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i think its so funny that alumni from schools like harvard and columbia that were there during the protests in the 60s-80s are expressing support for students currently protesting against the genocide in palestine, and random zionists that were NOT at these protests in the 60s-80s have the never ending audacity to tell these alumni "well thats different, what you protested was good and what they're protesting is bad." as if protesters against the vietnam war and apartheid south africa were not also demonized, arrested, brutalized, and even killed for their activism. history only remembers them fondly after the damage has already been done.

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Isn’t it crazy how hard some people on this website pushed the narrative that Biden “is just trying his best” “doing what he can in a broken system” “is expressing remorse, which Trump wouldn’t do” when it just broke the US has signed off on billions’ worth of bombs and jets, hot on the heels of Biden signing off on a bill that defunds the UNRWA?? Like isn’t that just something. It’s almost like he’s gleefully partaking in the extermination of Palestinians, and the whole “tensions between Israel and the US are rising!!!!” thing they played hard into was all for show and posturing. It’s almost like the US never faltered for a second in its position in this genocide—which is to continue funding it 6 months in and counting.

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who are we supposed to vote for oh wise one? We are stuck with first past the post and a two party vote because not enough people will ever vote 3rd party to make a difference. So wise sage who do we vote for???

the issue is entirely that your theory of change is so limited to voting lol

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Oh holy shit did I never post the finished blanket from my saga earlier this year

Did finish it before the wedding!! My sister cried and I cried and her husband loved it and it was lots of love all around. It is actually queen sized, nearly 100"x100", done in worsted weight on size 8/5mms.

The final tally:

Just over 240 hours 💀

Also can't believe I didn't mention it but I also made a matching one for their cat. They put it on this chair which is specifically this guy's and has never been sat on by a human since they got it

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thank god for american public transit !!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Do you want to know how to help the people of the DRC? Go donate money to focuscongo.com, that's one possibility.

You can also donate physical objects in high demand right now, if you have the $ to pay for international shipping prices, and send to this address [10 Avenue Des Messagers, Quartier Les Volcans, Commune de Goma, Ville de Goma, Province du Nord-Kivu, République Démocratique du Congo]. They need just about everything you use in a day to get by.

Clothing, socks, jackets, coats, (All sizes from infants to adults), purses, tote bags, backpacks.

Blankets, pillows & cases, bed sheets

Shoes, (All sizes!)

Cutlery, pots & pans, plates, cups, mugs (preferably plastic for the cups & plates so they don't break during shipment)

Over the counter medication & med supplies: ibuprofen (Advil), hydrogen peroxide, pain killers, bandages, bandaids, hand sanitizer, acetaminophen (Tylenol), cotton balls, gauze, deworming medication, compression wraps, saline solution, topical pain relief (Icy Hot), hydro-cortisone, detail, anti-funga treatment, surgical tape.

Baby formula, vitamins, water purification tablets, lifestraws, hair care / skin care products, pads & tampons, soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, wet wipes, baby wipes, diapers.

However! If you are in the U.S., you can send (shoes only) your packages to this address in the U.S. [Exile International, Entrance F. 3534 West End Ave. Nashville, TN 37205, United States] which will ship them to the previously listed address, so it's less cost for you!

And finally, you can also go volunteer with Focus Congo! Fill out the application here, and email them at info@focuscongo.com, make sure to attach your resumé / CV, so they assign you to work that best suits your capabilities. Foreverjuicebae / juicebaeinthewild is one such volunteer and she posts regularly about the conditions of Congolese people in the DRC.

Please reblog! Likes don't help, reblogs spread the word.

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Hey you should read the Industrial Worker

Launched in 1907, Industrial Worker is the official English-language publication of the Industrial Workers of the World, a worker-led union dedicated to direct action, workplace democracy and industrial unionism. Follow the IWW on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

Questions, comments, and other concerns about Industrial Worker should be directed to the IWW’s Industrial Worker Editor at iw@iww.org.

