The Observer's 70th anniversary celebration on Tuesday night was really something special, y'all. 🤠

It was a great turnout that included multiple generations of those who devoted big parts of their lives to making this magazine, and this community, possible. Our deepest thanks to all. 🎉

#Texas #journalism #nonprofit #history

“Nothing’s more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.” — Fred Hampton

On December 4, 1969—21 year old Fred Hampton was assassinated by the FBI and Chicago PD as part of COINTELPRO. FBI head J. Edgar Hoover was intent on wiping out all “charismatic black leaders.”

The struggle for justice continues.

#fredhampton #history

"We don’t think you fight fire with fire best; we think you fight fire with water best. We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism." - Fred Hampton

Fred Hampton was killed by Chicago Police on this day in 1969. The world needs more Fred Hamptons.

#history #socialism #BlackPanthers #solidarity #racism #ACAB

At the end of his Apollo 14 moon exploration in 1971, Alan Shepard played golf in a lunar sand trap on the moon’s surface, in a world-famous demonstration of the moon’s low gravity. Upon his return to earth, Shepard’s first stop was Carlos’ barber shop. https://www.texasobserver.org/book-excerpt-moon-golf-ball/

#books #bookstodon #history #space #Texas #GulfCoast

It's a sad story.

A long battle pitting dedicated climate scientists on one side versus billionaire capitalists and neoliberal politicians on the other side.

Guess who won.

➡️ https://grist.org/economics/how-the-world-gave-up-on-1-5-degrees-overshoot/

And this is not Hollywood. There will be no "happy ending" to the story.

#Politics #History #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

Let's face it, 1.5 is dead. And unless a miracle happens, we'll shoot past 2 degrees in the next ten or fifteen years. After that, with climate feedbacks, tipping points, and cascading effects, 3 degrees of warming or even higher is probable by the end of this century.

That can mean only one thing. A collapse of our fragile, tenuous, global industrial civilization. It might happen gradually, it might happen suddenly, but it will happen and it will be catastrophic.

Our rulers know about this. And yet they've chosen to do nothing. Or, actually, they've chosen to go all in, pushing for increased consumption, stronger economic growth, and even more fossil fuel use — because it's incredibly profitable. 💵 💵 💵

So, what can you and I do?

Jem Bendell says our best choice is to accept what is happening to our world, embrace the collapse, and turn our efforts toward what comes next. He says: "We’re going to collapse into community, and what we can play for is what we find there when it’s all we have."

➡️ https://archive.ph/gOMp6

#History #Economics #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange

#Blog KW49: Wie schlugen sich die gesamtstudentische #Aufarbeitung des #NS und der #Reformgeist von „1968“ in Tübinger #Verbindungen nieder? Zwei Beiträge und ein #Ausstellungsplakat bieten Einblicke. Teil 1 – Luginsland:

▶️ https://www.historischer-augenblick.de/ns-diskurse-verbindungen/

#Tübingen #Projekt #histodons #history #Geschichte #lokal #Historiker #Studierende

Turn your eyes to the East this Advent! As The Church of the Nativity is one of the oldest working churches in existence today.

The first Church was built by the Roman Emperor Constantine in the 4th century AD, over the grotto where Mary gave birth to Jesus.

Constantine and his mother, Helena, built a magnificent and majestic church adorned with beautiful marble and mosaics.

https://youtu.be/Y5RuEbgj9zM

#christmas #uk #usa #history #advent #news #media #education #europe #art

REQUEST

Good book on the successes, challenges of the Chilean student uprisings, 2011-13 +/- 2019-20.

Anyone got anything?

Its only one of the most successful modern sustained civil disobedience movements, yet i can't find shit about it.

But i can find over a thousand books on Allende's downfall.

#books #bookstodon #history

Some context for last boost (https://bird.makeup/users/whyyoutouzhele/statuses/1863983048867586453), which says

韩国电影《首尔之春》冲上微博文娱热搜榜第一。
The Korean film "Seoul Spring" has risen to the number one spot in Weibo's Entertainment Trending Topics.

The film "Seoul Spring" has the English title "12.12: The Day". It is about the military coup in South Korea which took place on December 12, 1979, led by Chun Doo Hwan. It was followed by another coup on May 17, 1980. This was followed by the Gwangju pro-democracy student protests and Gwangju Massacre in May 1980. This was the start of the establishment of Chun Doo Hwan's military dictatorship (not to be confused with the previous Park Chung Hee military dictatorship). The term Seoul Spring refers to this time period: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul_Spring

All of this happened within living memory for many South Koreans. People in their 50s and 60s now were students at the time of the Gwangju Massacre. These events are covered extensively in South Korean popular culture as well, such as the "Seoul Spring" / "12.12: The Day" film, which is one of the most popular films in South Korean film history. The director Kim Sung Soo himself was a student at that time, too:

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/korea-oscars-12-12-the-day-director-interview-1236208671/

“That night left a very clear memory. I was getting ready to apply for colleges that winter night when I saw in my own neighborhood an armored military vehicle passing down the street,” Kim tells Variety. “I climbed to the rooftop of my friend’s house and watched the shootout happen for next 30 minutes. I remember listening to the sound of the gunshots running through the night sky. I could not shake the question of why this was happening in my town, in my neighborhood.”

