Notices by farmer aby (aby@aus.social)

The comments that got him fired:

“We will not be intimidated, especially when we are trying to stop a genocide,” he told the house.

“Any time police officers resort to the use of force against non-violent protesters, they violate these principles and undermine the consent and respect necessary for the police to do their job.”

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/16/nsw-premier-chris-minss-sacks-labor-mp-anthony-dadam-karen-webb-police-pro-palestine-protest?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#AusPol #Australia #NSW #NSWPol #NSWPolice #Palestine #FreePalestine #FuckColonisation

A friend helped set up this project in Gaza to buy and set up solar panels (already in Gaza, not being used) to help young Palestinian Writers. For each $1k comes in they can buy equipment to transfer to a household.

Please support and share.

#Gaza #GazaGenocide #Israel #Palestine #FromTheRiverToTheSea #PleaseShare #PleaseHelp #MutualAid #IndigenousMutualAid

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Since October, Israel's ongoing bombardment of Gaza has destroyed over 50% of all infrastructure, rooftop solar and power stations. Fuel supplies have been cut and residents lack consistent access to food, water or electricity.

Families must walk long distances and wait in line, often for hours, for limited supplies of food and water or to charge a mobile phone (typically their only source of light at night, as well as connection to the outside world).

But a group of young Palestinian writers are fiercely determined to get their stories about Israel's genocide out to the world and are working to Repower Gaza, one light at a time.

We Are Not Numbers (WANN) has located the equipment and technicians inside Gaza necessary to produce a limited amount of solar power kits, enough to immediately restore power to the team of storytellers and their extended families (an estimated 50 households and around 1,000 people). Each kit will generate enough power to light five rooms and power up to 20 mobile phones daily. If more resources become available later, WANN will extend the effort to their broader communities. It will cost US$40,000 to purchase and install the kits.

Donate now and help provide light to Gaza.

The mission of We Are Not Numbers is to train and support a new generation of Palestinian writers, and share their powerful narratives and bring wider understanding to the Palestinian liberation cause.

Please support Repower Gaza and share this grassroots effort to give light, hope and voice to Palestinians resisting genocide with your network.
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This project is an initiative of We Are Not Numbers, supported by the Middle East Children's Alliance, a registered US nonprofit organization. All funds raised will go directly to the purchase of solar kit componentry inside Gaza, to be deployed by trained solar technicians.

https://secure.everyaction.com/nqnFvmWo40K_m3nSTlqCmg2?fbclid=IwAR3qS-jmxzjXrF9kb8xrCgbcburfHD5wfHB8rfrBP8QXoZyKptEXudEmG8A

#USA #USPol #America #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation

@aral - you might like to read Necropolitics by Achilles Mbembe.

Holy.
Shit.

Bassem Youssef taking Piers Morgan to task is just.. I have no words.

It's here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4idQbwsvtUo

I don't know what the cc are like - the video has auto-generate captions - and I don't have the ability to transcribe a 30 mins video, sorry.

Look at this chicken.
🐓

It's giant. It's bigger than a car!
🐓🚗

It's getting bigger!
🐓🏡

The horror. The horror.
🐓🗼

god help us all..
🐓🌏

#anarchism #activism

#queer #trans #anarchism #pride #activism #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Decolonise #racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness

I'm a disabled Indigenous queer person who exists on Jobseeker, which means almost 50% ($269/week) below the poverty line ($489/week).

After living in the same house for almost 10 years, I recently had to move as the new landlords decided to renovate so they could increase the rent.

Moving has cost me over $4000, and ended up putting me almost $2500 in debt.

Because of moving, my JobSeeker payments have been decreased by over $100 a fortnight until Centrelink approves my lease paperwork and I can get rent assistance again.

I'm in a new house with a new landlord, and am barely able to make rent at the moment, let alone cover bills and food.

I hate asking, but please consider helping if you can - I'd be super grateful.

https://www.paypal.me/kittensmeow

https://ko-fi.com/abydarling

#MutualAid #Indigenous #Aboriginal #IndigenousMutualAid #queer #trans #autism #audhd #disability #JobSeeker #PleaseShare #Help #PleaseHelp #SettlerSaturday

#racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy

#queer #trans #anarchism #pride #activism

#queer #trans #anarchism #pride #activism

I don’t care if a TERF is a lesbian she doesn’t belong at pride 🤷🏻♂️

#pride #queer #trans #agender #FuckTERFs

I just dreamt that I was one in a group of people being thrown off a cliff into a quarry as a sacrifice, but I was pushed off earlier because the person could see I was trying to stay calm and not panic (I think he did it to be nice?) and that meant the part of the quarry I was pushed into was water (but far enough down that I was probably going to die on impact).

I remember falling and knowing it was going to be overwhelming pain when I hit the water, and I remember deciding to be calm and deciding to think about Greg and say "I love you so much, baby".

Yeah, I'm going to have to go over this in therapy.

#dream
#therapy
#analysis
#relationships
#MentaIillness

“I confront [white guilt] every year, about a month into my course on racism, among [white] students who come to me in tears because they cannot deal with the racism that goes on in their families or their home towns or their student residences. Their tears are the result of genuine anguish, care, and a desire to learn and to change. I confront similar attitudes among my colleagues, and I am similarly gratified by their concern. But those who experience white guilt need to learn three things:

1) People of colour are generally not moved by their tears, and may even see those tears as a self-indulgent expression of white privilege. It is after all a great privilege to be able to express one’s emotion openly and to be confident that one is in a cultural context where one’s feelings will be understood.

2) Guilt is paralysing. It serves no purposes; it does no good. It is not a substitute for activism.

3) White guilt is often patronizing if it leads to pity for those of colour. Pity gets in the way of sincere and meaningful human relationships, and it forestalls the frankness that meaningful relationships demand. White guilt will not change the racialized environment; it will only make the guilty feel better.”

— “Women of Colour in Canadian Academia,” Audrey Kobayashi

Expanding on my #bio and #introduction, today's episode:

I am a #Kamileroi person, living on #Wiradjuri Country.

I'm #Indigenous, my paternal grandmother and her mother were part of the Stolen Generations. We've tried tracing our family history back further on that side, and can't find anything earlier so we don't know where my great-nanna was taken from.

I have white skin, and with along with that comes a lot of privilege and social capital. This doesn't negate my Indigeneity, but in a country that is founded on white supremacy and imperialism the safety that my skin colour affords me is undeniable.

Growing up I saw how much trouble my cousins and friends got in to solely on the grounds of assumptions made because of how they looked, and I experienced how little trouble I got in to in spite of my behaviours.

It hurts me when my Indigeneity is questioned, but that doesn't mean my white skinned-ness causes oppression - it's anti-Indigeneity that causes it, and Black Indigenous people get hit a lot harder than I do. White and white skinned people benefit from white supremacy.. even those of us who are Indigenous. It's our duty to unpack that and abolish whiteness.

Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land - sovereignty never ceded.

(if you want to read more about the abolition of whiteness and ending white supremacy, a good quick outline is Dr Barnor Hesse's work "The 8 White Identities")