@LALegault "The majority of young people [in Gaza] you see today on social media writing in English are his students,” Aljamal said on The Electronic Intifada livestream last month. “So he trained an army of writers and bloggers to write and to tell the story.” 😭 #Gaza#hero#EternalGlory
Nichelle Nichols is one of my heroes for the trail she blazed for women, people of color, and other minorities in her role as Uhura in Star Trek. What I didn't know was how she changed the face of the American space program by recruiting women and people of color for the Shuttle program!
I highly recommend the documentary "Woman in Motion" that tells of her extraordinary contributions to space exploration and our future.
One day after Elon Musk agrees with a great replacement Jews "hatred against whites" tweet, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League thanks Elon for his "leadership in fighting hate" because he's suspending X users who post the phrases "decolonization" or "from the river to the sea"
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt quote tweets Elon saying: "This is an important and welcome move by @elonmusk. I appreciate this leadership in fighting hate."
Today in Labor History November 13, 1909: The Cherry Coal Mine Disaster in Illinois resulted in the deaths of 259 men and boys. Nearly 200 men and boys made it to safety. Another 21 survived 8 days underground, drinking water from the seams to stay alive and eventually made it back alive, although one of them later died from complications. John Bundy made 6 successful trips back down into the mine to rescue comrades. On the 7th trip down, he, too, died.
Today in Labor History November 7, 1907: Jesús García Corona saved the entire Mexican town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers (3.7 miles) away before it could explode. He was a railroad brakeman and died in the explosion.
Fifteen years ago today, Barack Obama was elected president. We have been through a lot since then. But his election demonstrated the promise of America and what we could become. I believe in that promise still today.
@ZekuZelalem do you remember how Western forces tried & successfully shut down Wildred Burchett, from Australia. He was the only Aussie foreign correspondent who tried to show both sides & US was angry about that. Pressured AU govt & he was exiled for years. He died in exile. AU govt recognized his work, many yrs after his death. AU & Western govts tried villifying him while he was alive. He exposed tons of their dirty tactics & secrets. He showed humanity & lives of ppl USA tried to kill.
@ZekuZelalem More about Burchett - a freaking #hero to most of us folks who lived under #oppression regimes & felt we had no voices because media sided & reported from US & puppet regime sides. The citizens resistance was ignored because it went against the fake lies about #USA needing to save us from communism 🤡 We didn't want puppet regime or USA around.
Alan Turing was a mathematician & cryptographer who was a leading code-breaker in the team that decrypted Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine during WWII. He inspired modern computing & what became AI.
Instead of being hailed as a genius & hero, Turing was convicted as a homosexual & forced to endure chemical castration. He died by suicide at 41 in 1954.
The British government didn’t apologize until 2009 & Queen Elizabeth II finally pardoned him in 2013. #history#science
British man, 22, from Solihull killed fighting in east #Ukraine
Family pay tribute to Samuel Newey, who had been volunteering for more than a year against Russian forces:
“I cannot put into words how broken I feel. I also cannot emphasise how proud I am of my little brother. He’d just turned 21 when he decided to answer the call and travel to Ukraine to push back against #Russian#Imperialism.”