Jason Goroncy
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A song inspired by and written for the people of Ukraine.
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Sunflowers
This song, co-written with my friend Jonathan Hicks, was inspired by and written for the people of Ukraine. It first emerged in 2024 during my time performing with the folk group Catgut and Air. It is also a song that strikes close to home genealogically. Were she alive to witness it, my Russian babushka would have been utterly appalled by the aggression shown by the leadership of her motherland.
http://jasongoroncy.com/2025/08/11/sunflowers/
about 1 month ago
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Michael Morrell
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To my friends experiencing newfound conviction about speaking up against political violence: Excellent, let's keep going. This is Rev. David Black, a Presbyterian minister, being attacked by cowards in masks while protesting political violence against immigrants in Chicago over the weekend.
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#Gaza
#Israel
#school
#education
#children
#teaching
#academia
#university
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Gaza
#Solidarity
#Concert
Please join the
#Jewish
Council for a night of fundraising and music in solidarity with the people of
#Gaza
and all
#Palestinians
in their struggles.
#Melbourne
tickets.cornerhotel.com/outlet/event...
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Gaza Solidarity Concert
Solidarity Fundraiser - Concert for Gaza PLAYING TIMES: SHOW RUNS FROM 7PM 'TIL 8:30PM Please join the Jewish Council for a night of fundraising and music in solidarity with the people of Gaza and...
https://tickets.cornerhotel.com/outlet/event/09744ad3-4f23-49c7-81d4-3055c8a8f167?mc_cid=4799342625
8 days ago
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The Australia Institute
12 days ago
Today's final approval of the North West Shelf is a climate, economic, and energy security disaster. Australia Institute analysis shows the 45-year expansion is equivalent to building 12 new coal power stations.
@grogsgamut.bsky.social
#auspol
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An Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne on the Closure of
#Meanjin
openletter.earth/an-open-lett...
@savemeanjin.bsky.social
@mupublishing.bsky.social
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An Open Letter to the Vice Chancellor of The University of Melbourne on the Closure of Meanjin
https://openletter.earth/an-open-letter-to-the-vice-chancellor-of-the-university-of-melbourne-on-the-closure-of-meanjin-6617e6d9?limit=0
13 days ago
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"Of course it struggled to be viable – it’s a literary magazine. ... The point is their cultural value." – Ben Walter, on the MUP's axing of
#Meanjin
on "purely financial grounds." In 2025, MUP paid three managers $438,544.
#literature
www.theguardian.com/books/commen...
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The end of Meanjin after 85 years is as sad as it is infuriating | Ben Walter
MUP says it is ‘no longer viable’ to make the literary magazine – but almost none of them are financially viable. That’s not their purpose or value
https://www.theguardian.com/books/commentisfree/2025/sep/06/the-end-of-meanjin-after-85-years-is-as-sad-as-it-is-infuriating
18 days ago
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The ‘flower inside the fire’. – Ahmed Muin Abu Amsha on making
#music
in
#gaza
youtu.be/MtodtEKmYSE?...
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Meet the Gaza music teacher behind viral drone song | Al Jazeera Newsfeed
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
https://youtu.be/MtodtEKmYSE?si=nzuJBKsB8K4_R3xz
18 days ago
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18,430 kids. We will speak their names.
#gazavigil
#melbourne
21 days ago
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‘Defining
#dingoes
as a distinct species/subspecies wd allow gov’ts 2 differentiate them from domestic
#dogs
in laws, policies & conservation programs, & align western science w/ First Nations knowledge’. – KM Cairns, B Smith,
@euanritchie.bsky.social
& T Newsome
theconversation.com/dingoes-are-...
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Dingoes are not domestic dogs – new evidence shows these native canines are on their own evolutionary path
New research suggests dingoes are distinct enough to have their own scientific name. If this is accepted, it will have far-reaching consequences
https://theconversation.com/dingoes-are-not-domestic-dogs-new-evidence-shows-these-native-canines-are-on-their-own-evolutionary-path-262938
23 days ago
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My response to the Hobsons Bay Council budget, published today in Star Weekly.
