Background Research: Dignified Anger


Here are links to the background research for the four stories in our show:

Buen Vivir and Dignified Anger

  • The stories of María, the Garífuna and the mine, and the Lenca people and the Dam, are adapted from Cuentos de la Digna Rabia y el Buen Vivir (Stories of Dignified Anger and Living Well) from the book “Tierra somos. We are the Earth: Buen Vivir and Territorial Defence in Mesoamerica” (Colectivos en Acción, Mexico, 2020) Click Here
    These stories are seeds sown for future generations, to cultivate new worlds.

Background information for the stories comes from:

  • The Nueva Esperanza mine protests in Honduras: Click Here
  • Berta Cáceres acceptance speech, 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize ceremony: Click Here
  • Remembering Berta Cáceres: Click Here

Bill Harney’s War

  • Bill Harney’s War comes from the 1958 ABC radio documentary of the same name, produced by John Thompson. A written version was published by Curry O’Neil, 1983, with a foreword by Prof Manning Clark.

The Two-Dollar Coin
The information for the story of the two-dollar coin and Gwotja Tjungurrayi is primarily from:

  • Jillian E Barnes: Resisting the captured image: how Gwoja Tjungurrayi, ‘One Pound Jimmy’, escaped the ‘Stone Age’. Click Here
  • Australian Dictionary of Biography – Gwoja Jungarrayi (c. 1895–1965), Jillian Barnes (2024) Click Here
  • Elder, lawman, survivor: stamp research is the latest chapter in Gwoja Tjungurrayi’s remarkable life in pictures (The Conversation, 2021) Click Here
  • Facing the truth of Australia’s indigenous massacres (ABC Radio, 2019) Click Here
  • The remarkable life of the Warlpiri-Anmatyerre man on the $2 coin (NITV, 2023) Click Here
  • Real True History: The Coniston Massacre, Dick Kimber, Alice Springs News (2003) Click Here
  • Documentary “Coniston”. Dir. David Batty. Rebel Films (2016) Click Here

Sir Gawain and Lady Ragnell

  • This comes to us from somewhere way back in the 14th century. There are of course many versions. The book Hags and Heroes by Polly Young-Eisendrath, Inner City Books (1984) has been our main source.

Links for further reading:

  • “The Path of the Serpent” by Anthony Ham in The Monthly. Article on the McArthur Mine: Click Here
  • Berta Cáceres, Guardian of the Rivers: Click Here
  • Podcast “Get your armies off our bodies”: Click Here
  • Website “Reasons to be cheerful” created by David Byrne from Talking Heads: Click Here

Dignified Anger Program can be downloaded here>>

Compiled by Jan and Penny: August 2024