tent embassy
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tent embassy (plural tent embassies)
- (Australia) A semipermanent encampment set up as the focal point of a protest, particularly with regard to the rights of indigenous people.
- 1985, Jens Brøsted, Jens Dahl (editors), Native Power: The Quest for Autonomy and Nationhood of Indigenous Peoples, Scandinavian University Press, page 55,
- Outstanding examples of this genre of moral opposition are the tent embassies erected at different times in Washington, Canberra, Ottawa, Oslo and other capital cities.
- 2003, Janine Hayward, Local Government and the Treaty of Waitangi, Oxford University Press, page 25:
- Māori started to demand that the Treaty be honoured. The rise of Nga TamaToa (the young warriors), tent embassies in Parliament grounds, and other forms of protest pushed the agenda.
- 2005, Jeffrey Sissons, First Peoples: Indigenous Cultures and Their Futures, UK: Reaktion Books, page 72:
- In Australia and New Zealand tent embassies were set up inside the grounds of their respective Parliaments; in Hawai′i, the island of Kaho′olawe was occupied by activists protesting against its use by the us Navy for bombing practice.
- 2011, P. G. McHugh, Aboriginal Title: The Modern Jurisprudence of Tribal Land Rights, Oxford University Press, page 61:
- It took many attention-grabbing forms: freedom rides, land marches, tent embassies, blockades, sieges, stand-offs, demonstrations, lobbying, denunciations, and funereal silences, even filibustering.
- 1985, Jens Brøsted, Jens Dahl (editors), Native Power: The Quest for Autonomy and Nationhood of Indigenous Peoples, Scandinavian University Press, page 55,