FILM: Utopia: An Epic Story of Struggle and Resistance

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REVIEW: PILGER DVD: Utopia - An Epic Story of Struggle and Resistance

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By Jim Miles Submitted by Author Wednesday, Oct 29, 2014

In a clash of cultures, the one carrying the most guns, germs, and steel wins. In Australia as with all former British colonial possessions, cultural views are dominated by white society. The First Nations of Australia, commonly referred to as the aborigines, have struggled through two centuries of subjugation by a white society that refuses to recognize the histories of the two peoples and their conflicting cultures.

As described by native elder Robert Eggington at the end of the film,

In our culture, our laws, if we were to harm the land and to hurt that land the way in which it is being done today, we would be punished spiritually severely for that. White Australia doesn’t have a sense of belonging to this land and it only has a sense of belonging to the establishment and its institutions and it cities it’s built here. It doesn’t understand their country.

Utopia examines the many contradictions and double standards, the many ignorances of the white population, and the many cruelties and violences that they have visited on the land and people of the First Nations of Australia. It is a captivating and hauntingly disturbing film as these actions are not simply historical incidents to be forgiven by some simplistic apology, but are actions that are occurring through the beginning of the Twenty-first Century without concern for essential human rights.

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John Pilger Interview: White Australians Would Like Aboriginal People to Disappear

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Sunday, 18 January 2015 00:00 By Mark Karlin, Truthout | Interview

Noted journalist John Pilger directed and is the lead investigator in an extraordinary documentary, Utopia: An Epic Story of Struggle and Resistance. [ https://org2.salsalabs.com/o/6694/t/173 ... m_KEY=2954 ]

Pilger incisively and tenaciously reveals the brutal conquest and continued racist treatment of the Aboriginal people in Australia. Against this appalling historical documentation of conquest, discriminating and neglect, Pilger also highlights the continued resistance of the original inhabitants of the land stolen by British settlers. [ . . . . ]