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The Ledger of Our Lives: The Hobsons Bay Blues
In the halls of Hobsons Bay, they’ve drawn their battle lines,There’s squillions for the roads, while community declines.Seven dollars ninety-nine for art, for books, for dreams –Tell me what this says about our values, plots, and schemes. Thirty-nine for every road, twenty-one for parks and play,Nine dollars for the aged, the faint, the ones who’ve lost their way.
http://jasongoroncy.com/2025/09/01/the-ledger-of-our-lives-the-hobsons-bay-blues/
23 days ago
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A case for eating
#kangaroo
, "even if you are
#vegan
."
#dingos
#Ecology
#sustainability
#AnimalWelfare
#health
#food
#australia
mannagum.org.au/articles/Why...
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Why You Should Eat Kangaroo - Manna Gum
https://mannagum.org.au/articles/Why-You-Should-Eat-Kangaroo
27 days ago
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“Forests of Eucalyptus regnans – one of the tallest tree species in the world – lose about 9% of their
#trees
for every degree of warming.”
#forests
#climatechange
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Victoria’s mountain ash forests could lose a quarter of ‘giant’ trees as temperatures rise
Eucalyptus regnans – which regularly reach 60 to 80m tall – lose about 9% of their trees for every degree of warming, research finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/22/victoria-mountain-ash-forests-could-lose-quarter-giant-trees-temperatures-rise?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
about 1 month ago
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“It’s like being asked to train up your own replacement – for free.” –
@patrickstokes.com
on
#GenAI
and
#artists
www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...
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AI and artists: will anyone care when human creativity is usurped?
Perhaps the scariest thing about AI and artists isn’t that it will do creators out of their jobs but that no-one will care.
https://www.artshub.com.au/news/opinions-analysis/ai-and-artists-will-anyone-care-when-human-creativity-is-usurped-2816068/
about 1 month ago
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I am grateful to have contributed to this collection of essays, edited by
@dnewheiser.bsky.social
& Lexi Eikelboom, which explores the spiritual significance of art practice. The book is now available via Open Access with
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
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https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350474215
about 1 month ago
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Councils have the most screwed up priorities.
about 1 month ago
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@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
on our responsibility when living under under tyranny, riffing on Arendt.
medium.com/amor-mundi/o...
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On Tyranny, Its Causes, and Our Personal Responsibility
by Roger Berkowitz
https://medium.com/amor-mundi/on-tyranny-its-causes-and-our-personal-responsibility-411f12a41c07
about 1 month ago
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Some light shining in the darkness.
#Karen
#Thailand
#Medical
#Refugees
karennews.org/2025/08/thai...
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Thai authorities to provide financial support for health workers in border refugee camps - Karen News
With international humanitarian aid cutoff, food supplies to refugee camps along the Thailand-Myanmar border have been suspended since early August. The financial support for health workers aims to re...
https://karennews.org/2025/08/thai-authorities-to-provide-financial-support-for-health-workers-in-border-refugee-camps/
about 1 month ago
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“The Palestinians have never really warmed to European and American condescension, which is implicit in every conditional statement, every contingent incrementalism. … The force of the Palestinian cause rests in one principle: justice.” – Ahmed Moor
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Palestinians don’t need a state. We need justice | Ahmed Moor
In the midst of a genocide, the Palestinians are best served by abandoning any effort to attain self-rule in the Occupied Territories
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/11/palestinians-justice-occupied-territories?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
about 1 month ago
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A song inspired by and written for the people of Ukraine.
