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Event – Invasion Day: Australia’s Colonial Past and Present

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6:30pm, January 22, New International Bookshop (Victorian Trades Hall, 54 Victoria St, Carlton)

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Australia has a long history of colonialism, racism, and genocide. It’s a history that is whitewashed and denied in favour of the narrative we’re presented with each year on ‘Australia Day’, or what should be more accurately titled Invasion Day.

Join Anarchist Affinity on Thursday 22nd at the New International Bookshop to hear from two speakers on the real history behind Invasion Day and what it means today.

The two speakers will be followed by a Q and A session.

Speakers:

Vivian Malo – Vivian Malo is a Gooniyandi woman and co-founder of First Nations Liberation, a resistance movement and Black Power revival.

Tony Birch – Indigenous academic, novelist and historian

Check out the facebook event page here.

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Anarchist Affinity holds monthly discussion meetings on various topics. We hope to encourage greater discussion amongst anarchists and others interested in social justice and anti-capitalist ideas about strategy, tactics and political ideas.

No Borders. No Bosses. No Racist Tossers.

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Check out the text of a leaflet we distributed at the ‘Stop Abbott’s attacks on Muslims’ rally in October.

No justice on stolen land

Any notion of ‘justice’ in a nation founded on the genocide and continuing dispossession of Australia’s First Nations is a joke. Let’s not pretend that this Team Australia bullshit is new, it’s just the latest in a long line of ruling class mythologies that seek to create a loyal ‘us’ and a subhuman ‘them’. From Terra Nullius and the White Australia Policy to ‘children overboard’ and the Northern Territory intervention, the logic has not changed. Australia is a settler colonial state. It has been a white supremacist regime since 1788, and continues to be to this day. Continue reading →