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DotardTed 🇺🇸 :verified: @[email protected] · 2021-09-06 · 18:43 UTC

MORE-> #DotardNews #dNews #ProLife #Abortion
Justice Department Will ‘Protect’ Women Seeking Abortions Under Texas Abortion Ban
“We will not tolerate violence against those seeking to obtain or provide reproductive health services, physical obstruction or property damage in violation of the FACE Act,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement.
HUH? Did the DOJ even READ the law?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimberleespeakman/2021/09/06/justice-department-will-protect-women-seeking-abortions-under-texas-abortion-ban

#abortion #prolife #dnews #dotardnews
Flash Flood Warning Bot @[email protected] · 2026-05-25 · 02:20 UTC

#NWS #flood #nwsflashflood #FlashFloodWarning Flash Flood Warning for Blount, TN; Knox, TN #TNwx
FFWMRX
The National Weather Service in Morristown has extended the
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Northwestern Blount County in east Tennessee...
Eastern Knox County in east Tennessee...
* Until 1130 PM EDT.
* At 1013 PM EDT, local law enforcement reported heavy rain across
the warned area. Up to 2.5 inches of rain have fallen. Additional
rainfall amounts up to 1 inch are possible in the warned area.
Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by heavy rain.
SOURCE...Law enforcement reported.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Knoxville, Maryville, Alcoa, Louisville, Rockford, Eagleton
Village, Friendsville, Lake Forest, Wildwood, Bearden, Seymour,
Kimberlin Heights, Maloneyville, Mascot, Clover Hill, House
Mountain State Park and Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

#nws #flood #nwsflashflood #flashfloodwarning #tnwx
Flash Flood Warning Bot @[email protected] · 2026-05-25 · 02:20 UTC

#NWS #flood #nwsflashflood #FlashFloodWarning Flash Flood Warning for Blount, TN; Knox, TN #TNwx
FFWMRX
The National Weather Service in Morristown has extended the
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Northwestern Blount County in east Tennessee...
Eastern Knox County in east Tennessee...
* Until 1130 PM EDT.
* At 1013 PM EDT, local law enforcement reported heavy rain across
the warned area. Up to 2.5 inches of rain have fallen. Additional
rainfall amounts up to 1 inch are possible in the warned area.
Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by heavy rain.
SOURCE...Law enforcement reported.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Knoxville, Maryville, Alcoa, Louisville, Rockford, Eagleton
Village, Friendsville, Lake Forest, Wildwood, Bearden, Seymour,
Kimberlin Heights, Maloneyville, Mascot, Clover Hill, House
Mountain State Park and Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

#nws #flood #nwsflashflood #flashfloodwarning #tnwx
Flash Flood Warning Bot @[email protected] · 2026-05-25 · 02:20 UTC

#NWS #flood #nwsflashflood #FlashFloodWarning Flash Flood Warning for Blount, TN; Knox, TN #TNwx
FFWMRX
The National Weather Service in Morristown has extended the
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Northwestern Blount County in east Tennessee...
Eastern Knox County in east Tennessee...
* Until 1130 PM EDT.
* At 1013 PM EDT, local law enforcement reported heavy rain across
the warned area. Up to 2.5 inches of rain have fallen. Additional
rainfall amounts up to 1 inch are possible in the warned area.
Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by heavy rain.
SOURCE...Law enforcement reported.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Knoxville, Maryville, Alcoa, Louisville, Rockford, Eagleton
Village, Friendsville, Lake Forest, Wildwood, Bearden, Seymour,
Kimberlin Heights, Maloneyville, Mascot, Clover Hill, House
Mountain State Park and Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

#nws #flood #nwsflashflood #flashfloodwarning #tnwx
Flash Flood Warning Bot @[email protected] · 2026-05-25 · 02:20 UTC

#NWS #flood #nwsflashflood #FlashFloodWarning Flash Flood Warning for Blount, TN; Knox, TN #TNwx
FFWMRX
The National Weather Service in Morristown has extended the
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Northwestern Blount County in east Tennessee...
Eastern Knox County in east Tennessee...
* Until 1130 PM EDT.
* At 1013 PM EDT, local law enforcement reported heavy rain across
the warned area. Up to 2.5 inches of rain have fallen. Additional
rainfall amounts up to 1 inch are possible in the warned area.
Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by heavy rain.
SOURCE...Law enforcement reported.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Knoxville, Maryville, Alcoa, Louisville, Rockford, Eagleton
Village, Friendsville, Lake Forest, Wildwood, Bearden, Seymour,
Kimberlin Heights, Maloneyville, Mascot, Clover Hill, House
Mountain State Park and Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

#tnwx #flashfloodwarning #nwsflashflood #flood #nws
Flash Flood Warning Bot @[email protected] · 2026-05-25 · 00:40 UTC

#NWS #flood #nwsflashflood #FlashFloodWarning Flash Flood Warning for Blount, TN; Knox, TN #TNwx
FFWMRX
The National Weather Service in Morristown has issued a
* Flash Flood Warning for...
Northwestern Blount County in east Tennessee...
Eastern Knox County in east Tennessee...
* Until 1030 PM EDT.
* At 830 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing
heavy rain across the warned area. Up to 2.5 inches of rain have
fallen. Additional rainfall amounts of 0.5 to 1 inch are possible
in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin
shortly.
HAZARD...Flash flooding caused by thunderstorms.
SOURCE...Radar.
IMPACT...Flash flooding of small creeks and streams, urban
areas, highways, streets and underpasses as well as
other poor drainage and low-lying areas.
* Some locations that will experience flash flooding include...
Knoxville, Maryville, Alcoa, Louisville, Rockford, Eagleton
Village, Friendsville, Lake Forest, Wildwood, Bearden, Seymour,
Kimberlin Heights, Maloneyville, Mascot, Clover Hill, House
Mountain State Park and Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

#nws #flood #nwsflashflood #flashfloodwarning #tnwx
Editor @[email protected] · 2026-02-17 · 18:30 UTC

FROM CARE HOME TO LUXURY HOTEL: £3m revamp creates 55 new jobs in Carmarthenshire

Andrea and Tudur Williams have “poured their hearts and souls” into revitalising the historic Y Seren (The Star) property in Llangunnor. The landmark building, which dates back to the 1890s and was once the home of the Archbishop of Wales, has been reborn as a 23-bed boutique hotel and restaurant.
A ‘Flying Start’ for Landmark Building
Since opening its doors in December, the hotel has seen a surge in demand, with the owners reporting a “flying start” as bookings flood in for weddings, family celebrations, and special events. The project has written a new chapter for the grand Victorian house, which served as the Brynderwen care home for decades before its recent transformation.
Owner Andrea Williams said:
“Creating the hotel and restaurant was a big decision, but it was something that we really wanted to do. There really is nothing like this around here and it is in such a beautiful location. We have poured our hearts and souls into this project; we’ve put everything we’ve got into it.”
The restored Victorian property in Llangunnor that has been transformed from a former care home into Y Seren, a new luxury boutique hotel.
55 Jobs Boost for Carmarthenshire
The venture is a significant boost for the local economy, providing 55 new roles across front-of-house, housekeeping, and management. The business is a true family affair, with Andrea’s daughter Amy serving as assistant manager and her son Tommy handling IT and events.
The kitchen is led by head chef Navi Mudaly, whose food is already earning rave reviews. “The compliments we get for his food are just never-ending,” said Andrea. “People say he does the best steak in the area!”
Harlech Foodservice and Y Seren Hotel

(From L to R) Kim Williams and Gavin Davies from Harlech Foodservice with Y Seren Hotel owners Tudur and Andrea Williams and Navi Mudaly
Honouring Local History
The name Y Seren was chosen to honour local history, inspired by the old Star Inn which once stood just yards from the hotel’s driveway. The building’s most famous resident was David Prosser, who served as the Archbishop of Wales in the 1940s.
The project has been backed by Harlech Foodservice, with territory account manager Kimberley Williams praising the couple’s vision: “They have done an absolutely brilliant job, ensuring that every detail reflects warmth, elegance, and a welcoming atmosphere.”
One of the luxury bedrooms at Y Seren in Llangunnor, part of the Victorian property’s transformation from a former care home into a boutique hotel.
Weddings and Beyond
While the hotel and restaurant are now fully open, work is continuing on a new extension for weddings and events, as well as a terrace and landscaping set for completion this spring. Future plans for 2026 also include a new gym and hot tub facilities.
Andrea added:
“We know once the outside is done we are going to be inundated with weddings because we are having loads of inquiries now.”
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#boutiqueHotel #Carmarthenshire #hotel #Llangunnor #LuxuryHotel #tourism #YSeren

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Luca Frigerio @[email protected] · 2025-10-06 · 05:00 UTC

