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Pictured: Warsaw ghetto resistance fighters including Malka Zdrojewicz, right, who survived the death camps.

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Resistance Is Not Futile:

On this day, 19 April 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising broke out in earnest when Jewish people fought back against Nazi attempts to deport them to the Treblinka extermination camp.

2000 German troops and police backed up with tanks entered the ghetto with the intention of removing the surviving residents, and were met by around 750 resistance fighters with a small number of smuggled small arms and some home-made Molotov cocktails. They forced the Germans to retreat and come back with reinforcements. After several days of failure to overcome the rebels, the Germans began burning down the entire ghetto one building at a time.

Despite this, the resistance managed to hold out against the onslaught for 27 days, killing around 300 Germans. While some fighters managed to escape through the sewers, 7000 Jewish people were killed and another 7000 eventually deported to Treblinka.

Pictured: Warsaw ghetto resistance fighters including Malka Zdrojewicz, right, who survived the death camps.

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غُريّبة.

كل سنة و انتوا طيبين، ربنا يجعله عيد تكونوا مرتاحين و مبسوطين فيه.

(Ghoriba): Moroccan sweets made to celebrate Eid Al Fitr.

Happy Eid for all muslims.

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Twenty years ago on this day, the US-led ground invasion of Iraq began. Death and destruction quickly became a common sight in the country. The war caused the deaths of more than 200,000 Iraqi. Chaos and instability gripped the whole region as a result of this occupation.

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People put up decorations in preparation for the holy month of Ramadan. Giza, Egypt. 

Photograph: Khaled Elfiqi/EPA

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The crescent moon is seen near mosques in old Cairo on the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. (Asmaa Waguih)

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On this day, 12 February 1978, in New Zealand/Aotearoa 250 Māori Tainui Awhiro people and allies occupied the Raglan golf course, preventing games being played. The course had been built on the site of an Indigenous burial ground which was seized by the government during World War I. Later, the tribal occupants were evicted, their homes and graves destroyed and the land sold to private developers. Eva Rickard, both a member of the golf club and the tribe, was a key organiser of protests which began in 1972 when the club planned to expand and destroy more burial grounds. At the occupation, Tainui Awhiro religious leaders held a ceremony and danced a traditional haka welcome. But by the afternoon, the police began making arrests. They violently arrested Rickard, permanently injuring her wrist, and 17 others. In response, a prominent member of the Te Matakite land rights group, Ben Matthews, played a round of golf on Parliament’s front lawn in front of television cameras. Eventually, the Prime Minister phoned Rickard and offered to sell the land back to the tribe, but Rickard rejected the offer, arguing that the government never paid for the land in the first place. Direct action by Māori people continued, until 1983 when the government gave in and returned the land, which is now home to a community centre open to all. * For this and hundreds of other stories, check out our book, Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion, available here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/working-class-history-everyday-acts-resistance-rebellion-book https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1919316818253459/?type=3

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February 6th marks the anniversary of the signing of The Treaty of Waitangi and Te Tiriti o Waitangi in 1840. This was supposed to be a peace treaty between tangata whenua and British colonisers, to place the two sides of Aotearoa on equal footing.

This, of course was not the case. The Treaty of Waitangi was translated into Te Reo Māori by Henry Williams, an English missionary. Even though Williams was fluent in Te Reo, the two documents are so different that Te Tiriti should be treated as a separate document. There’s debate in the historiography, but the agreement is generally that the discrepancies were done on purpose, for the purpose of tricking kaumatua into signing a treaty that they would not have agreed to if they had known its true meaning.

There are two key differences between the Treaty and Te Tiriti, in specific translations of words. The first article translated sovereignty as kāwanatanga. The English version stated that the crown would have sovereignty over Aotearoa, whereas the word kāwanatanga indicated to māori governorship, a far less important title than sovereignty. The second article stated that māori would have possession over property, not a particularly strong right to the land, whereas it was translated to tino rangatiratanga in Te Tiriti. Tino rangatiratanga is a very important concept in tea ao māori, often translated as total sovereignty. This translation told the kaumatua signing the document that iwi would still hold total possession of all taonga, complete rights to whatever they deemed right for the land. Through tino rangatiratanga, tanagata whenua would total control and authority.

In recent decades, the Waitangi Tribunal, which deals with all treaty breaches, had agreed that Te Tiriti o Waitangi should be treated as the official document, and Aotearoa should be following what was written in the Reo Māori version rather than the English one. Yet that doesn’t fix the 150 years we faced where our land was violently stolen from us, or the way we were tricked into signing away everything that was important to us as tangata whenua. It also doesn’t stop people from regularly breaching this treaty with little to no consequence, including recently the Tribunal findings that the government has actively neglected the protection of māori during the coronavirus pandemic.

