The Commons is a social change library. We collect, curate and distribute the key learnings and resources of progressive movements.
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Pleased to be able to contribute our @protestcamps research to this fab initiative from @ChangeCommons to bring together social movement history for the present commonslibrary.org/protest-c… cc @fabnomad @pmmcc @lestageog
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Happy IDAHOBIT. Trans people deserve safety, respect, and the same opportunity to build good lives as everyone else. Fight for trans lives.
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There will be changes to the supported employment award from 1 July. The Fair Work Ombudsman (@fairwork_gov_au) has some Easy Read resources to help you understand what the changes might mean for you fairwork.gov.au/pay-and-wage…
ALT Two women and a men with different jobs. The man is wearing a hi-vis jacket. One woman is in a catering hat and carrying buns, the other is in overalls and carrying a box.
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There has never been any acknowledgement that refugees come from very traumatising backgrounds. There’s never been any acknowledgement that mandatory and indefinite detention also causes trauma.
End detention. End the trauma.
theconversation.com/governme…
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Gotta love the way the university sector decided to cry poor yesterday, just ahead of #NTEU's strike action. Members are not wearing it - they want decent pay rises, fair workloads and secure jobs and are prepared to fight for it.
#BetterUnisNWA
abc.net.au/news/2023-05-03/f…
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THE family of Veronica Nelson want Victoria’s urgent bail reforms named after her so politicians are reminded of how cruel prison is for Indigenous people.
Ms Nelson, 37, died alone in her cell in January 2020, with a coroner later finding her death was preventable.
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We have halted coal into the world’s biggest coal port, demanding the ALP heed UN warnings and immediately cancel all new coal projects.
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ABORIGINAL scientist Professor Alex Brown has been appointed to the CSIRO board of directors, becoming the first Indigenous scientist to serve on the national science agency’s board.
MORE: koorimail.com
#KooriMail #Indigenous #FirstNations #Blak #AboriginalScientist
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Fantastic news! A Sydney court has overturned @VioletCoCo5's harsh & excessive 15 month jail sentence
She should never have been jailed for her peaceful climate protest
The NSW gov should review its problematic anti-protest law & uphold Australia’s international law obligations
Authorities in #Australia are disproportionately punishing climate activists in violation of their basic rights to peaceful protest
Violet Coco has been sentenced to 15 months in prison
Her crime? A peaceful protest that lasted 25 minutes
#FreeVioletCoco @hrw
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listening to the ALP in the senate defending keeping refugees out, and see this on the feed. australia has thoroughly normalised and exported extreme disastrous violence against refugees
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Exciting to see folks at @ChangeCommons helping share our policy library with rad groups in Australia! commonslibrary.org/radical-h…
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Iain McIntyre of @ChangeCommons did an interview with me about learning in #SocialMovements, now online with another half-dozen interviews with remarkable activists here:
commonslibrary.org/commons-c…
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I love my weekly chats with @bluntshovels. Now you can have a glimpse of what they’re like with this new series on the @ChangeCommons where I talk to El about all things activism - which is what we usually talk about in our weekly chats anyway! – at Brisbane, Queensland
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Dear @NSWLiberals_RB + NSW Premier #ourwayoflife is better -
BECAUSE of peaceful disruptive protest. We enjoy
✅ National parks & precious places
✅ 8 hour day, safer workplaces, public holidays
✅ Voting & Human rights for First Nations, #LGBTQIA etc
#ProtectProtest
ALT Gorgeous waterfall surrounded by rocky gorges with greenery all around. This is located in Kakadu, NT which was saved from further destructive mining when the Jabiluka uranium mine proposal was derailed by civil disobedience & mainstream advocacy 20 years ago
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Proud to stand with a staunch cohort of unions, community organisations and frontline activists to say
- no to jailing protestors
- no protest laws across Australia
- no to eroding the right to protest
#ProtectProtest #DefendDissent
More than 200 organisations, including @CIVICUSalliance, @unionsnsw, @AusConservation @OxfamAustralia & others representing millions nationally have united to condemn the sentence for climate activist Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco #ProtectProtest nswccl.org.au/nswccl_million…
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Amazing response from unions, large environmental orgs, social and climate justice orgs, and so many more standing with us to #ProtectProtest and speak out today to #FreeViolet
Read the open letter & see the signatories counteract.org.au/millions-r…
ALT Background photo of a rally slightly transparent, saying 230 organisations, millions of members stand with activists to #ProtectProtest
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When we think about climate change we think about the fact your government has approved two massive new coal mining expansions just in the last month. But nice to know you're thinking of the victims while making future disasters much more likely. #StopAdani #MoveBeyondCoal
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Following months of organizing, tens of thousands students from hundreds of schools joined Australia’s first national #schoolstrike on September 20 1972. The strike received wide support from different groups (1/)
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Thanks so much to @ChangeCommons for turning this video series we made with @rlmartstudio a few years back into a comprehensive resource. View the full series: commonslibrary.org/tending-t…
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"We don't see this [disinformation] as just an online or technological issue. For us, it is a technology issue, gender justice issue, a racial justice issue, human rights issue. @BridgetMarie from @UltraViolet
#FWDorg