#GeraldHorne on the life and death of #PaulRobeson who filed a #genocide charge at the #UN against the #US over their treatment of #Black and #Colored people in #slavery.

#educate #organise #resist #press #BlackMastodon

https://youtu.be/1fvZae_Wngc?si=yDcAE5mdnGvsAWGG

The reports of the Canadian fellow inmates of 10 months of incarceration for visa violations is a human rights violation going on under #Biden and #Trump.

Trump brings it to a new and crueler level but the US owns this on both sides of the aisle.

The US and slavery! Keep in mind that not working get inmates in isolation which is defined as torture. Those private for profit detentions are nothing but modern slave camps.

#humanRight #migration #US #Politics #ICE #Prison4Profit #slavery

Mary Prince: The First Black Woman to Publish an Autobiography of Her Life in Slavery
#WomensHistoryMonth #herstory #blm #slavery #blackHistory
https://talkafricana.com/mary-prince-the-first-black-woman-to-publish-an-autobiography-of-her-life-in-slavery/ via @talkafricana

This is some messed up dystopian stuff

Photos of the #Venezuelans illegally *deported* by #Trump under the #AlienEnemiesAct to the maximum security prison Terrorist Confinement Centre (#CECOT) in Tecoluca, #ElSalvador

Photos, released by the Presidencia El Salvador.

#law #Constitution #immigration #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #DueProcess #CivilRights #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #ConstitutionalCrisis #AbuseOfPower #HumanTrafficking #Slavery

Reasons to Hate Capitalism #223 - Capitalism was built on slavery and needs slavery to exist #capitalism #slavery #anticapitalism

Reasons to Hate Capitalism #219 - Capitalism always finds a way to enslave people - it began that way, it uses workers in poor countries this way, and does this in its native country when it can get away with it too #capitalism #anticapitalism #slavery

‘Black Holocaust Memorial’ in Savannah, Georgia

Papier-mâché folk art recognizing horrors of slave trade.#slavery #blackhistory #sculptures #artoutside #outsiderart #section-Atlas

The B-52s - Mesopotamia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq293fKhx-A

6 or 8 thousand years ago, they laid down the law…

//extended MajorToast radio remix//

#B52 #Mesopotamia #PostPunk #Funk #Music #Authoritarianism #Law #Control #Slavery #Anarchism #Freedom #Resistance #History #Culture #Learn #Ruin #Empire

Thai women imprisoned in Georgia, (the country), for forced egg retrieval by alleged Chinese gang.

#Slavery

https://www.nationthailand.com/news/general/40045862

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/women-enslaved-in-georgia-for-human-egg-harvesting-by-chinese-gangsters-report-7665007

Today, in honor of Black History Month, we remember Nat Turner, who led one of the only effective, sustained slave revolt in U.S. history (in 1831). They killed over 50 people, mostly whites, but the authorities put down the rebellion after a few days. Turner survived in hiding for several months. The militia and racist mobs, in turn, slaughtered up to 120 free and enslaved black people, and the state executed another 56, and severely punished dozens of non-slaves in the frenzy that followed the uprising. Turner’s revolt set off a new wave of oppressive legislation by whites, prohibiting the education, movement and assembly of enslaved and free blacks, alike. After his conviction, he was beheaded and flayed, to deter future rebels. His skin was used to make souvenir purses and his skeleton was used as a medical specimen. In the 1960s, there was funk-soul band Nat Turner Rebellion. Tupac Shakur had a cross tattoo on his back, "EXODUS 1831", in reference to the year Turner led the rebellion

#workingclass #LaborHistory #slavery #NatTurner #rebellion #uprising #revolt #racism #blackhistorymonth #BlackMastadon

Fediverse the ultimate neoliberal social engineering experiment

Where private ownership provides absolute freedom and lack there of is sentence to #slavery and submission to masters

Before you execute the messenger just consider a scenario then be as critical as you want, as long as criticism is based on rational arguments, not emotional metaphysics and characterizations!

Say you write a little book, you find a publisher that is cheap and quick and you only have enough to print 100 copies, and you sell them basically at cost. 100 people buy them, read them, pass them around, before you know it your ideas have been exposed to more than 1000 people. But lets also say the printer through some clause in the agreement can buy them all back, at face value, and then destroys them. In the fire all markings, comments, notes written by readers are also gone. Furthermore the printer can take legal action against anyone making reference to the ideas on the book.

