Sam Waiburra

Wangerriburra/Birrigubba

📍Magandjin/Yuggera land

[Sam Waiburra @TheLastSamW]

If David Dungay had lived despite the respiratory depression, the guard would have maintained that he was lying. It's only that he's died that he's taken seriously. It's only when black people take their word to their grave that they're believed. Why does it have to come to that?

[ANCESTRESS @AncestressEra]

All my Love, Respect and Solidarity to the people of #minneapolis and Black people in so called amerikkka

As our Aboriginal journalists here have taught us, it’s not riots, it’s an Uprising!

#BlackLivesMatter #WorldWide May your Ancestors guide, protect and empower you ❤️

[Sam Waiburra @TheLastSamW]

A statement I wrote with Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance - WAR

WE STAND WE THE UPRISING IN MINNEAPOLIS! JUSTICE FOR GEORGE FLOYD FROM THE LAND DOWN UNDER TO THE USA! ✊🏾

[Sam Waiburra @TheLastSamW]

I'm going to make a collage of photos of solidarity with Minneapolis, Black Lives Matter and Black people in Amerikkka. If you want to join in send me a photo with a sign or raising your… https://t.co/TRYQRHgk9a

[Sam Waiburra @TheLastSamW]

May 15th, Al Nakba (meaning the catastrophe/disaster/cataclysm) commemorates the 1948 exodus of more than 700,000 Palestinian people who fled violence or were forced from their homes as a result of colonialism.

As… https://t.co/Vr7YtMLLz7

[Padraic Gibson @paddygibson]

To all white unionists backing KK’s “keep the migrants out” rot. Not only does this divided the working class and weaken strength. You have NO more right to be here than anyone else in the world. Settler society was created through genocide and a “whites only” migration regime

[Sam Waiburra @TheLastSamW]

They say that #capitalism is bad but its better than slavery. Yeah true, but i never met a slave with a credit card debt bigger than their weekly wage.

#LateStageCapitalism am I right!? #CheckmateCapitalists!

[Sam Waiburra @TheLastSamW]

We need to stop apologising to our friends for setting boundaries. We deserve to have our boundaries respected. If we feel a need to show our gratitude we should just say thanks.

#Burnout #SelfCare #Consent #AffirmativeConsent #SettingBoundaries #ItsOkayToNotBeOkay

[Sam Waiburra @TheLastSamW]

It takes a tribe to raise a child but it also takes a tribe to make sure the tribal idiot doesn't end up dead hahahaha #JustBlackfullaThings #Aboriginal #ActivistLife #Socialist

[Sam Waiburra @TheLastSamW]

We need to fight the systems that allows for white privilege so that we can live in a world where we are all equal.
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#Aboriginal #Activist #Socialist

[Sam Waiburra @TheLastSamW]

I've come to a realisation that calling people out, especially celebs, for cultural appropriation is something that comes from a place of privilege. 1/3

[Sam Waiburra @TheLastSamW]

If we aren't pointing out that poor and working class racialized minorities are living paycheck to paycheck, being stereotypes and criminalised more than white folks, and barely getting by all the racism and class oppression, we aren't pointing out the right stuff.
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[Sam Waiburra @TheLastSamW]

Community care is #selfcare but sometimes you need to take a break from that too and that's okay because it's also self care. This is all especially true for aboriginal people and it's so important and non aboriginal activists get involved in community care as well!

[Sam Waiburra @TheLastSamW]

I'm doing so much self care that I'm doing self care for my self care 😂

But seriously, in this fucked up world it's so so important! Drop everything you're doing if you have to, just stay safe to get better and fight another day!

#Activist #Aboriginal #Socialist #MentalHealth

[Sam Waiburra @TheLastSamW]

Growing up Aboriginal is never seeing a medium or rare streak or runny eggs until you were a grown up. #JustBlackfullaThings

[John Lyons @TheLyonsDen]

AFP: I’m still staggered by the power of this warrant. It allows the AFP to “add, copy, delete or alter” material in the ABC’s computers. All Australians, please think about that: as of this moment, the AFP has the power to delete material in the ABC’s computers. Australia 2019.

[IndigenousX @IndigenousX]

Did you know that the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner & Worker profession is the only ethnic based health profession in the world that has national training curriculum and legislation? (Pt 1)

[Mark Kearney @mnkearney]

Not satisfied with having her racism on the public record, KAK thought she'd have her transphobia documented for posterity too. What a fossil. https://t.co/X4wZGTxcFz

[Sam Waiburra @TheLastSamW]

No one wants to hear this I'm feeling unsafe being vulnerable or confident and venting and reaching out so I'm doing it in Twitter.

[Sam Waiburra @TheLastSamW]

My Twitter is a safe space to air feelings about politics, identity, culture, the things I live in, & my understanding & truth, respectfully, in a confronting world. It comforts me but its uncomfortable and confronting at times. So scroll past me if you're not here in #Solidarity

[Sam Waiburra @TheLastSamW]

I care about clarity and free speech but not when it feels abusive to me ✊🏻 I delete comments and dont waste my energy reporting people to police or Twitter unless they're saying seriously dangerous things. I dont suggest anyone doesnt report abusive comments and accounts tho.

[Sam Waiburra @TheLastSamW]

My Twitter is a safe space to air feelings about politics, identity, culture, the things I live in, & my understanding & truth, respectfully, in a confronting world. It comforts me but its uncomfortable and confronting at times. So scroll past me if you're not here in #Solidarity

[Sam Waiburra @TheLastSamW]

Caution: I don't take shit about clarity or free speech if I feel there's no respect and understanding or solidarity involved. That's just abusive to me so I'll happily delete comments that make me feel like theres none of what I ask for involved without reporting things.