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Living & Working on Gadigal & Wangal land

[Antoinette Lattouf @antoinette_news]

Stories that didn't get much (or any) MSM coverage:
A new report on Australia manufacturing explosives used by Israel, BHP's case against Michael West Media & a coal miner takes a turn, the US wants Australians' biodata + Wong sanctions violent settlers

https://t.co/TibZl7fcDz

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Asking the Royal Commission into Social Cohesion and Antisemitism if Muslim communities can't give evidence and false claims of antisemitism which conflate a bake sale or wearing a keffiyeh with antisemitism go unchallenged, what exactly is this royal commission for?

[SimonBrundish @SimonBrundish]

9 years of match by match data collection and 5 hours of writing went into this

Along with 9 years of life

[Thiago Ávila @thiagoavilabr]

Volunteer Juliet Lamont says detainees faced 'systematic' violence in Israeli custody after interception.
She 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’

[UNICEF @UNICEF]

“Children are paying an intolerable price for escalating militarised operations and settler attacks across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

Between January 2025 and today, at least one Palestinian child has been killed, on average, every week.

That is, 70 Palestinian children killed in this timeframe. Ninety-three per cent of these were killed by Israeli forces.” - @1james_elder, UNICEF Spokesperson

Read the full remarks: https://t.co/v0nR5yCvH5

[Kieran Maguire @KieranMaguire]

In the season FSG acquired Liverpool, (2010/11) matchday revenue was £40.9m. Last season it was £115.6m, an increase of 183%.

Matchday revenue is average attendance x number of matches x average price. Fans have to pay VAT of 20% on top of the revenue earned by the Club too.

Taking this into account, the price paid by a fan have increased from £42.44 to £82.11, which is 93.5% during the time that CPI has increased by 49.6%.

Part of this will be due to an increase in the proportion of tickets sold to corporate/hospitality/member fans, but even so, is there justification in the increases in ticket prices to STH?

Liverpool's success in attracting fans from all over the world is partly due to the vibrancy, the passion and the legend of the Kop (similar to the Stretford End, Kippax, Gallowgate, Clock End etc at other clubs historically) and current owners FSG have benefited from that.
They are standing on the shoulders of giants, but they seem to see those fans as a historical inconvenience and now want those fans to either pay up or move on.

@spiritofshankly @IanByrneMP @JamesPearceLFC

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Susana Trimarco disguised herself as madam and walked into brothels across northern Argentina, searching for her missing daughter among women trapped in sexual slavery and in the process, she sparked a movement that would free over 3,000 sex trafficking victims. It began in April 2002, when her 23-year-old daughter, María de los Ángeles Verón, left for a doctor's appointment in their city of San Miguel de Tucumán and never returned home. Frustrated by a police investigation she believed was deliberately sabotaged by corruption, Trimarco obtained the names of known pimps and sex traffickers from police files and launched her own search.

She posed as a buyer interested in purchasing the captive women and girls - some as young as 14, who could be traded for about $800. One rape victim told her she had seen María drugged, with swollen eyes, in a trafficker's home that doubled as a holding place for newly abducted women. But by the time Trimarco could follow the lead, her daughter had been moved. Though María was never found, Trimarco's relentless pursuit transformed her into one of Argentina's most powerful human rights activists and forced sex trafficking onto national agenda. "The desperation of a mother blinds you," she says. "It makes you fearless."

Through this dangerous work, Trimarco discovered the full scope of sex trafficking and corruption within the police and judiciary that kept women trapped in forced prostitution. "The police would hand [the trafficked women] back to the criminals," she recalls. "They used to say: 'Don't leave me. Take me with you.'" Trimarco ended up becoming the personal guardian to 129 survivors of sex trafficking, sheltering them in her home and helping them reunite with their families.

Trimarco's relentless advocacy forced change at highest levels. Her work helped lead to first law, passed in 2008, making human trafficking a federal crime; the subsequent reforms have led to thousands of people being rescued from sex traffickers. These successes, however, have come with high personal cost to Trimarco: she has suffered many reprisals over the years including countless death threats, having her house set on fire, and several attempts to run her over in street.

As more trafficking survivors and families of trafficking victims reached out to her for help, Trimarco says, "It came to a point where I just did not have capacity to help them all. That is when I decided to open a foundation." In 2007, she founded Fundación María de los Ángeles, a non-governmental organization focused on helping people escape from trafficking and lobbying for legislation to prevent it. Her efforts focused on her daughter's disappearance eventually resulted in trials for 13 people, including several police officers, in 2012; all 13 were acquitted, a ruling that prompted outrage by many and led to impeachment proceedings against three judges.