ESA inaugura la sua nuova antenna in Australia
L’Agenzia spaziale europea (ESA) ha inaugurato in Australia la nuova antenna da 35 metri di diametro per le comunicazioni con lo spazio profondo. Diventano quindi quattro i radiotelescopi a disposizione della rete globale di stazioni di terra dell’ESA (ESTRACK), che ampliano così le capacità di comunicazione con le missioni scientifiche, di esplorazione e di sicurezza spaziale in tutto il sistema solare.
Situata a New Norcia, circa 115 chilometri a nord di Perth nell’Australia Occidentale, l’antenna New Norcia 3 (NNO3) soddisferà la necessità sempre crescente dell’agenzia. Poter disporre di capacità di ricezione dati ad alta velocità è il cardine per rafforzare l’indipendenza e la leadership europea.
La cerimonia
Nel discorso tenuto durante la cerimonia di inaugurazione dello scorso 4 ottobre, il direttore generale dell’ESA, Josef Aschbacher ha dichiarato:
Questo investimento strategico rafforza le capacità di trasmissione per lo spazio profondo dell’ESA e massimizza il ritorno della nostra risorsa più preziosa: i dati inviati dalle sonde in viaggio lontane dalla Terra. Inoltre, con esso si schiudono nuove ed entusiasmanti opportunità di collaborazione fra il settore spaziale europeo e quello australiano, grazie all’annuncio di questa settimana, da parte dell’Australia per un mandato per l’avvio di negoziati per la stipula di un accordo di cooperazione con l’ESA.
I partecipanti alla cerimonia di inaugurazione della nuova antenna europea (nello sfondo). Credit: ESA
La cerimonia d’inaugurazione è stata tenuta dal direttore generale dell’ESA Josef Aschbacher assieme a Enrico Palermo, suo omologo per quanto riguarda l’Agenzia spaziale australiana. Loro sono stati inoltre affiancati da Rolf Densing, direttore delle operazioni dell’ESA, con la partecipazione di Stephen Dawson, ministro dell’Australia Occidentale dello sviluppo regionale, dei porti, dell’innovazione scientifica, della ricerca medica e del Kimberley. Per finire era anche presente Sabine Winton, ministra dell’educazione, della prima infanzia, della salute preventiva della Wheatbelt.

Riportiamo le parole di Enrico Palermo, dirigente dell’Agenzia spaziale australiana (Australian Space Agency – ASA):
L’Australia è ben conosciuta per essere un operatore nelle comunicazioni verso lo spazio profondo affidabile, esperto e capace. Questo investimento da parte dell’ESA e del governo australiano, favorirà il flusso di milioni di dollari per l’economia locale e quindi anche per il mondo del lavoro per i decenni a venire.

NNO3
I lavori di costruzione dell’antenna hanno avuto inizio nel 2021 e si sono conclusi secondo i programmi. Ciò sottolinea le notevoli capacità in questo ambito dell’ESA, delle industrie europee ed australiane, e dell’eccellente cooperazione con i partner locali. Quando l’antenna NNO3 entrerà in servizio nel 2026, supporterà importanti missioni strategiche europee in corso come Juice, Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, Mars Express e Hera. Inoltre sarà altrettanto determinante per comunicare con le nuove sonde in fase di realizzazione: Plato, Envision, Ramses e Vigil per citarne alcune. Nel frattempo, nell’ambito della fase finale di calibrazione, la nuova parabola europea è riuscita nei giorni scorsi a ricevere il segnale del telescopio spaziale Euclid.
La nuova antenna supporterà anche le collaborazioni con i partner istituzionali dell’agenzia europea, come gli enti spaziali degli Stati Uniti (NASA), del Giappone (JAXA) e dell’India (ISRO). Ma non solo, faciliterà i servizi per le missioni spaziali commerciali, incrementando il ritorno scientifico e l’efficienza operativa per tutte le parti coinvolte.
Poster della nuova antenna di New Norcia. Credit: ESA
NNO3 è l’antenna più evoluta tra tutti i radiotelescopi per lo spazio profondo dell’ESA, in quanto impiega una serie di nuovi sistemi e tecnologie. A servizio delle bande X e K vi è un sistema di alimentazione criogenico: si tratta di una tecnologia d’avanguardia, recentemente adottata nelle antenne dell’ESA di Cebreros (Spagna) e Malargüe (Argentina). Grazie al raffreddamento a -263℃ di alcune componenti, consente un significativo incremento nella capacità di ricezione e trasmissione dei dati (dal 40% all’80% in a seconda della banda impiegata). Un amplificatore di frequenza radio da 20 kW favorisce la trasmissione di comandi a veicoli spaziali milioni, ed anche miliardi di chilometri distanti dalla Terra.
La nuova antenna è dotata di orologi e di sistemi di temporizzazione avanzati ed è anche predisposta per ricevere aggiornamenti in futuro. Tra questi una banda X dedicata (a 8-12,5 GHz) da utilizzare in caso di emergenza e la possibilità di inviare velocemente grandi volumi di dati per le missioni lunari (22,55-23,15 GHz). I servomeccanismi di puntamento del disco parabolico hanno una precisione dell’ordine dei 0,005 gradi. In caso di emergenza, infine, l’antenna è predisposta per effettuare trasmissioni con un amplificatore da 100 kW.
Le due antenne da 35 metri di New Norcia, con a sinistra, la nuova antenna NNO3. Credit: ESA
Perché New Norcia?
Aperta nel 2003, la stazione ESTRACK di New Norcia testimonia il forte impegno dell’ESA nella regione pacifico-asiatica e in modo particolare in Australia, nell’ambito della cooperazione a lungo termine fra ESA ed il settore spaziale australiano. Questo favorisce significativi vantaggi economici, tecnologici e scientifici per entrambe le parti e spianerà la strada in futuro, a ulteriori collaborazioni in settori quali le comunicazioni, la sicurezza spaziale e le operazioni legate alle missioni in orbita.
New Norcia ha una posizione geografica strategica che permette il collegamento 24 ore su 24 con le missioni per lo spazio profondo, integrandosi in maniera perfetta con le altre due stazioni ESA; quella argentina di Malargüe e quella spagnola di Cebreros. Basti pensare che queste distano 120° l’una dall’altra, per una copertura completa a 360°. Non appena NNO3 entrerà in servizio, il complesso di New Norcia dell’ESA diventerà la prima stazione di terra equipaggiata con due antenne per lo spazio profondo.
A livello locale, le antenne paraboliche di New Norcia sono gestite dalla Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) – l’agenzia nazionale per la scienza ¯ che allo stesso modo gestisce il complesso Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) di Tidbinbilla, nei pressi di Canberra, appartenente al Deep Space Network della NASA.
L’importanza geografica del sito di New Norcia, risiede anche nel fatto che il cielo dell’Australia Occidentale è la zona in cui i payload lanciati dallo spazioporto europeo di Kourou nella Guiana Francese si separano dal proprio lanciatore durante la fase di lancio. Non a caso, a poche centinaia di metri dalle grosse antenne per lo spazio profondo, un disco più piccolo, del diametro di 4,5 metri, che traccia i razzi Vega-C e Ariane 6 pochi minuti dopo il decollo, acquisendo la telemetria critica usata per monitorare in diretta lo stato di questi vettori.
La stazione ospita inoltre, un transponder specifico per calibrare le misurazioni della sonda Biomass partita quest’anno. Ogni sei mesi, nel corso della sua missione di cinque anni, il satellite-radar europeo punta il Biomass Calibration Transponder per tarare il proprio segnale.
Una panoramica della stazione di New Norcia; da sinistra: l’antenna da 4,5 metri dedicata ai lanci dei Vega-C e degli Ariane-6 da Kourou, la coppia delle antenne da 35 metri per lo spazio profondo, e all’estrema destra, il transponder del satellite Biomass. Credit: ESA
Con un intento perfettamente in linea con gli obiettivi di sostenibilità dell’ESA, NNO3 è supportata da un secondo sistema fotovoltaico per la produzione di energia elettrica da 100 kW, che va ad aggiungersi a quello da 250 kW costruito nel 2017.
Infine, lo scorso 3 ottobre il governo dell’Australia Occidentale ha approvato la spesa di un corrispettivo di 200.000 euro per la costruzione di una nuova infrastruttura turistica presso il sito di New Norcia che includerà piattaforme panoramiche, segnaletiche e cartellonistiche stradali e parcheggi. L’obiettivo dichiarato è quello di aumentare l’interesse del pubblico verso la collaborazione fra Australia ed Europa nell’esplorazione spaziale. Migliorando l’accessibilità al sito da parte di scuole, università e del pubblico generico, questa iniziativa intende far avvicinare la comunità allo spazio, incoraggiando le opportunità educative nella regione.
La fase di costruzione è stata guidata dalle industrie europee con Thales Alenia Space (Francia) e Schwartz Hautmont Construcciones Metálicas (Spagna) come principali appaltatori. Una significativa porzione del budget è stata spesa in Australia con il coinvolgimento di diverse compagnie come TIAM Solutions, Thales Australia e Fredon and Westforce Construction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCpGy2v0tIA&t=3s
Il costo complessivo dell’antenna è stimato in 62,3 milioni di euro, con un contributo di 3 milioni di euro forniti dall’ASA e allocati all’evoluzione della stazione di New Norcia.
Fonte: ESA

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Luca Frigerio @[email protected] · 2025-10-06 · 05:00 UTC

