Warriors of Aboriginal Resistance burns butcher's apron in defiance of racist 'Reclaim Australia' rally
In more recent times, this flag also represents the malicious and racist treatment of ethnic minorities. The flag represents a white nation, a nation built by white people for white people.
Members of WAR didn't just burn the Australian flag, we set fire to an expression of Australian racism in an act of anti-colonial resistance. Burning the Australian flag is an act of defiance against the colonial state, a symbolic gesture of our continual fight for freedom and a message that is hoped to reverberate outside of the monopolised media within this country.
Our ultimate goal is to end the colonial control of our lands and lives and to restore our tribal sovereignty. We want freedom and independence and we will continue to fight to rid our people and our communities of the interfering and oppressive hands of the colonial Australian state. We call on Australian government to cease violent domination of Aboriginal lives and immediately stop all destruction of Aboriginal land and culture across this continent.
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Other symbols of Australian nationalism, such as the Southern Cross and the Eureka Stockade, are also symbols of colonial oppression and racism. The miners at the Eureka Stockade raised the Southern Cross flag and went on a pogrom against the Chinese miners and merchants in a nearby settlement.
Even in the resistance to state oppression, the oppressed found time to oppress others.
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