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Rank & file network of Australian trade unionists joining the struggle to Free Palestine
Joined November 2023
Yesterday, the Albanese Govt voted down a motion to resume UNRWA funding. Today, it’s been revealed that they've granted a $917m contract to Elbit, an Israeli weapons company deeply complicit in genocide. 1/2.
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No pride in genocide. From Aboriginal land to Palestine. Art work by Nicky Minus
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A Zim's cargo truck being forced to turn around by a community picket on Saturday in Walyalup / Fremantle Port. No Israeli ships in Australian ports! . Footage from @friendsofpales1
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MUA Sydney Branch Secretary Paul Keating calling on the Albanese Govt to impose sanctions & an arms embargo on the rogue, apartheid state of Israel. They’ve refused, so tonight it’s up to us to sanction Israel. See you at Port Botany 8.30pm. @PalestineRising
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Police arrested Students for Palestine activist Jasmine this morning in Naarm / Melbourne at her home. Jasmine was an organiser of the #DisruptLandForces protests. Unionists for Palestine Vic stands in solidarity with Jasmine & the 90 people now arrested over the DLF protests.
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Another student's house raided & arrested for protesting genocide at the #disruptlandforces weapons expo in Naarm / Melbourne. Over 110 now arrested in wave of state repression aimed squarely at Palestine solidarity & right to protest.@s4palestine_vic .
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Congratulations @JacintaAllanMP, your thugs in blue were so out of control #DisruptLandForces that you even caught the attention of Ammesty!.
Amnesty is calling for any misuse of force to be promptly and impartially investigated. #ProtectTheProtest
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The community picket at Webb Dock in Melbourne has now held strong now for almost 24hrs, stopping workers from loading or unloading Zim ship Ganges. It has held overnight & despite pressure from police. People still needed to keep the picket going! . Footage by @MattH093
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Autonomous activists are now blocking access to Zims ship in Melbourne / Narm. Go to Grimes Reserve in Footscray to join them!.
We will block the docks til Palestine is free. No supply for genocide! .Actionists have blocked access to the Israeli supply vessel ZIM Sparrow in Narrm this morning, with multiple community pickets in place. Join us to activate and escalate direct action to #EndTheOccupation
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University of Sydney support rally. Mass turnout, dwarfing zionist counter rally snubbed to far end of campus. Divest from academic military ties, build the resistance against Australian institutional complicity with the Gazan Genocide
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Message from a member of the @NTEUUniMelb branch encouraging staff & faculty to support the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Melbourne Uni. Divest from Israel & war profiteers now!
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Melbourne University Staff fork a human picket line to protect students in the occupation of Mahmouds Hall. Support needed to defend from police actions if you can get there. Staff & students unite for Gaza and Palestine! 🇵🇸🇵🇸. Footage from @Umelb4Palestine on insta.
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Penny Wong is silent on the horrific ethnic cleansing in Nth Gaza but leaps to the defence of fascist Zionist football hooligans to stage racist provocations internationally.
Violence in all its forms is unacceptable. The Antisemitic attacks on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam overnight are abhorrent. My thoughts are with those affected and their families. We must stand together against antisemitism and hate in all its forms.
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The literal face of state violence in Naarm / Melbourne. This is one of the cops firing rubber bullets at the staunch folk picketing the merchants of death at Land Forces. From Gaza to Gadigal, from Naarm to Nablus - the resistance to colonisation & genocide will continue!
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Should read the protest "turned violent" when the police on behalf of the state, bosses including Zim's smashed a picket trying to intervene to stop the genocide in Gaza.
A pro-Palestinian protest now into its fifth day at the Port of Melbourne turned violent yesterday afternoon, with police deploying pepper spray to control the crowd. A police presence of around 200 officers arrested ten protesters, including nine for trespass and another for
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"Senator Payman’s principled stand on Palestine this week undoubtedly strengthened the labour movement. Any suggestion we are weaker because someone stood up for peace, justice and equality makes no sense” . Zach Smith, National Secretary, CFMEU Construction Division @CFMEU_CG
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The fact that foreign politicians can be flown in on Zionist sponsored trips to whitewash genocide & spread propaganda overseas while Palestinians can’t even get food & medicine in should tell you everything you need to know about this “conflict”. SHAME @DanielAndrewsMP
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Solidarity with these brave individuals taking direct action to disrupt the arms trade with Israel ✊🏾.
