Documents released after a Freedom of Information (FOI) request was submitted by members of Students Against War (SAW) have confirmed that USyd is committed to continuing its exchange programs with Israel.
Browsing: Solidarity
The fight to free Palestine and cut the government’s and USyd’s ties to Israel is far from over. What the movement on campus needs to do now is get more organised and be prepared to hit the ground running next semester, arranging more forums, rallies, and sit-ins to defy USyd management until our demands for USyd to cut ties are met.
Both the Sydney University Muslim Students Association (SUMSA) and Students Against War (SAW) have publicly distanced themselves from the announcement made by encampment organisers that they are decamping.
a] What you’re telling your friends it is, and what your talks are all about…
Our front cover by Mahima Singh is an expression of solidarity between disability justice and Palestinian liberation. Our collective liberation will not come without standing together in solidarity with Palestine.
The rally renewed its weekly calls for a permanent ceasefire, to end the occupation of Palestine, and to stop the siege on, and starvation of, Gaza.
On February 18, the yearly Mardi Gras street rally took place, hosted by Pride In Protest and USyd’s Queer Action Collective. The rally convened at Pride Square in Newtown and marched down to Hollis Park.
It is our due diligence, as non-Indigenous migrants who have made this stolen land our home, to give back as much as possible to First Nations people. It begins with casting an affirmative vote in this week’s referendum, and then untangling the knotted narratives that have been woven around us.
Questions of fate versus free will are intrinsic to who we are as humans. Do individuals have the power to overcome their beliefs? Or are they bound by an eternally pervasive script to which the universe or supernatural powers precede their every breath?
The shearers of 1891 show us the immense and unprecedented positive impacts that can emerge from industrial action; who knows where victories in modern battles for workers’ rights like the NTEU’s – and subsequently the rights of ordinary people across Australia – will lead us?
