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There Goes the Neighbourhood

Token Justice
“The biggest thing that hit me was that it wasn’t a riot, it was organised resistance. There was no looting, no disorganised chaos. It was all community getting together and holding down the Block and saying ‘Enough’s enough - we are sick of you police officers killing our young people.”
Choo Choo – MC with Redfern based hip hop outfit, CuzCo.
24 November 2008

There Goes The Neighbourhood:
Redfern and the Politics of Urban Space

Edited and compiled by Keg de Souza and Zanny Begg (You Are Here)
Designed by Tom Sevil (Breakdown Press)
Printed by Break Out

There Goes the Neighbourhood

Troubled Justice

At GRANTPIRRIE, Redfern. February, 2009

The Trouble with TJ

At FraserStudios Project - Chippendale.
18 December, 2008

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T.J. – Total Justice

Cuzco – Wire MC & Choo Choo discuss the "Redfern Reaction" and the events surrounding the death of TJ Hickey in February 2004.

Wire MC & Choo Choo – "Sound Claim"

Cuz Co - Wire MC & Choo Choo drop an excerpt of "Sound Claim" in Redfern, Sydney.



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Wire MC
Choo Choo

ABC Radio National,The Law Report: The sentencing of Lex Wotton

"...criminal lawyering is a very complex process and it's never been about truth and justice, it's about perceptions, and I dare suggest that the acquittal had as much to do with that community forgiving Senior Sergeant Hurley and all police that have to work in these extreme circumstances, to forgive them for a death that occurred, because you've got to remember, a senior sergeant, in his evidence in the Coronial Inquest, accepted he killed Cameron Doomadgee..."
Andrew Boe – Queensland criminal lawyer, counsel for the Palm Island community in the coronial inquiry which followed Mulrunji Doomadgee's death.

Indigenous man Lex Wotton has been sentenced to six years in prison, with a non-parole period of two years, for being a ringleader in the riots on Palm Island that followed the death in custody of Mulrunji Doomadgee in 2004. Lex was charged under anti-rioting legislation that carried a maximum penalty of life in prison. Meanwhile, concerns have been raised about the move to give bravery awards to the police officers who responded to the riot.

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