OCHA says that one of the challenges for Gaza’s recovery will be clearing land mines and other unexploded ordnance left behind by 15 months of war.
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Burn, Panelo, burn. 🔥 #SeeYouInTheICC #duterteikulong #senddutertetoICC #extrajudicialkillings #philippines
The US president just attacked a female bishop for saying Christian things in a Christian sermon, calling her a "so-called bishop", not "smart", and "not very good at her job."
And no one will blink an eye. It won't be a controversy or a big story. All normalized.
Welcome to the next 4 years.
'Outgoing US President Joe Biden could have closed Guantanamo, but like his predecessors, he decided to maintain this symbol of injustice.'
— #AJOpinion by Mansoor Adayfi ⤵️
#OtD 20 Jan 1856 Harriot Stanton Blatch was born in New York. She formed the Equality League of Self Supporting Women, organising working class women to militantly fight for votes for women stories.workingclasshistory.c...
Death to the empire.
Conditions on Congressional aid to your fellow Americans but not on Congressional aid to foreign Israelis.
Gotcha.
Advocating for peace starts with not turning a blind eye on what's happening around. And turning a blind eye is exactly your idea of peace. What a grotesque, shameful misrepresentation of peace. Very unChristlike
Your idea of peace is that of complacency and subservience, and the prevalence of the status quo. Your idea of peace perpetuates societal injustice.
You turn a blind eye on the corruption of public coffers, on the grave abuse of human rights, on the systemic & social injustice which perpetuates social inequalities and inequities. Then you are not really for peace, which isn't, it was said, the absence of violence, but the presence of justice.
National rally for peace. For whom? For those in power. When you decide to hold that kind of rally amid growing calls for accountability over the reprehensible massive misuse of public funds, you are indeed calling for peace---the peace of mind of abusive n corrupt politicians like Sara Duterte.
$1,131,794,901
That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.
Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.
International Rescue Committee (IRC) demands aid to be allowed into northern Gaza after findings by the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification’s (IPC) Famine Review Committee said famine is likely “imminent” in the area.
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Black and white photo of Ho Chi Minh, a headshot style portrait of him looking straight at the camera with a slight grin through his beard.
“If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging?”
-Ho Chi Minh, The Path Which Led Me To Leninism.
Read it here:
www.marxists.org/reference/ar...
#Anti-imperialist #Decolonize #Socialist #Communist #Politics #History
We would like to highlight this important historical work work by the Anti-Zionist Committee of Soviet Opinion from 1985, titled "Criminal Alliance of Zionism and Nazism."
It didn't start on October 7th.
archive.org/details/crim...
At least 43,846 Palestinians have been killed and 103,740 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, 2023, says the enclave’s Health Ministry.
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The family of Malcolm X have filed a $100m wrongful-death lawsuit against the CIA, FBI and NYPD, accusing the three agencies of concealing prior knowledge of the assassination and failing to intervene aje.io/vmt44l
Current mood.
Since moving here from the hellscape that is X, my feed is somehow now full of posts about how awesome libraries are and I am HERE FOR IT! Support your local libraries, they provide a warm space safe for everyone and the free gift of knowledge!
Another day at Bluesky, and it looks like growth is not slowing down! Welcome!
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The family of Al Jazeera cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi is staging a hunger strike to demand that Israeli forces allow his evacuation from Gaza, reports our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
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A Principal Skinner meme: above the image says "when people still haven't had enough of bourgeois electoral politics." Below that is Principal Skinner looking down and leaning to the left in his purple suit and orange tie against a background that shows the top of a building and the sky above it including some clouds. Below Skinner is captioned "Pathetic."
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Black and white photo of Franz Fanon in a suit looking at the camera
"Colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence."
- Franz Fanon, Concerning Violence
Thousands of people have joined a 9-day march towards New Zealand’s capital over a contentious bill redefining the country’s founding agreement between the British and the Indigenous Maori people.
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She's my spirit animal 😭😭 #TeacherFranceSaSenado #JailDuterte #warondrugs #ejk #internationalcriminalcourt
"It is creating a competing social order. It is those who have been downtrodden, it is those who have been used as fodder in the capital accumulation process now claiming back the process of production. Claiming back their own land. Claiming back their own flag, their own dignity."
-Michael Parenti
Screenshot of a Michael Parenti quote "Most social revolutions begin peaceably. Why would it be other-wise? Who would not prefer to assemble and demonstrate rather than engage in mortal combat against pitiless forces that enjoy every advantage in mobility and firepower? Revolutions in Russia, China, Vietnam, and El Salvador all began peacefully, with crowds of peasants and workers launching nonviolent protests only to be met with violent oppression from the authorities. Peaceful protest and reform are exactly what the people are denied by the ruling oligarchs. The dissidents who continue to fight back, who try to defend themselves from the oligarchs' repressive fury, are then called "violent revolutionaries" and "terrorists."
"Most social revolutions begin peaceably. Why would it be other-wise? Who would not prefer to assemble and demonstrate rather than engage in mortal combat against pitiless forces that enjoy every advantage in mobility and firepower?"
- Michael Parenti
#socialism #communism #TransLiberationNow
Clare Daly: ‘We need an activist left that has anti-imperialism at its heart’
www.counterfire.org/article/clar...