ESA inaugura la sua nuova antenna in Australia
L’Agenzia spaziale europea (ESA) ha inaugurato in Australia la nuova antenna da 35 metri di diametro per le comunicazioni con lo spazio profondo. Diventano quindi quattro i radiotelescopi a disposizione della rete globale di stazioni di terra dell’ESA (ESTRACK), che ampliano così le capacità di comunicazione con le missioni scientifiche, di esplorazione e di sicurezza spaziale in tutto il sistema solare.
Situata a New Norcia, circa 115 chilometri a nord di Perth nell’Australia Occidentale, l’antenna New Norcia 3 (NNO3) soddisferà la necessità sempre crescente dell’agenzia. Poter disporre di capacità di ricezione dati ad alta velocità è il cardine per rafforzare l’indipendenza e la leadership europea.
La cerimonia
Nel discorso tenuto durante la cerimonia di inaugurazione dello scorso 4 ottobre, il direttore generale dell’ESA, Josef Aschbacher ha dichiarato:
Questo investimento strategico rafforza le capacità di trasmissione per lo spazio profondo dell’ESA e massimizza il ritorno della nostra risorsa più preziosa: i dati inviati dalle sonde in viaggio lontane dalla Terra. Inoltre, con esso si schiudono nuove ed entusiasmanti opportunità di collaborazione fra il settore spaziale europeo e quello australiano, grazie all’annuncio di questa settimana, da parte dell’Australia per un mandato per l’avvio di negoziati per la stipula di un accordo di cooperazione con l’ESA.
I partecipanti alla cerimonia di inaugurazione della nuova antenna europea (nello sfondo). Credit: ESA
La cerimonia d’inaugurazione è stata tenuta dal direttore generale dell’ESA Josef Aschbacher assieme a Enrico Palermo, suo omologo per quanto riguarda l’Agenzia spaziale australiana. Loro sono stati inoltre affiancati da Rolf Densing, direttore delle operazioni dell’ESA, con la partecipazione di Stephen Dawson, ministro dell’Australia Occidentale dello sviluppo regionale, dei porti, dell’innovazione scientifica, della ricerca medica e del Kimberley. Per finire era anche presente Sabine Winton, ministra dell’educazione, della prima infanzia, della salute preventiva della Wheatbelt.

Riportiamo le parole di Enrico Palermo, dirigente dell’Agenzia spaziale australiana (Australian Space Agency – ASA):
L’Australia è ben conosciuta per essere un operatore nelle comunicazioni verso lo spazio profondo affidabile, esperto e capace. Questo investimento da parte dell’ESA e del governo australiano, favorirà il flusso di milioni di dollari per l’economia locale e quindi anche per il mondo del lavoro per i decenni a venire.

NNO3
I lavori di costruzione dell’antenna hanno avuto inizio nel 2021 e si sono conclusi secondo i programmi. Ciò sottolinea le notevoli capacità in questo ambito dell’ESA, delle industrie europee ed australiane, e dell’eccellente cooperazione con i partner locali. Quando l’antenna NNO3 entrerà in servizio nel 2026, supporterà importanti missioni strategiche europee in corso come Juice, Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, Mars Express e Hera. Inoltre sarà altrettanto determinante per comunicare con le nuove sonde in fase di realizzazione: Plato, Envision, Ramses e Vigil per citarne alcune. Nel frattempo, nell’ambito della fase finale di calibrazione, la nuova parabola europea è riuscita nei giorni scorsi a ricevere il segnale del telescopio spaziale Euclid.
La nuova antenna supporterà anche le collaborazioni con i partner istituzionali dell’agenzia europea, come gli enti spaziali degli Stati Uniti (NASA), del Giappone (JAXA) e dell’India (ISRO). Ma non solo, faciliterà i servizi per le missioni spaziali commerciali, incrementando il ritorno scientifico e l’efficienza operativa per tutte le parti coinvolte.
Poster della nuova antenna di New Norcia. Credit: ESA
NNO3 è l’antenna più evoluta tra tutti i radiotelescopi per lo spazio profondo dell’ESA, in quanto impiega una serie di nuovi sistemi e tecnologie. A servizio delle bande X e K vi è un sistema di alimentazione criogenico: si tratta di una tecnologia d’avanguardia, recentemente adottata nelle antenne dell’ESA di Cebreros (Spagna) e Malargüe (Argentina). Grazie al raffreddamento a -263℃ di alcune componenti, consente un significativo incremento nella capacità di ricezione e trasmissione dei dati (dal 40% all’80% in a seconda della banda impiegata). Un amplificatore di frequenza radio da 20 kW favorisce la trasmissione di comandi a veicoli spaziali milioni, ed anche miliardi di chilometri distanti dalla Terra.
La nuova antenna è dotata di orologi e di sistemi di temporizzazione avanzati ed è anche predisposta per ricevere aggiornamenti in futuro. Tra questi una banda X dedicata (a 8-12,5 GHz) da utilizzare in caso di emergenza e la possibilità di inviare velocemente grandi volumi di dati per le missioni lunari (22,55-23,15 GHz). I servomeccanismi di puntamento del disco parabolico hanno una precisione dell’ordine dei 0,005 gradi. In caso di emergenza, infine, l’antenna è predisposta per effettuare trasmissioni con un amplificatore da 100 kW.
Le due antenne da 35 metri di New Norcia, con a sinistra, la nuova antenna NNO3. Credit: ESA
Perché New Norcia?
Aperta nel 2003, la stazione ESTRACK di New Norcia testimonia il forte impegno dell’ESA nella regione pacifico-asiatica e in modo particolare in Australia, nell’ambito della cooperazione a lungo termine fra ESA ed il settore spaziale australiano. Questo favorisce significativi vantaggi economici, tecnologici e scientifici per entrambe le parti e spianerà la strada in futuro, a ulteriori collaborazioni in settori quali le comunicazioni, la sicurezza spaziale e le operazioni legate alle missioni in orbita.
New Norcia ha una posizione geografica strategica che permette il collegamento 24 ore su 24 con le missioni per lo spazio profondo, integrandosi in maniera perfetta con le altre due stazioni ESA; quella argentina di Malargüe e quella spagnola di Cebreros. Basti pensare che queste distano 120° l’una dall’altra, per una copertura completa a 360°. Non appena NNO3 entrerà in servizio, il complesso di New Norcia dell’ESA diventerà la prima stazione di terra equipaggiata con due antenne per lo spazio profondo.
A livello locale, le antenne paraboliche di New Norcia sono gestite dalla Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) – l’agenzia nazionale per la scienza ¯ che allo stesso modo gestisce il complesso Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) di Tidbinbilla, nei pressi di Canberra, appartenente al Deep Space Network della NASA.
L’importanza geografica del sito di New Norcia, risiede anche nel fatto che il cielo dell’Australia Occidentale è la zona in cui i payload lanciati dallo spazioporto europeo di Kourou nella Guiana Francese si separano dal proprio lanciatore durante la fase di lancio. Non a caso, a poche centinaia di metri dalle grosse antenne per lo spazio profondo, un disco più piccolo, del diametro di 4,5 metri, che traccia i razzi Vega-C e Ariane 6 pochi minuti dopo il decollo, acquisendo la telemetria critica usata per monitorare in diretta lo stato di questi vettori.
La stazione ospita inoltre, un transponder specifico per calibrare le misurazioni della sonda Biomass partita quest’anno. Ogni sei mesi, nel corso della sua missione di cinque anni, il satellite-radar europeo punta il Biomass Calibration Transponder per tarare il proprio segnale.
Una panoramica della stazione di New Norcia; da sinistra: l’antenna da 4,5 metri dedicata ai lanci dei Vega-C e degli Ariane-6 da Kourou, la coppia delle antenne da 35 metri per lo spazio profondo, e all’estrema destra, il transponder del satellite Biomass. Credit: ESA
Con un intento perfettamente in linea con gli obiettivi di sostenibilità dell’ESA, NNO3 è supportata da un secondo sistema fotovoltaico per la produzione di energia elettrica da 100 kW, che va ad aggiungersi a quello da 250 kW costruito nel 2017.
Infine, lo scorso 3 ottobre il governo dell’Australia Occidentale ha approvato la spesa di un corrispettivo di 200.000 euro per la costruzione di una nuova infrastruttura turistica presso il sito di New Norcia che includerà piattaforme panoramiche, segnaletiche e cartellonistiche stradali e parcheggi. L’obiettivo dichiarato è quello di aumentare l’interesse del pubblico verso la collaborazione fra Australia ed Europa nell’esplorazione spaziale. Migliorando l’accessibilità al sito da parte di scuole, università e del pubblico generico, questa iniziativa intende far avvicinare la comunità allo spazio, incoraggiando le opportunità educative nella regione.
La fase di costruzione è stata guidata dalle industrie europee con Thales Alenia Space (Francia) e Schwartz Hautmont Construcciones Metálicas (Spagna) come principali appaltatori. Una significativa porzione del budget è stata spesa in Australia con il coinvolgimento di diverse compagnie come TIAM Solutions, Thales Australia e Fredon and Westforce Construction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCpGy2v0tIA&t=3s
Il costo complessivo dell’antenna è stimato in 62,3 milioni di euro, con un contributo di 3 milioni di euro forniti dall’ASA e allocati all’evoluzione della stazione di New Norcia.
Fonte: ESA

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Luca Frigerio @[email protected] · 2025-10-06 · 05:00 UTC

ESA inaugura la sua nuova antenna in Australia
L’Agenzia spaziale europea (ESA) ha inaugurato in Australia la nuova antenna da 35 metri di diametro per le comunicazioni con lo spazio profondo. Diventano quindi quattro i radiotelescopi a disposizione della rete globale di stazioni di terra dell’ESA (ESTRACK), che ampliano così le capacità di comunicazione con le missioni scientifiche, di esplorazione e di sicurezza spaziale in tutto il sistema solare.
Situata a New Norcia, circa 115 chilometri a nord di Perth nell’Australia Occidentale, l’antenna New Norcia 3 (NNO3) soddisferà la necessità sempre crescente dell’agenzia. Poter disporre di capacità di ricezione dati ad alta velocità è il cardine per rafforzare l’indipendenza e la leadership europea.
La cerimonia
Nel discorso tenuto durante la cerimonia di inaugurazione dello scorso 4 ottobre, il direttore generale dell’ESA, Josef Aschbacher ha dichiarato:
Questo investimento strategico rafforza le capacità di trasmissione per lo spazio profondo dell’ESA e massimizza il ritorno della nostra risorsa più preziosa: i dati inviati dalle sonde in viaggio lontane dalla Terra. Inoltre, con esso si schiudono nuove ed entusiasmanti opportunità di collaborazione fra il settore spaziale europeo e quello australiano, grazie all’annuncio di questa settimana, da parte dell’Australia per un mandato per l’avvio di negoziati per la stipula di un accordo di cooperazione con l’ESA.
I partecipanti alla cerimonia di inaugurazione della nuova antenna europea (nello sfondo). Credit: ESA
La cerimonia d’inaugurazione è stata tenuta dal direttore generale dell’ESA Josef Aschbacher assieme a Enrico Palermo, suo omologo per quanto riguarda l’Agenzia spaziale australiana. Loro sono stati inoltre affiancati da Rolf Densing, direttore delle operazioni dell’ESA, con la partecipazione di Stephen Dawson, ministro dell’Australia Occidentale dello sviluppo regionale, dei porti, dell’innovazione scientifica, della ricerca medica e del Kimberley. Per finire era anche presente Sabine Winton, ministra dell’educazione, della prima infanzia, della salute preventiva della Wheatbelt.

