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This is a version of a remix! of The Warumpi Band’s "Blackfella/Whitefella" (1985).
This inspiring track was remixed by Non Bossy Posse in the late 90s with the track “Stand Up” ( Activista album). The track is given a 2020 high-energy techno remix on this release.

In the mid 90’s to early 2000’s the community counter cultural energy’s fostered in party and protest movements became more linked with indigenous struggles. In Sydney the Graffiti Hall Of Fame project lead by Tony Spanos from the mid nineties often offered support and solidarity with local indigenous groups in Redfern and beyond. The Ohm’s Not Bombs bus was purchased with funds from party events at the inner city car-park space. In 1997 the Ohms Not Bombs crew bus prepared to go on a trip around Australia with the bus to protest uranium mining in the Northern Territory. The 1998 Jabiluka campaign was a major catalyst in aligning the protest and indigenous movements against earth-destroying corporate mining interests.

The movement continued with many protest outcomes in the years that followed. The Arabunna and Adnyamathanha indigenous people’s campaign against the Roxby and Beverly Uranium mines lead to major convergences from international counter-cultural groups and indigenous mobs in the South Australian outback.

The Earthdream idea had been brewing since the early 90’s pushed into manifestation by Robin Cooke, one of the founding members of UK’s Mutoid Waste Company. A regular convoy from 1999 lead to a movement of people from the cities coming together and travelling the outback on a tour of party and protest and bridge building with indigenous and non-indigenous people.

From the mid 90’s Arabunna elder Uncle Kevin Buzacott invited people to gather regularly on land near Lake Eyre, the place became known as Mutonia and hosted many outback gatherings spreading the word about the damage Roxby mine was doing to local ecosystems with its water extraction for mining copper and uranium. The year 2000 Earthdream saw Earthdream’s most organised and largest convoy attended by people from around the world.

Back in Sydney in 2000 to draw attention to Indigenous injustice while the Olympic Games had the worlds media in town an Aboriginal Tent Embassy was set up in Victoria Park leas by aboriginal activist, the late Auntie Isobel Coe. The Embassy set up for many months and acted as a common meeting ground for people to meet and learn about aboriginal culture and protest campaigns.

An event called Walking The Land saw in the same year a long protest march from the Arabunna land where Mutonia is set up near Lake Eyre all the way to the Aboriginal tent Embassy in Victoria Park taking in many communities and protest site on the way like Lake Cowel in far Western NSW.

Examples cited here are just a snapshot of examples of Indigenous and non Indigenous people in so called Australia collaborating to create a better and more equal future by looking after each other and the earths ecosystems, many more examples have and continue to happen as this post colonial solidarity strengthens despite the mainstreams desire to consolidate a colonial earth destroying dystopia where mining and military interests dictate government policy.

The indigenous/non indigenous alliance is still strong to this day with regular protest gathering like the Lizards Revenge attempts to go forward into a post colonial future where the continuing terrorism of British invasion of this land is challenged and resisted.

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from 25 Years On Remixed, released May 1, 2020
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