The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of the world's most iconic landmarks. Tomorrow, on Sunday 3 August, Palestine Action Group will shut it down so tens of thousands can march to oppose the genocide in Gaza.
Anthony Albanese has made his strongest declarations to date on the genocide in Gaza. But as long as his government continues to support Israel and vilify Palestine solidarity protesters, his words are worse than useless.
As Australian politicians took their seats in Canberra, thousands of mothers in Palestine searched desperately for sustenance for babies they had spent months carrying and nurturing. The politicians united to denounce a Greens senator for objecting to the genocide.
In the upside-down world of 2025, the daily mass murder and starvation of children is fine and normal, but speaking against it is extremism, violence and hate speech.
The centre of Berlin was a sea of Palestinian flags and keffiyehs on Saturday 21 June. Banned slogans were held aloft and chanted loud. At least 50,000 turned out to show solidarity with Gaza.
It tells you a lot about the system we live under that twelve activists on a small yacht called Madleen have done more to try to halt the famine being suffered by 2 million people in Gaza than all the rich and powerful governments of the world.