Riportiamo le parole di Enrico Palermo, dirigente dell’Agenzia spaziale australiana (Australian Space Agency – ASA):
L’Australia è ben conosciuta per essere un operatore nelle comunicazioni verso lo spazio profondo affidabile, esperto e capace. Questo investimento da parte dell’ESA e del governo australiano, favorirà il flusso di milioni di dollari per l’economia locale e quindi anche per il mondo del lavoro per i decenni a venire.

NNO3
I lavori di costruzione dell’antenna hanno avuto inizio nel 2021 e si sono conclusi secondo i programmi. Ciò sottolinea le notevoli capacità in questo ambito dell’ESA, delle industrie europee ed australiane, e dell’eccellente cooperazione con i partner locali. Quando l’antenna NNO3 entrerà in servizio nel 2026, supporterà importanti missioni strategiche europee in corso come Juice, Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, Mars Express e Hera. Inoltre sarà altrettanto determinante per comunicare con le nuove sonde in fase di realizzazione: Plato, Envision, Ramses e Vigil per citarne alcune. Nel frattempo, nell’ambito della fase finale di calibrazione, la nuova parabola europea è riuscita nei giorni scorsi a ricevere il segnale del telescopio spaziale Euclid.
La nuova antenna supporterà anche le collaborazioni con i partner istituzionali dell’agenzia europea, come gli enti spaziali degli Stati Uniti (NASA), del Giappone (JAXA) e dell’India (ISRO). Ma non solo, faciliterà i servizi per le missioni spaziali commerciali, incrementando il ritorno scientifico e l’efficienza operativa per tutte le parti coinvolte.
Poster della nuova antenna di New Norcia. Credit: ESA
NNO3 è l’antenna più evoluta tra tutti i radiotelescopi per lo spazio profondo dell’ESA, in quanto impiega una serie di nuovi sistemi e tecnologie. A servizio delle bande X e K vi è un sistema di alimentazione criogenico: si tratta di una tecnologia d’avanguardia, recentemente adottata nelle antenne dell’ESA di Cebreros (Spagna) e Malargüe (Argentina). Grazie al raffreddamento a -263℃ di alcune componenti, consente un significativo incremento nella capacità di ricezione e trasmissione dei dati (dal 40% all’80% in a seconda della banda impiegata). Un amplificatore di frequenza radio da 20 kW favorisce la trasmissione di comandi a veicoli spaziali milioni, ed anche miliardi di chilometri distanti dalla Terra.
La nuova antenna è dotata di orologi e di sistemi di temporizzazione avanzati ed è anche predisposta per ricevere aggiornamenti in futuro. Tra questi una banda X dedicata (a 8-12,5 GHz) da utilizzare in caso di emergenza e la possibilità di inviare velocemente grandi volumi di dati per le missioni lunari (22,55-23,15 GHz). I servomeccanismi di puntamento del disco parabolico hanno una precisione dell’ordine dei 0,005 gradi. In caso di emergenza, infine, l’antenna è predisposta per effettuare trasmissioni con un amplificatore da 100 kW.
Le due antenne da 35 metri di New Norcia, con a sinistra, la nuova antenna NNO3. Credit: ESA
Perché New Norcia?
Aperta nel 2003, la stazione ESTRACK di New Norcia testimonia il forte impegno dell’ESA nella regione pacifico-asiatica e in modo particolare in Australia, nell’ambito della cooperazione a lungo termine fra ESA ed il settore spaziale australiano. Questo favorisce significativi vantaggi economici, tecnologici e scientifici per entrambe le parti e spianerà la strada in futuro, a ulteriori collaborazioni in settori quali le comunicazioni, la sicurezza spaziale e le operazioni legate alle missioni in orbita.
New Norcia ha una posizione geografica strategica che permette il collegamento 24 ore su 24 con le missioni per lo spazio profondo, integrandosi in maniera perfetta con le altre due stazioni ESA; quella argentina di Malargüe e quella spagnola di Cebreros. Basti pensare che queste distano 120° l’una dall’altra, per una copertura completa a 360°. Non appena NNO3 entrerà in servizio, il complesso di New Norcia dell’ESA diventerà la prima stazione di terra equipaggiata con due antenne per lo spazio profondo.
A livello locale, le antenne paraboliche di New Norcia sono gestite dalla Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) – l’agenzia nazionale per la scienza ¯ che allo stesso modo gestisce il complesso Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) di Tidbinbilla, nei pressi di Canberra, appartenente al Deep Space Network della NASA.
L’importanza geografica del sito di New Norcia, risiede anche nel fatto che il cielo dell’Australia Occidentale è la zona in cui i payload lanciati dallo spazioporto europeo di Kourou nella Guiana Francese si separano dal proprio lanciatore durante la fase di lancio. Non a caso, a poche centinaia di metri dalle grosse antenne per lo spazio profondo, un disco più piccolo, del diametro di 4,5 metri, che traccia i razzi Vega-C e Ariane 6 pochi minuti dopo il decollo, acquisendo la telemetria critica usata per monitorare in diretta lo stato di questi vettori.
La stazione ospita inoltre, un transponder specifico per calibrare le misurazioni della sonda Biomass partita quest’anno. Ogni sei mesi, nel corso della sua missione di cinque anni, il satellite-radar europeo punta il Biomass Calibration Transponder per tarare il proprio segnale.
Una panoramica della stazione di New Norcia; da sinistra: l’antenna da 4,5 metri dedicata ai lanci dei Vega-C e degli Ariane-6 da Kourou, la coppia delle antenne da 35 metri per lo spazio profondo, e all’estrema destra, il transponder del satellite Biomass. Credit: ESA
Con un intento perfettamente in linea con gli obiettivi di sostenibilità dell’ESA, NNO3 è supportata da un secondo sistema fotovoltaico per la produzione di energia elettrica da 100 kW, che va ad aggiungersi a quello da 250 kW costruito nel 2017.
Infine, lo scorso 3 ottobre il governo dell’Australia Occidentale ha approvato la spesa di un corrispettivo di 200.000 euro per la costruzione di una nuova infrastruttura turistica presso il sito di New Norcia che includerà piattaforme panoramiche, segnaletiche e cartellonistiche stradali e parcheggi. L’obiettivo dichiarato è quello di aumentare l’interesse del pubblico verso la collaborazione fra Australia ed Europa nell’esplorazione spaziale. Migliorando l’accessibilità al sito da parte di scuole, università e del pubblico generico, questa iniziativa intende far avvicinare la comunità allo spazio, incoraggiando le opportunità educative nella regione.
La fase di costruzione è stata guidata dalle industrie europee con Thales Alenia Space (Francia) e Schwartz Hautmont Construcciones Metálicas (Spagna) come principali appaltatori. Una significativa porzione del budget è stata spesa in Australia con il coinvolgimento di diverse compagnie come TIAM Solutions, Thales Australia e Fredon and Westforce Construction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCpGy2v0tIA&t=3s
Il costo complessivo dell’antenna è stimato in 62,3 milioni di euro, con un contributo di 3 milioni di euro forniti dall’ASA e allocati all’evoluzione della stazione di New Norcia.
Fonte: ESA

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Luca Frigerio @[email protected] · 2025-10-06 · 05:00 UTC

ESA inaugura la sua nuova antenna in Australia
L’Agenzia spaziale europea (ESA) ha inaugurato in Australia la nuova antenna da 35 metri di diametro per le comunicazioni con lo spazio profondo. Diventano quindi quattro i radiotelescopi a disposizione della rete globale di stazioni di terra dell’ESA (ESTRACK), che ampliano così le capacità di comunicazione con le missioni scientifiche, di esplorazione e di sicurezza spaziale in tutto il sistema solare.
Situata a New Norcia, circa 115 chilometri a nord di Perth nell’Australia Occidentale, l’antenna New Norcia 3 (NNO3) soddisferà la necessità sempre crescente dell’agenzia. Poter disporre di capacità di ricezione dati ad alta velocità è il cardine per rafforzare l’indipendenza e la leadership europea.
La cerimonia
Nel discorso tenuto durante la cerimonia di inaugurazione dello scorso 4 ottobre, il direttore generale dell’ESA, Josef Aschbacher ha dichiarato:
Questo investimento strategico rafforza le capacità di trasmissione per lo spazio profondo dell’ESA e massimizza il ritorno della nostra risorsa più preziosa: i dati inviati dalle sonde in viaggio lontane dalla Terra. Inoltre, con esso si schiudono nuove ed entusiasmanti opportunità di collaborazione fra il settore spaziale europeo e quello australiano, grazie all’annuncio di questa settimana, da parte dell’Australia per un mandato per l’avvio di negoziati per la stipula di un accordo di cooperazione con l’ESA.
I partecipanti alla cerimonia di inaugurazione della nuova antenna europea (nello sfondo). Credit: ESA
La cerimonia d’inaugurazione è stata tenuta dal direttore generale dell’ESA Josef Aschbacher assieme a Enrico Palermo, suo omologo per quanto riguarda l’Agenzia spaziale australiana. Loro sono stati inoltre affiancati da Rolf Densing, direttore delle operazioni dell’ESA, con la partecipazione di Stephen Dawson, ministro dell’Australia Occidentale dello sviluppo regionale, dei porti, dell’innovazione scientifica, della ricerca medica e del Kimberley. Per finire era anche presente Sabine Winton, ministra dell’educazione, della prima infanzia, della salute preventiva della Wheatbelt.