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Sunflowers
This song, co-written with my friend Jonathan Hicks, was inspired by and written for the people of Ukraine. It first emerged in 2024 during my time performing with the folk group Catgut and Air. It is also a song that strikes close to home genealogically. Were she alive to witness it, my Russian babushka would have been utterly appalled by the aggression shown by the leadership of her motherland.
http://jasongoroncy.com/2025/08/11/sunflowers/
about 1 month ago
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'Truth, however fragile & contested it may be, is the ground we walk on and the sky above us. ...
#Truth
is not
#political
, but it is the non-political condition for the possibility of
#politics
, the glue that binds the world in which we live'.
@rogerberkowitz.bsky.social
medium.com/amor-mundi/w...
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When Politics Becomes “Maximum Warfare, Everywhere, All the Time”
by Roger Berkowitz
https://medium.com/amor-mundi/when-politics-becomes-maximum-warfare-everywhere-all-the-time-c5770410178c
about 2 months ago
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Claire G. Coleman
2 months ago
This Friday from 3pm to 4pm I will be facilitating the first Creative Climate Cop 31 Online Forum. All artists working on climate projects or interested in artistic interventions around Cop 31 are welcome. If you miss this one they will be every month.
www.creativeclimate.org.au/get-involved...
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COP 31 Online Forum — Creative Climate
From July 25th at 3pm - 4pm on the last Friday, every month Regular online meetings to share ideas and approaches, what’s in development and planned activities in the lead up and at COP 31, fac...
https://www.creativeclimate.org.au/get-involved-collection/cop-31
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As I prepare to teach again on death this semester, I’m reading – and enjoying immensely – this beautifully written book. Thank you for your work on this
@beamarovich.bsky.social
2 months ago
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#Palestine
is “perhaps the clearest expression today … of how ‘power feels threatened by the truth’.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi
The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jul/06/destruction-of-palestine-is-breaking-the-world?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
3 months ago
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'The arbitrariness of terror atomises people'. – Marci Shore, on (leaving) Trump's America.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’
Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada. She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises society
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/why-a-professor-of-fascism-left-the-us-the-lesson-of-1933-is-you-get-out
3 months ago
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'We understand that changes of this nature can be unsettling, and we do not take them lightly', says the bloke who earned a salary of over $1,000,000 last year.
#education
#university
#academia
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
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A wonderful 'kind of report' on the death, or something, of the academic discipline of
#theology
, by
@beamarovich.bsky.social
.
#academia
theotherjournal.com/2025/06/is-t...
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Is Theology Dying? - The Other Journal
People often assume that theology is only for true believers: those who want to defend the existence of God against the skepticism of secular outsiders. But there’s an old open secret in the field: th...
https://theotherjournal.com/2025/06/is-theology-dying/
3 months ago
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A new song.
jasongoroncy.bandcamp.com/track/in-the...
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In the Aftermath, by Jason Goroncy
track by Jason Goroncy
https://jasongoroncy.bandcamp.com/track/in-the-aftermath
4 months ago
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Ted's not wrong: “AI is wonderful, except for the fact that it’s destroying
#media
,
#education
, the
#environment
,
#music
, the
#arts
, public trust,
#thinking
skills, and everybody’s job.”
@tedgioia.bsky.social
,
www.honest-broker.com/p/a-major-ne...
#AI
#education
#technology
#capitalism
#employment
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A Major Newspaper Publishes a Summer Reading List—but the Books Don't Exist
The AI disaster is getting worse—and a new survey of 48,000 people in 47 countries makes clear that the public is fed up
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/a-major-newspaper-publishes-a-summer
4 months ago
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Here's a new song of mine, written for The Village project, Fusion
#Mornington
Peninsula.
#homelessness
#parenting
#youth
#hope
#community
#music
jasongoroncy.bandcamp.com/track/lucy
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Lucy, by Jason Goroncy
track by Jason Goroncy
https://jasongoroncy.bandcamp.com/track/lucy
4 months ago
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Moved by Zeina Azzam's poem "Write My Name," I wrote and recorded a little
#song
the other day.
