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The over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia's criminal justice system is a key driver of Indigenous deaths in custody. That was one of the central findings of the 1991 inquiry - and it has worsened with time. Today Indigenous people comprise 33% of Australia's prisoners, though they are just 3.8% of the national population. Socio-economic disadvantage and "over-policing" are central to the disparity, numerous investigations have heard. "There's a legacy of colonisation in Australia where First Nations people have always been disproportionately segregated and controlled," says Thalia Anthony, a law professor at the University of Technology Sydney. She and others argue this has injected racist stereotypes into policing, leading to Indigenous Australians being treated as "deviant, drug addicted, or alcoholics" and paid undue attention.

Hannah Ritchie, ‘Indigenous deaths in custody haunt Australia’, BBC

#Hannah Ritchie #BBC #colonisation #Australia #racism #Thalia Anthony #Indigenous Australians #discrimination #Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people #criminal justice system #deaths in custody #police brutality

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Running away from school! It is not to be recommended to everyone. Parents and teachers would disapprove. Or would they, deep down in their hearts? Everyone has wanted to run away, at some time in his life: if not from a bad school or an unhappy home, then from something equally unpleasant. Running away seems to be in the best of traditions. Huck Finn did it. So did Master Copperfield and Oliver Twist. So did Kim. Various enterprising young men have run away to sea. Most great men have run away from school at some stage in their lives; and if they haven't, then perhaps it is something they should have done.

Ruskin Bond, ‘Running Away’

#Running Away #Ruskin Bond #truancy

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Despite Israel deliberately causing a famine, in which over a million people face starvation, and despite killing tens of thousands of people, this government has chosen to prioritise the profits of arms dealers over Palestinian lives. Every day people are taking action against arms companies profiting from the genocide Israel is committing. This has to continue. Every single company that supplies weapons or military must be held to account. Our government has failed us, and it has failed the Palestinian people, and it has failed its own citizens. It is down to us to take action.

Emily Apple, spokesperson, CAAT

#Emily Apple #Israel #Palestine #genocide #famine #UK government

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Since 2015, the UK has licensed £487 million ($617 million) worth of weapons to Israel. However, this does not include equipment exported via open licences. In particular, 15 per cent of the value of every US-made F-35 combat aircraft, which Israel uses to bomb Gaza, is made in the UK, exports for which are covered by an open licence with no limit on the quantity or value of exports. CAAT estimates conservatively that the work on the 36 F-35s exported to Israel up to 2023 has been worth at least £368 million ($466 million) to the UK arms industry.

Sandi, ‘UK is ‘complicit’ in Israel's killing of British aid workers in Gaza, says CAAT’, Middle East Monitor

#Middle East Monitor #Sandi #CAAT #UK #Israel #Palestine #genocide #F-35 #Gaza

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This government is complicit in the murder of UK aid workers in Gaza. It has had every opportunity to impose an arms embargo and has refused to do so. Not only is our government complicit in genocide, but it also knows that it is. Time and again Foreign Secretary David Cameron and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) ministers have refused to answer direct questions on the legal advice they’ve received. They have misled parliament and made a mockery of both our democracy and international law.

Emily Apple, spokesperson, CAAT

#Emily Apple #CAAT #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #genocide #UK #murder #David Cameron

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The UK government and arms industry are both complicit in Israel’s killing of seven aid workers in Gaza, including three British citizens, the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), has alleged. The workers were killed by a strike from a Hermes 450 drone manufactured by Israeli-owned company Elbit Systems. The drone is powered by a UK-made R902(W) Wankel engine, produced by Elbit subsidiary UAV Engines Limited in the UK.

Sandi, ‘UK is ‘complicit’ in Israel's killing of British aid workers in Gaza, says CAAT’, Middle East Monitor

#Middle East Monitor #Israel #Palestine #genocide #UK #Campaign Against Arms Trade #CAAT #Hermes 450 #Elbit Systems #R902(W) Wankel #UAV Engines Limited #Sandi

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“Trapped in a ghetto region like a Palestinian kid, Where nobody gives a fuck whether you die or you live…”

Immortal Technique, ‘The 4th Branch’

#Immortal Technique #The 4th Branch #Palestine #child rights #Israel

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In terms of where the buck goes, not stops, the IPL is more foreign than Indian. Currently the 10 franchises' total salary bill for 2024 adds up to USD 88,100,177, at Friday's exchange rate. Of that, USD 55,094,562 - 62.54%, almost two-thirds - has been spent on players from other countries. And that despite the 78 foreigners comprising just 31.97% of the 244 who make up all 10 squads. You might say the combined talent and skill of the outsiders is worth more than twice their weight in dollars. Let no-one say the IPL is only about India or Indians.

Telford Vice, ‘The IPL does strange things to people’, Cricbuzz

#Cricbuzz #India #IPL #cricket

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The professions that have suffered most in Cuba are those that, in their attempt to adapt to the whims of the government, have had their noble intentions brutally castrated, and arbitrarily reversed. Of these, there is no crime greater than the one committed against journalism - the medical equivalent would have been to tell doctors to allow patients to die, or to call cancer the common cold.

Carlos Manuel Alvarez, ‘The Tribe’

#The Tribe #Carlos Manuel Alvarez #Cuba #journalism #government control #mass media

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Honestly, I don't know whether the schools will reopen or not under this government which doesn't have a bit of thought or understanding for girls. They count the girls as nothing.

