#Guerrilla

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July 11, 2024 - Hamas released video of an incredibly brave Palestinian resistance member in Rafah once again just running up to an IDF tank and disabling it by placing an IED in direct contact. The end of the video shows the disabled tank being towed away. [link]

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Insane face card

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MAKE SOME NOISE 👹 coachella week two version.

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Life or Death

Long live Palestine

Free

Arab

Liberation

Artist: Unknown

Circa 1968

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HAPPY ONE YEAR, GUERRILLA! 💣 ⤷ JULY 29 2022

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Captain of the Vanguard, reporting for duty! With his super-sized hammer, Erend is ready to smash machines into individual Lego bricks, even if he’s traded his love of Oseram ale for donuts 🍩 🍺

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Mujahid prays', 1980.

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COMME des GARÇONS Guerrilla Store Los Angeles

2008

The COMME des GARÇONS Guerilla Store concept is where CdG would open a store in a city for a specific duration of time and after that time’s up, it would close down, forever. After opening stores in places like Hong Kong, Warsaw, Singapore, Beirut and Athens, COMME des GARÇONS has decided to hit Los Angeles. As usual, the store’s hard to find but once you find it, you’ll be offered an opportunity to purchase some exclusive CdG items that you won’t be able to find else where. 125 West 4th Street Suite #106 LA CA 90013

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accidentally hyper-focused so hard i spent 10 hours straight customizing some sneakers

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November 2024 - An injured al-Qassam guerrilla runs up to an Israeli tank with an IED, plants and arms it, and makes it safely back to cover before the explosion destroys the IDF machine. [video]

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(Pt. 2) Here’s the rest of the photos

The second last photo is Roddy Scott. The last photo shows the unit marching once in Ingushetia. It was the last photo taken by Scott. Soon afterwards the group was ambushed by Russian forces resulting in Scott being killed alongside numerous rebels.

Second Chechen war, ca. 2002

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MAKE SOME NOISE coachella version UNLOCKED. 👹

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ATEEZ as songs in my favorite songs playlist [2/?]

welcome to the black parade by my chemical romance

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Saying that Ateez just screams in their songs and only makes "noise music" because they made one metal song 2 years ago is fucking ridiculous literally listen to any other kind of music I'm begging-

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HONGJOONG

Our Professional ROCKSTAR! KIM HONGJOONG! 🔥🔥

HONGJOONG ATEEE!!!

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Florenci Pla Meseguer "La Pastora", intersex antifascist hero

One of the most famous maquis (guerrilla fighters against Franco's dictatorship) is Florenci Pla Maseguer.

(thank you @neonbutchery for the suggestion)

He was born in a farmhouse in Vallibona, in the rural mountains in north of the Valencian Country, in 1917. His body did not fit the categories of either male nor female, so his family were left with the choice of what sex to register him as. His parents decided to register him as female so that he could avoid the mandatory military service.

He grew up in the farmhouse being a shepherd, and never went to school as was usual at the time for the rural working class. When he reached puberty, he developed male secondary sex characteristics.

When the fascists did a coup d'état in 1936, sparking the Spanish Civil War, he wanted offered himself as a volunteer to fight in the republican (=antifascist) army, and he thought that this way he would get officially registered as a man, but couldn't.

He kept dressing as a woman until he was 30 years old, but always felt a man. In his words (originally in Catalan in this interview in El Temps from 1988):

Interviewer: What did you think of your sexual condition? Did it cause you any worries?

Florenci: Problems...? Mainly because of the beard. They said I was half man and half woman, but I never felt a woman. I still remember the first time I dreamed I had an affair with a woman, when I was 13 (...)

I: Have you always felt a man?

F: Always, and I have always liked men's jobs and being registered as a man. In fact, when I walked the flock I carried a sarró [=a kind of bag], like men, and not a basket like women.

He kept wearing women's clothes until he was 30, when he joined the maquis. By then, it was 1947; the fascists had won the war in 1939 and, as a result, Spain and its occupied territories were ruled by Franco's fascist dictatorship, which persecuted the political dissidence, the national minorities (such as Catalans-Valencians) and their languages, and everyone who didn't fit the strict normative and nationalcatholic morale, prominently LGBTQI+ people and women who didn't limit themselves to the roles that the patriarchal society considered fit. The maquis were the armed resistance.

I: How did you change the flock for the maquis?

F: Since I lived in the mountains, I had sometimes talked to them. On a snowy night, three maquis took refuge in a house that was only inhabited in summer -El Cabanil- but one of them ran away -one who was from Morella- and everywhere he went, he spread the word, he snitched it. And the Civil Guard [=the regime's military police] followed their clue until they found them and burned the house down, because they were resisting. The next morning, they arrested El Cabanil's owner and I got nervous because I worked for him, and I decided to escape out of fear of being killed.

I: Was it because of the fear of reprisals or for the humiliations to which the Civil Guard put you through?

F: Yes, that determined it, too. That was on the morning of the same day they burned down El Cabanil, and it was "teniente Mangas" [="lieutenant" Mangas, which he says in Spanish], six guards and two militiamen, one from Torremiró and the other one from Herbesset.

I: And what did they do to you exactly?

F: They were curious to know how could a shepherd girl be half man and half woman. I had sold thrushes to the militiamen, and they told the Civil Guard about my anomaly. Teniente Mangas ignored all rules and made me take off my clothes, until their curiosity was fulfilled. And when they were done, they said "bueno, a hacer bondad" ["well, behave" in Spanish, as a way to say goodbye]. And I felt so much rage, so much helplessness. (...) I joined [the guerrilla] and I dressed as a man. There, I was a man like any other.

From then on, he lived as a man and named himself Florenci, though he was known with other nicknames like "Durruti" (after the famous anarchist leader) and, most famously "La Pastora" (the shepherd).

He ended up living in Andorra, but a journalist for the Spanish tabloid El Caso published about him, attributing to him the crimes committed by other maquis, even ones that he had never met. For this reason, La Pastora became famous in all of Spain and the police intensified the search. The Andorran police turned him in to the Spanish police in 1960, accusing him of robbery, banditry and terrorism. He was judged twice for the same crimes: a tribunal sentenced him to 40 years of prison and the other one sentenced him to death and later changed it to 30 years of prison.

He spent 17 years in prison. First, in a women's prison where the women (and him) had to wear very tight miniskirts. He was later moved to a men's jail, where the case was further investigated. The detective saw that there was no proof and that the story didn't match up, so it was impossible that Florenci had committed these crimes. He was freed with a pardon in 1977 and the detective officially registered him as a man.

Despite the slander published by the press, when he came back to his hometown Vallibona, everyone came down to the village from their farmhouses to greet him. He died in 2004, at 86 years old.

Nowadays, Florenci "La Pastora" is by far one of the most famous maquis, if not the single most famous one. He is talked about in songs, books and documentaries, and has become an icon of the antifascist resistance.