#FEDIVERSE

No rules, but the servers’ owner’s discretion. No rights, just conditional access and entry to the guestrooms. Server owners are never accountable for material, ideas, arguments, documents, ever hosted, they can make them all vanish.

#Accountability #Federation Rules #Judicial System ? NONE.

To write a document, to explain an idea, to analyze a topic, to make a thesis public, or simply to express an opinion, take work, and work has some value, it can’t all be a waste of time. In physical world expressing an idea in public to whoever is listening is prohibited in the most oppressive and totalitarian regimes. Once an idea is shared it is no longer the property of the person that expressed it, it is shared by all those who have heard the idea. In #Fediverse “the owner” of the space where expression takes place is in the absolute discretion of the host. There are no repercussions for any owner removing a participant, blocking one’s access, even when shared expressions come from other servers, and deleting all content. And by deleting the initial content the rest of the participatns’ comments vanish as well.

#Fediverse, is the ultimate virtual simulation of an absolute and TOTAL neoliberal world. There is not a square millimeter that is public, it is all privately owned, and the rules are indicative, they must be obeyed by “guests”, but the owner is the ultimate authority that can decide whether you exist or you vanish, whether the material shared/published deserves to stay public or be destroyed.

Guests of fediverse servers may either kiss owners’ rear ends and self-restrict to owners’ ideas and perceptions, or risk being removed and all the content shared and exchanged be removed. So they behave accordingly, as subordinates to the dictators hosting the space they use to share ideas and information.

Somehow, very few people find all this disturbing, and in contrast to social media owned and operated by large corporations, many progressive, democratic, liberal minded people thing and act convinced that this is better. I have no clue what goes on in most corporate social media, long ago when I used twitter I don’t remember any post of mine being removed. As far as I can tell, as long as they can sell IDs, cookies, email accounts, and advertising they couldn’t care less what you think. Communists (authoritarian/totalitarian and libertarian/democractic), anarchists of all colors and flavors, never see so much restriction, sensitivity, and censorship as exercised in #Fediverse.

It is absurd, I have never seen or imagined that deleting and censoring people would have been so pervasive and extensive as seen on #Fediverse, primarily #Mastodon servers. #Diaspora owners seem much more respectful of guests and users, and less intrusive in their guests’ discussions.

So all I see here is a neoliberal social engineering experiment going well. If this cannibalism can be tolerated by the “left” minded people then this may actually work on the physical world as well. Absolutely NO PUBLIC SPACE AND NO HUMAN RIGHTS, just obedient respectful guests in private space.

Sad, very sad, unbelievable dystopia. And this is gradually becoming an isolated ghetto of the left that has little or no effect and affect to the remaining world. Just as in real political repression, you keep attacking what you want to neutralize, you force them to barricade and contain their collective being, till nobody can see or hear them.

So real social activists who want to affect and inspire “real people” will lark on corporate media among the many, while the self defined radicals will gather up in this private ghetto where they are under the illusion they are safe and away from fascists.

Smart fascists start and run #fediverse servers as concentration camps of progressive, left, radical, activists to self contain themselves away from society.

#fediverse #neoliberalism #public domain #progressive #alternative #left #chaotic #disorder

#libertarian #communism #anarchism #syndicalism #democracy #communalism

#totalitarianism #capitalism #fascism #private ownership #marxism #dictatorship

@(heretical_I@kafeneio.social)
@Acta Populi

"From the forced assimilation campaigns designed to erase #Indigenous cultures to the all-encompassing white supremacist terror of the #JimCrow South, it was all too easy to think of ways the #GenocideConvention could be deployed against the US."

