Voices for the Valley is a powerful documentary about the “small, but mighty” community of Wollar, NSW, which has spent more than 20 years resisting the relentless damage of coal mining, reports Jim McIlroy.
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More than 100 staff working at the Art Gallery of NSW and their supporters protested NSW Labor’s plan to cut 51 jobs from the gallery workforce. Jim McIlroy reports.
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A resident-driven petition calling on Inner West Mayor Darcy Byrne to not attend a Zionist-supported summit, which purports to be against antisemitism, has attracted close to 800 signatures within a few days of being online. Peter Boyle reports.
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A contingent from the Korean community joined the nationwide march for Palestine, reports Peter Boyle.
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Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, an environmental scientist from Bethlehem University, was a keynote speaker at a forum on the Palestine ecocide. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Unions NSW organised a “Unions for Peace” rally at Town Hall Square on Gadigal Country/Sydney, the first such action it has organised since Israel ramped up its genocide in Gaza in October 2023. Jim McIlroy reports.
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Judith Treanor, on behalf of Jews Against the Occupation ’48, asked at the Palestine Action Group’s rally: how it is possible that 22 months into a livestreamed genocide, the world is still debating whether it is even happening?
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About 300 people attended a vigil organised by the Sydney Druze community in solidarity with the people of Sweida/Suwayda, Syria, at Martin Place on Gadigal Country/Sydney. Peter Boyle reports.
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Several hundred people attended climate organisation Rising Tide’s Action Camp at the Addison Road Community Centre. Jim McIlroy reports.
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The historic Sydney Harbour Bridge protest on Gadigal Country has thrown up new opportunities to grow the movement for Palestine, argues Pip Hinman.
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Up to 300,000 people marched across Sydney’s iconic Harbour Bridge in a historic protest to demand Labor sanction Israel and provide aid to deliberately starved Gazans. Rachel Evans and Olivia Iurincich report.
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Mary Kostakidis told a public meeting, called to support her defence against the Zionist Federation of Australia, that everyone needs to stand up for the truth. Jim McIlroy reports.