#Lumumba

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REPUBLICANS RESURRECTING JIM CROW IN MISSISSIPPISPECIAL TO THE ...MARCH 03,2023

Earlier this month, white representatives in the Mississippi House approved a bill to create a new district—that includes all of the majority-European neighborhoods in Jackson, a capital city that is 83 percent African. This includes creating a criminal justice system for the district, overseen by an all-European power base.

Under House Bill 1020, the white conservative chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court would handpick the new district’s two supervising judges; its prosecutors and public defenders would be chosen by the state’s white Republican attorney general.

The zone would be policed by an expanded Capitol Police force, led by the current European police chief, and supervised by the state’s Europan Public Safety commissioner. Because all the district’s officials would be appointed instead of elected, Jackson’s majority-African citizenry would have no voting rights on the matter—making it Mississippi’s only jurisdiction where, according to the ACLU, “unelected judges and prosecutors have jurisdiction over criminal and civil law matters”—although 12 percent of their sales taxes would be redirected to help pay for it all.

“It’s oppressive because it strips the right of African folks to vote,” Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said, after the bill cleared the House. “It’s oppressive because it puts a military force over people that has no accountability to them. It’s oppressive because there will be judges who will determine sentences over people’s lives. It’s oppressive because it redirects their tax dollars to something they don’t endorse nor believe in.”

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But far from quarreling with each other, these two men knew and loved each other. Fanon often spoke to me of Lumumba; though he was immediately on the alert when an African political party proved to be vague about reforming structures or reluctant to do so, he never reproached his Congolese friend for having been the straw man of colonialism, if only involuntarily. Quite the contrary: he regarded him as the stubborn adversary of any and every attempt on the part of a disguised imperialism to gain a new foothold. The one thing he chided him for--and we can appreciate how gentle a reproach it was--was his unshakable trust in his fellow man, which was at once his grandeur and his undoing. 'He was shown proof that one of his ministers was betraying him, Fanon told me. 'He sought him out, showed him the documents and reports, and said to him: "Are you a traitor? Look at me in the eye and answer me." When the man denied that he was and looked him straight in the eye, Lumumba finally said: "All right, I believe you." But this immense kindheartedness, which Europeans called naïveté, seemed to Fanon on this occasion to be an unfortunate thing: in and of itself, he was proud of it, seeing in it a basic trait of Africans.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Introduction to Lumumba Speaks, 4

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Gauchão 1963 - Grêmio 3x1 Floriano

Fotos: Folha da Tarde Esportiva

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Artist : Miriam Makeba

Track : Lumumba

Album : Keep Me in Mind

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Assimi Goïta : Le Lion du Sahel qui Défie le Néo-Colonialisme et Redéfinit l'Identité Africaine

  Les relations entre le Mali et la France ont été profondément redéfinies sous la présidence d’Emmanuel Macron et la gouvernance du Colonel Assimi Goïta. Alors que la France, ancienne puissance coloniale, tentait de maintenir son influence en Afrique de l’Ouest, la montée du Colonel Assimi Goïta, qualifié de “Lion du Sahel”, marque une rupture décisive. En résistant aux tentatives de…

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Film : Lumumba, Raoul Peck

J'ai vu ce film il y a quelques mois mais j'y repensais récemment et je me disais que le 30 juin approchant, c'était la parfaite occasion d'écrire quelques mots dessus. Donc pour célébrer la fête nationale de la RDC et l'anniversaire de son indépendance, voici mon avis ! :)

Un beau film sur la fin du parcours de Patrice Lumumba, très documenté. Il s’agit d’ailleurs du deuxième film de Raoul Peck sur celui-ci : il avait déjà réalisé en 1991 un documentaire intitulé Lumumba, mort d’un prophète (que je n’ai pas encore vu).

Le film rend bien compte du rôle essentiel qu’a joué Patrice Lumumba dans l’indépendance de la République démocratique du Congo, et il s’agit d’un bel hommage, marqué par une voix off qui survient à certains moments-clefs et agit comme un message d’espoir face à la fin tragique de Lumumba.

C’est une bonne porte d’entrée pour découvrir cette étape cruciale de l’histoire de la RDC, mais, du fait qu’il s’agisse d’un film –sans possibilités de notes de bas de page et de certains éléments contextuels— il est peu aisé de comprendre tous les enjeux à son seul visionnage. Mais cela n’efface en rien le travail extrêmement sérieux et respectueux de Raoul Peck, qui a vraiment fourni des efforts remarquables pour allier lisibilité générale du film et réalité historique, en condensant la complexité sans l’effacer.

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30 juin : la fête nationale de la RDC

La République démocratique du Congo fête son indépendance. Obtenue en 1960 après 75 ans d'occupation belge, mal préparée, elle a été accordée en catastrophe. Onze jours plus tard, la riche province du Katanga faisait sécession, un mois plus tard, c'était le tour du Kasaï. Le 4 septembre, le premier ministre Patrice Lumumba, le héros du 30 juin, était destitué, malgré une majorité acquise à l'assemblée... la république du Congo était bien mal partie. Depuis, ce sont des présidents mal élus et contestés qui ont présidé, chaque année, aux festivités de la fête nationale. L’élection présidentielle de 2019 a toutefois offert au pays sa première alternance pacifique même si l’élection de Félix Tshisekedi a été contestée, celui-ci a néanmoins été réélu en décembre 2023 avec plus de 73 % des voix.

Un article de l'Almanach international des éditions BiblioMonde, 29 juin 2024

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HOW COBALT MINING IS DESTROYING THE DR CONGO?

https://youtu.be/CjvVP4Rcq84?si=kinVyg2UTcUmDMDJ

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"We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again / And by that destiny to perform an act / Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come / In yours and my discharge." -The Tempest

I recently read Ravi Somaiya's The Golden Thread: The Cold War and the Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjöld. The implications are staggering, even all these years later.

Key topics:

✔️ "Draw your own conclusions." ✔️ "We did it" is really tantamount to, "Yeah, we did it. And what are you gonna do about it? Nothin'!" ✔️ "our motivation for Balkanising their country" ✔️ "he should drop the matter"

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2023 Waiting No Matter Your Claim by Marcellous Lovelace #raygun81 #75dab #biko70 Black People Didn't Benefit from Slavery

2023 Waiting No Matter Your Claim by Marcellous Lovelace #raygun81 Prints: http://Society6.com/marcellouslovercellouslovelace Black Color it is your job as a person that is negro colored to never expect anything from those that exist based on your neglect. #marcellouslovelace #blackart #art #75dab #biko70 #work Black People Didn’t Benefit from Slavery

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O técnico Carlos Froner e Paulo Lumumba em 1984

Foto: Correio do Povo

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