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Zackie Achmat

@zackieachmat.bsky.social
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Dog loving socialist. Free Palestine. Cape Town is my home. My “identities” are indivisible not intersectional.

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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Property power. “One in a thousand year riot costs.” #NoKingsProtest @adamtooze.bsky.social finds out what the insurance industry has to say.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Gaza’s hospitals only have enough fuel for three days: Health Ministry - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Gaza’s hospitals only have enough fuel for three days: Health Ministry
<article data-history-node-id="423591" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gazas-hospitals-only-have-enough-fuel-three-days-health-ministry" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gazas-hospitals-only-have-enough-fuel-three-days-health-ministry" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza’s hospitals only have enough fuel for three days: Health Ministry</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Gaza’s Health Ministry has announced that its hospitals only have enough fuel to last three days, according to Al Jazeera.</p> <p>“The obstruction of fuel supplies to hospitals threatens to stop them from operating, as they rely on generators to power vital departments,” the Health Ministry said in a statement reported by Al Jazeera.</p> <p>This comes a day after the World Health Organisation (WHO) <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-health-system-collapsing-world-health-organisation-says">announced</a> that Palestinians in Gaza will lose all access to healthcare if the last two functional hospitals are not saved.</p> </div> </div> </article>
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Leila Soueif risks imminent death. #FreeAlaa #FreeThemAll
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
US @GlobalFund cuts will destroy lives and fuel new epidemics of HIV, TB and Malaria in more than 100 countries. Trump Always Chickens Out#TACO when whipped by the stock market. But, he is happy to let millions die. groundup.org.za/article/glob... @gregggonsalves.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social
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Global Fund is $6-billion short and may have to cut life-saving programmes
US has cut funding and it’s not clear if other donors will meet their pledges
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
"A funny thing is that I tend to give all my novels the same title to begin with — Wrestling with God. Then while I’m writing, I realize, Oh, that’s not quite it..." Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in this excellent @theparisreivew.bsky.social interview by Namwali Serpell www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7...
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, The Art of Fiction No. 253
“Gĩkũyũ is the language I feel more. English is just what I’m used to now.”
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Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
This is Lydia Nabirye. A Ugandan, she was a mother and dreamed of becoming a nurse. She also lived with HIV w/support from a U.S.-funded program. The Trump administration eliminated the program in January. Lydia died two months later: forsaken.life/orals/lydia-... @unaids.org @asia-ilse.bsky.social
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Lydia Nabirye - FORSAKEN
I told her there's still time for everything. It's a long life. I told her she would not be neglected.
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
We cannot let Trump win. Where is the South African government? Our duty is to avoid conflict and the Global HIV Treatment Coalition wants to assist in building a people’s health service to deal with the systemic crises in the public and private health systems. groundup.org.za/article/hiv-...
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Video: HIV activists disrupt Parliament
They are calling for government to take action in response to cuts in US funding for vital services
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Shadow World Investigations @shadowworldinv1.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Anna Stavrianakis outside the High Court this morning as Al-Haq and @glanlaw.bsky.social challenge the UK government over the continued export of arms making their way to Israel. The judicial review spanning four days will focus on the carve-out for F-35 jet parts.
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Let the youth who understand justice lead. #India #Pakistan #Kashmir - Neither terror nor war but a mass anti-fascist front.
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
We @ukstoptrump.bsky.social are building a demonstration to show Trump what we think of him when he comes! We’ll bring baby blimps & big, beautiful crowds - please donate to help us here: stoptrump.org.uk/donate/
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Help us stop Trump’s state visit! Donate to Stop Trump
Stop Trump Coalition
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The @apha.org is correct. Robert F. Kennedy Jnr will cause harm to US health services, research and global health. We lived with denialism, pseudoscience and misinformation for almost a decade resulting in millions of people become infected and ill with HIV and then dying. Kennedy is worse.
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Francois Venter @francoisventer.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "... we are a genuinely open society with free speech and media that many other democracies, especially Trump’s America, can be jealous of."
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As a white Afrikaner, I can claim asylum in Trump’s America. What an absurdity | Max du Preez
We are not victims, there is no genocide. This rhetoric shows that the US administration doesn’t understand my thriving country, says Max du Preez, founding editor of the Vrye Weekblad newspaper
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Nikki Petersen @nikki-m.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
My husband and I run a game store and after all the tariff announcements, he decided to write out kind of a "behind the scenes" of how we spend and spill it out for people who don't understand. He's had so many reactions and shares I wanted to bring it here, too.
