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Tammi Jonas

@tammois.bsky.social
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Agroecology, food sovereignty & degrowth at Jonai Farms on unceded Dja Dja Wurrung Country. Focal Point for Farmers at the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance.

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Damien Irving @drclimate.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"The crisis is not an argument for more industrial agriculture. The crisis is the industrial system. The answer is to build something different: locally embedded, ecologically grounded, democratically governed food systems that don’t collapse every time an empire goes to war." @tammois.bsky.social
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War, Fuel, Fertiliser, and the Food System: Who Bears the Cost of Empire? - AFSA
War, Fuel, Fertiliser, and the Food System: Who Bears the ...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Tammi Jonas @tammois.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Using Nyéléni as a backdrop, Raj argues that debt is central to maintaining a neo-colonial food system. It demonstrates how IMF-imposed austerity & predatory Microfinance create a vicious cycle that locks countries into ecologically destructive export agriculture and prevents food sovereignty.
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 14/10/2025
Since the Labor Party promised stronger action to curb climate change ahead of the 2022 election 31 new projects or extensions of existing projects have been waved through: 27 by Tanya Plibersek and four by the man who replaced her, Murray Watt. satpa.pe/JCmAeUE
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Labor’s slate for fossil fuel approvals
The Albanese government has already approved 31 fossil fuel projects, and more than that are waiting, even as renewables overtake coal as the top source of electricity.
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kzai @kzaiqq.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
"Many boomers, especially white heterosexual men... have felt disoriented as their world has shifted and changed around them. The clean energy transition symbolizes part of this change."
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Tammi Jonas @tammois.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
open.substack.com/pub/tammijon... I wrote a short piece about why solidarity is both intrinsic to and transcends food sovereignty.
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Solidarity or surrender
None of us are free until all of us are free
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Tammi Jonas @tammois.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Historic win for small-scale livestock farmers wanting to build micro-abattoirs as we lose access to the big ones! Viva! afsa.org.au/media-releas...
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MEDIA RELEASE: NO PLANNING PERMIT FOR MICRO ABATTOIRS! Historic reform a win for small-scale farmers in Victoria - AFSA
01 August 2025 ***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*** NO PLANNING PERMIT FOR ...
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Phaedra C. Pezzullo @phaedra.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Indeed, shared this interview w many today. Longer read/listen but worthwhile
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DeSmog @desmog.com · 30/05/2025
📍 BREAKING📍 Elon Musk is out. Now read Joe Fassler's latest on how DOGE’s work was a years-long strategy to remake America's government by far-right groups -- whose influence on Trump may tilt the U.S. toward autocracy. Read more: buff.ly/FfblMPg
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Mobs of Israelis march through Jerusalem chanting "Death to Arabs" and "may your village burn", while trying to convince us that saying "Free Palestine" is genocidal.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Beneath all the propaganda, all the nice words about human rights and equality and international law, this is it. This is the material manifestation of Western values.
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Stuart Gillespie @stuartgillespie.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🔥Time to stop the great food heist And we know what to do.... my new article for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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It’s time to stop the great food heist powered by big business. That means taxation, regulation and healthy school meals | Stuart Gillespie
The global food system has been captured by a few rapacious companies that profit from public ill-health. We need a radical overhaul
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 16/05/2025
international systems of accountability for crimes against humanity established in the wake of the holocaust destroyed at the behest of “the light unto the nations” so that it can do its own genocide. our shame will be eternal.
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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
IPC warns that 93% of the population in Gaza us rapidly approaching famine - made far worse when the ceasefire ended in early March. The world cannot sit idly by as starvation is being used as a weapon in this conflict. www.ft.com/content/2356...
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Israeli siege tipping Gaza into famine, UN panel says
Report warns that half a million people are starving with conditions to worsen if Israel does not ease blockade
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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Great commentary from @richarddenniss.bsky.social re what @albomp.bsky.social government needs to do in its second term #auspol
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Meg Penvose Clark @megpenvose.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
This is DEADLY serious.
