JONES, Adam. Canada Genocide expert Professor Adam Jones on Aboriginal Genoicde & disposession

Professor Adam Jones is a Canadian professor of international studies at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico City. He is executive director of Gendercide Watch, a Web-based educational initiative that confronts gender-selective atrocities against men and women worldwide. Professor Adam Jones claims he was "silenced" on H-Genocide, an academic mailing list for the genocide-studies community, after attempting to post materials and commentary on the U.S.-led military campaign against Afghanistan. He is the author of “Genocide: a comprehensive introduction”(see: http://www.counterpunch.org/jones.html and http://www.genocidetext.net/ ).

Professor Adam Jones on 1987 Midnight Oil song about the need to respond to “Aboriginal genocide and dispossession” (2007): “Beds Are Burning Midnight Oil (from Diesel and Dust, 1987; also on 20,000 Watt RSL). "How can we dance when our earth is turning / How do we sleep while our beds are burning?" After a tour through the outback and small-scale gigs in Aboriginal communities, Australia's premier band returned to pen the suite of songs that composed Diesel and Dust. "Beds" and its fellow anthem, "The Dead Heart," were hugely influential in persuading white society to take seriously the claims of the continent's first inhabitants. And they eloquently captured the need to respond to Aboriginal genocide and dispossession not with rejection, but with redress:

The time has come

To say fair's fair

To pay the rent

To pay our share

The time has come

A fact's a fact

It belongs to them

Let's give it back ” [1].

[1]. Adam Jones, “12 great songs about genocide”: http://www.genocidetext.net/gaci_songs.htm .