaganda itself. He claimed that the Nazis “have transformed it into a truly creative art. It was our sharpest weapon in defending and building the state. The great wealth of ideas and never failing creativity of our propaganda proven during our struggle for power was perfected to the last detail. Now we turned it to serve the state itself to find meaningful ways and flexible forms to immunise the people’s thinking . The people should share the concerns and successes of their government. Its concerns and successes must therefore be constantly presented and hammered into them, so that the people will consider the concerns and successes of their government to be their concerns and successes.

Hitler used democracy to destroy democracy, believing that once elected, a leader could assume full power over the people. He won 30% of the vote in the 1933 German elections and did a deal with Hindenburg, the presidential winner, to become Chancellor of Germany. When Hindenburg died, Hitler claimed the mantle of president also, becoming the all ruling Fuhrer. This move was helped by the the Nazi terror mob, the ‘Brownshirts’ who burnt down the Reichstag (German parliament) to manufacture a crisis atmosphere, which led to the Enabling Act, which literally enabled the Hitler dictatorship.

In the next year Jewish people rapidly lost their rights. Non-Aryans were banned from all government jobs, incuding patent lawyers, doctors, dentist and university lecturers and professors. They are also banned from the cultural and entertainment industries, journalism and all German sports teams.

Eventually Jews are restricted from public schools, swimming pools, public parks, and can no longer own land. Beggars, the homeless and the unemployed are sent to concentration camps. Those with genetic defects can be sterilised and homosexuality is ‘combatted’.

Dissent to the Nazi regime is also repressed. The Gestapo, a secret terror organisation is born, and with the Brownshirts, strike fear into Germans. The Brownshirts loot and burn Jewish shops and bash and murder Jews and other people. The German police force is purged of those considered politically unreliable and 50 000 SS stormtroopers are sworn in as secret police.

Hitler’s rise to power brought in a Nazi police state where individual freedomws were lost. Political parties, trade unions and communism are banned. Nazi students and Brownshirts burnt books with ‘unGerman ideas’, including Ernest Hemmingway, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstien.

All opposition and criticsm to hitler’s regime was extinguished due to the threat of being sent to a concentration camp, where torture and murder abounded.

A secret spy web set up by the Gestapo meant that anyone could be an informant. People who disagreed with the Nazis stayed silent out of fear of ‘disappearing into the night’, and lived a lonely existence. Often people were sent to camps due to vague accusations or somebody disliking them and informing on them out of spite. The Gestapo set up similar secret spy webs in the countries they occupied.

School children were victims of Nazi indoctrination. Hitler stated he wanted “unquestioning young men, ready to obediently serve the Fatherland unto death�. The children were taught to hate but had little knowledge of value, due to the purging of teachers, who were replaced by Nazi indoctrinators. Hitler Youth was set up, teaching boys physical education, and later, military combat. Girls were trained as mothers and homemakers, were the Nazis believed they belonged.

The Nazis also used pageantry and symbolism to propagate their message to society, which was epitomised in the yearly, week long Nuremberg rallies.

There does appear that there were elements of gullibility in sections of German society. While the Nazis crushed dissent, some people chose to actively support the Nazi regime. Others benefited from the losses given to Jewish people, claiming their former jobs, business or land.

However, a substantial number of Germans despised Hitler and the Nazi regime. Many people formed clandestione groups to help Hitler’s victims escape Germany. Some planned a coup d’etat to rid Germany of nazism and planned a new society to replace it with.

There were 15 assassination attempts on Hitler during his reign, but were either thwarted by the Gestapo, or poorly prepared. The most infamous attempt was on July 20, 1944, when a bomb ripped through Hitler’s East Prussian headquarters. While it came too late too change the regime, it did send a message to the world that there was some resistance to Hitler in Germany.

Misfortune and lack of success brings into question the worth of the resistance to Hitler.
The broad movement opposing Hitler did help ease Germany back into the world after the war. The different elements in the resistance movement included groups with Christian, socialist, conservative and reactionary beliefs. While there was a broad range of groups opposing Hitler, there was no real unified resistance. Many groups labored in isolation and all had to operate in secrecy.

