Word: tented
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Wisps of smoke emanate from an ever-burning fire. The Tent Embassy's main inspiration, Isabell Coe, a slight, gray-haired 50-something woman more commonly known as Auntie Isabell, calls it "the fire for peace and justice." Encircling the fire are huge tree trunks. This circle is the nerve center of the Tent Embassy. People come and go asking Mrs. Coe's advice about various subjects...
Auntie Isabell is one of the most well-known aboriginal activists in the country, having played a leading role in the setting up of the original Aboriginal Tent Embassy, an occasional presence in the nation's capital, Canberra, since...
...Tent Embassy in Sydney is a focal point for Aboriginal anti-government protests during the Olympic Games. The temperature between the country's native inhabitants and the white establishment has risen significantly in the past year due to the refusal by Australia's prime minister, John Howard, to apologize for past injustices, most notably the taking away of thousands of Aboriginal children (especially those of mixed parentage) from their parents and the placing of these children with white families or religious missions. It was a practice that continued until as recently as the 1970s...
...Aboriginal Tent Embassy, though, stands for far more than an official apology; instead, Coe and her supporters are demanding "sovereignty and self-determination." "This needs to be done in a negotiated fashion," she says. "We want the war against the indigenous people...
...reckons that this sad situation "reflects the trauma unleashed by 200 years of undeclared war." And though she believes that the Tent Embassy is "far more important than the Olympics," she also realizes where most of the world's attention will be focused - and hopes that just a small part of that attention will be diverted to her continuing struggle...