#week of rebellion

[xrboston]

Climate Activists Disrupt Boston Rush Hour Traffic

On Thursday September 21, more than 35 climate activists from XR Boston shut down traffic around the financial district to demand that the Healey administration ban new fossil fuel infrastructure. Three independently moving groups of XR rebels marched slowly around the intersections of Atlantic Ave and Seaport Blvd., Atlantic Ave. and Summer St., and Purchase St. and Summer St. creating traffic gridlock. The activists communicated that they would refuse to end their traffic disruption unless the Governor made a public statement committing her administration to opposing all new fossil fuel infrastructure projects, including the expansion of airports and gas connections in new buildings.

The activists wore blue shirts with yellow illustrations of the Earth accompanied by slogans "I rebel for..." followed by personalized messages (my kids, a livable future, etc.). They held large banners reading "No New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure" and chanted "Governor Healey, you make the rules, time to ban new fossil fuels," "Massachusetts, don't delay, ban new fossil fuels today."

When asked why he chose to participate in non-violent civil disobedience, Monty Neill, an event organizer and one of the arrested climate activists, replied "My grandchildren are facing a world of climate and ecological collapse, with social crises inevitably following. How bad it will be depends on what we do today. An easy first step in Massachusetts is to halt fossil fuel expansion. Leaders must lead, not see what lobbyists say or fear to ‘spend their political capital.’ Governor Healey and the legislature must act now, no more delays."

Jana Pickard-Richardson, another activist with XR Boston, added "I’m risking arrest today out of love and rage. Love for the millions upon millions who stand to lose their homes, and even their lives in this worsening climate crisis. And rage at the politicians who have wasted decades with incremental actions and business as usual. And now as the signs of the crisis unfold around us, our government still is not acting with the urgency the situation demands."

Over 20 activists were arrested after blocking rush hour traffic for almost 30 minutes. In an August meeting with XR Boston, Climate Chief Hoffer admitted Massachusetts won't make its legally binding target to reduce emissions 50% by 2030, per the 2021 Act Creating A Next-Generation Roadmap for MA Climate Policy. She promised that the Healey administration would release a statement shortly. There has been no statement. We are escalating. Our lives depend on it.

Photos by Cam Lawless, Jesse Kieffer, Skip Schiel, Haley McH, Jule Manitz

[sunlight-shunlight]

it is underrated how straight up murderous felassan is in the masked empire. cannot stress enough - this guy threatens a random shopkeeper with torture and maiming in a way that implies he's done it before, then helps kill off an entire dalish clan in cold blood, all without even a hint of remorse or hesitation. and then in veilguard he's on the "but... solas... how could you let soldiers die in a war... aren't you going too far? 🥺���" mindset. smh. let this guy be a menace to society.

[cj-kenobi]

My fill for day 1 of @codywanweek this year (Rebel husbands AU)!

It's on AO3 as well for those who want a bonus ficlet!

Rebel husbands fill on AO3

Days: 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

[kestrel-of-herran]

all this talk of reitegration this season yet the biggest part of growing up is differentiating from your parents and finding ways to prove you're your own completely independent person, sometimes out of spite

[melrosing]

doodling the robbie’s reb lads

[unshallow-feelings]

Since I've hurt myself with this information I'm going to subject all of you to it as well.

It has come to my realization that after My Clematis we have yet to receive a single Ivan cover song. Quite frankly, I don't think we're ever getting another Ivan cover.

I came to the conclusion after thinking way too hard about how Sua has multiple cover songs after her death while Ivan has none. As much as it pains me as a long time Ivan Kinnie to admit I think this is yet another sign pointing towards his death being permanent.

I think I'm a twisted way this is Vivinos telling us the day Ivan died he was forever silenced not only to those in his world but to us as the viewers as well. His voice died with him that day and the only thing that's left is his ghost haunting the narrative.

This realization was the final thing that squashed my last bit of hope at his revival.

I also believe that the theory that Sua's alive holds more validity than any theory about Ivan's return. There are too many signs that point to Ivan not returning.

