Good morning.
It’s a drizzly drizzly couple of days in Canberra. Good thing I have heaps of work to keep me inside anyway… :(
As always, if you’re enjoying Solidaritas, paid subscriptions are available for US$5/month or much much cheaper at US$40/year. Have a lovely weekend!
-Kate
Read
BBC have just published their report on the shocking destruction of some of Asia’s last untouched rainforest in Indonesian Papua. It’s funded by a Korean business named Korindo, who are clearing the land for - what else but - oil palm plantations.
This is the story of Marty Goddard, the woman who developed the rape kit and convinced US police to treat rape as a crime that could be investigated and solved.
Bookshop.org is helping independent bookstores take on Amazon - its US website has already taken away 2% of Amazon’s market share in its first year, and is about to launch in the UK.
QAnon followers are struggling to make sense of Biden’s election win.
Finally, the best coverage of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping hilarity came from The Washington Post.
Book recommendation: I read Julia Phillips’ Disappearing Earth in two days. Set in Kamchatka, Russia, it looks at life in the region’s small towns after two young girls are kidnapped.
Watch and listen
7am looked at why police so often end up charging the victim rather than the perpetrator in Australian domestic violence cases, and how apprehended domestic violence orders are next to useless.
Eat
I bought some delicious fresh mochi the other day, made by a Vietnamese family business in Cabramatta, Sydney. One was green with red bean inside; another white with peanut (my fave); and another purple with taro. All had coconut on the outside, too. Now I’m wondering if I should try to make my own.