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Eko

@ekoanarchist.bsky.social
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Anarchist- communist, teacher, unionist, and trouble maker. Editorial collective member at Red & Black Notes.

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Eko @ekoanarchist.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Indonesia's support for Palesti e has never wavered... www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260814-if-...
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If Indonesia’s support for Palestine never changes, why is Israel’s ZIM shipping company still reaching its ports?
On 14 August 2026, the Speaker of Indonesia’s People’s Consultative Assembly, Ahmad Muzani, stood before parliament in Jakarta and said something Indonesians have heard many times befor…
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Liz Crash @lizcrash.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
haven’t seen the film but i just read the poem and Odysseus told Penelope she *should* remarry if he’s not back in about 20 years. she doesn’t want to, largely because she’d have to leave her home, but also because the suitors are Worse
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 03/07/2026
The Jewish Council's Sarah Schwartz has told the antisemitism royal commission of the abuse she has received for being critical of Israel. www.crikey.com.au/2026/07/03/p...
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The Snoop: Hanson rules out recruiting Deeming, Trump's mad first call with Starmer, and more
Plus: Germany calls time on the longstanding tradition of a sickie. What would Bob Hawke say?
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Eko @ekoanarchist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Chip "Nazis dont exist" Le Grand reveals that there are reds under the bed in the AEU! www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
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Victorian teachers are caught in a turf war. It’s Pythonesque but no laughing matter
The desire to blow up the system rather than reach agreement through constructive bargaining is an expression of industrial Hansonism.
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PeterGelderloos @petergelderloos.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
In our city they claimed credit for stopping a multi-billion dollar data center. The mayor stopped it because the investors hadn't consulted with any of the local powerhouses with their own development plans. The PSL... ran a couple social media posts.
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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Me when I lie
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Eko @ekoanarchist.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
New issue of #PicketLine, magazine of the Anarchist Communist Federation. Hardcopy available at stalls or by subscription, content available on the website. www.ancomfed.org/subscribe/
Magazine, Picket Line, headline reads "Classswar in the classroom"
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
that's the australia first party's junior burger you can grab these cat stickers via garage press >>> garagepressdistro.bigcartel.com/product/cat-...
"There was some racist rubbish here but I covered it up with this picture of a cat".
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Eko @ekoanarchist.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Everything I don't like is extremist.
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Black Rose / Rosa Negra @blackroserosanegra.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Pitch in: send anarchist labor organizers to Labor Notes 2026! 🚩🏴 chuffed.org/project/1765...
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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case
Judge Breyer: Okay. Thank you very much. Juror 96, I think that you also have strong views. Could you set them aside?

Juror 96: I believe that in a criminal trial, I would feel morally obligated to convict. However, in a civil trial, I feel I can set those views aside.

Judge Breyer: That’s interesting.

Juror 96: I’m happy to expand.

Judge Breyer: Sure.

Juror 96: I believe it would be to the benefit of the human race were Mr. Musk to be sent to prison. However, I don’t believe a loss of several hundreds of millions of dollars in a civil trial would be even a drop in the bucket to his wealth, so it doesn’t really matter. Therefore, I would be able to consider the facts.
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i.d.i.! inc. @indaindica.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Made me remember this classic:
THE COURT: All right. I’m going to excuse you. Juror Number 59, come on up.

JUROR NO. 59: Your Honor, totally he is guilty and in no way can I let him slide out of anything because —

THE COURT: Okay. Is that your attitude toward anyone charged with a crime who has not been proven guilty?JUROR NO. 59: It’s my attitude toward his entire demeanor, what he has done to people.

THE COURT: All right. We are going to excuse you, sir.