The IW is the place to go stay abreast of what's going on in the One Big Union and its affiliates and to keep up with the radical movement for workers' rights. In addition to current events, the IW also conducts interviews and publishes articles about labor history and what's going on in the IWW.

Like we had said in this article from 2019: "If you’re a member of the working class, then this is your blog. We built this site to be a place where workers can write about what matters to them and share their experience in labor and community organization."

Come check it out, it's real good

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Recently came across this James Baldwin quote about the Holocaust:

“White people were, and are, astounded by the Holocaust in Germany. They did not know they could act that way. But, I very much doubt whether Black people were astounded.”

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March 29 2024 🇵🇸 While standing in line trying to get some food in the southern Gaza Strip, he yelled at the journalist Fakri Ibrahim, saying: 'Send this picture to Israel and the world.'

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The fact that plastic water bottles already contain millions of nanoplastics (even smaller, less detectable than microplastics) that have been getting into people's bloodstreams and tissues all along really should not have been surprising, but detecting them at all required a level of scrutiny and advanced microscopy equipment that just wasn't funded until very very recently. I wonder if it'll be the final push the general public really needs to fight back against overuse of plastic and demand better. I mean this is conclusive proof people are putting it straight into their bodies, it's not all just cycling back up through the food chain in seafood like the average person hears.

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Still stands that an israeli saying "I've lived there all my life" is only a rhetorical tool designed to act as if it grants them authority on the subject of palestinian life and again an israeli saying this is literally someone who has not lived a day under military occupation. No the only thing you have lived with your entire life is a status superior to those living on the same land. No you did not live in jenin, in nablus, Shaufat, anywhere in Gaza. No your lived experience does not grant you the authority to speak on checkpoints, on detainment, on the water shortage or the threat of home demolitions. And yes a palestinian who has had a chance to live in the west bank a few times in her life (aka Me) knows more about that than you. And if I did not have that experience, it is literally documented on a daily basis every year, this is not rocket science you can educate yourself and the "lived experience" only deters ppl from thinking they can.

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Happy birthday, Cesar Chavez! (March 31, 1927)

A founder and leader of the United Farm Workers union, Cesar Chavez was born in Yuma, Arizona, before his family joined many others seeking a better life in California during the Great Depression. Like the rest of his family, Chavez worked as an agricultural laborer before beginning to involve himself in labor organization and voter registration efforts. In the early 1960s, Chavez helped to found the predecessor to the UFW, and led strikes which helped to build both the union and Chavez's personal reputation in the labor movement. The most significant of these was the Delano grape strike, which lasted from 1965 to 1970, and resulted in victory for the union while cementing Chavez's pedigree as an effective labor leader. Chavez was able to effectively utilize consumer boycotts, direct action, and inter-ethnic solidarity to lead the UFW to victory. These tactics would become a hallmark of the UFW's strategies moving forward, and before long it began expansion efforts outside of California. He continued to lead the UFW until his death in 1993, and remains an icon of the American labor movement, although some of his positions, such as his opposition to undocumented immigants and support for Ferdinand Marcos and the Synanon cult, have experienced scrutiny and criticism.

"What we do know absolutely is that human lives are worth more than grapes and that innocent-looking grapes on the table may disguise poisonous residues hidden deep inside where washing cannot reach."

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“No Shamrocks for Genocide Joe”: thousands descend upon Belfast to march to the U.S. consulate and protest the co-optation of Irish identity while facilitating a genocide. Belfast 16.03.2024

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Happy birthday, Alexandra Kollontai! (March 31, 1872)

One of the most prominent women to play a leading role in the Bolshevik movement and the early Soviet government, Alexandra Kollontai was the first woman in history to hold a ministerial position in a governing cabinet. Born in St. Petersburg, Kollontai embraced radical politics at a young age, becoming a Marxist while studying abroad in Zurich. An outspoken proponent of the rights of women, Kollontai became a Marxist theorist in her own right, providing contributions which helped to form the basis of Marxist feminism. Initially affiliated with the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, Kollontai broke with them to join Lenin’s Bolsheviks, and became a member of the Central Committee. As a leading Bolshevik, she served as People’s Commissar for Social Welfare in Lenin’s government. She would become an internal critic of the Communist Party and its increasing bureaucratization, aligning herself with the left-wing opposition. However, she was never purged, and continued to serve the Soviet government in a diplomatic capacity until 1945, before dying in 1952.

