Duterte arrested in Manila. I needed to see evidence that autocrats can fall.

https://apnews.com/article/rodrigo-duterte-manila-philippines-icc-9b9d08b8832b43282db53418535fb245

#Philippines #TootSea

83 years ago around this time, my grandparents were 9 and 7 years old when British forces lost Singapore to the Japanese, after the British confidently declared that those Orientals could never defeat them.

The Japanese crossed into Singapore on a fleet of bicycles, bypassing British naval power.

What followed was 3 years of occupation as Singapore was renamed Syonan-to. My grandparents remember singing the Japanese anthem.

3 days after the Japanese won, they began a purge of mostly ethnic Chinese people in Singapore as retaliation for perceived overseas Chinese assistance to China, a few years earlier. 50 000 people died.

My grandparents never wanted to eat a single sweet potato or yam or tapioca ever again later in their lives, because that’s all they had to eat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Singapore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Singapore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sook_Ching

#Singapore #History #TootSea #Japan #WWII

I always tell people that one of the most important political moments in my country happened in 2009 when Chinese Singaporean evangelical Christians tried to take over a feminist org ‘because it promotes lesbianism’

We kicked them out. In this podcast, an org member says, ‘I knew they were up to no good coz when I asked them whether the breakfast noodles were good they ignored me’

https://aware.org.sg/saga/

#Singapore #TootSea #Food

North #Vietnamese #activists meet in the #NamCan forest, wearing #masks to hide their identities from one another in case of capture and interrogation (1972).
Getty Images archive.

#AsianMastodon #USVietnamInvasion #Vietnam #VietnamWar #TootSEA #WorldHistory #VietnameseHistory #SouthEastAsia #SouthAsianHistory #History #ResistanceWomen

The videos posted to Facebook all have the same look and feel: The subject looks directly at the camera, joins his hands in a sampeah – a #Cambodian gesture of respect – and apologizes.

Examples from last month – Cambodian #journalist Mech Dara and overseas #activist Hay Vanna – were just the latest additions to a long list of activists and #critics forced by #threats or legal action to recant and pledge their loyalty to the ruling #CambodianPeoplesParty (CPP).

Those are some of the most high-profile instances. Several other opposition activists told #RadioFreeAsia that they were forced to pledge allegiance to the ruling party to maintain the safety of their family or to avoid politically motivated criminal charges.

https://www.rfa.org/english/cambodia/2024/11/17/cambodia-opposition-defections/

#AsianMastodon #PoliticalBlackmail #Censorship #Coercion #Cambodia #Dissenters #WarOnActivists #TootSEA #AsiaNews #SouthEastAsia #Defectors

My frontlines interview with Donna Clark from #XRVancouver has finally uploaded.

I talk about why I'm at the blockades. I talk about the ecocide on my family's matriarch homelands. I talk about the devastating & longterm effects of the US invasion on Vietnam. I talk about how we need to protect/study/find more ancient forest medicines. I talk about colonialism & brutalities. I talk about my amazing resilient villager relations. I talk about how ecocide destroyed my matriarch village ways of life.

I also bring up the sellouts.

We were carpet bombed by #USA #racist terrorists. Fact.

Please take the time to listen to what I have to say. Thank you for those who care enough to listen to me & why I keep fighting for a better world - for all of us.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lB-EscumG-g

#DirectAction #ClimateAction #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #Comrades #CorporateMercenaries #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #PortRenfrew #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Activists #Protest #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNewDeathParty #BCForestryReform #FuckTheBCGovernment #CDNpoli #BigotsWithBadges #KKKanada #ACAB #BritishColumbia #monochrome #ColonialResistance #FuckTheRCMP #AsianMastodon #TootSEA #ExtinctionRebellion

At least 32 #Thais were abducted by #Hamas fighters when they attacked Israel on October 7, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping about 240 others, according to Israeli authorities.At least 39 Thais were killed in the attack. #Israel #Thailand #TootSEA

Relief as Thai hostages return home amid fears for those still held in #Gaza | #IsraelHamasWar | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/30/relief-as-thai-hostages-return-home-amid-fears-for-those-still-held-in-gaza