“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor, are the minds of the oppressed”

~ Bantu Stephen Biko ~

Image of Graffiti saying Mind...
By Pinche Paiza

Arrests, Death and Legacy

During the late 1970's, Biko was arrested four times and detained for several months at a time.  He died on September 12, 1977, from a brain hemorrhage which was later determined to be the result of injuries he had sustained while in police custody. 

"Cry Freedom" (Movie) 1987

The film is set in South Africa in the 1970's and tells the true story of the friendship and common struggle between the white journalist Donald Woods and the black activist of Black Consciousness Steve Biko. The film ends with the commemoration of the 1976 Soweto massacre, which took place by the police against black students who claimed elementary rights.

The boys from Glasgow, 'Simple Minds' and their rendition of  'Biko' which is a protest song released in 1987 for the film 'Cry Freedom and written and performed by Peter Gabriel.

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When you get through those tough times on your own, you really don't care who stays in your life anymore.

~ Thomas Shelby ~

View from our back gate and the purple Hibiscus Syriacus in bloom.

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"A single person who stops lying can bring down a tyranny"

~ Alexandr Solzhenitsyn ~

I lapped Tenterfield Street Deepwater draped in the flag when we first arrived on Ngarabul country.  I was paying respect and I was stating who I was and that I held the view that sovereignty was never ceded on this land, and I wanted others to know this up front.  This is who I am and I cannot be removed from this truth.  

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"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."

~ Thomas Szasz ~

My Aptenia

The cutting came from Adam when he lived in Boambee, I planted it in a cup and saucer pot that my daughter Montana-Star had given to me as a gift.   The Aptenia grew tremendously and it was so beautiful and thick. 

An unknown decided they liked it better and took it from out the front of the house.  I forgive them but I have never forgotten because I loved those gifts.  Life goes on though!

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Stay at the Centre of the Circle and let all things take their course!

~ Tao Te Ching ~

One of my circles...

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How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

~ William C. Faulkner ~

Very old dwelling near Woodburn NSW

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Patience is the art of consealing your impatience.

~ Guy Kawasaki ~

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We learn more when we are compelled to invent.

~ Jean Piaget ~

Home for December and January back in 2012

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Play is the Work of Childhood.

~ Jean Piaget ~

Children Playing a Balinese Angklung

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Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes Himself.

~ Abraham Maslow ~

I'm definitely a project ..

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One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

~ Paulo Freire ~

Metgasco's Peter Henderson 

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