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Drop Bear@theblower.au to Palestine@lemmy.ml · 2 months ago

"Don’t look at what they say they’re doing, look at what they are actually doing. What they are actually doing is systematically strangling free expression to death wherever it is critical of the

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"Don’t look at what they say they’re doing, look at what they are actually doing. What they are actually doing is systematically strangling free expression to death wherever it is critical of the

Drop Bear@theblower.au to Palestine@lemmy.ml · 2 months ago
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“Don’t look at what they say they’re doing, look at what they are actually doing. What they are actually doing is systematically strangling free expression to death wherever it is critical of the state of Israel.”
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-feign-concern-about-pro-palestine
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    Jane Caro It is with real sadness that I have decided to withdraw from this year’s Adelaide Writers Festival. I was, as always, thrilled to be invited and was very much looking forward to the very feminist panels I was asked to participate in. Frankly, we have never needed such conversations more. However, I am opposed to censoring any writer who deals with complex & controversial issues forthrightly. I think the decision by the Adelaide Festival Board was an attack on the very things that make writers festivals the amazing events they are. I would like to send my support to Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. I would also like to send my commiserations to the equally forthright director of the festival Dr Louise Adler, whose willingness to engage with a wide range of ideas courteously and respectfully is a hallmark of her career. I also want to acknowledge the efforts of everyone working to make the 2026 AWF the success it has always been. It must be devastating to watch all that hard work & enthusiasm crumble around their ears. Authoritarianism is rising all around us. It thrives on controlling & squashing & censoring ideas it does not like. I refuse to participate in that.

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      BlueSky is going off.
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      Ben Eltham ‪@beneltham.bsky.social‬ Bendigo Writers Festival, Meanjin, now Adelaide Writers … powerful vested interests would rather destroy the cultural institutions they are supposedly responsible for than allow certain voices to be heard [quoted post ‪Nick Feik‬ ‪@nickfeik.bsky.social‬ · 3h Adelaide Festival board facing a stark choice: Are they willing to sacrifice the entire festival to prevent a single Palestinian-Australian author from speaking? end quote] 12:41 PM · Jan 9, 2026

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        ‪David Milner‬ ‪@davemilbo.bsky.social‬ · 44m There is no possible culture worth shit if it capitulates to any form of fascism, be it Nazism or Zionism. We need to build new cultural institutions. ‪Jason Andrade‬ ‪@jasonandrade.bsky.social‬ · 42m I think Ben raises an interesting point that some folk would rather destroy existing cultural institutions- from within - because it takes time to build new ones. And in the gap they prefer to operate to control the narrative? ‪David Milner‬ ‪@davemilbo.bsky.social‬ · 29m They already control the narrative by a ridiculous margin anyway though. The gap is fairly meaningless. My point is more that these things have been infiltrated and made ineffective long, long ago. Look at our unions and unis as prime examples. We need to build anew. Fight within and build new space

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          Michael Winkler ‪@micwink.bsky.social‬ The board members may be many things, but I'd wager they are not completely stupid. It was obvious how this was going to play out. Presumably they think it's worth trashing AWW this year to achieve their longer-term aim - getting rid of Louise Adler and any voices more radical than Trent Dalton. 10:57 AM · Jan 9, 2026

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            Subject: Withdrawal from AWWZS Date: Thursday 8 January 2026 at 2:04:08 PM Australian Eastern Daylight Time From: Clare Wright To: Louise Adler CC: Katya Fey, Suzanne Critchley Dear Louise, It is with a heavy heart and a gutful of outrage that I am writing to withdraw my participation from Adelaide Writers Week 2026. I am appalled at the moral cowardice, wrong-headedness and short-sightedness of the Adelaide Festival Board's decision to cancel Randa Abdel-Fattah's session at AWW. As a Jewish Australian, I am shocked and insulted that the Board could exploit the tragedy of Bondi to weaponise its much-loved and respected literary festival. As a writer, I stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Dr Abdel-Fattah and her democratic rights and entitlements to discuss her novel on any stage, in any city, in any country in the world to which she has been invited by a Festival Director, without the political interference of a Board of Directors. As the Co-Curator of the 2025 Bendigo Writers Festival, I thought this lesson had been learnt. To paraphrase Judge Leonard Stretton in his famous ruling in the 1939 bushfire Royal Commission, the AF Board clearly “had not lived long enough”. Id be pleased if you could pass on this email to the Chair of the AF Board and feel free to share with any other writers, journalists or sponsors who might be interested to read it. In solidarity, Clare Professor Clare Wright OAM

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              “… Adelaide City Councillor Keiran Snape has vowed to pitch cutting council funds to the festival …”
              https://www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in/2026/01/09/guerilla-festival-on-cards-as-adelaide-city-councillor-moves-to-pull-writers-week-funding
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                Report on BlueSky that at least 100 of 124 booked speakers have withdrawn from the Adelaide Writers Week.
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                  @DropBear @[email protected] @[email protected] Good news 👍🏻

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                  "Friends and colleagues in the arts, beware of the future.

                  They are coming for you."
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                    "Ardern was due to appear at the premiere literary festival to be interviewed by ABC Reporter Sarah Ferguson – who also has withdrawn from the February event.
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