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Ari from Aotearoa
@arinic.bsky.social
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Living in Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. Green member/voter and dedicated socialist. Like to sew and knit with some gardening. Grandma, she/her 🇳🇿🏳️‍⚧️
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This is horrific for our country. We are going down a terrible path and the opposition is so incredibly ill equipped.
January 19, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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#FreePalHostages
January 19, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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Stand up against the US empire and Zionism. The whole system - shut it down!
1pm Saturday 24 January
Bridge of Remembrance #Ōtautahi #Christchurch
#NZPol #FreeGaza #FreePalHostages
January 19, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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Snap Action 10.00am Wed 21st Jan

Commodore Hotel, 449 Memorial Ave, Ōtautahi

National Party MPs are having their annual retreat and we are taking the opportunity to let them know what we think of them and their lack of action regarding Palestine

TBC - another action at their fancy dinner

#NZPol
Snap Action Protest at the National Party retreat Meet at 10.00am at the Commodore Hotel Wednesday 21st January
January 20, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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FLAG WAVING. Join us.
Bridge of Remembrance
Friday 23rd January, 4pm-5.30pm

#NZPol #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #Palestine #Gaza #PalSol #FreePalHostages
Some Palestine flags held by activists. Light shines through the closest from the lowering sun behind.
January 19, 2026 at 9:24 AM
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We are now using

@otautahi-psna.bsky.social

as our main account. Please follow us there for news and updates from the Ōtautahi chapter of PSNA

#NZPol
otautahi-psna.bsky.social PSNA - Ōtautahi Chapter @otautahi-psna.bsky.social · Dec 26
Some of the people who came to the rally on 20 December 2025

There will be an information stall at the Bridge of Remembrance each Saturday at 1.00pm until the 24th of January when there will be the first rally of 2026

If you’re in town come along to the stall,we’ll love to see you there

#Ōtautahi
December 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Trump announces the latest addition to the Gaza Board of Peace
Senator Palpatine sat on a magnificent chair with a futuristic city in the background
January 19, 2026 at 4:05 AM
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Today’s feature (wearable) placard
A black cap with a patch reading “make fascists afraid again” stitched on
January 19, 2026 at 2:32 AM
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🔴 RED RIBBONS CAMPAIGN
Details in alt text.
#FreePalHostages #الحرية_للأسرى
image: @psnaotearoa [IG]
🔴 RED RIBBONS CAMPAIGN The Red Ribbons Campaign is a digital civil initiative aimed at highlighting the plight of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons and keeping their situation visible in public and media discourse, amid ongoing policies of arbitrary detention, imprisonment without trial, and harsh detention conditions. The campaign emphasises the human dimension of the prisoners’ cause, reminding audiences that detainees are not numbers, but individuals with names, families, and lives interrupted by incarceration. Among them are doctors, academics, and civil figures, including Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and others, whose detention reflects the targeting of Palestinian professional and community leadership. Using the red ribbon as a unifying visual symbol, the campaign calls for coordinated online action to broaden international solidarity and re-centre the issue of Palestinian prisoners as a core human rights concern. 6:47 AM Join us this Thursday, 15 January, at 6:00 pm GMT / 8:00 pm Jerusalem time, in a global online action in solidarity with the Palestinian hostages held in Israeli prisons. They are detained under a system that has gone as far as passing laws that enable their execution. We have heard documented accounts of torture and abuse. Stand with them. Change your profile pictures in solidarity. Post your messages of support. Use the hashtags: #FreePalHostages and in Arabic: #الحرية_للأسرى Your voice matters. Your post can be their lifeline.
January 15, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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Even though the date for this action is past, this interview is still relevant and well worth listening to
otautahi-psna.bsky.social PSNA - Ōtautahi Chapter @otautahi-psna.bsky.social · 14d
Mustafa Barghouti

Join us this Thursday, 15 January, at 6:00 pm GMT / 8:00 pm Jerusalem time, in a global online action in solidarity with the Palestinian hostages held in Israeli prisons.

Stand with them.