Dharawal Country, Wollongong, NSW. Bisalloy Steel has been shut down! The group are calling for the immediate end to all military contracts between Bisalloy and Israel. The action is ongoing #stoparmingisrael #shutitdown4palestine #freepalestine
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Vic ALP spent $10-15 million to violently suppress worker & community opposition to Landforces expo. The Australian ruling class will stop at nothing to protect Companies like Israel's Elbit profiting from the genocide in Gaza!.
Another view of the situation. Bean bag rounds and pepper bullets are being used against protesters.
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For 37 days, @SenatorWong has withheld life saving aid from a desperate, starving population being massacred based on unsubstantiated, self serving allegations from the massacring entity. The EU resumed UNRWA funding days ago. What's Penny waiting for? Permission from the US?.
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Congratulations to Wollongong comrades !. Bisalloy cancels all shifts to hold a “picnic day” - after threatening to force workers to cross today's picket line. The South Coast Labour Council and MUA published this full page ad in the Illawarra Mercury. Awesome solidarity ✊️
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Senator Fatima Payman support statement from state Labor MPs and union leaders . Build union and political pressure on Albanese, Penny Wong and state premiers to break with Israeli genocide.
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Footage from tonight's rally in Naarm / Melbourne when the "Stop Work to Stop the War" protest merged with the UWU refugee rights rally. Justice is union business. Permanent Visa's for Refugees. Sanction Israel now.
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The Sit Intifada crew at Parliament House steps in Melbourne/ Naarm on New Years Eve. No celebration to Liberation
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Since Monday, the Albanese govt has voted to support Israel’s invasion of Gaza, voted against resuming UNRWA funding, awarded an Israeli weapons company a $917m contract & sent more ADF to the Red Sea to fight the Houthis. Every one of these acts shows full support for genocide.
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Its clear our Govt is more interested in accelerating a genocide rather than stopping it, so it’s up to us to disrupt the Israeli war machine. Sign up to our urgent action list to get involved in our next NSW action. 2/2
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The same govt that casually handed.israeli victims $75,000 each is cancelling visas to Palestinians mid flight and leaving the Gazans who do manage to make it here to fend for themselves without access to centrelink & medicare
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Here in Sydney, we are gearing up for another Block the Boat action because, as Christy Cain puts it, peace is union business. Zim shipping, and all businesses complicit in the genocide in Gaza, must be stopped. Get involved- @PalestineRising
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Tomorrow lunchtime, outside Labor HQ, Sussex St, Sydney
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March on Albanese to demand he cut ties with Israel. Australian & western support allows Israel to continue killing in Gaza. Sanctions & an end to Western arms can force Israel to stop. 1pm Saturday August 17th at Sydenham Station & march to his office at 334 Marrickville Rd
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Albo has been referred to the Int. Criminal Court for complicity in genocide. More than 100 lawyers back this move. So do we. Albo & his govt have shown nothing but material, full throated support for Israel, and a few empty words of concern here & there don't change that.
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The moment tonight the "No War - Stop Arming Israel". ANZAC Day Anti-War protest marched to join the student Gaza solidarity encampment at Melbourne University!
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A report from Al jazeera that unlike the Australian press, recognises the #disruptlandforces protest were fueled by fury over our gov's support for the genocide in Gaza & outrage over the companies profiting from this & other crimes against humanity.
Australian police used stun grenades and pepper spray on anti-war protesters who gathered outside an arms convention in Melbourne to demand a weapons embargo on Israel.
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"Albanese you cant hide, your'e supporting genocide". Anti-genocide protestors chanting at the police line protecting the death merchants at the #disruptlandforces protest in Naarm / Melbourne this morning as the picket kicks off.
