#philadelphia freedom

[saints87]

Philadelphia Freedom

[paulftompkins]

COME ON PHILLY

TICKETS

[rastronomicals]

5:22 AM EDT October 2, 2023:

Elton John - "Philadelphia Freedom" From the album   Elton John's Greatest Hits Volume II (September 13, 1977)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Originally released as a single MCA-40364 b/w "I Saw Her Standing There (Live)" released 1975

[myimaginaryradio]

Philadelphia Freedom - Elton John - 1977

[pushingforwardproductions84]

Behold this enchanting digital artwork that brings Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA, to life with a touch of magic and modern flair. 🏛️✨ The sky dances with expressive clouds, setting a whimsical stage for this historic landmark. A Septa bus whizzes by, adding a playful contrast to the timeless elegance of Independence Hall. This piece beautifully captures the blend of history and contemporary life, making it a true visual delight..

[scifigirl]

i literally have to call a man named George W. English tomorrow and ask him about soil samples

[pixlerelish]

Day 7: A song that reminds you of your parents

Dammit, should have kept The Boomtown Rats for this post. Couldn't quickly find the song I originally wanted (probably a good thing), so you get this one instead:

[jacks-weird-world]

Jack and his team was yesterday on the Penn campus to promote and encourage young people to register to vote.

Sept 16, 2024.

[harriswalz2024-2028]

If after watching this video, you don't want to jump out of your comfort zone and join events.democrats.org and start making calls with Scale to Win phone banking system, and check with your fellow citizens if they are registered to vote, have a voting plan, need help with filling up the ballot, and guidance on how to vote at home via mail ballot, to vote early, or to be ready to vote on the day, THEN, I don't even know what are WE doing to change this country once and for all.

Each State has great Progressive Vote Guides because we want a House and a Senate BLUE so Kamala Harris and Tim Walz can fulfill their promises because we will be there demanding results, with our democratic FREEDOM to protest.

JOIN THE FIGHT! The Good Fight

For help, call

- Voter Assistance Hotline at 1-833-336-8683

Or visit the website

https://iwillvote.com

Tomorrow is the last day for VOTER REGISTRATION in most States.

[undergroundusa]

This Is How They Play The Game: They Cheat

"America’s voting public is slowly – and none too soon – coming to the realization that Kamala Harris is a fraud; a political grifter whose only talent is climbing the governmental ladder from her knees..."

ORIGINAL PODCAST CONTENT:

https://www.undergroundusa.com/p/this-is-how-they-play-the-game-they

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[paulftompkins]

PHILADELPHIA

JUNE 16 & 17

Friday TICKETS

Saturday TICKETS

[rastronomicals]

11:52 PM EST January 14, 2023:

Elton John - "Philadelphia Freedom" From the album   Elton John's Greatest Hits Volume II (September 13, 1977)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Originally released as a single MCA-40364 b/w "I Saw Her Standing There (Live)" released 1975 ---

[tf2incorrectquotes]

Soldier/Spy: *wearing the Patriot's Pouches and Lurking Legionnaire cosmetics*

Scout: You have matching outfits with your boyfriend? That's gay.

Spy: *defensively flustered* I am pansexuel, but he's not my boyfriend, because I can do much better than him!

Soldier: *smugly* Really? Then why don't you, Frenchie?

[ausetkmt]

https://x.com/AfricanArchives/status/1704567631515160830?s=20

Apart from Henry “Box” Brown, who mailed himself to freedom in a wooden box did you know there was a woman who also did the same?

Lear Green’s story is less well-known.

Green was an enslaved young woman who made one of history’s most daring and innovative escapes in order to marry the man she loved. Green was able to flee her slaveowner, James Noble, in an old wooden sailor’s chest during a long and arduous shipping journey from Baltimore to Philadelphia. Slaveholder and butter dealer Noble had “inherited” Green from his mother-in-law.

Green, born in 1839, was in her teens when she fell in love with a free Black man, William Adams, who asked her to marry him. Green initially refused because she did not want her children to be born into slavery. “How can I perform the duties of wife and mother while burdened by the shackles of slavery?” Green reportedly asked Adams. But Green later changed her mind after Adams and his mother, also a free woman, came up with a plan for her to escape.

Green, who was now determined to escape the oppression of slavery, purchased an old sailor’s chest and placed various items in it, including “a quilt, a pillow, and a few articles of raiment, with a small quantity of food and a bottle of water.”

Her fiance Adams and his mother fastened the chest with heavy rope, with Green cramped inside. Adam’s mother boarded an Ericsson steamboat in Baltimore and brought the chest with her. The chest was secured with rope and stowed with other freight. During the 18-hour journey to Philadelphia, Adams’ mother snuck into the compartment and from time to time lifted the lid of the chest to check in on Green and allow her a breath of fresh air.