The important thing to remember was that despite the immense state repression and grand propaganda, many people still objected. A group known as Soft Circle helped those most persecuted by the Nazis. A student group known as White Rose distributed anti Nazi leaflets in Munich. There was also various groupings of left and right wing militants that opposed Hitler. One of the most effective was the Red Orchestra, who were actually named this by the Gestapo.

The only groups that formed close ties was a union between a conservative group associated with a former mayor, and a resigned army chief of staff, the Kriesav Circle, who espoused a Christian socialist philosophy and opponents in the German military, including the Military Intelligence Group. This branch of the resistance had the clearest aims and came the closest to succeeding. (including the bombing on July 20. 1944)

The rise of Hitler cannot be explained away by one sweeping statement, like a less gullible citizenry would have stopped Hitler’s rise to power. However it is part of the reason why, as a more informed citizenry would have been able to identify the early warning signs and oppose Hitler before it became too late.

There were many reasons why Hitler came to power, and reasons put forth include; the poor treatment of German society by the Allied Forces after World War 1; the troubled economy; the disillusionment the people felt for democracy during such difficult economic times; racial prejudice and the covert nature of propaganda propagated by Joseph Goebbals.

By the time Hitler came to power, the need for gullibility to maintain that regime was countered by official propaganda and sheer force. Those who were not gullible, had to keep silence or face the threat of “disappearing in the night.�.

Before Hitler gained absolute power, there was still a chance that people could of resisted his dissent to Fuhrer. A people reminded of the follys and tricks of those in power may have been able to be more sceptical about Hitler’s true plans.

The importance of education is paramount to prevent regimes like Hitler’s coming to power. However eternal vigilance is needed. We cannot take the freedoms we have for granted and we need to increase our autonomy from state repression. We cannot trust the media, particularly when it is owned by those in power.

We need to educate our communities collectively. We can only defend our communities from fascism if we build strong ties within those communities and foster equality and show no tolerance to discrimination. The German resistance showed that a fragmented force will not achieve much. Diversity, unity and information sharing may counter fascism. But we must always be eternally vigilant.

Wallaby Poors
Soil Liberation Frontyard Publications

This was written for a talk I did for a philosophy subject in 2002. The references were given to my tutor, but I didn’t need to for my hardcopy. I thought it had a few good summaries of the Nazi system. It was done in a debate format with others, where I argued that the mind and social control of the Nazis does ot necessarily make the people ‘gullible’ and likely to be led toward fascism. The question was whether teaching the masses to be less gullible could stop regimes like Hitler’s coming to power

I will endeavor to find the links of my references which included the actual essays written by Joseph Goebbals, Propaganda Minister in Hitler’s Nazi regime in the late 1930s and early to mid 1940s.

Another thing I learnt for preparing for this talk was putting ‘mind control’ in a google search engine comes up with all sorts of information, including CIA documents relating to mind control experiments.

Indigenous Sovereignty- a brief discussion

Introduction

Australia must understand and face up to its past to have the ability to move into the future confidently. The treatment of the Indigenous people of Australia has been horrific and shameful. It is time to acknowledge the true history of this nation(s), and make reparations for the past. We must not deny the truth, or Australia will be a diminished society of divided peoples.

"The past is never fully gone. It is absorbed into the present and the future. It stays to shape what we are and what we do"
Sir William Deane, (former) Governor General (Inaugural Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture, August 1996.)


For justice to occur, the people of Australia must recognise and bravely face the many injustices suffered by Indigenous people. We must recognise the benefits we have today, as the usurpers of the traditional owners of the land. We must recognise that we have benefited while Indigenous people have suffered genocide, ranging from massacres to the forced removal of children.

"Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land"

Non- Indigenous Australians must be strong and realise the land they walk on was stolen illegally, and colonised, under the false doctrine of terra nulius. Reparations must be for those dispossessed of their ancestral lands.

