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Astrid Jamar Free ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ

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Senior researcher @ViDi UAntwerpen. Dreams, Fluid borders, Pluriverse, transitional (in)justice, coloniality of peace, #TWAIL, African Great Lakes Radical Peace Studies - Decolonial Feminist ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช/๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ in BXL She/Her http://www.pluriversaldreams.org

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The first person in Bahrain to be confirmed to die was a migrant worker from the debris of an intercepted missile

02.03.2026 03:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 384    ๐Ÿ” 86    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

As much as I dislike AI, AI is not ultimately responsible here.

The PEOPLE who fired the missile, ordered the strike & started the war are, up to & including Trump.

Like I said Ukraine can target with very high a degree of precision so why not the US?

PEOPLE need to be held accountable, not AI.

01.03.2026 11:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Mamdani: Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wallโ€”your struggle is ours too

05.11.2025 04:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7709    ๐Ÿ” 1533    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 64    ๐Ÿ“Œ 110
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Gaza City officially in famine, says global hunger monitor Gaza City and surrounding areas are officially suffering from famine, and it will likely spread, a global hunger monitor determined on Friday, an assessment that will escalate pressure on Israel to allow more aid into the Palestinian enclave.

Leading global experts just confirmed what weโ€™ve long known: Gaza is in famine. At least half a million Palestinians are facing starvation, acute malnutrition and death. And itโ€™s likely to spread.

The U.S. government is not a bystander to this genocide. We can end it today.

22.08.2025 14:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3651    ๐Ÿ” 1090    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 70    ๐Ÿ“Œ 43

I am updating my list of Palestine fundraisers, with direct links in case bluesky vindictively deletes their accounts. Feel free to reply with accounts you know of that I should add.

Just quoting this to pin it because I forgot to put the explanation in the first post of the thread.

17.08.2025 08:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 62    ๐Ÿ” 88    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thinking about how the people who call Israel โ€œthe last vestige of European colonialismโ€ need to take a look at some of the many other vestiges of European colonialism. ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธ

17.08.2025 06:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So Israel lied. Again. For like the billionth time.

Thatโ€™s all they do. Lie. Thatโ€™s the extent of their statecraft. Just lying.

Lying and murdering people either by dropping bombs on them, starving them, or shooting them when they try to get food.

26.07.2025 15:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is getting close to 150K signatures now. It might not do anything, but it will serve as evidence for the future that the UK government were aware of the opposition of its own people to its complicity in the Israeli genocide on Gaza & the fact that it did nothing to stop it.

25.07.2025 21:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 92    ๐Ÿ” 72    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€˜Do the pilots who bomb children have childrenโ€™

17.07.2025 06:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

"Flemish universities are forging links with the military industry. The consequences are morally painful, write eight academics, but also fundamentally undermining the social mission of higher education."

Full text in Dutch also available here:
archive.ph/2Bngj

15.07.2025 15:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Our OpEd denouncing the current push for military research in our universities in the Standaard today

University research in the service of the war economy: academics are gradually becoming intellectual mercenaries

www.standaard.be/opinies/univ...

15.07.2025 15:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Caster Semenya calls for athletesโ€™ rights to be put first as court rules in her favour ECHR rules South African runner did not have fair trial on need to lower testosterone levels to compete in womenโ€™s sport The South African runner Caster Semenya has called for athletesโ€™ rights to be better protected after Europeโ€™s top human rights court ruled that she had not been given a fair trial when she contested a policy that required her to lower her testosterone levels in order to compete in womenโ€™s sport. The decision, handed down on Thursday by the European court of human rights, was the latest twist in the two-time Olympic gold medallistโ€™s extraordinary legal battle. Continue reading...

Caster Semenya calls for athletesโ€™ rights to be put first as court rules in her favour

10.07.2025 17:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 150    ๐Ÿ” 39    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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More than 400 media figures urge BBC board to remove Robbie Gibb over Gaza Miriam Margolyes, Alexei Sayle and Mike Leigh among signatories to letter criticising Jewish Chronicle ties

"The signatories also include 111 BBC journalists...The statement alleges Gibb has a โ€œconflict of interestโ€ which โ€œhighlights a double standard for BBC content makers who have themselves experienced censorship in the name of โ€˜impartialityโ€™.โ€

this seems important

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

04.07.2025 15:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 81    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Join us UAnterwpen and TUFS colleagues tomorrow for insights on Israel's Settler Colonial project in Palestine and Iran.

Registration link:
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

27.06.2025 15:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ยซย On ne libรฉrera pas les femmes iraniennes en bombardant leur paysย ยป Alors que les ร‰tats-Unis de Donald Trump pourraient bombarder lโ€™Iran en soutien ร  Israรซl, trois femmes iraniennes, dont la rรฉalisatrice Sepideh Farsi, sont sur le plateau dโ€™ยซย ร€ lโ€™air libreย ยป.