#FreePalHostages #الحرية_للأسرى
January 19, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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#FreePalHostages
otautahi-psna.bsky.social PSNA - Ōtautahi Chapter @otautahi-psna.bsky.social · 14d
Join us in a global online action in solidarity with the Palestinian hostages held in Israeli prisons.
#FreePalHostages #الحرية_للأسرى #NZPol
Join us in a global online action in solidarity with the Palestinian hostages held in Israeli prisons. They are detained under a system that has gone as far as passing laws that enable their execution. We have heard documented accounts of torture and abuse. Stand with them. Change your profile pictures in solidarity. Post your messages of support. Use the hashtags: #FreePalHostages and in Arabic: #الحرية_للأسرى Your voice matters. Your post can be their lifeline.
January 19, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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#FreePalHostages
January 19, 2026 at 1:58 AM
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Fate of Gaza’s disappeared remains unknown
Israel refuses to disclose the number of people it has abducted, bodies it still holds or has bundled into mass graves.
electronicintifada.net
January 13, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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UNICEF: Israeli Forces Have Killed More Than 100 Children in Gaza Since 'Ceasefire' - News From Antiwar.com
A spokesman for the UN's child relief agency, UNICEF, said on Tuesday that Israeli forces have killed at least 100 children in Gaza since the start of the US-backed ceasefire, which the IDF has consta...
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January 13, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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interested to know why NZ media aren’t urgently asking questions about this situation
January 13, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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In today’s NZ Herald
January 13, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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Apparently Jacinda Ardern has pulled out of the festival now

#NZPol
January 13, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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We will return soon soon soon soon....

#NZPol #Christchurch #Ōtautahi #FreePalestine #FreeGaza #RealCeasefireNow
The front of a PSNA march in Ōtautahi on the 13th of December 2025. A wade banner held by 6 people reads "Sanction Israel for Genocide" The angle is low with the bottom of the screen showing the street with tram tracks and a large arrow pointing directly at the viewer. Behind the banner we see the many Palestinian flags held by marchers following the banner.
January 12, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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Every Life is Precious

The similarities between what happened in Minnesota and what is happening in Palestine

#NZPol
Minnesota/Palestine - In both places: Killers are trained by IDF Medics are prevented from attending Ambulances are blocked from assisting Every Life is Precious Minnesota/Palestine - In both places: The victim is blamed for their own death There’s no accountability for the perpetrators Authorities lie to protect the system Every Life is Precious Imperialism With Impunity We were all shocked by the violent death of Renee Good at the hands of an ICE agent, and so we should be. However, was the death of a white woman with three children who lost her partner recently more shocking than the many thousands of deaths of Palestinian civilians in frighteningly similar circumstances? How does it happen that these circumstances can be so similar, and, should we be concerned here in Aotearoa? After all we’re safe here aren’t we? So far away from both Palestine and Minnesota What many supporters of Palestine have been saying is that when a politician supports violence against a civilian population abroad (as many politicians here do), they’re letting us know that they think that this is also acceptable at home We’re seeing this clearly now in the US, however, the same imperialism that is driving violence there is also what is driving a more subtle (so far) violence here against our indigenous population and other minorities here Palestine has ripped the mask off Now that we can see the true face of imperialism are we prepared to stand up against it?
January 13, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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Palestinian families flee Jordan Valley towns as settler violence increases
Palestinian families flee Jordan Valley towns as settler violence increases
Palestinian families flee Jordan Valley towns as settler violence increases
www.independent.co.uk
January 11, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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Israel gives war profiteers sole control of life-saving Gaza aid
Israeli authorities ban aid groups from delivering 'dual-use' items to Gaza while allowing Israeli and other firms to sell them at a large premium
israelpalestinenews.org
January 4, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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Anti-war march in NYC, organized overnight. Happening right now, 8th Ave.

People care.
January 3, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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Today’s feature placard

#NZPol
A man holding a sign reading Boycott Israel
January 4, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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Welcome 2026 - I really do hope that it will be better than 2025 for justice and peace in this world

One of the panels on the Bridge of Remembrance in Ōtautahi
There’s Rosemary, that’s for Remembrance
January 1, 2026 at 3:31 AM