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from the desk of the <a
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Institute for Social
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<p style="margin: 10px
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late March 2021, 120
traditional owners from 40
different First People’s
groups spent five days at
the National First People’s
Gathering on Climate Change
in Cairns (Australia).
Speaking on the impact of
the climate crisis on First
People, Gavin Singleton from
the Yirrganydji traditional
owners <a
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that ‘From changing weather
patterns to shifts in
natural ecosystems, climate
change is a clear and
present threat to our people
and our culture’.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
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150%;text-align: left;">Bianca
McNeair of the Malgana
traditional owners from
Gatharagudu (Australia) <a
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that those who attended the
gathering ‘are talking about
how the birds’ movements
across the country have
changed, so that’s changing
songlines that they’ve been
singing for thousands and
thousands of years, and how
that’s impacting them as a
community and culture. … We
are very resilient people’,
McNeair said, ‘so it’s a
challenge we were ready to
take on. But now we’re
facing a situation that’s
not predictable, it’s not
part of our natural
environmental pattern’.</p>
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Meeks</a> (Australia),
<i>The Gesture</i>,
2020.</span></p>
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150%;text-align: left;">The
Yirrganydji traditional
owners live on Australia’s
coastline, which faces the
Great Barrier Coral Reef.
That majestic reef faces
extinction from climate
change: a period of
consecutive years of coral
bleaching from 2014 to 2017
threatened to kill off the
precious coral, during which
fluctuating temperatures
caused coral to expel
symbiotic algae that are
crucial to the nutritional
health of the coral.
Scientists assembled by the
United Nations <a
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that 70% of the earth’s
coral reefs are threatened,
with 20% already destroyed
‘with no hope for recovery’.
Of the reefs that are
threatened, a quarter are
under ‘imminent risk of
collapse’ and another
quarter are at risk ‘due to
long-term threats’. In
November 2020, a UN <a
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titled <i>Projections on
Future Coral Bleaching</i>
suggested that unless carbon
emissions are controlled,
the reefs will die and the
species they support will
die out too. The Great
Barrier Reef Marine Park
Authority <a
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that ‘climate change is the
greatest threat to the Great
Barrier Reef and coral reefs
worldwide’. That is why the
Yirrganydji traditional
owners <a
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the Indigenous Land and Sea
Rangers to care for the reef
against all odds.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
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16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">‘Most
of our traditions, our
customs, our language are
from the sea’, <a
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Singleton, ‘so losing the
reef would impact our
identity. We were here prior
to the formation of the
reef, and we still hold
stories that have been
passed down through
generations – of how the sea
rose and flooded the area,
the “great flood”’. The
Yirrganydji Rangers,
Singleton points out, ‘have
their hearts and souls’ in
the reef. But they are
struggling against all odds.</p>
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(Spain), <i>Stain</i>,
2011.</span></p>
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long after the National
First People’s Gathering
disbanded, the
Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC)
released its sixth report.
Based on the consensus of
234 scientists from over 60
countries, the report <a
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underline;"
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that ‘multiple lines of
evidence indicate the recent
large-scale climatic changes
are unprecedented in a
multi-millennial context,
and that they represent a
millennial-scale commitment
for the slow-responding
elements of the climate
system, resulting in
worldwide loss of ice,
increase in ocean heat
content, sea level rise, and
deep ocean acidification’.
If warming continues to
reach 3 °C (by 2060) and 5.7
°C (by 2100), human
extinction is certain. The
report comes after a string
of extreme weather events:
floods in China and Germany,
fires across the
Mediterranean, and extreme
temperatures across the
world. A study in the July
issue of <i>Nature Climate
Change</i> <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=c2d172c6a6&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">found</a>
that ‘record-shattering
extremes’ would be ‘nearly
impossible in the absence of
warming’.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">Importantly,
the 6th IPCC report shows
that ‘historical cumulative
CO2 emissions determine to a
large degree warming to
date’, which means that the
Global North countries have
already taken the planet to
the threshold of
annihilation before
countries of the Global
South have been able to
attain basic needs such as
universal electrification.
