Brisbane hotel workers walk off the job to protest over Zionist-booked event

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨zero_gravitas@aussie.zone⁩ to ⁨australianpolitics@aussie.zone⁩

Original URL: …com.au/…/brisbane-hotel-workers-walk-off-the-job…

The community has since raised $2,000 to cover lost wages for workers who walked off the job: gofundme.com/…/support-wickham-workers-bds-lost-w…

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unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Queensland Jewish Board of Deputies president Jason Steinberg said the protest made Jewish people feel less safe in Brisbane.

If you feel targeted by this, then maybe stop being a Zionist…

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Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Absolutely disgusting reporting of this came out of the Murdoch press, who just completely ignored the fact that the organisation being protested was explicitly zionist (as in, it’s literally in their name). They just whinged about a “rabid mob intimidating Jewish people” celebrating their holiday. And the rhetoric from our Lord Mayor has been equally deplorable.

Well done to these workers and to all those who supported them.

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Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Can we standardise around the original URL in the post field and archives in the body? Doing it that way helps Lemmy’s auto-detection of cross-posts (including incidental cross-posts) work.

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eureka@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Good on you for sharing the wage fund.

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maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Why were donations disabled? Did they raise what they needed?

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- zero_gravitas@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  $2,000 was the goal, yeah
  
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PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Hell yeah!

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Wmrus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The article just says it was a “White Shavuot Party” which just seems to be a Jewish tradition, does anyone have any evidence that it was a pro Israeli event?

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- DropBear@theblower.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  @Wmrus
  The involvement of the Zionist Council seems to be what triggered the reaction.
  @zero_gravitas
  #AusPol
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  - Wmrus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Yeah fair enough, it’s been a long day, I didn’t see that part
    
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guillem@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Is Magan-djin another/new/better ortogtaphy for Meanjin or is it a different thing?

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- zero_gravitas@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Both have been used as alternative names for Brisbane, I couldn’t tell you if one is better than the other, seems like it’s disputed:
  
  Part of the Brisbane conurbation is located on traditional indigenous land known also as Meanjin, Meaanjin, Maganjin or Magandjin amongst other spellings.[32] There is a difference of opinion between local traditional owners over the spelling, provenance and pronunciation of indigenous names for Brisbane.[33] Tom Petrie in 1901 stated that the name Meeannjin referred to the area that Brisbane CBD now straddles. Some sources state that the name means ‘place shaped as a spike’ or ‘the spearhead’ referencing the shape of the Brisbane River along the area of the Brisbane CBD.[34][35][36][37] A contemporary Turrbal organisation has also suggested it means ‘the place of the blue water lilies’.[38] Local Elder Gaja Kerry Charlton posits that Meanjin is based on a European understanding of ‘spike’, and that the phonetically similar Yagara name Magandjin — after the native tulipwood trees (magan) at Gardens Point — is a more accurate and appropriate Aboriginal name for Brisbane.[39]
  
  From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane#Toponymy
  
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