Surya McEwen

Like lots of people are so horrified that we're sending weapons and weapons parts directly to a genocidal regime that we find ways to

go to those factories and put our bodies on the line and try to stop the supply chain and not everybody's in a position where they want to do something that kind of gets in the way in a deliberate way but you can come and try it's like a family atmosphere of people who are supporting those of us who are doing that work um and if you can't get there then you can you know contribute to the movement by helping to pay for the legal fees or helping to um

Create the do the artwork that creates the banners that go there or just speaking about it in your community in your families your social media Finding a way to do some little things each day or each week that kind of contribute to um to the voice of humanity rather than the ongoing silencing is really meaningful and it's also like

It's medicine against the desperation as well.

I keep thinking about Ahmad Sadat and Marwan Barghouti, two political leaders in Palestine who have been in prison for 24 years, both of them.

They're like the Nelson Mandela's of Palestine.

They didn't have fair or free trials.

They're imprisoned.

They're like political prisoners.

And I feel like joining the movements or making some noise about these particular figures who Marwan Barghouti is considered to be in like consistent polling, considered to be the person who Palestinians would want to lead them.

The fact that he's imprisoned and brutalized and tortured for decades is so horrific and maybe an effort to free him might have carry-on effects that enable the 10,000 Palestinian prisoners to find freedom as well.

So I think about that a lot.

Also, Dr. Abu Hussam Safiya, who was the head of one of the hospitals in Gaza, Al-Qadwan, who has been kept in isolation and tortured for almost a year now.

And it's very hard for his lawyers to get access to him.

It's very hard to understand what's happening.

His family are desperately worried.

those stories are magnified by like 10,000 and so I think it's important to acknowledge the numbers on mass but then also like to personalize it with individuals as well because it's so hard to understand the horror on these like great scales when you look at numbers but joining the movements that are trying to free these people is a really really good use of your lifetime and resources

The struggle continues.

We will carry on.

The amount of privilege that we have in Australia to be able to do really meaningful work in a way where...