"Land Rights not mining rights"

Justice cannot occur while mining corporations are allowed to mine uranium and other minerals on various Indigenous nations' ancestral lands. These mining corporations, with the consent of Federal and State/Territory governments, poison animals, the environment and traditional food sources, destroy sacred sites, deplete valued, sacred water sources, and exploit and manipulate Indigenous communities living in poverty.

"We realise you really want to desecrate another sacred site and kill our Lake Eyre"
Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna Elder (August 1999)

True justice cannot occur while mining corporations throw measly bribes at Indigenous communities and families, (living in poverty and sickness due to dispossession and racism), in return for billions of dollars worth of mineral resources from the traditional owner's lands.

Despite claims by the Federal government publication, "The Path to Reconciliation", that corporations such as WMC are "incorporating respect for Indigenous people's perspective", WMC operates the largest uranium mine and the fifth largest copper mine in the world, on Arabunna land, against the wishes of the traditional owners.

"We Arabunna people opposed Roxby Downs since the beginning and we oppose it still. Our opposition is yet to be addressed."
Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna Elder,(August 2000)

The true grassroots movement for justice needs to put the continued genocide of Indigenous cultures, by powerful corporate and state interests, on the top of the political agenda.

The campaign to stop the Jabiluka uranium mine has been led by the Mirrar people, and they have enormous support from people around Australia and the world. Their native sovereignty has been vital to stall/halt the mine's progress.

"The Mirrar people still say no to Jabiluka mine! All the Mirrar are together, we are united against any more uranium mining on Mirrar country!...We cannot change the law and the law is that we protect our sacred sites!.. Since 1996 the Mirrar have fought against Jabiluka across Australia and overseas. We have won many friends and our supporters are strong and stand with us!...Rio Tinto talks about responsibly building long term values but right now its uranium operations in Kakadu directly threaten the future of Mirrar culture."
Yvonne Margarula, Mirrar Senior Traditional Owner (11th April, 2002.)

The idea of a "people's movement" grew, when about a million people walked for reconciliation/justice across Australia, during 2000. This was the biggest public demonstration of Indigenous support ever.

Many walked for reconciliation/justice but few knew that Rio Tinto, the latest owner of Ranger and Jabiluka uranium mines in Kakadu, sponsored Melbourne's reconciliation walk, and banned political speeches from the stage. The walkers were there due to their personal recognition of reconciliation. They were also demanding official and political recognition, despite government and corporate public relations.

However, reconciliation is more than just a walk in the park.

The "people's movement" has been dismissed by the likes of Prime Minister John Howard, refusing to say Sorry and labeling the true reconciliation/justice process a "black armband view of history".

It seems to be more of a John Howard whitewash, encouraged by Pauline Hanson's racist and ignorant views on ideas like reconciliation/justice, which won her a million votes in 1998.

Reconciliation/justice cannot occur without history being truthfully acknowledged. This may be the deciding factor on when and what the reconciliation process will eventually achieve.

Treaty

"Our land was taken by massacres and displacement. No treaties were signed. We have never ceded our sovereignty. Our sovereignty cannot be extinguished. Under international law, we still own the land".
Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna Elder (August, 2000)

Unlike other Western nations who have signed treaties with their indigenous peoples, (such as the USA, NZ and Canada) Australia has still failed to do so.

When the Australian continent was invaded by the English empire, it was done so under a false doctrine of terra nullius, meaning either "a country without a sovereign� or a “territory where nobody owns any land at all". The idea of terra nullius was rejected in the High Court 'Mabo' decision in 1992.

The terra nullius doctrine has abetted the failure of a treaty to be signed between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

"A treaty between indigenous peoples and Australia could have recognised and protected indigenous rights and led to a just constitutional basis for the Australian Federation".
ATSIC National Treaty Support Group (May 2001)

A treaty needs a balanced informed debate beforehand, with all voices being heard. These debates must include the voices of all indigenous people, not only the ATSIC board. Issues of how, why and what a treaty is about need to be fully discussed. There are many differing opinions on a treaty and whom the treaty/treaties will be between.

