Monday, 25 May 2015
Moree makes me realise why I'm doing this
So today we protested at the Moree swimming pool, because Aborginal people are denied entry into the pool due to the Moree council laws. We withdrew a lot to do this, Angry residents were one of the worse parts of the strike. A huge crowd appeared and most were angry residents. This led to three hours of trying to negate with the law, there were fights and people were knocked down. we had rotten eggs and fruit pegged at us for protesting out there. It was worth it to have the aboriginal people granted to swim in that pool, and we did succeed at first, the pool said as long if the aboriginal people were clean, they would be granted access to use of the pool. It was good while we were there, the kids were loving it, but as soon as we left, the aboriginal kids were kicked out and not allowed in again. We made a difference for a little bit but as soon as we turned our back, the people changed again and blocked the entry of use to the swimming pool to the aboriginal people. I would like to thank everyone reading my blog to agreeing to make a difference because aboriginal people don't deserve this appalling behaviour.
-yours truly
Judith Rich
refrences: http://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/places/national/moree-baths
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS3YJN3WED4)
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It's so unfair to the aboriginal people, I wish everyone was treated the same! I believe that they would be treated the same as white people. It's silly how poeple judge others by their skin colour. It's so good that you changed the rules so that they could enter the pool! But they changed all over again. How sick. People shouldn't be allowed to this. I agree full heartily.
ReplyDeleteI think we can make a big difference in what we're doing, I think that we should be really proud of ourselves in what we achieved in Moree. Thanks for keeping us updated.
ReplyDeleteYour blog is really inspirational, i remember this action taking place at Moree. I couldn't believe how they were treated at the time. Knowing that we could change the lives of others was a great thought, though in the mean time we were very overwhelmed of the living conditions and how people generally were treated. When we arrived at moree we weren't treated with respect though i take into consideration that it was there land and not ours, we were the trespasser of there land.
ReplyDeleteSeeing indigenous children enter the swimming was awesome, there was smiles everywhere, i couldn't understand how people can be like that? not letting innocent citizens do something that is fun and enjoyable. Your blog is very good and inspirational, cant wait to read more :)
Moree was a town i was dreading to go to, though i believe what we did made a huge difference, most of the locals weren't very happy with us but the aboriginal locals couldn't be any happier to finally get the privilege to go into the pool, even if it was only for the short period of time that we were there.
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