(Everybody say thank you @rockwgooglyeyes I couldn't have come up with this without you 🙃)

[sillyengineerperson]

another day, another hunger games book that's made me cry my eyes out

[mistrex-silly]

Remember to pressure your goverment officials for a ceasefire and to boycott!

Daily clicks - https://arab.org/click-to-help/palestine/

Donate - https://www.anera.org/how-to-help/

Purchase eSims - https://gazaesims.com/

Hygiene kits - https://piousprojects.org/campaign/2712

Educate yourself - https://decolonizepalestine.com/ Same links + more for Palestine, Congo and Sudan [Tumblr Page]

[stealingpotatoes]

For this ask, please ignore Tales of the Empire:

In TL4J, did Barriss join the Rebellion and help them kill fascists, or did she follow a different route, like joining the Hidden Path?

please ignore the first time i've seen my girl in like a decade? absolutely not!!! I like most of what TotE did w Barriss (the latter part is actually pretty similar to what I had in mind!), I imagine she'd only get involved w the rebellion in more subtle ways and mostly stick to being a rural cryptid healer

[septfair]

it's me and the rtc production i made up in my head against the world

[aish-art]

When I can finish a 14h drawing in one day without procrastinating that's usually a bad sign

(Click for a better view)

[jessicas-pi]

Its A Rich Man’s World for the kick-in-the-pants ask game???

Here you go!

“I’m Mandalorian,” Lady Wren smiled. It was a dangerous smile, the kind Youngest Brother could get caught up in if he wasn’t careful. “Everything is a fight.”

[gun-roswell]

Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Clone Force 99 | Bad Batch/CT-27-5555 | ARC-5555 | Fives Characters: CT-9904 | Crosshair, CT-21-0408 | CT-1409 | Echo, CT-27-5555 | ARC-5555 | Fives, CT-9901 | Hunter, CT-9902 | Tech, CT-9903 | Wrecker, CT-7567 | Rex, CC-2224 | Cody, CC-3636 | Wolffe, Clone Commander Mayday (Star Wars), CC-1010 | Fox Additional Tags: The bad Batch Appreciation Week 2024, tbbaw2024, tbb appreciation week 2024, polybatch, Cloneshipping | Clone Trooper/Clone Trooper Relationships (Star Wars), Rescue Missions, The Corrie Guard, Everyone lives, Prejudice, Forgive and Move on? Series: Part 14 of The Bad Batch Appreciation Week, Part 24 of The Poly Batch/The Poly Conglomerate Summary:

Saving Fox with the rest of the Corries was no small feat to pull. Alas, there is some bad blood between Fox and Fives.

TBB APP WEEK /POLYBATCH SERIES

@tbb-appreciation-week​ ***

Note from the Author: 
This is my final story for this years The Bad Batch Appreciation Week of 2024!   A day late but here it is!!!

It's been a hoot and a half!!! Hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did: D Same time next year?

Thank you all who read, commented and left for kudos for my fics!!! I really appreciate you all so very much :D:D:D

[r0sebutch]

dunmeshi 🤝 dim20

[most harrowing scene youve ever seen in your life] [startling cut to jaunty ending theme]

[daydreamerwonderkid]

It's fucking wild how they managed to make the reveal of Homura becoming a witch not only shocking and devastating, but then made it immediately irrelevant only a few minutes later by having her transform into a LITERAL GOD.

Fuck, I wish I had that kind of writing talent O_O

[coochiequeens]

Happy National Princess Week!

1 Amanullah wasn’t actually king until 1926 – he was Amir before then. For simplicity’s sake, referring to him as king.

2 For an idea of how Syria was doing at the time, read the entry on Naziq al-Abid (although please excuse the hideous and outdated art). It is entirely possible from the timeframe that she and Soraya knew each other, although I have no evidence of it.

3 Soraya’s father was Mahmud Tarzi, the father of Afghan journalism and a pretty swell guy.

4The “wandering marketplaces” bit is a rumor, but illustrative that he was a man of the people and really fairly popular.