A treaty is also tied up in the issues of reconciliation, self-determination, land rights and reparations for the past. A treaty needs to be part of the solution to these other issues, an agreement between two or more parties on the best way forward, and to settle, as much as possible the mistakes of the past, fairly and honestly.

Who the treaty will be between also needs to be understood. Will it be with each traditional Indigenous nation, larger regional groupings of nations, separate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander treaties or a treaty encompassing all Indigenous peoples of Australia? Will the treaty be with current landowners, pastoralists, local councils, state or federal governments. Will the treaty grant self-determination?

Why has an apology to the stolen generation been so controversial?

The Bringing Them Home report about the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their parents over generations shocked the sensibilities of many Australians. The report came as a result of the Royal Commission on Deaths in Custody, which uncovered that many Aboriginals who died in custody were members of the stolen generation(s). The extent of Aboriginal child removal had not been properly acknowledged previously.

"As the Bringing Them Home report states, not one Indigenous family has escaped the effects of the removal policies"
Audrey Ngingali Kinnear and John Brown, National Sorry Day Committee Co-Chairs (May 2001)

Yet the Howard government mocked the very concept of stolen generations of children and slammed the Bringing Them Home report as distorted, downplaying and ignoring the report’s recommendations. While people were shocked and distressed by the report’s finding, the Howard government showed great insensitivity to such a sensitive issue as forcefully removing children from their families.

The Howard government refused to officially say sorry, but the refusal cut deeper into Australian history's most controversial issue- the treatment of the nation's Indigenous people. Seen in this light, it is not just an apology to the stolen generation, that is a so-called ˜controversy", because if the stolen generation is apologised too, then perhaps the entire invasion and colonisation of Australia's Indigenous people should be apologised for.

When looking at images of Aboriginal chain gangs, learning of massacres and slavery, or hearing the testimonies of the stolen generations, an apology does not seem so controversial. The forced removal of indigenous children from their families, communities and their very identities was a shameful and bigoted part of Australia’s history and must be acknowledged.

One of the main reasons that many Australian find an apology to the stolen generation a controversy, is that the policy of forced removal of children was not due to the present government or present society.

To not acknowledge, in the present, that the stolen generation should be apologised to and be given reparations, requires an apology in itself, for a lack of understanding and compassion. Our present society has evolved from what society did in the past, and the present generation should be able to recognise the grave mistakes of the past and attempt to make amends as best as possible. We can't undo the past but we must recognise the past.

It is a double standard when many people (such as Howard) can demand an apology from the Japanese government for atrocities committed in the second world war, yet refuse to apologise to the stolen generations, because it was a policy enacted by past, not present generations.

Society, collectively should make reparations for the past.

Another "controversy" is the financial compensation that may result once an official apology is given. If it is such a widespread concern that this will occur, aren't those concerned recognising that the stolen generation have a good chance of receiving money, due to their legitimate grievance?

Can you put a price on genocide? With genocide being the worst crime humanity can inflict on itself, how can reparations be made? A dollar figure or a dollar motive is created by the cynics, who refuse to face the responsibilities we have of acknowledging the past and giving back what we can in reparations.

A person taken from their family when young loses their connection to their roots, their home and their family. The family is left behind and unaware of their child's wellbeing. Lifetime family relationships are lost. The official policy of Aboriginal child removal was cruel and racist. The official apology is long overdue from the government. By refusing to apologise and downplaying the harm done by the removal policy, the Howard government has negated healing and failed to achieve genuine reconciliation.

With saying Sorry only the beginning, the symbolism of an apology will spur the reconciliation/justice process on to addressing the serious issues facing Indigenous Australians. The unfinished business can be finished and Australia can move into the future with a stronger vision, guided by the ancient spiritual and practical wisdom of the nation's indigenous peoples.

