As the sun began to set at Sydney’s town hall, some people quietly lit candles while a person began reading the first few stanzas of a poem. Calls for resistance echoed throughout the city’s central business district.
An 18-year-old activist, Hussein Abdullah, took the microphone, identifying himself as Lebanese-Muslim. “I’m angry,” he started. “I’m outraged – 365 days of genocide, 365 days since the world abandoned us. The only other emotion that has outweighed my rage is sadness.
