LAND AND SEA CONVOY FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
Looking at the ancient ways to find the new beginnings… By foot or by car, by bus or canoe, by ship or by song, by dance or by spirit you are invited to join us…
A short, poetic, and quite moving film expressing the solidarity of Melanesian peoples across national boundaries. Featuring Kevin Buzzacott, Jacob Rumbiak, Emily Wainggai and Ronny Kareni.
Once upon a time the land was joined, Australia split from her children the islands of Melanesia. Just below the surface of the sea that now divides us are the hidden treaures of forgotten stories and cultural knowledge that reveal a deep connection with the land and people.
Water is life, follow the dreaming story of the water from the Lake Eyre basin to our brothers’ and sisters’ land in West Papua. The People of West Papua are suffering. We have a responsibility to care for our brothers and sisters from across the water, we must bring the water and the fire, the love and the music to heal the country as we move in solidarity…
We were one people, we still are one people We must uphold our cultural connection, the old land is calling us…
Calling on all our friends and families of all nations to join at the shores of Lake Eyre for a ceremony to celebrate the survival of the old country and to stand strong to make an action of creative resistance against the apartheid of colonization and destruction caused by multinational mining companies.
From the shores of Lake Eyre we will follow the underground water across Australia in a freedom convoy of artists, musicians, activists and indigenous ambassadors from Australia and West Papua.
We will carry the ancient water collected from the sacred mound springs of Arabunna country, the fire from the old Lake Eyre and ashes from Aboriginal tent embassies across Australia.
These offerings of peace and justice will be taken on a flotilla to West Papua in support for the freedom and justice for West Papuan peoples.
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