JUROR NO. 59: And he disrespected the Wu-Tang Clan.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
A Campsie real estate agent in Sydney's south-west was fined $35k for evicting a tenant on the grounds the landlord's relative wanted to move into the property. No such family member ever turned up and the home was re-advertised the day after the tenant was evicted www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
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Sydney real estate agent fined $35k for falsely evicting tenant
One Sydney real estate agent was been fined $35,000 for evicting a tenant on the grounds that the landlord's relative wanted to live in the property, only they never moved in.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Remove AI bloatware installed without your permission in Google Chrome
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
1/2 The wonderful Loud Jew Collective has been designated not Jewish enough to speak at the Royal Commission, so it’s on us to spread their media release. The RC is promoting the establishment messaging and silencing dissent. Please share this. #Auspol
Media Release
Loud Jew Collective condemns the anti-Palestinian racism on show at the Royal CommissionOn 1st May Loud Jew Collective (LJC) was told by the Royal Commission that "the Commissioner is not satisfied that LJC has a direct and substantial interest in the scope of the hearing and has refused LJC leave to appear at Hearing Block 1."
This rejection is evidence of the irredeemably flawed state of the Royal Commission. A flaw confirmed by the relentless anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia that we have heard since the Royal Commission commenced this Hearing Block.
Hearing Block 1 has been purportedly examining "the nature and prevalence of antisemitism in Australia" and hearing from "witnesses about their lived experience of antisemitism."LJC's submission focuses on the most prevalent forms of antisemitism that Collective members have experienced - that perpetrated by the far-right and by zionist Jews.
It incorporates a witness statement by Collective member Anny Mokotow and attached expert evidence by historian
Dr Jordana Silverstein.
Anny Mokotow's statement explained that "As LJC, we have always resisted our identity being subsumed by the idolatry of Israel. The myth of the 'Jew' as 'special' has become a political reality even if it is based on the notion of victimhood. We, as anti-Zionists, who refuse to use victimhood as a right to superiority are now othered by our own 'people'."LJC's submission outlines many Collective members' lived experiences of antisemitism and situates this antisemitism within its appropriate contexts, demonstrating that in Australia it must be seen as a marginal form of racism.
Proper focus must instead be placed on the founding racism - that faced by First Nations people - as well as on the racism faced by Palestinians, Muslims, Arabs, and other significantly marginalised groups.
The Royal Commission's assertion that LJC's testimony is not relevant to their work in this Hearing Block is thus evidence of the anti-Palestinian racism at the core of both the Commission and Australian politics and media more generally.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
2/2 The wonderful Loud Jew Collective has been designated not Jewish enough to speak at the Royal Commission, so it’s on us to spread their media release. The RC is promoting the establishment messaging and silencing dissent. Please share this. #Auspol
It is clear that the Royal Commission is looking to further the narrative that is proliferating currently: that it is Palestinians and those who stand in solidarity with them who are the causes of antisemitism. Such racism would be laughable if it wasn't so violent.
Because while this Royal Commission proceeds this year, continuing to centre narratives of Jewish victimhood and providing media fodder for permanent discussions of antisemitism, the genocide in Palestine continues and Israel's genocidal violence spreads across the region.Quote attributable to Gem Walsh, member of LJC:
"LJC's rejection from the Royal Commission confirms that anti-Palestinian racism is embedded in the Commission's work. It confirms that anti-zionist and anti-colonial knowledge and truth-telling will be deliberately excluded".
Quote attributable to Betty Buckrich, member of LJC:
"We are very angry that the Royal Commission has decided to exclude those who refuse the primacy of narratives of Jewish victimhood and that they deem this perspective to be outside their "direct and substantial interest. The Royal Commission is demonstrating that it will be nothing more than a place for the airing of perspectives deemed acceptable to zionism".It is evident that the best we can hope for from this Royal Commission is that it goes the way of every other one and that its recommendations are ignored.