Tamana, who is among the 330,000 Afghan girls UNICEF estimates should have started secondary school this March

#Afghanistan #Taliban #female literacy #misogyny #patriarchy #Islamic extremism

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Naya, not her real name, is just 11 but is no longer attending school in her home province of Kandahar. Her father says the government has "abandoned" her because she looks older than she is. "She is larger than average, and that was the reason the government told us she couldn't go to school. She must wear the veil (hijab) and stay at home." He doesn't hold out much hope for the rules changing under the current regime, but was keen to stress one point: the idea the people of Afghanistan backed the Taliban's ban was an "absolute lie". "It is absolutely an accusation on Afghans and Pashtuns that they don't want daughter's education, but the issue is vice-versa," he said. "Specially in Kandahar and other Pashtun provinces (where Pashtun people live), a lot people are ready to send their daughters to schools and universities to get education."

'Afghanistan: Teen girls despair as Taliban school ban continues', BBC

#Afghanistan #BBC #Pashtuns #Afghans #female literacy #Taliban #Kandahar

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'Everything in life has a name. If you like men, you're a faggot. If you like women, you're a lesbian. If your husband dies, you're a widow. If your mother dies, you're an orphan. But if your son dies, what do you call it? There's no word for it, nothing. It has no name.'

Carlos Manuel Alvarez, ‘The Tribe’

#The Tribe #Carlos Manuel Alvarez

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Poetry gets mixed in with stories, with novels, with everything. Poetry is something that happens in bursts, it's like love. You have to write what you are feeling. This is your only chance; you don't get a second turn at life. That's the secret. It doesn't matter if no one else sees it. A creator risks his death, others risk their lives. Poets who seem transcendent today will be forgotten by tomorrow. It happens to every writer. Poetry is the mystery, the gift that has the words to beguile. But it is not a safe place. Today, people blow you kisses, they embrace you, but tomorrow… There is so much poetry out there. That's why you have to take the risk. A poet doesn't write for the present, for me, for you, for anyone. You are writing for your contemporaries, by which I mean for the future. For truth. If it turns out well, so be it. If it doesn't, it doesn't. Never lie. Never ever lie. The hand of the liar withers, says Alcides.

Carlos Manuel Alvarez, ‘The Tribe’

#The Tribe #Carlos Manuel Alvarez #poetry #Rafael Alcides

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In 2007 Apple launched its first iPhone and soon afterwards, smartphones — including the Nokia and the Blackberry — began to sweep the world. By 2013, smartphones were outselling traditional phones. Since then, one of the criticisms levelled at the technology is the distraction embedded in its design, and its command over our attention. Arguably, it's not technology conducive to boredom. But Trevor Mazzuccelli, associate professor of clinical psychology at Curtin University, says boredom is a useful "skill"; one that helps us to reflect on our actions and our surroundings. And it's not just adults who stand to benefit. Dr Mazzuccelli explains that boredom helps children develop important skills, including: The ability to tolerate less-than-ideal experiences, and to manage frustration and regulate emotions; creative thinking; problem solving, planning, and organisation; and independence and self-sufficiency.

‘Rosa Ellen ditched her smartphone for a dumb phone — and she isn't looking back’, ABC

#ABC #Rosa Ellen #Apple #iPhone #Trevor Mazzuccelli #Blackberry #Nokia

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In the first weeks of being smartphone-less, Rosa read. A lot. Sometimes (in the holidays, at least) she'd read a book a day. "I was just sort of voracious," she says. "Then I felt a bit bored." She realised her mental appetite had previously been sated with the smartphone by "dipping in and out of a whole lot of little things that didn't take much commitment". "Whereas I've learned that I can commit to one thing. And sometimes that requires being bored." In that boredom, she's experienced something wonderful. "I've been returning to some hobbies, like drawing," she says. But that's not the biggest plus. Rosa says she's lost the "constant temptation" and "physical itch" to pick up her phone, and with that, she says, "my focus returned".

‘Rosa Ellen ditched her smartphone for a dumb phone — and she isn't looking back’, ABC

#ABC #Rosa Ellen #smartphone

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We support Palestine becoming a formal member of the United Nations. The catastrophe in Gaza once again reminded the world that the fact that the Palestinian territories have been occupied for a long time can no longer be ignored. It is a tragedy for humankind and a disgrace for civilization that today, in the 21st century, this humanitarian disaster cannot be stopped. The international community must act urgently, making an immediate ceasefire and the cessation of hostilities an overriding priority, and ensuring humanitarian relief an urgent moral responsibility. The long-cherished wish of the Palestinian people to establish an independent country can no longer be evaded, and the historical injustice suffered by the Palestinian people cannot continue for generations without being corrected.

Wang Yi, Chinese Foreign Minister

#Wang Yi #China #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #United Nations

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If someone beats me, pinches me, scolds me, I hurt. I feel hungry, I have to eat, I have to cover my shame with clothes. I too need to be with my loved ones. I want their affection. I want to experience pleasure. I long for respect. I want to live a life of dignity. I want to go to work as many women do. But who gives people like me love? Or respect? Who offers us clothes to hide our shame? When I am hungry who feeds me? If I want all of this, what am I to do? Did I come with a mission at birth, wanting to be a pottai? Did my parents imagine I would be one, when I was born? I did not imagine that I would walk endlessly on several roads, begging, doing sex work. Who is responsible for what has happened to me? Did I take to this profession, because I wanted to? I did not choose this profession on my own. I wanted to live with a man. I did not get all that I needed for my everyday life. Men use me only for sex, they are unconcerned about all else. I do not desire to do sex work, but I had come to accept it as my destiny.

A Revathi, ‘The Truth about Me’

#The Truth about Me #A Revathi #India #LGBTQ