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This is the paradox of truth-telling in community building and in defining/establishing cultural norms: it’s liberating, but it’s not always comfortable. And yet, once you see the full picture, you can’t, and shouldn’t, look away.
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"that politics failed and we wound up in the Civil War, from which we still haven’t recovered.… Being a Southerner informed me about what happens when a society closes the wagons around itself, when it doesn’t tolerate good journalism or prophecy in the pulpit or truth-telling in the classroom."
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Alterman quotes an interview Moyers did with Salon in 2003:
"I think my life, and certainly my career in journalism, have been informed by two things. One was being a Southerner. Whenever you learned about Southern life, you realize that when we drove the truth-tellers out of the pulpits, out of the editorial rooms and out of the classrooms—people who were telling the truth about slavery—"
Eric Alterman offers a touching reminiscence of his friend journalist Bill Moyers, noting:
"This ordained Baptist minister from a little town called Marshall, Texas, somehow became, for most practical purposes, my rabbi."
Alterman asks where Moyers got the fortitude to stick to his difficult and solitary path when he was very much a voice crying in the wilderness, especially in his native South.
#BillMoyers #courage #TruthTelling #journalism
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https://newrepublic.com/article/197400/bill-moyers-dead-obituary-three-careers-excelled
The New Republic · Bill Moyers Had Three Careers and Excelled at Every One of ThemThe Baptist minister from Texas became this New York Jew’s rabbi. How lucky was I?
The #Israeli Plot to Extinguish the #Journalists Documenting #Genocide
By Neha Madhira, July 3, 2025
Ibrahim Abu Ghazaleh: “In Gaza, a camera is a threat. When you witness the truth, you become a target.”
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/03/israel-palestine-journalists-killing-gaza/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/FluyZ
The Intercept · The Israeli Plot to Extinguish the Journalists Documenting Genocide
Inquiry finds #British committed #genocide on #IndigenousAustralians
by Lana Lam
BBC News
"British #colonists committed genocide against Australia's #Indigenous population in Victoria, a landmark Aboriginal-led inquiry has found.
"The #YoorrookJusticeCommission found violence and disease reduced the local Indigenous population by three quarters in the 20 years after the state was colonised, in the early 1830s.
"Its report included 100 recommendations to 'redress' harm caused by '#invasion and #occupation' - though several of the authors disagreed with unspecified 'key findings'.
"The Commission was set up in 2021 as Australia's first formal '#TruthTelling' inquiry, and tasked with examining past and ongoing 'systemic injustices' suffered by the Indigenous people in the state."
BBC NewsInquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous AustraliansIt is the country's first formal "truth-telling" inquiry that ran for four years from 2021.
So it took four years to confirm what we already knew. Welcome to Australia, ma-aate!!! #YoorookJusticeCommission #FirstNations #Treaty #TruthTelling #blak_sovereign_movement #indigenous_rights #genocide #Australia #auspol https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-02/yoorrook-justice-inquiry-key-findings-takeaways/105483168
ABC News · The Yoorrook Justice Commission has found genocide occurred in Victoria. Here's what it says needs to happen next
The Yoorrook Justice Commission has found #genocide occurred in Victoria.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-02/yoorrook-justice-inquiry-key-findings-takeaways/105483168
ABC News · The Yoorrook Justice Commission has found genocide occurred in Victoria. Here's what it says needs to happen next
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A truth-telling exhibition
Blak In-Justice: Incarceration and Resilience
"Our artwork and culture is somehow revered on the international stage and high enough for an exchange at that level, but yet, we're the most incarcerated people on the planet.”
"Since the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, Indigenous incarceration rates have more than doubled, and deaths in custody have continued to rise."
