Writer, producer, advocate, storyteller. Ex-UN now comms consultant for social change. SYD-PEK-ISB-JFK-LAX-PVG-SFO-MEL. She/Her. Free Palestine
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11 January 2023 - ICJ, The Hague
Watching African women & men fighting to save humanity & the int'l legal system against the ruthless attacks supported/enabled by most of the West will remain one of the defining images of our time. This will make history whatever happens.
Pi James retweeted
The decision to sack Antoinette Lattouf from her role as an ABC radio presenter over sharing a social media post from a reputable human rights organisation is incredibly disturbing. Read the full statement: meaa.org/mediaroom/abc-shoul… #MEAAmedia
Pi James retweeted
I've just invoked Art.99 of the UN Charter - for the 1st time in my tenure as Secretary-General.
Facing a severe risk of collapse of the humanitarian system in Gaza, I urge the Council to help avert a humanitarian catastrophe & appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire to be declared.
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That moment when one world leader finally says what you’ve been a seeing with your own eyes and for that moment washes away the unforgivable gaslighting of your own government
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“You can’t behold evil and then return and not speak on it.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks about how an experience in Palestine illuminated the connections between the African American and Palestinian liberation struggles, and the moral responsibility to speak out.
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Palestine TV journalist Mohammad Abu Hattab was killed with his family in an Israeli airstrike. His colleague Salman Al-Bashir removes his protective gear marked PRESS on air saying: “We can’t take it anymore, we are exhausted. We are victims. The only difference between us is the time of death. We are killed one after another. And no one cares about the catastrophe or the crime that we endure in Gaza. No protection for anyone or anything. This gear and helmet do not protect any journalist, they are just empty slogans. We are victims, live on air. We are victims awaiting our turn to be killed. Mohammad was here half an hour ago (reporting). Now he lies dead with his family in this same hospital.”
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This from the head of UNICEF
More than 420 children are reportedly being killed or injured in Gaza every day – a number which should shake each of us to our core.
Read my full statement at the @UN Security Council today:
Pi James retweeted
In another global crisis: the government of Pakistan imposed a deadline of 48 hours for 1.4 million Afghan refugees to leave the country.
A human rights catastrophe is eminent. I echo the @UN in urging Pakistani authorities to suspend the forced return of Afghan refugees.
Pi James retweeted
This is what genocide looks like. These are the 2913 Palestinian children killed by the Israeli military this month, as of Thursday, October 26. As the Israeli airstrikes on Gaza intensify, we recognize with horror and grief that this death toll is already inaccurate.
1/5
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BREAKING: Yet another Palestinian community, A’nizan (South Hebron Hills), is being forcibly transferred from their lands as a result of settler violence.
The 4 families/35 residents of A’nizan are packing up their belongings and leaving their lands as we speak.
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"Dying under bombs in Gaza cannot be the only option left to people.
Hospitals are overwhelmed. There are no more painkillers.
Our staff tell us about wounded people screaming in pain, and people who can't get to the hospital."
- Claire Magone, General Director MSF France
Pi James retweeted
“We will wear you down with our capacity to love.” Words of such power and grace from ABC journalist Stan Grant, as he sends a message to his abusers. This is well worth three minutes of your time, wherever you live in the world. abc.net.au/news/2023-05-22/i…
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Only someone of Stan’s calibre would be so kind, eloquent and generous in such a time of distress. Could we please use this moment to start to speak out against hate speech and abuse, and the dire lack of diversity in Australian media?
“I am down but I will get back up. And you can come at me again and I will meet you with the love of my people.” Stan Grant delivers a powerful message on Q+A before taking a break from the media. #StanGrant #QandA #WeStandWithStan
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Tyre Nichols should be with us skateboarding and looking up and admiring the sunset. But instead the sadistic scourge of police violence claimed its latest innocent victim. 1/
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It's important to reflect on who's left out of the conversations on aid. Funders and global leaders must work to #LocalizeAid. Here’s how to take the first steps: LocalizeAid.org/Roadmap. #LocalizeAid