Riportiamo le parole di Enrico Palermo, dirigente dell’Agenzia spaziale australiana (Australian Space Agency – ASA):
L’Australia è ben conosciuta per essere un operatore nelle comunicazioni verso lo spazio profondo affidabile, esperto e capace. Questo investimento da parte dell’ESA e del governo australiano, favorirà il flusso di milioni di dollari per l’economia locale e quindi anche per il mondo del lavoro per i decenni a venire.

NNO3
I lavori di costruzione dell’antenna hanno avuto inizio nel 2021 e si sono conclusi secondo i programmi. Ciò sottolinea le notevoli capacità in questo ambito dell’ESA, delle industrie europee ed australiane, e dell’eccellente cooperazione con i partner locali. Quando l’antenna NNO3 entrerà in servizio nel 2026, supporterà importanti missioni strategiche europee in corso come Juice, Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, Mars Express e Hera. Inoltre sarà altrettanto determinante per comunicare con le nuove sonde in fase di realizzazione: Plato, Envision, Ramses e Vigil per citarne alcune. Nel frattempo, nell’ambito della fase finale di calibrazione, la nuova parabola europea è riuscita nei giorni scorsi a ricevere il segnale del telescopio spaziale Euclid.
La nuova antenna supporterà anche le collaborazioni con i partner istituzionali dell’agenzia europea, come gli enti spaziali degli Stati Uniti (NASA), del Giappone (JAXA) e dell’India (ISRO). Ma non solo, faciliterà i servizi per le missioni spaziali commerciali, incrementando il ritorno scientifico e l’efficienza operativa per tutte le parti coinvolte.
Poster della nuova antenna di New Norcia. Credit: ESA
NNO3 è l’antenna più evoluta tra tutti i radiotelescopi per lo spazio profondo dell’ESA, in quanto impiega una serie di nuovi sistemi e tecnologie. A servizio delle bande X e K vi è un sistema di alimentazione criogenico: si tratta di una tecnologia d’avanguardia, recentemente adottata nelle antenne dell’ESA di Cebreros (Spagna) e Malargüe (Argentina). Grazie al raffreddamento a -263℃ di alcune componenti, consente un significativo incremento nella capacità di ricezione e trasmissione dei dati (dal 40% all’80% in a seconda della banda impiegata). Un amplificatore di frequenza radio da 20 kW favorisce la trasmissione di comandi a veicoli spaziali milioni, ed anche miliardi di chilometri distanti dalla Terra.
La nuova antenna è dotata di orologi e di sistemi di temporizzazione avanzati ed è anche predisposta per ricevere aggiornamenti in futuro. Tra questi una banda X dedicata (a 8-12,5 GHz) da utilizzare in caso di emergenza e la possibilità di inviare velocemente grandi volumi di dati per le missioni lunari (22,55-23,15 GHz). I servomeccanismi di puntamento del disco parabolico hanno una precisione dell’ordine dei 0,005 gradi. In caso di emergenza, infine, l’antenna è predisposta per effettuare trasmissioni con un amplificatore da 100 kW.
Le due antenne da 35 metri di New Norcia, con a sinistra, la nuova antenna NNO3. Credit: ESA
Perché New Norcia?
Aperta nel 2003, la stazione ESTRACK di New Norcia testimonia il forte impegno dell’ESA nella regione pacifico-asiatica e in modo particolare in Australia, nell’ambito della cooperazione a lungo termine fra ESA ed il settore spaziale australiano. Questo favorisce significativi vantaggi economici, tecnologici e scientifici per entrambe le parti e spianerà la strada in futuro, a ulteriori collaborazioni in settori quali le comunicazioni, la sicurezza spaziale e le operazioni legate alle missioni in orbita.
New Norcia ha una posizione geografica strategica che permette il collegamento 24 ore su 24 con le missioni per lo spazio profondo, integrandosi in maniera perfetta con le altre due stazioni ESA; quella argentina di Malargüe e quella spagnola di Cebreros. Basti pensare che queste distano 120° l’una dall’altra, per una copertura completa a 360°. Non appena NNO3 entrerà in servizio, il complesso di New Norcia dell’ESA diventerà la prima stazione di terra equipaggiata con due antenne per lo spazio profondo.
A livello locale, le antenne paraboliche di New Norcia sono gestite dalla Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) – l’agenzia nazionale per la scienza ¯ che allo stesso modo gestisce il complesso Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) di Tidbinbilla, nei pressi di Canberra, appartenente al Deep Space Network della NASA.
L’importanza geografica del sito di New Norcia, risiede anche nel fatto che il cielo dell’Australia Occidentale è la zona in cui i payload lanciati dallo spazioporto europeo di Kourou nella Guiana Francese si separano dal proprio lanciatore durante la fase di lancio. Non a caso, a poche centinaia di metri dalle grosse antenne per lo spazio profondo, un disco più piccolo, del diametro di 4,5 metri, che traccia i razzi Vega-C e Ariane 6 pochi minuti dopo il decollo, acquisendo la telemetria critica usata per monitorare in diretta lo stato di questi vettori.
La stazione ospita inoltre, un transponder specifico per calibrare le misurazioni della sonda Biomass partita quest’anno. Ogni sei mesi, nel corso della sua missione di cinque anni, il satellite-radar europeo punta il Biomass Calibration Transponder per tarare il proprio segnale.
Una panoramica della stazione di New Norcia; da sinistra: l’antenna da 4,5 metri dedicata ai lanci dei Vega-C e degli Ariane-6 da Kourou, la coppia delle antenne da 35 metri per lo spazio profondo, e all’estrema destra, il transponder del satellite Biomass. Credit: ESA
Con un intento perfettamente in linea con gli obiettivi di sostenibilità dell’ESA, NNO3 è supportata da un secondo sistema fotovoltaico per la produzione di energia elettrica da 100 kW, che va ad aggiungersi a quello da 250 kW costruito nel 2017.
Infine, lo scorso 3 ottobre il governo dell’Australia Occidentale ha approvato la spesa di un corrispettivo di 200.000 euro per la costruzione di una nuova infrastruttura turistica presso il sito di New Norcia che includerà piattaforme panoramiche, segnaletiche e cartellonistiche stradali e parcheggi. L’obiettivo dichiarato è quello di aumentare l’interesse del pubblico verso la collaborazione fra Australia ed Europa nell’esplorazione spaziale. Migliorando l’accessibilità al sito da parte di scuole, università e del pubblico generico, questa iniziativa intende far avvicinare la comunità allo spazio, incoraggiando le opportunità educative nella regione.
La fase di costruzione è stata guidata dalle industrie europee con Thales Alenia Space (Francia) e Schwartz Hautmont Construcciones Metálicas (Spagna) come principali appaltatori. Una significativa porzione del budget è stata spesa in Australia con il coinvolgimento di diverse compagnie come TIAM Solutions, Thales Australia e Fredon and Westforce Construction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCpGy2v0tIA&t=3s
Il costo complessivo dell’antenna è stimato in 62,3 milioni di euro, con un contributo di 3 milioni di euro forniti dall’ASA e allocati all’evoluzione della stazione di New Norcia.
Fonte: ESA

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Luca Frigerio @[email protected] · 2025-10-06 · 05:00 UTC

ESA inaugura la sua nuova antenna in Australia
L’Agenzia spaziale europea (ESA) ha inaugurato in Australia la nuova antenna da 35 metri di diametro per le comunicazioni con lo spazio profondo. Diventano quindi quattro i radiotelescopi a disposizione della rete globale di stazioni di terra dell’ESA (ESTRACK), che ampliano così le capacità di comunicazione con le missioni scientifiche, di esplorazione e di sicurezza spaziale in tutto il sistema solare.
Situata a New Norcia, circa 115 chilometri a nord di Perth nell’Australia Occidentale, l’antenna New Norcia 3 (NNO3) soddisferà la necessità sempre crescente dell’agenzia. Poter disporre di capacità di ricezione dati ad alta velocità è il cardine per rafforzare l’indipendenza e la leadership europea.
La cerimonia
Nel discorso tenuto durante la cerimonia di inaugurazione dello scorso 4 ottobre, il direttore generale dell’ESA, Josef Aschbacher ha dichiarato:
Questo investimento strategico rafforza le capacità di trasmissione per lo spazio profondo dell’ESA e massimizza il ritorno della nostra risorsa più preziosa: i dati inviati dalle sonde in viaggio lontane dalla Terra. Inoltre, con esso si schiudono nuove ed entusiasmanti opportunità di collaborazione fra il settore spaziale europeo e quello australiano, grazie all’annuncio di questa settimana, da parte dell’Australia per un mandato per l’avvio di negoziati per la stipula di un accordo di cooperazione con l’ESA.
I partecipanti alla cerimonia di inaugurazione della nuova antenna europea (nello sfondo). Credit: ESA
La cerimonia d’inaugurazione è stata tenuta dal direttore generale dell’ESA Josef Aschbacher assieme a Enrico Palermo, suo omologo per quanto riguarda l’Agenzia spaziale australiana. Loro sono stati inoltre affiancati da Rolf Densing, direttore delle operazioni dell’ESA, con la partecipazione di Stephen Dawson, ministro dell’Australia Occidentale dello sviluppo regionale, dei porti, dell’innovazione scientifica, della ricerca medica e del Kimberley. Per finire era anche presente Sabine Winton, ministra dell’educazione, della prima infanzia, della salute preventiva della Wheatbelt.