"It's a huge stain on this nation...White Australia's support is crucial."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-02/blak-in-justice-exhibition-heide-museum-torch-project/105356854
#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNationsPeoples #Australia #violence #incarceration #HyperIncarceration #biopolitics #necropolitics #TruthTelling #art
ABC News · Blak In-Justice exhibition at Heide Museum of Modern Art is 'a wake-up call'
Unfinished business
"A shameful death after a supermarket scuffle shines a light on Australia’s unfinished business. From compensation for the Stolen Generations to Indigenous recognition, Australia must follow words with actions."
"There is unfinished business in this country, and there can be no excuses for not knowing or understanding. We need to change direction and remove the burden from the most vulnerable."
"In a land of home improvers surely the principle of fixing the foundations first if you want to really close the gaps is obvious."
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/01/a-shameful-death-after-a-supermarket-scuffle-shines-a-light-on-australias-unfinished-business-ntwnfb
A First Nations Voice to Parliament. Australia’s Constitutional Referendum Explained
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https://verfassungsblog.de/a-first-nations-voice-to-parliament/
#FirstNationsPeoples #IndigenousAustralians #recognition #Voice #Constitution #foundations #referendum #law #violence #Civics #education #Australia #TruthTelling
The Guardian · A shameful death after a supermarket scuffle shines a light on Australia’s unfinished business
The #Grifters running #Amerikkka are calling public media a grift! Probably because they embrace DEI and aren't afraid to criticize the #Fascist administration! This will not only cripple or destroy #PublicTelevision stations, #CommunityRadio like #WMPG also receives money from the #CPB!!!
White House calls #NPR and #PBS a “grift,” will ask Congress to rescind funding
By Jon Brodkin, April 15, 2025
Excerpt: "In a statement provided to Ars today, PBS CEO Paula Kerger said that 'the effort underway to get Congress to rescind public media funding would disrupt the essential service PBS and local member stations provide to the American people. There's nothing more American than PBS, and our work is only possible because of the bipartisan support we have always received from Congress... Without PBS member stations, Americans will lose unique local programming and emergency services in times of crisis.' "
Ars Technica · White House calls NPR and PBS a “grift,” will ask Congress to rescind funding
Exposing the ugly underbelly of settler colonialism in Australia
“This was a horrendous research experience, but it did expose the ugly underbelly of settler colonialism in Australia."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2019/mar/04/massacre-map-australia-the-killing-times-frontier-wars
Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930
Data from the Colonial Frontier Massacres Digital Map Project led by Prof Lyndall Ryan at the University of Newcastle’s Centre for the 21st Century Humanities.
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https://c21ch.newcastle.edu.au/colonialmassacres/
#TruthTelling #SettlerSociety #violence #colonialism #ConspiracyOfSilence #frontier #ResourceFrontiers #ContemporaneityOfTheNonContemporaneous #IndigenousPeoples #Australia
The Guardian · The killing times: a massacre map of Australia's frontier wars
And yet what harm can there be
in presenting the truth with a laugh, as teachers sometimes give
their children biscuits to coax them into learning their ABC?
[Quamquam ridentem dicere verum
quid vetat? ut pueris olim dant crustula blandi
doctores, elementa velint ut discere prima.]
Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet and satirist [Quintus Horacius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, “Qui fit, Mæcenas,” l. 24ff (1.1.24-26) (35 BC) [tr. Rudd (2005 ed.)]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/74618/
Rethinking the narrative of progress - ‘doing loss’ in present society
How can Western modernity come to grips with loss if its promise of progress has been stripped of its credibility? Andreas Reckwitz, 2023:
"The losses — both those already experienced and those anticipated in the future — can no longer be rendered invisible so easily; they are growing in numbers, and the attention paid to them is growing, too."
"In late modernity, we thus see both an escalation of loss and a growing awareness of loss: from climate change to the losers of modernization, from collective traumata to regressions... the present-day political field turns out to be an explosive experimental space for dealing with negative events."
"The promise is no longer about progress but about the illusion of regaining what has been lost:
To face the truth with open eyes and make loss, the experienced and the anticipated a legitimate and crucial topic of debate does not necessarily weaken democracy but could strengthen it."
