Liz Murray
@lizmurray618.bsky.social
Early childhood educator, fascinated by the journey young children are on when their full selves are honored.
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Since our very first issue Meanjin and Overland have been comrades, mates, rivals, and drinking buddies. The UMP board’s decision is a shockingly myopic act of cultural vandalism which will grievously harm the Australian literary community.
September 4, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Since our very first issue Meanjin and Overland have been comrades, mates, rivals, and drinking buddies. The UMP board’s decision is a shockingly myopic act of cultural vandalism which will grievously harm the Australian literary community.
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My personal reflection on the Bendigo Writers Festival debacle and why discomfort is always better than disconnection.
Not Here. Not Now.
A writers festival, a silencing, and what it means to speak plainly in the current climate.
www.thespencerstreetend.com.au
August 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
My personal reflection on the Bendigo Writers Festival debacle and why discomfort is always better than disconnection.
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You are not going to out "tough on crime" fascist Republicans. Because they don't actually care about *crime* - they care about racism and power.
August 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
You are not going to out "tough on crime" fascist Republicans. Because they don't actually care about *crime* - they care about racism and power.
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New mini Zine based on Elizabeth Warren's report about what Elon did in his 130 days in the government is available: convergencemag.com/articles/elo... - print and share far and wide!
Elon Musk’s 130 Days in the Trump Administration: A One-Sheet Zine
Musk’s actions continue to endanger everyday people, dismantle key services, and undermine the safety net for ordinary Americans.
convergencemag.com
July 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
New mini Zine based on Elizabeth Warren's report about what Elon did in his 130 days in the government is available: convergencemag.com/articles/elo... - print and share far and wide!
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A Palestinian journalist just followed us. Less than 5 min later, suspended. Wtf @support.bsky.team
June 27, 2025 at 6:23 AM
A Palestinian journalist just followed us. Less than 5 min later, suspended. Wtf @support.bsky.team
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This conversation hosted by @haymarketbooks.org has important insights for how we got to where we are re this current regime and how we need to organize against it. And yes, that includes solidarity with those targeted by the various systems of state violence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzuy...
Criminalization: the Core of Authoritarianism, Fascism, and Resistance
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
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June 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This conversation hosted by @haymarketbooks.org has important insights for how we got to where we are re this current regime and how we need to organize against it. And yes, that includes solidarity with those targeted by the various systems of state violence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzuy...
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Border and Rule is available for free download!
I wrote a book spanning ICE & borders, Palestine & policing, colonialism & global fascism - in service to internationalist struggles.
I can no longer travel to US, but this book (as well @silkys13.bsky.social & @micahh.bsky.social 's) can come to you
I wrote a book spanning ICE & borders, Palestine & policing, colonialism & global fascism - in service to internationalist struggles.
I can no longer travel to US, but this book (as well @silkys13.bsky.social & @micahh.bsky.social 's) can come to you
Another world is possible if we fight for it.
FREE Ebooks: Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and poli...
www.haymarketbooks.org
June 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Border and Rule is available for free download!
I wrote a book spanning ICE & borders, Palestine & policing, colonialism & global fascism - in service to internationalist struggles.
I can no longer travel to US, but this book (as well @silkys13.bsky.social & @micahh.bsky.social 's) can come to you
I wrote a book spanning ICE & borders, Palestine & policing, colonialism & global fascism - in service to internationalist struggles.
I can no longer travel to US, but this book (as well @silkys13.bsky.social & @micahh.bsky.social 's) can come to you
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Gideon Levy: “Are you sure that Israel has the moral right to prevent such a mission from reaching Gaza? We should salute the 12 activists, including Greta Thunberg, who are attempting to reach Gaza on the Freedom Flotilla aid ship. “It's an act of conscience, an act of courage.”
June 9, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Gideon Levy: “Are you sure that Israel has the moral right to prevent such a mission from reaching Gaza? We should salute the 12 activists, including Greta Thunberg, who are attempting to reach Gaza on the Freedom Flotilla aid ship. “It's an act of conscience, an act of courage.”