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Loud Jew Colllective members standing with Hash Tayeh at today's rally in Naarm. No "envoy" & no amount of slanderous charges will break the bond between Anti-zionist Jews & Palestinians fighting for justice!.Free Palestine from the river to the sea
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For over 24 hours 100s have staffed picket at Webb Dock in Melbourne! . Zim's ships Ganges remains unloaded due to lack of workers. Many workers refused to cross picket!. People needed to stop 6pm shift!. Zim's Ships you cant hide -we charge you with genocide!. Film by @MattH093
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40 weeks of consecutive Sunday rallies in Naarm / Melbourne. The rallies have not stopped, the rallies will not stop.
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17 arrested at Port Botany Bay Zim picket last night in Sydney including MUA Branch Secretary Paul Keating (pictured being released from custody). The Australian state stands with Israel's crimes & imperialism! The workers stand with Palestine & all who fight for it!
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The picket line at Webb Dock has blocked 6pm shift!. Riot cops tried to kettle picketers & bus workers in. Workers refused to board the bus & line didnt break! Riot cops retreated! . Get down to dock & keep the Zim's ship Ganges unloaded another night! . Video by @nick_rose96
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A photo journalist at #disruptlandforces lost part of his ear & had his ear drum perforated after being hit by a rubber bullet. The Australian police are following the lead of the genocidal Zionists in placing a target on any Press who tell the truth & stand with Palestine
The man said it felt like he’d been “hit by a car” and that he may suffer permanent hearing loss.
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Trade Unionists for Palestine WA Community Picket against Zim's happening now at Fremantle Port! . Rank & file unionists & community holding the line demanding no Israeli ships in Australian ports! Cut all ties with the genocidal Zionist state!
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Students & workers at Monash Uni not taking a backward step in the face of the attack on the solidarity encampment last night by Zionist thugs. Get down to their encampment on the Lemon Scented Lawns anytime you can with support & supplies!
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Shame on the Australian union officials meeting this week with Histadrut (the Zionist labor federation) official Peter Lerner. The Histadrut suppresses Palestinian workers & Lerner is an IOF genocide denier. Cut all ties with the Apartheid Histadrut! .
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Darwin shows for the Global Day of Action for Palestine!
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Solidarity with Beatrice Tucker, expelled by ANU for standing with Palestine. Last night our Naarm/Melbourne mass meeting voted to back Bea. ✊🏽🇵🇸✊🏽
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Rally outside DFAT Sydney after the murder of Oz aid worker Zomi Frankcom & Israel's rampage at Al-Shifa hospital. Expel Israel's Ambassador !. End arms sales supplying the genocide
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3 hour shutdown of zionist regime Zim shipping at Paticks terminal tonight. Premier Chris Minns may well hate protests and have ordered the police in- but we'll be back for a 4th time, and however long is necessary
MUA Sydney Branch Secretary Paul Keating calling on the Albanese Govt to impose sanctions & an arms embargo on the rogue, apartheid state of Israel. They’ve refused, so tonight it’s up to us to sanction Israel. See you at Port Botany 8.30pm. @PalestineRising
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Today in Naarm / Melbourne: . "Joy as an act of resistance in the rain, hail or shine" #freepalestine.
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We stand with QANTAS cabin crew who are showing solidarity with Palestine. Time to move the Palestine into the workplaces, where we have our greatest strength. The workers united van defeat Israeli Apartheid! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
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MELBOURNE PICKET UPDATE! . Most union workers honoured the picket for the morning shift too! The picket was held for 16 hours overnight disrupting 2 shift changes. Not enough workers crossed to unload Zim Ganges! Costing Zims thousands!. Union & community solidarity at work!
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This morning in Melbourne 15 police raided a house & arrested 2 students for allegedly participating in the Disrupt Land Forces protests. State repression will not stop the fight to free Palestine! Sign the petition & keep protesting! .
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The Palestinian flag flies proudly in Darebin! . Friday 22nd December, Darebin for Palestine held a flag raising rally at Preston Town Hall following the unanimous passing of a strong pro-Palestine motion by Darebin council just days earlier.