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Andreas Reckwitz, The Challenge of Loss , LA Review of Books, 2023
https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/the-challenge-of-loss/
#progress #TheWest #modernity #loss #experiences #consumption #more #expectations #nostalgia #anger #deindustrialisation #environment #EcoGrief #DoingLoss #PublicHealth #ClimateBreakdown #extinction #trauma #violence #populism #TruthTelling #democracy #stability
Los Angeles Review of BooksThe Challenge of Loss | Los Angeles Review of Books
Imperial violence
"Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They Called It Peace is a panoramic history of how these routines of violence remapped the contours of empire and reordered the world from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries."
The book "brings vividly to life a world in which warmongers portrayed themselves as peacemakers and Europeans imagined “small” violence as essential to imperial rule and global order."
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https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691248479/they-called-it-peace
Benton, Lauren: They Called It Peace. Worlds of Imperial Violence. Princeton 2024
The book analyses imperial violence between 1400 and 1900.
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https://history.yale.edu/people/lauren-benton
#book #history #empires #violence #war #warmongers #massacres #dispossession #IndigenousPeoples #HyperViolentPeace #Pacific #GlobalOrder #peace #TruthTelling
press.princeton.eduThey Called It PeaceA sweeping account of how small wars shaped global order in the age of empires
Australia's semantic struggles over a "one and only" reality or a pluriverse?
From the 'heart of darkness' to the “sanitised” articles of sub/urban place names.
"Some (Wikipedia) editors told us they felt it was their responsibility to include First Nations’ perspectives, even though they met with heavy resistance. One, Lucas, had repeatedly tried to include First Nations place names, often unsuccessfully. He no longer edits Wikipedia. “I just ran out of energy for it”...One or two editors “were going around removing Aboriginal place names from all the articles about Australia and Australian places”.
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https://theconversation.com/we-analysed-35-000-wikipedia-entries-about-australian-places-some-sanitised-history-others-privileged-fiction-over-reality-241364
#wikipedia #SettlerSociety #Australia #SocialImaginary #ImaginedCommunity #fiction #violence #FirstNations #TruthTelling #naming #IndigenousKnowledge #pluriverse #EditWars #WorldMaking #EpistemicInjustice #language #framing #worldviews #AI
The unfinished business of the post-referendum pathway
“One of the reasons the referendum didn’t succeed was people were too unfamiliar with the truth and who First Nations people are...This is a country that still needs to reconcile with itself, and find itself. That’s what a Makarrata commission would do. It continues to be important.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/16/albanese-open-to-makarrata-commission-for-truth-and-treaty-for-indigenous-australians
#voice #FirstNationsPeoples #IndigenousPeoples #Makarrata #TruthTelling #Australia #truth
The Guardian · Albanese open to Makarrata commission for truth and treaty for Indigenous Australians
Tasmanian logging protestor Jim Everett-puralia meenamatta is due in court on Monday. But as an Aboriginal ‘non-Australian citizen’, he doesn’t recognise its jurisdiction
"Regardless, he does fully expect, at some point, to be rearrested and charged with failing to appear on the trespass charges. He also anticipates the ultimate penalty could be a significant prison sentence or a fine of up to $45,000."
"Beyond his 50-plus years of environmental activism and protest against the wholesale destruction of Tasmania’s culturally totemic old growth forests, Everett-puralia meenamatta’s desire to be arrested and eventually rearrested – and perhaps jailed or fined – is strategically aimed to highlight issues of Indigenous sovereignty, legal jurisdiction, colonialism and the citizenship status of Indigenous people on this continent."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/01/im-ready-for-everything-and-i-dont-care-the-man-refusing-to-turn-up-at-an-australian-colonial-court
#LoggingImpacts #NativeForests #destruction #environmentalists #activism #FirstNationsPeoples #treaty #TruthTelling #IndigenousPeople #law #Australia
The Guardian · ‘I’m ready for everything and I don’t care’: the man refusing to turn up at an Australian ‘colonial’ court