Just 24 hours after mass protests and strikes across Minnesota against Immigration and Customs Enforcement attacks, Border Patrol agents shot and killed 37-year-old intensive care nurse Alex Pretti. Malik Miah reports.
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Legal experts addressed a well-attended discussion on the new state and federal anti-free speech laws and how to push back. Richard Boult reports.
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Kurdish communities around the country have responded to the genocidal war against Rojava with multiple protests in several cities. Peter Boyle reports.
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Socialist Alliance opposes Labor’s Combating Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill. Jonathan Strauss argues that those who want the right to oppose genocide, or to defend democratic rights more generally, should reject these laws.
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Three activists partially won a case in the Federal Court against Victoria Police’s extraordinary powers over designated areas in the CBD. Chloe DS reports.
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Former Coalition Prime Minister Scott Morrison was in good company as one of various politicians of the right (and far right) hue invited by Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli. Binoy Kampmark 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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On The Streets is a new podcast by Green Left, giving you bite-sized updates about the protest movements and grassroots campaigns across the country.
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Noongar Elder Uncle Hedley Hayward told the Invasion Day protest that it is a Day of Mourning, also because of ongoing settler-colonialism.
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Merri-bek City Council held its annual Day of Mourning Ceremony at Coburg Town Hall on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples. Darren Saffin 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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Natalia Figueroa Barroso writes that no dictatorship forms overnight. It happens through laws that restrict public assembly, criminalise dissent, expand police powers and reframe political opposition as a threat to public order.