How American Racism Sabotaged the World’s Fight Against #Genocide

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/us-genocide-convention-history-gaza/

#UNGenocideConvention #USpol #UShistory #slavery #SettlerColonialism #WhiteSupremacism #WhiteSupremacy #Palestine #Gaza #ColonialViolence @palestine

#LAfires #Slavery #enforcedlabor There have been a number of posts on Mastodon claiming that California's use of prisoners to help fight fires is slavery. Here's another perspective (from BlueSky) on what it's actually like to participate:

https://bsky.app/profile/hahnscratch.bsky.social/post/3lfqlxqafkc25

George Carlin explains why the US, despite having a war on everything, doesn’t have a war on homelessness in under a minute

https://x.com/afshinrattansi/status/1879119336046260690

#health
#poverty
#socialism
#capitalism
#communism
#classwar
#democracy
#humanrights
#austerity
#socialwork
#slavery
#resistance
#housing
#homelessness

#health
#poverty
#socialism
#capitalism
#communism
#classwar
#democracy
#humanrights
#austerity
#socialwork
#slavery
#resistance

#capitalism is #slavery

[Thread] Random excerpts from #KleeBenally 's book, #NoSpiritualSurrender

The Enemy of #MotherEarth

"From Mother Earth to our bodies, in a #capitalist system everything that can be reduced to a commodity will be. As long as it can be sold, bought, or otherwise exploited, nothing is sacred. So long as the lands (and by extension our bodies) are viewed this way we will have conflict, as #capitalism is the enemy of Mother Earth and all that we hold to be #sacred.

"In its base definition, capitalism is an economic and political system based on an unregulated or 'free' market, private property, competition, and limited government intervention. But the definition obscures the reality that capitalism is based upon extreme social #exploitation and dispossession, #EcologicalDestruction, #hyperindividualism and #materialism, and its history is rooted in #WhiteSupremacy, #cishetereopatriarchy, #genocide, and #slavery.

"To be anti-capitalist is not enough, anti-capitalist propositions rooted in #industrialism and #extractivism are just as invested in #ecocidal (therefore anti-Indigenous) economies. Killing the Earth is killing Indigenous existence, #Colonizers must religiously convince themselves and others that the world is already dead to justify their ongoing violence against the Earth and existence. In the face of global ecological ruin, some attempt to further convince themselves that killing the Earth just a little bit less is an appropriate response."

Pages 136-137

#IndigenousAnarchy #Ecosystem #DefendTheSacred #CorporateColonialism

allo-allo!

New Blog Post:
https://tatoaway.bearblog.dev/i-have-no-choice/

😊

#Blog #Writing #BearBlog #Slavery #HumanRights #Migrants #Kafala #Gulf #Colonialism #Neocolonialism #Imperialism #Corruption #StateViolence #Kenya #RutoMustGo

“Civil rights were not a winning issue during the Civil Rights Movement. It was an uphill battle. That doesn’t mean fighting for civil rights was wrong. Democrats like [Seth] Moulton are just asking the wrong question. Are we a majoritarian country, or are we supposed to be protecting people and fighting for what’s right?”

~ Evan Greer

#HumanRights #slavery #segregation #NativeAmericans #deportations #JimCrow #racism #trans #LGBTQ #hope
/3

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/evan-greer-interview-nancy-mace-trans-rights

"And those people wound up being vindicated—even if they were in a minority at the time, even if they were censored and silenced at the time. It mattered to future generations and future movements that they were there laying down that marker."

#HumanRights #slavery #segregation #NativeAmericans #deportations #JimCrow #racism #hope
/2

"If you look back at some of the most momentous or egregious injustices and illegal actions throughout our history, like segregation, slavery, Indian removal, the list goes on—you can always find people who were saying, 'This is unlawful. It is wrong. It is shameful, and it violates the Constitution and the laws of this country.'”

~ Mark Joseph Stern

#HumanRights #slavery #segregation #NativeAmericans #deportations #JimCrow #racism #hope
/1

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/12/donald-trump-administration-suckers.html

Oh-so-#ProgLibs... NOT! Never was. KKKalifornia was ALWAYS redneck and in proglib strongholds CRYPTORedneck

"The outcomes of Tuesday’s election suggest that voters in blue #California, known as a liberal bastion, want to be tougher on crime. California voters also passed a measure to make #shoplifting a felony for repeat offenders and make #fentanyl possession a felony as well."
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California May Have Voted to Keep #Slavery in #Prisons
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/california-slavery-prison-vote-election-2024-1235155591/

A South Sudanese former slave recognized the Palestinian pogrom on Oct. 7.