Riportiamo le parole di Enrico Palermo, dirigente dell’Agenzia spaziale australiana (Australian Space Agency – ASA):
L’Australia è ben conosciuta per essere un operatore nelle comunicazioni verso lo spazio profondo affidabile, esperto e capace. Questo investimento da parte dell’ESA e del governo australiano, favorirà il flusso di milioni di dollari per l’economia locale e quindi anche per il mondo del lavoro per i decenni a venire.

NNO3
I lavori di costruzione dell’antenna hanno avuto inizio nel 2021 e si sono conclusi secondo i programmi. Ciò sottolinea le notevoli capacità in questo ambito dell’ESA, delle industrie europee ed australiane, e dell’eccellente cooperazione con i partner locali. Quando l’antenna NNO3 entrerà in servizio nel 2026, supporterà importanti missioni strategiche europee in corso come Juice, Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, Mars Express e Hera. Inoltre sarà altrettanto determinante per comunicare con le nuove sonde in fase di realizzazione: Plato, Envision, Ramses e Vigil per citarne alcune. Nel frattempo, nell’ambito della fase finale di calibrazione, la nuova parabola europea è riuscita nei giorni scorsi a ricevere il segnale del telescopio spaziale Euclid.
La nuova antenna supporterà anche le collaborazioni con i partner istituzionali dell’agenzia europea, come gli enti spaziali degli Stati Uniti (NASA), del Giappone (JAXA) e dell’India (ISRO). Ma non solo, faciliterà i servizi per le missioni spaziali commerciali, incrementando il ritorno scientifico e l’efficienza operativa per tutte le parti coinvolte.
Poster della nuova antenna di New Norcia. Credit: ESA
NNO3 è l’antenna più evoluta tra tutti i radiotelescopi per lo spazio profondo dell’ESA, in quanto impiega una serie di nuovi sistemi e tecnologie. A servizio delle bande X e K vi è un sistema di alimentazione criogenico: si tratta di una tecnologia d’avanguardia, recentemente adottata nelle antenne dell’ESA di Cebreros (Spagna) e Malargüe (Argentina). Grazie al raffreddamento a -263℃ di alcune componenti, consente un significativo incremento nella capacità di ricezione e trasmissione dei dati (dal 40% all’80% in a seconda della banda impiegata). Un amplificatore di frequenza radio da 20 kW favorisce la trasmissione di comandi a veicoli spaziali milioni, ed anche miliardi di chilometri distanti dalla Terra.
La nuova antenna è dotata di orologi e di sistemi di temporizzazione avanzati ed è anche predisposta per ricevere aggiornamenti in futuro. Tra questi una banda X dedicata (a 8-12,5 GHz) da utilizzare in caso di emergenza e la possibilità di inviare velocemente grandi volumi di dati per le missioni lunari (22,55-23,15 GHz). I servomeccanismi di puntamento del disco parabolico hanno una precisione dell’ordine dei 0,005 gradi. In caso di emergenza, infine, l’antenna è predisposta per effettuare trasmissioni con un amplificatore da 100 kW.
Le due antenne da 35 metri di New Norcia, con a sinistra, la nuova antenna NNO3. Credit: ESA
Perché New Norcia?
Aperta nel 2003, la stazione ESTRACK di New Norcia testimonia il forte impegno dell’ESA nella regione pacifico-asiatica e in modo particolare in Australia, nell’ambito della cooperazione a lungo termine fra ESA ed il settore spaziale australiano. Questo favorisce significativi vantaggi economici, tecnologici e scientifici per entrambe le parti e spianerà la strada in futuro, a ulteriori collaborazioni in settori quali le comunicazioni, la sicurezza spaziale e le operazioni legate alle missioni in orbita.
New Norcia ha una posizione geografica strategica che permette il collegamento 24 ore su 24 con le missioni per lo spazio profondo, integrandosi in maniera perfetta con le altre due stazioni ESA; quella argentina di Malargüe e quella spagnola di Cebreros. Basti pensare che queste distano 120° l’una dall’altra, per una copertura completa a 360°. Non appena NNO3 entrerà in servizio, il complesso di New Norcia dell’ESA diventerà la prima stazione di terra equipaggiata con due antenne per lo spazio profondo.
A livello locale, le antenne paraboliche di New Norcia sono gestite dalla Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) – l’agenzia nazionale per la scienza ¯ che allo stesso modo gestisce il complesso Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) di Tidbinbilla, nei pressi di Canberra, appartenente al Deep Space Network della NASA.
L’importanza geografica del sito di New Norcia, risiede anche nel fatto che il cielo dell’Australia Occidentale è la zona in cui i payload lanciati dallo spazioporto europeo di Kourou nella Guiana Francese si separano dal proprio lanciatore durante la fase di lancio. Non a caso, a poche centinaia di metri dalle grosse antenne per lo spazio profondo, un disco più piccolo, del diametro di 4,5 metri, che traccia i razzi Vega-C e Ariane 6 pochi minuti dopo il decollo, acquisendo la telemetria critica usata per monitorare in diretta lo stato di questi vettori.
La stazione ospita inoltre, un transponder specifico per calibrare le misurazioni della sonda Biomass partita quest’anno. Ogni sei mesi, nel corso della sua missione di cinque anni, il satellite-radar europeo punta il Biomass Calibration Transponder per tarare il proprio segnale.
Una panoramica della stazione di New Norcia; da sinistra: l’antenna da 4,5 metri dedicata ai lanci dei Vega-C e degli Ariane-6 da Kourou, la coppia delle antenne da 35 metri per lo spazio profondo, e all’estrema destra, il transponder del satellite Biomass. Credit: ESA
Con un intento perfettamente in linea con gli obiettivi di sostenibilità dell’ESA, NNO3 è supportata da un secondo sistema fotovoltaico per la produzione di energia elettrica da 100 kW, che va ad aggiungersi a quello da 250 kW costruito nel 2017.
Infine, lo scorso 3 ottobre il governo dell’Australia Occidentale ha approvato la spesa di un corrispettivo di 200.000 euro per la costruzione di una nuova infrastruttura turistica presso il sito di New Norcia che includerà piattaforme panoramiche, segnaletiche e cartellonistiche stradali e parcheggi. L’obiettivo dichiarato è quello di aumentare l’interesse del pubblico verso la collaborazione fra Australia ed Europa nell’esplorazione spaziale. Migliorando l’accessibilità al sito da parte di scuole, università e del pubblico generico, questa iniziativa intende far avvicinare la comunità allo spazio, incoraggiando le opportunità educative nella regione.
La fase di costruzione è stata guidata dalle industrie europee con Thales Alenia Space (Francia) e Schwartz Hautmont Construcciones Metálicas (Spagna) come principali appaltatori. Una significativa porzione del budget è stata spesa in Australia con il coinvolgimento di diverse compagnie come TIAM Solutions, Thales Australia e Fredon and Westforce Construction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCpGy2v0tIA&t=3s
Il costo complessivo dell’antenna è stimato in 62,3 milioni di euro, con un contributo di 3 milioni di euro forniti dall’ASA e allocati all’evoluzione della stazione di New Norcia.
Fonte: ESA