For instance, 54 countries
on the African continent <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=ba8b508dfc&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
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for merely 2-3% of global
carbon emissions; half of
Africa’s 1.2 billion people
have no <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=917820fd1e&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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#007C89;font-weight:
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moz-do-not-send="true">access</a>
to electricity, while many
extreme climate <a
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underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">events</a>
(droughts and cyclones in
southern Africa, floods in
the Horn of Africa,
desertification in the
Sahel) are now taking place
across the continent.
Released on World
Environment Day (5 June) and
produced with the <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=b4e73c364b&e=d206d0a40d"
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#007C89;font-weight:
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underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">International
Week of Anti-Imperialist
Struggle</a>, our <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=38da3e0977&e=d206d0a40d"
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#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">Red
Alert no. 11</a> further
explains the scientific and
political dynamics of the
climate crisis, the ‘common
but differentiated
responsibilities’, and what
can be done to turn the
tides.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
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150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
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style="max-width:
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<p
id="caption-attachment-49761"
class="wp-caption-text"
style="margin: 10px
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150%;text-align: left;"><span
style="color: #ba2025;"><a
style="color:
#ba2025;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=4c2b1a2428&e=d206d0a40d"
moz-do-not-send="true">Frédéric
Bruly Bouabré</a>
(Ivory Coast), <i>Le
serment du Jeu de
Paume</i>, 2010.</span></p>
</div>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">Governments
will gather in October for
the 15th Conference of the
Parties (<a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=ad23f0c598&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
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#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">COP15</a>)
in Kunming (China) to
discuss progress on the
Convention on Biological
Diversity (<a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=70b7c20c42&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">ratified</a>
in 1993) and in November for
the 26th UN Climate Change
Conference of the Parties (<a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=13a50960b3&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">COP26</a>)
in Glasgow (UK) to discuss
climate change. Attention is
on COP26, where the powerful
Global North will once more
push for ‘net zero’ carbon
dioxide emissions and
thereby reject deep cuts to
their own emissions while
insisting that the Global
South forgo social
development.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">Meanwhile,
there will be less attention
paid to COP15, where the
agenda will include cutting
pesticide use by two-thirds,
halving food waste, and
eliminating the discharge of
plastic waste. In 2019, an
Intergovernmental
Science-Policy Platform on
Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Services <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=f727d35a9b&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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#007C89;font-weight:
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underline;"
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showed that pollution and
resource extraction had
threatened one million
animal and plant species
with extinction.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">The
link between the assault on
biological diversity and
climate change is clear: the
opening of wetlands alone
has released historic stores
of carbon to the atmosphere.
Deep emission cuts and
better stewardship of
resources are necessary.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
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class="wp-caption
aligncenter"><img
aria-describedby="caption-attachment-49731"
loading="lazy"
class="wp-image-49731
size-full img-responsive
mcRssImage"
src="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Amin-Roshan-Iran-Wandering-2019..jpg"
alt="" style="max-width:
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0;display:
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width="950" border="0">
<p
id="caption-attachment-49731"
class="wp-caption-text"
style="margin: 10px
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exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
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150%;text-align: left;"><span
style="color: #ba2025;"><a
style="color:
#ba2025;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=a42612d95c&e=d206d0a40d"
moz-do-not-send="true">Amin
Roshan</a> (Iran), <i>Wandering</i>,
2019.</span></p>
</div>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
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16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">Strikingly,
just as the IPCC released
its report, US President Joe
Biden’s administration <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=64493a9534&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">asked</a>
the Organisation of
Petroleum Exporting
Countries to boost output of
oil production. This makes a
mockery of the Biden <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=bd2907c7b7&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
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#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">pledge</a>
to cut 50% of US greenhouse
emissions by 2030.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">A
recent <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=abefe81a70&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
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#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">paper</a>
in <i>Nature</i> shows that
the passage of the 1987
Montreal Protocol on
Substances that Deplete the
Ozone Layer banned the use
of chlorofluorocarbons
(CFCs), whose gradual
elimination from aerosol
sprays, refrigerants, and
Styrofoam packaging
prevented ozone depletion.
The Montreal Protocol is
significant because –
despite industry lobbying –
it was universally ratified.
