I was arranging to meet Caroline Graham at the end of this week. It felt simple, to meet, to talk, to continue what we had started.

But her final message changed everything. She wrote with calmness and deep gratitude to everyone who had shared the journey. She spoke about comrades, about collective work and about what she called our “small but effective ways”.

Between the lines, it was clear that she was saying goodbye.

That simple plan collapsed and the meeting I was preparing for became something else entirely. I was not ready for this farewell.

Caroline was not just an activist. She was one of the pillars of the Northern Beaches Committee for Palestine, someone who transformed solidarity from an idea into daily practice, from a slogan into something that touched people’s lives.

Her final words were not simply personal. They were part of a longer story, a life committed to action.

Ten years ago in April, we met her for the first time. Caroline came with a simple, but radical, idea: The children of........

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