We have survived! Forty years of Aboriginal protest posters – in pictures

What happened

According to The Guardian’s linked report, We have survived! Forty years of Aboriginal protest posters – in pictures, Wiradjuri elder Ray Jackson was a prominent activist in Australia. He was the founding secretary of the New South Wales Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee in 1987 and a regular face at the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy up until his death in 2015. His Waterloo home was filled with posters and memorabilia collected from rallies, protests, union meetings and film screenings over 50 years. A selection is now on display at Sydney’s Numbers gallery – in Ray Jackson Doing Time with Penrith Miers Archive, on until 2 August. The Penrith Miers Archive is run by Jackson’s granddaughter Madika Penrith, a Wiradjuri/Yuin/Gumbaynggirr archivist, and her partner Sam Miers Take a stand on racism or send a message against violence: what should happen to the Nicky Winmar statue? Continue reading…

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Source

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