#Viola Liuzzo

[evilkitten3]

are you implying the american government might have a vested interest in not being one hundred percent honest about the rest of the world at all times

Okay, for nine months now we’ve all seen firsthand how American media lies and spreads misinformation about the situation in Palestine and what’s really going on over there. Have you stopped yet to consider what other countries American media is lying to you about?

[antifainternational]

How are you helping the women's liberation movement? Such a access to abortion clinics and so on... I rarely see you post anything that has to do with women unless it's about trans women and other non-binary afabs...

Hey there Anon, we are an anti-fascist social media collective consisting of ten people in eight countries. We've been doing our thing since 2014. In that time we have: -been documenting and tracking hate-motivated violence targeting women. -provided legal defence funding to 100 feminists arrested in Germany for stopping a fascist march against abortion access (via The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund) -provided additional support (via the Defence Fund) to this teacher, this other teacher, this woman, this community college staffer, this PNW woman, this waitress, Louise Thundercloud, two moms in SC, this victim of the 2017 Charlottesville terror attack, this BLM defender, Lina, Alissa Azar, Kita and Xvedia, Tabitha, and this Filipina activist, among others. -profiled anti-fascists like Marina Abiol, Hedy Epstein, Jane Elliot, Leah Feldman, Giovanina Berneri, Zora Neale Hurston, Ida B. Wells, Yuri Kochiyam, Natalie Tran, Elizabeth Mironova, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Magda, Arundhati Roy, Anastasia Baburova, Zinaida Portnova, Marina Ginestà, Heather McGhee, Akilah Green, Fanya Schoonheyt, Sophie Scholl, Tina Anselmi, Faye Schulman, Hanna Bohman, Viola Liuzzo, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, Maria Kislyak, Maria Dimadi, Georgette Kokoczinski, Irma Bandiera, Franceska Mann, Rebecca West, Lepa Radic, Giovannina Caleffi, and Audrey Hepburn, among others. Still, we could be posting more, of course! Why don't you tag us on posts from your tumblr you think we should reblog/signal boost? (finally, we get a whiff of "all lives matter/TERFishness from your objections about us not posting enough about "women" except for "trans women" - we hope that's not how you intended your msg!

[velvetvexations]

They would just say they're also opposed to the US for similar reasons. A better comparison would be that they're capable of recognizing Israel is still the genocidal aggressor in that conflict and on that basis, in the name of self-defense and liberation, will happily actively side with people who do far worse than have a few Neo-Nazis in the army who hadn't even been there for years by by 2022.

Hey, speaking of, there's another word you could use if they object to "transradfem."

Solidarity is, has been, and will always be my preferred way to engage in activism, and if it weren't for that I'd barely be able to contribute anything at all because I'm so easily triggered I have to make sure I stay laser focused on only exposing myself to intercommunity conflict because anything outside of that fucks me up very rapidly and very severely.

Plus, I know that the people I speak up for are speaking up for me too, like, literally, I feel so backed up by the people around me, transmasc, transfem, non-binary, cis, that I feel like it's being handled. When I do reblog things about transmisogyny, it usually came from one of my "transandrobro" followers who love trans women and speak up and fight for us 24/7.

Still, I do sometimes see posts about transmisogyny out in the wild which I can handle, and I get this real good feeling about being able to spread awareness for my own group...and it's almost always someone who says and promotes really awful things. That makes me sad.

Radical feminism is just when someone hates trans women.

Not once in their lives.

I'm like Racism Watchdog but for radical feminism.

Nah, Viola Liuzzo was only a victim of misdirected racism, she was Racism Exempt, it was just, you know, splash damage.

TME is truly just a synonym for AFAB trans people and I cannot stress enough that they are starting to entirely ditch even bothering to claim otherwise.

This oppressed group should have this other oppressed group dictate what language they can and can't use, that's normal.

