๐Ÿ“ท 100,000 people marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge to protest against the genocide in Gaza. The crowd size exceeded expectations and demonstrated strong support by the people of Australia for a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the genocide.

abc.net.au/news/2025-08-03/proโ€ฆ

#Palestine #Gaza #protest #auspol #Sydney #AmnestyInternational

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100,000 was NSW police estimate (a group who have opposed this march and have consistently messaged against the 80+ near-weekly previous marches as well; the police and/or NSW government have fought the organisers in court on three or four occasions and lost every time thus far).

Organisers say that after reviewing aerial footage, they estimate the number present today was between 200,000-300,000.

Police confirmed the following: as the front of the march arrived at Milsons Point station, there were still thousands of marchers yet to get past Wynyard station (south of where the march officially began). If it wasn't the biggest political single rally in Australian history, it was a close second (the biggest is widely acknowledged to be the 2003 Stop the War rally, at around 200k in Sydney).

#NSWpol #auspol #StopTheGenocide #Gaza

Lโ€™histoire est pleine dโ€™exemples amusants oรน lโ€™on voit des
personnages cรฉlรจbres sโ€™efforcer de montrer leur importance.
George Washington, lui-mรชme, exigeait quโ€™on lโ€™appelรขt : ยซ Sa
Grandeur le Prรฉsident des Etats-Unis. ยป Christophe Colomb
rรฉclamait le titre dโ€™ยซ Amiral de lโ€™Ocรฉan et Vice-roi des Indes ยป.
Catherine de Russie refusait dโ€™ouvrir les lettres qui nโ€™รฉtaient pas
adressรฉes ร  ยซSa Majestรฉ Impรฉriale ยป. Et, dans la Maison-Blanche,
Mme Lincoln se tourna un jour comme une tigresse vers Mme
Grant, criant:
ยซComment avez-vous lโ€™audace de vous asseoir en ma prรฉsence
avant que je ne vous y invite? ยป

Cโ€™est ce besoin dโ€™importance qui conduisit un pauvre petit commis
sans instruction ร  รฉtudier des livres de droit quโ€™il avait dรฉcouverts
au fond dโ€™une caisse de bric-ร -brac achetรฉe dans une vente pour
cinquante cents. Ce petit commis sโ€™appelait Lincoln.
Cโ€™est le dรฉsir dโ€™รชtre grand qui inspira ร  Dickens lโ€™idรฉe d

William James disait: ยซLe principe le plus pro fond de la nature
humaine, cโ€™est la soif dโ€™รชtre apprรฉciรฉ. ยป Il ne parle pas du souhait
ou du dรฉsir, mais de la ยซ soif)) dโ€™รชtre apprรฉciรฉ.
Cโ€™est lร  une soif inextinguible et celui qui peut honnรชtement
รฉtancher cette soif tient ses semblables entre ses mains.

Quels sont nos besoins? Peu de choses, mais ces choses, nous les rรฉclamons avec une insistance inlassable. Les voici :

  1. La santรฉ et la conservation de la vie.
  2. La nourriture.
  3. Le sommeil.
  4. Lโ€™argent et les biens quโ€™il procure.
  5. La survivance future.
  6. La satisfaction sexuelle.
  7. Le bonheur de nos enfants.
  8. Le sentiment de notre importance.

Presque tous ces besoins sont gรฉnรฉralement satisfaits, mais il en
est un qui est rarement contentรฉ et, pourtant, il est aussi profond,
aussi impรฉrieux que la faim.

I've always been a privacy campaigner. We are not the S*n, we have no right to delve into law abiding people's personal information.

bylinetimes.com/2025/07/31/theโ€ฆ

Tฮฑฮพฮนฮฑฯฯ‡ฮฏฮตฯ‚ ฮ‘ฮป-ฮšฮฑฯƒฮฌฮผ: ยซฮคฯฯŽฮฝฮต ฯŒ,ฯ„ฮน ฯ„ฯฯŽฮผฮต, ฯ€ฮฏฮฝฮฟฯ…ฮฝ ฯŒ,ฯ„ฮน ฯ€ฮฏฮฝฮฟฯ…ฮผฮตยป

eksegersi.gr/diethni/taxiarchiโ€ฆ

Was glaubt man denn was passiert wenn in einem Land lebt, dessen Staat einen Genozid durchfรผhrt und dessen Bevรถlkerung zum groรŸen Teil noch dahinter steht?
Wer im Militรคreinsatz war wird sich mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit daran beteiligt haben. Und durch die Gegend zu ziehen und "Tod allen Arabern" skandieren sollte natรผrlich auch nicht gut ankommen.

spiegel.de/ausland/israel-mehrโ€ฆ

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I dont see this story on English BBC, the image is BBC/MUNDO, their Spanish language service.

