On this episode of On The Streets, we discuss protests for trans rights, justice for TJ Hickey and Palestine solidarity.
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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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Thousands of people protested the Queensland government’s threats to ban Palestine freedom slogans over six protests in one week. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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When the masses chanted “Arrest Herzog”, they were not calling for vengeance but accountability, writes Shamikh Badra.
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Israel’s President Herzog has departed leaving less “social cohesion”, while politicians, justices and NSW Police have many questions to answer, writes Wendy Bacon.
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A protest outside deputy prime minister and defence minister Richard Marles’ electorate office demanded he end the two-way arms trade with Israel. Tim Gooden reports.
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Socialist Alliance has decided to run in all four of Djilang/Geelong’s lower house seats in the Victorian elections. Sue Bull reports.
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The police violence at the protest against the visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog reflects a deeper political failure of the system, argues Stuart Rees.
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Judith Treanor writes that had authorities facilitated a peaceful march, the huge protest against Isaac Herzog on Gadigal Country/Sydney would have concluded without incident, as it did in more than 30 other places across the country that night.
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Since the United States military assault on Venezuela, there have been rapid changes in the country, most importantly the reform of Venezuela’s oil law. In the second of our two-part interview, Federico Fuentes speaks to author and sociologist Malfred Gerig about the reform, the likelihood of resistance and solidarity with the Venezuelan people.
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In the first of our two-part interview, Federico Fuentes spoke to Malfred Gerig, a sociologist and author from the Central University of Venezuela, to discuss how the US government’s military assault on Venezuela was able to occur, US aims in Venezuela and the region and the role of Venezuela’s right-wing opposition.
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Pip Hinman argues that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s invitation to Israeli President Isaac Herzog to visit Australia has underscored the deep ties between Labor and the genocidal state of Israel.