ELBIT OUT OF VICTORIA CAMPAIGN LAUNCH/PROTEST THIS MONDAY 8AM - GLOBAL A15 ACTION

This Monday, we are launching a Palestine Boycott, Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement campaign with a Unionist for Palestine led protest at the Victorian Parliament: Elbit out of Victoria.

ELBIT OUT OF VICTORIA CAMPAIGN LAUNCH/PROTEST THIS MONDAY 8AM - GLOBAL #A15 ACTION

A Unionist for Palestine led protest at Victorian Parliament is launching a Palestine BDS movement campaign: Elbit out of Victoria! Fund communities not Bombs. Stop Arming Israel!

M daughter was on hold to Centrelink for 2 hours only to be told she could update her relationship status online. Having found it online she advised she has to go in to see them personally. Is this deliberate in the hope people give up?

I wrote an article for Meanjin Quarterly: 'Ten years on from Hazelwood: last decade’s second-worst disaster'
meanjin.com.au/essays/ten-yea…
It's about a lot of things: ongoing injustice, vicarious trauma, the renewable energy transition - and how Hazelwood mine is ALREADY a lake (see pics)

sometimes you can't sleep and you feel like shit about all the things that have gone wrong and you can't control in your life and you lie there until inevitably your thoughts turn to a dangerous topic: linux on the desktop

💌 Like a love letter to rate books, in Provenance, Fiona Gatt describes the importance of rate books in researching local history, with a focus on Hotham/North Melbourne 1860s to 1901: prov.vic.gov.au/explore-collec… Professional Historians Association (Vic & Tas)

So possibly most stupid and redundant question of the day.

Were ANY actual trans people/advocacy organisations/anyone who once spoke to a trans person involved in producing the Cass report?

HUME COUNCIL PROTEST THIS MONDAY - WEAPONS OUT OF THE SUBURBS

This Monday at 6.30 pm we are protesting outside Broadmeadows Town Hall to demand that weapons manufacturers are shut out of Hume.
We are calling on all Hume residents to come and join us.

15. Likewise, researchers at Yale slammed the Florida Review, and many of their critiques are applicable to the Cass Review as well... not surprising given the collaboration.

medicine.yale.edu/lgbtqi/researc…

14. It is important to note that gender affirming care saves lives, and there is plenty of evidence to show for it, such as this review of over 50 articles by Cornell University.

whatweknow.inequality.cornell.edu/topics/lgbt-eq…

13. Immediately after the release, trans experts worldwide voiced opposition to the findings, including AusPATH and PATHA.

See bits of their statements here:

5. The review suggests that being trans can be influenced by other people, a nod to the discredited theory of social contagion and 'rapid onset gender dysphoria.'

Over 60 psych orgs have rejected this:

archive.is/5fLAt

1. Two years ago, Hillary Cass met with DeSantis picks and collaborated on a trans care ban in Florida.

Now her review targets trans people in England.

It is filled with flawed claims over evidence, toys, and social transition.

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Hugo Weaving: “I think the problem in our country is we’re all cowed into not speaking out. [...] And I thought that was true of the STC. I think it’s true up to the highest echelons of power in our country and in the US.” smh.com.au/culture/theatr…

'The latest data obtained by Declassified Australia shows that Australia has issued 383 defence export permits to Israel since 2015, and by extrapolation the overwhelming majority are clearly Munitions List items, not Dual Use equipment.'