"Rebeca Omordia performs Nocturne no. 6 "La Montagne d'Imsfrane" by Nabil Benabdeljalil, part of her African Pianism recital at The Phillips Collection, Washington, 26 November 2023."
The second session of the #PanAfricanism#Zionism Political Educational Series about Anti-Colonial Masculinity.
Discussing the gendered ways Palestinian masculinity is targeted by the Israeli apparatus and how Anti-Colonial masculinity has operated in resistance. A short discussion on the centrality of the Islamic struggle in #Gaza, hosted by the #AAPRP of Florida!
As I've witnessed events unfold in the u.s. and other oppression laden, colonizing nations in my lifetime, it has become evident that WWII wasn't a battle between democracy and fascism. It was a battle between differing versions of fascism.
One imagines that the less shitty versions of fascism won the day, but nevertheless, the nations who came out as victors on the other side of that war still embodied their own versions of fascism.
As WWII came to an end, one of the leaders of the so-called "side of democracy," Winston Churchill, stated specifically that the UK would never give up its colonial holdings. In response, the great Jamaican writer, Roger Mais, penned this biting article. For his troubles, Mais was jailed for sedition under the British-governed authority of the island.
“14 African nations still use the CFA Franc, a currency imposed on them by France in 1940s when they were still colonies. The value is pegged to the Euro so those African economies are still deprived of economic sovereignty to this day.”
(Edit: forgot to include a link to the source. My bad.)
Today in Labor History August 15, 1906: W.E.B. DuBois demanded equal citizenship rights for African-Americans during the second meeting of the Niagara Movement, saying, "We will not be satisfied to take one jot or little less than our full manhood." Founders of the movement named it for the “mighty current” of change they hoped to achieve. DuBois made his famous statement at Harper’s Ferry, sight of the failed insurrection led by John Brown, in 1859. For a wonderful speculative fiction story based on the premise that John Brown had succeeded in his raid, with the help of Harriet Tubman, read Terry Bisson’s “Fire on the Mountain” (1988).
In addition to cofounding the Niagara Movement, DuBois also cofounded the NAACP. He devoted his life to fighting racism, segregation, Jim Crow and lynchings. DuBois opposed capitalism and blamed it for much of the racism in America. He was also a prolific writer, an anti-nuclear and peace activist, and a proponent of Pan-Africanism.