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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · Apr 16

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LucyCB-T @lucycbt.bsky.social · Apr 9

The free world is watching the genocide in silence ...
🚗✨Honk for Palestine!
🗓️ Sat 12 April
⌚10.30am
📍Bunnings Intersection, Lindsay St/Tamar Hway Corner, Launceston
📣 Bring whistles, drums, flags & signs! Together, we demand justice, peace & freedom for Palestine.

Poster:
HONK FOR PALESTINE
12 APRIL 2025
10.30AM
THE FREE WORLD IS WATCHING THE GENOCIDE IN SILENCE
ART BY NAJI EL MIR VIA FREE PALESTINE PROJECT
AT THE BUNNINGS INTERSECTION
LINDSAY ST / E TAMAR HWY CORNER

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · Apr 10

www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a...

Trump Orders Nearly 1 Million Migrants Who Entered US Legally to Leave Now | Common Dreams

"It was never about 'legal' immigration, but always about upholding white supremacy," said one human rights lawyer.

www.commondreams.org

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Grace Walsh @gracewalsh.bsky.social · Apr 10

Such important work by @crikey.com.au publishing the shareholdings that various members of parliament have disclosed. Local member for Bass has a family member with shares in a number of mineral and petroleum companies for example. #auspol #politas #elections2025 #tasmania #transparency

Crikey's Auspol Index: Which politicians are investing in which companies? Search our database

MPs have influence over policy and are privy to non-public information. Yet they're free to trade in the sharemarket.

www.crikey.com.au

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · Apr 10

Caitlin Johnstone
@caitoz
Actually, what fuels antisemitism is murdering children by the thousands under the banner of the Star of David while adamantly insisting that your actions are inseparable from all Jews and the totality of Judaism.

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Australian Human Rights Institute @austhumanrights.bsky.social · Apr 8

A special issue of the Australian Journal of Human Rights is out now, examining the topics of accountability, impunity and the protection of human rights. Read some of the highlights and download the full issue here: bit.ly/AJHR30_2

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LucyCB-T @lucycbt.bsky.social · Apr 6

📣 Launceston midweek action for Palestine!!!
🗓️ Wed 9 April
⏰ 8-9am
📍Bathurst St (between Frederick & Canning Sts, beside Brickfield Reserve)
ℹ️ Displaying flags & signs during morning rush hour. All welcome!
#FreePalestine

Google maps showing location: Bathurst St next to Brickfield Reserve

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Grace Walsh @gracewalsh.bsky.social · Apr 5

"These are dangerous days
To say what you feel is to dig your own grave."

Still as relevant as ever. In solidarity with the #mothersagainstgenocide and the violence they faced this week at the hands of the Gardaí.

Shame on the Irish state.

#mnanaheireann #sineadoconnor

Sinéad O'Connor - Black Boys on Mopeds (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Chrysalis Records

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Kaya Wanu. @kayawanu.bsky.social · Apr 4

The Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung woman said her actions reflected a choice to not stand by and watch the destruction of one of the few intact native forests left in Tasmania

I am acting to uphold my cultural obligation to protect Country Ms Langford said
#mobsky
nit.com.au/03-04-2025/1...

Breaking: Ruth Langford arrested at forest protest

Aboriginal community leader Ruth Langford has been arrested at a native forest logging protest in southern Tasmania.According to the Bob Brown Foundation, police evicted a number of 'forest defenders'...

nit.com.au

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Greater Good Science Center @greatergoodmag.bsky.social · Mar 28

Researchers explain how Ontario's Basic Income Pilot affected people's mental health—and what happened when it was cancelled early.

How Basic Income Programs Can Support Mental Health

Researchers explain how Ontario's Basic Income Pilot affected people's mental health—and what happened when it was cancelled early.

greatergood.berkeley.edu

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Grace Walsh @gracewalsh.bsky.social · Mar 21

I fear you are right! That's where my interest and alarm bells are coming from.

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Grace Walsh @gracewalsh.bsky.social · Mar 21

I'm really appreciating your voice on this Paris. It's not my area of expertise but I can see the collective sleep walking that's happening and what's being normalized. My work place is doing the same 😔. Keep speaking to it please.

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Grace Walsh @gracewalsh.bsky.social · Mar 19

Yes! Although I thought I knew a good deal about the colonial history of this place before coming, the sheer boldness of the white Australia policy and subsequent institutional racism was still a shock to me. And how recent and current it still is really. Solidarity to you too.

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Grace Walsh @gracewalsh.bsky.social · Mar 19

As a relatively new migrant I needed to learn this I'll admit. As Irish people we have some sense but as white migrants we are often as blind as the rest of them. I'm sorry that was the response you got & that you have had to carry the burden of educating people on something that should be so obv.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · Feb 2

Palestine was the test to see what they could do. Not standing in solidarity with Palestinians was not only a major moral and ethical failing it was a strategic mistake that everyone will pay for.

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Grace Walsh @gracewalsh.bsky.social · Mar 18

Touché. In fact this place is built on it, but it has been largely targeted towards the non-white and Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander populations until now.

Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · Mar 18

The idea that fascism is 'arriving', is something new to the recent world that is just starting is the most HILARIOUSLY privileged thing I've ever heard. Since WW2 large swathes of the world have lived under Western imposed fascism. It's coming home, thats what is happening

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Grace Walsh @gracewalsh.bsky.social · Mar 18

And the surreal slide towards fascism continues. I feel like a whole load of us are about to be thrown under a bus. #auspol

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Grace Walsh @gracewalsh.bsky.social · Mar 18

As the bombs begin to fall again in Gaza, here's an opportunity to stand against the violence, and demand a free Palestine. #honkforgaza #launcestontasmania #northerntasmania #politas

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Grace Walsh @gracewalsh.bsky.social · Mar 18

As the bombs begin to fall again in Gaza, here's an opportunity to stand against the violence, and demand a free Palestine. #honkforgaza #launcestontasmania #northerntasmania #politas

Grace Walsh @gracewalsh.bsky.social · Mar 15

Definitely! The weather has "cooled" a little here so the beach was empty. By Irish standards, perfectly pleasant :-).

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Grace Walsh @gracewalsh.bsky.social · Mar 14

This is such an important piece.

David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · Mar 14

Here's me. 'Your rights are being eroded so Israel can commit genocide without criticism'

Your rights are being eroded so Israel can commit genocide without criticism - The Shot

Across the Western world, criticising Israel's genocide in Palestine is being stamped down. News laws and a culture of fear make it hard.

theshot.net.au

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Grace Walsh @gracewalsh.bsky.social · Mar 14

Happy Friday, from the other side. Not the vico baths but it will do ;-)...

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Grace Walsh @gracewalsh.bsky.social · Mar 13

Horrific. Where is the outrage. Palestine is a feminist issue.

Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · Mar 13

www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Israel carried out genocidal acts - systematically attacking/destroying sexual/reproductive healthcare facilities in Gaza - a fertility center, maternity wards, maternity hospitals, preventing access to medicines/equipment for pregnancies, deliveries, neonatal care.

www.ohchr.org

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Grace Walsh @gracewalsh.bsky.social · Mar 11

There's hope for the colony yet....🇵🇸🇮🇪.

Grace Walsh @gracewalsh.bsky.social · Mar 11

The lads from @kneecapceol.bsky.social packing out Fed Square in #naarm, 🇵🇸 ❤️🖤💛 flags flying, anti-imperial, pro-palestine chants & songs....has made my week. There's hope for the Southern colony yet. #freepalestine

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