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It is now two years, six months and 22 days since Hind Rajab, her cousins and family were murdered by the Israeli Defence Forces, along with the two Palestine Red Crescent paramedics who came to the scene to try to rescue her.… Go to Article
Enclosed here is a respectful but quite pointed letter, particularly because it’s recipient, Councillor Howard, is the Chair of Council’s Community and Arts Committee.… Go to Article
“….Though these women may never see Palestine, to embroider is to understand that in the world of cloth, and perhaps in reality, Ramallah and Hebron have different cyprus trees, Bethlehem and Jerusalem have different roses.… Go to Article
The genocide in Palestine grinds on. Palestinians are killed daily. The siege continues. The theft of Palestinian land accelerates.
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli soldiers and settlers terrorise Palestinians and seize their land with impunity.… Go to Article
In this coverage of the Tour de Samoa, we include some commentary on the various stages of the race by a local bike rider, Lachlan Hurse.… Go to Article
Union representation for teachers, nurses and others on the board of Workplace Health and Safety have been unceremoniously stripped by the Crisafulli government.… Go to Article
Two important actions for our readers!
1. Sign & share the e-petition to qld parliament:
https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/Work-of-the-Assembly/Petitions/petition-details/4656-26
This petition was created by Justice for Palestine Magan-djin (JFP) and is sponsored by Greens members for Maiwar, Michael Berkman.… Go to Article
Deep cuts in net overseas migration are advanced by those seeking short term political gain by claiming that those cuts will help solve the housing crisis.… Go to Article
‘Looking with both eyes‘ – Persian proverb meaning to look behind the facts.
Appeal court ignores Israel’s genocide in assault case
6 May 2024 — Labor Day function at the RNA Showgrounds — last words
Yesterday’s man, former premier of Queensland, Steven Miles, made a speech at the 2024 May Day celebrations ignoring the fact that assembled unionists had turned their backs on him because of his government’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza.… Go to Article
According to the series, Say Nothing, based on a book by Patrick Radden Keefe, Gerry Adams is a liar, a traitor, and a murderer.… Go to Article
F-35s are used in bombardment campaigns across Gaza, Lebanon, Iran and Yemen that have killed tens of thousands of civilians, including children, sheltering in schools, hospitals, and refugee camps.… Go to Article
“I’m not Nigel Farage.”
“I didn’t know old Farage was going to self-detonate.”
“I will build at least one affordable house.”… Go to Article
The propagandists whose writings are in evidence in this case and terrorists who respond to their call (like the offenders now before the Court cannot sensibly be regarded as mere anti-social deviants.… Go to Article
“The fish start swimming in a circle, they go round and round, others from the school join in, males and females.… Go to Article
The Queensland government’s banning of “from the river to the sea” is a racist trope against Palestinians and their organisations (including Justice for Palestine Magan-djin).… Go to Article
Sunday 9th August, Brisbane: Campaign closing celebration. Picnic at Wellington Point and a walk to King Island.
We met at Wellington Point on Sunday, 9 August, for the finale of the From Australia to Cuba with Love campaign — and what a finale it was!… Go to Article
Every time there is a violent incident or alleged terror event, a resistance movement is blamed. Sometimes those incidents are ordinary criminal acts.… Go to Article
“Revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.” ― Fidel Castro
After 14,700 kilometres, we have finally made it to Havana.… Go to Article
At the 2024 May Day rally in Brisbane (Magandjin), then Queensland Premier Steven Miles addressed the crowd before ACTU Secretary Sally McManus took the stage.… Go to Article
We sent it down in the night of power.
But how can you know what is the night of power?
The night of power is better than a thousand months.… Go to Article
“We’ll have thee, as our rare monsters are,
painted on a pole,
and under it here
may you see the tyrant.”… Go to Article
On July 28, 2026 at Speakers Corner outside Queensland Parliament, a crowd of media, plaintiffs, supporters and school children witnessed the media launch of JFP’s High Court challenge to annul Queensland’s law criminalising certain phrases related to Palestine.… Go to Article
July is International Zine Month (alongside Disability Pride Month), so people celebrated it by attending Mr Icarus’s zine making workshop and they raised funds for Justice for Palestine Magandjin’s Legal Defence Fund.… Go to Article
For the past three years, the Queensland Government has been complicit in the genocide in Gaza and has done everything it could to obstruct justice for the Palestinian people, even going so far as to accuse protest organisers of antisemitism.… Go to Article
Down our street, downhill into an adjoining suburb, people are not so neuter – not it people. They march in processions which shout No!… Go to Article
Five Ways of Regarding Homer
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Are you going to Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey?
No, but I’ll re-read the book.
[With thanks to Guy Davenport, Geography the Imagination (New York: Pantheon, 1991), 333-4.]… Go to Article
All they need is dignity / a chance to be free / let them out of jail / my people / stop pointing guns at my people.… Go to Article
“Revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.” ― Fidel Castro
International affairs are not the World Cup where there are rules and despite claims to the contrary the favoured team did not win.… Go to Article
Recently, Australia abstained in the United Nations General Assembly on the annual resolution entitled “Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.”… Go to Article
We should go under the rain. We should wash our eyes, and we should see the world in a different way.… Go to Article
