Australia Day 2012
by ana australiana
To riff off (or is it on?) these well-worded thoughts of Fugitive Sound‘s: how raw the distance is today, the distance between what ‘we’ say we are (democratic, nonracist, just, settled, ‘reconciled’, fair) and what is continuously in evidence as the reality.
In this distance sits the anger, sadness and sickness; also the fear, superiority, and ignorance. Violence displaced onto the violated, security deployed by the insecure, civility demanded by the incivil.
Canberra protest “could’ve blown up in people’s faces”
The tent embassy debacle from a protester’s POV
