with all the reminders that today is the 54th anniversary of the #KentState#massacre, and what with the Biden approved state violence unleashed on students protesting #genocide; now is as good a time to remember:
STUDENTS AND THE UNEMPLOYED ARE PART OF THE WORKING CLASSES
i've always felt we need a #labor#union for the unemployed: students, stay-at-home parents and caregivers (married and otherwise) all fall in that category but aren't counted.
President Biden, joined by other members of his administration, on Saturday
marked the 25th anniversary of the #Columbine#High#School#Massacre and attempted bombing.
On April 20, 1999, two twelfth-grade students murdered 12 students and one teacher, and injured over 20 people,
in what became the deadliest mass shooting in Colorado
Entre avril 1994 et juillet 1994, au moins 800 000 #Tutsis et des #Hutus modérés ont été violemment massacrés par des mouvements Hutus #extrémistes suite à la mort du président Hutu #Juvénal#Habyarimana le 6 avril 1994. Paul #Kagame, le président #rwandais, qui avait mis fin au #génocide, a longtemps accusé la #France de complicité avec les génocidaires, notamment parce qu'elle avait formé l' #armée rwandaise puis retiré ses troupes du territoire en décembre 1993. En 2021, la Commission #Duclert avait conclut à "un ensemble de responsabilités lourdes et accablantes" de la France au #Rwanda. Aussi, le devoir de #mémoire envers la population rwandaise est un enjeu crucial pour la France, qui a multiplié, à commencé par Nicolas #Sarkozy, les tentatives de réconciliation avec Paul Kagame, toujours au pouvoir. À l'occasion du 30e anniversaire du début du génocide, E. #Macron, qui avait déjà fait un pas vers la reconnaissance de la responsabilité de la France, devait évoquer le manque de volonté de la France de mettre fin au #massacre. Il n'aura finalement pas prononcé ces mots. S'il existe un devoir de mémoire pour les #victimes passées, il existe aussi un devoir d'empêcher et de prévenir les crimes de génocide lorsque ces risques apparaissent. Pour autant, c'est une réponse a posteriori qui semble être privilégiée par la communauté internationale, celle des discours de commémoration des victimes. iris-france.org/185426-genocid…
Today in Labor History April 2, 1903: Mexican police fired on more than 10,000 protestors, killing 15 and wounding many more. People had been protesting the reelection of General Bernardo Reyes as governor of Nuevo Leon, who was aligned with Mexico's brutal dictator, Porfirio Diaz.
"Pro-Palestine protesters disrupted the largest one-night fundraiser in presidential campaign history on Thursday" featuring Biden, Obama and Clinton, moderated by Stephen Colbert & "with tickets costing up to half a million dollars each".
Biden must stop US complicity in genocide. Netanyahu has been called the Israeli Trump. Why bother voting Democrats if that's the outcome. Any unconditional support must stop now.
"The event disruption was organized by a coalition including Adalah Justice Project, Palestinian Youth Movement and Jewish Voice for Peace and the Sunrise Movement.
Meanwhile, outside the event, thousands took to the streets to protest President Biden’s support for Israel’s assault on Gaza."
"You said you’re “haunted by the final social media post of Aaron Bushnell, the 25-year-old US Air Force serviceman who self-immolated in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington on February 25.”
You quote him:
➡️ “Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”"
“Following nearly six months of unrelenting Israeli assault on occupied Gaza, it is my solemn duty to report on the worst of what humanity is capable of and to present my finding, 'The Anatomy of a Genocide.'"
"History teaches us that genocide is a process, not a single act. It starts with the dehumanization of a group as other and the denial of that group’s humanity, and ends with the destruction of the group in all or in part.
The dehumanization of Palestinians as a group is the hallmark of their history of ethnic cleansing, dispossession and apartheid.”"
The news is filled with talk of the #massacre in #Russia. It is of course a horrible crime.
Why are not the daily massacres of #Ukrainians by Russia called "massacres". Russia is perpetrating horrendous war crimes daily by massacring innocents and should be decried as such.
Today in Labor History March 21, 1937: Palm Sunday, cops killed 19 unarmed men, women and children marching in a protest in Ponce, Puerto Rico. They injured another 200 civilians. The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party organized the march to commemorate the abolition of slavery in 1873 and to protest the imprisonment of the party’s leaders by the U.S. The police used Thompson submachine guns, rifles and pistols, shooting marchers in the back, during the Ponce Massacre. A commission placed the blame for the massacre on the U.S. appointed governor of Puerto Rico, Blanton Winship. However, no one, including Winship, nor any of the shooters, were ever prosecuted or punished.