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IT IS OF GREAT MORAL URGENCY THAT WE SEND THE SPIRIT OF TASMANIA TO GAZA
June 9, 2025 at 4:35 AM
IT IS OF GREAT MORAL URGENCY THAT WE SEND THE SPIRIT OF TASMANIA TO GAZA
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Must-read piece on "End Times Schooling" by @jessehagopian.bsky.social who has done so much to unleash the liberatory power of education.
🌱 My new piece for @truthout.bsky.social is on combating the rise of “end times schooling.”
It’s inspired by @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @astra.bsky.social’s framing of “end times fascism.”
Social justice unionism & teaching truth are our best defense—join the struggle!
truthout.org/articles/eli...
It’s inspired by @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @astra.bsky.social’s framing of “end times fascism.”
Social justice unionism & teaching truth are our best defense—join the struggle!
truthout.org/articles/eli...
Elites Want to Turn Schools Into Factories of Hopelessness. We Can’t Let Them.
“End times schooling” risks turning schools into graveyards for hope — but they can also be greenhouses for resistance.
truthout.org
June 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Must-read piece on "End Times Schooling" by @jessehagopian.bsky.social who has done so much to unleash the liberatory power of education.
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Yet more evidence that Australia continues to send weapons and weapons parts to Israel throughout the genocide, in defiance of the law and humanity. declassifiedaus.org/2025/04/26/c...
CONFIRMED: AUSTRALIAN WEAPONS SOLD TO ISRAEL - Declassified Australia
With the Federal government covering for them, a Canberra-based company has supplied lethal weapons to a country accused of war crimes and genocide.
declassifiedaus.org
April 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Yet more evidence that Australia continues to send weapons and weapons parts to Israel throughout the genocide, in defiance of the law and humanity. declassifiedaus.org/2025/04/26/c...
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www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025... BRAVO NY!
Trump gave states 10 days to sign anti-DEI policy. NY Education Department is refusing.
In a Friday letter to the U.S. Education Department, New York officials said they will not certify that the state is eliminating DEI in schools, despite threats to pull federal funding.
www.chalkbeat.org
April 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025... BRAVO NY!
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#tdih 1969 Mexican-American students in Denver walked out to demand:
- more bilingual classes,
- Chicano history & literature in curriculum,
- smaller class sizes, &
- an end to advising students to fight in Vietnam.
They were brutally attacked by police.
⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/me...
- more bilingual classes,
- Chicano history & literature in curriculum,
- smaller class sizes, &
- an end to advising students to fight in Vietnam.
They were brutally attacked by police.
⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/me...
March 20, 1969: Mexican-American Students Walkout in Colorado
Mexican-American youth walked out of school to protest racial discrimination in Denver, Colorado.
www.zinnedproject.org
March 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
#tdih 1969 Mexican-American students in Denver walked out to demand:
- more bilingual classes,
- Chicano history & literature in curriculum,
- smaller class sizes, &
- an end to advising students to fight in Vietnam.
They were brutally attacked by police.
⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/me...
- more bilingual classes,
- Chicano history & literature in curriculum,
- smaller class sizes, &
- an end to advising students to fight in Vietnam.
They were brutally attacked by police.
⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/me...
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Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
March 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.
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Hang out with J4J on Thursday, March 20 @ 6pm CST to learn about the very REAL threat to public education! Register @ www.j4jalliance.com. Don't mourn, organize!
March 17, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Hang out with J4J on Thursday, March 20 @ 6pm CST to learn about the very REAL threat to public education! Register @ www.j4jalliance.com. Don't mourn, organize!
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A strong letter from the @columbiajournalism.bsky.social faculty journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fac...
A Statement from Columbia Journalism School Faculty Defending Press Freedom | Columbia Journalism School
journalism.columbia.edu
March 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
A strong letter from the @columbiajournalism.bsky.social faculty journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fac...
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JUST PUBLISHED: It has been the honor of my career to co-author "Queer, HIV+ and Running Out of Medication in Gaza" with Afeef Nessouli @theintercept.com —a story about Palestine, AIDS, genocide, and an extraordinary survivor named E.S. Please read & share. theintercept.com/2025/01/13/i...
