Ambrose Andrews @znalo@librem.one

RE: https://social.librem.one/@znalo/116248123265984159

'What moral legitimacy can a nation claim that has elevated state violence to both doctrine and practice? From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Vietnam and Raqqa; from financing death squads in Central America and the Middle East to torture in Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo...Washington's accusations are a pathological projection'

I'm fielding thoughts of despair more and more frequently (not so unusual i'm willing to bet) but stories like this bring them front of mind and yet it's stories like this that i need most of all right now. i wish i had more of an understanding of that dynamic

'Wedged between photographs of our family in Cape Town and the artwork my son Biko brings home from first grade, the document is unremarkable. Just a list of names. Phone numbers. A sequence of people to call if I am taken: my criminal defense lawyer, my immigration attorney, my civil rights counsel, my wife, a trusted neighbor. But the first instruction sits apart from the rest, heavier than the others: Ensure Biko’s safety above all else'

#ice #usPol #fascism #whatGoodDespair #iAmSoSorry

https://africasacountry.com/2026/03/the-arrest-protocol-on-my-fridge

The difficult truth

Writing exclusively for Crikey, Grace Tame reflects on the prime minister calling her ‘difficult’, the media storm following her pro-Palestine chant, and which social causes do and don’t ignite public support.

13 March 2026

https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/13/grace-tame-difficult-anthony-albanese-globalise-the-intifada-palestine/

I do not support violence. I do not condone antisemitism, Islamophobia or hatred of any kind. I am a human rights activist who advocates for the safety of all children, no matter their background.

I shouldn’t have to say this, but I’m currently up against a well-oiled, well-funded political propaganda machine whose aim is to frighten everyone into complicity by maligning its critics. We’re living in an Orwellian nightmare. The same powerful democracies that are bombing and starving children to death throughout the Global South are portraying anti-war protestors as a threat to social cohesion.

Let’s be real, there’s only one reason that the prime minister thinks I’m “difficult”. It’s not because I’m a woman or a child sexual abuse survivor. It’s because I have been outspoken about Australia’s toxic alliance with the US and Israel, and whether you agree with my methods or not, they have cut through.

For the past month, our conservative politicians and media have been running a concerted smear campaign against me because I led chants of “globalise the intifada” outside Sydney’s Town Hall on Monday, February 9, at a peaceful rally protesting Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s state visit. It didn’t matter that the core message of my speech that day was one of hope; that seconds before I spoke the contentious phrase, I said, “You can buy bombs and you can buy politicians, but you cannot buy the truth; you cannot buy our compassion and you cannot buy our love — these are our weapons and we will keep on fighting with them until the very end”.

It also didn’t matter that Isaac Herzog stands accused of inciting genocide, nor that he represents a rogue apartheid regime found to be committing genocide in the Gaza Strip by the UN. It didn’t matter that he signed his name on an artillery shell later deployed by the IDF. All that mattered was that I crossed one of many grey lines manufactured to obstruct dissent.

Language means different things to different people. The Arabic word “intifada” literally translates to “shaking off” or “uprising” and is often used in reference to two periods of Palestinian resistance that began with labour strikes, boycotts and peaceful protests against Israel’s violence.

“Globalise the intifada” is a call for widespread nonviolent resistance to Israel’s ongoing oppression of the Palestinian people, but along with other pro-Palestine catch cries like “from the river to the sea”, it has been coopted, decontextualised and disingenuously redefined as hate speech by pro-Israel lobbyists, who equate it to threatening collective violence against Jewish people. This is not my interpretation.

#AusPol 1/n