[gonzalo-obes]

IMAGENES Y DATOS INTERESANTES DEL DIA 3 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2023

Domingo de Adviento, Día Internacional de las Personas con Discapacidad, Día Internacional del Médico, Día Internacional del Cine 3D, Día Mundial del no uso de Plaguicidas, Día Europeo del Síndrome de Marfan, Año Internacional del Mijo y Año Internacional del Diálogo como Garantía de Paz.

Nuestra Señora del Sol, San Javier, San Francisco Javier, Santa Magina y Santa Atalia.

Tal día como hoy en el año 1989

En el buque soviético Máximo Gorki, fondeado frente a las costas de Malta durante la Cumbre entre el presidente norteamericano George Bush (padre) y el líder soviético Mijail Gorbachov, se anuncia el fin de la Guerra Fría. La reunión, que tiene lugar 3 semanas y media después de la caída del muro de Berlín, sirve para comentar los vertiginosos cambios que se están viviendo en Europa y proponer estrategias de futuro. (Hace 34 años)

1984

Un escape de 45 toneladas de isocianato de metilo, un gas letal, de la fábrica de pesticidas de Union Carbide en Bhopal, India, se extiende sobre una zona poblada, lo que provoca entre 15.000 y 20.000 muertes directas y deja también alrededor de medio millón de afectados con dolencias médicas crónicas. En 2010 un tribunal indio condenará a 8 directivos a 2 años de prisión y una pequeña multa. (Hace 39 años)

1967

Con un gran interés internacional y por primera vez en la historia de la Medicina, el cirujano Christian Barnard, asistido por un equipo especializado compuesto por 20 personas, y tras más de ocho horas en el quirófano, transplanta el corazón a Louis Washkanzy de 50 años, por el de una joven de 25 muerta en accidente de tráfico. Dieciocho días después, Louis fallecerá de neumonía debido a la debilidad de su sistema inmunológico por los fármacos ingeridos para la operación. (Hace 56 años)

1965

Por primera vez en la historia de los tribunales de Estados Unidos, un jurado completamente blanco del sur del estado de Alabama, condena a tres miembros del Ku Klux Klan por el asesinato de la activista de derechos civiles blanca, Viola Liuzzo, madre de cinco niños de Detroit, que fue asesinada a tiros cuando circulaba en su coche con un joven activista negro, Leroy Moton, de regreso a la ciudad de Selma a raíz de una marcha de protesta a la capital del estado de Montgomery el 25 de marzo, cuando otro coche se colocó al lado del suyo y la dispararon dos veces en la cabeza muriendo instantáneamente. Su auto se salió de la carretera y se estrelló, pero Leroy Moton resultó ileso. Por todo ello, en el día de hoy, Colie Leroy Wilkins, de 22 años, Eugene Thomas, de 42, y William Eaton, de 41, son condenados por un tribunal federal por conspiración al violar los derechos constitucionales de la señora Liuzzo de 39 años, condenándoles al máximo de 10 años de prisión, al no poder sentenciarlos por cargo de asesinato ya que el homicidio no se encuentra dentro de la jurisdicción federal. (Hace 58 años)

1810

En el Oceáno Índico, y tras haber pertenecido a Francia desde 1718, es en el día de hoy cuando los ingleses invaden isla Mauricio. Tres días más tarde, el 6 de diciembre, las tropas francesas capitularán ante el vicealmirante Albemarle Bertie, significando la pérdida de la posesión a favor de los británicos. Mauricio se independizará del Reino Unido el 12 de marzo de 1968 convirtiéndose en una democracia estable que respetará los derechos humanos y atraerá por ello inversiones extranjeras, lo que le hará poseer una de las rentas per cápita más altas del continente africano. (Hace 213 años)

[ms-cellanies]

Katie Phang spoke with Viola Liuzzo’s son this morning.  The interview should be available online tomorrow.  Since it is Women’s History Month it is appropriate to learn more about this White woman left her home in Detroit & went to Selma, Alabama to help in the Civil Rights Movement.  More information here:  https://www.biography.com/activists/viola-gregg-liuzzo & here:   http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/hob.html.

