All Eyes On Rafah tonignt. Do not let the Oscars distract anyone from the genocide. Big international events like this are a time for atrocities to be committed when the world is looking the other way. I hope those who speak during the ceremony think to mention Palestine in their speeches. I would. No justice, no peace. Zionists should be uncomfortable everywhere. Good art was never a warm home to fascists and never will be
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A few days after riding into town, he, Murray and Fulford – all justices of the peace – joined Bidwill and Uhr on the Maryborough bench to issue warrants against thirty-five men believed to be hiding on the island who were wanted for felonies and murder:
"Neddy" "Jacky Jacky" "Iowrning", "Nosy", "Boomer", "Mr Bounce", "Ineway", "Grassoom", "Bobby", "Iangera", "Ben Bullen", "Jimmy", "Pepo", "Coola" "Coola", "Wananinga", "Perika" "Charlie", "Bungalee", "Tom", "Old Athlone", "Old Diamond", "Peter", "Puckemall", "Toby", "Tiear", "Boney", "Paddy", "Tommy", "Doughboy", "Lawley", Big Diamond, "Peter with one eye", "Athlone", "Woolge" and Diamond.
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Twenty-ninth ceremony - Katrina and Phillip
Today we are here to celebrate the marriage of Philip ___ and Katrina ___
Thank you, friends and family for being here, and for others who are joining us virtually.
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This time of year, Autumn, when the days are getting shorter and the night are longer, is a period of learning to balance light and dark of learning to let go and accepting the beginning of the yearly and continual cycle of the earth’s rejuvenation.
When we think about and see Autumn’s changes, we grow more appreciative of all the changing beauty that surrounds us and is within us. We hold fast to our memories, reflect on our choices & prepare to hunker down with our loved ones and our loved things.
The snuggling season is nearly upon us.
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I'd like to read some lyrics from an Autumn song I like. It's originally by Kurt Weill, but then Frank Sinatra made it his own.
September Song
It's a long, long while
From May to December
But the days grow short
When you reach September
The autumn weather turns
The leaves to flame
And I haven't got time
For the waiting game
And the days turn to gold
As they grow few
And these few golden days
I'd spend with you
These few precious days
I'd spend with you
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Katrina and Philip, you have a life, you have a family. Today is one short day to share your bond and this one step with the people who matter to you.
A marriage is a decision you make once together and then over and over again for the rest of your life.
It’s a process of continuing to become yourselves, together.
With love and trust and hope, saying
You, I love.
You, I want to be with.
You, I will care for, forever.
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Your wedding day, is one brief moment in time, and although your vows are spoken in a matter of minutes, they are promises that will last a lifetime.
Do you Philip take Katrina as your lawfully wedded wife…. will you love her comfort her, cherish her and be her partner in sickness and in health in sorrow and in joy
so long as you both shall live?
[I do]
Do you Katrina take Philip as your lawfully wedded husband…. will you love him comfort him, cherish him and be his partner in sickness and in health in sorrow and in joy
so long as you both shall live?
[I do]
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Rings
do you have the rings?
Often we talk about rings not having a beginning or an end. But they do have a beginning. They were made from rocks which were turned into metals which were polished into bands which were chosen and sized and delivered.
Something lovely and meaningful, made from raw materials.
Love is like that. It’s hot, dirty business. It comes from unassuming origins created by imperfect beings. It’s the process, the work, the caring, the creativity and the determination which built it, which made it real
Philip will you now place the ring on Katrina’s finger and repeat after me please?
With this ring, I thee wed.
[With this ring, I thee wed.]
Katrina will you now place the ring on Philip’s finger and repeat after me please?
With this ring, I thee wed.
[With this ring, I thee wed.]
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With the power vested in me by the State of Vermont and the voters of Randolph it is now my honor and privilege to pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss.
Congratulations.
Please join us in the back and grab a plate.
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In my local cafe run by a no nonsense grandma I met a man who said don't vote it doesn't do anything.
He was a white retired, divorced man with an adult son and daughter.
I was about to protest what he said.
But he continued 'do you think the suffragettes got women's rights by voting, do you think black south Africans ended apartheid by voting, do you think black Americans ended segregation by voting'
Turns out he was a former trade union worker and took part in Britain's largest anti-war protest.
He spoke passionately about the people of Gaza and comment on how everyone needs to continue with protests and boycotts.
It was actually quite refreshing as social media really has demoralised me as a lot of people don't seem to care.
Any way, free gaza until gaza is free and then punish Israel
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Though he conceded his neighbour's rhetoric was at times a little exaggerated, Jones endorsed Mudie in the diatribe he published in London, The Felonry of New South Wales:
I have been acquainted with you upwards of ten years, and during that period, I have never known anything in your conduct discreditable to you either as a magistrate or as a private gentleman. On the contrary, I believe you to have been an active, useful, and independent justice of the peace; and I consider your recent dismissal by his excellency the governor, from the commission of the peace, an arbitrary act, and an unjust abuse of the power vested in him as supreme ruler in this colony.
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