When
to
Where
Resistance Centre
407 Swanston St
Level 5
Melbourne VIC 3000
Australia
Why
Guniway Ngigu (We Fight) is a rare documentary about the Land Rights protest in Magan-djin (Brisbane), when activists occupied Musgrave Park and led resistance to the Brisbane Commonwealth Games of 1982 and the Joh Bjelke-Petersen government.
In 1971, two pieces of legislation were introduced into Queensland state law. The Queensland Aborigines Act, and the Torres Strait Islanders Act, which made the oppression of Black People in Queensland legal.
In a country that claims to be against apartheid in South Africa, we have a separate law governing Black People.
In 1982, the Queensland government brought down the Commonwealth Games Act in an attempt to prevent Black People from using the Brisbane-held Commonwealth Games to voice their opposition to white oppression.
It was in this atmosphere of state-generated terror and threatened violence from the Australian Army and the Queensland police that the following events took place...
Featuring discussion and introduction by a participant in the protests.
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