[lackadaisicalideas]

The murder of Viola Liuzzo by the klan + statues & remembrance

[leaarongmail-blog]

Medal of Honor Recipient: Viola Liuzzo

[reasoningdaily]

this woman is a serious freedom fighter and for those of you who don't know who she is you need to find out

Viola Liuzzo Is the reason we know what happened to the Philadelphia 3 murdered by the Ku Klux Klan

[protoslacker]

Viola Liuzzo

I saw on Twitter a reporter speaking with Jocelyn Benson about this plate. And Benson says whe wanted to honor the memory of Viola Liuzzo who was killed in her oldsmobile--bearing a Water-Winter Wonderland license plate--by Klu Klux Klansmen after a march for voting rights in Selma, Alabama in 1965.

I had never heard of Viola Liuzzo and reading the article at Wikipedia really blew my mind. One aspect of the horrifying story is that one of the Klansmen involved in her murder was an FBI informant. In order to obscure that fact the FBI launched a smear campaign against Liuzzo telling the press and lawmakers falsehoods, among them that there were "puncture marks in her arm indicating recent use of a hypodermic needle; she was sitting very, very close to that negro in the car; that it has the appearance of a necking party."

The article about Viola Liuzzo is truly worth reading. In the comments to the Twitter thread people suggested that some will probably want to return their license plates when they find out it has anything to do with “wokeness.” No doubt that’s true. But perhaps many others will be inspired by Viola Liuzzo and be grateful there are righteous among us.

[the-haunted-toybox]

[hogbu]

Wrecked car of Viola Liuzzo par bswise Via Flickr : * * * Viola Fauver Liuzzo (née Gregg; April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965) was a housewife and mother of five. In March 1965, Liuzzo heeded the call of Martin Luther King Jr and traveled from Detroit, Michigan, to Selma, Alabama, in the wake of the Bloody Sunday attempt at marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Liuzzo participated in the successful Selma to Montgomery marches and helped with coordination and logistics. At the age of 39, while driving back from a trip shuttling fellow activists to the Montgomery airport, she was murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan and FBI infiltrator David Thomas Rowe. One of the four Klansmen in the car from which the shots were fired was Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant Gary Thomas Rowe. Rowe testified against the shooters and was given witness protection by the FBI. After Liuzzo's murder, the FBI immediately began a smear campaign and leaked disinformation to politicians and the press about Liuzzo. The FBI attempted to downplay their role in Liuzzo's murder by discrediting her through planting misinformation that she was a member of the Communist Party, was a heroin addict, and included sexual disinformation that Liuzzo had abandoned her children to have sexual relationships with African-Americans involved in the Civil Rights Movement. All of the rumors were entirely false and were wholey fabricated by the FBI, [then under the directorship of J. Edgar Hoover.] * * * In February 1965, a night demonstration for voting rights at the Marion, Alabama, courthouse turned violent. State troopers clubbed marchers and beat and shot a 26-year-old African-American named Jimmie Lee Jackson, who later died. His death spurred the fight for civil rights in Selma, Alabama. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) scheduled a protest march for Sunday, March 7, 1965. Gov. George Wallace banned the march, but the ban was ignored. Six hundred marchers headed for the arched Edmund Pettus Bridge that crossed the Alabama River. As the protesters reached the crest of the bridge, they saw a terrifying sight on the other side: state troopers armed with clubs, whips, and teargas, and a sheriff's posse on horseback. When told to stop and disperse, the marchers refused. The troopers advanced on the marchers, clubbing and whipping them, fracturing bones and gashing heads. Seventeen people were hospitalized on the day later called "Bloody Sunday." Liuzzo was horrified by the images of the aborted march on Bloody Sunday. A second march took place March 9. Troopers, police, and marchers confronted each other at the county end of the bridge, but when the troopers stepped aside to let them pass, the Rev. Martin Luther King led the marchers back to the church.[12] He was obeying a federal injunction while seeking protection from federal court for the march. That night, a white group beat and murdered civil rights activist James Reeb, a Unitarian Universalist minister from Boston, who had come to Selma to march with the second group.[13] Many other clergy and sympathizers from across the country also gathered for the second march.[citation needed] On March 16, Liuzzo took part in a protest at Wayne State. She then called her husband to tell him she would be traveling to Selma after hearing the Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. call for people of all faiths to come and help, saying that the struggle "was everybody's fight." Leaving her children in the care of family and friends, she contacted the Southern Christian Leadership Conference who took her on and tasked her with delivering aid to various locations, welcoming and recruiting volunteers and transporting volunteers and marchers to and from airports, bus terminals, and train stations, for which she volunteered the use of her car,[8] a 1963 Oldsmobile.[citation needed] On March 21, 1965, more than 3,000 people began the third march, including blacks, whites, doctors, nurses, working-class people, priests, nuns, rabbis, homemakers, students, actors, and farmers. Many famous people participated, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Ralph Bunche, Coretta Scott King, Ralph Abernathy, and Andrew Young. It took five days for the protesters to reach their goal. Liuzzo marched the first full day and returned to Selma for the night. That Wednesday, March 24, she rejoined the march four miles from the end, where a "Night of the Stars" celebration was held the City of St. Jude with performances by many popular entertainers of the day, including Harry Belafonte, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joan Baez, and Dick Gregory. Liuzzo helped at the first aid station. On Thursday, Liuzzo and other marchers reached the state capitol building, with a Confederate flag flying above it. Martin Luther King addressed the crowd of 25,000, calling the march a "shining moment in American history." * * * In addition to other honors, Liuzzo's name is today inscribed on the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, created by Maya Lin. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Liuzzo

