learn about the Black Panther Party free breakfast program
learn about the Zapatista uprising
learn about Jane
learn about the Kensington Welfare Rights Union
learn about STAR
learn about Act Up
learn about the Battle of Blair Mountain
learn about the Spanish Civil War
we are not the first
learn about the Zapatista uprising
learn about Jane
learn about the Kensington Welfare Rights Union
learn about STAR
learn about Act Up
learn about the Battle of Blair Mountain
learn about the Spanish Civil War
we are not the first
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The Velvet Revolution
Solidarity
Yours are being added to it, thank you. Allow me to contribute some back, though they're messy.
I call these my historical subject matter experts:
Frederick Douglass
East Baltimore Mental Improvement Society
Baltimore Ship Caulkers Houses
Kwame Ture
MLK
Malcolm X
Nelson Mandela
Black Panthers
John Brown
James Baldwin
Desmond Tutu
Chico Mendes
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Father Daniel Berrigan, brother Philip
Dorothy Day
Dwight Macdonald
Murray Bookchin
Edward Herman
Howard Zinn
Dr Sami Al-Arian
Fahad Hasmi
Ralph Nader
Abe Rosenthal
Lewis Powell
David Cay Johnston
Tiradentes
Zumbi dos Palmares
Fred Hampton
Tupac Amaru
2Pac Amaru Shakur
Marcus Garvey
Booker T Washington
Elijah Muhammad
Henry James
Jim (Toby) Sinclair
Huey Long
Freedom Riders
CORE (Congress of Racial Equity)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Barbara Pope
Du Bois' Niagara Movement
William Monroe Trotter
Martha H Patterson
Charlotte J Rich
Carla L Peterson
Claudia Tate
Frances Smith Foster
Hazel Carby
Carla L Peterson
Claudia Tate
Frances Smith Foster
P Gabrielle Foreman
Daniel Murray
Thomas J Calloway
Fanny Luhame
Seneca Village
Bernadine Dohrn
Tropicalia
Bossa Nova
Sgt Kevin Benderman
Ida B Wells
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These aren't all people, some are groups, others are topics, movements, or events.
My hope is to educate many more people about them so that we can apply the experience and knowledge that we have since lost.
Please feel free to join me.
I find a lot to learn from reading deep on these subjects.
The fact is that people have been fucked up a million times but we still organize and we still fight. Having the courage to do this even if you might not personally benefit is clutch.
But taking inspiration and lessons from the Battle of Blair Mountain, for instance, is radical by nature.
https://youtu.be/vg9xywAxb10?si=w_Vo6NW4vJ5h7PD3
(Btw the vanguard is not the party.)
Black Panther Party free breakfast program
Battle of Blair Mountain
Spanish Civil War
Things I wanna know more about:
Zapatista uprising
Kensington Welfare Rights Union
Things I wanna know more about that are hard to google:
Jane
STAR
Act Up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Transvestite_Action_Revolutionaries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACT_UP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_Transvestite_Action_Revolutionaries
Salvador Allende
Patrice Lumumba
Mohammed Mossadegh
Hugo Chavez
Ho Chi Minh
Stop buying Western propaganda bullshit.
The other stuff I knew about or was able to find resources on pretty easily, but Jane isn't enough for me to go on…
I'm actually a little embarrassed I didn't catch that. I'm at least somewhat familiar with those events.
We need an American Spring.
Look into the relationship between the Arab Spring (largely seen as a failure) and the National Endowment for Democracy, which is almost like a front for the CIA.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/
There are 800 Billionaires. We know all their names. We can defund them all.
The Ferguson Uprising.
The Georgia protests.
https://youtu.be/2DBGVHZc30k?si=I3SsgyFGG9y4xOif
It's silly to think the Black Partner party didn't succeed at any of their goals.
It's also silly to think that a resistance put down has lost.
Many acts of rebellion are intentionally pyrrhic,
or prove social or political points that later materialize into change.
Obviously you try to emulate success,
but you will never be successful without analyzing something that has failed and pondering how to avoid the same fate,
or wondering if the same rules even apply in a new context.
