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Alistair Kitchen @alistairkitchen.bsky.social · Jun 14

Hi everyone

I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests

I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · Jun 11

Tomorrow's episode of 'Yeah Nah Pasaran!' is a very special @3crmelbourne.bsky.social radiothon edition, with some very special guests.

Please donate to 3CR if you're able & willing to support community radio, our show, & lots more ace programing.

Cheers! 🫡📻🐈‍⬛

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Yeah Nah, Nah Yeah, It’s The 2025 3CR Radiothon!

Welcome to the RADIOTHON edition of Yeah Nah Pasaran! 4.30pm, June 12, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus This June 3CR really needs your support. Your donation ensures that t…

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Jun 8

Good to see this online and open access. @jordanas.bsky.social has been in the forefront of Oz historians concerned about Gaza; her brother Ben was a postdoc in my ARC laureate project.
@austhistassoc.bsky.social @dirkmoses.bsky.social

‘We open our eyes despite the pain it causes’: a role for historians in these genocidal times

Published in History Australia (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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jordy silverstein @jordanas.bsky.social · Jun 8

thank you for sharing Warwick!

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Matthew Klugman (they/them) @raw-toast.bsky.social · Jun 1

I remember Johnston advocating for direct action protests - including sit-ins - when I was a student at this uni in the 1990s.

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · May 23

The disconnect between mr dog's crystal clear cartoon and the cowardly passive voice header the guardian has inflicted upon it is quite the nutshell of 18 months of Israel getting a free pass on genocidal war crimes

mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · May 22

Today's cartoon... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The children of Gaza are starving to death | First Dog on the Moon

Time is running out

www.theguardian.com

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Micaela Pattison @micaelapattison.bsky.social · May 21

My sincere thanks to @jordanas.bsky.social @zorasimic.bsky.social and Ben Silverstein for this important piece.

Full article: ‘We open our eyes despite the pain it causes’: a role for historians in these genocidal times www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘We open our eyes despite the pain it causes’: a role for historians in these genocidal times

Published in History Australia (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social · May 22

Good to see ABC has published this important piece from Jess Whyte, but it is much more than 'opinion'- she has gathered the facts and provides essential analysis of how aid has been weaponised & humanitarianism militarised
www.abc.net.au/religion/as-...

As Gaza faces starvation, a new plan weaponises humanitarian aid — what can be done? - ABC Religion & Ethics

After blocking all food from entering Gaza for 11 weeks, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to allow a limited amount into the besieged territory — though he insists that a new militarised deliv...

www.abc.net.au

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · Apr 25

'Find yourself someone who looks at you like tabloid television looks at neo-Nazis.' ~ Ancient proverb

Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social · Apr 25

Why the fuck is @sunriseon7.bsky.social giving Jacob Hersant, a neo-Nazi with the NSN, an interview?? After he booed the welcome to country at the Anzac dawn service? It’s 2025 my dudes- WE KNOW WHO THESE FREAKS ARE AND YOU ARE PLATFORMING THEM??? I’m on the other side of the world and I know!

Jacob Hersant- Neo-Nazi and NSN member being interviewed by Chanel 7’s sunrise program

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Matthew Klugman (they/them) @raw-toast.bsky.social · Apr 21

For more on Mike Pezzullo, see @jordanas.bsky.social's brilliant book, Cruel Care: A History of Children at Our Borders.

publishing.monash.edu/product/crue...

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Jews Against Fascism ☂️ @jewsagainstfash.bsky.social · Apr 12

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This year, we honour the story by refusing its misuse.
By listening. Showing up. Rooting our rituals in solidarity, not supremacy.
Placing our stories alongside, not above.

From the narrow place, we don't move toward conquest, but toward collective freedom.

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Jews Against Fascism ☂️ @jewsagainstfash.bsky.social · Apr 12

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We are taught to mourn even our oppressors.
But today we’re told to stay silent as others are bombed, displaced, starved.
We’re told to call it defence. We’re told to look away.

We refuse.

Liberation built on domination is not liberation.
It’s apartheid. It cannot be done in our name.

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Jews Against Fascism ☂️ @jewsagainstfash.bsky.social · Apr 12

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This isn’t about making our past sacred. It’s about refusing to ignore the present.

Because oppression today doesn’t live in metaphor.
It lives in Gaza, under siege. In the West Bank, under occupation. In refugee camps, in exile, in rubble.

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Jews Against Fascism ☂️ @jewsagainstfash.bsky.social · Apr 12

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This Peysakh, we return to a story of liberation. But we don’t stop at our own.

The rituals remind us that freedom is not a possession, it’s a commitment.
A memory that insists we act in the face of oppression, not just remember it.

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Nour Haydar @nourhaydar.bsky.social · Apr 1

NEW: Artist Khaled Sabsabi has blamed Creative Australia for the “dismantling” of his career and said the board’s decision to revoke his appointment as Australia’s Venice Biennale representative has given the green light for others to smear his reputation.

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Khaled Sabsabi says Creative Australia decision was ‘kneejerk’ reaction that is ‘dismantling’ his career

Exclusive: Lebanese-Australian artist says ‘nobody should have to go through this torture’ in first interview since being dumped from Venice Biennale exhibition

www.theguardian.com

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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · Mar 31

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN

Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN

Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office

www.theguardian.com

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jordy silverstein @jordanas.bsky.social · Mar 31

a must read from @jumanabayeh.bsky.social in @overlandjournal.bsky.social, dismantling the UA antisemitism definition: "what is painfully evident is that, in the process of writing the definition, not one person in the room saw, imagined, considered Palestinians."

overland.org.au/2025/03/sile...

Silencing Palestine: Universities Australia and the new definition of antisemitism - Overland literary journal

I am a researcher of literature and I am invested in understanding the political nature of language, and the context in which that language is embedded — even chaotic and unfocused language. I want to...

overland.org.au

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jordy silverstein @jordanas.bsky.social · Mar 31

make sure you give this fab conversation a listen

Matthew Klugman (they/them) @raw-toast.bsky.social · Mar 30

Was glorious being part of 3CRs Trans Day of Audibility w the superb Priya Kunjan + Olive & James of the East Brunswick Eye Gougers!

Also got to shout out the wonderful work of @sandyosullivan.bsky.social, Ellen van Neerven, & @jordanas.bsky.social.

Listen here :)

www.3cr.org.au/transdayofau...

Trans Day of Audibility 2025

3CR's Trans Day of Audibility returns for it's fourth year running on Sunday 30 March. Tune in from 12pm to catch 6 hours of transgender voices including musical performances from Racerage and Shirker...

www.3cr.org.au

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jordy silverstein @jordanas.bsky.social · Mar 25

The murder of Palestinian journalist, based in north Gaza, Hossam Shabat by israel is devastating. Make sure you read this piece, his last filed story. Make sure you stand up and fight against this genocide.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · Mar 24

NEW: Hossam Shabat’s Last Article

Filed hours before his killing in an Israeli airstrike, journalist
Hossam Shabat describes the resumption of Israel's scorched earth campaign in his hometown of Beit Hanoun.

Translated through tears by Sharif Kouddous

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Hossam Shabat’s Last Article

Filed hours before his killing in an Israeli airstrike, journalist Hossam Shabat describes the resumption of Israel's scorched earth campaign in his hometown of Beit Hanoun.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · Mar 24

“I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories—until Palestine is free.”

Hossam Shabat’s final message to the world, shared by his team after Israel assassinated him this morning in northern Gaza.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · Mar 15

Worth re-reading this piece from @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social on this 6th anniversary of the horrific Christchurch mosque massacre carried out by an Australian terrorist

www.aljazeera.com/features/202...