EndemicEarthling<p>Every single week for the last 21 weeks upon <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Gadigal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gadigal</span></a> land, there have been thousands upon thousands (sometimes easily tens of thousands) of people gathering in support of a <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/ceasefire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ceasefire</span></a> in <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> and calling upon the Australian <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Albanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Albanese</span></a> government to stop supporting <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> in its <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a>.</p><p>Every Sunday in Hyde Park at 1.30pm,* we've listened to <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Aboriginal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aboriginal</span></a> speakers, <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestinian</span></a> speakers, <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> speakers, politicians of various stripes (though neither of the major parties, of course, as they both remain complicit in support of the government responsible for most of the slaughter), elders who lived through the <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Naqba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Naqba</span></a>, teenagers organising <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/StudentStrike4Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StudentStrike4Palestine</span></a>, community leaders, poets, faith leaders and more, with perhaps 75% of the speakers being women, and almost all being people of colour (most of the exceptions being MPs).</p><p>*Except when <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/NSWpolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NSWpolice</span></a> has dictated otherwise, giving priority to (much smaller and only) occasional pro-Israel rallies and forcing a shift to Saturday a couple of times, under threat of <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/PoliceViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceViolence</span></a>.</p><p>Then we've marched (or rolled) with flags, banners, signs, drums and (loud!) voices: Arab, Aboriginal, African, Anglo, Asian and more; from those too old to walk (in wheelchairs) to those too young to walk (in strollers).</p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Auspol</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/NSWpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NSWpol</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/StopTheGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheGenocide</span></a><br>1/6</p>