BBC Spanish has a different emphasis than English.

Image is BBC translated by Firefox

Link to original spanish

bbc.com/mundo/articles/cjw60zdโ€ฆ

#gaza

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"What was Israel supposed to do after October 7? Same thing they should have done before October 7: dismantle the apartheid state, give everyone equal rights, pay massive reparations, and right all the wrongs of the past. October 7 was a response to the tyranny and abuse of Israel; the correct thing to do when things finally came to a head with the Hamas attack would have been to remove all the tyranny and abuse which gave rise to it.

Thatโ€™s what Israel should have done. Of course Israel was never going to do this, for the same reason they spent decade after decade murdering, displacing and oppressing Palestinians since Israel was created. Israel would never allow justice and equality after October 7 for the same reason Israel would never allow justice and equality before October 7: because Israel has always been a settler-colonialist project that can only be sustained by nonstop violence and tyranny and theft and abuse and lies and breathtaking immorality."

caitlinjohnst.one/p/what-was-iโ€ฆ

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Apartheid

Speaking with a friends' son & his girlfriend (in their mid-20s) yesterday evening I was struck by how stridently they feel their future has been betrayed by older generations (of course, including his parents & me) & that the country is essentially a gerontocracy run for the benefit of the over 50s.

They both have signed up to the Corbyn/Sultana party & hope that this will change UK politics to reflect their views, interests & needs.

Are we about to see a political youth quake?

#politics

Pourquoi lโ€™enfant disparaรฎt de lโ€™espace public?
Entretien avec Eric Alary, historien
ยซ Il y a dโ€™abord la multiplication des voitures ร  partir des annรฉes 1970. On remarque que la signalรฉtique nโ€™est jamais ร  hauteur du regard des plus jeunes. ยป
ยซ Lโ€™รฉlectorat est plus รขgรฉ que jamais. On est dans une sociรฉtรฉ gรฉrontodictรฉe. On ne fait pas la loi pour les enfants mais surtout pour ceux qui votent en masse, cโ€™est-ร -dire surtout les seniors. Ils prennent des dรฉcisions qui auront des consรฉquences quโ€™ils ne vivront pas. ยป

ouest-france.fr/education/pareโ€ฆ

Because I agree but refuse to boost toots with shortened URLs (aka Link Detours) in them. And adding hashtags is a good idea for these kinds of toots.

Greenpeace International (@greenpeace) should have written in mastodon.social/@greenpeace/11โ€ฆ:

โ
They knew.

They lied.

Plastic producers have known for more than 30 years that RECYCLING is NOT an economically or technically feasible plastic waste management solution.

Take action >> greenpeace.org/international/aโ€ฆ
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#StopUsingLinkDeTours #PleaseAddHashTags #GlobalPlasticTreaty #Plastic #Waste #Recycling #InFeasible #PlasticWaste #InFeasiblePlasticWasteRecycling

Imagine you have a friend. Letโ€™s call him Rick Reasonable. Now imagine you have an enemy. Letโ€™s call your enemy Bart B. Oilingwater. Bart is a real piece of crap. Whenever he sees you, he throws boiling water at you.www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/

Boiling Water

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The next day, you confront Rick about this and he shrugs. โ€œMan, I hate that bastard Bart,โ€ he says, โ€œbut you have to hear both sides.โ€ Yes, you say. That Bart, he sure does suck, all right. But how are we feeling about Rick? www.the-reframe.com/boiling-water/

Boiling Water

Veteran CBC journalist โ€˜succeedsโ€™ in not mentioning what is causing this heat and prolonged drought.

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"That's why we've seen this drop of half a million head of cattle over the last five years, is because this has been a fairly prolonged drought in one of the regions that has the highest number of livestock," he said.

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#drought
#ClimateCrisis
cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-pricโ€ฆ

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11,000-year-old settlement in Canada could rewrite history of Indigenous civilizations in North America

"The newly uncovered village site of ร‚sowanรขnihk, which means "a place to cross" in the Cree language, is one of the oldest archaeological sites found on the continent and suggests that an organized society existed in central Canada far earlier than experts previously thought."

#Indigenous #FirstNations
#Archaeology #Saskatchewan
#Canada

livescience.com/archaeology/11โ€ฆ

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"This discovery is a powerful reminder that our ancestors were here, building, thriving, and shaping the land long before history books acknowledged us," said Chief Christine Longjohn. "For too long, our voices have been silenced, but this site speaks for us, proving that our roots run deep and unbroken. It carries the footsteps of our ancestors, their struggles, their triumphs, and their wisdom. Every stone, every artifact is a testament to their strength. We are not just reclaiming historyโ€”we are reclaiming our rightful place in it."

#FirstNations #Canada #Saskatchewan
#Archaeology

artsandscience.usask.ca/news/aโ€ฆ

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