This trending post is on the Chinese social media platform, Weibo, and the screenshot was posted by the overseas dissident "Teacher Li is Not Your Teacher" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teacher_Li_Is_Not_Your_Teacher). His Twitter account has become a de facto hub for distributing uncensored information and news from China over the past few years. For an idea of real social issues in China now, I encourage following his account (replicated at @whyyoutouzhele here on the Fediverse). The posts are all in Chinese but Google Translate is pretty good for getting an idea. Note that there will be disturbing content (for example, images and videos of the random knife / car attacks that have been happening in China recently, such as the attacks in Zhuhai on November 11, 2024).

There are of course many sensitive political events that happened in China in the 1980s as well, the most significant of which is the June 4, 1989 Massacre at Tiananmen Square. That is part of why it is significant that a film about military repression of pro-democracy movements is trending on Weibo, and why Teacher Li is posting about it.

#korea #southkorea #rok #china #prc #history

Ok but a 3rd party has never won an election because Republicans "get in line" behind a candidate.

#Democrats can't ignore racist voters. You have to fool them enough to get their votes.

#Biden understood this #truth about the #UnitedStates electorate.

It's THE REASON Biden has won the most elections of any candidates in modern #history.

“I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.”

#OnThisDay, 3 Dec 1990, Mary Robinson was inaugurated as the first woman to be President of the Republic of Ireland.

"In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom."

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #IrishHistory #Histodons

Brave Israeli Historian Lectures Netanyahu on the formation of Israel - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtFSbhhvD0s

#IlanPappè
#Palestine #Israel #History
@palestine

Burning Cedars: Lebanon's Perpetual Crisis

#Anarchy #Anarchism #Socialist #Socialism #Lebanon #Palestine #Hezbollah #History #Politics #Economics #Philosophy

https://youtu.be/7kHPPdryb9g?si=lNmUxYEPremEBWt5

"Today, Bauer’s work is immediately relevant to our thinking on multiculturalism, of which it can be seen as a precursor. To be clear, Bauer’s central argument is to reject any essentialist principle in the conceptualization of the national question. For Bauer, we cannot think of modern nations in terms of “metaphysical theories” (such as notions of national spiritualism) or “voluntaristic theories” (as in Ernest Renan’s theory of the nation as a “daily plebiscite”). National identities are not “naturally given” and invariable but are rather culturally changeable.

However, Bauer’s approach to the nation-state is very different from the dominant liberal one today. In the liberal nation-state, it is the cultural practice of the dominant national group that prevails. Multiculturalism is thus always limited by this hegemony and multicultural states cannot easily be constructed. Any commitment to cultural pluralism can amount to little more than a token commitment to diversity within overwhelmingly assimilationist structures.

Bauer criticized the attitude of the early 1900s “German Austrian” workers’ movement as a “naïve cosmopolitanism” which rejected national struggles as diversionary and advocated a humanistic world citizenship as its alternative. There were clear echoes of this attitude in the promotion of “global cosmopolitanism” during the early 2000s. In that sense, we very much need a Bauer 2.0 to move beyond such naïve and complacent indifference to the national question today.

Bauer fundamentally disagreed with the idea that the national movements were simply an obstacle for the class struggle and that internationalism was the only way forward. He was convinced that it was only the working class that could create the conditions for the development of a nation, proclaiming that “the international struggle is the means that we must use to realize our national ideal.”"

https://jacobin.com/2023/11/otto-bauer-austro-marxism-nationalism-theory-history

#Nationalism #History #Marxism #Multiculturalism #Socialism

Hoard of Roman coins found during building work in Worcestershire #uk 🇬🇧

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gxnjq3ye0o

@histodons @archaeodons @historikerinnen @antiquidons #numismatics #EconomicHistory #geschichte #histodons #history #histoire #archaeology #heritage #Archaeologie #archaeodons #Altertumswissenschaften #RomanArchaeology #RomanEmpire
#antiquity #AncientHistory #antike

📷 Old Hammam, Lebanon

This Old Hamma was built around the middle of the 14th century, but fell out of use in the 1970s after the Lebanese Civil War broke out.

