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Congratulations, Paula Fredriksen, Jason Goroncy, David Gowler, and Carl Roemer, on your recent publications! Fredriksen: buff.ly/2emtRzn Goroncy: buff.ly/lNl75Y2 Gowler: buff.ly/E7PhiXX Roemer: buff.ly/sPEPSCQ

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"The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule." — Walter Benjamin

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'What matters now is whether we can remember what #politics is for—neither endless expansion or efficiency, nor simply the resentment-fueled pursuit of naked self-interest, but the shared project of living together within limits'. – Roger Berkowitz hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/i...

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Remembering Óscar Romero, assassinated on this day in 1980.

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There is an excellent interview here with Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela about #forgiveness and the hard work of being human. https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/soul-search/forgiveness-after-apartheid-and-the-limits-of-remorse/104466316

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Catherine from Zaporizhzhia. She spent 5 hours under the rubble of her house, destroyed by a Russian missile. All this time she has been hugging her cat. P.S. Sorry she didn't wear a suit.

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"I had hoped that academic institutions might be more resistant to institutional capture, but it seems they’re more than willing to bow to threats." – @jamesfolta.com #academia #publishing #censorship #Palestine #architecture #USA #authoritarianism lithub.com/an-architect...

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#Ukraine Fact Sheet February 21, 2025 https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-fact-sheet-february-21-2025

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New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

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‘This is not just a #war between two states. This is a war between two systems: #authoritarianism and #democracy ‘. – Oleksandra Matviychuk #Russia #Ukraine #China #Syria #NorthKorea #freedom #HumanRights #peace https://youtu.be/OSIRA4tPrSo?si=MqieAn41PGSZgoT6

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A timely reminder here about the benefits (for most of us) of pen and paper note-taking. #university #teaching #education #learning #technology #academia theconversation.com/which-type-o...

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‘We have created laws to protect other beings such as cows and chickens. Why not give the smaller ones some protection too?’ – Vicki Hird #invertebrates #farming #sentience https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/25/do-worms-feel-pain-are-ants-happy-science-of-invertebrate-feelings?

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‘This is not just a #war between two states. This is a war between two systems: #authoritarianism and #democracy ‘. – Oleksandra Matviychuk #Russia #Ukraine #China #Syria #NorthKorea #freedom #HumanRights #peace https://youtu.be/OSIRA4tPrSo?si=MqieAn41PGSZgoT6

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Anyone trying to claim #Ukraine began this war is should be shown this document I pulled off the 🇷🇺 gov site in the 1st days of the war because I knew they would pull it or lock it. It’s locked. 🧵👇🏻👇🏻

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Honoured to be playing at a rally tomorrow in Federation Square to mark three years of Ukrainian resistance against Russian barbarism. My Russian grandmother would be proud of me. www.facebook.com/events/11846... catgutandair.com #Ukraine #music #charity #concert #peace #war #hope #Melbourne

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'Everything else might change in #music, but the dominant genre always pleases the feet'. – @tedgioia.bsky.social www.honest-broker.com/p/classical-...

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Excellent piece by Rick Morton on ‘handing the right to silence victim-survivors back to the very institutions that harboured their abusers’. #Catholic #Church #survivors #ChildSexualAbuse #DSS www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...

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Where the Gods Cannot be Fooled. #art #NGA #censorship #genocide #palestine #colonialsm #racism www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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#Chicago

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In other news, last week a small #Rohingya community organisation in the UK has succeeded in securing the first ever arrest warrant for a head of the #Burmese military'. @burmacampaignuk.bsky.social burmacampaign.org.uk/first-arrest...

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Honoured to be joining fellow artists in supporting the Undefeated Spirit: Ukrainian #Crisis Appeal #Charity #Concert this Saturday at Collins Street #Baptist #Church in #Melbourne this Saturday night. catgutandair.com #Ukraine #music #charity #concert #war #crisis #hope #europe

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Against neutrality. youtube.com/live/5OxigLi...

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Honoured to join fellow artists in supporting the Undefeated Spirit: Ukrainian Crisis Appeal Charity Concert this Saturday at Collins Street Baptist Church in #Melbourne this Saturday night. #Ukraine #music #charity #concert whatson.melbourne.vic.gov.au/things-to-do...

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'Gaza now looks like Nagasaki after the war'. Remembering genocide means remembering all victims of genocide.

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#Jews against #genocide. youtube.com/watch?v=Posm...

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I call on Creative Australia to reinstate Khaled Sabisabi as the artist selection for the Venice Bienalle. ‘A shameful call by Creative Australia’: the arts community reacts to Khaled Sabsabi being dropped from the Venice Biennale theconversation.com/a-shameful-c...

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Melanie Schweizer and @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social on the transformation of the #EU into a “war union,” the erosion of free speech in #Germany, and the global spread of #fascism. youtube.com/watch?v=5gob...

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‘Yes, somebody is making money from #music—just not the people who create it. There’s never been a better time in history to be an intermediary, a middleman, a hanger-on, an aggregator, a shyster’. – @tedgioia.bsky.social www.honest-broker.com/p/the-music-...

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In this lecture, 'Yarmouk Camp: From Birth to Destruction', Yousef Alreemawi will tell the story of the Yarmouk camp's construction in 1957 until its destruction in 2018 and why it gained the title of the capital of the Palestinian diaspora. #PublicLecture #Palestine #Lecture

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“The #carbon in #peatlands took hundreds to thousands of years to accumulate and cannot be replaced on timescales relevant to #climate change action.” – Dr Kemen Austin https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/13/worlds-largely-unprotected-peatlands-are-ticking-carbon-bomb-warns-study

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The #Jewish Council of #Australia opposes Parliamentary Inquiry recommendation to adopt controversial definition of #antisemitism. www.jewishcouncil.com.au/media/jewish...

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'[A]bstractions like “America;” institutions like the presidency or the military; social phenomena like war or White supremacy. Each of these entities ... brings only death'. – Mac Loftin www.christiancentury.org/features/pol...

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‘US diplomats cannot be trusted’. – Geoffrey Robertson True. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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According to some observers, the ‘hottest topic’ for 2025 is whether universities have lost the public’s support to operate.

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Junta troops have burned down about 50 houses in Ahnankwin Village, in Kyarinnseikgyi Township, #Karen State since 29 January 2025 and were continuing to set houses on fire, as of 7 February. #Burma karennews.org/2025/02/junt...

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'The capacity to critique and challenge the actions of nation states remains a core tenet of socially engaged scholarship across a range of disciplines'. – An open letter, in solidarity w/ Randa Abdel-Fattah, @overlandjournal.bsky.social #Academia #Israel #Palestine overland.org.au/2025/02/open...

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“It is shocking how day after day naked acts of violence, breaches of the law, barbaric opinions appear quite undisguised as official decree.” – Victor Klemperer, 17 March 1933 newfascismsyllabus.com/contribution...

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'[C]apitalist success cannot be a decolonial destination'. – Tina Ngata #capitalism tinangata.com/2025/02/08/t...

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