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Penny Wong has visited Israel, effectively endorsing their ongoing genocide against Palestinians. Instead of calling for an immediate ceasefire, Wong, dripping with hypocrisy stated :. /1
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Protestor inside the ALP State Conference in Naarm this morning:. "The Australian Labor & the Victorian Labor Party has given us no choice but to bring politics to their door. Long live Gaza. Long Live Rafah"
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Newly weds in Melbourne mark their big day by joining the call to Free Palestine!.
As a man dude it kills me to say this but: adorable. Free free Palestine! Naarm Melbourne rally February 25th.
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Warrane, Sydney, rally numbers up today, driven by revulsion towards this week's bombing and burning of Rafah refugee tents
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At 2pm today, Monash Uni tore down the solidarity camp. This comes after 9 students were banned from camp & threatened with discipline. Students will protest at 1pm Tuesday at northern plaza against Monash's ties to genocide & right to protest on campus.
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A staunch showing today in Naarm / Melbourne. This must be only the beginning of a militant fightback against the ALP's treacherous attack on the CFMEU & organised labour. The workers united will never be defeated!
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Only days before Christmas, thousands again out in Naarm for Palestine, including a staunch rank & file contingent. All the cops, anti-protest laws & slander backing the Zionist genocide cannot stop our struggle for Palestinian liberation!
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We reject and condemn the statements made by @JacintaAllanMP yesterday about our protest. Her claims that our protest was anti-Semitic or homophobic is baseless and offensive to the many Jewish and Queer comrades who joined us
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David Gonzalez, President of the @NTEUUniMelb staff union at Melbourne University, supporting the @Umelb4Palestine Student Gaza Solidarity Encampment's demands & calling on all faculty & union members to get down to show their support in person!
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"As unionists we all have the right to protest, and the use of state power, in support of foreign capital & crimes against humanity, to discourage and prevent us from speaking up is a threat to our democracy”. @CFMEUACT
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Palestine Solidarity rally in Naarm / Melbourne today. Thousands including rank and file unionists out for 62nd week. Police declared the CBD a "designated zone" with draconian anti-protest powers but our movement will defy efforts to criminalise it! .Photos cr: @MattH093
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Solidarity with the dock workers! . Trade Unionists for Palestine strongly condemns the standing down of dock workers at VICT without pay for refusing to work in unsafe conditions & cross our community picket. /1
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Part of the Trade Unionists for Palestine rally at the Victorian ALP State Conference have stormed inside & our occupying!. The genocidal complicity ALP is now being confronted by chants of "Palestine will be free"!
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Well done comrades ✊🏾. Public shaming & embarrassment is just a fraction of what genocide backing politicians deserve
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STATEMENT ON WEBB DOCK PICKET!. For the last four days unionists, activists and community members.maintained a picket at Web Dock Victoria International Terminal at Port Melbourne in direct protest of the lsraeli shipping company Zim, stopping all work on the Zim Ganges. /1
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Hollie a nurse from anmfvic4P at today's rally in Naarm / Melbourne. Healthcare is #notatarget #nurses are #notatarget #midwives are #notatarget
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Greens MP @GabrielledeVie not only attended the #DisruptLandForces protests this week in Naam but dared to tell the truth about the police riot unleashed on anti-genocide protestors by @JacintaAllanMP ALP government.
Groups of peaceful protesters with their hands in the air fired on by Police and hit in the face by rubber bullets
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In the wake of the Rafah tent massacre, protestors shut down the streets of Marrickville in Sydney on Gadigal Land today. They took the message straight to @AlboMP doorstep. End all arms trade with the Israeli terror state!
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The decision by the Albanese Government to withdraw funding from the @UNWRA that provides life saving aid to Palestinians should be condemned by all unions. @unionsaustralia
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Today's protest at Vic Labor Conference was supported by Jewish people of principle appalled by Israel's genocide. The vile slander of anti-semitism by @JacintaAllanMP & others will not divide or slow our movement to liberate Palestine.Photo credit Sermet Kılıç
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The rain didnt stop rank & file ASU members marching for Palestine in Naarm today. Workers are not going to stop until Palestine is free! .@asu4palestine
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We are outraged at the murder of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom by the genocidal state of Israeli. We are even more outraged at the fact that there’s every chance that the weapon which killed her contained Australian made components.