ยซ On ne libรฉrera pas les femmes iraniennes en bombardant leur pays ยป

Alors que les ร‰tats-Unis de Donald Trump pourraient bombarder lโ€™Iran en soutien ร  Israรซl, trois femmes iraniennes, dont la rรฉalisatrice Sepideh Farsi, sont sur le plateau dโ€™ยซ ร€ lโ€™air libre ยป.

@mediapart.fr

19.06.2025 21:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 66    ๐Ÿ” 32    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜Not for youโ€™: Israeli shelters exclude Palestinians as bombs rain down Shelters are a lifeline in Israel from Iranian attacks, but Palestinian citizens of the country have been locked out.

worth reading this in full. while it does offer examples of individuals excluding/being excluded from shelters which are horrific on their own, it also looks at the structural differences in access to shelter between the jewish and palestinian citizens of israel.

18.06.2025 09:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Assassinat de Lumumbaย : le parquet fรฉdรฉral rรฉclame le renvoi dโ€™ร‰tienne Davignon devant le tribunal correctionnel - RTBF Actus Patrice Lumumba, principale figure de lโ€™indรฉpendance, a รฉtรฉ assassinรฉ le 17 janvierย 1961, avec deux de ses plus...

Belgian Court case finally starting tomorrow for the murder of Patrice Lumumba!
Prosecuting office is charging the Davignon for war crimes
www.rtbf.be/article/affa...

16.06.2025 14:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Surrealist type painting with a central standing female figure in a long pink dress holding a Mexican flag with buildings and machinery behind her to the right and ancient Mexican artifacts and iconography to her left

Surrealist type painting with a central standing female figure in a long pink dress holding a Mexican flag with buildings and machinery behind her to the right and ancient Mexican artifacts and iconography to her left

Self-Portrait on the Border Line between Mexico and the United States, 1932, Frida Kahlo #womensart

11.06.2025 05:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2578    ๐Ÿ” 555    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14
Graffiti in French - we keep quiet when children are sleeping, not when they are dying. #FreeGaza

Graffiti in French - we keep quiet when children are sleeping, not when they are dying. #FreeGaza

On brand graffiti - we need to be quiet when children are sleeping, not when they are dying!
#FreeGaza

10.06.2025 20:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Not Even the Sea Is Free From Israelโ€™s Brutality The activists aboard the Madleen aid ship couldnโ€™t break the siege of Gaza. But Greta Thunberg and her colleagues have powerfully drawn attention to Israelโ€™s blockade โ€” and the Westโ€™s refusal to do an...

The activists aboard the Madleen aid ship couldnโ€™t break the siege of Gaza. But Greta Thunberg and her colleagues have powerfully drawn attention to Israelโ€™s blockade โ€” and the Westโ€™s refusal to do anything about it.

09.06.2025 20:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 150    ๐Ÿ” 48    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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#FreeRima #FreeGreeta #FreeGaza #BelgiumComplicit #EUComplicit
Brussels is standing with Gaza tonight, and until independence!! ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธโœŠ๏ธโœŠ๏ธ

09.06.2025 17:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Arenโ€™t you meant to be โ€œjournalistsโ€, not mouthpieces for a genocidal state?

09.06.2025 11:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 512    ๐Ÿ” 138    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Why is there always money for war, but never for the poor?

I know which side Iโ€™m on.

02.06.2025 19:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 714    ๐Ÿ” 166    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 54    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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Really looking forward to hosting you all in Antwerp for critically needed exchanges on colonial peace & connected activist responses later this week!

Registration deadline is today. Participation is extended to remote online participation now!

Updated programme & all info: tinyurl.com/dp8x4ssh

02.06.2025 13:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Some more urgently needed discussions on the violence and coloniality of โ€˜peaceโ€™, also very relevant to what some of us have conceptualized and critiqued as oppressive pacifism, beyond the common empire appeasement. And itโ€™s still possible to register to attend the hybrid discussions

30.05.2025 12:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tomorrow the Council will discuss the EU-Israel Association Agreement. The Agreement MUST be cancelled. No Association With Genocide! Suspend EU-Israel Association Agreement, main treaty regulation relations between the EU and Israel. Join the demonstration tomorrow at 10 am in Brussels at Schumann!

19.05.2025 12:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A photo of Malcolm X standing at a podium

A photo of Malcolm X standing at a podium

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."

Malcolm X was born #OnThisDay in 1925.

19.05.2025 05:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 357    ๐Ÿ” 147    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

This looks brilliant! ๐Ÿ‘‡

16.05.2025 11:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Share, register and join us for a research activist workshop @ UAntwerpen!

Full programme here!
tinyurl.com/3xbmhpy3

#ColonialityofPeace #DecolonialPeace #ActivistResearch

16.05.2025 08:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Te Pฤti Mฤori MPs to be temporarily suspended from Parliament over haka MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke faces a seven-day suspension for her actions.

Hey world, remember when you thought this was awesome? (Which, by the way, it was). Yeah well she's been suspended for a week now because of it; it's coloniser rules and forms of expression allowed only, indigenous people must only be angry in white ways.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

14.05.2025 07:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3351    ๐Ÿ” 1897    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 42    ๐Ÿ“Œ 66