Extinction Rebellion: Vital disobedience (Advocate 26 03)

As a trade unionist and feminist, I see social change movements as offering a history of courage and action on which to draw. As a white Australian born on Arrernte land, living and working on Kaurna land, I understand that colonisation and dispossession have devastated the landscape and ecology of this continent as well as its people, culture and law. Indigenous activism enlarges my understanding of what courage can really mean in the face of white supremacy as a global force. Indigenous wisdom offers ways forward from the damaging traditions in which I was raised. More...