Penny McCall Howard

socialist, trade unionist, climate action

[Penny McCall Howard @PMcHoward]

@AshleyLeahy They had the reporter on the Today show this morning. Host Sarah Abo made the point several times that it was unacceptable that she was shot by police. Host Karl and the reporter dodged and downplayed that fact.

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

French dock workers refuse to load weapons due for Israel

Dockworkers at the port of Marseille-Fos are refusing to load a 14-tonne shipment of weapons intended for Israel. In a press release, they declared, "We will not participate in the ongoing genocide orchestrated by the Israeli government."

According to their statement, the containers have been "set aside, and the dockers will not go onto the ship bound for Haifa." They further emphasised that "the port of Marseille-Fos must not be used to supply the Israeli army."

[Larissa Waters @larissawaters]

The Greens continue our calls for an immediate ceasefire and lasting peace, to end our two-way arms trade with the Netanyahu government, an end to the aid blockades & the release of all hostages.

[The IMEU @theIMEU]

In the past 24 hours, Israel killed at least 115 Palestinians in Gaza and violently drove over 19,000 from their homes.

[Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti @MustafaBarghou1]

The #Genocide Genocide continues :The Israeli army killed 250 Palestinian civilians in Gaza in the last 36 hours. 100 Palestinian children died because of starvation.

[Artists for Palestine UK @Art4PalestineUK]

Reigning #Eurovision winner Nemo: “I support the call for Israel’s exclusion from the Eurovision Song Contest

"Israel’s actions are fundamentally at odds with the values that Eurovision claims to uphold — peace, unity, and respect for human rights.”
https://t.co/2tL3I1abj1

[Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East @CJPME]

Divestment victory! Yesterday, with a record turnout for the vote, UofT faculty and librarians passed an historic divestment motion.

The membership of the University of Toronto Faculty Association (UTFA) called on the University Pension Plan (UPP) to divest from the manufacture of weapons used to commit or facilitate war crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Sudan, and all other contexts of crimes against humanity, illegal occupation, and other serious violations of international law.

The UTFA is the 20th faculty or academic association to endorse boycotting or divesting from Israeli war crimes in Palestine over the last two years. BDS works! https://t.co/KIcWyf9lc8

[Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti @MustafaBarghou1]

59 Palestinian children have died of starvation in Gaza due to the complete Israeli siege for 64 days.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I support this legal assessment and am shocked that NO POLITICAL LEADERS are denouncing the attack on a civilian ship delivering aid to a starving population.
EU leaders should condemn this act, demand an urgent investigation & urgent access to the ship, stranded in int'l waters

[Mohammed jawad 🇵🇸 @Mo7ammed_jawad6]

For over fifty days, no food trucks have entered Gaza. Remember Gaza. Talk about Gaza. Never stay silent.

[Padraic Gibson @paddygibson]

UTS staff and students gathered today in solidarity with @RandaAFattah⁩ We demand the re-instatement of Dr Abdel-Fattah’s Australia Research Council grant immediately! We can not tolerate the ongoing racism and repression directed at pro-Palestine voices on our campuses.

[Ahmed in Gaza 🇵🇸 @ahmedgaza24]

For four days, not a single food truck has entered the Gaza Strip. Please don't stop talking about Gaza.

[Ben Gardner @Ben_Wisden]

Solidarity with @plalor

https://t.co/9faHmxlhYK

[sarah @sahouraxo]

This is Beirut today.

Israel is dropping American-made bombs on civilian homes, destroying one of the oldest capital cities in the world.

[Solidarity @soli_aus]

Leaked figures show that the CFMEU Administrator and his staff appointed by Labor are gorging themselves at the expense of construction workers.

https://t.co/9hQZTQk7YY

[Vaxine Beneba Clarke @slamup]

The British committing genocide in Australia, then their ‘Aboriginal Protection Act’ forming the basis of apartheid laws in South Africa, then Israel enacting apartheid on Palestinians is a quick history lesson in how cheering the “royals” after marching pro-Palestine is bizarre

[Antony Loewenstein @antloewenstein]

Moral clarity from leading Israeli human rights org @btselem:

"The magnitude of the crimes Israel is currently committing in the northern Gaza Strip in its campaign to empty it of however many residents are left is impossible to describe, not just because hundreds of thousands of people enduring starvation, disease without access to medical care and incessant bombardments and gunfire defies comprehension, but because Israel has cut them off from the world.

"Ever since Israel’s current operation in the northern Gaza Strip began on 5 October, the area has been under a near complete siege, relentlessly pummeled by the military. Other than in the most exceptional cases, Israel does not allow humanitarian aid or emergency crews in, taking advantage of the fact that global attention has been diverted to irreversibly change reality on the ground.

"According to reports from humanitarian agencies, about 50,000 people have already been forced out of their homes since the offensive began. The three hospitals that still operate in northern Gaza are on the brink of collapse and themselves vulnerable to attack. The same goes for public buildings used as IDP camps, where many people who had sought refuge were killed in Israeli bombardments. The few testimonies that have trickled out of northern Gaza describe dead bodies lining the streets, hunger, drinking water nowhere to be found, and civilians being killed as bombs are dropped on their homes without warning or as they flee for their lives.

"For a year now, since the war began, the international community has shown utter impotence to stop the indiscriminate attack on civilians in the Gaza Strip. Now, when it is clearer than ever that Israel intends to forcibly displace northern Gaza’s residents by committing some of the gravest crimes under the laws of war, the world’s nations must take action.

"Without immediate, decisive action from the international community, without using every tool available - political, legal, economic - the mass killings in the northern Gaza Strip will continue and the suffering of its besieged civilians will grow. All international bodies and institutions must act now to compel Israel to stop the war and end the carnage."

https://t.co/7oCxct9b38

[Penny McCall Howard @PMcHoward]

@MarcFennell It’s a fantastic show, thank you for making it!

[Penny McCall Howard @PMcHoward]

@JonBeves @martina_lessio @WAlexSyd @nguyenunsw @schmidtim @UNSWChemSociety Ship’s bunkers? Huge amounts are illegally pumped overboard and there is a lot of flag of convenience shipping in and out of port botany https://t.co/XjTVOMeWdi

[PAME Greece International @PAME_Greece]

🚨🚨🚨🚨
WE DID IT!

After workers of Piraeus all night blocked the #israel container the ship "Marla BULL" departed WITHOUT the weapons

The people can win!
From Greece
From the world
#Palestine is not alone!

MURDERERS OUT FROM THE PORT!