Good to hear!
(That said, always remember to check of independents before voting. A few of them are recent Coalition/Labor party members who left over a certain issue, some are just as bad. Luckily I've seen more good than bad ones)
At some point you have to leave the past in the past and build a more equitable world for all, today.
Yep.
Unfortunately, some people confuse equity with "just treat everyone the same, I don't need to do anything about the things my ancestors stole". That leaving the past in the past means ignoring its continuing impacts. As long as systematic disadvantage from stolen land and oppression is ongoing, it's not the past - it's the present.
While unwritten, I have been relaxed when it comes to Aussie users posting these particularly notable examples and there haven't been any complaints from locals. As long as they don't flood the place like they did before.
Telling lefties to write “FREE GAZA” on their ballots instead of voting would have a much higher barrier to uptake than telling them not to vote
I would be interested to know if there are groups more vulnerable to this, and how to reach them. I naïvely hope that people who care about the ongoing genocide or even just progressivism in general would have learned that there are pro-Palestine parties and independents on most ballots.
For what it's worth, dont fall into any resignation that we mirror the US. Yes, we do in far too many ways, but take Clive Palmer as a simple counter example. Dutton doesnt have the (for lack of the correct word) presense and charisma of Trump either.
Furthermore, parties outside of the Coalition and Labor are on a sharp rise. We don't have the US FPTP system where the only viable choices of president are (frankly) another two bad candidates, evidenced by the lower US voter turnout for both parties. Here, the crossbench is a real option, growing year on year.
My point being, our material and legal circumstances are different. Education can actually make enough of a difference to at least move forward, even if it's another shit Labor reign.
Yeah, you've gotten the idea.
I haven't tested, but I believe it's also a pathway to allow us to use our Lemmy accounts to leave comments on PeerTube videos, to up/downvote them and to subscribe, on ways that make sense to us as Lemmy users and which make sense to the PeerTube users seeing our comments on their videos.
What's the point of blaming dead generations? That doesn't achieve anything for society. Guilt doesn't fix things.
If my dad stole your car five years ago and I inherited it, I wasn't involved at all, but you still had your car stolen. Would it be fine for me to say "I'm not a thief, you should blame my dad" and keep driving it around?
Of course, a car is a trivial example. Seizing entire communities' land, kidnapping and massacring them, for starters, is obviously a bit harder to forget about after a few generations, because the consequences still impact people today.
Sometimes it's not even about denial of what happened, but rather a mindset that the past doesn't affect the present anymore.
I often-enough hear people saying things along the line of, well, past generations took the land but society is better and less racist now, we collectively apologised, and my family weren't even here at the time, so we have no obligation to do anything now. Almost like if my dad stole your car ten years ago, died after, and I say well I've never stolen anything in my life, it was my dad's car, this car is mine, stop complaining about the past. It doesn't make sense to start acting like equal treatment is fair after so much is stolen and so little is given back. But I know people who believe morality is that own individual behaviour, whether they are doing hurtful acts, and disregard their own position in society, how they got there and who suffered to allow that to happen.
Guilt isn't what people are asking for, guilt actually doesn't do anything useful, but rather we need people to realise that it doesn't matter that we personally didn't commit massacres and seize land, because the consequences of those acts still disadvantage current generations of the victims, and it's not resolved if we dismiss the consequences as someone else's sins.
My guess (I don't know for sure) is that Mastodon is interpreting all posts in "/c/perth" as a thread with #perth added to it, and for example, all the /c/asklemmy's will be seen by them as #asklemmy (regardless of which instance's /c/asklemmy it is). So if they follow #perth, they'd get all our /c/perth posts.
I haven't looked into inter-format federation much but as we've seen, it can get funky. Consider this (pseudo-)community: https://aussie.zone/c/[email protected]
It's really Lemmy reading this PeerTube video channel as a community, so we can basically subscribe to and comment on a video channel from here!
Thanks, luckily there are also a few in Aus too, including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Council_of_Australia who have been important in providing a voice to mainstream media which isn't just a Zionist mouthpiece.
pretty arrogant if you ask me.
Consider our perspective: we're on https://aussie.zone/ (a Lemmy site) making normal posts to https://aussie.zone/c/perth .
aus.social has decided to federate this community and interpret this post as a Mastodon post that you're seeing. We didn't choose for that to happen, most of us didn't even know that was happening, and for us, it's not nice to see someone coming over and blaming us for what Mastodon has done and threatening to mute or block us.
Your concern is real and valid, but we're not the ones causing it and we can't fix it. It's a Mastodon problem.
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Sydney - Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) gala event protest at 6pm tonight
(www.facebook.com)
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Victorian Liberal Party member & local candidate Louise Black uncovered as a regular in Neo-Nazi circles
(thewhiterosesociety.writeas.com)
cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/15185451
- 11:00am Tuesday 12 November
- Belmore Park near Central Station
Join us to rally for the rights of the CFMEU and defend our democratic rights.
The new legislation targeting the CFMEU, stripping away its democratic processes based on unproven rumours is still standing. This is a dangerous precedent, threatening every union member’s right to organise and be heard. This precedent is undemocratic and anti-union! Let’s show up and demand these unjust laws be repealed!
It's important to understand the administration as a precedent, rather than specifically looking at the CFMEU. This has already had a chilling effect on other unions wanting to avoid similar repression, and just like many times before, sets up an attack for the Liberal Party to extend when next elected. That's why it's critical for other workers like us to stand together in solidarity, before there's no strong unions left to stand for ours. I urge those who can to come and bring friends, and those who can't to donate to the campaign - since the administration has seized the union's funds, they are relying on the generosity of other unions and political parties for printing fliers, buying flags, providing spaces and other basic organising needs.
See also this excellent article shared by @zero_gravitas recently: https://aussie.zone/post/14941033
- 11:00am Tuesday 12 November
- Belmore Park near Central Station
Join us to rally for the rights of the CFMEU and defend our democratic rights.
The new legislation targeting the CFMEU, stripping away its democratic processes based on unproven rumours is still standing. This is a dangerous precedent, threatening every union member’s right to organise and be heard. This precedent is undemocratic and anti-union! Let’s show up and demand these unjust laws be repealed!
It's important to understand the administration as a precedent, rather than specifically looking at the CFMEU. This has already had a chilling effect on other unions wanting to avoid similar repression, and just like many times before, sets up an attack for the Liberal Party to extend when next elected. That's why it's critical for other workers like us to stand together in solidarity, before there's no strong unions left to stand for ours. I urge those who can to come and bring friends, and those who can't to donate to the campaign - since the administration has seized the union's funds, they are relying on the generosity of other unions and political parties for printing fliers, buying flags, providing spaces and other basic organising needs.
See also this excellent article shared by @zero_gravitas recently: https://aussie.zone/post/14941033
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I can't find any info on it elsewhere. I don't have an Instagram account so I can't check out the organisers' feeds for any reports.