Hundreds of residents of the Aboriginal community of Palm Island, Australia, burned down the local police station, court building and the housing barracks of local police officers on November 26, 2004, after a coroner’s report on the police custody death of island resident Mulrunji Doomadgee, a 36-year-old Aboriginal man, was read aloud to a community meeting.
“We continue to live the laws of Creation. Is it enough to save the earth from destruction? As the disease of greed spreads itself like a blanket smothering all of the Creation’s breath.”
“Janet McCloud was a political force not to be ignored, as she defined an American Indian political agenda that addressed police brutality, race, economics and gender…”
– Agnes Williams, Seneca Nation
“The struggles taking place in the inner city ghettos are often misunderstood as mindless violence. The young struggling against exclusion and boredom are advanced elements of the class clash. The ghetto walls must be broken down, not enclosed.”
“In the attempt to be intellectual, the authors’ writings are largely incomprehensible within the context of Marxism and Native Americans.”
“But such a simplistic analysis ignores the patriarchal & racist ideological basis that makes up the domination & expansion of capitalism. Today, capitalism shapes & effects our cultural & social relationships like no other social culture has.”