Great video from The Breach about Canada's arms exports to Israel, focusing on the companies making parts for the F-35 fighter jet and how they exploit loopholes to continue providing parts via the US, and on the activists intervening to stop them. #StopArmingIsrael

Tonight in Brunswick, Melbourne - Ray Acheson is addressing the Melbourne Free University 6.30pm at the Alderman (upstairs)

Come along to hear Ray Acheson on Organising Against State Violence

Melbourne Free University

It was an honour to join prof toni haastrup in conversation about the pitfalls of so-called feminist foreign policy. From police militarization to the global arms trade to nuclear deterrence policies, most FFP states are pursuing militarist goals under the guise of feminism. ⤵️

Join prof toni haastrup & Ray Acheson on the 1st episode of Mind the GAPS season 2

A deep-dive which includes why FFP states like Germany & Canada are unable to uphold feminist commitments & confront settler colonialism - from #Palestine to Wet'suwet'en
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open.spotify.com/episode/24XAwz…

Looking forward to talking with folks in Naarm tomorrow about weapons, militarism, and the global arms trade - and the ways people around the world are resisting state violence and working to build solidarity, peace, and justice. ⤵️

Human rights organizations including Southern Center for Human Rights have filed a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights calling for an investigation into the murder of Tortuguita theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

WOW The Missiles on Our Rez is a 2024 Webby Award Nominee🤩 In this Scientific American podcast, Ella unpacks how nuclear missiles ended up on her tribe's reservation. You can vote for us before April 18 here 👇🔗 wbby.co/40113N Scientific American Princeton School of Public & International Affairs Columbia Journalism #Webbys

All power to workers in the state who refuse to do the dirty work of the state.

Civil servants refuse to be complicit in genocide.

German civil servants demand ‘immediate’ end to Israeli arms supplies aje.io/uzk15t via Al Jazeera English

It’s less than a month before my book Unbuild Walls will be out! It’s now available for pre-order at a discount on the Haymarket Books site. Sharing in this thread some of the blurbs from generous early reviews... haymarketbooks.org/books/2213-unb…

BREAKING: Officials working in the Department for Business and Trade have threatened to stop working over UK arms sales to Israel

Sky's Matthew Thompson has the latest from Westminster ⬇️

Latest: trib.al/XSj1iLJ

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Why is it important to map the tech used to facilitate slaughter in Gaza & link it back to the companies/people who contributed?

It's not because these systems matter, in a vacuum. It's because we MUST ensure that 'AI' is not used to facilitate computational escape from…

Super important article from Peter Lippman tells a story of how 'green transition' becomes yet another entry point for imperialism. lefteast.org/bosnia-interna…

Stopping military AI was what me + many AI researchers at Google organized around in 2017-2018, when G started contracting w/DOD.

The prob is that corp profits & visions of military domination are more compelling to those making these calls than grounded analyses & moral clarity

It’s been an honour to guest edit a special edition of The Journal of Pacific History The Journal of Pacific History on “Resistance and Survival – the nuclear era in the Pacific.” Great articles on Pacific anti-nuclear activism in the 20th Century. The edition's online!
tandfonline.com/toc/cjph20/59/1

*NEW SESSION ALERT** Join us for our first #MFU session of the year! Come hear from Ray Acheson, director of Reaching Critical Will about organising against state violence. Poster details in comments! See you on Thursday April 11th at 6:30pm at the Alderman in Brunswick East. 1/6

On EU imperialism disguised as humanitarianism.