"We can guide you in creating a culture based on peace making, caring and sharing, and healing the land and the people. There is too much at stake and we hold the key to survival. Listen to us and respect what you hear. Commit to peace not war"
Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna Elder

Wallaby Poors

Author's notes
This essay was written by me for uni in 2002, and was meant to address the issues of reconciliation, the stolen generation and treaty. I have edited it a bit- I got rid of most of the first section on reconciliation, as I have become more informed from Aboriginal people since, and believe that it wasn't totally accurate or written in the understanding I now have.

I have a cut out a few things elsewhere and also changed the word reconciliation to justice in most of the essay or changed it to reconciliation/justice. I would also say that my analysis could go further on the issue of treaty. I like this article because I incorporated quotes from Arabunna elder Kevin Buzzacott and Mirrar elder Yvonne Margarula

It is really interesting to read over old essays to see where your access and understanding of things were at, at that time,

BIBLIOGRAPHY

R.Broome, 1997, ‘The Colonial Experience, The Port Phillip District 1834-1850’, La Trobe University, Brown Prior Anderson.

Council For Aboriginal Reconciliation, 1994, ‘The Red Yellow and Black Book’, Darwin, Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

Council For Aboriginal Reconciliation, ‘Walking Together’, Number 29, August 2000

Commonwealth Government, ‘Paths to Reconciliation’, 1999

Reconciliation Australia, ‘Tracks to Reconciliation’, March 2002

ATSIC Victoria, ‘Koori Grapevine’, Issue 2, November 29, 2001

ATSIC National Treaty Support Group, ‘Treaty, let’s get it right’, May 2001

Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna Elder, ‘Lake Eyre is calling- Ankaku’, August 1999

Yvonne Margarula, Mirrar Senior Traditional Owner, ‘Jabiluka Mine, Dead but not Buried’, April 11, 2002
Sue Charles, ‘Keepers of Land, Visions for Camp Kooyoora’, December 2001

Robert Manne, ‘Mabo: A moral crisis festers’, The Age, May 27, 2002.
































Introduction

Australia must understand and face up to its past to have the ability to move into the future confidently. The treatment of the Indigenous people of Australia has been horrific and shameful. It is time to acknowledge the true history of this nation, and make reparations for the past. We must not deny the truth, or Australia will be a diminished society of divided peoples.

“The past is never fully gone. It is absorbed into the present and the future. It stays to shape what we are and what we do�
Sir William Deane, (former) Governor General (Inaugural Vincent Lingiari Memorial Lecture, August 1996.)


For justice to occur, the people of Australia must recognise and bravely face the many injustices suffered by Indigenous people. We must recognise the benefits we have today, as the usurpers of the traditional owners of the land. We must recognise that we have benefited while Indigenous people have suffered genocide, ranging from massacres to the forced removal of children.

“Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land�

Non- Indigenous Australians must be strong and realise the land they walk on was stolen illegally, and colonised, under the false doctrine of terra nulius. Reparations must be for those dispossessed of their ancestral lands.

“Land Rights not mining rights�

Justice cannot occur while mining corporations are allowed to mine uranium and other minerals on various Indigenous nations’ ancestral lands. These mining corporations, with the consent of Federal and State/Territory governments, poison animals, the environment and traditional food sources, destroy sacred sites, deplete valued, sacred water sources, and exploit and manipulate Indigenous communities living in poverty.

“We realise you really want to desecrate another sacred site and kill our Lake Eyre�
Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna Elder (August 1999)

True justice cannot occur while mining corporations throw measly bribes at Indigenous communities and families, (living in poverty and sickness due to dispossession and racism), in return for billions of dollars worth of mineral resources from the traditional owner’s lands.

Despite claims by the Federal government publication, “The Path to Reconciliation� that corporations such as WMC are “incorporating respect for Indigenous people’s perspective�, WMC operates the largest uranium mine and the fifth largest copper mine in the world, on Arabunna land, against the wishes of the traditional owners.