After 18 hours in the chest, the ship arrived in Philadelphia. Green would meet with Underground Railroad conductor William Still before making her way further North to marry Adams and move to Canada. As expected, Green’s slaveowner Noble named her a fugitive slave, and a manhunt was launched to bring her back.

Noble reportedly posted an advertisement of her escape, which read as follows: “$150 REWARD. Ran away from the subscriber, on Sunday night, 27th inst., my NEGRO GIRL, Lear Green_about 18 years of age, black complexion, round featured, good looking and ordinary size… I have reason to be confident that she was persuaded by a negro man named Wm Adams…he had heard to say he was going to marry the above girl.”

Green and Adams married and settled in Elmira, New York. But their joy together was short-lived. After three years of marriage, Green suddenly died at the age of 21 for unknown reasons.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

As a new generation of young people speaks out against attacks on women and children halfway around the world — this time in Gaza — college administrators from Boston to L.A. are racing to call in heavily armored riot cops to shut down protest encampments at campuses they’d sold to applicants as bastions of academic freedom, open expression, and historic demonstrations that had changed the world. They are destroying the American university in order to keep it “safe.” In a week when decades happened, the lowest moments in what became a nationwide assault on college free speech by militarized police veered from shock to tragicomical irony. [...] The most tumultuous week on U.S. college campuses since May 1970 resulted in at least 600 arrests at 15 different schools as of Saturday, with more surely on the way. It’s going to take even longer to tally all the students facing suspension and in some cases expulsion for speaking out on the bloodshed in Gaza, or the now-ruined careers of principled professors who stood between their students and a nightstick. Not to mention the lasting psychological scars for young people who saw their dream college summon cops to arrest them or even fire rubber bullets or canisters of tear gas at them, which would be considered a war crime if used in Ukraine but is apparently OK in the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s hometown of Atlanta. The notion of college as the American dream — fostering not just upward economic mobility but a nation of informed citizens taught to think critically — has been steadily dying since the original right-wing backlash against student protest in the 1960s triggered the end of taxpayer support for low tuition, which caused a $1.75 trillion student loan crisis. The maelstrom around the war in the Middle East has given the enemies of higher education — and they are many — a chance to move in for the kill. [...] Their ammunition is the complicated relationship between student protests for Palestinian liberation and against Israel’s current conduct in Gaza, where its more-than-six-month assault has killed at least 33,000 people — the majority of them women and children — and the constant scourge of antisemitism. Even though some advocates lump political criticisms of the state of Israel under an overly broad definition of antisemitism, there’s no question that the despicable harassment and assaults on Jews on or around college campuses have risen since the Oct. 7 start of the war (as they also have for Muslims). A few of the claims linking the worst antisemitism to the student protests have been disingenuous, such as when some journalists cited a nonstudent and well-known antisemite stationed a block from the Columbia University main gate as an example of protester hate speech. At Boston’s Northeastern University, administrators sent in police Saturday who detained 100 students based on a shout of “Kill all the Jews!” that veteran journalists on the scene said came from a Jewish demonstrator waving an Israeli flag, apparently seeking an escalation. But there has also been some instances of antisemitism that are indeed the fault of pro-Palestinian student protesters.

[...]

The biggest driver is right-wing authoritarianism. Red-state governors like Abbott in Texas or Georgia’s Brian Kemp have watched the new hero of U.S. conservatism, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, make crushing his homeland’s once freethinking universities the centerpiece of his strongman governance. Now they are importing the strategy. The Gaza protests have given governors and their fellow travelers on Capitol Hill a golden opportunity to squelch the notion of a liberal education while squeezing out a few more tax-cut dollars for their billionaire donors, and creating a nightly Two Minutes Hate of young people on Fox News that distracts from the 88 felony counts against their presidential candidate. [...] The complexities of never-ending conflict in the Middle East is what allows the cynical Greg Abbotts of America to get away with this. Too many would-be Democratic critics are too wedded to years of deep support for Israel, ignoring that a) the right-wing extremism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies is not your father’s Israel and b) the assault on campus free speech has much deeper implications than the current crisis. Too many college presidents have displayed extreme cowardice, caught in the headlights between Republican bullying and billionaire donors, who likely fear the protesting students might eventually question the brand of capitalism that made them billionaires.

Will Bunch at The Philadelphia Inquirer on the violent crackdowns of student protests against Israel's genocidal campaign against Gaza on college campuses orchestrated by police (04.28.2024).

Will Bunch wrote a solid column in the Philadelphia Inquirer about how the recent violent crackdowns on student protests against the Gaza Genocide and Israel Apartheid are a prelude to the fascist hell that America will be under should Donald Trump be elected come November. The violent crackdowns on student protests are also an excuse for right-wing reactionaries to wage war on higher education, academic freedom, freedom of assembly, and freedom of speech.