The public gallery at Bayside Council was packed with supporters of a Gaza ceasefire motion, motivated by Greens councillor Greta Werner and seconded by independent Michael Nagi. Suelin McCauley reports.
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Police have escalated their surveillance, intimidation and criminalisation of Palestine solidarity activists in Canada, raiding activists’ homes and treating expressions of solidarity with Palestinians as “hate crimes”, reports Jeff Shantz.
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Why has Australia acted in lock step with the United States in supporting Israel’s latest genocidal war on Gaza? Peter Boyle argues it's about more than oil; imperial interests include the protection of wider political domination.
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Green Left's Isaac Nellist spoke to students at the Gadi/Sydney School Strike for Palestine about why it is important to protest against Gaza genocide.
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Journalists are pushing back at management censoring coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza. Pip Hinman reports.
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Residents across Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains continue to express their solidarity with Palestine, despite the temporary truce in Israel’s war on Gaza. Zebedee Parkes and Fred Fuentes report.
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Choo Chon Kai, from the Socialist Party of Malaysia, talks to Green Left’s Federico Fuentes about rising United States-China tensions and the struggle for peace in Southeast Asia.
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A community-led blockade is underway at Pine Gap, a joint US and Australian defence intelligence facility near Alice Springs, to protest the US and Australia's role in supporting genocide in Gaza. Kerry Smith reports.
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Our contribution to peace with justice in Palestine is to build an anti-apartheid campaign that is every bit as loud, creative and persistent as the one that existed in the 1980s, says Janet Parker from the newly-formed Jews for a Free Palestine.
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Rallies and vigils for Palestine continued across the country as protesters say a pause in Israel's bombing campaign is not a ceasefire and federal Labor came under greater pressure to join the global ceasefire call.
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As many as 3000 students and teachers abandoned school — against the Victorian government’s directive — to publicly criticise Israel’s actions in occupied Palestine. Tamer Fletcher Kayhan and Sturt Boltin report.
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Members of the United Services Union in NSW are calling on their executive to support the calls for a ceasefire in Palestine, as the Australian Council of Trade Unions and many others have. Graham Matthews reports.