And so this is an important reminder of the ways that significant Royal Commissions - most particularly the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody - are routinely not implemented.
This is the racism at the heart of Australian life and it is this which must be addressed.
Not overblown and inaccurate ideas of a proliferation of antisemitism.
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Caitlin Welsh @caitlinwelsh.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Wait is the barefoot investor actually…. based??
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Eko @ekoanarchist.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
VicPol have conceded the obvious, Hash's remarks are not antisemitic, his opposition to Zionism is not about the Jewish religion, but instead the mass murder and displacement of Palestinians. VicPol must drop the charges against Hash Tayeh. End this farcical prosecution.
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
VICPol abandon claims ‘all Zionists are terrorists’ chant by activist Hash Tayeh are antisemitic The AUS May 10, 2026 'Prosecutors will say the magistrate does not need to decide what Zionism is, or whether Mr Tayeh was antisemitic, but whether the chant was insulting in public.' archive.is/2t4xb
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Tom Tanuki @tomtanuki.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
VIDEO: Coordinated booing at the Anzac Day Dawn Service. watch: youtu.be/6oFq_00l-Aw Who coordinated the booing at the 2026 Anzac Day Dawn Service? Same people as last year, really. Receipts herein.
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Coordinated booing at the Anzac Day Dawn Service.
YouTube video by Tom Tanuki
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
"Lest we Forget the Surafend Massacre. 10 December 1918. Mass killing of Palestinian villagers by ANZAC forces." Mural in Sydney about the premeditated massacre against the villagers of Sarafand in Palestine by occupying Australian, New Zealand & Scottish soldiers in 1918.
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Eko @ekoanarchist.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Get over it. #ANZACDay
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Sarah Missen @sarahmissen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
In this week’s report - the long awaited decision in the NSWNMA’s Special Case; councils workers in 8 Melbourne councils to strike for 24 hours and a not so smooth start to industrial action at BHP. #ausunions disputesreport.substack.com/p/industrial...
disputesreport.substack.com
Industrial disputes & news - 22 April 2026
ASU Vic - Melbourne metro councils
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Why do all the police at a small demonstrations today all look like they are storming Fallujah? This is what cops looked like at a BLF Demo in 1980s. You reckon some students and retired teachers are more likely to punch on with the coppers?
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
"globalise the intifada"? NSW: 'As the Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday, "social cohesion" is not a legitimate purpose — constitutionally — of laws burdening freedom of political communication.' E R M A H G E R D 🫨 M U H SoCiAL cOHes1On 🥴 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
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Two words threaten to derail Minns's plan to ban controversial phrase
NSW Premier Chris Minns must now decide whether to proceed with the next restrictions he hoped to impose on protests after his latest court defeat.
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
APR 18, 2026 : 'Dream come true': Bendigo Mosque opens after a decade of challenges The campaign against the mosque was popularised by the United Patriots Front under Blair Cottrell & Tom Sewell. The UPF's antics won the support of the Christchurch killer.
The individual was one of more than 120,000 followers of the United Patriots Front Facebook page. United Patriots Front was a far right group based in Australia. Between April 2016 and early 2017, the individual made approximately 30 comments on their Facebook page. At that time, the United Patriots Front was led by Blair Cottrell. Several of the posts made by the individual expressed support for Blair Cottrell. For example, when Donald Trump was elected President of the United States of America, the individual posted on Facebook “globalists and Marxists on suicide watch, patriots and nationalists triumphant – looking forward to Emperor Blair Cottrell coming soon”.6 The individual also expressed support for Blair Cottrell on the True Blue Crew Facebook page. The True Blue Crew is another far right Australian group.

In one post to the United Patriots Front Facebook page, the individual threatened critics of Blair Cottrell by saying that “communists will get what communists get, I would love to be there holding one end of the rope when you get yours traitor”. In August 2016, he sent comments via Facebook Messenger to an Australian critic of the United Patriots Front, which included “I hope one day you meet the rope.” This threat was allegedly reported to Australian police but no action was taken. We see references to “the rope” as alluding to the “Day of the Rope” which features in The Turner Diaries and, as explained in Part 2, chapter 5, is sometimes used by those on the extreme right to refer to a race war.

Blair Cottrell told media he was aware of an AU$50 donation to the United Patriots Front made by the individual. We have been unable to verify this donation.

The last time the individual was active on the United Patriots Facebook page was in January 2017. Following Facebook’s removal of the United Patriots Front Facebook page in May 2017, several former members of that group created a new far right group, called The Lads Society, which had club houses [snip]
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Eko @ekoanarchist.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
John Hattie reportedly being investigated by University of Melbourne for academic misconduct. Every teacher right now 🤣🤣🤣
Reddit screenshot "He must have forgotten to write a learning invention on the board"
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Eko @ekoanarchist.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Spartacists break with NAMBLA.
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Eko @ekoanarchist.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Meta be like 'Try our fake news generator!' 'You too can spread disinformation!'
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Comrade Ben, I wish.
A photograph of NSW Police deploying OC spray directly into the face of a protester from about half a metre distance, undoubtedly in circumstances which are reasonable, necessary, proportionate and appropriate to the circumstances in the execution of their duty, as defined under the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 (LEPRA). Over this vulgar display of power, a headline reads 'Herzog protesters are not ‘activists’, they are really just anarchists', the title of an opinion piece by a trollumnist with The Nightly online zine.
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Melody @melody.cuties.cloud · 12/02/2026
im speaking at this, come see me in melbourne!
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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I like the way he smacks his fist into his hand before he punches the troll/bigot. That’s like a superhero origin story move.
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Eko @ekoanarchist.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Anarchism 2026 Public conf put on by the Anarchost Communist Federation March 7, Balam Balam Place in Brunswick Tickets and session details: ancomfed.org/conf-2026/
ancomfed.org
Anarchism 2026 | Anarchist Communist Federation
Anarchism 2026 is a one-day conference in March. Join us for talks, panels and discussions exploring anarchist ideas and organising lessons from the ground.
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
the thing is, mr lennon's family are wealthy property-developers, & whereas poor sh!tkvnce might get into trouble for this kinda thing, he has social license to do whatever he wants; point being, how many of these upper-class twits are attracted to nazism is a useful index of its threat potential.
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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Just once I’d like to go to a protest where the protesters had all the batons and pepper spray and the cops weren’t allowed to do anything but suck it up when half a dozen punters dog piled them
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RanTLaw @rantlaw.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Social cohesion is just another phrase for 'assimilation'
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 10/02/2026
NSW Police Minister saying to the people please don't antagonise the cops by, you know, exercising your basic human rights
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
1/ The Australian Labor Party's dedication to s0ciAL c0hEsi0n by way of unleashing NSW Police on thousands of protesters against alleged war criminal Isaac Herzog's visit has won it headlines around the world eh. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
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Israeli President’s Visit to Australia Prompts Protests and Arrests
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Eko @ekoanarchist.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Australia really is a nation of bootlickers.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 09/02/2026
Additional footage shows Australian police using force against other protesters: Video: David Shoebridge via X (@DavidShoebridge)
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 09/02/2026
Video shows a man pinned to the ground as Australian police strike him repeatedly during an arrest. The man appears already subdued as blows continue. The incident occurred at protests in Sydney against Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Video: Jared Kimpton via X (@jared_kimpton)
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Simon Farley @sighmonger.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Footage like this really illustrates the full meaning of the chant: "We are all Palestinians." Authoritarian violence in Gaza and the West Bank begets authoritarian violence in Sydney. Tomorrow, it just might be you with the knee in your back and the fist in your face.
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Ablokeimet @ablokeimet.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
It really depends on how much violence the cops are prepared to deploy. In the 70s, Bjelke-Petersen ordered the Qld cops to bash protestors to deter them from marching. We need to ensure the political price paid for police violence is high enough to deter a police riot. #NSWpol #Palestine #Herzog
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
'Herzog is not a “moderate” diplomat; he is a leader of a genocidal government, responsible for the ongoing destruction of Palestinian people in Gaza and the Occupied Territories.' ~ Green Left 'Mr Herzog has “full immunity” as a foreign head of state.' ~ AFP Assistant Commissioner Stephen Nutt
PROTEST WAR CRIMINAL ISAAC HERZOG
MONDAY FEBRUARY 9
More info at https://greenleft.org.au/events
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Eko @ekoanarchist.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
"A Left that cannot stand with the oppressed has already forfeited its claim to emancipation." tripleampersand.org/open-letter-...
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Open Letter to the Anti Imperialist Left - TripleAmpersand Journal (&&&)
To those on the Left who speak fluently of genocide, apartheid, and colonial domination, this letter is addressed to you. There is a spectacle unfolding within segments of the self-proclaimed radical ...
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
(NB. Tom Sewell has boasted about how his gang -- the National Socialist Network -- has the run of AUS prisons.) 'Neo-nazi terrorist attacked in prison' searchlightmagazine.com/2026/01/neo-...
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Neo-nazi terrorist attacked in prison | Searchlight
Jack Renshaw, the neo-nazi terrorist and convicted paedophile serving a life sentence for plotting to murder a Member of Parliament and other serious offenc ...
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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Got an email from a landlord saying their property is incorrectly listed on shitrentals.org because it was never managed by Ray white and the ceiling didn’t collapse. Googled the property and found it was rented by Ray white and then the renter showed me that the ceiling did in fact collapse.
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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Watching Chilean election results come in and once again thinking about this tweet
Dreamy Empire
@PotatoParallax

Every Latin America election be like :

Fernando Indiano leader of a coalition
of trade unions indigenous groups and a
coalition of progressive parties

50,1%

Felipe Heinrich Mengele III Nazi drug lord

49,9%

15:44 23jun 22
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
On #RemembranceDay, shout-out to the Haymarket Martyrs. >>> According to witnesses, in the moments before [Engel, Fischer, Parsons, and Spies] were hanged, Spies shouted: "The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today." <<< 🏴✊
Linocut by vichcraft for booklet commemorating the Haymarket Martyrs and working class heroes buried at the Forest Home Cemetery.
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Despite all of the threats and nasty messages I have received, I’ve actually received more notes of support and solidarity. So I just wanted to take a moment amidst a hectic time to thank everyone who has reached out. I don’t know when I will have the time to reply to everyone, but I intend to.
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