“We Arabunna people opposed Roxby Downs since the beginning and we oppose it still. Our opposition is yet to be addressed.�
Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna Elder,(August 2000)

The true grassroots movement for justice needs to put the continued genocide of Indigenous cultures, by powerful corporate and state interests, on the top of the political agenda.

The campaign to stop the Jabiluka uranium mine has been led by the Mirrar people, and they have enormous support from people around Australia and the world. Their native sovereignty has been vital to stall/halt the mine’s progress.

“The Mirrar people still say no to Jabiluka mine! All the Mirrar are together, we are united against any more uranium mining on Mirrar country…..We cannot change the law and the law is that we protect our sacred sites….. Since 1996 the Mirrar have fought against Jabiluka across Australia and overseas. We have won many friends and our supporters are strong and stand with us …..Rio Tinto talks about responsibly building long term values but right now its uranium operations in Kakadu directly threaten the future of Mirrar culture.�
Yvonne Margarula, Mirrar Senior Traditional Owner (11th April, 2002.)

The idea of a “people’s movement� grew, when about a million people walked for reconciliation/justice across Australia, during 2000. This was the biggest public demonstration of Indigenous support ever.

Many walked for reconciliation/justice but few knew that Rio Tinto, the latest owner of Ranger and Jabiluka uranium mines in Kakadu, sponsored Melbourne’s reconciliation walk, and banned political speeches from the stage. The walkers were there due to their personal recognition of reconciliation. They were also demanding official and political recognition, despite government and corporate public relations.

However, reconciliation is more than just a walk in the park.

The “people’s movement� has been dismissed by the likes of Prime Minister John Howard, refusing to say Sorry and labeling the true reconciliation/justice process a “black armband view of history�.

It seems to be more of a John Howard whitewash, encouraged by Pauline Hanson’s racist and ignorant views on ideas like reconciliation/justice, which won her a million votes in 1998.

Reconciliation/justice cannot occur without history being truthfully acknowledged. This may be the deciding factor on when and what the reconciliation process will eventually achieve.

Treaty

“Our land was taken by massacres and displacement. No treaties were signed. We have never ceded our sovereignty. Our sovereignty cannot be extinguished. Under international law, we still own the land�
Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna Elder (August, 2000)

Unlike other Western nations who have signed treaties with their indigenous peoples, (such as the USA, NZ and Canada) Australia has still failed to do so.

When the Australian continent was invaded by the English empire, it was done so under a false doctrine of terra nullius, meaning either “a country without a sovereign� or a “territory where nobody owns any land at all�. The idea of terra nullius was rejected in the High Court ‘Mabo’ decision in 1992.

The terra nullius doctrine has abetted the failure of a treaty to be signed between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

“A treaty between indigenous peoples and Australia could have recognised and protected indigenous rights and led to a just constitutional basis for the Australian Federation�
ATSIC National Treaty Support Group (May 2001)

A treaty needs a balanced informed debate beforehand, with all voices being heard. These debates must include the voices of all indigenous people, not only the ATSIC board. Issues of how, why and what a treaty is about need to be fully discussed. There are many differing opinions on a treaty and whom the treaty/treaties will be between.

A treaty is also tied up in the issues of reconciliation, self-determination, land rights and reparations for the past. A treaty needs to be part of the solution to these other issues, an agreement between two or more parties on the best way forward, and to settle, as much as possible the mistakes of the past, fairly and honestly.

Who the treaty will be between also needs to be understood. Will it be with each traditional Indigenous nation, larger regional groupings of nations, separate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander treaties or a treaty encompassing all Indigenous peoples of Australia? Will the treaty be with current landowners, pastoralists, local councils, state or federal governments. Will the treaty grant self-determination?

Why has an apology to the stolen generation been so controversial?

The Bringing Them Home report about the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their parents over generations shocked the sensibilities of many Australians. The report came as a result of the Royal Commission on Deaths in Custody, which uncovered that many Aboriginals who died in custody were members of the stolen generation(s). The extent of Aboriginal child removal had not been properly acknowledged previously.

