Dear All
Thank you for your support.
We have raised about $1000 in donations so far.
The Rainbow Chai Tent has decided to go anyway, with crew from Nimbin to
Canberra to cater for the Convergence and the opening of Parliament House.
We are hoping more donations will come in to make up the short fall over the
next week.
Yours Benny Zable
Below ia a wonderful letter of support which has made me consider heading down
myself with flags and some banners.
Thank you all again.
Yours Benny Zable
Please circulate this around.
Name
of Account. michael jack
Account
Number . 062-580 10132443 Commonwealth Bank Murwillumbah
N.S.W
Thank
you
Michael
jack
02-66897-050
0429853036
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Subject: FW: Resend: Request from Benny Zable for assistance to Rainbow Chai
Tent Canberra Convergence.
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 10:03:31 -0800
Hello friends,
Here forwarding a request, below, from the
local “chai tent” owner
http://www.rainbowchaitent.com/ and also benny zable
performance
artist/activist extraordinary
http://www.bennyzable.com/
. The Chai
tent and Benny have been a presence on many occasions at the tent embassy in
Canberra ( Just think for a moment about the tent embassy itself. They actually
survived Howard. (just) And how
bloody Australian to have a daggy tent, campfire and campgrounds in the grounds
of old parliament house for aALL these years)
http://www.aboriginaltentembassy.net/
(This link shows the event in question and also pic
of embassy and benny
flags at old parliament house ) Read the essay “Tent embassy Icon or
Eyesore” on embassy site.
Any way, the chai
tent provides refreshment and catering and a good place to sit down and is much
appreciated. Benny provides color
and movement and some media savy.
Hopefully there will be an apology issued
to people of the stolen generations in the first sittings of the new parliament
and hopefully this will usher in a better deal from Australian parliaments to
all Aboriginal peoples in Aus.
The tent embassy is rustling up as many
people as it can to mark the occasion and also show they are still here and
watching to see what will happen.
Due to the wedge politics so beloved of
Howard the tent embassy had recently become even more controversial in and
outside of ‘aboriginal policits” Some may
be embarrassed by it - some of us may even be a bit embarrassed by the chai tent
and benny!! But it seems to me that is all to
the good A healthy society needs to
be able to hear messages from the margins for sooner or later what is on the
margins comes to centre stage. If
as a society we could listen a little earlier we could deal with things better
on
a social/environmental/political level.
Not hearing the voices of the margin dwellers; be they the disposed, the
activists, the artists and poets or the mystics is like waiting to be slapped
in the face by a
dead fish instead of dealing with it when you get the first wiff
from the fridge when there has been a power failure. Well there is not only
some fish in
there; There is a bloody big pile of prawn shells left over from the huge
consumer party of the past decades.
And many social and environmental issues need to be attended to.
When you a broke a few bob goes a long
way. Read all the way down they
need $6 to $10K in all. That’s
what it costs to get there and run the service. This means on many other
occasions 2 blokes
with the arse out of there pants have provided this
kind of money to do this servive. Amazing. Now you
know why they don’t have much financial back up –they give it all
away!
Chin up
Be well and happy and pass this on.
john
-----Original Message-----
From: benny zable
[mailto:
bennyzable@...]
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 11:18 PM
To: Jane Aboriginal ACT Morrison
Cc: Harry Freeman; helen
caldicott; James Courtney; janet starlight; Jilli Jackson; Jo Vallentine; John
Allen; john Ellis; John Aquarius Kirk; John Seed; johnathan king; Jon Edwards;
judith light; Junita Vallak; Juno Gemes; Keith Jaffray; Kerry Nettle; Kim
Kindersley;
kriolspeedy@...; Lisa peacebliss; Lisa Yeates; Lismore Eco; Liz
Elliottt; Lyne Hovey; maireid sullivan; Matthew Smith; melisa jenkins; melita
nonukes; Mia; MICHAEL BALDERSTONE; Michael Denborough; Michael Webb; Michaela
Friends of the Earth; Narangba No Nuke; nat nat; Nimbin Permecuture Village;
owleyes8@...; Paddy Friends of the Earth; Paddy Gibson Ind OZ; Paul
Kimball; Peace con Byron Bay; Peter Hamilton; Peter Hardwick; Peter Pedels
Subject: Resend: Request from
Benny Zable for assistance to Rainbow Chai Tent Canberra Convergence.
Dear
All
I am resending this request as Michael would like to go with Chai Tent to the
Aboriginal Tent Embassy Gathering over next week end for the opening of
Parliament House, but just does not have the finances to go.
He is not on the dole and is broke from cancellations of consecutive rained out
Channon Markets.
Please put into his account anything you can.
As he stated he will return money if he cannot go.
If he goes I will go with flags to promote those environmental causes which I
believe you would like us to exhibit on the tent professionally.
This is also a test to see if people really want us there.
Words are not enough after countless thefts and abuse at festivals etc.
Between us, we are pretty broke, and it is a
risky and expensive journey.
There are people who want us there to do the catering and staging for the
media.
Benny Zable
Help Send The Rainbow Chai Tent
To
Canberra
Urgent Request for Financial
Assistance
2 February 2008
Dear
friends
The
chai tent is being asked to do the catering and entertainment ,for the National
Aboriginal
Convergence, at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and Old
Parlaiment House form the 8th to the 14th of february.
Catering
for 500 - 1000 people possibly more.
It
provides a valued meeting space that has been much appreciated in the past.
It
is of the utmost Importance that the chai tent is able to offer a
high level of serves in both the catering and entertainment, as both
these things are vital for the aboriginal tent embassy and National convergence
to function.
With people coming
from all over the country , some coming to the
embassy possibly for the first time, they need to be
made welcome and to feel at home. In between workshops and meetings food
and light entertainment will be an integral part of people forming
dialogue between each other and hopefully the government.
We
need to raise between 6,000 to 10,000 dollars by
this Monday if we are going to have any chance of going.
I
know this is a lot and very short notices .We have been supporting the
embassy for the last 3 years, taking the
Chai tent
down to Sovereignty Day on the 26 of January a return trip of about
2,500 kms we where unable to attend this year,
due mainly to the fact I have no money left,I have been funding this
my self at considerable cost. And as I,am unemployed
and without benefits I can on longer continuo without support
.
I
Will also have to miss the channon market, my only income at the moment.
In
the past we have sold food and drinks by donation as not all those attending
have enough money .
We will continuo to
do this as it is more important that people are together.
The
money will be spent on.
Food
Fuel
and accommodation there and back,
Gas
Hire
of marquees, tables and chairs ,trestles tables, Mobil cool
room, barbecue possibly a flat bed truck if the convergence
can't find one.
And
help with the on going cost of running the Chai Tent.
If
you can help, please deposit funds directly into my account and please send me
an email letting me know how much you deposited and your contact details to
michael@...
If
we don't reach 3,000 dollars
by Monday night we won;t be going and I will return your
money,
I
am looking for donations of 100 dollars and up and are
hopeing that someone out there can put in a few thousand dollars in , as
in the scheme of things it not that much.
Please forward this
email to any one you feel maybe able to assist - now or in the future.
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