Acknowledgement and Dedication

Acknowledgement

We acknowledge that Indigenous sovereignty on this continent was never ceded.

We pay our deepest respects to all nations on whose Country the stories of this issue were told, written and published. The ANU Gaza Solidarity Encampment, established on the campus of the Australian National University, sat on the stolen lands of the Ngambri, Ngunnawal, Ngambri-Guumaal and Ngarigo Nations. This has been a place of meeting and ceremony since time immemorial, and the Encampment aspired to continue that tradition.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples continue their resistance to the White settler colony and we stand in solidarity with them in their struggle for land back and self-determination.

Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

Dedicated to Gaza

This issue is dedicated to Gaza.

The people of Gaza are jabbar as Arabs say. They are resolute, steadfast and unbroken. Gaza stands as a testament to collective endurance. A people carrying their history, their losses and their hopes together across generations.  

Through siege, bombardment, forced expulsion and erasure, Gaza has remained a living record of survival and resistance in the face of settler-colonialism. Attempts to genocide the people of Gaza and all Palestinians did not start only two years ago. Palestinians have been resisting zionist ethnic cleansing and settler-colonialism since long before 1948. We saw Gaza’s resistance as it endured numerous genocidal assaults by the zionists over past decades. We saw it as Palestinians in Gaza organised great marches of return to their towns, villages and cities. And we saw it recently as they refused to be ethnically cleansed from their country.

We remain steadfast in our solidarity with the people of Gaza and all Palestinians.

Free Gaza and Free Palestine

From the River to the Sea, Always Was Always Will Be!

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