Queer, HIV-Positive, and Running Out of Medication in Gaza
A year in Palestine, living in fear of not just genocide — but AIDS.
theintercept.com
January 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
JUST PUBLISHED: It has been the honor of my career to co-author "Queer, HIV+ and Running Out of Medication in Gaza" with Afeef Nessouli @theintercept.com —a story about Palestine, AIDS, genocide, and an extraordinary survivor named E.S. Please read & share. theintercept.com/2025/01/13/i...
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Watch his full DN interview
Today's @democracynow.org interview w/ Palestinian Writer and @mondoweiss.net journalist Mohammed El-Kurd on his new book “Perfect Victims And the Politics of Appeal,” Trump & Israel’s Criminalization of Thought.
**includes Part 2 / post-show interview
#palestine #gaza #westbank #ceasefire
**includes Part 2 / post-show interview
#palestine #gaza #westbank #ceasefire
Palestinian Writer Mohammed El-Kurd Democracy Now *Two Part* Interview on Palestine, Israel & Trump
YouTube video by madlove
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February 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Watch his full DN interview
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Congratulations, Mohammed El-Kurd! 💐
PERFECT VICTIMS is officially a New York Times Bestseller in its first week of publication
PERFECT VICTIMS is officially a New York Times Bestseller in its first week of publication
February 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Congratulations, Mohammed El-Kurd! 💐
PERFECT VICTIMS is officially a New York Times Bestseller in its first week of publication
PERFECT VICTIMS is officially a New York Times Bestseller in its first week of publication
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EXCLUSIVE: Two Palestinian flags on a tapestry on display at the National Gallery of Australia have been concealed with white fabric, in what the artists have described as an act of censorship they only agreed to reluctantly.
‘This is censorship’: Palestinian flags covered up in major exhibition at National Gallery of Australia
Exclusive: Pacific Indigenous art collective claims NGA cited ‘high level’ security risk in direction to remove Palestinian flag from tapestry
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
EXCLUSIVE: Two Palestinian flags on a tapestry on display at the National Gallery of Australia have been concealed with white fabric, in what the artists have described as an act of censorship they only agreed to reluctantly.
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The ECEA's Action for Anti-Racism Committee has drafted a statement regarding anti-immigrant executive orders. Resources are provided for educators. Please read and share.
sites.google.com/view/ecea-nc...
sites.google.com/view/ecea-nc...
ECEA of NCTE
STATEMENT ON ANTI-IMMIGRANT EXECUTIVE ORDERS
STATEMENT ON WORLDWIDE GENOCIDE AND HUMANITARIAN CRISES-includes resources for educators
RESOURCES FOR EDUCATORS
sites.google.com
February 15, 2025 at 5:41 AM
The ECEA's Action for Anti-Racism Committee has drafted a statement regarding anti-immigrant executive orders. Resources are provided for educators. Please read and share.
sites.google.com/view/ecea-nc...
sites.google.com/view/ecea-nc...
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I understand the No Hate in Healthcare but where is this passion and enthusiasm when Aboriginal people are turned away and die because of hatred and discrimination - like this www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Death of Indigenous woman turned away from NSW hospital 'preventable'
Naomi Williams, six months pregnant and suffering from a severe headache, was told to take paracetamol and sent home by NSW regional hospital staff
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I understand the No Hate in Healthcare but where is this passion and enthusiasm when Aboriginal people are turned away and die because of hatred and discrimination - like this www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The police is asking to keep bookshop owners Ahmad and Mahmoud Mona in custody for 8 (!!) more days. A demonstration outside the court calling for their release, and diplomats from some eight countries are in the court. "Fascism is burning us". Via @nirhasson.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The police is asking to keep bookshop owners Ahmad and Mahmoud Mona in custody for 8 (!!) more days. A demonstration outside the court calling for their release, and diplomats from some eight countries are in the court. "Fascism is burning us". Via @nirhasson.bsky.social