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Where are the statues of Viola Liuzzo?

By Stephen Millies

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo doesn’t think the statue of Christopher Columbus in New York City’s Columbus Circle should be removed. Cuomo said that the statue “represents in some ways the Italian American legacy in the country, and the Italian American contribution in this country.”

So where are the statues in honor of Viola Liuzzo? She was an Italian American mother of four children who was murdered in Alabama on March 25, 1965, by the Ku Klux Klan. Liuzzo was supporting the Montgomery to Selma human rights march that led to the Voting Rights Act.

[morbidology]

In 1965, Viola Liuzzo paid the ultimate price to march in support of civil rights: her life. She was the only white woman to be murdered during the civil rights movement.

In 1964, Viola joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and took part in the fight for civil rights. She organised Detroit protests and attended civil rights conferences. She watched in horror as Alabama state troopers, armed with batons, bull whips and tear gas, attacked the civil rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge outside Selma. Afterwards, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. issued a call for Americans to join the marchers in Selma, Alabama. Viola wanted to make a difference and took heed to what he was saying.

It was the 25th of March, 1965, when Viola set out from her home in Detroit to Selma, Alabama, to join in the march for voting rights. Following the march, Viola was driving a fellow marcher home - Leroy Morton, who was African American. As they filled up their car at a local gas station, they were subjected to racist abuse. Shortly afterwards, while stopped at a red lighted, a car with four members of the Ku Klux Klan pulled up alongside them. Upon seeing a white woman with an African American man, they followed the car as Viola attempted to outrun them. When the car caught up with Viola and Leroy, they shot directly at Viola, hitting her twice in the head. She veered into a ditch. Viola died there at the scene. The bullets all missed Leroy but Viola’s blood spattered over his body. He lay motionless and pretended to be dead when the Klansmen came over to the vehicle to check both were dead. When the Klansmen left, Leroy ran for help.

One of the Klansmen, Gary Thomas Rowe Jr., was an FBI informant who failed to stop the killing. In an attempt to divert the attention away from him, Viola’s reputation was besmirched by the U.S. government. She was the symbol of everything the South despised: a white won an travelling in a car with an African American man. The FBI accused her of having an affair, abandoning her family, and having needle marks on her arm; all of which was untrue. Southern newspapers wrote that Viola got what she deserved. But despite the smear campaign, Viola didn’t die in vain. 

