SOLIDARITY SEVEN Seven ways that non-‐Aboriginal people can support Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance (WAR) 1. FACEBOOK: Like our Facebook pages to stay up to date with our rallies, actions, speaking engagements and magazine release dates: https://www.facebook.com/WARcollective www.facebook.com/BlackNationsRising 2. REGULAR DONATIONS: Set up regular donations to help us buy equipment and resources. Donate into our bank account: Account Name: Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance BSB: 633 000 Account: 154 594 758 3. SUBSCRIBE: Subscribe to our magazine, Black Nations Rising. By subscribing to Black Nations Rising as a non-‐Aboriginal person, you both inform yourself about our cause and support our work to inform our own people. Your ‘pay the rent’ subscription fee subsidises our free subscriptions for Aboriginal people. The Pay the rent fee is $50 per year or $15 per issue. To become a subscriber go to: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1egYVHpkx6iyVkIc9b_nl2lHBqDijv_NEF_i3gZ5ug0g/viewfo rm 4. CROWD FUNDING: Support, donate to and share our crowd funding campaign to help us reach our goal of $50,000 to relaunch Black Nations Rising as a monthly publication in 2016: http://www.gofundme.com/BlackNationsRising 5. SOLIDARITY DATABASE: Register your skills and resources on our solidarity database: http://goo.gl/forms/Pi1Rvi6VFb. We will contact you when we need help. 6. UNDERSTAND OUR MANIFESTO: Find out what we stand for by reading our Manifesto: http://issuu.com/brisbaneblacks/docs/war_manifesto_d91595ceee8754 7. PRESENCE: Come to our rallies and actions. Your physical presence is really important.
NEWCOMERS TO SOLIDARITY WITH ABORIGINAL PEOPLE If you are a newcomer to working in solidarity with Aboriginal struggles, then you should seek out an existing supporter group, so that you can learn from experienced people about how to do this. If you are an experienced supporter of Aboriginal struggles then you should form a small group of like minded people, inform yourselves about our cause, and go from there (see more info below though). You should also inform yourselves about what our politics of decolonization means for non-‐ Aboriginal people. Clare Land is a contact/support point for new groups of this kind: clare.a.land@gmail.com More about WAR, and how to support us WAR is a collective of young Aboriginal people committed to the cause of decolonization and the philosophy of Aboriginal Nationalism – resistance and revival. Our focus is to inform our people about the cause and inspire our people to join the cause. Non-‐Aboriginal people can support us but not join us. We are happy for non-‐Aboriginal people to support our cause. However, you will need to join with each other to organise yourselves. You will need to find ways of establishing accountability to each other and to us to ensure that what you are doing is helpful. More about working in solidarity with Indigenous struggles •
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Gary Foley’s advice to non-‐Aboriginal activists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEGsBV9VGTQn A PhD thesis on how to do solidarity in south-‐east Australia (a snappier version will be published soon as a book, see @Clare_Land on Twitter): http://dro.deakin.edu.au/view/DU:30048442 Aotearoa/New Zealand guidance for working as allies: http://awea.org.nz/allies Good site from North America about decolonisation: https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/ Code of Ethics for Antiracist White Allies: http://jlovecalderon.com/code-‐of-‐ethics-‐for-‐ antiracist-‐white-‐allies/