Acknowledgement of country

News headlines with Cait Kelly

We hear a number of speeches from the Naarm Black Lives Matter rally that took place on Saturday 6th June. In this first segment of audio we hear from Meriki Onus from Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, Sue-Anne Hunter, Mandy Nicholson, Ky-ya Nicholson-Ward and Warren Day supported on stage by two of Tanya Day’s first cousins.

In the second segment of audio from the Naarm Black Lives Matter rally we hear speeches by Dwayne, the brother of Veronica Nelson accompanied by Viv Malo, Uncle Ray Thomas, Uncle Ted Wilkes, Justin (supported on stage by Rachel Hocking) reading a statement from the family of Kumanjayi Walker with input by Samara Fernandez and Walpiri elder Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves and Uncle Talgium Edwards. 

We hear a number of poems by Dr. Denise Chapman, a storyteller, digital media-creator, and spoken word artist who lectures in children’s literature, early literacy and new media/technology at Monash University. She uses poetry, oral stories, children’s literature, film, call-and-response storying, and interactive digital content as windows and spaces for critical activism. Her creative art and research centre the experiences of marginalization and oppression to illuminate inequities and put forward social change. Denise will share a few of poems reflecting on racism and her experience as a Black woman from the US/turtle island in Australia.

We hear a final speech from the Naarm Black Lives Matter rally delivered by wāni Le Frère and written in collaboration with Pauline Vetuna and Hamile Ibrahim. wāni speaks about violence against Black peoples, colonies & continent, connecting Black struggle across so-called Australia, the Pacific, the African continent, the United States and more.

Links to support families of First Nations people who have died in custody 

Songs

Philly - Yil Lull