Forwarded by Irene Watson: Ellie Gilbert wrote: for broad circulation, ---------- Subject: lake eyre Going Home Date: Wednesday, 3 February 1999 8:13 Arabunna Nulla Kari-Ku Wanga Assoc. Inc., OPEN INVITATION FOR Going Home camp: 26 March 1999 Lake Eyre is calling Arabunna People Home Arabunna People are calling on all other Black nations and other supporters to join in. Arabunna are Going Home for our responsibilities and obligations to stop the biggest threat to our Country - Western Mining's development of the Roxby Downs uranium mine at Olympic Dam andthe threat of the radioactive waste dumping by Primary Industries and Energy. Thismovement is about peace. Lake Eyre is callingpeople to make peace with the People and the Old Country Arabunna People are fighting for our land and our survival we've had enough we are going home we are inviting others to come and participate. The Old Lake is calling us back. It is hurting… It is wanting… The time is rightto move. We have decided on the 26 March 1999 Come down. You are invited to attend this event on the shores of Lake Eyre Bring your swag, tucker on the Oodnadatta track on the shores of Lake Eyre Signs will be erected. Stop the use of uranium in wars stop the wars and make peace. The time is come. This is the start. Lake Eyre, with its waterways and Mound Springs and all the animals and plants that belong, is a very very special place. It catches all the ancient inlandrivers and creeks - many rivers from other Countries. The Old Lake calms them down like nursing a little baby. Water is life. Water is more preciousthan gold. The Old Lake wasn't designed and constructed and created for the purposes that it is now being used for It's hurting and it's calling.. . If you feel strong in spirit to save the Old Lake then be there. We invite you to come with your strong spirit. Old Lake Eyre is talking… Old Lake Eyre is calling us Arabunna: "Come Home for Life. Begin a new and sweeter way - being free. Ease the pain. Become one again." The Old Lake has set this up from the start for this purpose to wake the people up to live for Life. The Old Lake has laid the trap set the bait wanted them to come: "Come and try me! You've tried the rest of the world, I'm waiting for you... Keep taking the water… Come on Western Mining Keep sucking, man Keep coming in and trying to breakme and see what happens. They don't know me. They are trying to break me by pulling my arms apart by pulling my legs apart? Can you rip your baby apart? Can you rip your grandmother apart? Can you pull your grandfather apart? They don't know me. Why try and inflict the pain on me and my People? Because I have the recipe for Life…" That's why the Old Lake set up the bait… to draw the people… to wake them up… The time has come to come and listen to make peace not war. The Old Lake is lonely sitting down himself calling for the kids and families: "No people, no kids. They've gone. Took 'em away." The Old Lake is too old… too old to be mucked around with. Too old. We are appealing to all different mobs to share andjoin our Coming Home - build a humpy, whittle a stick, make a spear, put one upto symbolise your own mob. Participate in this spiritual journey Old Lake Eyre is talking, calling… 211 years ago Old Lake knew this mob were coming… 115 years ago they came to Lake Eyre. The Old Lake made these fellas come to work out the right way from thewrong way of living since the interference. This is why this change is needed - for the healing and the blessing. Say Sorry to the Old Country to the Old Lake. Bless it. Love it and keep on saying: Sorry and Sorry and Sorry and Sorry until it's done and our sovereignty is repected… Leave the lakes free Leave the rivers free Let the waters run free Leave the Mound Springs free Leave the airways fresh Let the babies and the people live free Live Life. We are calling on all governments local, State and Federal levels to fully support us in this event and to join in and be part of this peaceful movement to stop this unnatural destruction. Nobody and no Country deserves this harsh treatment. We deserve the good way, the peace way. The message simply is: Leave Old Lake Eyre and the waterways alone. No more destruction. That's the message: Leave it! The Country is too old to be mucked around. Contact: Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna Nulla Kari-Ku Wanga Assoc. Inc., Powerstate Credit Union BSB: 805-001 A/cNo.11612921 Ph: 0262737472 or 02 62950493 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check Embassy website soon for maps Going Home camp Longitude:137degrees 10' Latitude: 29degrees 30' WWW.aboriginaltentembassy.com.au Western Mining Corporation is taking 15 million litres of water a day from Lake Eyre Basin and its underground waterways, free of charge. The company will, at least, treble this massive unchecked water use to 42 million litres/day by the year 2000… for the largest uranium mine on earth. Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html