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    “While you’re shopping, bombs are dropping”: Palestine Protests enter twenty-third week.

    Palestine Action Group hosted their twenty-third week of protests in the Sydney CBD on March 17. The protesters called on the Albanese government to end all their ties to Israel and condemned the time it took the government to restore UNRWA funding. Over 30,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the most recent Israeli invasion.
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    Palestine Action Group hosted their twenty-third week of protests in the Sydney CBD on March 17. The protesters called on the Albanese government to end all their ties to Israel and condemned the time it took the government to restore UNRWA funding. Over 30,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the most recent Israeli invasion.

    “While you’re shopping, bombs are dropping”.  Complete apathy from consumers, especially when we must be disrupting business as usual.
    A poignant reminder of Israel’s forced starvation of Gaza and that roughly half of Gazans are children. Where is the outrage?
    Irish solidarity with Palestine on St Patrick’s Day
    Making noise for Palestine, hopefully heard from Albanese’s office in Marrickville. Not that he would change his response anyway. Right now, Families for Palestine are hosting a 24/7 sit-in protest outside his office. Certainly come down!
    SRC First Nations Officer, Ethan Floyd, powerfully reflected on genocide occurring on so-called Australia. Floyd also asserted that “there is no neutral position in genocide” and indeed, Penny Wong’s suspension of UNRWA funding, the revocation of Palestinian visas mid-flight and the Australian government’s  abundant rhetorical / financial assistance to Israel, demonstrates where Labor lies – with Israel. Instead, Floyd highlights Labor’s interest in “token gestures and short term praise” while having “no interest in taking any steps to condemn Israel’s actions.”
    Ample watermelon merchandise as a reflection of solidarity with Palestine. A watermelon, of course, shares the same colours as the Palestinian flag and has been a marked symbol of their resistance.
    “Jews against the occupation” – Check out @tzedekcollective, who are organising a Shabbat sit-in on Friday 22 March at Central station.

    Palestine Action Group will host their next weekly protest against the occupation on Sunday March 24 at Hyde Park

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