[Oe List ...] Massacre at Oombulgurri

[Lynda C]

When I first opened up this e-mail this morning on my phone, there was an ad that ran periodically through the article.  It was from Publix Grocery Store, telling of over $4.4 million collected for Food for All, the organization founded by Linda and Milan Hamilton.  
When I went to the computer to show John.  I couldn't find the ad, but it was a dark blue square with white writing.  I recall from reading Milan's blog about those endeavors that Georgiana McBurney was on their Food for All board.  I believe there were several other ICA Colleagues who helped in that endeavor, but I do not recall the names.  

That was the good news in the midst of the tragedies reported in that article.  There is no mention of the work that we attempted to do in this article.  The political cartoon with people saying they didn't know about the tragedies, ends with "Now you do know.  What are you going to do?"  

This is so much similar history in our country re: Native Americans and African Americans.  It poses the same question that our PCUSA Social Justice committee is struggling with, and making baby steps with the formation of a Unity in Community group and in a joint study of "The Cross and the Lynching Tree" with our Beloved Community Book Study with our sister African American Presbyterian Church right across the railroad tracks from our Davidson College Presbyterian Church.  

Much remains to be done,   Lynda     

On 3/7/19, 10:24 PM, "OE on behalf of Richard and Maria Maguire via OE" <oe-bounces at lists.wedgeblade.net on behalf of oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

    We were painfully moved to see this article on Oombulgurri's history 
    today.  This sort of massacre was all to common in Australia in the 
    past, but we did not know that Oombulgurri had also been affected.  I'm 
    not even sure that our colleagues who were there in the 70's knew about 
    it, at least no one ever mentioned it to us.
    
    All the more to everyone's credit for how much people there were able to 
    accomplish.
    
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/08/a-very-tragic-history-how-the-trauma-of-a-1926-massacre-echoes-through-the-years?utm_term=RWRpdG9yaWFsX0d1YXJkaWFuVG9kYXlBVVMtMTkwMzA4&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayAUS&CMP=GTAU_email
    
    Best wishes
    
    Richard and Maria
    
    
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