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Chaz Harris @chazharris.bsky.social · 2d

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2d

Yup, very disappointing

Frank O'Connor @frankoconnor.bsky.social · 2d

Another day & still no focus on Tadhg Hickey & the other 15 Irish flotilla hostages in the media
Clearly standing up against genocide & being kidnapped in International waters by a terrorist state is not news worthy in Ireland
Very sad to see that this is where we are in 2025

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Chaz Harris @chazharris.bsky.social · 2d

And all was not lost, Palestinians in Gaza were able to fish for the first time in a long time due to the diversion in a similar way to Frodo & Sam being able to reach Mt Doom while Sauron’s eye was drawn elsewhere 👀

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Chaz Harris @chazharris.bsky.social · 2d

Welcome back Chewie. Thought of this LOTR moment when you mentioned those on the Flotilla deciding whether to go and try. Better to have tried and failed, than to fail to try and achieve nothing at all!

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3d

Video shows Israeli settlers attacking a Palestinian Bedouin family on their land in Masafer Yatta, in the occupied West Bank area of South Hebron Hills.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2d

If you agree that Israel is committing genocide, you should loudly condemn organizations raising money for Israel. That includes churches and synagogues. Period.

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Chaz Harris @chazharris.bsky.social · 2d

Did you see him today though? 😵‍💫

I am so thankful you are back, we need a Chewie Foo Foo to rule all Chewie Foo Foos! I may have to buy a hoodie!

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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 3d

It is completely unconscionable to require job losses for the economy to function (supposedly) and then to blame them for their own unemployment that they DID NOT CHOOSE.

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Chaz Harris @chazharris.bsky.social · 4d

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Chaz Harris @chazharris.bsky.social · 4d

It’s antisemitic to conflate the State of Israel’s actions with Judaism. They are distinctly separate.

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Chaz Harris @chazharris.bsky.social · 4d

Had me involuntarily face leaking (with pride I think?), amazing interview Pat. Incredible family. Hope everyone stays safe & Kiwis abducted get back safely! I saw Palestinians were able to fish for the first time without being shot at while the IOF were distracted - their efforts still fed Gaza!

Chaz Harris @chazharris.bsky.social · 4d

remarkable interview with the father of illegally abducted Kiwi Sam Leason. Adi Leason previously took direct action to disable the Waihopai spy station in 2010. Contact MFAT! www.youtube.com/live/7gPZLD8...

#BHN SPECIAL Update on Sam Leason from the Israeli detention center from father Adi Leason

YouTube video by Big Hairy Network

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Chaz Harris @chazharris.bsky.social · 11d

If you’re friends with a Nazi, you’re a Nazi. The same goes for a State committing genocide. 🫠

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Jordan Rivers @jordanriversnz.bsky.social · 11d

As Luxons govt denies Palestinian statehood at The UN, he posts a selfie from a stadium that holds less than the amount of Palestinians murdered in this genocide to date. This man is disgusting.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13d

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

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The Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social · 12d

New Zealand is punching above its weight in cowardice

Winston Peters promised that New Zealand’s recognition of Palestine was a matter of 'when, not if', which has a real deadbeat-dad-promises-he’ll-have-his-shit-together-next-week air about it....

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 12d

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."

- Desmond Tutu

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Chaz Harris @chazharris.bsky.social · 12d

New Zealand is complicit in genocide. All three coalition leaders belong in The Hague. We have done nothing to fulfil our legal obligations to prevent and punish genocide and history will remember.

Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · 12d

Incompetence, cowardice and cruelty: this government has the trifecta.

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NZ not yet recognising Palestinian state, Foreign Minister Winston Peters announces

The government has decided against recognising Palestinian statehood, retaining its "when, not if" position.

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devrawiz.bsky.social @devrawiz.bsky.social · 14d

Compelling analysis. "Gaza is not an aberration but a preview. The same forces that rain death on Palestinian children today will turn their weapons on any population that threatens power tomorrow. They have established the parameters of acceptable suffering."
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Italy's Rage for Gaza Must Spread

More than a million peaceful marches could ever accomplish, ruling classes fear us breaking the chains of 'learned helplessness.

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Chaz Harris @chazharris.bsky.social · 13d

I'm a signatory of the @filmworks4pal.bsky.social boycott & it doesn't target individual artists. Genocide is collective punishment. Holding complicit companies & institutions accountable is not. I won't be reconsidering my stance, but they should. #FreePalestine 🍉 variety.com/2025/film/gl...

Liev Schreiber, Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing Among 1,200 Industry Names Rejecting Israeli Film Boycott in New Open Letter: It ‘Advocates’ for the ‘Erasure of Art’

Liev Schreiber, Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing are among 1,200 signees of an open letter denouncing the call for a boycott of Israeli film institutions.

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Chaz Harris @chazharris.bsky.social · 13d

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Chaz Harris @chazharris.bsky.social · 13d

[Epilogue] All that is to say, this is why it’s Free Palestine, Free Congo, Free Sudan. And no I won’t shut up. None of us are free until all of us are free.
#StopTheGenocide

Chaz Harris @chazharris.bsky.social · 13d

Written yr 1 of 🍊 Admin 1.0, I researched fascism, genocide & Geneva Conventions. So if folks ask why I won’t shut up about 🍉 I send them these stories of resisting colonialism, fascism, & genocide. What kind of artist would I be if I wasn’t morally consistent enough to resist the real thing? [5/5]

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Chaz Harris @chazharris.bsky.social · 13d

My debut novel was about a self-hating Lord of darkness (Artslayer to some) who turned his self-loathing into hatred & extermination of artists, intent on ridding his world (and ours) of imagination. It was my version of what JKR wouldn’t do - include queer kids in fantasy. [4/5]

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Chaz Harris @chazharris.bsky.social · 13d

In Maiden Voyage, a long lost princess & refugee sea captain who lost her family and her home journey to liberate their homeland from the tyranny of a lying evil queen. Also 🏳️‍🌈 inclusive, with pirates! Watch free on YouTube here: youtu.be/FnnGqgvkPwY?si [3/5]

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