President Johnson declared war on the Klan several months after her death and Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The four Klansmen - Collie Wilkins, William Eaton, Eugene Thomas and Gary Thomas Rowe - were apprehended within 24 hours. Rowe was not indicted and served as a witness. He claimed Wilkins had fired two shots on the order of Thomas. The other men, however, claimed that Rowe had shot the gun. Wilkins, Eaton, and Thomas were found guilty of conspiracy to intimidate African Americans - not murder - and sentenced to ten years in prison.

[keloggs8495]

In memory of our sister, Viola Liuzzo who gave her life in the struggle for the right to vote

March 25,1965.

Presented by SCLC Women & Evelyn Lowery

[antifainternational]

Viola Liuzzo was born in this day in 1925.  Liuzzo, a mother of five and civil rights activist, was murdered by the KKK in 1965.  Via A Mighty Girl:  On March 25, 1965, the final day of the Selma to Montgomery march, Liuzzo was helping shuttle marchers from Montgomery back to Selma in her car, along with a fellow activist, 19-year-old Leroy Moton. When she stopped at a red light, a car filled with local Ku Klux Klan members pulled up alongside them. When they saw Liuzzo, a white woman, and Moton, a black man, together, they followed them, pulled a gun, and shot directly at Liuzzo. She was killed by a bullet to the head; Moton, who was covered in her blood, pretended to be dead when the Klan members investigated the crashed vehicle. The murder of the 39-year-old Liuzzo, a Detroit housewife and mother of five, shocked millions of people around the country and, along with the outrage at the violent treatment of many of the Selma protesters, helped to spur the signing of the historic 1965 Voting Rights Act five months later. Liuzzo, who had grown up in deep poverty in Tennessee, was already an active member of the Detroit NAACP when she saw television footage of the beating of hundreds of civil rights activists by the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the first attempted march to Selma on March 7, 1965. Horrified by "Bloody Sunday," she decided to heed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s call for volunteers to come to Selma to help in the struggle. Her husband was opposed to her plan, telling her that civil rights "isn't your fight;" she responded that "it's everybody's fight" and drove to Selma to volunteer during the four-day march from Montgomery to Selma. Liuzzo, who called her family nightly with updates, was thrilled by the march's success and to be contributing to what she considered the most important fight of her time. After her death, many prominent civil rights leaders, including King, James Farmer, and Roy Wilkins, attended Liuzzo's funeral in Detroit to pay their respects. The four Klan members were quickly arrested; one of the men was a paid informant for the FBI and protected from prosecution, the other three were found guilty in a federal trial and sentenced to ten years in prison. In an attempt to obscure the fact that an informant was in the car, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover began a smear campaign to the press directed at Liuzzo, including allegations that she was a drug addict and that she was having an affair with Moton. Hoover and the FBI's role in the smear campaign was uncovered in 1978 when her children obtained FBI case documents under the Freedom of Information Act. While her story was largely forgotten for many years, Liuzzo's commitment and sacrifice for the pursuit of civil rights has recently received more recognition. Last November, she was posthumously awarded the 2017 Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award, an award named in honor of the co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference which honors outstanding individuals who contributed to civil and human rights. And, while the lost of their mother was devastating to her children, they are deeply proud of how she lived her life and the legacy she left. Her now 69-year-old daughter Mary Liuzzo Lilleboe says that when they obtained her mother's journal from the FBI, she saw Liuzzo had written "I can’t sit back and watch my people suffer." To Lilleboe, that passage sums up what drove her mother to take action: “She actually believed it when Christ said that the suffering and needy are our people. Mom saw all other human beings as her people.”

[corsairpsc-blog]

An interview with Mary Liuzzo, daughter of civil right’s martyr, Viola Liuzzo.