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Archie
@archietype.bsky.social
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Community organiser.
Printmaker.
Clown.
Neuro + gender nonconforming.
Tangata Tiriti of Irish, Scottish, English + West Indies African descent living on Ngāi Tūāhuriri land in Aotearoa.
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acab.dad
Please read this opening statement by Assata Shakur from her trial in New York in 1976.

She wrote this almost 50 years ago, but it speaks so clearly to the current moment that it could have been written yesterday

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November 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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byroncclark.bsky.social
I spoke with Ihab today, it's winter in Gaza, his tent leaks and his children lack clothing suitable for the weather, if you can spare some money to help I know it will be very much appreciated

gofund.me/f3c9b468
Fundraiser by C N : Save me and my family from the genocide taking place in Gaza
Hello, I am Ihab and I urgently need your help to raise funds for my … C N needs your support for Save me and my family from the genocide taking place in Gaza
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November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
archietype.bsky.social
On now
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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rnzrss.bsky.social
Nine to Noon live: Survivor advocate Louise Nicholas on police cover-ups and the McSkimming case
Police response to Jevon McSkimming shows why victims afraid to come forward - advocate
A watchdog has found serious misconduct at the highest levels of Police, over its handling of sexual offending allegations against the former deputy commissioner.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
archietype.bsky.social
Show off your snake art 🐍

Australian Bandy-bandy snake
Pencil drawing of small black snake with white bands
September 23, 2025 at 3:06 AM
archietype.bsky.social
This video is sooooo damning
kaimataara.bsky.social Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · Jun 26
If they don't they'll just help Atlas, and Atlas knows it too. Here's David Seymour bragging about how Labour keeps his preferred policies from low rate taxes to no capital gains tax. #nzpol
June 26, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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jdeheij.bsky.social
When I saw this. Wow 😮
April 6, 2025 at 4:14 AM
archietype.bsky.social
The despair is real
pipadam.bsky.social Pip Adam @pipadam.bsky.social · Mar 22
I realised today why the Nicola Willis reading thing upset me so much. It shattered a lot of my beliefs about books' ability to enhance compassion. How can anyone read In the Line of Beauty and remain so unchanged they can be part of the hateful regime we are living under?
March 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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gbrockell.bsky.social
Here’s an alt-text version of Mahmoud Khalil’s incredible letter if you need it. 1/2
Letter from Mahmoud Khalil in ICE Detention Swipe Left Letter from a Palestinian political prisoner in Louisiana dictated over the phone from ICE detention March 18, 2025 My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law. Who has the right to have rights? It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here. It isn't the Senegalese man I met who has been deprived of his liberty for a year, his legal situation in limbo and his family an ocean away. It isn't the 21-year-old detainee I met, who stepped foot in this country at age nine, only to be deported without so much as a hearing. Justice escapes the contours of this nation's immigration facilities. 1/5 On March 8, I was taken by DHS agents who refused to provide a warrant, and accosted my wife and me as we returned from dinner. By now, the footage of that night has been made public. Before I knew what was happening, agents handcuffed and forced me into an unmarked car. At that moment, my only concern was for Noor's safety. I had no idea if she would be taken too, since the agents had threatened to arrest her for not leaving my side. DHS would not tell me anything for hours - I did not know the cause of my arrest or if I was facing immediate deportation. At 26 Federal Plaza, I slept on the cold floor. In the early morning hours, agents transported me to another facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey. There, I slept on the ground and was refused a blanket despite my request. My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night. With January's ceasefire now broken, parents in Gaza are once again cradling too-small shrouds, and families are forced to weigh starvation and displacement against bombs. It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom. 2/5 I was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria to a family which has been displaced from their land since the 1948 Nakba. I spent my youth in proximity to yet distant from my homeland. But being Palestinian is an experience that transcends borders. I see in my circumstances similarities to Israel's use of administrative detention - imprisonment without trial or charge - to strip Palestinians of their rights. I think of our friend Omar Khatib, who was incarcerated without charge or trial by Israel as he returned home from travel. I think of Gaza hospital director and pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who was taken captive by the Israeli military on December 27 and remains in an Israeli torture camp today. For Palestinians, imprisonment without due process is commonplace. I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear. My unjust detention is indicative of the anti-Palestinian racism that both the Biden and Trump administrations have demonstrated over the past 16 months as the U.S. has continued to supply Israel with weapons to kill Palestinians and prevented international intervention. For decades, anti-Palestinian racism has driven efforts to expand U.S. laws and practices that are used to violently repress Palestinians, Aralo Americans, and other communities. That is precisely why I am being targeted. 3/5
March 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM