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The March Update issue no. 2.

Typescript newsletter, second issue, with updates on activities undertaken by the March Organising Committee in preparation for the March for Justice, Freedom and Hope. States that Stan McKay was submitted to the Committee as a proposed speaker and that Reverend Jesse Jackson had been in touch with the Committee to express a desire to attend the march as part of his trip to New Caledonia. Also mentions the march has received support from the Māori people and an application for 'Bicentennial funds' was not successful. First page features the UAICC logo in black and white, top right, and black footprints dotted along the left margin of the text. Second page references a meeting of Aboriginal people of the Catholic faith held in Alice Springs during the Pope's visit, and that Charles Harris attended as a representative of the UAICC. Newsletter ends with advice that the next meeting of the Committee is due to be held on Friday 19 December 1986 at the UAICC office on Clarence Street, Sydney, to be chaired by Maisie Cavanagh from Granville.

March 88 Committee

March for Justice, Freedom and Hope Planning Committee letter.

Typescript letter dated 1 September 1987 and addressed, "Dear friends". The letter explains the purpose and objectives of the March for Justice, Freedom and Hope. It describes the plan for supporters from all over Australia to gather in Sydney by 22 January 1988 to participate in a number of events, including a prayer vigil, in the lead up to the march from Railway Square to Hyde Park on 26 January 1988. The letter also mentions a coordinator has been appointed for the march but does not name the coordinator; this could be a reference to Reverend Charles Harris.

March 88 Committee

The March leaflet.

Double-sided typescript leaflet with information on the March for Justice, Freedom and Hope. Gives answers to questions about who can participate in the march, when it starts, who is organising it and what it hopes to achieve. States that the campaign launched nationally on 4 July 1987. It also mentions a plan to march on Canberra in May 1988, in time for the opening of the new Parliament House, and that invitations to the march from the organising committee were issued to several overseas guests including Jesse Jackson, Winnie Mandela, Allan Boesak and Stan Mackay. Features a colour illustration of the Australian Aboriginal flag on the recto, with black footprints leading down the left margin of the text, and the UAICC logo in colour on the verso.

March 88 Committee

Aboriginal and Islander Independent Community School : cards and drawings

The Murri School (also known as the Aboriginal and Islander Independent Community School) was first established in 1986. This file contains cards and letters, mostly from children to ‘Super Gran’ or Muriel Langford and a Certificate of appreciation to Muriel Langford.

Aboriginal and Islander Independent Community School (Brisbane, Qld.)

Organise for land rights!

Copy of a notice and programme for an event called 'United Indigenous Cultural Survival Gathering' at Musgrave Park, Brisbane, from Wednesday 27 April to Thurday 5 May 1988. The event comprised cultural events as well as rallies and marches. A collaboration between FAIRA and Justice 88, the latter being described as a non-Aboriginal coalition in support of sovereignty for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples based in West End. Black type on white paper. Some handwritten notes in pencil regarding the planning of the event.

Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action

Link-Up (Qld) sticker.

Bumper sticker that reads 'Link-Up' in block letters along with the Link-Up logo from the time, an outline of Queensland, yellow, against two concentric circles, one red and one black.

Link-Up (Qld) Aboriginal Corporation

Link-Up (Qld) information brochure.

Trifold print brochure with information on the services and aims of Link-Up (Qld). Features eleven photographs, black and white, of various unidentified children and adolescents, as well as a black and white photograph of a group of Indigenous Australian children with two Indigenous Australian women credited to the John Oxley Library. Also features an artwork by Ted Watson that shows concentric bands of brown and red lined with dots and intersected by yellow flowing lines containing blue and purple human figures, accompanied by the artist's description of the meaning of the art.

Link-Up (Qld) Aboriginal Corporation

Flyer for UQ Press launch of Son of Alyandabu by Joe McGinness

Flyer, black type on yellow paper, announcing an event for the launch of publication Son of Alyandabu: my fight for Aboriginal rights by Joe McGinness, organised by FAIRA in conjunction with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) and University of Queensland Press. Event held at the Yurri Gurri SkillShare Centre in South Brisbane on Thursday 7 March 1991. Event information on the verso and a black and white photograph of Joe McGinness on the recto, above some biographical information.

Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action

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