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Critical Takes on Corporate Power @criticaltakes.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
New on Critical Takes: How "national champions" from Brazil and China are becoming global giants in the meat industry. criticaltakes.org/society-and-... Fascinating take from @katesievert.bsky.social and co-authors on power shifts in an industry with huge effects on health, workers and nature.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
"We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement. The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights." FINALLY. Thank you, @harvard.edu, for FINALLY taking a stand.
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Center for Economic and Social Rights @cesr.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Can sovereign debt restructuring uphold human rights and economic justice? Join @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, Zane Dangor & more for a bold conversation on rethinking the rules. 🔊 Join us online (bit.ly/3Ymwmt1) or in person in DC (bit.ly/3YmylNZ) 📅 Apr 21 | 3–5 PM ET
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
“When a segment of the population is first targeted, it won't stop there. Eventually it’s going to be used against the labor movement and any Americans who want to stand up for justice. So we were happy to join together with other unions in saying, ‘We are going to resist this.’”
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
"Financiers and tech oligarchs closest to the Trump admin build wealth not by producing things or investing in societal infrastructure, but by a mix of speculation, predatory private equity, and corporate welfare from the government," wrote Van Jackson: labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...
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Viewpoint: Why Oligarchs Want a Recession
A recession is looming. Trump himself recently affirmed that his economic plans would induce a recession in the near term. He remarked when asked as much by an interviewer, “There is a period of trans...
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The Trump tariffs are an opportunity for Global South countries to shift production away from exports to the imperial core and toward meeting human needs and national development objectives.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 07/04/2025
This week, Luke Martin, the chief executive of Salmon Tasmania, confirmed that salmon was being harvested for human consumption from infected pens: “Yes, absolutely, and that’s standard.” - Gabriella Coslovich with a shocking exposé of salmon industry practices in @thesaturdaypaper.com.au ⤵️
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Exclusive: Salmon from infected pens sold for human consumption
Weeks before mass salmon deaths were revealed in Tasmania, the government quietly changed the designation of the bacteria killing the fish – which the industry now admits are being sold from infected ...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I'm with Kelly here: deeply interested in leftism as a political project but have no interest whatsoever in leftism as a subculture. the stakes of leaving this behind are hopefully clearer by the day
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Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Coalition proposes gas export levy! If Labor match this Australia could receive tens of billions in new revenue Its time for some brave politics that puts the interests of Australians ahead of foreign gas companies
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
tough to read this one
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I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The only people eating Tasmanian farmed salmon now are the people who don’t know how it’s farmed #auspol
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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Breaking up is hard to do johnquigginblog.subs...
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Breaking with the US will be painful for Australia in many ways – but it’s inevitable
The first Australian response to Trump was denial, then (unsuccessful) bargaining. Now there’s anger and depression as the tariffs sink in. Eventually must come acceptance
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
US is no longer part of Australia's economic and geopolitical future, says @johnquiggin.bsky.social: "This creates an opportunity to finally engage fully with our region and become, politically and economically as well as geographically, an Asian nation." #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Breaking with the US will be painful for Australia in many ways – but it’s inevitable | John Quiggin
The first Australian response to Trump was denial, then (unsuccessful) bargaining. Now there’s anger and depression as the tariffs sink in. Eventually must come acceptance
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Tammi Jonas @tammois.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Governments must act now to avoid the next pandemic - intensive poultry sheds are food for flu afsa.org.au/act-now-to-s...
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Act Now to Stop the Next Pandemic: Poultry Sheds are Food for Flu - AFSA
An Open Letter to Dr Beth Cookson, the Australian Chief […]
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 20/03/2025
🚨State-backed meat giants are reshaping global #foodsystems —at huge cost. With massive subsidies, JBS, WH Group & others: 🌍Drive deforestation ⚖️Dodge antitrust rules 💰 Exploit tax loopholes 🍽️ Worsen food access 📢 Time to rein them in! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #MeatMonopolies
Global meat processing industry structure 2000 to 2023
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Tammi Jonas @tammois.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
We have to change unhealthy production models at the root of novel & dangerous forms of avian flu. nautil.us/the-unnatura...