Read more: www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/leisure/old-hammam-lebanon/

#Photography #Urbex #UrbanExploration #AbandonedPlaces #Lebanon #History

On this day in 1955, the civil rights activist Rosa Parks rejected a bus driver's order to vacate a seat for a white female passenger after the "white" section of the bus was filled.

Parks wasn't the first person who resisted bus segregation, but she helped inspire the black community to boycott the city buses for over a year.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_bus_boycott

#OTD #OnThisDay #history #CivilRights #RosaParks #BlackHistory #BlackWomen

"Disputing Disaster is a book unlike any other on the 1914 debate. Anderson digs deep into, between and around the works of his subjects to expose the taproots that feed each project. The result is a monument to a lifetime of reading and writing propelled by the conviction that something is at stake. Fellow Marxists will admire the author’s forensic panache and enjoy the beams of utopian effulgence that dart through the occasional chinks in his text. But even readers who are not ‘unreconstructed Jacobins’ (Anderson’s self-description) will find in it a wealth of sharp and compelling reflections on how and why historians argue as they do, why they rethink, abandon or double down on their positions, and how politics and emotion flow into the writing of history and back out of it into the world."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n23/christopher-clark/the-murmur-of-engines

#History #Europe #WorldWarI #WWI

Trump promised Jan. 6 pardons. His post-election silence is making loyalists nervous. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/30/trump-january-6-pardons-00192036?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #U.S.election2020 #Communications #U.S.elections #U.S.politics #Department #Elections #Advocacy #History #Policy #Rights #Media

📷📷 Old Hammam, Lebanon

This Old Hamman was built around the middle of the 14th century, but fell out of use in the 1970s after the Lebanese Civil War broke out.

Read more:
Https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/leisure/old-hammam-lebanon/

#Photography #Urbex #UrbanExploration #AbandonedPlaces #History #Lebanon #Photo

How more then a century ago, empires cut out the Middle East and paved the way to the dumpster fire of suffering and traumas we're witnessing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo_ZhGIE8xQ

#Imperialism #middleEast #foreverWars #history #RoyCasagranda #Palestine #Iran #Lebanon #Syria #Turkey #Irak #Jordan

“Today marks 77 years since the #UN adopted Resolution 181 on Nov 29, 1947, proposing the partition of #Palestine. While framed as a solution to European antisemitism, it laid the groundwork for the ethnic cleansing and ongoing #genocide of Palestinians and dispossession.

The UN plan divided Palestine into two states:

• A Jewish state (55% of the land), despite Jews making up only ~30% of the population and owning ~6% of the land.
• An Arab state (45%).
• Jerusalem as an internationally governed city.

The plan ignored the will of the indigenous majority, the Palestinians.

The plan came with conditions:

• Economic union between the two states.
• Guarantees for minority rights in both states.
• Oversight by the UN to ensure compliance.

Yet, these conditions were abandoned when Israel unilaterally declared independence in 1948.”
#otd #history
https://x.com/rrrrnessa/status/1862481816411623655?s=46&t=521hINbbUzSBIUxrCF_rbg

Israeli troops blew up hundreds of years of history and culture when they laid waste to communities in southern Lebanon

#Israel #Lebanon #History
A short history of the ancient Lebanese villages destroyed by Israel | Middle East Eye
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/short-history-ancient-lebanese-villages-destroyed-israel

As I completed my undergrad and graduate degrees in History, one thing that always stuck out to me was the concept of allowing enough time to pass before a topic could be critically researched.

I feel that on some level this type of perspective is needed in how our media and knee-jerk armchair theorizing happens.

Perhaps it is time to bring back the golden age of long form well researched and contemplated essays, investigations, exposé, etc.

#history #media #BeCritical

@palestine @israel
Why stop at 1948?

It's almost as if the Palestinian world never existed prior.

But we all know that's not true. Hebrew is one of the world's ancient languages dating back thousands of years. The population around Israel has grown from 1 million in 1950 to 7 million today. Not Genocide, but in fact #history
https://www.palquest.org/en/overallchronology?show=intro

#Blog KW48: Wie wurde mit der #NS-#Vergangenheit in #Tübingen nach 1945 umgegangen? 7 #Studierende gingen dieser Frage im #Lehrforschungsprojekt nach und präsentieren ihre Ergebnisse. Ein Einblick in die Konzeption und die Themen:

▶️ https://www.historischer-augenblick.de/blogreihe-tuebingen-umgang-ns/

#lokal #Geschichte #Projekt #history #histodons #Historiker #Lehre

Lawrence W. Britt: 14 Characteristics of #Fascism

"#Historian #LawrenceBritt studied the fascist regimes of #Hitler (Germany), #Mussolini (Italy), #Franco (Spain), #Suharto (Indonesia), and #Pinochet (Chile) and found they had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism.

