“Like King, many ostensibly ‘nonviolent’ civil rights activists embraced their constitutional right to self-protection—yet this crucial dimension of the Afro-American freedom struggle has been long ignored by history.” read for free: files.libcom.org/files/2022-0...

300? How many people live in Chicago? On a separate note, I am willing to bet the 300 number is not a random choice. They probably believe the movie was 100% historically accurate. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

Learn to make twisted knit and purl stitches when you work using the Eastern (previously known as Russian) knitting style. Watch full tutorial www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvbl... #knitting #knit #knitsky #knittingsky #knitter #handknit #beginnerknitter #handmade #colorwork #justknitting #cables

Given that it was the Green Party conference last week Does anyone know why Zack Polanski wasn't invited onto Laura Kuenssberg's BBC show, or onto Trevor Phillips's Sky News program?

About 10 years ago at The Wedge #BlueSkyMonday #SurfPhotography #Surfing #photography

For anyone in the Cocoa Beach Area A memorial paddle out in honor of Ron DiMenna, founder of Ron Jon Surf Shop is taking place at the Cocoa Beach Pier on Sunday, October 12th at 12:00pm to celebrate his life thru waves, community and shared memories. I wish could be there. Truly a legend.

Sadly true. I still look forward to the day when the fascists are too ashamed to show their faces again. When that day comes we do need to make sure they stay ashamed.

Mathematicians have found a new way to predict how prime numbers behave

I am really hoping there will be an election soon in France, and the Left wins even more decisively than the last one. Such a rejection of the divisive politics of the Right would be huge.

Resistance is Everywhere www.jphilll.com/p/resistance...

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Something for me to read later, but sharing rather than just saving as it does sound like it will be an interesting article.

Ban socialists all you want. The idea will never die. Humanity could be nuked back to the stone ages and it would return

Europe’s environment and oceans are sending a clear message: Progress has a price. Waters are rising fast. Here’s what the latest EU reports reveal ↓

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I learned today that William Mayo was a Eugenics supporter. “one goal of public hospitals should be to reduce the number of people whom it must care for at the expense of the taxpayer. A robust sterilization program and limits on immigration of the defective would serve that goal.”

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

Unlimited Growth increases the divide.

No doubt either on day one or in two weeks.

This should be abundantly clear to everyone at this point.

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

I have no idea why any service member would ever listen him. To stand there and be lectured on how others fought and died to protect their country like this, by someone who lied and refused to serve when called... incomprehensible.

The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation

By definition, it is an illegal order currently, so those military leaders who are going along with this deployment have violated their oath and should be removed. There need to be consequences and enforcement of the law by military leadership.

The Left really does not to be well-funded and organized. Fighting climate change, racism, fascism, and inequality are things that should sell themselves. The Right has to coordinate & spend billions in bribing and lying to people so they act against their best interests. It is hard to sell idiocy.

Just when you thought Keir Starmer's Labour Party couldn't get more illiberal, or more like the Tories... "Change", my left foot. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

I agree. I felt very disheartened after it became clear where the Labour Party was going. I will not give up though, as that is what the Right is wanting to happen. I will no longer do strategic voting. I will not against things. I will vote for something I believe in. Vote Green Party.

“I have seen time's fell hand deface the cost of outworn buried age; I have seen the hungry ocean gain advantage on the kingdom of the shore; I have seen such interchange confounded to decay - ruin hath taught me thus.” #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean #ShakespeareSunday #ClimateCrisis #SeaRise

If it was organized and well funded, the Left would be winning more elections. The Left is divided because reality is hard and complex. We should not always agree, lest we miss finding a better way. Free and open debate about the different ways to fix things is why the Left creates a better world

Had the government said "as a mark of respect, we'd like you to cancel football matches, concerts etc AND protests today", then fair enough. But to single out the protest they've long wanted to stop anyway as the one thing we should not do looks like disgraceful exploitation of a horrific attack.

Nothing says America First like bailing out Argentina while making healthcare unaffordable for 20+ million Americans. Or signing an Article 5 protection treaty with Qatar coz they bribed you with a plane, while screwing over longstanding NATO allies. Folks, I think America First might be a scam.

Absolutely heinous.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

“Action, not just hope, is the antidote to despair.” ~ Margaret Killjoy

Zack Polanski turned up as a surprise speaker at the packed Greens Organise party last night - the year-old left wing internal group, many of whose members helped propel him to victory. He said: "You can see that fascism is on the creep in this country. The Green Party is the antidote to that."

For clarity, I agree that this election is not great for Japan. The LDP has been in power in Japan nearly continuously since 1955, and I expect it will continue to do the things the Right do. What this does do is (hopefully) remove an argument against progressive parties having a non-male leader.

Great news!

President Macron: “We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

It should be pointed out as often as possible that the people who want basic rights to be dependent on citizenship status would themselves fail a citizenship test based on that stupid, unconstitutional belief alone

Jewish People Talk about Their Support for Palestine and the Need to Protest Now #protest #Palestine #manchesterattack #genocide #Gaza #empathy

I am no fan of the party or its politics, but this is a step forward for Japan.

He probably wanted to give as a gift to some foreign leader. Giving away both the country's past and future to further his own interests.

Imagine being on the same side as this person? If someone at a protest I was a part of, I would intervene and make it clear they do not represent the rest of us. That no one behind them does this, tells me all I need to know about which side of the argument I should be on. Fuck their hate.

Carney and the Canadians Liberals want to follow the same course of action. It will have the same result and they know it.

The oceans contain approximately 171 trillion pieces of plastic. Under current policies, the total amount of plastic in the oceans is expected to quadruple by 2060. Approximately 11 million metric tons of plastic waste enter the ocean annually. #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean

Rest in Peace, Soo Catwoman, a 'start-up' of British punk 🖤💔 Photo by Ray Stevenson #SooCatwoman #ripsoocatwoman #womenofpunk #punkrockhistory