#music
#poetry
#Palestine
jasongoroncy.bandcamp.com/track/write-...
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Write My Name On My Leg, Mama (demo), by Jason Goroncy
track by Jason Goroncy
https://jasongoroncy.bandcamp.com/track/write-my-name-on-my-leg-mama-demo
5 months ago
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Jason Goroncy
Society of Biblical Literature
6 months ago
Congratulations, Paula Fredriksen, Jason Goroncy, David Gowler, and Carl Roemer, on your recent publications! Fredriksen:
buff.ly/2emtRzn
Goroncy:
buff.ly/lNl75Y2
Gowler:
buff.ly/E7PhiXX
Roemer:
buff.ly/sPEPSCQ
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Samantha Rose Hill
5 months ago
"The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule." — Walter Benjamin
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'What matters now is whether we can remember what
#politics
is for—neither endless expansion or efficiency, nor simply the resentment-fueled pursuit of naked self-interest, but the shared project of living together within limits'. – Roger Berkowitz
hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/i...
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It’s Political Power, Stupid
Today’s populist revolts against globalization are not only economic in nature—they are fundamentally political. As Hannah Arendt warned, the elevation of economics over politics, especial...
https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/its-political-power-stupid-roger-berkowitz-2025-04-06
6 months ago
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Remembering Óscar Romero, assassinated on this day in 1980.
6 months ago
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There is an excellent interview here with Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela about
#forgiveness
and the hard work of being human.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/soul-search/forgiveness-after-apartheid-and-the-limits-of-remorse/104466316
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Forgiveness after apartheid and the limits of remorse - ABC listen
In post-apartheid South Africa, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is asking, when is forgiveness possible, and where does that leave the search for justice? This episode originally broadcast on 15 September 2024.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/soul-search/forgiveness-after-apartheid-and-the-limits-of-remorse/104466316
6 months ago
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Borys Kormych
7 months ago
Catherine from Zaporizhzhia. She spent 5 hours under the rubble of her house, destroyed by a Russian missile. All this time she has been hugging her cat. P.S. Sorry she didn't wear a suit.
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"I had hoped that academic institutions might be more resistant to institutional capture, but it seems they’re more than willing to bow to threats." –
@jamesfolta.com
#academia
#publishing
#censorship
#Palestine
#architecture
#USA
#authoritarianism
lithub.com/an-architect...
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An architecture journal’s Palestine issue was abruptly shelved.
Image by Amal Al-Nakhala and Journal of Architectural Education Earlier this week an influential academic publication on architecture, Journal of Architectural Education, or JAE, had its forthcomin…
https://lithub.com/an-architecture-journals-palestine-issue-was-abruptly-shelved/
7 months ago
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#Ukraine
Fact Sheet February 21, 2025
https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-fact-sheet-february-21-2025
7 months ago
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Jason Goroncy
Marc Elias
7 months ago
New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.
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‘This is not just a
#war
between two states. This is a war between two systems:
#authoritarianism
and
#democracy
‘. – Oleksandra Matviychuk
#Russia
#Ukraine
#China
#Syria
#NorthKorea
#freedom
#HumanRights
#peace
https://youtu.be/OSIRA4tPrSo?si=MqieAn41PGSZgoT6
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Only spread of freedom make our world safer — Oleksandra Matviychuk, the Nobel Peace Prize winner
https://youtu.be/OSIRA4tPrSo?si=MqieAn41PGSZgoT6
7 months ago
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A timely reminder here about the benefits (for most of us) of pen and paper note-taking.
#university
#teaching
#education
#learning
#technology
#academia
theconversation.com/which-type-o...
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Which type of note-taking is better for learning: laptop or pen and paper?