5 This was the Third Anglo-Afghan War, which happened right around the formation of the League of Nations. For years prior, Afghanistan has been treated like a pawn in a larger game of chess between Russia and Britain (usually referred to as the “Great Game”). The Afghans fought for self-determination, and although it was an overall military victory for Britain, Afghanistan came out of it independent. Several books I read pointed to the League of Nations being a central cause of this, as it was pushing for an end to colonialism and promoting self-governance.

6 This was all laid out in Amanullah’s “Book of Order,” the Nizamnama, introduced in 1923. It was a hugely controversial document for the more religious members of Afghan society, as to their eyes it placed secular laws above god’s law. He argued all of the points on religious grounds. Polygamy, for example, was an only acceptable if you treat all your wives equally – which was a feat only possible if you were the Prophet. Amanullah was pretty strictly monogamous – unheard of for kings – and very faithful to Soraya.

7 Soraya’s entire family was involved in bettering the lot of women: her sisters founded a women’s hospital and an organization to help women.

8 Amanullah was a very learned guy – he personally taught adult education classes.

9 The bride price wasn’t abolished technically – it was just capped at 29 rupees, instead of the tens of thousands that that one saw beforehand.

10 The magazine in question was Ershad-I-Niswan, “Guidance for Women.” The speech at the bottom is one she gave in 1926 at the seventh anniversary of Afghan independence.

11 This was formed in 1927. Many men took grave offense at random women (who were mostly older types) entering their houses unbidden. They would basically make house calls to check in on women.

12 This was the Khost Rebellion, which basically halted the entire country from about 1924 to 1926. Amanullah won it mostly through bringing in British and Russian help and bribing various tribes to fight for him. The Brits and Russians were still trying to figure out how to exercise influence, although the Brits were fairly stuck-up about it (and seemingly sore that they’d ceded Afghanistan in the first place).

13 Remarkably, Soraya joined him in visiting Khost afterward, although the locals HATED her.

14 The Minaret still exists as a tourist destination, to my knowledge.

15 Much of this, as you’ll see, was getting ahead of himself. He would spend a lot of money bringing in specialists from Europe to make roads or telegraphs, but not have anywhere to run them, necessarily. A lot of people spent time sitting around. It was fairly wasteful.

16 They also did a ton of other stuff: instituted a solar calendar, promoted archaeology, and guaranteed rights to women and minorities: “The Prophet said all people are equal, men and women. Take his words to heart.”

17 The politics of this trip are interesting. Britain and Russia were both vying to have Afghan under their umbrella, but without appearing too desperate. Amanullah and Soraya were playing them – and the rest of Europe – against each other. They were given lavish greetings almost everywhere they went.

18 The first illustration is that of their visit to an arms factory in Sheffield, where Soraya impressed with her shooting accuracy. She’d also wowed the Brits in 1927, at a clay pigeon shooting competition between the Afghans and British diplomats.

19 The second illustration is that of a time where Soraya, seemingly aware that their servant could understand the Farsi that she was speaking in private, mentioned in Farsi that the boiling-hot tea was awfully cold. The servant, shocked at her comment, was about to comment, when he realized he was not supposed to be able to understand them, and that both Amanullah and Soraya were looking him directly in the eye.

20 Among the gifts they got while abroad: furniture, tanks, cars, planes, a rifle (for Soraya), and two fluffy white kittens (from Turkey). Amanullah idolized Turkey, which had recently achieved many of his stated goals, under its new leader Mustafa Ataturk.

21 Russia was convinced Afghanistan had signed some sort of treaty with Britain, and drove themselves nuts trying to find it in their belongings. Near the end of their stay, they became convinced it was in the one piece of luggage they hadn’t checked – when, at length, they managed to separate Soraya from the bag, it turned out to be just a suitcase full of her lingerie.

22 Okay. So this is one of those things that gets overstated and accepted as fact – and it sounds plausible. After all, Britain interfered with god knows how many countries – just 25 years later, they’d overthrow the democratic leader of Iran in a secret operation. But they stridently deny involvement here, and the declassified cables between their envoys bears that out. More on this later.

23 Some reports of “naked photos” of Soraya indicate a doctored photo of Soraya’s head on a dancer’s body, citing it as evidence of British involvement. Others assume that, to rural Afghans, merely showing bare shoulders would be considered a form of nudity. I could not find consensus on what photographs exactly were the ones to rile up the Afghans so.