“As the Bringing Them Home report states, not one Indigenous family has escaped the effects of the removal policies�
Audrey Ngingali Kinnear and John Brown, National Sorry Day Committee Co-Chairs (May 2001)

Yet the Howard government mocked the very concept of stolen generations of children and slammed the Bringing Them Home report as distorted, downplaying and ignoring the report’s recommendations. While people were shocked and distressed by the report’s finding, the Howard government showed great insensitivity to such a sensitive issue as forcefully removing children from their families.

The Howard government refused to officially say sorry, but the refusal cut deeper into Australian history’s most controversial issue- the treatment of the nation's Indigenous people. Seen in this light, it is not just an apology to the stolen generation, that is a so-called ‘controversy’, because if the stolen generation is apologised too, then perhaps the entire invasion and colonisation of Australia’s Indigenous people should be apologised for.

When looking at images of Aboriginal chain gangs, learning of massacres and slavery, or hearing the testimonies of the stolen generations, an apology does not seem so controversial. The forced removal of indigenous children from their families, communities and their very identities was a shameful and bigoted part of Australia’s history and must be acknowledged.

One of the main reasons that many Australian find an apology to the stolen generation a controversy, is that the policy of forced removal of children was not due to the present government or present society.

To not acknowledge, in the present, that the stolen generation should be apologised to and be given reparations, requires an apology in itself, for a lack of understanding and compassion. Our present society has evolved from what society did in the past, and the present generation should be able to recognise the grave mistakes of the past and attempt to make amends as best as possible. We can’t undo the past but we must recognise the past.

It is a double standard when many people (such as Howard) can demand an apology from the Japanese government for atrocities committed in the second world war, yet refuse to apologise to the stolen generations, because it was a policy enacted by past, not present generations.

Society, collectively should make reparations for the past.

Another ‘controversy’ is the financial compensation that may result once an official apology is given. If it is such a widespread concern that this will occur, aren’t those concerned recognising that the stolen generation have a good chance of receiving money, due to their legitimate grievance?

Can you put a price on genocide? With genocide being the worst crime humanity can inflict on itself, how can reparations be made? A dollar figure or a dollar motive is created by the cynics, who refuse to face the responsibilities we have of acknowledging the past and giving back what we can in reparations.

A person taken from their family when young loses their connection to their roots, their home and their family. The family is left behind and unaware of their child’s wellbeing. Lifetime family relationships are lost. The official policy of Aboriginal child removal was cruel and racist. The official apology is long overdue from the government. By refusing to apologise and downplaying the harm done by the removal policy, the Howard government has negated healing and failed to achieve genuine reconciliation.

With saying Sorry only the beginning, the symbolism of an apology will spur the reconciliation/justice process on to addressing the serious issues facing Indigenous Australians. The unfinished business can be finished and Australia can move into the future with a stronger vision, guided by the ancient spiritual and practical wisdom of the nation’s indigenous peoples.

“We can guide you in creating a culture based on peace making, caring and sharing, and healing the land and the people. There is too much at stake and we hold the key to survival. Listen to us and respect what you hear. Commit to peace not war�
Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna Elder

Wallaby Poors

Author’s notes
This essay was written by me for uni in 2002, and was meant to address the issues of reconciliation, the stolen generation and treaty. I have edited it a bit- I got rid of most of the first section on reconciliation, as I have become more informed from Aboriginal people since, and believe that it wasn’t totally accurate or written in the understanding I now have.

I have a cut out a few things elsewhere and also changed the word reconciliation to justice in most of the essay or changed it to reconciliation/justice. I would also say that my analysis could go further on the issue of treaty. I like this article because I incorporated quotes from Arabunna elder Kevin Buzzacott and Mirrar elder Yvonne Margarula




It is really interesting to read over old essays to see where your access and understanding of things were at, at that time










BIBLIOGRAPHY

R.Broome, 1997, ‘The Colonial Experience, The Port Phillip District 1834-1850’, La Trobe University, Brown Prior Anderson.

