#protest movement

[bossymarmalade]

The Girl in the Kent State Photo

Mary Ann Vecchio dropped to the pavement and waited until the smoke had cleared to look up. Jeffrey Miller, the student she’d been talking to, was facedown on the ground; he’d been shot through the mouth. She knelt over his body as blood seeped onto the pavement. Other students walked by, too stunned or confused to look. “Doesn’t anyone see what just happened here?” she remembers crying. “Why is no one helping him?” As the soldiers approached, their guns at the ready, she recalls asking them a question that countless others across the country would soon ask as well: “Why did you do this?”

Nearby were more bodies. Allison Krause was shot in the chest; William Schroeder in the back. Sandy Scheuer, who was just passing through the area on her way to class, was struck by a bullet that hit her jugular vein. Four dead in Ohio.

“It was because she was 14, because of her youth, that she ran to help, that she ran to do something. There were other people, 18, 19, 20 years old, who didn’t get close to the body. She did because she was a kid. She was a kid reacting to the horror in front of her. Had she not been 14, the picture wouldn’t have had the impact it did.”

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Greta Thunberg Detained In Copenhagen Yesterday During Protest Against The War In Gaza

[workersolidarity]

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When we see protests being crushed by American police, we are reminded of this quote from the movie Boondock Saints:

"Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most. And that is the indifference of good men."

Nothing could be more dangerous to the personal freedoms, human rights, democratic rights, freedom from violence, freedom of speech and the freedom of the people to peaceably assemble than the indifference of good people to the injustices being committed by their government, in their name, with their tax dollars.

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[sayruq]

btw now is the best time to keep boycotting. the israeli economy has never been weaker. don't stop the protests or the demands for divestment. keep supporting organisations like the Hind Rajab Foundation and the Accountability Archive. ofc don't stop boosting and donating to Palestinians as Gaza is still uninhabitable.

enjoy this moment but the work has not ended

[otws]

Reflections on the kidnapping of Americans: How every layer of government failed Mahmoud Khalil and us

Mahmoud Khalil and You and Me I am afraid and my heart is broken. I am stunned that neither Congress, nor my New York elected leaders could bring back our neighbor who was kidnapped by the federal government and brought to a southern prison. Mahmoud Khalil is a lawful, permanent resident of the United States. And, Khalil is also a resident of New York, who was living in university housing with…

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the power of collection action

[serendip8y]

This really resonates right now.

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Narges Mohammadi: La Defensora de los Derechos de las Mujeres de Irán Premiada con el Nobel de la Paz

En un acto de desafío a los líderes teocráticos de Teherán y un impulso para los manifestantes antigubernamentales, Narges Mohammadi, la defensora de los derechos de las mujeres de Irán, ganó el Premio Nobel de la Paz el viernes pasado. El comité encargado de otorgar el premio declaró que este reconocimiento honra a quienes están detrás de las recientes manifestaciones sin precedentes en Irán y…

[lesmotsquinousmanqueny]

Shoutouts to Slovakians, they were 100k this Friday rallying against their pro-russian PM.

Shoutouts to Serbian students, they have been leading the largest student movement in decades, protesting to denounce and to end systematic corruption.

Shoutouts to Georgian citizens, they have been protesting for more than 70 days now against their government's pro-russian turn, facing criminal policemen.

And finally shoutouts to German citizens rallying nationwide in protest of Merz's political hand to the AfD.

[folk-enjoyer]

James H. Karales, 1965. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

James Baldwin and Joan Baez in Selma, Alabama, 1965

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[sayruq]

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Mario Savio giving a speech at Berkeley in 1964 during an occupation of the university.

I mistakenly labeled this as an occupation and speech against the Vietnam war. It was in fact an occupation by the Free Speech Movement, who objected to attacks on free speech and academic freedom during the cold war, when "radical" student groups were banned and faculty had to swear an anti-Communist loyalty oath or be fired. Students objected to universities being used as a source of knowledge and innovation for the military industrial complex but not being allowed to speak their minds that, which does have a lot of parallels with the current occupations.

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!

[ghost-37]

Black people have culturally subsidized this country since our arrival

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April 5th, 2025

Hands Off! Protest

St. Paul, MN