Camp Sovereignty eviction looms
by Gubbah Friday April 07, 2006 at 01:10 PM

Reports are that the police have visited the Sovereignty camp this morning warning that they will return with legal papers to close the camp down. At present lawyers from our side are heading down there to legally defend our situation. Please head down there if you can.

Subject: cops at Camp Sovereignty




Reports are that the police have visited the Sovereignty camp this morning warning that they will return with legal papers to close the camp down. At present lawyers from our side are heading down there to legally defend our situation. Please head down there if you can. We can't let this opportunity slip.

Last night Camp Sovereignty Elders requested that all supporters are encouraged to return to set up camp again. Lets lock arms for true justice!

Below is a good letter sent to all MelbCityCouncil & Vic politicians a supporter wrote defending our position.

Feel free to write to help in the PR War

Honourable councillors,

Please recognise this correspondence in support of Camp Sovereignity and
its maintenance at its current location.

The indigenous people of Australia has suffered extraordinary crimes at
the hands of their occupiers, of which I am sure most of you are well
aware. Today, because of their dispossession of land and resources,
their life expectancy, health, education and employment are at levels
unbecoming for an advanced industrial nation such as ours.

The camp in its current location is merely a gentle reminder and a
symbolic claim to an equitable share of land and resources to the
original custodians of this land. Do not dishonour the City of Melbourne
by forcible removing people who have every right to remind us of their
claims to justice.
Yours sincerely,

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