“Class instinct – whatever the feminists say – always shows itself to be more powerful than the noble enthusiasms of ‘above-class’ politics. So long as the bourgeois women and their ‘younger sisters’ are equal in their inequality, the former can, with complete sincerity, make great efforts to defend the general interests of women. But once the barrier is down and the bourgeois women have received access to political activity, the recent defenders of the “rights of all women” become enthusiastic defenders of the privileges of their class, content to leave the younger sisters with no rights at all. Thus, when the feminists talk to working women about the need for a common struggle to realize some ‘general women’s’ principle, women of the working class are naturally distrustful.”

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happy tdov my loves. don't let anyone else define your transness for you.

help trans women evacuate gaza

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Thousands protest against increasing violence against women in Kenya as they march to the parliamentary building and supreme court in the capital Nairobi [Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency]

Published On 27 Jan 202427 Jan 2024

Thousands of people have gathered to protest in cities and towns in Kenya against the recent slayings of more than a dozen women.

The anti-femicide demonstration on Saturday was the largest event ever held in the country against sexual and gender-based violence.

In the capital, Nairobi, protesters wore T-shirts printed with the names of women who became homicide victims this month. The crowd, composed mostly of women, brought traffic to a standstill.

“Stop killing us!” the demonstrators shouted as they waved signs with messages such as “There is no justification to kill women.”

The crowd in Nairobi was hostile to attempts by the parliamentary representative for women, Esther Passaris, to address them. Accusing Passaris of remaining silent during the latest wave of killings, protesters shouted her down with chants of “Where were you?” and “Go home!”

“A country is judged by not how well it treats its rich people, but how well it takes care of the weak and vulnerable,” said Law Society of Kenya President Eric Theuri, who was among the demonstrators.

Kenyan media outlets have reported the slayings of at least 14 women since the start of the year, according to Patricia Andago, a data journalist at media and research firm Odipo Dev who also took part in the march.

Odipo Dev reported this week that news accounts showed at least 500 women were killed in acts of femicide from January 2016 to December 2023. Many more cases go unreported, Andago said.

Two cases that gripped Kenya this month involved two women who were killed at Airbnb accommodations. The second victim was a university student who was dismembered and decapitated after she reportedly was kidnapped for ransom.

Theuri said cases of gender-based violence take too long to be heard in Kenyan court, which he thinks emboldens perpetrators to commit crimes against women.

“As we speak right now, we have a shortage of about 100 judges. We have a shortage of 200 magistrates and adjudicators, and so that means that the wheel of justice grinds slowly as a result of inadequate provisions of resources,” he said.

People gather to protest in an anti-femicide demonstration, the largest event of its kind ever held in Kenya. [Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency]

Kenyan media outlets have reported the slayings of at least 14 women since the start of the year. [Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency]

A protester holds a Palestinian flag during a march to protest against the rising cases of femicide, in downtown Nairobi. [Brian Inganga/AP Photo]

Women and feminists in Kenya took to the streets to march against the rising cases of femicide. [Brian Inganga/AP Photo]

In Nairobi, protesters wore T-shirts printed with the names of women who became homicide victims this month. [Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency]

Protesters react against the rising cases of femicide. [Brian Inganga/AP Photo]

A human rights activist reacts as she attends a protest demanding an end to femicide in the country. [Monicah Mwangi/Reuters]

Protesters gather during the anti-femicide demonstration. [Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency]

The crowd, composed mostly of women, brought traffic to a standstill. [Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency]