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Manuela Zechner

@manuelaz.bsky.social
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Coordinator at the Common Ecologies School, researcher and educator. 'The Plot is on Fire', Pluto 2026. I produce the Earthcare Fieldcast & build the Future Archive. Postdoc at ICTA-UAB. #NoPrideInGenocide

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recassee.bsky.social @recassee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
DEADLINE EXTENDED! 🚨 Apply for the @RECAS_network Fellowship 2026 by 4 Oct 2026 (23:59 CET)! Theme: "Contested Futures in the Western Balkans" (Tech, AI & Democracy, Ecology). 💶 €1,500/mo stipend (3–6 mos). 🔗 Apply: recas.info/news/fellows... #CallForAplications #AcademicSky
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Really looking forward to this on the 21st in Copenhagen, I'll have the pleasure to be there in person and present alongside our amazing crew
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today, Belgrade! See you here later ifdt.bg.ac.rs/5fz3 or indeed online for this book conversation with Ana Vilenica and Iskra Krstic! @plutopress.bsky.social
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[Razgovor o knjizi] Zemlja je u plamenu (PerspectLab, SolidCareLab)
Knjiga polazi od poljoprivrede i borbi oko zemlje, ali i od pitanja kako izgraditi netoksične oblike društveno-ekološke reprodukcije i infrastrukturu zajedničkih dobara.
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just signed an employment contract! Whoop! 2,5 years of working on the effect of datacentres on river biodiversity, along the Ebro river, and on related litigation. Excited to be returning to ICTA-UAB and to work with movements local, regional and international ❤️‍🔥and to building alliances
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Next Mon and thereafter!
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism
In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This text opens a conversation i much want to be having, about how to mobilize & organize larger and affirmative visions and forces against datacentres&AI dissentmagazine.org/article/ai-d... part of what looks like a great issue of @dissentmag.bsky.social here dissentmagazine.org/issue/fall-2...
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Looking interesting by dear @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Quite telling this figure from the Verdant report on Datacentre job creation mirages www.verdantthinking.org/publications...
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Copenhagen! I'll be in town on 20&21 October - to present my book alongside Sophia Wathne and Salvatore de Rosa on the 20th cape.ku.dk/eng/calendar... ❤️‍🔥 and then to present our Common Ecologies guide to Ecosocial Education on the 21st. Both at CApE. Join us!!
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The Plot is on Fire: Care Struggles after Progress, Plantation and Patriarchy
Book conversation with author Manuela Zechner and discussants Salvatore Paolo De Rosa and Sophia Wathne.
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Belgrade! I'm coming your way on 26 September, to present my book alongside amazing compas Ana Vilenica and Iskra Krstić! At IFDT and online. Just in time for electoral campaigns and more incendiary stuff to discuss ifdt.bg.ac.rs/events/book-...
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[Book discussion] The Plot is on Fire (PerspectLab, SolidCareLab)
The Plot is on Fire is a book rooted in deep conversation with agroecological, transecofeminist, decolonial, hacker and other movements, outlining open ended struggles and strategies.
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In Ireland, the govnt commissioned a report that exaggerated the benefits of data centres. In the UK, figures produced by the tech industry are taken as given. It is the work of policy-makers, not think tanks, to interrogate industry claims. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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UK datacentres will create just 25% of jobs predicted by tech sector, analysis finds
Facilities likely to employ 10,400 workers, compared with 40,000 in industry estimates, thinktank says
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Philippe Reka visionscarto.net @reka.visionscarto.net · 28/08/2026
Jour 26 Un jour, un article... un mois pour voyager au cœur de lcollective visionscarto.net Gaza entre traumatisme colonial et génocide www.visionscarto.net/gaza-entre-t... par Ruba Salih comprendre ce qui se passe aujourd’hui à partir d’un espace défini par les effets de la violence coloniale.
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The genocide continues. In the past 2 days, the IDF have destroyed a warehouse storing food supplies intended for children and mothers in Gaza and seized the UNWRA centre in Jerusalem. And the Irish govnt is refusing visas to Palestinian students. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/...
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Seven killed in Gaza as Israeli strike ‘destroys’ aid supply warehouse
Health Ministry warns of 'complete collapse of the basic necessities of life' in Gaza as Israel's attacks continue.
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Read more: www.newarab.com/news/israel-...
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Israel freaks out over children’s kites in Gaza
For days, Israel’s concern over kites and balloons launched from Gaza has intensified, transforming Palestinian children’s toys into a "security issue".
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Feminist planners -> Anyone out there contesting the gender bias in generalised aircon use? Aircon is increasingly introduced into public spaces and used outside heat days too. Yet supercooled spaces are biased towards male bodies and wellbeing, just as cars are designed for male bodies and safety.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Climática @climatica.coop · 13/08/2026
El Danubio se seca. La gran arteria fluvial que vertebra el centro y el este de Europa a través de diez países es un reflejo más de los impactos de la crisis climática. 
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El Danubio se seca: crisis energética, navíos varados y vestigios del pasado al descubierto - Climática
El calor extremo y la sequía desencadenan una tormenta perfecta a lo largo de diez países europeos, obligando a restringir el consumo eléctrico, frustrando la navegación y transformando el lecho del río en un museo al aire libre.
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
In the name of competitiveness and defence, the EU is going backwards on climate action. €800 billion has been committed to prepare for war by 2030, far outstripping anything that is being invested in climate resilience and a green transition. This is madness. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Opinion: Europe needs to start treating the climate emergency as a threat to our national security
Idea that climate action is about individual responsibility is as ridiculous as suggesting everyone can equip themselves to fight in war
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
AI is being imposed, regardless the social and environmental cost. This must be resisted. 'Widespread adoption of AI is no longer being treated as something that might happen...It is becoming an objective of supranational government policy.' euobserver.com/231973/rever...
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Reverse centaurs: EU approach to AI risks dystopia for human workers
The EU Commission is manifesting AI as a 'vulgar Thatcherism', while leaving the predictably negative side-effects to fall on citizens.
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Die KPOE sehr klar und gut warum das kommende Kopftuchverbot an Schulen in Ö reine rassistische PR ist kpoe.at/aktuelles/ko...
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Kopftuchverbot: Positionspapier des Bundesausschuss der KPÖ | KPÖ
Mit September 2026 tritt das Kopftuchverbot an Schulen in Kraft. Warum das die betroffenen Mädchen nicht stärkt, Lehrer:innen belastet und was stattdessen ein Beitrag für geschlechtergerechte Bildungs...
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Common Ecologies @commonecologies.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
As rivers dry up in soaring heat, most governments are massively expanding data centres which *dry up rivers*. The levels of absurdity & death cult are incredible. Now is the time to make investment unattractive, stop the worst. The rivers are ours, water is life. ethicalgeo.org/the-cloud-is...
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The Cloud is Drying our Rivers: Water Usage of AI Data Centers  | EthicalGEO
Cloud computing is drying out our rivers, lakes, and oceans. The average 100-megawatt data center consumes about 2 million liters of water a day, equivalent to the water consumption of 6,500 American ...
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Common Ecologies @commonecologies.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
World! The video playlist from our 'Knowledge is our Sweet Power' programme is online! Catch up on co-research for socioecological justice, agrarian knowledge strategies and struggles, legal and investigative tactics to fight extractivism, racism and imperialism, and much more.
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Knowledge is our Sweet Power - YouTube
Skilling-up for alliance, leverage and literacy!Knowledge is a weapon, a tool, even better: our sweet power. This year more than ever, we need skills and str...
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The rivers are literally drying up and the're building river-fed data centres like crazy all over. This is going to explode, as people notice who steals their water. Some maps of ongoing and emerging struggles: lenuageetaitsousnospieds.org (FR) + aufstaendederallmende.org/index.php/at... (CH)
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Le nuage était sous nos pieds
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
In Austria too, more&bigger datacenters so that national energy consumption can double and triple. So we too can burn in hell with dried up rivers and failing crops, drowning in digital trash. We'll be eating and drinking AI. awareness and resistance are growing orf.at/stories/3364186/
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Leopoldsdorf bekommt 2027 Rechenzentrum
Ein Google-Rechenzentrum, das in Kronstorf (Oberösterreich) gebaut wird, hat zuletzt für Aufsehen gesorgt. Es ist aber nicht das einzige Großprojekt, das in den nächsten Jahren ans Stromnetz gehen sol...
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Just out. Might have another longer episode with Morgan Ody coming too - it was a huge pleasure to talk and learn with her. Feminist leadership at its best, of an organization representing 200 mio peasants... So much resonance and alignment, food for thought indeed!
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
In Germany, the theater of a high-security trial is being used to paint Palestine solidarity activists as terrorists and criminals. The Ulm Five case shows how the German state and media are demonizing opponents of Israel’s crimes.
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No Regrets for Being on the Right Side of History
Daniel Tatlow-Devally is one of five activists on trial in Germany over a direct action targeting Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems. In an interview from jail, he explains why he doesn’t regret it, and how the case has highlighted complicity with Israel.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The plot is on fire indeed! Pure joy
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Marco Fechner 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @pankowerpflanze.de · 17/07/2026
- "Smarte Brillen" sammeln permanent Daten und scannen die Umgebung. - Palantir sammelt diese Daten aus dem Netz. - Sicherheitsbehörden kaufen die verknüpften Daten von Palantir. Erich Mielkes (Chef der DDR-Staatssicherheit) feuchte Träume werden wahr und die Leute findens "smart".
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Nach Druck von Tech-Firmen auf EU: Letzte Hürde für Smart Glasses in Europa fällt
Eine Batterieverordnung der EU erschwerte die Markteinführung neuer Wearables in der europäischen Union stark. Nun erliess das Parlament eine Sonderregelung.
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Slovenian friends! This turned out quite nicely I think (except for the title picture maybe lol), just out today in case you fancy some summer reading :) www.rtvslo.si/okolje/ranlj...
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"Ranljivosti in medsebojne odvisnosti nikoli ne bo mogoče odpraviti"
"Če pogledamo s feministične ali ekološke perspektive, ugotovimo, da je naš obstoj utemeljen na medsebojni odvisnosti. Pravzaprav sta ranljivost in medsebojna odvisnost vir naše moči," je prepričana r...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Kerem Schamberger @keremschamberger.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Der Protest gegen Rheinmetall in Berlin in den letzten Tagen ist genau das, was es an allen Standorten dieser Firma des Todes braucht. Ihre Produktion muss jeden Tag blockiert werden, ihr aus genozid und Krieg gespeister Profit muss gestoppt werden.
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
For those aurally inclined and noting that the plot is increasingly on fire: a conversation recorded during the first heat wave of my summer, London/May 2026/33ºC. Food for thought, in the wonderful company of @maxhaiven.bsky.social and other friends and complices - soundcloud.com/earthcarefie...
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19. The Plot is on Fire: Care Struggles after Progress, Plantation and Patriarchy
As myths of progress and modernisation collapse in the relentless polycrisis of our time, how do we strengthen other plots—in community, practice and struggle? How do we come together as movements for
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The Earthcare Fieldcast @earthcareradio.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
World! We're back with some burning new episodes! 🔥 First up: @maxhaiven.bsky.social in conversation with @manuelaz.bsky.social about the latter's new book: The Plot is on Fire. A book in fierce metabolism with this podcast! ❤️‍🔥 Tune in, enjoy, get reading and plotting soundcloud.com/earthcarefie...
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19. The Plot is on Fire: Care Struggles after Progress, Plantation and Patriarchy
As myths of progress and modernisation collapse in the relentless polycrisis of our time, how do we strengthen other plots—in community, practice and struggle? How do we come together as movements for
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Pink thing that travels and makes me travel, season #1 with gratitude to all the lovely friends and comrades along the way
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Yesterday I workshopped future visions and transformations with fifty 14-year old kids and I'm glad to say they all know AI is their enemy
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
daaaamn london
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 11/06/2026
🐴 European hobby horse championship comes to Prague Ready, set, hobby horse! Athletes holding stick horses compete in various events at the European hobby horse championship in Prague, Czech Republic. The one-day event brought together 243 competitors from 11 countries.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026
Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio. Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5%
OpenAI in talks to lease 10GW data center from SB Energy in Ohio
Data center project on federal land in the state

June 10, 2026 By Georgia Butler  Have your say
OpenAI is in discussions regarding leasing a proposed 10GW data center being developed by SB Energy in Ohio.

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In a few hours!
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medico international @medico2.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Am 12.06.26 tritt das „Gemeinsame Europäische Asylsystem“ (#GEAS) in Kraft. Das System der Abschreckung, Freiheitsbeschränkung und Entrechtung wurde bereits an den EU-Außengrenzen erprobt. Weil es die humanitäre Lage Geflüchteter verschlimmert, veröffentlicht medico dazu eine kritische Handreichung.
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lilian mauthofer @becomingothers.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I just finished Hannah Proctor’s ‘Burnout - The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat’. Next on my reading list for soothing troubling thoughts while remoting between cities is this book by @manuelaz.bsky.social 📚🚃
Book next to a glass of wine. The book has a red and black cover pointing towards the image of a forest fire. It is titled The Plot is on Fire
Care Struggles after Progress, Plantation and Patriarchy - Manuela Zechner
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted. This emerges from research by de Volkskrant, which spoke with the doctors
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What the wounds are telling us - European Press Prize
To view the full article in English in its original layout, including all images and graphics, please follow this link. Please note: the original publication contains explicit and disturbing images an...
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Climática @climatica.coop · 08/06/2026
El coste físico de la inteligencia artificial: un informe de la ONU pone cifras a la huella ecológica de la IA e insta a los gobiernos a planificar el impacto de los centros de datos y a la industria a garantizar la transparencia y la justicia ambiental en todo el mundo. acortar.link/5Tv4BG
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Very much looking forward to this. Join us
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Mossad got the Austrian secret services to grant asylum to a high ranking security official of the Assad regime syriaaccountability.org/justice-and-... the criminal is now on trial, but what about the criminal collaboration between Israel and Austria?
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Justice and Accountability drowned in “Operation White Milk”
In mid-November, Austrian [https://kurier.at/chronik/oesterreich/bvt-skandal-die-dubiose-flucht-des-stasi-generals/401097168] media shed light on a scandal involving Austrian authorities and the Isra...
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Yesterday at Mayday Rooms was rich in conversation, tonight will be great too with @maxhaiven.bsky.social at Housmans bookshop - bests of London! Join us!
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Very much looking forward to this conversation with Max and other London comrades, join us!
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Manuela Zechner @manuelaz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Join us for some agriculture and data extractivism mapping, along a presentation of my new book!
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