History is What's Happening
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The three remaining Canadian volunteers from the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social boat Conscience, Sadie, Nikita & Devoney, along with dozens of other #FreedomFlotilla volunteers, are now free & in Jordan, on their way home (plus, they can now end their hunger strike!)
#FreeThemAll #FreePalestine
Photo of 3 women women standing together indoors, in light grey sweats and white t-shirts.
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33 years ago, October 12 1992, the country's first officially-recognized Indigenous People's Day was celebrated in Berkeley. The holiday was planned by Resistance 500, a Native-led group that formed to protest upcoming celebrations of the 500th anniversary of Columbus's landing
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#OtD 12 Oct 1972 a riot broke out on the USS Kitty Hawk during the Vietnam war, following multiple racist incidents against Black sailors. Black sailors grabbed makeshift weapons and rioted. More info in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/06/e...
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Anti-Columbus Day Special - San Francisco 1992 (500 Years of Resistance)
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"Columbus came from a 'throwaway' world. A 'get rid of them' culture. We don't. The Métis trail forced our mothers to steadfastly hold on to the inclusionary culture of our original societies..."
Lee Maracle, The Lost Days of Columbus (1992)
The Lost Days of Columbus
by Lee Maracle I wonder sometimes if Christopher imagined the impact his voyage to Turtle Island would have on the geography, culture, demography, economy and sociology of the entire world. I imagine....
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#OtD 12 Oct 1919 150 Royal Navy sailors mutinied and broke out of their ships at Port Edgar upon hearing they were being sent to the Baltic to fight against the Russian Revolution. The desertion prevented the First Destroyer Flotilla from departing stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8435...
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Norwegian riot police used pepper spray to disperse a pro-Palestinian protest outside a World Cup qualifier match between Norway and Israel, which the hosts won 5-0. Several activists were arrested.
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#tdih 1972 DC prisoners led jail uprising.

Demanded:
-- juveniles be housed separately from adults
-- decent food
-- overcrowding addressed.

At their request, U.S. Rep Shirley Chisholm, D.C. School Board Pres. Marion Barry, & others met with them.

See ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/dc...
Oct. 11, 1972: D.C. Jail Uprising
An uprising took place at a Washington, D.C. jail to protest conditions.
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So by his own logic, Russia can continue to occupy the Ukrainian territories it has invaded since 2014 and the war can still be considered as "stopped" providing the airstrikes stop and troops withdraw from one small area but continue occupying the rest.
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The President of Ukraine today posted, "If a war can be stopped in one region, then surely other wars can be stopped as well—including the Russian war."
Notice that, for him, Israel can continue to occupy Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria, and this qualifies as "war" being "stopped."
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"Gaza’s vegetation, too, is largely dead. UNEP [United Nations Environment Program] has said that 97% of tree crops, 95% of shrubs and 82% of annual crops are gone."
Drone footage above Gaza City shows the toll of 2 years of war
New drone footage shows what remains of Gaza City after two years of war as a ceasefire holds in its second day.
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"...Right now, Canada plans to abandon Devoney, Nikita, and Sadie, just like Canada has abandoned Palestine. We must hold our government to account, and we must do it right now."
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"... (cont'd) we have been informed that the Embassy staff in Amman, where they are set to be deported to in the coming days, will do nothing to help these three young women..."
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Anarchists such as Emma Goldman and Errico Malatesta erred so much on the side of national liberation that they even mistakenly supported the Boers (who were colonizers themselves). Yet, Malatesta, then living in England, did at least correctly outline the use of the defeat of the Brits.
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Huge explosions were seen as Israeli air attacks hit a town in south Lebanon, killing at least one person and injuring at least seven others.

The strikes targeted a site that sold excavators and other heavy machinery.