Rea Daellenbach

Feminist, lecturer in midwifery and health science, mother and grandmother. She/her

[Jane Caro @JaneCaro]

I doubt she will, I doubt she can, but it would be sooooooo good if she did.

[Greenpeace Aotearoa @GreenpeaceNZ]

A New Zealand bottom trawler caught 37kg of coral in international waters, prompting the suspension of all fishing in the area...
https://t.co/Fl4KwtYdLm

[Dr. Mads Gilbert @DrMadsGilbert]

Stand-up comedians tell the truth! I couldn't have said it better myself.

[John Cusack @johncusack]

So let me get this straight- a bad person comes into my home tries to kill me - I kill them in self defense . Then I go out and find their house and kill everyone in their house - then I find where their families live - kill them all - and some guests who are there -
Then I kill the guests families - then everything in the whole town - then everyone in the state
- when does it stop being defense ?

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israel’s genocidal mayhem has given me a hideous understanding into the great horrors of the past.

How could so many people who regard themselves as decent, humane, ‘moderate’ become complicit in unspeakable atrocities? It’s something I’ve always wondered.

After all, only a tiny proportion of any society are actually sociopaths.

Well, this great crime of our age offers the answers.

The British media and political elites are full of people who aren’t even pretending.

Their worldview is clear. Israelis are “us”. Palestinians are “them”.

Accordingly, every Israeli life has meaning and value - it is inherently precious.

A Palestinian life is worth virtually nothing. It is less than cheap. A bag of rats drowned in a lake is likely to elicit more sympathy.

Violence against a single Israeli life - “us” - is therefore seen as intolerable and unbearable.

Endless violence against countless Palestinians, on the other hand, doesn’t even produce a genuine emotional response.

We’ve seen this tested to destruction.

It doesn’t matter what the atrocity is.

Newborns cooked alive in rubble, or left to suffocate and rot in bombed hospitals.

6 year olds shot in the head by snipers.

Terrified children deliberately blown apart in their families’ cars by tanks, the paramedics sent to save them butchered, too.

Entire family bloodlines exterminated in moments.

Detainees gang raped. Bodies thrown from roofs. Civilians riddled with bullets while trying to get food.

The worst imaginable atrocities committed over and over again, but because the victims are Palestinian, no outrage or horror or anguished demands that this must stop, whatever it takes.

There is, at best, empty handwringing and platitudes, while our government continues to arm the perpetrators.

But when an attack is launched against Israel in which not a single Israeli is killed, then there is wall to wall horror, disgust, outrage from our political and media elites.

So if you’re wondering how so many who regarded themselves as decent, modest, upstanding, morally sophisticated citizens actively made themselves complicit in all the horrors of the past you read about in books - well, now you know.

What mattered to them was who was “us” and who was “them”.

I used to passionately disagree with these elites - I work, after all, in the British media, and have now for 13 years: even hold them in contempt. But it took this genocide to make me realise:

I don’t live in the same moral universe as these people. They now disgust me: I am repulsed by them. It is what it is: my job is to be honest about my opinions, and I could pretend this isn’t how I feel, but for what moral reason?

I’m not telling you because it’s cathartic, even though it is. It’s because what I feel is felt by many others, and that matters - a lot.

Millions of people in every country, on every continent, are feeling this, and it gets stronger with every passing day,

The consequences will be felt for many, many generations.

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

The health system’s capacity in #Lebanon is deteriorating. @WHO’s medical supplies cannot be delivered due to the almost complete closure of Beirut’s airport.

WHO calls on urgent facilitation of flights to deliver health supplies to Lebanon. Lives depend on it!

[Jews Against Fascism ☂️ @jewsagainstfash]

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In light of yesterday's proceedings in the senate enquiry into antisemitism in universities, here's our submission below. 👇

As an explicitly Jewish organisation, dedicated to fighting fascism and racism in all its forms, (1/16)

[Scott Hamilton RTM @SikotiHamiltonR]

1/4 The countryside between Warkworth & Matakana is dominated by vineyards. Do their owners realise how perilous their situation is? If Trump wins in November & implements his promised 10% tariff on imported goods next year, then NZ's winemakers are in big trouble.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

The excitement in this young girl's eyes is so damn heartwarming.

Kamala Harris is going to be the next president of the United States!!!!!

Who agrees? 💙💙💙

[Rea Daellenbach @ReaDaellenbach]

Waste to energy plants burn rubbish for electricity, but release dangerous chemicals and emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Get behind this local campaign to oppose this false solution - join me in signing the petition to @ECan and Waimate councils! https://t.co/3D9tsUREvU

[Nick @StrayDogNZ]

"As a former Prime Minister of this country, I am concerned that our democracy is being weakened by the methods this Government is using to achieve its goals.

Some of these policies are unfit for purpose, legally suspect, contrary to the public interest and inappropriate."

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

#Breastfeeding is easier when mothers have support.

As #WorldBreastfeedingWeek starts today, @WHO and @UNICEF call for:
1) countries to invest in programmes and policies that support breastfeeding, including reliable, empathetic healthcare support;
2) governments and employers to ensure family-friendly workplaces, with paid maternity leave, breastfeeding spaces and breaks, as well as access to affordable, high-quality childcare;
3) countries to develop and enforce laws to restrict the marketing of breast-milk substitutes, with monitoring to routinely report Code violations.

@unicefchief and my full statement: https://t.co/CGct7DREI5

[Marwan @marwanbishara]

Israel arrested him and tortured him and today it killed him along with his cameraman just as it killed his other colleagues and fellow journalists https://t.co/l4OdG20UOr

[Russel Norman @RusselNorman]

Good News! New fossil gas NOT needed for energy security according to Govt report, via @GreenpeaceNZ https://t.co/CD1IHYLG21

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

Khaled Al-Shawa, 17 years old. Killed on his bike by Israel when it murdered Al Jazeera journalists Ismail Al-Ghoul and Rami Al-Reefi.

[Mohamed Moawad @moawady]

Here is Ismail’s tribute to himself and the dying humanity.

“Let me tell you, my friend, that I no longer know the taste of sleep. The bodies of children and the screams of the injured and their blood-soaked images never leave my sight. The cries of mothers and the wailing of men who are missing their loved ones never fade from my hearing.

I can no longer bear the sound of children’s voices from beneath the rubble, nor can I forget the energy and power that reverberates at every moment, turning into a nightmare. It is no longer easy for me to stand before the rows of coffins, which are locked and extended, or to see the dead people more than the living who are fighting death beneath their homes, not finding a way out to safety and survival.

I am tired, my friend…”

Ismail Al-Ghoul
Al Jazeera Correspondent in Gaza

[david galler @gauloir]

https://t.co/0EBTmxgl7Q
@NZTransparency @HealthCoA The public of NZ are not well protected from the undue influence of corporates and those pushing vested interests including those of some politicians. We need to ensure we have integrity in how public policy is decided