Wiradjuri elder Ray Jackson was a prominent activist in Australia. He was the founding secretary of the New South Wales Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee in 1987 and a regular face at the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy up until his death in 2015.
We have survived! Forty years of Aboriginal protest posters – in pictures
Wiradjuri elder Ray Jackson was a prominent activist in Australia. He was the founding secretary of the New South Wales Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee in 1987 and a regular face at the Redfern Aboriginal...
His Waterloo home was filled with posters and memorabilia collected from rallies, protests, union meetings and film screenings over 50 years. A selection is now on display at Sydney’s Numbers gallery – in Ray Jackson Doing Time with Penrith Miers Archive, on until 2 August.
The Penrith Miers Archive is run by Jackson’s granddaughter Madika Penrith, a Wiradjuri/Yuin/Gumbaynggirr archivist, and her partner Sam Miers
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Tall Ships Tall Stories (1987)
We Have Survived! White Australia Has a Black History (1988)
We Are Surviving the Killing Times (date unknown)
The Workplace Is No Place for Racism (1985)
Robert Walker (circa 1987)
White Australia Has a Black History (1988)
We’re Family Too (circa 1999)
Displacements – Palestinian / Northern Irish / Aboriginal (1983-84)
Rat Social and Control Conference (1984)
Ray Jackson (2015)
Australian art
Indigenous art
Indigenous Australians
Protest
Deaths in custody
Race
Indigenous incarceration
Source:
The Guardian
