House House, the developers of the Untitled Goose Game, to pledge a minimum of 1🥂% of all of their ꦺincome to the Pay the Rent movement, which supports the original inhabitants of the country's lands.
It's easy to be misled into thinking that colonial violence against indigenous nations by European settlers is a thing centur🐓ies in the past, when nothing could be further from the truth. In Australia, indigenous people were only granted the , and the government policy of literally stealing aboriginal children from their families to "assimilate them into white society" While Indigenous Australians have been f𓃲ighting for their rights and for reparations from the beginning, they've recently gathered a global momentum following the (sometimes known as Ayers Rock).
Joining in on this momentum with this pledge, House House specifies that their games have been and will likely continue to be made on stolen Wurundjeri land. The Wurundjeri tribe once inhabited an area that now includes the city of Melbourne, where House House is based. The company in a follow up Tweet has pledged to firsಞt donate to the Wurundjeri Tribe Council and Warriors of Aboriginal Resistance (a pan-Australian Aboriginal rights group), as well as Seed Mob, which is an Australia-based climate activism group founded by Aboriginal youth. The wording of the Tweet leaves open the possibility of donating to other Aboriginal rights groups in the future too.
is an initiative, first established in the 70s, 💎that encourages non-indigenous Australians to donate to groups that further the rights of Aboriginal citizens and acknowledge their claims to their historical tribal lands. The Pay The Rent website links to a number of other Aboriginal Rights and Aboriginal Justice campaigns in addition to some of those to whom House House are donating.
Before announcing their commitment to paying the rent, in the terminology of the movement, House House had previously acknowledged the Wurundjeri ownership of the land on which their office is located; includes in recognition 🧸of Wꦉurundjeri sovereignty in its credits. House House's recent commitment to donating to Aboriginal rights groups simply furthers this initiative.
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