"Despite borders, we are still united, and we are still all together. If one is suffering, we all stand up to support this person, group, or community. This is my important lesson, and I am very proud of my community" - Lenny Emson on LQBTIQA+ solidarity with Ukraine #SWP2023

listening to the ALP in the senate defending keeping refugees out, and see this on the feed. australia has thoroughly normalised and exported extreme disastrous violence against refugees

Fantastic news! A Sydney court has overturned VioletCoCo's harsh & excessive 15 month jail sentence She should never have been jailed for her peaceful climate protest The NSW gov should review its problematic anti-protest law & uphold Australia’s international law obligations

THE family of Veronica Nelson want Victoria’s urgent bail reforms named after her so politicians are reminded of how cruel prison is for Indigenous people. Ms Nelson, 37, died alone in her cell in January 2020, with a coroner later finding her death was preventable.

ABORIGINAL scientist Professor Alex Brown has been appointed to the CSIRO board of directors, becoming the first Indigenous scientist to serve on the national science agency’s board. MORE: koorimail.com #KooriMail #Indigenous #FirstNations #Blak #AboriginalScientist

We have halted coal into the world’s biggest coal port, demanding the ALP heed UN warnings and immediately cancel all new coal projects.

Gotta love the way the university sector decided to cry poor yesterday, just ahead of #NTEU's strike action. Members are not wearing it - they want decent pay rises, fair workloads and secure jobs and are prepared to fight for it. #BetterUnisNWA abc.net.au/news/2023-05-0…

Happy #MayThe4th! It’s the perfect time to learn activist lessons from Star Wars’ Andor series. commonslibrary.org/what-star-wars… #MayTheFourthBeWithYou

This #MayThe4th get your activist nerd on with this great article by @catnadel Be the revolutionary leader you want to see in the world! commonslibrary.org/what-star-wars…

There will be changes to the supported employment award from 1 July. The Fair Work Ombudsman (Fair Work Ombudsman) has some Easy Read resources to help you understand what the changes might mean for you fairwork.gov.au/pay-and-wages/…

There has never been any acknowledgement that refugees come from very traumatising backgrounds. There’s never been any acknowledgement that mandatory and indefinite detention also causes trauma. End detention. End the trauma. theconversation.com/government-mus…

Happy IDAHOBIT. Trans people deserve safety, respect, and the same opportunity to build good lives as everyone else. Fight for trans lives.

Suffragettes’ protest is how South Australia became the first place in the world to allow women to stand for parliament and second to grant women the vote. If SA’s new anti protest laws pass, today they’d be fined $50,000 and jailed. #ResistRepression #Auspol #AusLaw

Pleased to be able to contribute our Protest Camps research to this fab initiative from Commons Social Change Library to bring together social movement history for the present commonslibrary.org/protest-camps-… cc Fabian Frenzel Patrick McCurdy Gavin Brown 🏳️‍🌈