In December 2013, Tucumán Supreme Court reversed acquittals and convicted ten of defendants, who received sentences ranging from 10 to 22 years in April 2014. But despite it all, Trimarco still hasn't found out what she wants to know most: what happened to her daughter. Some witnesses say she was murdered - although her body has never been found and others say she was taken overseas.

Twenty-three years later, Trimarco's work continues in her daughter's name and for all survivors. Her foundation remains at the forefront of the country's fight against human trafficking, recently helping to dismantle trafficking rings in 2024 and 2025. In recent years, the foundation has expanded its role as a legal plaintiff in trafficking cases, ensuring survivors have representation throughout the judicial process. Now in her seventies, Trimarco remains internationally recognized for her work, though her search for answers about María's fate has never ceased. "Every woman I help somehow helps María," she reflects. "They represent hope in this new life of mine."

© A Mighty Girl

#drthehistories

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

We can confirm Andy Robertson will bring his Reds career to an end at the conclusion of the current season.

He will do so as a Liverpool legend ❤️

[Bob Brown Foundation @BobBrownFndn]

Watch as today, a group of 20 protestors from Bob Brown Foundation occupied the Executive Building in Nipaluna / Hobart, calling on Premier @jeremyrockliff to end native forest logging. #politas

[the Juice Media @thejuicemedia]

The Australien Government has made an ad about Alcoa strip-mining the Northern Jarrah Forest and it's surprsingly honest and informative. #auspol #alcoa

[Victorian Forest Alliance @alliance_forest]

REPOST @foemelbourne:

"Snow gum dieback poses an enormous threat to this iconic species.
As part of the Snow gum Summit we will be co-hosting a planting afternoon on 16 March in Perisher Valley in the Snowys.

If you'll be in the area please join us."
https://t.co/UtWsMLRAZF

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

GRMA once again to everyone who supported us from across the world during this witch-hunt.

It was driven by Zionists, it was executed by Britain and it was defeated hands down in West Belfast.

We said we would fight them in their own courts and win.

We did. 💚🤍🧡🇵🇸

[Toilet Paper Australia @toiletpaperaus1]

Good morning! Yesterday we said we’d post Matt Canavan’s voting record.

It was so bad, we had to spend an entire evening compiling the worst ones.

Today we present a 20-slide supercut of Matt Canavan’s worst votes ➡️

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Over the past 29 months the devastating, multilayered impact of Israel’s ongoing genocide has pushed Palestinian women and girls in the occupied Gaza Strip to the brink.

Women in Gaza are being denied the conditions needed to live and to give life safely.

Read more 👇 https://t.co/AD2A0YDJ9o

[Craig F̶o̶s̶t̶e̶r̶ @Craig_Foster]

The Iranian Women’s Team and Women’s Safety in Sport

There must be safe processes in place at every FIFA/AFC tournament for athletes to access and any time it is even suggested that a group is being silenced or coerced, the governing body should intervene to be satisfied otherwise.

With an institutional lack of commitment to human rights, the game has inadequate processes to protect women before, or during the commission of coercive practices or abuse and relies primarily on a slow process of investigation and sanction, instead of protocols to ensure their safety at all times.

This needs to change.

As to the situation at present, the players are entitled to make their own personal choices about their safety and futures without the oversight of their governing body or team management and once there is even a possibility let alone grave concerns about safety, no player can possibly be returned to a situation that puts them at risk.

And the Asian Football Confederation must guarantee that safety as the governing body of Asian football with direct authority over the conduct of its own member, Iran, as does FIFA.

Failing this, no participant in an Australian tournament should ever be in a position where they cannot access immediate assistance and seek the protection to which they are entitled under international law.

Which, under Australia’s duty of care to visiting athletes and all women at risk, should be provided.

[Bob Brown Foundation @BobBrownFndn]

Outrageous! Newly released FOI documents have shockingly revealed that government advice given to then Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek was to revoke the approval for fish farms in Macquarie Harbour. Fish farms out now! #politas
https://t.co/oV2EHpB94U

[Great Southern Reef Foundation @GSR_Australia]

“I watched a healthy reef collapse in seven days,” said GSERF's Stefan Andrews, after surfacing from a dive at Port Victoria on the Yorke Peninsula.

“What concerns me most is how much of this is happening out of sight and the public isn’t seeing the scale of what’s being lost.”