'Us old people today should be ashamed of ourselves. I'm sorry, my great, great grandchildren: the way things are going I don't think we'll have very much to offer you. I apologise for that.' We caught up with Uncle Bob in May 2009 and took the opportunity to ask him 3 questions: 1. Have you seen any improvements since the Australian Government's Apology (to the Stolen Generations)? 2. What do yo do to maintain your culture; and how can people become part of indigenous culture? 3. In light of the current crises we face - environmental, financial etc - how do you see us progressing into the future? 4. (bonus question): what role can the media play in helping the situation? Filmed by Sheryl and Felipe of PluginTV with TheJuiceMedia. The video is split into two parts for YouTube. About Uncle Bob: [from the Kanyini Website: http://www.kanyini.com/subject.html]: Bob Randall was born in 1934 at Middleton Pond on Tempe Station in the Central Desert region of the Northern Territory. He is a member of the Yankunytjatjara people and one of the listed traditional owners of Uluru. His mother, Tanguawa worked as a housemaid at Angus Downs cattle station for Bob's father, station owner, Bill Liddle. At a young age, Bob was taken away from his mother under government policy, whom he never saw again. Bob: 'I was institutionalised because I didn't wear clothes or live in a house. In that natural way of living, there was no need for me to have anything other than what I had.' Bob was sent to the Bungalow Telegraph Station in Alice Springs, which was the receiving home for Indigenous children from Central Australia. Bob: 'They gave me clothes to wear and put me in a house - I didn't like it.' As a young child, Bob was moved north to the Croker Island Reservation in Arnhem Land. He remained at the reservation until he was 20, working at various jobs, including as a carpenter, stockman and crocodile hunter. While still a teenager, he married Amy, a member of the Amadjera Tribe who had also been stolen from her family. In the mid-1960s, the family moved to Adelaide, where Bob completed a welfare residential worker's course. Bob: 'A lot of our kids were being locked up in jail at this stage and I thought I would like to help them.' In 1970, Bob helped establish the Adelaide Community College for Aboriginal people and lectured at the college on Aboriginal cultures. He began to gain recognition for his songwriting in the early 1970s, when his song, 'My Brown Skin Baby [They Took Him Away]' caught the attention of an ABC journalist, David Roberts. This led to the ground-breaking ABC documentary of the same name, which won the Bronze Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and focused national and international attention on the issue of separation. Bob also appeared in the documentary films Buried Country (produced by Film Australia) and Secret Country by John Pilger. His work with Aboriginal communities has taken many forms. He served as the Director of the Northern Australia Legal Aid Service and established Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander centres at the Australian National University, University of Canberra and University of Wollongong. He continues to present his cultural awareness programs at schools and other institutions and in workplaces. His life-long efforts were recognised in 1999 when he was named 'Indigenous Person of the Year' at the 1999 National Aboriginal and Islander Day of Celebration (NAIDOC) awards. In 2004 Bob was inducted in the NT music hall of fame for having written such classic songs as Brown Skin Baby and Red Sun, Black Moon about the Coniston massacre. Bob is also the author of two books: his autobiography "Songman" and a children's book 'Tracker Tjginji" which was part of the 2004 Sydney Writer's Festival. Check out the trailer for the film Kanyini - well worth a watch! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvoAE2...

Robert Foster making an impromptu appearance at the free Julian Assange rally in Melbourne, Australia, 10 December 2010. While many were being mesmerised by Oprah in Federation Square, thousands of free-speech supporters gathered in the centre of Melbourne on 10 December 2010 to demand justice for Julian Assange and Wikileaks. Thanks to Sean O'C. for filming this clip! http://thejuicemedia.com x

Part 2: Robbie Thorpe, of the Gunai people in S/E Victoria, giving a talk to Law students at Deakin University (Geelong, Australia) on 15 May 2009. **IN 5 Parts** Subjects include: 1. The Legal questions of GENOCIDE and JURISDICTION. Do Australian courts have the jurisdiction to charge Aborigines in Australia? Under what jurisdiction? What is the real LAW of the LAND? 2. Climate change and Environmental Sustainability. Indigenous culture managed to sustain their way of life for 60,000+ years; European colonizers have almost destroyed the Australian ecosystem after barely 200 years of settlement. Is the ecocide fundamentally connected to the genocide and to European colonization and its industrial revolution? 3. Thoughts on the Native Title process, of which Robbie has recently started collaborating in preparing the Gunai/Kurnai claim for his mob. STAY TUNED to TheJuiceMedia for updates on this claim! 4. An overview of Aboriginal Activism and HISTORY key people tied to the topics of Sovereignty, Treaty, Terra Nullius the Aboriginal Embassy.

(Uploaded in 2012). This festive season, while many of us enjoy feeling the bosoms of our families, we at Juice Rap News feel it is important to remember those much much much much less fortunate than us. And in the time honoured tradition of misguided Western pop charity singles, we invited the legendary Irish piece of shit, (Cui) Bono to resurrect the execrable post colonial anthem 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' in which he featured during the 1980's. By Giordano & Hugo; performed by Giordano; vocals by Damian Tapley and Luke Ferris from ME (the original ungoogleables). This originally formed part of the 7th episode of Juice Rap News, '#Revolution Spreads to America' (which we still refer to in hush tones as 'the epic-sode'). See you in the "new" year! Hugo & Giordano JUICE RAP NEWS