The lowest point of the run comes as the 5km point looms: we are once again crossing Cumberland St and ascending the stairs towards the Harbour Bridge. I curse the Unofficial run club and all its future generations.
Browsing: Sydney
On Sunday April 21, speakers at the Palestine rally demonstrated the importance of our collective and enduring efforts towards Palestinian liberation.
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.
With Indigenous knowledge and care at the forefront, multispecies living and justice is an achievable cause that should be implemented into Sydney’s urban planning and architecture development.
While I sympathise with SST’s anti-development line, I cannot believe that the solution to conserving Sydney’s trees can be achieved by a simple change of government. What is required is a celebration of trees for their intrinsic value, their character, their sense of place. It is in these famous trees that we find places. There is nothing delicate in a belief like that.
Beneath this easy facade, however, lies a history filled with stories of political, cultural, and artistic activism. Let’s take a stroll down Glebe Point Road.
The 17th of December saw the tenth week of protests against the ongoing occupation of Palestine and genocide against Gaza in Sydney’s Hyde Park.
To international students, this question is nothing new. While culture shock influences the confusion, it’s a question still worth answering.
Whilst the marches, sit-ins, and picket lines of the world are powerful, street-art will always be one of the most enduring manifestations of public outcry against the status quo.
Parramatta Road and its secrets remind us that, when we look beyond the stained windows of our morning 413 or past the grittiness of the road’s concrete skin, a hidden world where past and present coalesce is all around us.
