190213 SEED WATERisLIFE PH Pop Up (5 of 8)
Channel: Sovereign Union
Date: 22/04/2020

'WATER IS LIFE' PopUp protest
13 February 2016 Parliament House, Canberra.
First Nations voiced a series of demands with the sacredness of water as the central theme. A carefully organised Pop-Up protest of over 100, advocating for major change as to how water is managed and valued. They elude the machine gun-touting security guards to enter the foyer of the Federal Parliament and stay for over an hour to voice their demands, which they know will be captured on the security cameras, as well as the TV cameras present.

This video is a recording of Ghillar, Michael Anderson, who set up the Aboriginal Embassy in 1972 and is now leader of the Euahlayi Nation and Convenor of the Sovereign Union of First Nations and Peoples in Australia. [ www.sovereigunion.mobi ]

Outside the main doors of the Parliament, a parallel demonstration is co-ordinated with the smoke from the sacred fire carried in 2 coolamons.

This successful action is on the 11th Anniversary of the PM Rudd Apology to Stolen Generations and a day before the release of the Closing The Gap report.
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