Note-taking on a laptop may be faster but handwriting engages the brain in a more active way than typing.
https://theconversation.com/which-type-of-note-taking-is-better-for-learning-laptop-or-pen-and-paper-250404
7 months ago
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‘We have created laws to protect other beings such as cows and chickens. Why not give the smaller ones some protection too?’ – Vicki Hird
#invertebrates
#farming
#sentience
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/25/do-worms-feel-pain-are-ants-happy-science-of-invertebrate-feelings
?
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Do worms feel pain and are ants happy? Why the science on invertebrate feelings is evolving | Invertebrates | The Guardian
For the next few weeks we’re asking readers to nominate their invertebrate of the year: click here to give us your suggestions
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/25/do-worms-feel-pain-are-ants-happy-science-of-invertebrate-feelings?
7 months ago
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‘This is not just a
#war
between two states. This is a war between two systems:
#authoritarianism
and
#democracy
‘. – Oleksandra Matviychuk
#Russia
#Ukraine
#China
#Syria
#NorthKorea
#freedom
#HumanRights
#peace
https://youtu.be/OSIRA4tPrSo?si=MqieAn41PGSZgoT6
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Only spread of freedom make our world safer — Oleksandra Matviychuk, the Nobel Peace Prize winner
https://youtu.be/OSIRA4tPrSo?si=MqieAn41PGSZgoT6
7 months ago
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Nik Ford
7 months ago
Anyone trying to claim
#Ukraine
began this war is should be shown this document I pulled off the 🇷🇺 gov site in the 1st days of the war because I knew they would pull it or lock it. It’s locked. 🧵👇🏻👇🏻
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Honoured to be playing at a rally tomorrow in Federation Square to mark three years of Ukrainian resistance against Russian barbarism. My Russian grandmother would be proud of me.
www.facebook.com/events/11846...
catgutandair.com
#Ukraine
#music
#charity
#concert
#peace
#war
#hope
#Melbourne
7 months ago
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'Everything else might change in
#music
, but the dominant genre always pleases the feet'. –
@tedgioia.bsky.social
www.honest-broker.com/p/classical-...
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Classical Music Got Invented with a Hard Kick from a Peasant's Foot
Or why we need less math in music theory
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/classical-music-got-invented-with
7 months ago
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Excellent piece by Rick Morton on ‘handing the right to silence victim-survivors back to the very institutions that harboured their abusers’.
#Catholic
#Church
#survivors
#ChildSexualAbuse
#DSS
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...
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Exclusive: DSS shares legal letters that help silence church victims
The Department of Social Services provided legal correspondence to the Catholic Church that was then leaked to the Murdoch press and used in an attempt to silence victims.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-crime/2025/02/22/exclusive-dss-shares-legal-letters-that-help-silence-church-victims?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Saturday%20Briefing%20538&utm_content=The%20Saturday%20Briefing%20538%20CID_a5dc4af90f8199a77bd7d53b49a01e32&utm_source=EDM&utm_term=The%20DSS%20interpretation%20of%20the%20Act%20reduces%20the%20scheme%20to%20a%20government-backed%20retread%20of%20the%20churchs%20own%20Melbourne%20Response%20a%20mechanism%20for%20protecting%20institutions%20and%20further%20silencing%20victims&cid=a5dc4af90f8199a77bd7d53b49a01e32#mtr
7 months ago
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Where the Gods Cannot be Fooled.
#art
#NGA
#censorship
#genocide
#palestine
#colonialsm
#racism
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
7 months ago
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#Chicago
add a skeleton here at some point
7 months ago
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In other news, last week a small
#Rohingya
community organisation in the UK has succeeded in securing the first ever arrest warrant for a head of the
#Burmese
military'.
@burmacampaignuk.bsky.social
burmacampaign.org.uk/first-arrest...
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First arrest warrants issued for Burmese military
After decades of the UN Security Council, international courts and governments worldwide failing to hold the Burmese military to account for their crimes, last week a small Rohingya community organisa...
https://burmacampaign.org.uk/first-arrest-warrants-issued-for-burmese-military/
7 months ago
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