TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

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Hi GVers, We are looking at our social media interactions. Just wondering if you have a Mastodon/Fediverse account to help create a GV list? Cheers Kevin

"Treaty recognises that Aboriginal people are the experts when it comes to our Country, culture and communities — and makes sure we can use our local knowledge to come up with and deliver practical solutions..." globalvoices.org/2025/11/11/v...

Victorian parliament passes Australia’s first Indigenous treaty legislation First peoples celebrate an historic win for reconciliation despite some strong opposition globalvoices.org/2025/11/11/v... @globalvoices.org

November 11: Whitlam's Dismissal and the CIA laborview.blogspot.com/2015/11/nove... #MaintaintheRage

Hurricane Melissa’s destruction was fueled by fossil fuels, greed, and political inaction. We need #ClimateJustice now. A message from Jamaican climate change campaigners. #HurricaneMelissa @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social @jamentrust1991.bsky.social @wriclimate.bsky.social @cop30brazil.bsky.social

The matter is urgent, as COP 30 is about to start. In a Call to Action, Jamaican civil society groups urge their government as well as developed countries to "act with urgency, courage, clarity, and justice" on climate change, following the devastation of Hurricane Melissa. We need justice!

Ephraim's story about a human rights lawyer on the side of Nigerian citizens We ask contributors about an important story they have shared on Global Voices community.globalvoices.org/2025/11/behi...

ICYMI there were large youth led protests in Madagascar last week. Low to no coverage in the anglophone press.

@rainingbear.bsky.social Anti-immigration protests give a platform to Neo-Nazi ‘goons’ in Australia - March for Australia rallies inflame racist violence globalvoices.org/2025/09/12/a... @globalvoices.org

Anti-immigration protests give a platform to Neo-Nazi ‘goons’ in Australia - March for Australia rallies inflame racist violence globalvoices.org/2025/09/12/a... @globalvoices.org

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Dictionary of Australianisms. I hope to get a copy someday. @kevinrennie.bsky.social globalvoices.org/2025/08/21/a...

Anger after university cuts funds supporting dictionary of Australianisms - Many Aussies have found the potential cuts to be ‘chunderous’ @globalvoices.org globalvoices.org/2025/08/21/a...

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Jeez, this rhetoric really would have been useful 18 months ago

Australia will be much poorer culturally for years if ANU Humanities, Music and Art are disbanded. And, as for defunding and closing down the Australian National Dictionary... stone the crows, fair suck of the sauce bottle, mate, they must be a few kangaroos short in the back paddock!

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"Her proposals would expand powers over universities, workplaces and digital platforms, coercing institutions into adopting an unchallenged definition of antisemitism that has been condemned by the very experts who authored it." globalvoices.org/2025/07/30/p...

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Plan to combat antisemitism in Australia stirs wide-ranging debate Fears that Special Envoy's blueprint would curb rights to protest and freedom of speech globalvoices.org/2025/07/30/p... via bsky.app/profile/glob...

Fundraiser: Climbing a virtual Everest with the Global Voices Community globalvoices.org/2025/07/24/f...

Creative Australia restores representatives for the 2026 Venice Biennale in a win for freedom of expression - Creative Australia reverses its controversial cancellation of an artistic duo globalvoices.org/2025/07/23/c...

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The Civic Media Observatory reports on a propaganda narrative humanizing and exalting the Maduro regime while #Venezuela's economic and human rights crises deepen and elections are celebrated.

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Reintroduction: I am a reporter who has been focused on the far right for a decade. I am very accustomed to protecting sources with reasons to fear sharing information with reporters. You can contact me on [email protected] or on signal @jasonaw.75

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‘Tears blur my vision’: Australian writer jailed in Beijing thanks Albanese for support in emotional letter

At @globalvoices.org we have a new Special Coverage section up on #Statelessness, gathering our coverage on this growing and vital issue: cc @institute-si.bsky.social

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Snarky Gherkin again if only because he expresses my opinion on Cookers. #Cookers

If deforestation and forest degradation continue unchecked, at least 27 percent of the undisturbed rainforests in the Congo Basin that existed in 2020 will be lost by 2050.

Authoritarianism is already here, it's just not evenly distributed. Join us to hear voices from the future, discussing their experiences in Hong Kong, Azerbaijan, Venezuela, and Ukraine, live on Wednesday or watch the recording any time~

The president of Palau has delivered a pointed barb at Peter Dutton while backing Australia's bid to host a UN climate conference “For us in the Pacific... the phrase ‘water lapping at our door’ is not a metaphor or a punchline. It’s our fear and reality" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Trump's tariffs on penguins and pine trees feel like a late April Fools joke Uninhabited Heard and McDonald islands among puzzling Australian external territory targets via @globalvoices.org globalvoices.org/2025/04/08/t...