File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_1997/aut-op-sy.9706, message 109


Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 13:20:34 -0700
From: John Hutnyk <John.Hutnyk-AT-man.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: questions on zapatista/quote-ismo


Elizabeth Wong wrote:
and Massimo wrote:
and Harry wrote:
> >If you have come here to help me,
> >You are wasting your time ...
> >But if you have come because
> >Your liberation is bound up with mine,
> >Then let us work together.
> 
> It is from an Australian aboriginal woman. And yes, many think it's
> important to mention that.
> 
> regards, elizabeth wong

Hi folks,

I think it might be possible to find this quote in the collection 'The Indigenous Voice' edited by Roger Moody, 
Zed books a few years back. I think so, but can't be sure as i don't have it with me here in Germany yet. 
Nevertheless, the 'gesture' of naming the source might be worth it, and maybe a royalty payment - something 
like the 'pay the rent' campaign of some years back in Australia where all Left groups were supposed to donate 
a percentage of their operating costs to the Aboriginal Housing Co-op or same. I fully agree with Eli (yo!), 
this is important. Its not the acknowledgement or footnoting protocol that ought to be considered, but the ways 
those with enhanced access to international publishing circuits have greater institutional capital vis a vis 
other activists. 'Even' this list suffers on occasion - though less often lately, and perhaps its inevitable - 
from the same blindness to privilege.

John H
ex Manchester, now Heidelberg, via Amsterdam (report soon).


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