TO ALL MOB: RE-LIGHT THE FIRES ON MAY 17TH!
Radio RATA reporting with a very important and powerful callout that we need ALL of your help to spread the Rata(smoke) of to all First Nations people here.
Uncle Judulu of the Woomera Sovereign Union and cultural leader of Yarrabah, travels across to Quandamooka Lands and Seas to meet with @mmeic01 - the Moorgumpin-Minjerribah Elders-in-Council, to exchange stories of Sovereign Existence and Resistance, and connect in the lead up to May 17th.
Here is Uncle Dale Ruska’s yarn to all of you mob watching - it’s time to re-light the fires, to both collectively heal, re-unite to decolonise, and remind the colony that our sovereignty has never been ceded, and never will be.
May 17th is supposedly the day Cook “discovered” these Sovereign lands, when all the mob of the East Coast asserted their sovereignty from Yuin Country right up to Zenadh Kes (Torres Straits). What the colonists thought were merely campfires, were message sticks in the sky - a display of sovereignty, unbroken.
If you mob want more info and plan to light a fire with your Nation/community and wanna let us know, send an email to mikayla.queary@mmeic.org
