July 13, 2018: Anti-Detention Occupations from Australia to America, Part Two

13/07/2018 29 min
July 13, 2018: Anti-Detention Occupations from Australia to America, Part Two

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Last week, Aren Aizura guided us through the history of colonialism in Australia, including racist measures to control non-white immigration, and later, in the 1980s, the implementation of mandatory detention for refugees. He focused on his experiences in an occupation outside the remote Woomera Detention Center, and the way that supporters on the outside grew …