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.
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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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Aiman Farihah, central committee member of the Socialist Party of Malaysia’s youth wing, argues for a socialist alternative to capitalism’s inherent violence and brutality.
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The Invasion Day rally will march from Hyde Park to the Yabun Festival and Blak Caucus is calling for a big show of support. Rachel Evans reports.
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Workers and unionists gathered at Station Pier, Port Melbourne, to protest Carnival Cruise’s exploitation of its migrant workforce. Jacob Andrewartha reports.
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United States President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, ostensibly to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza, was always problematic, given US complicity in Israel’s genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip. Binoy Kampmark reports.
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BREAKING NEWS: The Rojava Revolution is under a massive attack from the army of the Western-backed Syrian regime of President Ahmed al-Shaara, allied jihadist militias, mercenary groups funded by the Turkish state and the Turkish armed forces, reports Sarah Glynn.
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Alana Lentin argues that by constituting racism as “hate”, it becomes detached from the policies and practices of a state and presented as a matter of attitudes qualified by individuals’ perceptions. The effect is to punish legitimate criticisms of Israel and Zionism.