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The Unnatural History of Bird Flu
H5N1 is a human creation
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 07/03/2025
♀️🌍Women grow, sell, buy & cook our #food. Yet they’re excluded from land, finance & key decisions shaping #foodsystems. Gender equality is essential for just #foodsystems. 🚨If we sideline women, we skew food systems toward BigAg profit, instead of feeding people. #Internationalwomensday #IWD2025
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WOMEN GROW, COOK & SUSTAIN OUR FOOD. IT'S TIME TO RECOGNIZE THEM
YouTube video by IPES-Food
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Tammi Jonas @tammois.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I just signed @australiainstitute.org.au's petition: End salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour—protect the skate. Will you join me? nb.australiainstitute.org.au/end_salmon_f...
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End salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour—protect the skate
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Baggage @carrieonbaggage.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
What he said!
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 18/02/2025
"There was a protest at a gas conference, and the next day, the South Australian Parliament changed the law. The next day they criminalised protest. "If protest was ineffective, why would they do that?" - Executive Director @richarddenniss.bsky.social at our #ClimateIntegrity Summit 2025 #auspol
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IPES-Food @ipes-food.org · 12/02/2025
Important piece by our @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social Only political will can end world #hunger & confront its major drivers : conflict, poverty, inequality, economic shocks & escalating climate change. There's enough food to go around. But a lack of political will to get it to the hungry.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 12/02/2025
"Dr Shanta Barley told the Climate Integrity summit, organised by the Australia Institute, that “multiple, independent and peer-reviewed lines of evidence have now come to the same conclusion” about carbon sequestration schemes in Australia and around the world."
theage.com.au
Australians are being misled by ‘dodgy’ offsets, say Fortescue
The iron ore giant says the public is being misled into believing that low-quality carbon offset schemes will lead to net zero, despite evidence that only reducing fossil fuels will work.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
"Yemen’s Houthis have announced they are ready to attack Israel if it reneges on its ceasefire deal with Hamas and resumes its assault on Gaza." www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...
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Yemen’s Houthis warn they are ready to attack Israel if Gaza war resumes
Announcement comes after Hamas said it would pause release of captives, citing Israeli violations of ceasefire.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 11/02/2025
"This is the 'genius' deal that our Government has done," Malcolm Turnbull can't believe how bad the AUKUS deal is. Listen to him explain exactly how poor it is on on our After America podcast back in November. Full ep here: australiainstitute.org.au/post/standin...
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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
‘The largest US government workers’ union & an association of foreign service workers sued the Trump administration on Thursday in an effort to reverse its aggressive dismantling of the #USAID’ Case example of why #unions are crucial to fight dictators. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Deaths predicted amid the chaos of Elon Musk’s shutdown of USAid
The impact of the billionaire’s declaration has been swift and brutal, with food and crucial drugs abandoned in warehouses, vital programmes closed and workers laid off
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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Fireside genocide.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
If the Aust Govt does not denounce this immediately, we are complicit in approving ethnic cleansing of a historic level
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
As North Queensland floods and Victoria burns, remember that Australia's Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek approved 4 monstrous coal mines just before Christmas that will produce 900 million tonnes of carbon pollution. Plibersek's coal approvals endanger us, our future and our way of life.
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Live: Highway collapses as heavy rain continues in flood-hit north Queensland
Floodwaters are rising for the third day across parts of north Queensland, with some pockets receiving more than a metre of rain since Saturday. Follow live.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
hey quick question does Goliath win in that story
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Tammi Jonas @tammois.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
www.motherjones.com/food/2025/01...
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How MAHA poisons the food movement
RFK Jr. could make legitimate critiques of the ways we grow and process food appear crackpot.
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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Thx @tammois.bsky.social you might also find this interesting #SoldDownTheRiver ‘Be Brave. Make Change’ Always was, always will be Aboriginal water. @unimelb pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/alw...
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Always was and always will be Aboriginal water
Australia needs to have a serious discussion about Indigenous water rights and Indigenous Voice in water management, say University of Melbourne experts.
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Tammi Jonas @tammois.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Been reading this with a view to a campaign around (lack of) smallholder & First Nations’ water rights. Excellent book.
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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
#insiders Dutton is lying about electricity bills being 44% less with #nuclear‼️ #auspol #AusVotes25
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