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Webb Dock in Melbourne now!. Tensions are building as the line holds as 6pm shift change arrives. Work on Zim's Ganges ship has been disrupted due to lack of workers since 3pm yesterday. Get down and reinforce the line!. No Zim's Ships! No to Genocide!
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The picket is not just holding the line & Zim's Ganges ship from loading but turning Melbourne's Webb Dock into a #FreePalestine zone! . Get down tonight to reinforce the nightshift & keep the Ganges stranded into Sunday!
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The look when you are on the right side of history- even when not released until the early hours of the morning !. Peaceful but direct action unites, energisies and builds-as Gandhi showed. Chris Minns orders for cops to use force like the desperation of the fading British Empire
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Monash encampment successfully defended from Zionists thugs last night!. The NTEU Monash branch has publicly called for its members to back the Monash student encampment. Workers and students united to Free Free Palestine!
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Picket still holding at Melbourne Docks! . Get down and reinforce some of the comrades who have been there all night!.
Blocking Israeli shipping in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom. Join us at 78 Webb Dock Drv. Follow @FPMelbourne
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Protestors including @Tchrs4PalstnNSW yesterday marched on the US Consulate in Sydney to demand: . • Albanese stop exporting F-35 parts used by Israel.• U.S. bases out- Close Pine Gap spy base.• Arms embargo and sanctions on Israel now.• Stop bombing Gaza- hands off Lebanon
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Determination & bravery is etched onto the faces of those picketing a Zim's ship in Sydney on March 24th. State violence will not hold back the tide of worker & community action to stop the genocide in Gaza . Footage @Aldilati on instagram
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'Albanese you can't hide- you're supporting Genocide". Rally making NOISE during @albo speech at NSW Labor Conference
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48 days since the despicable decision, the government finally restores UNRWA funding . The decision should have never been taken, there was never any evidence to back up Israel’s allegations and each day of suspension likely caused untold harm. SHAME.
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Sydney, get ready to #blocktheboat! . We need big numbers at the ports to send a strong message that ZIM shipping, which is complicit in Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, is not welcome. Actions will be called at short notice. Use the QR code to sign up to the announcement list.
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'Hands off Lebanon'. 'Free, free Palestine'. Week 50, Warrane, Sydney. All out Oct 6th to oppose a year of genocidal slaughter of Gaza, bombings of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and political assassination by the zionist terror state-armed by Albanese, Wong,Biden,Harris and Starmer
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Rank & file healthcare workers at Naarm / Melbourne protest today.
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Is it any wonder that anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racist attacks are out of control when you have openly racist articles like this being published in mainstream media? Dehumanising Palestinians as gorillas, with black hearts, in an attempt to justify the genocide.
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All eyes on Rafah at tonight's snap rally in Naarm tonight.
Children calling for liberation and an end of the genocidal attacks in Rafah, Gaza as people block the intersections of Lonsdale and Swanston St.
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A trilingual message of solidarity from Mparntwe / Alice Springs to Gaza.
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NAARM / MELBOURNE EMERGENCY RALLY SUNDAY 12PM STATE LIBRARY. GAZA IS NOT FOR SALE! PALESTINE WILL PREVAIL!. Oppose Trump's colonialist-capitalist Gaza plan to repeat the worst crimes of imperialism in the 21st century
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Fighting to stop the genocide of Palestine is NOT a crime!.
Big PORT presence has moved in to intimidate the Palestine rally.
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MEAA4Palestine member Declan Furber-Gillick part of Unionists for Palestine contingent at #disruptlandforces in Naarm /Melbourne this morning.
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Shout out to staunch ASU Members from the Foundation of Young Australians (FYA) for their strike today affirming their solidarity for Palestine in response to the organisation not responding to staff demands for Palestinian-solidarity statement. ✊🍉🇵🇸.@asu4palestine
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U4P and @meaa4palestine member Declan Furber Gillick, winner of outstanding new Australian Writer in the Green Room awards, used his acceptance speech to call out state and federal government complicity in genocide. Long live Black Australia and Long live Palestine!
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