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Metro DC DSA @mdcdsa.org · 03/04/2025
On March 27, Donald Trump ordered collective bargaining rights revoked for more than 1 million federal workers. Trump and DOGE are waging a war on the working class. Join the Federal Unionist Network on April 5th to fight back: www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
[How Things Work Now] - Trump: Announces Plans for Every American to Eat 60 Lbs of Horse Shit - NYT: In Controversial Move, Trump Doubles Down on Farm Based Strategy - Democrats: While Americans appreciate free meals, … - Republicans: Eating Shit is Patriotic - Trump’s Approval: 47%
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Yes. @betoorourke.bsky.social is correct. Fascism cannot be fought with collaborators.
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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history
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Rob Forbes @robforbes.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This is the nation of free speech, of the law, of respect the blue, of doing good, of working hard, of opportunity, of freedom, apparently. The whole thing is such a disgusting lie. Racism is such utter evil.
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The economy has lost confidence in Cabinet
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Andrew Green @theandrewgreen.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
PEPFAR's congressional authorization is all but certain to expire tomorrow without renewal. Yet, that is nowhere near the biggest challenge facing a program that has saved 26 million lives: www.devex.com/news/why-pep... w/ insights from @jenkatesdc.bsky.social and @egpaf.bsky.social
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Why PEPFAR has bigger problems than reauthorization
Even if its authorization is allowed to expire tomorrow, PEPFAR will survive. Instead, the program faces a much bigger problem as a result of cuts to USAID, which administered the majority of PEPFAR s...
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
#Trump & #Kennedy prepare America’s Lysenko moment. The pseudo-science peddled under Stalin and the restrictions on scientific research enters a new phase qualitatively more dangerous than the Soviet one. Solidarity with US scientists @gregggonsalves.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...
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‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the N.I.H., the Crown Jewel of American Science (Gift Article)
Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s policies.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
On Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 workers across the country are standing up and demanding NO cuts to education and life-saving research. www.killthecuts.org
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Kill The Cuts
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
we will not let people die we must defeat #Trump & fascism 20 million people living with #HIV on death row. #USAID What do you say? groundup.org.za/article/will... @stephanienolen.bsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social @madhupai.bsky.social
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Southern Africa Litigation Centre @salitigationcentre.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
HIV activist @zackieachmat.bsky.social met with several civil organisations at Bertha House in Mowbray, Cape Town, on Wednesday night to discuss the looming health crisis caused by the USAID funding cuts. "We will not let our people die” he says groundup.org.za/article/will...
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Political will needed to save lives amid USAID funding cuts, say activists
“We will not let our people die” says Zackie Achmat
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
#Resistance is our answer. Beginning small but going deep into our communities and building the broadest coalitions. #HIV #USAID #Pepfar @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Remember Joe Lieberman
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A top Democratic congressman goes off during a DOGE hearing and calls out Elon for trying to cut Social Security. More of this please.
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
My experience growing up #queer in the #Muslim community. Thanks for a great edit @tanyapampalone.bsky.social
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I love @BernieSanders for this but where are the women, Black people and youth? Bring @aoc.bsky.social @rashidatalib.bsky.social @ilhanmn.bsky.social and others to this movement. And, @benwikler.bsky.social Save the lives of 20 million people living with #HIV michiganadvance.com/2025/03/08/b...
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Bernie Sanders draws 10,000 supporters to Warren for a 'Fight Oligarchy' rally • Michigan Advance
More than 10,000 people turned out for a rally with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt), in Warren as part of his national “Fighting Oligarchy” tour. The audience filled the main event space – the gym at ...
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
From @francoisventer.bsky.social in Johannesburg. groundup.org.za/article/sout...
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Our HIV response will collapse without US funding - unless we act urgently
Reassurances that state clinics will pick up the lost services are empty
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
We are beginning to organise. Activists will need your support to ensure that we save lives. #HIV #USAID #Orphans Will you help? groundup.org.za/article/usai... @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I would say it differently. Issues to win people in the US especially the working and middle classes. Most important people to reach are those who did not vote whether they are Democrats, Independents, Republicans or the alienated. What do you say?
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This is on #Trump #Musk #Vought #Rubio.
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Permanent shutdown of all #HIV programmes. Time to organise a global day of action against US corporations bhekisisa.org/health-news-... Cruel. Evil. Fuckers.
