Watch the highlights from the Green Left forum on ‘Resisting genocide and police repression — Why is Labor criminalising freedom of speech?’.
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Protesters took action inside defence minister Richard Marles’ electoral office and near Thai Air counters in Gadigal and Naarm to demand that Labor stop approving bomb door actuators parts for Israel’s F-35 fighter jets. Kerry Smith reports.
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At least 49 protests were organised across the world and in seven locations across Australia to say no to the US-led drive to militarism and war. Kerry Smith reports.
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Rallies were held in major cities calling for the release of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, who has been imprisoned in Turkey for the past 27 years. Kerry Smith reports.
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Isaac Nellist, from Socialist Alliance NSW, said Premier Chris Minns’ efforts to criminalise protests will not stop people from exercising their conscience, including protesting a war criminal from Israel. Kerry Smith reports.
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Green Left has launched a new weekly podcast, On the Streets, to provide listeners with protest news and information, including upcoming rallies and short reports on recent actions. Kerry Smith reports.
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First Nations leaders and human rights groups are demanding that a bomb designed, the Western Australia Police say, to “explode on impact”, be investigated in the same way that hate crimes against other groups are. Kerry Smith reports.
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This year's Invasion Day protests, including many young people, were very large. The turnout represents a huge defeat for the racist, pro-genocide offensive by state and federal governments, and the far right.
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Ahead of the Day of Mourning, January 26, three First Nations Noongar elders are demanding federal and state governments implement all the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Kerry Smith reports.
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Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv constitutes “a direct and deliberate threat not only to Ukraine but also to European countries”, says the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine, which has launched an international solidarity appeal. Kerry Smith reports.
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Eleven groups, nine of them Jewish, urge the governor-general and prime minister to rescind the invitation to Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Kerry Smith reports.
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Supporters of democracy and international law joined Hands off Venezuela! protests across Australia.