Erected in 1972, today marks the Aboriginal Tent Embassy's 50th continuous year of occupation, making the site the longest protest for Indigenous land rights, sovereignty and self-determination in the world. To commemorate this occasion, we're sharing images from our Collection.
The state of Israel regularly coopts queer rights to mask their 73-year long apartheid regime and subjugation of my people, including via arts funding. We call on arts and creative institutions around the world, including @mqff, to say no to pinkwashing! Be in solidarity ♥️
One of our COMPACT partners, @DiversityArtsAu has launched their StoryCasters website. This exciting program is led by young & diverse creatives from Western Sydney.
Check out their site with over 100 interviews, reviews videos & podcasts https://t.co/giuP4eHgdH
Today is the anniversary of the start of the Sabra & Shatila massacre, a dark chapter in the Lebanese civil war in which Israeli-allied militiamen close to the right-wing Kataeb Party and the South Lebanon Army stormed the Palestinian refugee camps killed up to 3,500 people. 🧵
Join MCCALL Voices with @annalise_awk Assistant Project Officer, Community Resilience @m_culturalnsw. She studies Media Comms & Security Studies at MQ & was an SBS/NITV Media Mentee and New Colombo Plan scholar. Live Fri Aug 27 4-5PM. @SSC_MQ
https://t.co/JC41p3qjlH
Good morning! Your weekly reminder to drink more water, to curse US imperialism and the Taliban in Afghanistan, pray for a special place in hell for the Lebanese ruling class, and also free Palestine ✌️
Evidence implicates senior Lebanese officials in the explosion in Beirut on August 4, 2020 that killed 218 people, but systemic problems in Lebanon’s legal and political system are allowing them to avoid accountability.
New report:
https://t.co/tv81uc0x7p
#BeirutBlast
“Diaspora inherently encompasses a protective, at times inadvertently performative nostalgia to protect us from understanding a thing–or to protect us from a thing that does not understand us.”
Please, read this gem from @SaraSalehOz https://t.co/kAckDQAGzv
Yeah nah. Saying rightful names only during Naidoc week isn’t *celebrating Indigenous culture. It’s WP reminding us they hold the power to *acknowledge us whenever & however they want.