Good morning!
Canberra folks: please come to our snap action to demand immediate funding for domestic violence services today. Parliament House lawns, 11am.
If you’re enjoying Solidaritas, paid subscriptions are available for US$5/month or much cheaper at US$40/year.
-Kate
Read
Pachinko author Min Jin Lee wrote an incredibly moving piece about her family and a lifetime of reading:
In our first year in America, Uncle John took my two sisters and me to the library in Elmhurst and got us cards. We could borrow as many books as we liked, he said. We loaded up our metal grocery cart with its tilted black wheels and white plastic hubs. It creaked all the way home.
Indigenous people already have the solutions to end deaths in custody. We just need to listen.
Su Min is a 56-year-old Chinese woman who has had enough of her domestic life. She left to explore China, driving herself around the country and sleeping in a tent. She’s now something of a feminist icon.
Is there any hope of avoiding a 1.5C warming? Sort of.
Listen
Hetty McKinnon explores the history of tea in Australia for ABC’s The History Listen. The most shocking part is that the ‘billy of tea’ in Waltzing Matilda was actually intentional advertising! I had no idea.
Eat
It’s not the right season for making marmalade in Australia right now, but I wish it was: this Seville orange marmalade recipe is very impressive in its complicatedness.