#Sudan #SouthSudan #Slavery #ModernSlavery #Israel #Hamas #Genocide #Jihadism #Terrorism

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/sudan-former-slave-jews-israel

"Historic England is commemorating the American abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s time in Newcastle in a project that links the legacy of black abolitionists with listed buildings.

The story of how black Americans came to Britain to fight slavery has still not been fully recognised. "

#slavery

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/01/project-reveals-uk-sites-where-black-americans-fought-to-end-slavery

“A few years ago when they were coming in en masse, we had to let family units in. People kept coming in and after a while we noticed the kids were the same, but the parents were different. They were recycling the kids,” one Border Patrol source told The Post.

“I hate thinking about it because there were thousands of kids and who knows where they all ended up,” the source explained.

Authorities say it’s not clear what is happening to the children once they are smuggled into the US — but many are vulnerable to being exploited for child labor and child sex trafficking.

#USA #US #american #migrants #slavery #children #trafficking #capitalism

Blood-flavored bananas

Once upon a time, there was a company called United Fruit Company. It became famous for the fact that it began to import bananas to the U.S. en masse. Back in the mid-19th century, bananas were in America like black caviar - expensive, prestigious, and eaten only by millionaires. But "United Fruit" built a hundred ships with refrigerators, and flooded the entire American market with bananas that cost 2 cents. Behind the scenes of this action there were some pretty cool squabbles, and American buyers didn't know about them. For example, in 1911, the president of Honduras gave United Fruit all the best banana plantations. But competitors from the company "Cuyamel" (also Americans) did not slumber: they overthrew the president, replacing him with their puppet, who gave the banana plantations to them.

In 1928, Colombian banana pickers demanded that United Fruit give them at least one day off a week. The Colombian police, paid for with company money, were brought in to quell the strike, and they killed up to 2,000 people. The rest of them shut up and went quickly to pick bananas. In 1929, United Fruit bought its main competitor, Cuyamel, and began controlling 60% of banana exports to the US. They murdered union leaders in South America, bribed politicians and police, and paid almost no taxes anywhere. In some countries (like Costa Rica or Colombia) it was United Fruit that was the main power, not the local government.

In 1953, Guatemalan President Arbenz turned over United Fruit's unused banana plantations to local impoverished peasants, and offered compensation. The company demanded 25 times as much money; it was sent packing. Then United Fruit simply ordered a coup at a similar price: negotiated a deal with the CIA, and financed a military invasion of Guatemala. The main motivation was that bananas on the shelves for Americans should not rise in price, they have become a favorite treat of millions. CIA mercenaries overthrew Arbenz, and put dictator Armas on the throne. This led to a 36-year civil war and the subsequent deaths of 200,000 people to Guatemala. But bananas didn't go up in price for Americans. It was a successful democratization, one to behold.

Since then, all the presidents of Central and South America were afraid to make a sound, and gave bananas for nothing. "United Fruit paid the banana pickers a pittance and did not give a penny to the budgets of the banana republics. For the slightest dissatisfaction the pickers were killed and the corpses were dumped into the sea. The American public happily bought bananas at a discount. But times have changed. "United Fruit was told it had lost its fucking mind and was bribing officials in Honduras to lower taxes on banana exports. In 1975, the military overthrew the company's protégé in Guatemala, dictator Lopez Arellano. In the same year, the head of the company, Eli Black (the company was by then called United Brands), threw himself out of a skyscraper in New York.

The company was quietly renamed Chiquita. And I still see bananas from this company in our supermarkets. Somehow everything has already been forgotten: how this corporation overthrew presidents, introduced slave labor, and people died by the hundreds of thousands because of it: we owe it the valuable term "banana republic".

They're lucky here: bananas pumped full of blood don't taste like blood.
They are so nice and sweet.
© Zotov
https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/8910257.html
#USA #us #America #history #american #anglo-saxons #capitalism #slavery #military #CIA #vassalage #war #civil-war #Guatemala #Honduras #fruits #bananas #Chiquita

Slavery was limited in the US in 1865 by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. #Mississippi finally gave its support only 28 years ago (and ratified only in 2013).

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

Only 3 years ago was a bill introduced in Congress to actually outlaw #slavery. To date, it remains legal in the US: any citizen convicted of a crime may be enslaved.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/33

The things you learn as a grown-up...!

#woke #history