1. Powerful and Continuing #Nationalism
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of #patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. #Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

2. Disdain for the Recognition of #HumanRights
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, and long incarcerations of prisoners.

3. Identification of #Enemies / #Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: #racial, #ethnic or #religious #minorities; #liberals; #communists; #socialists, #terrorists…

4. Supremacy of the #Military
Even when there are widespread #domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

5. Rampant #Sexism
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional #gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to #abortion is high, as is #homophobia and anti-#gay legislation.

6. Controlled #MassMedia
Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation or by sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Government #censorship and #secrecy especially in war time, are very common.

7. Obsession with #NationalSecurity
Fear of hostile foreign powers is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

8. #Religion and Government are Intertwined
Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.

9. Protection of #Corporate Power
The #industrial and business #aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

10. Suppression of #Labor Power
Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor #unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.

11. Disdain for #Intellectuals and the #Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to #HigherEducation and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other #academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.

12. Obsession with #Crime and #Punishment
Under fascist regimes, the #police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego #CivilLiberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

13. Rampant #Cronyism and #Corruption
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.

14. #FraudulentElections
Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by #SmearCampaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control #voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

This post is a summary of Fascism, Anyone? by Lawrence W. Britt published in 2003 by Free Inquiry magazine."

https://voxpopulisphere.com/2017/08/23/lawrence-britt-14-characteristics-of-fascism/

#History #Histodon #RabidRight #Antifa #Antifascism #FarRight #Trump #Putin #Russia #MAGA #Project2025 #CharacteristicsOfFascism

The Belgian federal prosecutor’s office currently has 13 open cases involving Belgian suspects accused of participating in the genocide of Yazidis. Attacks were carried out by the terrorist organization Islamic State (ISIS) in northern Iraq in 2014.

https://iraq-solidarity.blogspot.com/2024/11/belgium-investigates-suspects-tied-to.html

#news #bbc #belgium #europe #eu #usa #history #manchester #iraq #media

Here is part of a long essay about “The American Dream”…
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The foundation of any successful society is an effective healthcare system based around a simple objective  —  to provide the best service at the *lowest* possible cost and to guarantee access to every member of society. This objective ensures that healthcare provides the greatest good for the greatest number.

The American healthcare system is set up to provide the best healthcare at the *highest* possible cost — because this is what enables individuals to extract the most amount of wealth from the industry. And whether it serves the needs of everyone is irrelevant.

That’s why it’s so inefficient. A large chunk of the $4.2 trillion spent on healthcare in the US isn’t spent on healthcare. It’s spent on an industry that has been created to profit from people’s health.

As the graph shows, among high-income nations, the US is an anomaly in that it has the highest spending and the lowest life expectancy.

Healthcare in America is designed as a mechanism for creating wealth, not for creating a system that provides the best possible healthcare.
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FULL ESSAY -- https://www.transformatise.com/2024/10/is-the-american-dream-built-on-the-exploitation-of-the-nation/

#USA #Health #Politics #History #Economics #Capitalism

1/ Here's a quick introduction: nice to meet you! I'm Matthew Christopher, creator of the Abandoned America website, book series, podcast, and ice cream flavor (sold poorly, discontinued). I photograph abandoned spaces and write about their stories - I'm interested in actual #history, not ghost stories. Here are my links if you're interested in more of my work:

Website: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/abandonedamerica

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AbandonedAmerica

Shop: https://dismantlingthedream.com/

Leeds City Museum

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/leeds-city-museum-justin-farrimond.html

Is it the hippo, the tiger or bear, or an elk that you seek from here and elsewhere?
The Leeds City Museum in West Yorkshire, England. Now occupying the former Mechanic's Institute in what was Cookridge Street, renamed Millenium Square.

#PhotoOfTheDay #Architecture #Museum #Photography #Monochrome #Heritage #BnW #History #Leeds #Travel

Max Kyuss: Waltz "Amur Waves" (op.12, 1909), Arrangement by Gennady Puchkov.
The Central Military Band of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation / Red Army Band
Conductor: Head of the Band Colonel Andrey Kolotushkin
Great Hall of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory
#Russia #russian #history #music

Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Gil Scott-Heron
#BlackMastodon, #History, #SpokenWord, #TruthToPower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw

I want every #US citizen and #USPol representative to watch this.

Understand #USA and #Israel are the only countries on earth justifying #genocide when there is none or ever has been any justification for genocide.

Remember this is the raw truth of what #America is and its collapse will come from within. What you sow will be #Trump ed by what you reap. #History will not remember USA kindly.

#CeaseFireNow #ArmsEmbargo #Palestine #Lebanon #UN #UNSC #ICC #ICJ #Zionism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b42PLQExow