24 The rumors of secret Christianity (“They met with the pope!”), a secret crematorium for old people, and a macabre soap factory are ones that apparently still sometimes pop up as rumors in present-day Afghanistan.

25 I’m glossing over it here, but after his visit to Europe, Amanullah got pretty iron-fisted in his approach. He’d pushed for western-style clothing for government employees already, feeling that traditional clothing was not taken seriously on the international stage. But here he started mandating clothing, and forcing people to cut their beards – and fining them if they didn’t. He made some parks burqa-free zones, and on one occasion purportedly ripped off a burqa from a woman in such a zone, leaving her to walk home, utterly humiliated.

26 Additionally, his civil service requirement, and that of coed education, directly robbed local tribes of power, by extracting their young for what many considered indoctrination.

27 many other women whipped off their veils at this event, after the queen – although not all. It was an optional thing, and should not be viewed as a tool of oppression. Many women kept it on willingly and happily (ref. the woman on screen right).

28 Amanullah was not great at budgeting, and his taxes grew onerous in short order. His heart was in the right place, but he was pushing way too fast.

29 the bandit here was named Habibullah Kalakani (well, just Habibullah, “Kalakani” denoted where he was from), but he was known better as Bacha-i-Saqao, or “the water carrier”: a title indicating his low status. He was illiterate, brutish, and not well loved.

30 This was sort of a perfect storm of events: Amanullah was distracted by a rebellion in the Khyber pass, and by all accounts, Saqao was not really on his radar. The army was off quashing that rebellion, leaving it wide open to Saqao. Additionally, Amanullah’s backups had either been alienated by his behavior, or outright stymied from joining him. A number of nearby tribes were stopped at the Afghan border – whose exact location had been a point of contention – by British troops and not allowed to pass.

31 There was a humiliating period I am glossing over here where Amanullah tried acquiescing to Saqao’s demands, which included rolling back all his reforms and divorcing Soraya. It was not enough, and he was ousted anyways.

32 A  number of writeups made a point of talking about how he fled in his import car that he’d gotten in Europe. Amanullah’s taste for luxury was not one of his more widely-lauded traits.

33 Here we get more points that some writeups point to as evidence of British interference. Adding to the peculiar exception for the British (which is explained by the fact that the British had been better to the rural tribes than, say, the Germans, whose drinking offended the religious minority) are some other oddities: TE Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) was in the area at the time for reason that have never been adequately explained; eyewitness accounts describe English rations being passed around by Saqao’s men; there are even reports of Saqao meeting with British envoys (which are not borne out in any cables).

34 The majority of modern academic thought seems to affirm that Britain wasn’t directly responsible, although they certainly didn’t help with the political atmosphere at the time. Bottom-line, it was not in Britain’s interests to have a destabilized Afghanistan at the time. Nevertheless, contemporary Western newspapers from France, Italy, Russia, and even England all assumed England had masterminded it, and that Saqao was Britain’s puppet.

35 Saqao was profoundly ill-suited to his new role in leadership. He did not understand how banks or taxes worked, and preferred to just threaten merchants to give him money. Likely apocryphal tales describe his men marveling over windows, which they’d never seen before. He staffed his entire government with various poorly-educated cronies and personal friends. Few of them could read, least of all Saqao.

36 The guy to overthrow Saqao was Nadir Khan (unrelated), who’d been Amanullah’s military commander in the Anglo-Afghan war, but had left to Paris during the Khost rebellion. He came back and overthrew Saqao, executing him. Some attempts were made by foreign powers, especially Italy, to reinstate Amanullah, but the local support wasn’t there.

37 The US’s involvement in the 70s and 80s is probably well-known to most of you, but here’s a Wikipedia article covering it. The short version, which is somewhat disputed, is that the US armed the rural religious population to overthrow the progressive government. This mass destabilization of the country led to the rise of the Taliban.

38 Kabul in the 60s was actually a hub of fashion! Crazy, right?39 These women were wearing chaderi, which I believe is basically synonymous with burqa – I could be wrong on that.