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In 2014, Black Lives Matter emerged as a global phenomenon when the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter turned into a rallying cry for a new generation of civil rights activists and organisers. A movement swept across the United States, affirming Black humanity in the face of relentless police brutality, mass incarceration and racial disparity. Built and sustained by many, the Black Lives Matter Global Network (BLM) has played a vital role in growing the Movement for Black Lives, and its loud calls for justice, dignity and equality have resonated around the world. Not a moment, but a movement Since creating the social media...

...Ms. Roy has just been awarded the Sydney Peace Prize.... Ms. Roy made an appeal to people to "become the Iraqi resistance," adding that activists "need to understand that Iraq is engaging in the frontlines of empire and we have to throw our weight behind the Iraqi resistance." Now it cannot have escaped Ms. Roy's attention that the "resistance" of which she speaks -- and which she exhorts the world to "become" -- kills innocent Iraqis daily, by bomb, by gun and by cutlass. Beheading people -- Iraqi and Western, Muslim and infidel -- is the macabre signature of this...

Protest Sydney Peace Prize to Hanan Ashrawi To: NSW Premier Bob Carr The Sydney Peace Foundation and Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (under the auspices of the University of Sydney) have decided to award its annual peace prize to Hanan Ashrawi. As detailed below, Hanan Ashrawi is a prominent official of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, and this prize makes a mockery of the peace studies, while providing direct evidence of the claim that many such programs have become synonymous with support for violence and terrorism. We therefore call on the University of Sydney and Mr Bob Carr, the Premier...