Sometimes we need to learn about oppressors. By watching what movements are put down, you learn what the oppressor values and what it won't tolerate. That's useful information.
learn about Cumann na mBan
learn about the Combahee River Collective
learn about the FALN
learn about the American Indian Movement
learn about the Compton's Cafeteria Riots
learn the real story of Harriet Tubman they didn't teach you in high school
(Yes antisemitic not just anti Israel/antizionist)
learn about ADAPT
learn about the Deaf President Now movement
learn about the Mothers of East Los Angeles
learn about the battle of Alcatraz
learn about Judy Bari
learn about the Squamish 5
learn about the Bread & Roses strike
🇬🇪 Georgia - day 81 of non-stop protests against brutal pro-Russian Georgia Dream party
🇷🇸 Serbia - students lead protests leading to uprising against autocrat president Vucic
🇸🇰 Slovakia - protests against pro-Russian president Fico
🇺🇦 Ukraine - 2 revolutions & 11 years of war so far
Learn about the Section 504 sit-ins by Disabled Activists in the 1970s, and the solidarity of unions, Black Panther, and LGBT people who assisted.
learn about mutual aid groups and mask blocs.
Learn and take action.
*A Disabled History of the United States by Kim Nielsen,
*White Rage by Carol Anderson,
*A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski,
*An Indigenous People’s History of United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Learn about TAC
Learn about the lawyers’ movement in Pakistan
Learn about the water protectors
Learn about Tortuguita
Learn about Dream Defenders, the Freedom Papers and #saturdayschool
Learn about Thailand’s Move Forward party
AND TAKE ACTION
“Captain Robert Smalls: The Titan" (Abridged) by DaShan Thomas🚢. Great for older kids, teen & adult readers https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVZ5WFG9/
Unabridged version:
“Captain Robert Smalls: The Greatest Civil War Hero” https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DV3W4N12/
Learn about the Minneapolis general strike of 1934.
Learn about the reading programs in Cuba and their medical programs.
Learn about how taxes in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s stunted the power of the uberwealthy while doing some real good for working people.
By Shaun Richman
https://inthesetimes.com/article/international-workers-of-the-world-wobblies-transnational-multiracial
https://sites.miamioh.edu/hst-journeys/2018/05/the-cuban-literacy-campaign/#:~:text=In%201960%2C%20Fidel%20Castro%20introduced,how%20to%20read%20and%20write
https://city-countyobserver.com/did-people-really-pay-91-tax-rates-in-the-1950s-if-not-what-was-the-reality-compared-to-today-the-claim-that-the-top-1-of-earners-in-the-1950s-paid-a-91-tax-rate-is-based-on-the-statutory-top-marg/#:~:text=While%20the%20top%20statutory%20tax,closer%20to%2026%2D28%25.
The people who fought Franco were great, but they lost.
So, learn about the Carnation Revolution, the Velvet Revolution or the Revolution of Dignity or the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.
But do not forget revolutionaries simply because they were defeated
"No!" about the successful campaign to remove Pinochet in Chile.
"Even the Rain" water privatization in Bolivia.
"Soundtrack to a Coup" 2024 documentary about Zaire/Congo.
Privatization -and- profit-ization of EVERYTHING in Chile except army and police during Pinochet. Elderly poverty and for-profit universities and schools still major issues.
Like, was the USSR "behind" the Republicans in Spain? Or "behind" Cuba? No.
Are you an American by any chance? The cringy Soviet LARP and historical ignorance point to that.
I’m doin’ what I can.
Learn about Stonewall
Learn about the Wobblies
The Bracero program
The Green Book
Manzanar
Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike of 1968
Harlan County
And on and on
Learn about the Paris commune.
Learn about Lenin.
Learn about Stalin and Trotsky.
(I know)
Learn about Mao.
Learn about Castro and Guevara.
Learn about Newton, Hampton, Davis and Shakur.
Learn about revolution and struggle.
Learn to fight back.
The Jane Collective or Jane, officially known as the Abortion Counseling Service of Women's Liberation, was an underground service in Chicago, Illinois affiliated with the Chicago Women's Liberation Union that operated from 1969 - 1973, a time when abortion was illegal in most of the USA
https://www.heyjane.com/articles/jane-collective-abortion-history
Co-create the Autonomous Federation of the Americas
The empire is fading.
A new world is waiting.
If you hear the call, answer it.
https://matrix.to/#/#autonomous-americas:matrix.org