During Waitangi Day, we should be taking the time to reflect on the way māori have been violently mistreated by the crown, the government, pākehā settlers, and everyone else you could possibly think of. We signed this treaty expecting a harmony with pākehā, and they turned around and tricked us into giving away everything. We use this day to look at the way māori are still mistreated, and how we as individuals can work forward to heal what we can. Think about promoting te reo māori, the language that was beaten out of us for decades, think about incorporating treaty principals in your workplaces, classrooms, anywhere that māori might be. Think about supporting māori and giving us space for positive representations of our culture.

Do what you can, and help us fight for the tino rangatiratanga we were promised.

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Two elderly women visiting the graves of their dead parents in the Appalachian Mountains sit on the headstones and talk, 1983 - by David Turnley (1955), American/French

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there's probably nothing inherently morally wrong with seeking safety and comfort and pleasure but we live in a world where those things are distributed extremely unequally and idk about anyone else but I feel an ethical responsibility to do everything in my power to change that, even if it means making myself unsafe or uncomfortable when my responsibility to other human beings requires it. if genocide is not a situation where you feel a sense of responsibility and urgency that outweighs your instinct to seek temporary nervous system relief, what are you actually living for? and have you tried seeking out endorphins from taking action and building solidarity and learning about the world around you, instead of fucking brand loyalty?

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Smoke rises following an Israeli attack on smuggling tunnels on the border between Egypt and Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Nov. 19, 2012.

Photo: Eyad Baba 

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A Palestinian man and his daughter pick wild mustard flowers, which grow in open fields across the Gaza Strip, as the official start of spring was marked by the by the Vernal Equinox.

Photo/ Mohammed Abed

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A Palestinian demonstrator runs through a cloud of tear gas during clashes against Israel’s operations in Gaza Strip, outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. Meanwhile, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas cut short a trip to Europe to deal with the crisis.

 Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

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Palestinian schoolchildren walk through debris past a damaged school in Gaza City on Nov. 24, 2012. The school was damaged in an Israeli strike that targeted a nearby building. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children headed back to school for the first time Saturday in 10 days, in another indication normal life was returning after cross-border violence in which 166 Palestinians and six Israelis were killed.

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Long-tailed tit/stjärtmes. Värmland, Sweden (January 31, 2015).

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Bloody Sunday March for Justice 2024

Derry, Northern Ireland

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Yesterday, Palestinian and solidarity organizers disrupted a Biden campaign event 14 times during his speech on the protection of women's rights. These activists called out hypocrisy because Biden and his administration are actively causing a reproductive care catastrophe in Gaza.

50,000 pregnant women do not have access to healthcare in Gaza, and C-sections are being performed without anesthesia. Women and children in Gaza are being killed by U.S.-made and supplied bombs.

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[ID: Transcription of what the protesters are saying, while security personnel try to get them out:

Israel kills two mothers every hour in Gaza. Ceasefire now! End the genocide! Ceasefire!

Women in Gaza are being murdered. Killing people in Gaza is a war crime. You are a war criminal.

Stop funding genocide! Ceasefire now!

50,000 pregnant women don't have healthcare. Their blood is on your hands. Ceasefire!

Ceasefire now! Stop funding genocide! Gaza is a reproductive issue.

Free, free Palestine!

The end of the video shows article headlines with photos of the protesters or of Joe Biden, from various news organizations:

POLITICO: Biden's abortion rights rally repeatedly interrupted by protesters

ALJAZEERA: Biden speech interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters

CNN politics: Biden's abortion rights rally in Virginia beset by repeated protests over his handling of Gaza

abcNEWS: Biden campaign speech on abortion rights disrupted 14 times by protesters

yahoo!news: Biden abortion rally in Virginia interrupted by multiple protesters: 'Genocide Joe'

NEW YORK POST: Biden claims Gaza heckler is 'MAGA Republican' as he's interrupted at least 10 times at rally

Forbes: Protesters Interrupt Biden's Abortion Rights Speech More Than A Dozen Times

NBC NEWS: Biden interrupted by protesters more than a dozen times at campaign rally

USA TODAY: President Biden's abortion rally disrupted by repeated protests over Gaza

Reuters: Biden's abortion rights rally in Virginia interrupted by Gaza protests

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