😮 Qld school runs out of water as commercial bottlers harvest local supplies
Parents told to consider keeping Tamborine Mountain state school students at home, while trucks take local water to bottling plants for companies including Coca-Cola
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"We are always left out of things. Kardiya [whitefella] are always making decisions for us. Darwin is too far away from country for people to travel to and does not respect Warlpiri’s wishes." @Hocking_Rachael reports.
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because store owners wouldn't even report the incidences to _the police_, let alone to the news, for fear of the tactic spreading. The folks who got organized to loot back became the backbone of the Unemployed People's Movement, one of the social forces that made the New Deal 2/3
The most common spontaneous action of resistance to the Great Depression was mass looting of groceries, department stores, even restaurants. Contemporaneous writing on the Depression describes this practice as nationwide, common and widespread, but we'll never know its extent 1/3
I urge everyone to vote wisely tomorrow. If you are lucky enough to be able to vote for candidates who are prepared to stand up for people who are marginalised, disadvantaged, poor - not because it's fashionable but because it is important to them - please do so.
As I go to my Polling Station tomorrow, I'll remind myself this. 10 years ago when I properly started challenging immigration detention, there were only two MPs whom we knew we could count on their support. They were John McDonnell & Jeremy Corbyn.
At 1pm there are 117 fires burning, of those, 71 are not contained. Around 2,300 personnel are taking advantage of today's cooler conditions. Widespread lightning saw several new ignitions overnight. More lightning expected this afternoon. #nswfires#nswrfs