Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:59:53 +1000 (EST)
Message-ID: 199708100459.OAA01520@yarra.vicnet.net.au
Organization: Settler for Aboriginal Australia
Mailing List: LEFTLINK@vicnet.net.au
[Lorenzo's Ervin's reply to the Nyungah elders - see message below in red]
Date: 08 Aug 1997 08:49:22
Reply-To: Conference "iww.news"
<iww-news@igc.apc.org>
From: komboa@iww.org
Subject: Re: (Fwd) LL:Mr Lorenzo and his Deportation from Australia
To: Recipients of conference <iww-news@igc.apc.org>
From: x342398 <komboa@iww.org>
Reply-To: x342398 <komboa@iww.org>
Subject: Re: (Fwd) LL:Mr Lorenzo and his Deportation from Australia
Hello to the Elders of the Nyungah Tribe:
It is with great sadness that I must write you from
across the waters, not having been able to enter your lands as an emissary
of Black Autonomy International, and I was literally driven
out of the country with the police standing two steps behind me, and
then told that I was permanently barred from returning to the land the
white man calls Australia. I am one person and with the power of the
state, the Howard-Hanson racist government, it should have been
no surprise that I was finally forced to leave at that time. I had resisted
in the courts for sometime, and had even been offered by Indigenous
people safety and seclusion in their lands outside of the cities. I
chose at that time not to go underground, but I have been a warrior all my
life, and swore that I would return, and no barrier or territorial border
of the Whiteman will prevent my return. Not only will I personally
return, but I will send others from my organization to investigate the
condition of your/our people further, will conduct an international
conference on the genocide and land theft of the tribes of your country
(to which we are asking that you will send a Nyungah) next year, and
as I promised you I would begin to conduct the international boycott against
the white Austrailian government. This has begun even as we speak. i have set up
the Boycott 200O Coalition in those 17 countries which protested my false
imprisonment in Australia, and I assure you that many others, white,
Black, Asian, Native Americans, Mexican-Americans, and the whole of
humankind will hear of your plight, and join you to obtain the birthright
to which you are entitled: land and independence.
Your letter is so important because it not only makes
your wishes known, but it confirms our statements that an international
boycott of these bread and circus Olympic games, on stolen land soaked
with the blood of your ancestors, is really the way forward to winning
the human rights of the Indigenous people in the land known as
Australia.
Lorenzo Komboa Ervin
[snip]
From: "Jim Duffield" <staffy@omen.com.au>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 17:09:20 +0800
Subject: LL:Mr Lorenzo and his Deportation from Australia
To: leftlink@vicnet.net.au
I received this from the Nyungah Circle of Elders this afternoon, 7th August 1997, from Mr Robert Bropho, and issue it with the authority of the NYUNGAH Circle of Elders:
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NYUNGAH CIRCLE OF ELDERS
C/- PO Box Guildford, Western Australia,
Tel: 61 (0)8 9377-1157 ~ 61 (0)8 9377-3350 ~ 61 (0)8
9279-6706
"The Last of the Nyungah Elders who are standing to
Save and Protect our Ancient Religion and Culture and Sacred
Beliefs in the Land and not take money to sell our Sacredness"
We never had a chance to speak with Lorenzo Kom'boa
Ervin.
We put our shoulder up against him to support him
against the weight that was inflicted upon him by this Australian Government
which has stopped him from freely communicating with us.
We, the Aboriginal Peoples ask Lorenzo and his People
and Black and Indigenous People throughout the World to ask
all Black and Indigenous Athletes not to participate in the Olympic
Games in Australia.
We the Aboriginal People ask them to ask all people
to BOYCOTT the Olympic Games here in the year 2000.
snip...
Fax: 61 (0)8 9377-3359
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