Posted on 30-3-2002
Woomera
Not Quite Hidden In
Australia's
Shadow
Woomera is a remote town, 500 kms from Adelaide (Australia).
It is also the
centre of an economy of death, suffering and incarceration founded
on the
dispossession of indigenous lands. Humanity is obliterated in
Woomera, in
the immigrant concentration camp, by missiles, by nuclear weapons,
by toxic
waste, by colonisation, by capitalism, by fear and division.
Thousands of people are making the journey to Woomera to press
for a return
to humanity and the liberation of those who have been dehumanised.
They are
making the journey to refuse the death, pain and confinements
that are
manufactured in the name of The Economy. Refuse the caging behind
razor
wire and the new world borders fashioned so that capital, by
reserving for
itself the 'right' to move around the world, can better enforce
austerity,
misery, the earth's destruction and the 'race-to-the-bottom'.
In 2002 people are making the journey to reveal the connections
between
dispossession and the enclosures; the dislocations that have
occurred and
are still occurring in the name of profits and empire. We will
not mimic
what we go to abolish, but instead wish to open a multitude
of paths toward
a different world.
You are invited to make the journey. Woomera 2002 (www.woomera2002.com/)
will be a kaleidoscope of cascading autonomous actions, media
streams and
screenings, workshops, discussions and happenings. People are
encouraged to
use a diversity of tactics to disrupt the present and create
the future.
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