On the 11th episode of Mycelial, we speak with Juliet Lamont.

As well as being one of the 6 Australians aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla (the most recent flotilla that set out to break the siege on Gaza and that was intercepted and kidnapped by IOF forces in October), Juliet is also a documentary filmmaker, mother and front line humanitarian and ecological activist.

Juliet believes direct action is love in action and has organised and been a part of numerous non violent direct actions. To name a few - Tree sits in Whitehaven coal mine, locking on to trains and conveyor belts for the stop Adani movement and shutting down weapons factories like EOS among many others.

In this episode we speak in great detail about the harrowing journey that was the Global Sumud Flotilla.

While telling this story, Juliet also speaks to the fact even for all the abuse she faced, she got the 5 star treatment in Ketziot cause she is a white westerner and that Palestinians in the same prison face unspeakably more vicious and ruthless treatment. Juliet tells me while incarcerated, she heard screams of pain and heartbreaking sobbing in the night that could not be linked to the flotilla cohort.

We also talk about how out of the 46 nationalities aboard the flotilla, Australians where some of the last to be let free and why; The 2 way arms trade that our country deals with Israel and how that makes us complicit in Genocide.

Lastly, Juliet shares the beautiful moments of comradely and purpose she and her fellow flotilla comrades will hold in their hearts from the mission; The next flotilla in which Juliet will also embark on and is a key organiser of and how you can get involved either on the ground team or on the flotilla itself // and much more

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Massive Gratitude and Respect to Juliet for her time, heart and bravery.

Juliet will be organising and joining the next Flotilla to Gaza leaving the end of March 2026 so if you’d like to go or support on the ground team please get in contact with her directly on her instagram @julietlamont and she can explain how to apply. Or just follow her if you’d like to keep up to date and cheer her along.

Also, if you’d like to donate to the Direct Action Defence Crowdfund to support our brave comrades please do so via:

https://www.chuffed.org/project/156522-support-frontline-activists-to-continue-to-oppose-genocide

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Also big thanks to Juman for the music
https://open.spotify.com/artist/77pkM8fFPgStKyD3G2Qr4B

This podcast is broadcast from the First Nation ancestral sacred lands of Bundjalung in so called Australia. I would like to pay my respects to the Elders, past, present and emerging, and any indigenous Elders listening in. I’d also like to acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded in this country. Always was, always will be aboriginal land.