Ursula K. LeGuin wrote, “We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art.”
It's interesting how so many quotes of her words leave out those last two sentences, which I think are the most powerful of the entire quote. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.
And yes, art (including the written word) indeed plays a role in this resistance and change, but it cannot be the only step taken. We must push forward to resist in all avenues of life. To topple the capitalism empire for good and replace it with a society for the people and run by the people in mutual aid and library economies.
I read a dad's post today about how hard it was for his kids to remain masked at school when everyone else is unmasked. It takes such courage. I made this for all the kids still masking. I applaud you and thank you. Please feel free to print it out and give it to your little heroes. #CovidIsNotOver#NotAllHeroesWearACape But they do #WearAMask#covid#maskup#heroes#resistance#solidarity
I'm Andrea, PhD student in #BlackStudies at UT Austin. Research interests include #Resistance and #Hoodoo. Right now doing a project on Black midwifery and reproductive justice.
Before UT, I taught Spanish for five years. Sometimes, I make #Art, and I would love to be a curator one day.
I am a queer black femme and I prioritize the voices of queer black and indigenous folks. Happy to be here!
Condescension and white/male hostility get muted in these parts.
On Oct 3, 1925, Simone Segouin (nom de guerre Nicole Minet) was born in Chartres, France. She served in the French Resistance in the FTP (Francs-tireurs et Partisans), a communist group fighting the Nazis. Her wartime exploits included derailing German trains, blowing up bridges, & capturing 25 German prisoners as an 18 y/o during the fall of Chartres. After the war she worked as a pediatric nurse in Chartres. She died Feb 21, 2023 at age 97.
Over the past months, the #LakotaLaw team has spent many hours in #Nevada at Peehee Mu'Huh — #ThackerPass — where construction has begun on a mine to exploit the largest known lithium deposit on #TurtleIsland.
Find out more about the Indigenous-led #resistance, the total disregard by both government and mining interests for an historic #massacre site with great biological #diversity and sensitivity, and the police raid on and dismantling of the #OxSam prayer camp.
The annual Thanksgiving tradition has obscured the historical reality of Native American genocide: dispossession from their lands, efforts to destroy their cultures, and the slaughter of their communities.
It is important to remember this past as we celebrate with our families and bear witness to current struggles against genocide and imperialism. Around the world, Indigenous people are continuing to resist and refuse to be erased.
Demain, c'est la Journée Mondiale du #logiciellibre : voici donc un petit rappel sur les liens entre numérique dérives autoritaires dans le monde.
Utiliser des logiciels libres, ce n'est pas uniquement protéger ses #donnees personnelles, mais une des multiples formes de #resistance au contrôle et à la #repression autoritaire des États.
Triste cérémonie au Panthéon pour l'entrée de Missak et Mélinée Manouchian. Je ne sais si c'est de voir Macron s'approprier l'héritage de ces résistants arméniens et communistes à qui la France avait refusé la nationalité alors que le président vient de promulguer sa sinistre loi immigration, la présence de Marine Le Pen ou encore les commentateurs des chaînes qui parlent pendant les musiques et chants de la cérémonie...
The Israeli military and settlers in the West Bank killed over 84 unarmed Palestinian refugees (protestors), including 30 minors since Israel's invasion of Gaza.
Today in Labor History October 7, 1944: Uprising at Birkenau extermination camp (associated with Auschwitz). Jewish Sonderkommando, mostly from Greece and Hungary, attacked the SS with stones and hammers, killing three of them, and set crematorium IV on fire and threw their Oberkapo into a furnace. Sonderkommando were Jewish prisoners who were forced by the Nazis, on threat of their own deaths, to dispose of gas chamber victims). After escaping, the rebels reached Rajsko, where they hid in the granary, but the SS pursued and killed them by setting the granary on fire. By the time the rebellion at crematorium IV had been suppressed, 212 members of the Sonderkommando were still alive and 451 had been killed.
The antifashist #protests in #Germany continue. Again hundreds of thausands of people took to the streets in many towns this weekend alone.
This is now I believe the 4th weekend in row. Wow! This gives me #hope in these dark times. ✊
This is mostly against the #AfD party alone, but also against #fashist sentiment in general because it has sadly poisoned large parts of society.
Dec 22, 1989: On this date, Irish novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett died. Beckett was a courier for the French Resistance in WW2, though after the war he modestly understated his contributions, saying he only did "boy scout stuff.”
He was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature.
"More than 100 music acts and individual musicians dropped out of the popular South by Southwest (SXSW) arts festival this year in Austin, Texas to protest the event’s sponsorship by the US Army and major defense contractors."
“We live in an era of dire emergencies. The urgency of the times demands a politics that recognizes that the looming threat of fascism presents us with a moment in which it is crucial not to give up on the imagination, to imagine the impossible as possible, and to embrace a vision of the future and sense of collective struggle in which there is life beyond gangster capitalism. This is not a choice; it is a necessity.”
On folks reaction to Khashoggi vs so many Palestinian journalists being murdered, a lot of times specifically targeted, while wearing press vests and body armor. From Washington Post - one of those should work. Quote below⬇️
Want to see atmospheric yet often really mundane border photos? My online 🇨🇭🇫🇷 walking journal is moving here, as I’m enjoying this new online atmosphere. (I’m freezing new posts on Twatter & just ‘name-holding’ my account.)
Link to last post on one of the longer earlier threads: https://twitter.com/julietjfall/status/1571476764269871104?s=46&t=9RfIT2qARWZk8ZBEIES9Vw
All history was not erased. The city held on to other memories a little further down the street: Irène Gubier (1897-1995), a woman of remarkable bravery, member of the French Resistance during WWII, is remembered by her little cross-border house standing tall. It was used to transport people & messages during the war. She was deported by the Nazis to Ravensbrück but survived to live to 97. She is remembered on both sides of the border. #History#geography#womenshistory#resistance#ireneGubier
#Vêtements de #JeanMoulin déposés aux #ArchivesDeLyon : des pardessus, #costumes de fonction et tenues de soirée...
C'est très émouvant d'en être les gardiens provisoires et d'en avoir vu quelques-uns sans leur housse de protection.
Certains d'entre eux sont exposés au Centre historique de la #résistance et de la #déportation dans la belle #exposition "Jean Moulin, les voies de la #liberté".
Janvier 2024