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I want to talk about the nsw gay cop who murdered a gay couple and disposed of their bodies on a rural property. The police as an institute breeds abusers.

The news went from saying the perpetrator and one of the victims had dated, only for it to be revealed they had hooked up once and the cop proceeded to stalk and intimidate the couple before eventually killing them.

He used his service weapon to do so. One which had been checked out for use for paid patrol at protests, aka intimidating peace protestors.

He used his position of authority to get a weapon he then proceeded to use to kill a couple and then dump their bodies 2 hours outside city limits. I refuse to even type the killers name but his victims deserve to be heard.

May Jesse Baird and Luke Davies rest in peace, forever in each other's arms.

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a lot of you are not doing a good job of combatting your human urge for narrative— tragic or otherwise— when it comes to the events surrounding palestine. as such, you are consuming the martyrdoms, the assaults, the deaths, as content, even as you attempt activism.

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I was trying to also find a source on Israel purposefully flooding the Palestinian marker with Israeli watermelons (they do this with all crops) and although I didn't find much I did find this:

"Sansour relayed to me a story she has told many others: how, after a long search, she found seeds of a rainfed ba‘ali watermelon [jadu’i] remembered by many, which had been displaced by larger Israeli monocropped, watery watermelon. This generic dark green watermelon, quick to spoil, lacked the distinctive stripes of the jadu’i and its famous taste: Muhammad Saleh cracked a joke about it being so delicious that he loved it more than his wife. Sansour looked all over the West Bank for the seeds and finally found them in the possession of a farmer in Beit Jala; the farmer had kept some seeds, not in a vault, but in a drawer in his shed along with his tools. Her goal to distribute 3000 seedlings to interested farmers was achieved in May 2018. This particular example of a beautiful, delicious watermelon has become emblematic of the wider process itself: Sansour tries to distribute the seeds and seedlings to all parts of Palestine. One of the distinctive elements of this seed sharing is the commitment to trying to overcome the fragmentation of different parts of Palestine by the checkpoint/permit regime (for discussions of permits, see Berda, 2018, Tawil-Souri, 2011, 2016; on checkpoints, see Hammami, 2010, 2015, 2019). While it is easy enough to dismiss the connection to foodie narratives as itself part of capitalist agro-eco wash, agro-activists like Fareed Taamallah, see it as a legitimate way of critiquing the Palestinian Authority as well as the occupying forces. He posted on Facebook (May 26, 2019) a complaint that the Palestinian Authority was unable to protect the Palestinian watermelon farmers when the market was flooded with Israeli-produced generic watermelon."

Meneley, A. (2021). Hope in the ruins: Seeds, plants, and possibilities of regeneration. Nature & Space, 4(1), pp. 158 - 172.

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#polls #Romeo & Juliet. Taming of the Shrew. Macbeth. (for English classes across Yrs 10 11 and 12) #and for some reason we read A Midsummer Night's Dream for Drama one year but idt we Performed it or even did any assignments so wtf #and then i did Othello my first semester at uni

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My girlfriend’s kufiya from Hirbawi just came in and it’s gorgeous 🤍 Hirbawi is the last kufiya factory left in Palestine and I believe they are currently taking preorders if you want to support a Palestinian business and show your love and support of Palestine! 🇵🇸

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Babes, we gotta take it back. We have to bring back that OG man-hating, bra-burning, free women from the kitchens feminism, because this choice shit has brought us nothing but disaster and nonsense.

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Palestinian wedding at a tent in Rafah on January 18, 2024. Their names are Shahad (bride) and Mohammed al-Ghandour (groom). Photos taken by Mohammad Salem of Reuters.

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what do you people not understand about the fact that feeling guilty is not praxis and is, in fact, completely and totally useless

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[Wet’suwet’en land defenders are heading to the colonial courts for multiple trials starting this summer for civil and criminal cases — both in defence of our right to protect our territory from the unlawful trespass and property damage caused by TC Energy’s project Coastal GasLink, and to pursue a civil suit against the RCMP, Coastal GasLink, and Forsythe Security for waging a daily campaign of intimidation and harassment against Wet’suwet’en people and supporters.

The same colonial judiciary that recognized Wet’suwet’en sovereignty in 1997 is now attempting to criminalise land defenders rightfully protecting our sovereign land and water from an illegal fracked gas pipeline. Help support Gidimt’en Checkpoint land defenders in the colonial court of so-called British Columbia — chip in to the legal fund now to help Wet’suwet’en people continue to stand up for our rights and authority over our own territory and keep us out of jail!

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Criminal Proceedings:

Alleged criminal contempt charges (breach of the injunction) - 8 people facing these charges, each will have to go to trial

Abuse of process trial, will commence with criminal trials

Upcoming court for arrests (alleged obstruction) in August 2022 and March 2023

Civil Proceedings:

Harassment, intimidation and collusion against the RCMP/Department of Justice, CGL and Forsythe Security

In 2020, and 2021 people across the Turtle Island blocked railways and shut down Canada in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en people resisting the construction of the Coastal GasLink fracked gas pipeline that never received Free, Prior and Informed Consent of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs.

