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had no idea what northface was up until a year ago (probably cos i never get cold), then suddenly i'd be seeing 1 in 5 ppl in any concentrated space in melbourne wearing it
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NEW: On Friday, dockworkers at 111 ports in 22 countries and regions on five continents will stop work in a coordinated strike against war, according to the most recent information from the organizing unions.
More than 25 dockworkers’ unions have now signed on, from Marseille to Mumbai, Hamburg to Montevideo, Melbourne to Oakland. Days ago the count stood at about 100 ports in 17 countries, and that figure doesn’t include the dozens of unions in other sectors that have pledged support. Their demand is simple: no weapons and no military cargo through their ports. Nearly everything the world ships passes through the docks, and without the workers who load and unload it, nothing moves.
In France, the main dockers’ union says the country’s ports will be 95% shut. Italy, India, Greece and Turkey face 24-hour strikes, and Morocco and Cyprus will see stoppages of up to two hours, with rallies planned in port cities around the world. In Greece, metalworkers, ship-repair workers and young people are joining the dockers, and in the US, ILWU Local 10 is striking in Oakland and San Francisco. The unions are working from the Istanbul Declaration, signed in May, with each one deciding for itself how to take part. They are also fighting for their own jobs, against cuts from automation and for contracts, raises, shorter hours and safety.
The unions point to escalating wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and the danger of a generalized war. They condemn Israel’s new crimes in Hebron, carried out with the backing of the US, NATO and the EU. Israel’s lockdown of the city is now in its sixth day, with more than 3,000 Palestinians displaced, according to the UN. Palestinian unions have endorsed Friday’s action.
In Italy, the fight has spilled beyond the docks. The union USB has called for a nationwide general strike. Last night, the Italian government ordered transport workers back on the job last night. USB said it would defy the order and accept the steep penalties.
The unions are calling on workers and young people everywhere to stand with the dockworkers, saying “Ports for peace and the peoples, not launching pads for war.”
I’m reporting from Calabria, Italy, and I will be in Genoa tomorrow ahead of the strike to report on the ground during the mobilzation.
have a tattoo of a hello kitty ballerina holding an ak47. 3 years ago when i got it, i knew the ak47 part (learnt from a dagestani elder who's like anarchist without self-labelling) but not the ballet part with no interest in learning either. only to be now doing the ballet bit
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Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell and three other men have pleaded guilty to violent disorder over the August 2025 attack on Camp Sovereignty, with Sewell disputing claims the incident was an attack on Aboriginal people.
nit.com.au/28-10-2026/27223/…
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Mada Masr Editor-in-Chief Lina Attalah was released following several hours in custody after the New Cairo Misdemeanor Court convicted her on the charge of managing a website without a license during the first hearing in the session this morning.
The court imposed the maximum penalty for the charge, a LE3 million fine and an order for the closure of Mada Masr’s website and the confiscation of its equipment and devices.
Mada Masr paid the fine in full to the court, waiting several hours before procedures were taken for Attalah’s release.
During the release procedures, Attalah learned of a one-year prison sentence issued against her in absentia in 2024, on charges of publishing false news and managing an unlicensed website. Her lawyers took steps to challenge the ruling, with a hearing in a retrial of the case scheduled for November 11.
During the court session this morning, the court refused to accede to defense lawyers’ requests for an opportunity to review the case file, to submit additional evidence to the court and for additional witnesses to be heard. It then appointed an unknown party to act as Attalah’s defense lawyer, despite the presence of her appointed defense counsel in court and her own objection to being represented by a court-appointed attorney, according to the director of the Egyptian Initiative for Human Rights, Hossam Bahgat.
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THEY R BOTH ZIONIST. cruel radiance is such a hot steaming pile of dog shit. linfield is a revisionist author who writes for the haaretz. need i say more??? go read ariella azoulay, saidiya hartman or tina campt. enough of this
having been a social worker working in healthcare and forensic settings for a few years (under a sex-worker led initiative, few ppl knew about the swer part); i now want to be a landscape architect who is fanon, lacan, basaglia, tosquelles and anti-colonial psychiatry trained
revelation to learn that access to these books was a relatively universal phenomenon in even just australian schools. i was 100% an egyptology girl
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Two more Aboriginal females have been shackled to hospital beds since the major parties voted against a law to prohibit the barbaric practise.
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As a 100% Jew whose ancestry is partly from Vitebsk (where Chagall spent the first 20 years of his life) and entirely from Eastern Europe, this pisses me off. Chagall was an Eastern European. All my ancestors circa 1880 were Eastern Europeans. That's a neutral statement of fact.
To describe Marc Chagall as anything other than a Jewish artist or to celebrate neighborhoods like Brighton Beach and Rego Park but not describe their Jewish character are just the latest examples of the Mayor's relentless, pathological campaign to erase Jews from the story.
He does it so often that one has to assume that this is not ignorance or accidental, but a deliberate effort to normalize antisemitism and marginalize Jewish New Yorkers.
It’s despicable.
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Australian Labor spent AU$2.6M ousting 2 Greens rivals from parliament
Max Chandler-Mather got under the Prime Minister’s skin. Then Labor spent $1.3M to defeat him.
politico.com/news/2026/10/27…
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7⃣ The student movement also takes a clear position on Israel. The relevant passage begins with the sentence: "Our people know very well what it means to be victims of genocide and ethnic cleansing." The conclusion: "Accordingly, we will not become complicit in the systematic attempt to destroy the Palestinian people that Israel is undertaking in the Gaza Strip. We will step up the delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestine to save lives and reduce the number of victims." In their outrage at Israel's policy towards the Palestinians, Serbian students are not alone in Europe. (I share the outrage and have written about it). But one may ask how credible such outrage is when it comes from a movement whose view of its own country's history and crimes is above all an collection of blind spots. The movement that claims the Serbian people “know very well what it means to be victims of genocide and ethnic cleansing” has not said a single word about the state funeral with military honors that was given to Serbian war criminal Ratko Mladić in Belgrade. It has held nationalist rallies on the anniversary of the medieval Battle of Kosovo of 1389, but remained silent on the anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide committed by Serbs in 1995. All of this illustrates the mindset of generation that has absorbed more of the nationalist atmosphere of Vučić's 12 years in power than it realises.
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Amidst all the understandable joy over the change of power in Serbia, journalism must maintain a cool-headed perspective, including on the Serbian student movement and its spectacular success. For Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, I had a closer look at the foreign policy program of the Serbian student movement. It is a disaster. A summary in 8⃣ points.
