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"Stuck in that amulet": From artifact to Crown Princess [Part 2]

Continued from part 1

Mateo summons Alacazar's chanol, a spirit animal, and learns she needs the wand of Shuriki to free Elena. She somehow grabs the wand and goes with Mateo to an ancient Maruvian temple, which looks a little like an Mayan pyramid. She puts the amulet and wand on the crown of Azaluna. Elena is freed, she jokes about being inside the amulet, hugs Sofia, and in another typical Disney fashion, she somehow sings a song, even though its been less than a minute since she is out of the amulet. I mean, how is that even possible?

Reprinted from my Wading Through the Cultural Stacks WordPress blog. Originally published on Mar 15, 2023.

In some ways, I can see a lot of parallels between Lapis and Elena, in that both were trapped inside of an artifact. In Elena's case, however, it wasn't thousands of years, like Lapis. Even so, she was still imprisoned inside, and it undoubtedly let to some trauma. Despite all this, she bravely confronts Shuriki, exposes her as a person who overthrow the royal family, but it doesn't go well. It appears she has the upper hand, as she locks up Sofia's family, putting them in the royal dungeon, and gets her wand back. They temporarily retreat, with Elena explaining the story of how her sister and grandparents were put in a magical painting, and how Shuriki killed her parents. Sofia encourages her to be a leader, they enter through a secret back entrance to the palace, Elena says that Sofia is the one princess who could free her.

To sum it up, Elena leads a bloodless revolution of the Avaloran people to overthrow Shuriki and restore the royal family to power, with the help of a foreign power (Enchancia). It is almost akin to the French intervention in the American Revolution, turning it into a global war between the French and British, helping turn the tide of the war. In the film, the royal guards are overwhelmed, Esteban throws Elena the wand of Shuriki, and she breaks it, making her powerless. She falls over a waterfall, with the presumption that she died in the process. [1] After saying she has seen enough of the amulet "for a life time" (which is understandable), she declares to the Avaloran people that the people are "free", with Sofia saying she brought a new age of "joy and prosperity" for Avalor. The film ends with Naomi joking that Elena is 57 years old, since she was 16 when she went in the amulet, and was inside the magical object for 41 years, and they leave the waterfall, placing the wand in the treasury.

What the citizens of Avalor is doing is mainly in-line with how the Global Nonviolent Action Database defines nonviolent action: "a technique of struggle that goes beyond institutionalized conflict procedures like law courts and voting, procedures common in many countries". However, the involvement of Enchania in this revolution is not a "physical intervention of a third party into the arena of the conflict in such a way as to reduce the level of violence", i.e. civilian peacekeeping. Instead, the Avaloran people push back the guards. With the help of Enchancia's king, Roland, along with other members of Sofia's family, Elena, and others, they are successful. This revolution results in a coup d'etat, i.e. the "sudden, forcible overthrow of a ruler...by a small group of people" with some political or military authority, [2] as Elena becomes crown princess and ruler of Avalor, when Shuriki is pushed out of power.

What the Avalorans do is no mere movement or campaign. Instead, it has some characteristics of what Akinyele Omowale Umoja defines as spontaneous rebellion, i.e. "unplanned, unorganized, politically motivated collective violence intended to redress justice" and armed resistance, which can mean the "individual and collective use of force for protection, protest, or other goals of insurgent political action and in defense of human rights". But, the struggle is nonviolent, rather than armed, in that the people do not gain state power by military means. Instead, it is a revolution with one goal: restore the royal family (i.e. Elena, as rightful heir) to power and unseat the awful Shuriki. [3]

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Continued in part 3

Notes

[1] It is later shown that she survived. She later becomes a major villain in the series proper. In retrospect they should have just thrown the wand off the cliff instead of putting it in the treasury.

[2] Webster's New World College Dictionary (Fourth Edition, ed. Michae Agnes, Cleveland, Ohio: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2007), 333. It is also a revolution, defined on page 1228 in the same book, as the "overthrow of a government, form of government, or social system by those governed and usually be forceful means, with another government or system taking its place". It is more than a revolt or an insurrection.

[3] See Umoja, Akinyele Omowale. "Introduction" in We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement (New York:New York University Press, 2013), 8-9. There is no use of arms, armed self-defense, retaliatory violence, or guerrilla warfare in this Avaloran revolution. He also adds on page 9: "The use of guns is not necessary in my definition [of armed resistance], only the use of force...Fists, feet, stones, bricks, blades, and gasoline firebombs may all be employed to defend, protect, or protest".

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Justice for Jordan Neely! Vigilante killings must be stopped!

By Stephen Millies

 A hundred people came to the Criminal Courts Building in lower Manhattan Oct. 21 to demand justice for Jordan Neely. The 30-year-old Black man was strangled to death by the white vigilante Daniel Penny on May 1, 2023, inside a subway car.

The December 12th Movement called the protest, which began as a news conference and continued as a militant picket line. D12 chairman Omowale Clay and International Secretariat member Roger Wareham were among the speakers. Demonstrators chanted, “Never forget, never give up!'”

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"A wonderful afternoon with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex during their trip in Abuja, Nigeria. Happy to share with Meghan, the Duchess the warmth and friendly embrace of Nigerians. At our meeting with leading Nigerian women, ably moderated by the one and only @MoAbudu, she was showered with names - Ifeoma (a beautiful and good person), Omowale (a child has come home) and Edidiong (blessing)."

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We Will Shoot Back: History of Armed Resistance - Republic of New Africa

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We Will Shoot Back: History of Armed Resistance - RNA

We Will Shoot Back: History of Armed Resistance - Republic of New Africa

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In We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement, Akinyele Omowale Umoja argues that armed resistance was critical to the Southern freedom struggle and the dismantling of segregation and Black disenfranchisement.

Intimidation and fear were central to the system of oppression in most of the Deep South. To overcome the system of segregation, Black people had to overcome fear to present a significant challenge to White domination.

As the civil rights movement developed, armed self-defense and resistance became a significant means by which the descendants of enslaved Africans overturned fear and intimidation and developed different political and social relationships between Black and White Mississippians.

This riveting historical narrative reconstructs the armed resistance of Black activists, their challenge of racist terrorism, and their fight for human rights.

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Adut Akech was born in Sudan (in an area that later became part of South Sudan), but was raised in Kakuma, Kenya. Akech was born on Christmas Day, on the way to Kenya. She was 7 years old when she moved from Kenya along with her mother to Adelaide, Australia as South Sudanese refugees seeking asylum. They also had relatives there. Akech has five siblings.

 Akech was known as "Mary", her Christian second name in Adelaide, as Australian teachers found it difficult to pronounce her name.

Be proud of African names, and stop falling into the trap of saying all African names are hard to pronounce. Like European names are easy

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Day 2- The Duchess of Sussex attended the “Women in Leadership” summit in Abuja, Nigeria. (5/11/24)⁣

⁣CNN Senior Editor in Africa, Stephanie Busari (purple dress), and founder of TEDxBrixton attended as well. She also met meghan, and gave her a gift. Here is what she said:⁣

⁣“It was an honour to be part of the Women in Leadership event co-hosted by Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex and the always inspiring Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. It was expertly moderated by the formidable Mo Abudu. Amazing day with great women who gave our sis Meghan Omowale a huge welcome home.” — Stephanie Busari

Meghan took pictures with the other women in attendance too.

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Non si può separare la pace dalla libertà perché nessuno può essere in pace senza avere libertà.

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Day 2862 Art Fight 15 Ekundayo Omowale, for Yokieet

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