Council For Aboriginal Reconciliation, 1994, ‘The Red Yellow and Black Book’, Darwin, Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.

Council For Aboriginal Reconciliation, ‘Walking Together’, Number 29, August 2000

Commonwealth Government, ‘Paths to Reconciliation’, 1999

Reconciliation Australia, ‘Tracks to Reconciliation’, March 2002

ATSIC Victoria, ‘Koori Grapevine’, Issue 2, November 29, 2001

ATSIC National Treaty Support Group, ‘Treaty, let’s get it right’, May 2001

Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna Elder, ‘Lake Eyre is calling- Ankaku’, August 1999

Yvonne Margarula, Mirrar Senior Traditional Owner, ‘Jabiluka Mine, Dead but not Buried’, April 11, 2002
Sue Charles, ‘Keepers of Land, Visions for Camp Kooyoora’, December 2001

Robert Manne, ‘Mabo: A moral crisis festers’, The Age, May 27, 2002.

QUESTIONS PUT TO THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIUSNESS

QUESTIONS PUT TO THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIUSNESS
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questions, questions, do you have an answer?



Do we need a revolution?

Do we need an evolution?

We know the problems but what are the solutions?

Can peace come out of war?

Do we have a possibility of a revolution?

or is that evolution?

Do we need to revisit ancient cultures to establish a dynamic new world?

We know the headings we organise under-

Peace, Sustainability,Equity, Survival, Justice, Solidarity,

-but do we have and and are we discussing enough our blueprints to make these headings truly exist?

How do we combat the evil forces of greed, hate, power, money, capitalism, fascism, repression?

Can we fight for peace?

or do we need to love more and hate less to achieve our aims?

How can the powerful be kept in check?

can we make power obsolete or controlled by everyone?

How can we wake people up from their apathy and lack of hope?

How can we make them care?

Can a mutual solidarity of caring be that if it is demanded?

Care for future generations, planet Earth, third world children, fluffy koalas?

And what about yabbies, mushrooms, water and rocks?

Can we connected truly with all?

How can we bypass the mass media and reach more people than they can?

Word of mouth?

or is meditation and telepathy true viable options?

Can we have a global revolution without a truly global spiritual reawakening?

Are we thinking about what really matters?

Are we running out of time?

Can we imagine life better?

That's a lot of questions but can we come up to the plate and offer some answers?

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Alternatives to the System of Brainwashing, Genocide and Ecological Suicide

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The most positive thing is lots of people are writing, lots of people are talking, lots of people arecaring lots of people are going to do it for themselves and each other We don't just have to work together, we have to live together, accept our diversities, and save our collective home

we need to get some grassroots foundations that we can build our own examples of self sustainable and equitable living on. This starts with not asking politicians and business if we can. We will need to keep asking for scraps of upperclass criminals or we get our shit together and show to people that don't have much hope or care, that there is an alternative wayof living

we all know how easy it could be to live a back to earth lifestyle,especially if we were able to reach our full potential and put our energies to solving our collective problem/s, instead of making money.(for ourselves, and more so for upperclass criminals) we don't all have the conditions to reach our full potential, there is nojustice JUST US.

We have forgotten those that have not been exposed to the life lessons wehave. Every one has responsibility for what they do and what they allow tooccur, but how do we know the extent of grand manipulations of society,let alone inform others who don't percieve the manipulations

People are fucken scared. Its just that the majority of people outside ofprivileges (only seen by the upperclass lower empathy than pond scum set)don't exactly know what it is thet are petrified of. Is it terrorists? Isit interest rates? Foreign invaders? Hippies? Bike riders? Children fromthe Middle East?

Meanwhile, people like us know it is the ones telling us what to be scared of that are the ones to be scared of.

Australia is illegal under international law. Sovereignty has never beenceded and the Traditional lore systems of Indigenous people have neverbeen allowed to be heard, let alone respected, under this genocidalimperialist,caapitalist system.

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