A city that avoided gathering spaces.

1830s surveyor Robert Hoddle laid out the city grid without a major central square; a deliberate design choice to avoid the open #plazas that elsewhere had become magnets for #dissent and mass #protest.
https://theconversation.com/civic-squares-as-contested-spaces-what-history-and-urban-planning-can-tell-us-about-fed-square-269920

$35K Bar Tab (7 venues)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-15/amyl-and-the-sniffers-massive-bar-tab-after-fed-square-cancel/106012954

Also Live Music venues
https://theconversation.com/amyl-and-the-sniffers-generosity-shows-whats-missing-for-australias-live-music-venues-269899

Cancel “punk” culture?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-14/fed-square-amyl-and-the-sniffers-concert-cancelled/106012558

#AmylAndTheSniffers #FedSquare #LiveMusic #Naarm #UrbanPlanning #Venues

This #dissent written by #JusticeJackson about the government's new #PassportPolicy is a good read. The majority just decided to grant a stay, allowing the government to enforce these new policies. Dissenters argue that such a stay offends the principles of equity and highlight how weighing equity is a central part of "the [court's] assignment" in cases like this.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a319_i4dj.pdf

#SCOTUS #transrights

A former Justice Department employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during #Trump’s *law enforcement* surge in #WashingtonDC was found #NotGuilty of #assault on Thursday in the latest legal rebuke of the federal intervention.

#law #dissent #resist
https://apnews.com/article/sandwich-throwing-trial-justice-department-a2776c568a1ea4b8ce5b6af606669b63?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-11-06-Breaking+News

A new model is used to explore the relationship between dissent and self-censorship under varying authoritarian policies. "...the probability and time for an initially moderate, locally-adaptive authority to suppress dissent depend critically on the population's willingness to withstand punishment early on, which can deter the authority from adopting more extreme policies."

Summary: https://phys.org/news/2025-10-risky-hidden-dynamics-censorship.html

Original paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03731

#Sociology #Dissent #Authoritarianism

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #genocide / #occupation / #dissent / #conscientiousobjection / #resistance / #ngo / #mesarvot

https://www.pressenza.com/2025/10/daniel-schultz-israeli-conscientious-objector-i-refuse-to-enlist-because-it-is-the-most-humane-thing-to-do/

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another."

Edward R. Murrow

#quoteoftheday #Dissent #DueProcess #Resist