I refuse to watch this movie, and I encourage you all to skip it, too. Literally nothing good can come of this. And shame on the actors and crew who made the deci$ion to participate. Apparently, they gave absolutely no thought to the potential consequences of producing a movie like this, at this time.
Today in Labor History April 2, 1863: Bread riots occurred in Richmond, Virginia, as a result of a drought the previous year, combined with a blockade by the Union Army and overall Civil War-related shortages. Food riots occurred throughout the South around this time, led primarily by women. During the Richmond riot, women broke into storehouses and shops, stealing food, clothing and jewelry before the militia was able to restore order.
This comes after the Governor of the region announced a new route to deliver humanitarian aid to the western territory. The war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary RSF has left 18 million people – more than a third of the population – facing acute food insecurity.
Today in Labor History March 23, 1871: Far left workers proclaimed communes in Lyon and Marseilles. The Paris Commune began March 18. Lyon workers had tried to create a commune in 1870, as well, in collaboration with Mikhail Bakunin. Gustave Paul Cluseret, who had served as a general in the Union Army, during the U.S. Civil War, was also an important player in the first Lyon Commune, as well as the Paris Commune.
I don't support #genocide but I do support #war if declared by a nation and it's civilian population.
Many people intentionally overlook this multi generation #civilwar to focus on the last 5 months in the face of what is obvious to anyone who has a longer view. @palestine@israel
"6 April 1994, when a #Palestinian man, dispatched by one of the leaders of Hamas’s armed wing, blew himself up at a bus stop in the northern Israeli city of Afula, killing eight #israelis It was expressly an act of vengeance in response to the massacre of 29 worshippers at the Ibrahimi mosque, carried out two months earlier by an Israeli extremist hoping to derail peace talks between the Israeli government and the #PLO." @palestine @israel #history #civilwar #war https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/21/what-is-the-real-hamas
The United Nations and aid groups are warning nearly 230,000 children, pregnant people and new mothers in Sudan could die from starvation in the coming months if their nutritional and health needs remain unmet. The humanitarian crisis in Sudan comes as rival military factions continue to fight despite calls for a Ramadan...
Today in Labor History March 13, 1848: The German revolutions of 1848-1849 began in Vienna. Middle class participants were committed to liberal principles, while working class revolutionaries fought for radical changes to their working and living conditions. The split between the classes facilitated their violent defeat by the aristocracy. Many fled Germany. Those who came to the U.S. were known as Forty-Eighters. Many of them became militant abolitionists and soldiers in the Union Army when the Civil War began.
Mar 10: On this date in 1913, Harriet Tubman died at the age of 90 or 91. She orchestrated the rescue of enslaved people using a network of antislavery activists known as the Underground Railroad, served as a spy and military advisor to Union troops during the Civil War, and was an activist for social justice in the post-war period.
"The MAGA faction is not 'conservative,' and even calling it 'extremist' misses the point dangerously. Those advocating for conservative and even extreme policies should be welcome in a democratic polity. But those acting in ways that reject legitimately constituted authority are neither conservative nor extreme. They are criminal."
Joe Biden and Donald Trump both visited the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Thursday, where the two leading presidential candidates each pitched anti-immigration measures to further militarize the border and restrict asylum. Meanwhile, a federal judge blocked a new Texas law set to go into effect that would give police the power to arrest migrants they suspect of entering the U.S. without authorization. For more, we speak with Marisa Limón Garza, executive director of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, one of the groups challenging this Texas law. “Clearly, Texas has become a battleground for the soul of this nation,” she says, adding that regardless of which party is in power, immigrant communities come under attack.
They [the West] are our enemies. Let’s all create possible difficulties for them in the economy, to stir up public discontent with the ineffective policies of the Western authorities, to develop and promote international solutions that infringe on the interests of the Western world. Let’s do this constantly, systematically and as openly as possible. And also let’s carry out other activities on their territory that are not publicly discussed.
A lot of really stupid people who live entirely within a delusion created by #farRightExtremists believe that there will be a #civilWar if #Trump loses again. These special folks are embarrassingly ignorant of history, and the facts surrounding election administration and security, but they'll take action based on their misguided beliefs so the rest of us must be ready. When Trump loses in November, expect isolated instances of violence and terrorism.
An airstrike in Ethiopia's Amhara region killed at least 15 civilians, including children and elderly people, when it hit a truck carrying them to a village this week, three residents said. The strike took place on Monday around 24 km from where Ethiopian troops were fighting militiamen, according to the residents who asked not...
The celebration I join in my dream is on the steps of the memorial where I and others spontaneously gather and start making speeches in between unbridled "hootin' and hollerin'" in raucous joy.
I hope this is a good omen; it's the first positive thought I've had about the #election.
Sudan war: RSF rejects proposed humanitarian aid route to Darfur (www.africanews.com)
This comes after the Governor of the region announced a new route to deliver humanitarian aid to the western territory. The war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary RSF has left 18 million people – more than a third of the population – facing acute food insecurity.
Sudan: 230,000 Children and People Recovering from Birth Are at Risk of Death by Starvation (www.democracynow.org)
The United Nations and aid groups are warning nearly 230,000 children, pregnant people and new mothers in Sudan could die from starvation in the coming months if their nutritional and health needs remain unmet. The humanitarian crisis in Sudan comes as rival military factions continue to fight despite calls for a Ramadan...
Airstrike in Ethiopia's Amhara kills about 15 civilians, residents say (www.theeastafrican.co.ke)
An airstrike in Ethiopia's Amhara region killed at least 15 civilians, including children and elderly people, when it hit a truck carrying them to a village this week, three residents said. The strike took place on Monday around 24 km from where Ethiopian troops were fighting militiamen, according to the residents who asked not...