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For those of us in Australia, it’s easy to support the Black Lives Matter movement from afar, and ignore the violent problems that run rampant in our own back yard. This amazing document was shared by a friend of mine on Facebook and is an amazing guide to better educate yourself on racism in Australia and how to be a proactive and supportive ally in the wider community. 

There are links to funds and relief support for Indigenous Australians, for funds and individuals, if you’re able to donate. There are links to petitions concerning police brutaliaty, land rights, health inequality, and Invasion Day, as well as a reading list, helplines, and links to Indigenous-owned businesses and arts organisations. 

If you’re in Australia (or would like to learn about how Black Lives Matter can be supported in Australia) please take the time to give this a read.

  “I CAN’T BREATHE”: CHARGES MUST BE LAID FOR THE DEATH OF DAVID DUNGAY JNR

PREVENT ANOTHER ABORIGINAL DEATH IN CUSTODY 

Sydney Protest Pepper Spray - Calling for the immediate investigation of Police 

Clean out prisons, free our people - before it’s too late

End Aboriginal Deaths In Custody - Abolish the offence of public drunkenness

Prevent deaths in custody caused by improper restraint.

AUSTRALIA: STOP LOCKING UP 10-YEAR-OLDS IN PRISON

Demand action on Indigenous Incarceration

Take a Stand Against Deaths In Custody

Hold Rio Tinto to account

Protect sacred Djab Wurrung birthing trees from expansion of the Western Hwy by Vicroads.

Victorian Aboriginal lives matter - demand funding for First Peoples’ Health and Wellbeing

Tear down the Captain Cook statue in Cairns!

Tell the Truth - Invasion Day 

Survival Day and a New National Holiday

Sign the Joint Statement in support of a First People Voice in Parliament

Close the Gap Petition 2019

Calling upon The Hills Shire Council to Acknowledge Traditional Custodians

Change the licensing agreement around the Aboriginal Flag #PrideNotProfit

@BlakBusiness - Links for Actions

Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance - WAR

Indigenous Social Justice Association - Melbourne

Indigenous Social Justice Association - SYDNEY

Email templates:

Email templates re Aboriginal deaths in Custody and ongoing incidents of police brutality

Donations:

Justice for Yuendumu: Inquiry on Police Shooting

Day Family Fundraiser

Justice for David Dungay Junior - Facebook

Fundraiser for First Nations water protector facing court

Free Her - Sisters Inside 

Indigenous Deaths in Custody

Donate to Stop Black Deaths In Custody

Support for Djap Wurrung Embassy

National Justice Project 

Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance - WAR

Pay the Rent

Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal Women’s Legal Centre

Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service

North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency

Djirra - Supporting Aboriginal women’s safety and wellbeing

CHANGE THE RECORD 

BUILD COMMUNITIES, NOT PRISONS #JustReinvest

Sisters Inside

Deadly Connections

VACCA - Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency

Full Stop Foundation

Bushfire Fund coordinated by peak Aboriginal health body, VACCHO to support the Aboriginal communities across Victoria

COVID-19 Victorian First Nations Mutual Aid Fund

Wangan and Jagalingou Traditional Owners are fighting to defend our lands from Adani

Black Rainbow - LGBQTI

BlaQ - LGBTQI

Gunawirra

Healing Foundation

Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation - Indigenous Stolen Generations Support

First Nations Workers Alliance

AIME Mentoring

Yalari - Educating Indigenous Children

Yirra Yaakin Solidarity Projects Series - Keep artists creating and/or up-skilling during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Alliance (NATSIWA)

African Communities Foundation Australia 

Pay the rent:

Pay the Rent

Indigenous owned businesses:

Supply Nation

here is a carrd for the crisis happening right now in Yemen

here is a carrd for Hong Kong

here is a carrd for Palestine.

here is a carrd for trans rights 

here is a carrd for the terror bill in Philippines. 

here is a carrd with various donation links (for Syria, BLM etc)

here is a carrd for LGBT+ rights

most cities are either going back to “normal” (re-opening business, public transportation, parks/beaches) or, like são paulo and rio, they never went fully quarantined. those are also the most dense cities in brazil, and… the cities with the most cases. not to mention that brazil is one of the countries that is doing the least amount of tests in the population. so, 600k is not even half of it.

we are reaching 30 days without a health minister because the last two were fired directly by the president, when they were doing according to what the world health org said.

https://brazilian.report/coronavirus-brazil-live-blog/

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-52367849/coronavirus-advice-ignored-by-brazil-s-president-jair-bolsonaro?intlink_from_url=&link_location=live-reporting-map 40k infected in late april

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-52307339

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/05/brazil-coronavirus-covid-19-virus-doctor

https://www.france24.com/en/20200606-bolsonaro-threatens-to-quit-who-as-covid-19-kills-a-brazilian-per-minute 

with the blm movement news spreading, the main cities in brazil are organizing/organized protests in support, only to be faced with police brutality and violence; 

https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/06/03/brazil-suffers-its-own-scourge-police-brutality “To put that in perspective, imagine police in the United States killing at a similar rate; they would be responsible for more than 36,000 deaths each year. Instead, US police shoot and kill about 1,000 people per year.“

some politicians are also trying to pass another law that would put antifas in the same category as terrorists.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/06/06/bras-j06.html “Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro once again denounced demonstrators joining marches in five Brazilian cities held in solidarity with the protests in United States as “terrorists” and “outcasts” aiming to “break the country.“

not to mention that deforastation is taking its peak as we speak right now. rodrigo salles, our environment minister, said that “we should take advantage of covid to loosen the anti-deforastation laws”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/05/the-guardian-view-on-brazil-and-the-amazon-dont-look-away

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/world/americas/amazon-deforestation-brazil.html

https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/brazil-minister-advises-using-covid-19-to-distract-from-amazon-deregulation/

“In a Brazilian cabinet meeting Environment Minister Ricardo Salles was caught on video declaring that the COVID-19 pandemic which has killed more than 23,000 of his fellow citizens offers a distraction during which the government can “run the cattle herd” through the Amazon, “changing all the rules and simplifying standards.”

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Someone put red paint on the "Serve and Protect" sculpture at the Salt Lake City police building and it is such a powerful statement.

From @saki.ibuki.hazuki: “#香箱座り (本家本元入り😆) 昨日のごはんタイム動画にたくさんのコメント＆たくさんのシェア感激です😂💕” #catsofinstagram