Tammi Jonas

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Using Nyéléni as a backdrop, Raj argues that debt is central to maintaining a neo-colonial food system. It demonstrates how IMF-imposed austerity & predatory Microfinance create a vicious cycle that locks countries into ecologically destructive export agriculture and prevents food sovereignty.

Labor’s slate for fossil fuel approvals The Albanese government has already approved 31 fossil fuel projects, and more than that are waiting, even as renewables overtake coal as the top source of electricity.

Since the Labor Party promised stronger action to curb climate change ahead of the 2022 election 31 new projects or extensions of existing projects have been waved through: 27 by Tanya Plibersek and four by the man who replaced her, Murray Watt. satpa.pe/JCmAeUE

"Many boomers, especially white heterosexual men... have felt disoriented as their world has shifted and changed around them. The clean energy transition symbolizes part of this change."

Solidarity or surrender None of us are free until all of us are free

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I wrote a short piece about why solidarity is both intrinsic to and transcends food sovereignty.

MEDIA RELEASE: NO PLANNING PERMIT FOR MICRO ABATTOIRS! Historic reform a win for small-scale farmers in Victoria - AFSA 01 August 2025 ***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*** NO PLANNING PERMIT FOR ...

Historic win for small-scale livestock farmers wanting to build micro-abattoirs as we lose access to the big ones! Viva! afsa.org.au/media-releas...

As @albomp.bsky.social
@jimchalmers.bsky.social set their sights on ‘productivity’ & ‘deregulation’ this term of parliament (oh, so, so neoliberal)
…they turn the other cheek to the Great Australian Gas Heist.
A nation rich in resources…and poor in political talent
🤦🏻🤷🏼
#auspol

Indeed, shared this interview w many today. Longer read/listen but worthwhile

📍 BREAKING📍 Elon Musk is out. Now read Joe Fassler's latest on how DOGE’s work was a years-long strategy to remake America's government by far-right groups -- whose influence on Trump may tilt the U.S. toward autocracy. Read more: buff.ly/FfblMPg

Mobs of Israelis march through Jerusalem chanting "Death to Arabs" and "may your village burn", while trying to convince us that saying "Free Palestine" is genocidal.

Beneath all the propaganda, all the nice words about human rights and equality and international law, this is it. This is the material manifestation of Western values.

It’s time to stop the great food heist powered by big business. That means taxation, regulation and healthy school meals | Stuart Gillespie The global food system has been captured by a few rapacious companies that profit from public ill-health. We need a radical overhaul

🔥Time to stop the great food heist

And we know what to do....

my new article for @theguardian.com

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international systems of accountability for crimes against humanity established in the wake of the holocaust destroyed at the behest of “the light unto the nations” so that it can do its own genocide. our shame will be eternal.

Israeli siege tipping Gaza into famine, UN panel says Report warns that half a million people are starving with conditions to worsen if Israel does not ease blockade

IPC warns that 93% of the population in Gaza us rapidly approaching famine - made far worse when the ceasefire ended in early March. The world cannot sit idly by as starvation is being used as a weapon in this conflict.
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Great commentary from @richarddenniss.bsky.social re what @albomp.bsky.social government needs to do in its second term #auspol

This is DEADLY serious.

New on Critical Takes:

How "national champions" from Brazil and China are becoming global giants in the meat industry.

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Fascinating take from @katesievert.bsky.social and co-authors on power shifts in an industry with huge effects on health, workers and nature.

"We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement. The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights." FINALLY. Thank you, @harvard.edu, for FINALLY taking a stand.

Can sovereign debt restructuring uphold human rights and economic justice? Join @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, Zane Dangor & more for a bold conversation on rethinking the rules.

🔊 Join us online (bit.ly/3Ymwmt1) or in person in DC (bit.ly/3YmylNZ)

📅 Apr 21 | 3–5 PM ET

“When a segment of the population is first targeted, it won't stop there. Eventually it’s going to be used against the labor movement and any Americans who want to stand up for justice. So we were happy to join together with other unions in saying, ‘We are going to resist this.’”

Viewpoint: Why Oligarchs Want a Recession A recession is looming. Trump himself recently affirmed that his economic plans would induce a recession in the near term. He remarked when asked as much by an interviewer, “There is a period of trans...

"Financiers and tech oligarchs closest to the Trump admin build wealth not by producing things or investing in societal infrastructure, but by a mix of speculation, predatory private equity, and corporate welfare from the government," wrote Van Jackson: labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

The Trump tariffs are an opportunity for Global South countries to shift production away from exports to the imperial core and toward meeting human needs and national development objectives.

Exclusive: Salmon from infected pens sold for human consumption Weeks before mass salmon deaths were revealed in Tasmania, the government quietly changed the designation of the bacteria killing the fish – which the industry now admits are being sold from infected ...

This week, Luke Martin, the chief executive of Salmon Tasmania, confirmed that salmon was being harvested for human consumption from infected pens: “Yes, absolutely, and that’s standard.”

- Gabriella Coslovich with a shocking exposé of salmon industry practices in @thesaturdaypaper.com.au ⤵️

I'm with Kelly here: deeply interested in leftism as a political project but have no interest whatsoever in leftism as a subculture. the stakes of leaving this behind are hopefully clearer by the day

Coalition proposes gas export levy!

If Labor match this Australia could receive tens of billions in new revenue

Its time for some brave politics that puts the interests of Australians ahead of foreign gas companies

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

tough to read this one

The only people eating Tasmanian farmed salmon now are the people who don’t know how it’s farmed #auspol

Breaking with the US will be painful for Australia in many ways – but it’s inevitable The first Australian response to Trump was denial, then (unsuccessful) bargaining. Now there’s anger and depression as the tariffs sink in. Eventually must come acceptance

Breaking up is hard to do
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Breaking with the US will be painful for Australia in many ways – but it’s inevitable | John Quiggin The first Australian response to Trump was denial, then (unsuccessful) bargaining. Now there’s anger and depression as the tariffs sink in. Eventually must come acceptance

US is no longer part of Australia's economic and geopolitical future, says @johnquiggin.bsky.social:
"This creates an opportunity to finally engage fully with our region and become, politically and economically as well as geographically, an Asian nation." #auspol
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Act Now to Stop the Next Pandemic: Poultry Sheds are Food for Flu - AFSA An Open Letter to Dr Beth Cookson, the Australian Chief […]

Governments must act now to avoid the next pandemic - intensive poultry sheds are food for flu afsa.org.au/act-now-to-s...