Monday Mural - Tribute to Vincent Lingiari

I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you.  Just follow the Linky steps below.  Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere.  The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth, Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.  Thanks, Sami.

This is one of the 12 murals painted for the 2021 Darwin Street Art Festival, in August last year, by local artist Jesse Bell, and can be found in a vacant block of land on the corner of Bennett and Cavenagh Streets in Darwin's Central Business District. 

"This mural is a very special memorial piece for the late, great Vincent Lingiari. Vincent Lingiari was a Gurindji man from Central Western NT working and living at Wave Hill Station. In the 1960's Wave Hill became a flash point for Aboriginal Rights with workers demanding improved  pay and working conditions as well as the repatriation of some of their traditional lands. Vincent was elected to become the leader of the workers, and took the fight to Canberra and gained national attention for the movement. After 8 years of striking the fight at Wave Hill reshaped the conversation around Aboriginal land rights and ultimately culminated in land being handed back to the Gurindji people and the symbolic gesture of Gough Whitlam (Australian Prime Minister from 1972/1975) pouring sand into Vincent Lingiari's hands.   Later, Australian musician Paul Kelly wrote the hit song "From Little Things Big Things Grow" which tells the story of Vincent Lingiari's fight at Wave Hill, a song that helped immortalise the story in the public eye". 

Wave Hill Walk Off with the Gurindji workers sitting and striking 

The symbolic finale of the fight with Gough pouring sand into Vincent's hands