Gaye Demanuele

The power of the people is stronger than the people in power.

[Gaye Demanuele @gayedemanuele]

"You have to act as if were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time."
Angela Davis

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

🚨REVEALED🚨 Secret night-time shipments are happening of High Explosives manufactured by a foreign arms company in an Australian government-owned facility — approved for export and headed ultimately to Israel to kill Palestinians.

Excellent reporting from @DaveMilbo for @shot_au:

“Australia is manufacturing the raw explosive that ends up inside the bombs falling on Gaza, on Lebanon, and on Iran. 

“Not the entirety of the bombs. Just the explosive bits. And even Penny Wong wouldn’t have the gall to argue that nitroglycerin, nitrocellulose, and RDX (known as cyclonite) are the “non-lethal parts” of a bomb. 

“Two factories, one in NSW, at Mulwala, and one in Victoria, in Benalla, manufacture the munitions that end up inside the shells, bullets, missiles and bombs used by the US-Israeli death machine in its expansionist, genocidal campaigns.”

https://t.co/jfccmy697Q

[KellieTranter @KellieTranter]

'“The Australian government knows where the munitions end up. They end up in Israel,” a source inside the global arms supply chain told The Shot under condition of anonymity.'

Important piece by @DaveMilbo

[Worth noting that public servants - involved in the approvals process - have a fundamental duty to act lawfully, which extends to compliance with international law.

As an aside, how much of this 'material' is being exported to Israel via the US courtesy of the AUKUS export licence-free environment that allows Australia and the United States to transfer most military and dual-use technologies, software, and services between each other without traditional permits?]

#auspol #internationallaw #IHL #legalobligations #dutytoprevent #dutytopunish #sanctions #ICJrulings #accountability #AUKUS #illegalwars

https://t.co/SiCNnqm4FH

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

A small vessel has drifted onto the shores of Alexandria, Egypt, with no crew found on board. The person filming the video states that the boat is carrying humanitarian aid, including medical supplies, baby formula, and food, alongside flags linking it to the “Sumud Flotilla”.

[Anadolu English @anadoluagency]

Global Sumud Flotilla activist Juliet Lamont says detainees faced ‘systematic’ violence in Israeli custody after interception

◾️ Australian activist says 180 people aboard one detention vessel were ‘bashed and beaten,’ with dozens suffering broken ribs

🔺 Activist claims detainees faced sexual assault, tasers, beatings and injections with unknown sedatives

🗣️ ‘It was a very planned campaign of violence so that we wouldn't come back’

[jeremy poxon @JeremyPoxon]

Jobseeker is now worse than it was during the Howard years, in terms of how far it sits below the poverty line

New analysis from @TheAusInstitute: https://t.co/rqrimmwXIo

[Dr Desirée Kozlowski @Pleasure_Lab]

More than 200,000 people are currently waiting for aged care services in Australia
That is not something you'd see in a country with a government who's working for its citizens

[KellieTranter @KellieTranter]

Because we are integrated in CENTCOM and because UAE is Australia’s largest defence export market in the Middle East.

Our defence ‘assistance’ is not altruistic.

#auspol #illegalwars

[KellieTranter @KellieTranter]

#auspol #sanctions #globalsupplychains #internationallaw #genocide #IHL

[Penny Allman-Payne @senatorpennyqld]

Yesterday @abcnews posted a story with a headline claiming that 8 million Australians are on income support. This is entirely false but it's being weaponised to demonise people on welfare and undermine the social safety net.

It’s a dangerous headline and the ABC needs to fix it.

[Clare Hinchcliffe (Rogers) @Subversivite]

Zoe is acquitted of all charges, but there is no joy in this home tonight.

My thoughts on the outcome of the Filton retrial as Zoe's mum... 🧵
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[Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycent]

Politicians love food charities because it makes them look good, while having done nothing at all.

They never talk about the costs for people attending food charities, or the means testing. Food charities work with politicians to keep people poverty.

[WACA @akaWACA]

Guillotine time!
(Metaphorically speaking disclaimer as satire seems to have died in the morass of late stage capitalism.)

[Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet]

Oh yeah “we” are all so much poorer hey. Funny how this means we have to pay more now and not less. It’s almost like capitalism deliberately punishes poverty and continually extracts the most from the lower classes in order to keep the filth at the top happy.

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

📣FENIAN PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT

We beat the British state 3 times in court....now we have one week to get FENIAN to number 1️⃣

They rolled out judges, governments, police forces, trumped terrorism charges, travel bans and even a Prime Minister.

They saturated their parliamentary debates and news stations. But we beat them together as a big Fenian family.

Nothing would give a bigger F*ck you to STARMER, BADENOCH, SHARON OSBOURNE and the rest....

You can get the album in all the usual places - iTunes, Bandcamp, Record Stores, our merch shop...

Buy it if you can, forward to your mates and cousins and long lost relatives who built the roads and sang the songs, together we can laugh at the British establishment....again.

Grá mór 💚🤍🧡🇵🇸

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Happy International Workers’ Day!

To kick it off, here’s a thread of #MayDay posters from around the world.

Let's start in Austria, with this poster from 1891.

[WACA @akaWACA]

Flotilla activists kidnapped by IDF in International waters off the coast of Greece.
Not even in the so-called “red zone”
In International waters!
Will the countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea take any action?
Who will stop I$rael committing crimes in International waters?

[Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycent]

Most essential services "run" by state and federal governments are mostly private and the companies pay little tax.

Public housing? Privatised.
Public Transport*? Privatised.
Social services? Privatised.

You rent these services and fund them through paying tax.

[Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycent]

The Albanese government will contract the same private "human service" companies, the same orgs who are currently being accused of milking the scheme, to test how disabled people really are... in their own homes.

The money always flows to their mates, not the people who need it.

[BDS movement @BDSmovement]

Join the campaign to stop Elbit now.

Elbit is a cornerstone of Israel’s military-industrial complex and its regime of illegal occupation, apartheid, and genocide against Palestinians as well as its ongoing criminal aggression against the peoples of the region. Escalate BDS pressure on it.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

“Rich man’s war, poor man’s blood.”