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Sidney H. Sime, The Guardians.

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our friend Ibrahim @wolf-aid and his lovely family still need our help!

he's only 16 and the constant bombs, cold, hunger, and apathy/hostility from people online are really impacting his physical and mental health negatively. his mother is also chronically ill. they need money for food and many other daily necessities we take for granted!

PROOF OF VETTING (#25 ON THE VETTED CAMPAIGN LIST) BY @gazavetters, A GROUP OF TRUSTED CAMPAIGN VETTERS !

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Truly the most arrogant americanism is how "leftist" yanks are utterly convinced that living in the US makes them privvy to the true depths of evil, cruelty and depravity that the US government is capable of, which the silly foreigners who keep talking about imperialism and US foreign policy could never even begin to imagine, when it's actually almost universally the other way around.

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Eve Miller, Respite I Pastel on Multimedia Board, 50 x 40cm

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Palestinians in Gaza know you stopped paying attention.

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People are saying that the Dems haven't learned anything in their choice for Harris for 2028 but they absolutely have. They have learned that they can get away with anything, including Biden's latest anti-trans legislation. That they can re-run a candidate covered in children's blood. And that the American people are too passive and self-centered to give a fuck about genocide and will support the DNC down to the last child in Gaza. They have learned there is no murderous low to which they can stoop that will deflect the American people from cheering them on and guilting others into supporting them.

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Ian Felice (American, 1982) - Road to America (2017)

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1952 envelope (by viv)

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Merry Christmas from the Holy Land

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On the day after Christmas, 38 Dakota men were hanged in the largest mass-hanging in U.S. history. The execution was approved by President Abraham Lincoln.

The hangings were the result of conflict between the Dakota and settlers.

Mark Charles, Washington correspondent for Native News Online writes:

In the fall of 1862, after the United States failed to meet its treaty obligations with the Dakota people, several Dakota warriors raided an American settlement, killed 5 settlers and stole some food. This began a period of armed conflict between some of the Dakota people, the settlers, and the US Military. After more than a month, several hundred of the Dakota warriors surrendered and the rest fled north to what is now Canada. Those who surrendered were quickly tried in military tribunals, and 303 of them were condemned to death.

The trials of the Dakota were conducted unfairly in a variety of ways. The evidence was sparse, the tribunal was biased, the defendants were unrepresented in unfamiliar proceedings conducted in a foreign language, and authority for convening the tribunal was lacking. More fundamentally, neither the Military Commission nor the reviewing authorities recognized that they were dealing with the aftermath of a war fought with a sovereign nation and that the men who surrendered were entitled to treatment in accordance with that status.” (Carol Chomsky)

Because these were military trials, the executions had to be ordered by the President Abraham Lincoln.

Three hundred and three deaths seemed too genocidal for President Lincoln. But he didn’t order retrials, even though it has been argued that the trials which took place were a legal sham. Instead he simply modified the criteria of what charges warranted a death sentence. Under his new criteria, only 2 of the Dakota warriors were sentenced to die. That small number seemed too lenient, and President Lincoln was concerned about an uprising by his white American settlers in that area. So for a second time, instead of ordering retrials he merely changed the criteria of what warranted a death sentence.\Ultimately, 39 Dakota men were sentenced to die.

And on December 26, 1862, by order of President Lincoln, and with nearly 4,000 white American settlers looking on, the largest mass execution in the history of the United States took place. The hanging of the Dakota 38.

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An Anarchist View From Rojava on Recent Events in Syria: A conversation with a combatant of...

This week, we’re sharing a conversation with Errico, a combatant member of Tekoşîna Anarşist, an internationalist anarchist formation in critical solidarity with the Rojava Revolution. For this episode, Errico answers some questions we had about what’s been happening in Syria and concerns from within the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. You can find ideas and updates from the TA formation on their blog, https://tekosinaanarsist.noblogs.org. Past interviews with TA can be found here.

Transcript PDF (Unimposed) Zine (Imposed PDF) Errico’s voice has been re-recorded by a comrade for anonymity. The transcript is already up in the show notes and at our website for easier reading, translation and sharing and you can find past interviews we’ve done with TA linked in the show notes. And there is an announce-only signal group that anyone can join with updates and analysis by anarchists in the region or paying attention which we’ll link in our shownotes. Just a headsup, the usernames of members of this group will be visible to the all other users there and it might be a good opportunity to set up your signal username and make your phone number unfindable for better anonymity prior to joining the signal group ( https://signal.group/#CjQKIN0TDK_nsHV... )

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Andrew Cranston (Scottish, 1969) - If You Know Your History (After Barrie Cooke) (2024)

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Hansaem Kim - The Devil in Iron, 2021 (Aluminium leaf, pigment print, resin)

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Yeah I’m having trouble buying into this narrative that Todays Youth have a unique problem with reading literature or writing essays considering that it fits more into a reoccurring pattern of “people getting older start regurgitating cliches about lazy stupid youth” which historically speaking is more of a thing than “all of a sudden a whole generation became very stupid and refused to engage in intellectual activities” which is not so much a thing that actually happens

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Palestine ..About today in the City of Bethlehe Merry Christmas عن جمال عيد الميلاد المجيد في مدينة بيت لحم… Palestine

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