Jess helps build Aboriginal protest house in NT

Jess has just returned from the Northern Territory, and the remote Aboriginal community of Ampilatwatja, about 350km north east of Alice Springs. She is pictured here drilling roof panels on to the protest house. The Alyawarr people have walked out of Ampilatwatja to protest the NT intervention and government treatment. They have set up camp on their traditional lands and plan to build a sustainable community including permaculture gardens. The protest house is the first solid structure (visit http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/43192 for more info). Jess is helping to organise more work brigades to the walk-off camp in the future, of which hopefully there will be many.