Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Today in U.S. history we should note: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make Colonialism’s History Book
"On March 1, 1954, the members of the U.S. house of representatives were busily discussing their empire, making decisions that would affect people the world over. One of the topics to be discussed that day was the status of the Chamizal district between Texas and Mexico, that the Mexican government wanted back (and which the U.S. did not want to give up). The rulers of the United States empire were also going to discuss Puerto Rico that day since our nation was still reacting to the attempted revolution of 1950. It was twelve noon when a woman and three men stood up in the spectators gallery. The small, slender woman, Lolita Lebron, grabbed her .45 automatic with both hands, fired the first shots and kept on going until her clip was empty.
Readable 1280x1558 image here. H/t: BabylonFalling for the great scans
About that 1950 Revolution (google) which was actually a series of uprisings (wikipedia) throughout the early 1950s. Wikipedia has an whole entry for the Jayuya Uprising, led by a women, Blanca Canales
Monday, February 20, 2023
Hamburg Germany Squatters & Allies Fight To Save Decades Old Commune From Developers (2013)
Hamburg Germany Squatters & Allies Fight To Save Decades Old Commune From Developers
Cribbed from my 2013 Tumblr post
Embedded quote: June 2nd, 2010, Flora stays Red!
Two steps forward and three backwards
The failure of city privatisation as a model of conflict regulation
[---] The Independent UK
January 2014
Seeing Red In Hamburg: Violence Flares As Squatters & Allies Fight To Save Commune From Developer
The dilapidated and graffiti-smeared 19th -century theatre looks like an improbable relic from the early days of Fidel Castro’s Cuba. “Your Struggle is Our Struggle,” proclaims a slogan on its front facade. Bedraggled, bearded men in combat jackets and berets camp out in sleeping bags on the front steps, despite the January cold.
“Red Flora”, as Hamburg’s leftist community centre is named, sticks out like a sore thumb in the city’s hip, alternative yet increasingly upmarket Schanzenviertel district. Last week it prompted police to declare the centre of one of Europe’s richest port cities a “danger zone” and caused the US embassy to issue travel warnings to citizens contemplating a visit.
“If stopped without proper identification, persons may be detained by Hamburg police without further justification,” Berlin’s American embassy cautioned last Wednesday. The draconian measures would appear to have turned posh Hamburg and its famous if less smart Reeperbahn red light district into the Teutonic equivalent of Belfast during the Troubles.
The entrance to the Reeperbahn’s Davidwache police station was festooned with police barricades last week. Police helicopters circled above the city. Uniformed officers conducted stop-and-search operations. Last Wednesday, police were involved in skirmishes with left-wing protesters who pelted them with fireworks. “Many people who live here are fed up with the violence and destruction,” was how Hamburg’s police trade union president, Joachim Lenders, justified the new measures.
As Germany’s longest surviving squat, Red Flora has become a symbolic last stand against what many on the alternative left fear will be the total gentrification of what is already one of Europe’s richest cities.
Shortly before Christmas plans to evict the squatters were met with a mass counter-demonstration involving militant left-wing and anarchist groups from throughout Germany.
The city experienced some of its worst street violence since the Second World War.
Masked protesters torched cars and showered police with stones, bottles and fireworks. The police responded with water cannon, baton charges and tear gas. More than 120 police officers and an estimated 500 demonstrators were injured, many of them badly.
Just days later, another group of protesters assaulted police with stones and bottles as they were leaving the Davidwache station in what was apparently an unprovoked attack. One officer suffered a broken nose and jaw. [---]
More @ Independent UK
Good News!
SquatNet at "Crunch Time": Hamburg: Activists attacked by riot cops during the Rote Flora Squat demonstration
SquatNet After-action briefing December 23 2013. With an update on the protest and a backgrounder
Wikipedia, with a history, including pre-squat.
Sunday, February 19, 2023
Good thing Biden threatened the railway workers with prison time
Saturday, February 18, 2023
A Useful Member of Society Becomes a Killer and The New York Times Glorifies It
This what passes for a Human Interest story today. A useful member of society becomes a killer and is glorified for it. Really. The New York Times has lost their moral and ethical bearing to support a mafia government protected by White Supremacists in Ukraine.
Find the link yourself. I have to go somewhere and vomit.
Thursday, February 16, 2023
"Fascists do not deserve civility..."
"Fascists do not deserve civility. You would have us compliment the shine of their boots as they bear down on our necks. Fuck you." ~@dadamstowel @twitter
Photo Credit: Stephen Shames - Up Against The Wall - San Francisco, 1970
Shames was enamoured with the Black Panther Party. His photographic collection related to them is the world’s largest.
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Scientific American Takes Umbrage At The Food Industry Lobby's 'Spiking' The Congressional Inter-Agency Working Group Report On Advertising Food To Children
It's good to see someone cares about the kids.
The perfect companion read →”A Note Of Appreciation From The Rich.According to the General Mills letter, if everyone in the US started eating healthfully, it would cost us $503 billion per year! That might affect our ability to pay CEOs like General Mills’ Ken Powell annual compensations of more than $12 million.
The note the power elite left on the nightstand after screwing you.
by Patrick Mustain
Scientific American (May 19 2013)
Dear Consumers: A disturbing trend has come to our attention. You, the people, are thinking more about health, and you’re starting to do something about it. This cannot continue.
Sure, there’s always been talk of health in America. We often encourage it. The thing is, we only want you to think about and talk about health in a certain way - equating health with how you look, instead of outcomes like quality of life and reduced disease risk. Your superficial understanding of health has a great influence over your purchasing decisions, and we’re ready for it, whether you choose to go low-calorie, low-fat, gluten-free or inevitably give up and accept the fact that you can’t resist our Little Debbie snacks, potato chips and ice cream novelties.
Whatever the current health trend, we respond by developing and marketing new products. We can also show you how great some of our current products are and always have been. For example, when things were not looking so good for fat, our friends at Welch’s were able to point out that their chewy fruit snacks were a fat free option. Low fat! Healthy! Then the tide turned against carbohydrates. Our friends in meat and dairy were happy to show that their steaks, meats and cheeses were low-carb choices. Low carbs! Healthy!In Full @Scientific American
But we’re getting uneasy.
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