Palestine

This is explosive and comes from a Tory Baroness.

Have a listen.

last night during a teach-in on palestine a very cool colleague of mine said to me that israel rhetorically uses the jewish people as human shields to hide behind. by claiming it exists for the safety of jewish people, israel can commit atrocities in the name of jewish safety and

Edward Said (suffering from a fatal cancer) throwing a stone in a symbolic gesture at the Lebanese-Israeli border in July 2000. We spoke a week later after the brouhaha that follow: 'The liberal Zionists are slandering me.' My response: 'Fuck them. Don't be put on the defensive.'

'It's coming home, but more importantly... free Palestine!'

Housing activism archive... my mum designed this poster in the early 1990s. It's a collage of her photographs that capture the rapid gentrification of our community.

Trump did not bring fascism; it brought him. Fascism is capitalism's harsh, savage response to the divisive social crises it imposes on society (depressions, extreme racial and economic inequalities, etc.). 1/2

Huge win for RAHU members!
Two successful results against evictions and debt

Last Friday, the Renters and Housing Union was able to successfully defend our members against eviction and $10,000 of rental debt.

But the best part? It happened twice in one day. /1

What is the charge? A close personal relationship with a disgraced former MP? A succulent five-year relationship?

The skies are again filled with smoke on 9-11. If only we took climate change as seriously as we took terrorism 20 years ago, we would've at least waterboarded a few oil executives by now.

thinking about how hard this fit would go

What’s considered trashy if you're poor, but classy if you're rich?

Thread on one case from our The Washington Post video investigation wapo.st/protests-polic…

1/ This is 21-year-old Balin Brake of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Brake lost his right eye when he was shot in the face with a police gas canister at a protest in downtown Fort Wayne on May 30.

Did COVID leave you without a job, doing uni online, and in challenging rental arrangements? Join #LocalandVocal to meet with your MP, share your experience of COVID-19 and influence the post pandemic solutions. fya.org.au/local-and-voca…

AirBnB built nothing. They figured out how to steal rental housing stock & make it into hotels, priced ppl who work in cities from being able to rent in them, and forced longer commutes & higher rents onto poor ppl. Spare us.

'We argue the Australian government has shown little commitment to addressing long-term, structural housing issues' during #COVID19 - Very timely research on the rental crisis by Sophia Maalsen Dallas Rogers and no home left behind

Yet with a steady beat,
have not our weary feet,
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed

I’m writing about street fights with police in 1930s Australia by people resisting eviction, and here’s the thing: this resistance could not have occurred without networks of primarily women organising logistical support, safe places to stay for kids, etc