SYRIN

Bring your pots, pans drums banners & your loudest voice as we demand:
-Sanctions on Israel
-An end to the weapons’ trade
-A massive expansion of aid
-STOP ISRAEL'S GENOCIDE STARVATION

Friday AUG 15, 6pm
Peter Khalils office 466-468 Sydney Rd Coburg
Org by Merri-bek & Northern Suburbs for Palestine

Naarm action listings week of Aug 11th

why are we waiting until he dies????

as more people get out into the street, some questions worth asking:

- what risks/sacrifices are you willing to make for what you believe in?

- are your actions symbolic or do they have material impact? do they protect ppl from state violence?

- is your community in need of your energy elsewhere?

Memorial for George Floyd at the Say Their Names cemetery

George Floyd was murdered by police five years ago today.

The Say Their Names cemetery in Minneapolis features memorials for Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Amadou Diallo, Oscar Grant, Korryn Gaines, Freddie Gray and far too many more Black people who died at the hands of police.

Here's the reality of this "Jewish safety" argument I keep hearing:

The only world that's safe for us is one that's safe for everyone else, too. You can't kill your way to safety.

And the best way to make a world safe for everyone is to start with our own. Because we have a genocide to stop.

Renewed Israeli Bombings Kill Civilians, Including Children, Journalist The latest bombings targeted displaced families, residential homes, and journalists across Gaza’s north and center.

www.palestinechronicle.com/renewed-isra...

A F*CK!NG GENDER REVEAL.

t.me/metanyahu

"It's war, shit happens."

No actually. There's law in war. There are rules. You don't get to carpet bomb civilian populations and then chalk it up to "war sucks." That's literally why they're called "war crimes."

Back down on earth. 😂🌍

Sudan faces unprecedented hunger and displacement as war enters third year The conflict in Sudan has become one of the worst humanitarian crises of the 21st century, leaving millions of women, children and displaced families suffering from violence, food insecurity and the c...

TWENTY FIVE MILLION PEOPLE ARE STARVING IN SUDAN RIGHT NOW.

Thirteen million are now homeless refugees.

news.un.org/en/story/202...

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If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for who and what we really are. Let's be loud and proud and unapologetic, right until whatever end comes, whenever it comes.

They can never break our spirit unless we let them.

Today, April 7, Rwanda begins Kwibuka 31 — a national day to remember the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. 🇷🇼

In just 100 days, nearly one million people were killed. 💔🙏🏼

Kwibuka means "to remember" in Kinyarwanda.🕯️

#Kwibuka31 #Rwanda #NeverAgain

I'm going to tell you a true story. And when I'm done, you'll never look at homeless people the same way again.

Several years ago, when I was still working at a legal aid clinic, a partner organization asked us to take the case of a quintessential little old lady. She was in her 80s, and homeless.

Black and white photo of young girl holding up sign that reads “I will not give up the flowers in my heart just because the world is a hard place. The world is only a hard place because it needs more flower-hearted people.”

This courageous little one gave me a lot of hope today.

A photograph from the singular @misanharriman.bsky.social

“I will not give up
the flowers in my heart
just because the world
is a hard place.

The world
is only a hard place
because it needs more
flower-hearted people.”

How Labor can say, with a straight face, that they are opposed to LNP policies when they've literally teamed up with them to push through countless shit bills and gut the NDIS is wild to me. They are the Australian version of that meme with the Democrats bomber covered in rainbow flags.

Columbia: stop the repression against students Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian graduate from Columbia University, has vanished. ICE agents stormed his residence, ripped him from his home, and now—no one knows where he is. His crime? Demanding Columb

Tell Columbia University: stop the repression against students action.eko.org/a/columbia-s...

Absolutely legendary set from Kneecap this arvo. Beautiful to see so many kids, keffiyehs and Aboriginal flags among the TEN THOUSAND strong crowd 🥰 Tiocfaidh ár lá

I’m so tired…

And sick of what the colony does to us.

The rage you are feeling comes from the same place inside your heart as the love. This is why you refuse to accept a world where cruelty reigns and the fire consumes all. You have known hope and joy and kindness like you have known water. And justice is a river that demands you do not give up on it. - Nikita Gill

A few people have shared this here today, so I thought I’d post it.

I highly recommend that people shift to a credit union or local bank if you have not already done so. Corporate banks are precisely corporations whose sole function purpose is to profit off of you. They do not exist to help you with anything whatsoever. Move your money.

We must love liberation so deeply that we make it inevitable because without that, it will not come.

Empire will fall yes, but only because the people take it down.

Waves of anti-Tesla and Elon Musk protests ripple throughout Bay Area From Berkeley to San Jose, hundreds of protesters mobilized outside Tesla showrooms to denounce Musk and call for a boycott

www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/15/t...

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For more—and to sign— go to

saynotoethniccleansing.org

Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...

NPS [Feb 12] -- Natl Park Service scrubs "TQ+" from Stonewall National LGBTQ+ Monument in Christopher Park & the accompanying text. Monument to a riot launched by trans women of color like Sylvia Rivera & Marsha P Johnson reads "LGB."

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Rally invasion day 2025. Boorloo 1230 Forrest chase. Gadigal 1000am Belmore Park. Bimini 1000am Fogarty Park. Kaurna 1200 Victoria Sq. Naarm 10am Vic Parliament House. Nipaluna 11am 198 Elizabeth Street. Ngunnawal Ngambri 10am Tent Embassy. Meanjin 9am Queens Gardens.

#mobsky