Today marks the tenth year that Kokoberra woman Ms Bernard has been disappeared. Her family are still searching for her
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Dr Watego 🔥on The Drum tonight.
ABC had no subtitles so 🧵summarize Dr Watego's part.
Host: passes to DW in segment about how to stop online abuse, asking what leads to it.
Dr Watego; Well look I do find it bizzare that the conversation starts with racism in online spaces.
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"I'll start with the fact it took an intervention from other people to get a First Nations perspective on this panel" - @drcwatego 
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"I'll start with the fact it took an intervention from other people to get a First Nations perspective on this panel" - 👑
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End death penalty in all forms eg Black deaths in custody, all killings in prisons, killings by police, shootings by police, death penalty sentence, life without parole sentences & any other way the State kills We must preserve all human life Racists & misogynists don’t decide
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Fucking nail them to the wall
Atrocious behaviour by a white male host of The Drum talking over a Black woman last minute invited to an episode providing a Sovereign perspective of this entire shit show.
Yet doesn’t take in any of her shared expertise or knowledge.
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Very much looking forward to hearing the amazing give the PEN Lecture at next week: Believing the Black Witness:
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This doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface. Nonetheless, great to see the ABC replace Stan with *checks extensive notes* this person.
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Hoping you may be interested? please dm me.
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Mob Only Contributor Callout: @FoEAustralia #Chain Reaction magazine issue #146 - Strong Blak Resistance -
#BlakResistance to Destruction of Country: Real Voices for Justice
please dm me for deets, will be reaching out to key mob over coming days. Very excited for this issue.
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Feels like I’m on another planet. I never thought I’d make it to 25. Spending my teens on the street, surviving violence & combatting racism in the media. But here I am, releasing my first book, appropriately called #Unbroken. I’ll tell you all about it on Wednesday at the VPL👇🏾
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REVIEW: ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and the strength of Indigenous women. If you should see this film, remember that the Osage people are not relics, we are resilient and we are Wahzhazhe Always
#WahzhazheAlways #osagenation #kotfm #CannesFilmFestival
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Criminalisation of indigenous forest defenders in Indonesia is gaining pace, with the imposition of draconian laws preventing obstruction of rare earth metals and logging extractivism. #transitionminerals are causing more environmental destruction than they're fixing.
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Kriminalisasi masyarakat adat terjadi lagi. Kali ini, pihak perusahan menggunakan pasal 162 UU Minerba yang berbunyi: setiap orang yang merintangi atau mengganggu kegiatan Usaha Pertambangan dapat dipidana.
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The thing is Stan had a Voice and he still got screwed. Whenever we are co opted into your regimes of power, we don’t actually have self determined power or agency or an actual voice.
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The impact of racial violence on my body has been debilitating. From excess alcohol to numb the pain, to hospital with severe panic attacks & suicidal ideations. This is what racism in Australia does.
I did everything the colony told me to do to ‘succeed’.
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words saved me 'As black women we believe our emancipation lies in ‘just working harder’. Productivity as an emancipatory pathway is a myth, because it simply cannot out-perform oppression'
i remind myself I will never 'suceed' in their system. so i create my own
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Or caused it while they were working for News Corp...
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Several members of the US Congress gathered outside the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. on Thursday to call for accountability for the killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. buff.ly/3MlCD15 via
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Indigenous author Debra Dank has won a record four out of 14 NSW Premier's Literary Awards and $85,000 for her memoir of family and place, and says she hopes its success draws attention to the "soul destroying" destruction of her Country
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Stan Grant’s treatment by the ABC reminds us it doesn’t matter how successful we become in our careers - this is their game, we’re just playing it. I hope mob learn the rules and flip tables sooner rather then later. Advocating to be apart of their system isn’t the solution ✊🏾
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I apologise if I’m so cynical about the sudden “well meaning” displays of anti racism from many ABC reporters. How many have used black trauma and pain in their annual Walkley hunts
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This is where Stan’s colleagues are. Today & every day.
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Great to see so many ABC journos standing up against racism. But it would be nice to see some greater self-reflection from some of them.
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first job as journo in commercial tv, colleague told me he was 'going to toilet to give birth to an Aborigine' meaning a shit
Stan Grant stands up to racist abuse. Our research shows many diverse journalists have copped it too theconversation.com/stan-grant-sta via
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Especially the ones who have made careers off cheerleading racist govt policies and rebrand as progressives. So much fakery from ABC it’s sickening
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White journos claiming they reject racism is kind of irritating.
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RIP CW 💔💔
Cops kill another Aboriginal man
Another Aboriginal family is grieving while the cops control the narrative & alibi themselves & blame the deceased for his own death
#DefundThePolice
‘They shot my son’: family watch police shoot man dead couriermail.com.au/truecrimeaustr
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Yeah right Karen of course you don’t want to watch the CCTV footage of your copper mates tasering a 95 year old woman on a walker and her falling to the ground and now in hospital receiving end of life care
Cops are killers
#defundthepolice
WTAF
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“The mother of eight is now receiving end-of-life care in Cooma district hospital, surrounded by her distraught family after being critically injured when she was Tasered and fell to the floor.” theguardian.com/australia-news
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NSW police officers used two sets of handcuffs on a frail 81-year-old woman with advanced dementia in a nursing home. Her crime? She had a nurse’s lanyard.
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Such an honour to remember our sista Kathy 💔
Kathy Boudin Inaugural Lecture with Angela
#KathyBoudin #AngelaDavis #JudyClark #FreeHer
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I mean this is why I think the only answer is building black media. If this is how Stan has been treated by ABC imagine all those young Black journos over the year who don’t have this profile
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The Qld govt, as the legal guardian of children and young people in its care, is barely doing a thing to protect these young ones from Rocky vigilantes. Resi homes being targeted. These are the same reasons the State justified removing them from families in the first place.
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Unsurprisingly, these are the same types of offences these 'crime fighters' are supposedly against.
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Despite what wanted to hear, we spoke about our love for Blackfullas, our legacy of resistance to vigilantes (just like we resisted their granddaddies ✊🏾) and our determination to defend our homes and children.
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Another Indigenous man has died in Victorian custody.
The 70-year-old Torres Strait Islander man died in hospital last week.
His death means there have been 34 deaths in Victorian custody since the 1991 royal commission, including 24 deaths in prisons.
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Six months ago, whistleblower Steven Marshall sent me recordings of horrific racism inside Brisbane watch house.
I felt sick as I listened to officers joke about “beating and burying” Black people - until then we hadn’t really heard inside the watch house
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A week ago in #Rockhampton a group of adults assembled to begin terrorising local Blackfullas by committing property offences; using their vehicles to intimidate and harass and using social media to organise, share personal info, and boast of their activities.
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What happened @ElyceHolden? Your story got deleted from Facebook and Twitter. You rode shut gun with a white supremacist. You portrayed members of my community as thugs when they defended their home against a convoy of vigilantes. Run straight, bub.
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Many of my peers in Vietnamese and SE Asia region studies (and skateboarding research) are turning our focus to the environment, ecocide and impact from militarism, colonialism and capitalism. This is essential listening: Dr interview w
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Today on @tripleamurri Let’s Talk..Social Justice, I wrap up my deep dive into Indigenous climate justice movements and principles by stretching my gaze across the Pacific with the help of Darumbal and South Sea Islander scholar, educator, and community leader, @MelindaMann01 (1)
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Every single day marks the ongoing Nakba against Palestinians, who will not compromise principles in their struggle for liberation. Israel does not have a right to exist. Palestinians have the right to armed resistance: at the Sydney #Nakba75 demonstration.
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