That treaty provides hope
that sufficient pressure
from key countries, pushed
by social and political
movements, could result in
stringent regulations
against pollution and carbon
abuse as well as meaningful
cultural change.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
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class="wp-caption
aligncenter"><img
aria-describedby="caption-attachment-49781"
loading="lazy"
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style="max-width:
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width="950" border="0">
<p
id="caption-attachment-49781"
class="wp-caption-text"
style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"><span
style="color: #ba2025;"><a
style="color:
#ba2025;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=f6e0ab8793&e=d206d0a40d"
moz-do-not-send="true">Simone
Thomson</a>
(Australia), <i>Awakening</i>,
2019.</span></p>
</div>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">Places
associated with global
negotiations to save the
planet include cities such
as Kyoto (1997), Copenhagen
(2009), and Paris (2015).
First amongst these should
be Cochabamba (Bolivia),
where the government of Evo
Morales Ayma held the World
People’s Conference on
Climate Change and the
Rights of Mother Earth in
April 2010. Over 30,000
people from more than 100
countries came to this
landmark conference, which <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=869f40ec25&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">adopted</a>
the Universal Declaration of
Rights of Mother Earth.
Several points were
discussed, including the
demand for:</p>
<ol>
<li aria-level="1"
style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The
states of the Global North
to cut emissions by at
least 50%;</li>
<li aria-level="1"
style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Developing
countries to be given
substantial assistance to
adapt to the effects of
climate change and to
transition away from
fossil fuels;</li>
<li aria-level="1"
style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Indigenous
rights to be protected;</li>
<li aria-level="1"
style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">International
borders to be opened to
climate refugees;</li>
<li aria-level="1"
style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">An
international court to be
set up to prosecute
climate crimes;</li>
<li aria-level="1"
style="mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">People’s
rights to water to be
recognised, and that
people have the right not
to be exposed to excessive
pollution.</li>
</ol>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">‘We
are confronted with two
paths’, former President
Morales <a
href="https://leftword.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=07e374e13e&e=d206d0a40d"
style="mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:
100%;color:
#007C89;font-weight:
normal;text-decoration:
underline;"
moz-do-not-send="true">said</a>:
the path of ‘<i>pachamama</i>
(Mother Earth) or the path
of the multinationals. If we
don’t take the former, the
masters of death will win.
If we don’t fight, we will
be guilty of destroying the
planet’. Gavin Singleton and
Bianca McNeair would
certainly agree.</p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
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16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"><img
loading="lazy"
class="aligncenter
wp-image-49791 size-full
img-responsive mcRssImage"
src="https://thetricontinental.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/20210824_Hyllus-Noel-Maris-e1629911681637.jpg"
alt="" style="max-width:
100%;width:
100%;padding-bottom:
0;display:
inline;vertical-align:
bottom;border: 0;height:
auto;outline:
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moz-do-not-send="true"
width="950" border="0"></p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 10px
0;padding:
0;mso-line-height-rule:
exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
16px;line-height:
150%;text-align: left;">So
would the Yorta Yorta poet
and educator Hyllus Noel
Maris (1933-1986), whose
‘Spiritual Song of the
Aborigine’ (1978) awakens
hope and lays the soundtrack
for those who march to save
the planet:</p>
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150%;text-align: left;"><i>I
am a child of the
Dreamtime People</i><i><br>
</i><i>Part of this land,
like the gnarled gumtree</i><i><br>
</i><i>I am the river,
softly singing</i><i><br>
</i><i>Chanting our songs on
my way to the sea</i><i><br>
</i><i>My spirit is the
dust-devils</i><i><br>
</i><i>Mirages, that dance
on the plain</i><i><br>
</i><i>I’m the snow, the
wind, and the falling rain</i><i><br>
</i><i>I’m part of the rocks
and the red desert earth</i><i><br>
</i><i>Red as the blood that
flows in my veins</i><i><br>
</i><i>I am eagle, crow and
snake that glides</i><i><br>
</i><i>Through the
rainforest that clings to
the mountainside</i><i><br>
</i><i>I awakened here when
the earth was new</i>.</p>
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