Wesley Hogan
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Wesley Hogan
@wesleyhogan.bsky.social
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Historian of freedom movements. Let's get free. snccdigital.org/ and sites.duke.edu/ncpostdobbs/
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To download the app that shows the neighborhood memorial cited at top, go to apps.apple.com/us/app/place... (Apple) and play.google.com/store/apps/d... (Google Play)
For more information on what one tourist advisory calls --even in this city more haunted by ghosts than perhaps any other in Europe -- "Berlin's most Unsettling Memorial," www.slowtravelberlin.com/places-of-re... (19/21)
Berlin’s Most Unsettling Memorial
Two Berlin artists talk about their controversial memorial in Schöneberg’s Bavarian Quarter. on Slow Travel Berlin
www.slowtravelberlin.com
In the years after H.R. 1’s passage, ICE and CBP expanded detention dramatically. Reports documented torture, medical neglect, and guards committing murder in Tar‑heel camps including “Alligator Alcatraz.” Over 100,000 detainees reported abuse." (18/21)
—and a sharp rise in deportations, family separations, and abuse followed. 'I was beaten with hoses, locked in a shipping container for days—no water, no medical care.' — Detainee, “Alligator Alcatraz,” 2027' (18/21)
"July 2025: here, 50 U.S. Senators signed H.R. 1, allocating $45 billion for a network of detention camps for migrants. ICE became the largest federal law enforcement agency. Massive camp-building began immediately—Guantánamo, Fort Bliss, Alligator Alcatraz (17/21)
Did those who signed HR 1, just take one such step? Not hard to imagine there being a sign outside the former Congress building in 2075: (16/21)
In Jackson, MS, as pedestrians pass site of a former poultry plant in 2075: "March 2025 'He didn’t come home. I thought he died.' —9-year-old after ICE raid near Laurel, MS. ICE tore families apart in the middle of workdays, leaving schools and churches scrambling to care for children." (15/21)
In Miami, FL next to the former Krome facility (now a museum) in 2075: JULY 21, 2025, “'They made us kneel. The food was thrown at us.'— Migrant held at Krome ICE facility, HRW report. Detainees were shackled, denied heat and medical care, and subjected to degrading treatment in Florida." (14/21)
In Koreatown, next to an elementary school in 2075: "THE GOVERNMENT TOOK CHILDREN. 2,800 KIDS WERE NEVER PROPERLY TRACKED." It's back side: “'What did 'zero tolerance' mean to a 4-year-old?' —Testimony, former Border Agent, 2039. Recordkeeping failed. Many children were lost in the system." (13/21)
For instance, in Los Angeles' Boyle Heights, perhaps its residents will walk through and pass this daily in 2075: (12/21)
[Citing that OpenAI rendered the "2075" images below from my prompts, and that i acknowledge the negative environmental and cultural impacts of this, in particular on Land Back + Native people. theconversation.com/ai-affects-e... (11/21)
It's no stretch to imagine an artist team in 2075, in Los Angeles or Miami or Tulsa or my hometown of Durham, creating a similar memorial to the piece-by-piece dismantling of rights of immigrants between 2016-2027. (10/21)
And Hollywood doesn't tell us that genocide was a "step" by "step" process too. It took *nine* yrs after the first camps opened, for the Nazis to agree to commit genocide, in 1942 www.deutschland.de/en/topic/kno... (9/21)
Remember and explain
The House of the Wannsee Conference is now a memorial and educational site. Eighty years ago, the National Socialists planned the murder of European Jews here.
www.deutschland.de
Yet, what few of us *feel* is how it happened piece by piece-not all at once. We don't know that "out of sight" for most Berliners meant "out of mind." They didn't find out what was being done in their name until 1946 or *later* (for some it took until 1961's Eichmann trial)... almost 30 yrs. (8/21)
Most Americans know this story: Nazis took Jews to camps, stole their businesses and homes, beat them, starved them, enslaved them, and for nearly 6,000,000 humans, murdered them. These Nazi camps opened in 1933. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a... (7/21)
Concentration Camps, 1933–1939
Learn about early concentration camps the Nazi regime established in Germany, and the expansion of the camp system during the Holocaust and World War II.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org
Every day, walking through this legal "dribble drabble" signage, I realize such piecemeal laws are rarely the focus of dramatic Hollywood Holocaust films. Yet the signs make concrete that everyday people turned away to "get on with their lives," while Nazis renditioned their neighbors. (6/21)
-- but instead complained to the Nazis that the dogs and cats belonging to their kidnapped Jewish neighbors were barking + meowing -- disturbing their "peace." The Nazis responded by forbidding Jews from keeping their pets after Feb. 15, 1942. (5/21)
The one closest to me shows how many neighbors *knew* the Gestapo snatched people out of their homes illegally. My ghost-neighbors not only *did* nothing to help ....(4/21)
Or when you walk by the local elementary school, you see this sign: "Jewish children are prohibited from public school" as of Nov. 15, 1938. And after June 20, 1942, "Jewish children can no longer attend any school," private or public: (3/21)
So today, when you walk by a neighborhood supermarket, you see this sign, showing that from July 4, 1940 on, Jews were forbidden from buying groceries except between 4-5 pm ( 2/21)
Some future thinking by an historian. In the Berlin neighborhood of Schöneberg, artists #RenataStih and #FriederSchnock erected an 80-sign memorial in 1993, to remind everyone who lives here how the Nazis, step by terrible step, took citizenship rights away from Jews between 1933-1943. (1/21)