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BREAKING: Trump orders USAID-funded HIV organisations in SA to shut down - Bhekisisa
In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan explains how US President Donald Trump ordered USAID-funded HIV organisations in SA to shut down. Sign up for our newsletter today. THIS IS A BREAKING, DEVELOPING STOR...
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GroundUp News @groundup.org.za · 21/02/2025
The waiver on life-saving humanitarian services appears to have had little effect. Funding remains frozen for many projects that provided services explicitly covered by the waiver, such as antiretroviral (ARV) medicines for people with HIV. Read groundup.org.za/article/us-f... by Jesse Copelyn
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US funding remains frozen for many life-saving services
Despite waivers, court judgments and assurances from the embassy, USAID funding for projects that provide HIV medication has not resumed
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
In the 1980s, I gained significant knowledge from JSAS to make me a lifelong supporter. I tried to subscribe a few minutes ago the price is way beyond my reach especially because I am not attached to any academic institution. #academicfreedom @shireenhassim.bsky.social @seanjacobs
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
BREAKING: Elon Musk is now trying to buy Wisconsin’s state Supreme Court majority. Election is on April 1—the first statewide election of the new Trump/Musk era. Musk wants to own state-level courts to thwart any possible check on their coup. Help us fight back. secure.actblue.com/donate/wisde...
Photo of Musk with Trump. Headline: "Bice: Elon Musk group
buys TV ads backing Schimel for Supreme Court"
Building America's Future, an Elon Musk-backed dark money group,
has already purchased more than $670,000 of air time backing Brad
Schimel.
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GroundUp News @groundup.org.za · 18/02/2025
HIV patients go weeks without medicines after US aid cut. Legal challenges have restored funding but damage has been done Read groundup.org.za/article/arv-... by Jesse Copelyn
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HIV patients go weeks without medicines after US aid cut
Legal challenges have restored funding but damage has been done
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Imam Muhsin Hendricks has been executed in the name of Islam. His cowardly assassins have not yet shown their faces because they are a cult of death and hate - a dangerous minority bent on the destruction of people and institutions they brand as anti-Islam. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
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Family members of ‘world’s first openly gay imam’ lying low after his murder
Imam Muhsin Hendricks’ family was concerned about the death threats he regularly received before his murder, but understood his commitment to queer Muslims who wanted to practice Islam without shame.
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The article is well-meaning but it is based only on the necessity of ethical leadership. But… The unequal financial, trade, investment, labour, contract, property relations and military power - imperialism empties all sovereignty and subjects the rights to life and health to the whims of “aid”.
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Agree. Bad headline. The writer, Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ does not base his arguments on the “right to political anger”. The word “anger” does not appear even once in the article.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 10/02/2025
On Aaron Swartz: “He stood for freedom of access to information, especially for scientific research — things the public had already paid for.” - Lisa Rein, co-founder of @creativecommons.bsky.social sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/a...
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Aaron Swartz, patron saint of the open-access internet, gets immortalized in SF
Hundreds gathered at the Internet Archive for the unveiling of a statue honoring the late programmer, who's been embraced as a tech hero.
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Wim Vandevelde @wimvandevelde.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
"It’s a long game and we have to stick together and we have to fight for those people who are being endangered right now, both people domestically and the people internationally in the PEPFAR programs." www.treatmentactiongroup.org/tag-executiv...
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TAG Executive Director Warns: "They Don't Care If We Live or Die" – Treatment Action Group
This title of this page is one of the quotes by Mark Harrington from his recent appearance on +Life Media with TAG board member Karl Schmid. We rate this video absolutely must watch!
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Our freedom is not for sale. The #MuskTrump presidency is trying to destroy the fundamental rights of all people everywhere. groundup.org.za/article/dona... We must build a global movement for justice, equality, freedom and dignity. #SouthAfricaIsNotForSale
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Trump has stopped aid to South Africa, endangering thousands of lives
But we must not allow peddlers of hate to undermine our fragile constitutional democracy
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
USAID spends less than $50 billion a year on “foreign assistance” and most of it has been frozen and will be cut but it spends $820 billion on war. Let us be clear more people will die because of the “aid” cuts than war. Still, companies like Palantir are jubilant at getting more money.
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Zackie Achmat @zackieachmat.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The Ivan Toms Centre for Health which I attend for the management of my HIV has shut. Meantime #Trump and the White Supremacist #Broligarchs have decided to end all aid to South Africa but the only aid it provides is for HIV related services through #PEPFAR groundup.org.za/article/afri...
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Afriforum lobbied Trump about land expropriation. Now he wants to cut South Africa’s health funding
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