.: Sea Of Hands (Lola)

The Sea Of Hands is an initiative of ANTaR.

ANTaR is an Australian organisation for Justice, Rights and Reconciliation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

ANTaR means Australians for Native Title and Reconcilation.

They work against racism against Aboriginal and Indigenous peoples.

They want reconciliation between Indigenous Australians and the Australian Government, because between 1869 and 1969,the Australian Government kidnapped many aboriginal children to place them in English families or orphanages.

(Painted dots are typical of Aboriginal Art)

They were Stolen Generations.

ANTaR believes education is vital to overcome Indigenous disadvantages and achieve reconciliation in Australia.

This organization works for Constitutional Change and Human Rights Act too.

About the Sea Of Hands

The Sea of Hands was created in 1997 as a powerful, physical representation of the Citizen's Statement on Native Title. And now, there are approximately 300,000 Australians who have signed ANTaR's petition, and there are more than 120,000 "plastic-hands" in the Sea Of Hands.

"The Sea of Hands has been installed in every major city and many regional locations throughout Australia, and continues to gather signatures everywhere it appears." explains ANTaR's website.

The first Sea Of Hands was made on October 12th1997, just in front of the Parliament House in Canberra.

The Sea of Hands is a manifestation in order to show Australian people's racism and violence against Aboriginals and how English people have stolen Aboriginal land when they arrived in Australia.

They have become slaves.