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World of Paleoanthropology @[email protected] · 2025-07-15 · 20:52 UTC
Rock Art on Screen: 12 Free Documentaries That Bring the Painted Past to Life
By Seth Chagi for World of Paleoanthropology
“We carry the torch of ancient storytellers each time we switch on a screen.” — Stoic reflection after too many late‑night documentary binges
Rock art feels simultaneously intimate and cosmic—handprints that whisper I was here across 30,000 years. The internet, bless its algorithmic heart, is brimming with free films that let us wander those caves and escarpments without the knee‑scrapes, bat guano, or UNESCO paperwork. Below are a dozen feature‑length (20 min +) documentaries your audience can stream today. I’ve grouped them by theme and noted what each one can teach us. Pop some popcorn (or Aquafor‑coated trail mix if you’re truly hardcore) and prepare to time‑travel.
1. Deep Time Immersion
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“Cave of Forgotten Dreams”89 minWatchDocumentaries.comWerner Herzog’s 3‑D glide through Chauvet (32 kya) is as close as most of us will get to those charcoal lions. Perfect for discussing preservation ethics, pigment chemistry, and the phenomenology of darkness.“Inside France’s Chauvet Cave” (DW Documentary)52 minYouTubeA more traditional science‑journalist tour that balances visuals with up‑to‑date uranium‑thorium dating and virtual‑reality replication work. Great classroom fodder on 3‑D scanning.
2. Rock Art & Global Narratives
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“Les secrets des fresques d’Amazonie”88 minARTE.tvTakes viewers into Colombia’s Serranía de la Lindosa cliff murals—tens of thousands of figures dated ≥12 kya—while foregrounding Indigenous perspectives and environmental stakes.“Oldest Cave Art Found in Sulawesi”24 minYouTube (Griffith Univ.)Concise but rich breakdown of the 45 kya pig panel & new 51 kya hunting scene; use it to spark debates on symbolic cognition outside Europe.“KIMBERLEY ROCK ART: A World Treasure”45 minYouTubeExplores Australia’s Gwion Gwion & Wandjina iconography, weaving in modern Aboriginal custodianship and cutting‑edge optically stimulated luminescence dating.“The Rock Art of Arnhem Land” (Part I)26 minYouTubeVeteran archaeologist Paul Taçon walks viewers through x‑ray kangaroos and Lightning Man motifs; ideal primer on superimposition sequences.
3. Mediterranean & Atlantic Europe
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“Rock‑Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus” (UNESCO/NHK)28 minUNESCO.orgSahara pastoralism in motion—perfect for stressing how climate shifts shaped iconographic changes.“Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin”28 minYouTube (UNESCO)Surveys 758 Iberian sites; includes rare footage of Levantine‑style hunters in eastern Spain. Good segue into discussions of pigment sourcing.“Prehistoric Rock Art of the Côa Valley & Siega Verde”30 minUNESCO.orgNight‑shot filming of open‑air engravings (≈25 kya onward) highlights why Foz Côa is a conservation victory.“Exploring the Ancient Art of Altamira”24 minYouTubeA guided VR‑style tour of Spain’s “Sistine Chapel of the Palaeolithic,” complete with replica cave construction details—great for public‑engagement case studies.
4. Decoding Symbolic Systems
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“How Art Made the World – Ep 2: The Day Pictures Were Born”59 minYouTube (BBC series)Frames cave art within a cognitive‑evolution story: why image‑making matters for social cohesion.**“Paleo Cave Art Mysteries” (Episode 1 of 3)22 minYouTube**Paleoanthropologist Neil Bockoven dives into dot‑and‑line signs (à la von Petzinger) and therianthropes; a bite‑sized springboard for symbol taxonomy exercises.
How to Use This Playlist – (of course, you could just be like me and want to watch them, but here are some fun activities for those of you who may be teachers, professors, and the like for your students to better engage with the content):
1. Chronological Viewing Party: Start with Acacus for Holocene climate context, swing through European Upper Palaeolithic masterpieces, then finish in the Amazon to spotlight New World debates.
2. Data‑Extraction Exercise: Have students log motifs, substrates, and dating techniques in a shared Zotero group to spot regional patterns.
3. Compare Custodianship Models: Contrast Indigenous‑led management in Australia with state oversight in France and Spain—fertile ground for ethical discussions.
4. DIY Experimental Archaeology: After watching the Altamira VR segment, try recreating blowing techniques with ochre and charcoal on butcher paper (outdoors, trust me).
Remember: every dash of ochre, every engraved aurochs, is a dialogue across millennia. Hit play, listen closely, and pass the story on.
Feel free to embed this post—just credit World of Paleoanthropology and link readers back to the documentary sources. Happy cave‑surfing!
#Altamira #AncientArt #Anthropology #Archaeology #ArtHistory #CaveArt #CavePainting #ChauvetCave #GwionGwion #HandsOnHistory #HumanEvolution #Lascaux #PaleoArt #Paleolithic #ParietalArt #Petroglyphs #PrehistoricArt #Prehistory #RockArt #RockArtResearch #StoneAge #SulawesiRockArt #UNESCOWorldHeritage #UpperPaleolithic
#altamira #ancientart #anthropology #archaeology #arthistory #caveart
World of Paleoanthropology @[email protected] · 2025-07-15 · 20:52 UTC
Rock Art on Screen: 12 Free Documentaries That Bring the Painted Past to Life
By Seth Chagi for World of Paleoanthropology
“We carry the torch of ancient storytellers each time we switch on a screen.” — Stoic reflection after too many late‑night documentary binges
Rock art feels simultaneously intimate and cosmic—handprints that whisper I was here across 30,000 years. The internet, bless its algorithmic heart, is brimming with free films that let us wander those caves and escarpments without the knee‑scrapes, bat guano, or UNESCO paperwork. Below are a dozen feature‑length (20 min +) documentaries your audience can stream today. I’ve grouped them by theme and noted what each one can teach us. Pop some popcorn (or Aquafor‑coated trail mix if you’re truly hardcore) and prepare to time‑travel.
1. Deep Time Immersion
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“Cave of Forgotten Dreams”89 minWatchDocumentaries.comWerner Herzog’s 3‑D glide through Chauvet (32 kya) is as close as most of us will get to those charcoal lions. Perfect for discussing preservation ethics, pigment chemistry, and the phenomenology of darkness.“Inside France’s Chauvet Cave” (DW Documentary)52 minYouTubeA more traditional science‑journalist tour that balances visuals with up‑to‑date uranium‑thorium dating and virtual‑reality replication work. Great classroom fodder on 3‑D scanning.
2. Rock Art & Global Narratives
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“Les secrets des fresques d’Amazonie”88 minARTE.tvTakes viewers into Colombia’s Serranía de la Lindosa cliff murals—tens of thousands of figures dated ≥12 kya—while foregrounding Indigenous perspectives and environmental stakes.“Oldest Cave Art Found in Sulawesi”24 minYouTube (Griffith Univ.)Concise but rich breakdown of the 45 kya pig panel & new 51 kya hunting scene; use it to spark debates on symbolic cognition outside Europe.“KIMBERLEY ROCK ART: A World Treasure”45 minYouTubeExplores Australia’s Gwion Gwion & Wandjina iconography, weaving in modern Aboriginal custodianship and cutting‑edge optically stimulated luminescence dating.“The Rock Art of Arnhem Land” (Part I)26 minYouTubeVeteran archaeologist Paul Taçon walks viewers through x‑ray kangaroos and Lightning Man motifs; ideal primer on superimposition sequences.
3. Mediterranean & Atlantic Europe
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“Rock‑Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus” (UNESCO/NHK)28 minUNESCO.orgSahara pastoralism in motion—perfect for stressing how climate shifts shaped iconographic changes.“Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin”28 minYouTube (UNESCO)Surveys 758 Iberian sites; includes rare footage of Levantine‑style hunters in eastern Spain. Good segue into discussions of pigment sourcing.“Prehistoric Rock Art of the Côa Valley & Siega Verde”30 minUNESCO.orgNight‑shot filming of open‑air engravings (≈25 kya onward) highlights why Foz Côa is a conservation victory.“Exploring the Ancient Art of Altamira”24 minYouTubeA guided VR‑style tour of Spain’s “Sistine Chapel of the Palaeolithic,” complete with replica cave construction details—great for public‑engagement case studies.
4. Decoding Symbolic Systems
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“How Art Made the World – Ep 2: The Day Pictures Were Born”59 minYouTube (BBC series)Frames cave art within a cognitive‑evolution story: why image‑making matters for social cohesion.**“Paleo Cave Art Mysteries” (Episode 1 of 3)22 minYouTube**Paleoanthropologist Neil Bockoven dives into dot‑and‑line signs (à la von Petzinger) and therianthropes; a bite‑sized springboard for symbol taxonomy exercises.
How to Use This Playlist – (of course, you could just be like me and want to watch them, but here are some fun activities for those of you who may be teachers, professors, and the like for your students to better engage with the content):
1. Chronological Viewing Party: Start with Acacus for Holocene climate context, swing through European Upper Palaeolithic masterpieces, then finish in the Amazon to spotlight New World debates.
2. Data‑Extraction Exercise: Have students log motifs, substrates, and dating techniques in a shared Zotero group to spot regional patterns.
3. Compare Custodianship Models: Contrast Indigenous‑led management in Australia with state oversight in France and Spain—fertile ground for ethical discussions.
4. DIY Experimental Archaeology: After watching the Altamira VR segment, try recreating blowing techniques with ochre and charcoal on butcher paper (outdoors, trust me).
Remember: every dash of ochre, every engraved aurochs, is a dialogue across millennia. Hit play, listen closely, and pass the story on.
Feel free to embed this post—just credit World of Paleoanthropology and link readers back to the documentary sources. Happy cave‑surfing!