The global media attention and outrage that followed galvanized widespread support for the Wet’suwet’en, from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to celebrities in Los Angeles issuing statements in solidarity.

The backlash forced the governments of BC and Canada to sign what was hailed as a “landmark” agreement to formally recognize the rights and title of Wet’suwet’en people. They set a timeline of 12 months to complete this work. But the governments of so-called British Columbia and Canada have not followed through on their commitments with Wet’suwet’en leaders to this date, more than three years later.

The UN has issued two additional rebukes to these colonial governments, not only for their failure to consult, but for the use of force and violence on Wet’suwet’en peoples by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the special “Community-Industry Response Group” (now rebranded to the Community Response Unit after intense backlash).

Now, Wet’suwet’en land defenders are being charged as criminals for defending our land and water within their rights as a sovereign nation, as recognized by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2007. On top of this, Wet’suwet’en people continue to suffer police intimidation, harassment, and surveillance. Despite the civil suit against the RCMP, CRU (previously CIRG) and security company Forsythe for colluding to harass Wet’suwet’en people and supporters, police are still using intimidation tactics including nonstop surveillance of camp, going to Sleydo’’s house and peering in the windows, pulling vehicles over and disrupting daily activities like collecting drinking water and firewood.

"The fact that Canada has a special task force — C-IRG — to assure industry free access to our lands and to criminalize us for exercising our rights to our thousands of year old governance system indicates to the world that Canada and B.C. maintain an abusive relationship toward Indigenous people," said Sleydo' (Molly Wickham), spokesperson for Gidim'ten Checkpoint of the Wet'suwet'en.

“The Wet’suwet’en people, under the governance of their Hereditary Chiefs, are standing in the way of the largest fracking project in Canadian history. Our medicines, our berries, our food, the animals, our water, our culture, our homes are all here since time immemorial. We will never abandon our children to live in a world with no clean water. We uphold our ancestral responsibilities. There will be no pipelines on Wet'suwet'en territory.”

Stand in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en people as we head to the colonial courts starting this summer to assert our sovereign right to protect our lands under the governance of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, and to hold the colonial state-sanctioned police accountable for tactics of intimidation and harassment. Donate to the Wet’suwet’en legal fund now.]

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any indian person celebrating on 22 january is a hindu nationalist without exception.

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This global strike is for 1 week. It starts on January 21st and goes until January 28th. These folks on X have complied information for people to read about. This is the LEAST we can do. The bare minimum. Unless it is for necessity or you have to work of course -please participate.

As always, free Palestine!

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION:

I don't know who they are [the people buried]. Every time I pass by here, I stop and say hello. We found them weeks ago lying and covered in their own blood in the middle of the road, two young men in the flower of their youth seemed as if they are sleeping. We buried them in the eastern region of Al Saraya.

I am sorry to all the unidentified martyrs. I am sorry to every martyr we did not bury till now. I am sorry to all the martyrs we couldn't register the names of or save their pictures. I am sorry to every martyr who offered his soul for the land [Gaza/Palestine] and wasn't given his own grave to rest in. I am sorry to my friend Refaat @/itranslate123 who has been under the rubble for 40 days and still is. I am sorry once to the martyrs we know, and a thousand times for those we don't.

END OF TRANSLATION

The idea of having a loved one killed and buried without my knowledge is terrifying. However, it is the reality of many Palestinians who bury unidentified martyrs, and the Palestinians who cannot find their family members and do not know whether they're still alive or not. We must keep talking about Palestine, and we just keep exposing the crimes of the Israeli occupation!

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At this point I don't even know what more anyone would want as proof that Israel is the fucking vile terrorist state that it is. You see them kidnapping people in Gaza and the West Bank, snipe and murder Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, displace Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, besiege hospitals and destroy them in Gaza and the West Bank, kill children in Gaza and the West Bank.... and still claim this is about poor Israel fighting ~khamas~ because they know there are still fools out there that would actually believe this disproportionate and outrageous violence is justified not because it makes any sense but because it is being inflicted against Palestinians. Simple.

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motaz saying in his video (x) that he can no longer share aerial footage of the destruction because Israel killed his friend who operated the drone camera—because they killed all of the journalists who had drones and stole their drones—is so utterly gut wrenching.

he's tired. he looks exhausted. but still he talks about rebuilding when the war ends, even if it will take years to recover from the devastation. what I'm trying to say is that we cannot lose hope for an end to this destruction

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i think a LOT of you with chronic conditions should learn this one magical phrase to get your hospital doctor to shit his entire pants, which is leaving the room and saying "im going to go discuss your behavior with the ethics committee, i think you might need a reminder of what your job is"

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Israel has bombed—and completely demolished—the Great Omari Mosque in Gaza, which is the second oldest mosque in Palestine. There was no purpose to bombing it. There was no advantage to targeting it. Israel simply destroyed it to make a statement: that Palestinian religion and culture not only mean nothing to them, but are something they’re actively working on wiping out. This was one of Palestine’s most sacred cultural sites. Now it’ll forever serve as proof of the horrifying death and destruction the world has allowed to befall Palestine.