[-empyre-] opening statement from boat-people.org

["Boat People" <io@boat-people.org>]

greetings to the Empyre list.  
Boat-people.org are honoured to be invited.

I thought I'd start by saying that our bio statement originally said 
that our work has encompassed sending online instructions for 
'subversive, er, origami'. 

That 'er' is critical to our understanding of ourselves: we wish we 
could claim with zero irony to be deadset subversive, but we can't. 

The boat-people crew rack our collective brains for ways to talk 
back to the miasma of mendacity characterising public life here in 
australia; how to be antidotes to amnesia, how to illuminate the 
lies & what they obscure, how to mobilise wit, passion & creativity 
to undermine the empires' rule over us... and everything we come 
up with is gestural, symbolic, frail at best.  It blows away. 

We wish it were possible to 'click for activism'.