457..."We know too well - apart from those exporting genocide to Lebanon - that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians." Nelson Mandela 1997. - and the Lebanese.
#OtD 12 Apr 1927 the Shanghai massacre began when thousands of communists, workers and students were murdered by the nationalist Kuomintang. Until then, the KMT had been supported by the Chinese & Soviet Communist Parties as well as some anarchists stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8364/shanghai-massacre
A mother Pilot Whale carries the body of her dead baby. When a mother loses her baby, she carries it in her mouth for weeks, until it decomposes. This mourning process is known as requiem. [📹 Felipe Ravina Olivares]
BREAKING: Massive Attack musician Robert Del Naja defies the unlawful ban on Palestine Action.
He said “the actions of Palestine Action were highly patriotic, because they were pretty much protecting our country from getting involved in serious war crimes, and breaking international law."
Megyn Kelly: “After 14 years inside Fox News, I’m exposing what viewers refuse to see—how the network morphed from news into a propaganda machine designed purely to cheerlead wars, worship Trump, and feed you manufactured rage instead of facts.” #ProudBlue#Pinks#SheShed#FoxNewsIsPropaganda
On this day in 1908, Jane Bolin was born. Bolin, America’s first black woman judge, said this about women’s rights in 1958: “Those gains we have made were never graciously and generously granted. We have to fight every inch of the way — in the face of sometimes insufferable humiliations.” #WeTheMen
"We know too well - apart from The Met Police/Starmer Labour - that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians." Nelson Mandela 1997.
It's Sir Keir Starmer they should be arresting. No ifs. No buts.
#OtD 11 Apr 1968 West German activist Rudi Dutschke was shot in the head by a fascist. Dutschke survived and, despite brain damage, continued his work and activism until his death in 1979. Many blamed the shooting on the right-wing Springer press stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8268/rudi-dutschke-shot-in-the-head
Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt
Wow 🥺 The Iranian national soccer team players with tiny backpacks as tribute to honor the children and teachers killed at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran ❤️🩹
It’s #PurpleFriday 🙌 plant sales the last two weeks has kept me hopping in between planting vegetable plants and getting my growing arch ready. Good times 🥰
#ThursdayGreen This quilt is by Jean Bailey from Columbia Station, Ohio. She named it, "Snake In The Grass." This was part of an exhibit on Monarch Butterfly quilts. All the quilts in this series were about 18" X 18". (I personally love those ants!)
Today marks 78 years since the massacre of Deir Yassin, an atrocity that came to define the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 to establish the state of Israel on stolen Palestinian land.