So everyone remembers when Tony Abbott said that indigenous communities living on their land and preserving thousands of years of culture and history, was a lifestyle choice? Because the Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett decided to close nearly half of WA’s 274 remote Indigenous communities?
How could we ever forget.
Some incredible images have surfaced on social media.
Thousands gathered at Flinders Street Station in Melbourne from 4pm:
Power circle #SOSBLAKAUSTRALIA pic.twitter.com/J5jkqQAOLp
— Cass Smith (@cass_mith) April 10, 2015
Tents erected in protest of closures of indigenous communities. Cnr flinders and Swanston. #SOSBLAKAUSTRALIA pic.twitter.com/DQHTJjlGoj
— Kenji Wardenclyffe (@kwardenclyffe) April 10, 2015
This is huge. Melbourne rally to stop forced closures of Aboriginal communities. #sosblakaustralia pic.twitter.com/ka4LtmGlgc
— Nick Henry (@NickAnarchistic) April 10, 2015
And in Belmore Park in Sydney, marching to the The Block in Redfern:
#Sydney rally against forced closure of Aboriginal communities 10.04.15.
#SOSBLAKAUSTRALIA #ShutDownAustralia pic.twitter.com/errQWdP6uK
— Insurrection News (@InsurrectNews) April 10, 2015
Sydney rally to stop the forced closure of aboriginal communities in my home state of WA #SOSBLAKAUSTRALIA pic.twitter.com/0aNB4bvs0r
— Sally Rugg (@rugg_life) April 10, 2015
There will be another, nationally organised march in cities and towns all over Australia on May 1st.
