Nabil Hamzaki
nhamzaki.bsky.social
Nabil Hamzaki
@nhamzaki.bsky.social
Reader. Progressive politics. Social justice. Voted Yes. Free Palestine.
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I finally launched my own newsletter! I'm happy to be albeit write what I want when I want. And to put a lot of short in-the-moment essays that used to be on FB at this site instead. Please subscribe! meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/welcome-to-m...
Welcome to Meditations in an Emergency
We are very clearly in a lot of emergencies right now. They demand action. But action demands thought and thoughtfulness: who are we, what are our values, our goals, our allies, our possibilities, and...
meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io
February 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Want to see David Marr, Jonathan Crace & me duke it out with Annabel Crabb & Nick Ryan in the #Adelaidewritersweek Great Debate? Topic: True friends stab you in the front (with thanks to Wilde). We promise not to be as insufferable as we were in Year 11. www.adelaidefestival.com.au/events/2025-...
The AWW Great Debate: True Friends Stab You in the Front (with thanks to Oscar Wilde) - Adelaide Festival Instagram iconInstagram icon
Australia's International Festival
www.adelaidefestival.com.au
January 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Here's me. 'What would Grace Tame do?'
What would Grace Tame do? - The Shot
Grace Tame wore our Fuck Murdoch T-shirt to meet the Prime Minister. Let's just acknowledge how much that rocks.
theshot.net.au
January 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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January 28, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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"The deliberate unleashing of catastrophic harm on a trapped population of more than two million people—half of them children, all of them subject to the occupying power legally responsible for their welfare—was in fact the main, undeclared objective: a gratuitous exercise in mass cruelty."
They Make a Wasteland and Call It Peace | Saree Makdisi
The Roman historian Tacitus once chronicled the last speech of Calgacus, a Caledonian chieftain rousing his troops to resist the foreign invaders of their land. “To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they g...
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January 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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January 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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We’re not going to back down in the face of malicious bullying by the Murdoch press and pro-Israel lobby, and we’re not going to stop criticising Peter Dutton for fueling racism!

Some emails you can send which would make a big difference ⬇️
Help defend our anti-racist works against offensive smear campaigns by the Murdoch Press
January 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
-Angela Davis

Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.

"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis
January 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Statement on my speech at a comedy event pillorying Peter Dutton’s racist, ignorant and monolithic conception of Jewish people
January 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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The scale of this afternoon's Invasion Day rally is staggering. People standing in solidarity against colonialism and genocide as far as the eye can see. Always was, always will be. Free Palestine. Melbourne, 26 Jan 2025.
January 26, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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The level of racism required to liken the first fleet to the first missions going to Mars - a plant with no life whatsoever- is off the charts
January 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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New books 🖤
January 21, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Here's me, @ronnisalt.bsky.social, @instanterudite.bsky.social, @boganintel.bsky.social and @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social all together for the end of year wrap.

'The Shot writers reflect: 2024 can go and get fucked'
The Shot writers reflect: 2024 can go and get fucked - The Shot
Rather than publishing five separate articles, which, at this point in the year, I cannot be fucked doing – and...
theshot.net.au
December 20, 2024 at 3:12 AM
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Stoked to work with these legends & contribute some #Gaza cartoons
December 20, 2024 at 10:21 AM
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Forget the Rich List, I came in at #5 in @crikey.com.au ShitStirrer Index 2024. It recognises 10 Aussies who became nuisances to powerful institutions.
I’d like to thank God, those who voted for me & of course WhatsApp Groups for making this dream possible

www.crikey.com.au/2024/12/17/c...
December 17, 2024 at 6:05 AM
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Any minute now this act of terrorism will be condemned by Dutton, James Paterson…the government will set up a task force…an envoy…
Islamic school bus torched in Adelaide | 7NEWS
YouTube video by 7NEWS Australia
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December 9, 2024 at 7:23 AM
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Amnesty International this week confirmed what many others have already said: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. But the report goes to many lengths to prove one critical element in the case against Israel: that the genocide is fully intentional.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/israels-genocide…
Israel’s genocide in Gaza is fully intentional, and other takeaways from the Amnesty International report
Amnesty International this week confirmed what many others have already said: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. But the report goes to many lengths to prove one critical element in the case against...
mondoweiss.net
December 7, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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"“I feel like I’m going mad,” a woman in her seventies told me:
Like there’s something wrong with me. All these dead children, and we’re supposed to think it’s all right, that it’s normal. But it’s not! It’s not!"
December 5, 2024 at 11:50 PM
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Cover reveal for THE NIGHTMARE SEQUENCE (April 2025), a collection of poems by me and art by Safdar Ahmed responding to the genocide in Gaza. All our royalties are being donated to Palestinian charities and relief efforts 🙏🏽💜
December 6, 2024 at 2:01 AM
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This piece of art, titled Peace, is by Sue Wright and is inspired by the The Sunbird by Sara Haddad. It’s part of our Biblio Art Prize 2024 featuring nearly 100 works by Australian artists - inspired by recent Australian fiction - which opens on 14 December in our little bookshop in Port Fairy.
December 2, 2024 at 5:53 AM
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Been wondering about the details behind the worker's strike action impacting Woolworths supply chain? Read more here from labour expert Lauren Kate Kelly on The Conversation theconversation.com/why-woolwort...
Why Woolworths workers can’t sleep at night: inside the supermarket giant’s controversial ‘Framework’
Workers say strict performance targets based on “engineered standards” increase stress and may reduce safety.
theconversation.com
December 1, 2024 at 12:25 AM
It's official. My kids have disappointingly decided that Moana 2 was bad and the songs sucked.
November 29, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Reading Madeleine Gray's Green Dot:

"Trust me, people in offices love lists."
November 28, 2024 at 11:18 AM
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I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!

Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚

Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
November 27, 2024 at 7:08 PM