Miriam Deprez

Dec 8, 2024 | overland.org.au | Miriam Deprez

On our side of the river, we crowded into our temporary HQ with anticipation, filling out the hall, kitchen, bar, courtyard: old friends and newer ones, many already familiar from the streets of Melbourne, some from multiple video calls interstate, others met for the first time.

Mar 24, 2024 | overland.org.au | Miriam Deprez |Stuart Rollo |Giovanni Tiso

At about 9 am on Monday 8th January, in an industrial outer suburb of Brisbane, roughly thirty activists took over the Ferra Engineering manufacturing floor. Banners read “Ferra Spreads Terror” and “Stop Arming Israel” as the protesters shut down, albeit temporarily, the Ferra production line. The suburb of Tingalpa seems a long way from the Middle East, but has found itself as part of the global supply chain for lethal weapons manufacturing.

Mar 24, 2024 | overland.org.au | Evelyn Araluen |Jonathan Dunk |Miriam Deprez |Paul Mitchell

There is no longer beauty or consolation except in the gaze falling on horror, withstanding it, and in unalleviated consciousness of negativity holding fast to the possibility of what is better. Adorno wrote that during the 1940s, but today it could easily stand as a translation of the Palestinian concept of ‘Sumud’, connoting steadfast perseverance, rootedness, the hope that grimly endures. This issue’s cover, painted by Sofia Sabbagh, affirms that same spirit in protest and solidarity.