#Altamira #AncientArt #Anthropology #Archaeology #ArtHistory #CaveArt #CavePainting #ChauvetCave #GwionGwion #HandsOnHistory #HumanEvolution #Lascaux #PaleoArt #Paleolithic #ParietalArt #Petroglyphs #PrehistoricArt #Prehistory #RockArt #RockArtResearch #StoneAge #SulawesiRockArt #UNESCOWorldHeritage #UpperPaleolithic
#altamira #ancientart #anthropology #archaeology #arthistory #caveart
World of Paleoanthropology @[email protected] · 2025-07-15 · 20:52 UTC
Rock Art on Screen: 12 Free Documentaries That Bring the Painted Past to Life
By Seth Chagi for World of Paleoanthropology
“We carry the torch of ancient storytellers each time we switch on a screen.” — Stoic reflection after too many late‑night documentary binges
Rock art feels simultaneously intimate and cosmic—handprints that whisper I was here across 30,000 years. The internet, bless its algorithmic heart, is brimming with free films that let us wander those caves and escarpments without the knee‑scrapes, bat guano, or UNESCO paperwork. Below are a dozen feature‑length (20 min +) documentaries your audience can stream today. I’ve grouped them by theme and noted what each one can teach us. Pop some popcorn (or Aquafor‑coated trail mix if you’re truly hardcore) and prepare to time‑travel.
1. Deep Time Immersion
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“Cave of Forgotten Dreams”89 minWatchDocumentaries.comWerner Herzog’s 3‑D glide through Chauvet (32 kya) is as close as most of us will get to those charcoal lions. Perfect for discussing preservation ethics, pigment chemistry, and the phenomenology of darkness.“Inside France’s Chauvet Cave” (DW Documentary)52 minYouTubeA more traditional science‑journalist tour that balances visuals with up‑to‑date uranium‑thorium dating and virtual‑reality replication work. Great classroom fodder on 3‑D scanning.
2. Rock Art & Global Narratives
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“Les secrets des fresques d’Amazonie”88 minARTE.tvTakes viewers into Colombia’s Serranía de la Lindosa cliff murals—tens of thousands of figures dated ≥12 kya—while foregrounding Indigenous perspectives and environmental stakes.“Oldest Cave Art Found in Sulawesi”24 minYouTube (Griffith Univ.)Concise but rich breakdown of the 45 kya pig panel & new 51 kya hunting scene; use it to spark debates on symbolic cognition outside Europe.“KIMBERLEY ROCK ART: A World Treasure”45 minYouTubeExplores Australia’s Gwion Gwion & Wandjina iconography, weaving in modern Aboriginal custodianship and cutting‑edge optically stimulated luminescence dating.“The Rock Art of Arnhem Land” (Part I)26 minYouTubeVeteran archaeologist Paul Taçon walks viewers through x‑ray kangaroos and Lightning Man motifs; ideal primer on superimposition sequences.
3. Mediterranean & Atlantic Europe
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“Rock‑Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus” (UNESCO/NHK)28 minUNESCO.orgSahara pastoralism in motion—perfect for stressing how climate shifts shaped iconographic changes.“Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin”28 minYouTube (UNESCO)Surveys 758 Iberian sites; includes rare footage of Levantine‑style hunters in eastern Spain. Good segue into discussions of pigment sourcing.“Prehistoric Rock Art of the Côa Valley & Siega Verde”30 minUNESCO.orgNight‑shot filming of open‑air engravings (≈25 kya onward) highlights why Foz Côa is a conservation victory.“Exploring the Ancient Art of Altamira”24 minYouTubeA guided VR‑style tour of Spain’s “Sistine Chapel of the Palaeolithic,” complete with replica cave construction details—great for public‑engagement case studies.
4. Decoding Symbolic Systems
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“How Art Made the World – Ep 2: The Day Pictures Were Born”59 minYouTube (BBC series)Frames cave art within a cognitive‑evolution story: why image‑making matters for social cohesion.**“Paleo Cave Art Mysteries” (Episode 1 of 3)22 minYouTube**Paleoanthropologist Neil Bockoven dives into dot‑and‑line signs (à la von Petzinger) and therianthropes; a bite‑sized springboard for symbol taxonomy exercises.
How to Use This Playlist – (of course, you could just be like me and want to watch them, but here are some fun activities for those of you who may be teachers, professors, and the like for your students to better engage with the content):
1. Chronological Viewing Party: Start with Acacus for Holocene climate context, swing through European Upper Palaeolithic masterpieces, then finish in the Amazon to spotlight New World debates.
2. Data‑Extraction Exercise: Have students log motifs, substrates, and dating techniques in a shared Zotero group to spot regional patterns.
3. Compare Custodianship Models: Contrast Indigenous‑led management in Australia with state oversight in France and Spain—fertile ground for ethical discussions.
4. DIY Experimental Archaeology: After watching the Altamira VR segment, try recreating blowing techniques with ochre and charcoal on butcher paper (outdoors, trust me).
Remember: every dash of ochre, every engraved aurochs, is a dialogue across millennia. Hit play, listen closely, and pass the story on.
Feel free to embed this post—just credit World of Paleoanthropology and link readers back to the documentary sources. Happy cave‑surfing!
#Altamira #AncientArt #Anthropology #Archaeology #ArtHistory #CaveArt #CavePainting #ChauvetCave #GwionGwion #HandsOnHistory #HumanEvolution #Lascaux #PaleoArt #Paleolithic #ParietalArt #Petroglyphs #PrehistoricArt #Prehistory #RockArt #RockArtResearch #StoneAge #SulawesiRockArt #UNESCOWorldHeritage #UpperPaleolithic
#altamira #ancientart #anthropology #archaeology #arthistory #caveart
World of Paleoanthropology @[email protected] · 2025-07-15 · 20:52 UTC
Rock Art on Screen: 12 Free Documentaries That Bring the Painted Past to Life
By Seth Chagi for World of Paleoanthropology
“We carry the torch of ancient storytellers each time we switch on a screen.” — Stoic reflection after too many late‑night documentary binges
Rock art feels simultaneously intimate and cosmic—handprints that whisper I was here across 30,000 years. The internet, bless its algorithmic heart, is brimming with free films that let us wander those caves and escarpments without the knee‑scrapes, bat guano, or UNESCO paperwork. Below are a dozen feature‑length (20 min +) documentaries your audience can stream today. I’ve grouped them by theme and noted what each one can teach us. Pop some popcorn (or Aquafor‑coated trail mix if you’re truly hardcore) and prepare to time‑travel.
1. Deep Time Immersion
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“Cave of Forgotten Dreams”89 minWatchDocumentaries.comWerner Herzog’s 3‑D glide through Chauvet (32 kya) is as close as most of us will get to those charcoal lions. Perfect for discussing preservation ethics, pigment chemistry, and the phenomenology of darkness.“Inside France’s Chauvet Cave” (DW Documentary)52 minYouTubeA more traditional science‑journalist tour that balances visuals with up‑to‑date uranium‑thorium dating and virtual‑reality replication work. Great classroom fodder on 3‑D scanning.
2. Rock Art & Global Narratives
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“Les secrets des fresques d’Amazonie”88 minARTE.tvTakes viewers into Colombia’s Serranía de la Lindosa cliff murals—tens of thousands of figures dated ≥12 kya—while foregrounding Indigenous perspectives and environmental stakes.“Oldest Cave Art Found in Sulawesi”24 minYouTube (Griffith Univ.)Concise but rich breakdown of the 45 kya pig panel & new 51 kya hunting scene; use it to spark debates on symbolic cognition outside Europe.“KIMBERLEY ROCK ART: A World Treasure”45 minYouTubeExplores Australia’s Gwion Gwion & Wandjina iconography, weaving in modern Aboriginal custodianship and cutting‑edge optically stimulated luminescence dating.“The Rock Art of Arnhem Land” (Part I)26 minYouTubeVeteran archaeologist Paul Taçon walks viewers through x‑ray kangaroos and Lightning Man motifs; ideal primer on superimposition sequences.
3. Mediterranean & Atlantic Europe
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“Rock‑Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus” (UNESCO/NHK)28 minUNESCO.orgSahara pastoralism in motion—perfect for stressing how climate shifts shaped iconographic changes.“Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin”28 minYouTube (UNESCO)Surveys 758 Iberian sites; includes rare footage of Levantine‑style hunters in eastern Spain. Good segue into discussions of pigment sourcing.“Prehistoric Rock Art of the Côa Valley & Siega Verde”30 minUNESCO.orgNight‑shot filming of open‑air engravings (≈25 kya onward) highlights why Foz Côa is a conservation victory.“Exploring the Ancient Art of Altamira”24 minYouTubeA guided VR‑style tour of Spain’s “Sistine Chapel of the Palaeolithic,” complete with replica cave construction details—great for public‑engagement case studies.
4. Decoding Symbolic Systems
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“How Art Made the World – Ep 2: The Day Pictures Were Born”59 minYouTube (BBC series)Frames cave art within a cognitive‑evolution story: why image‑making matters for social cohesion.**“Paleo Cave Art Mysteries” (Episode 1 of 3)22 minYouTube**Paleoanthropologist Neil Bockoven dives into dot‑and‑line signs (à la von Petzinger) and therianthropes; a bite‑sized springboard for symbol taxonomy exercises.
How to Use This Playlist – (of course, you could just be like me and want to watch them, but here are some fun activities for those of you who may be teachers, professors, and the like for your students to better engage with the content):
1. Chronological Viewing Party: Start with Acacus for Holocene climate context, swing through European Upper Palaeolithic masterpieces, then finish in the Amazon to spotlight New World debates.
2. Data‑Extraction Exercise: Have students log motifs, substrates, and dating techniques in a shared Zotero group to spot regional patterns.
3. Compare Custodianship Models: Contrast Indigenous‑led management in Australia with state oversight in France and Spain—fertile ground for ethical discussions.
4. DIY Experimental Archaeology: After watching the Altamira VR segment, try recreating blowing techniques with ochre and charcoal on butcher paper (outdoors, trust me).
Remember: every dash of ochre, every engraved aurochs, is a dialogue across millennia. Hit play, listen closely, and pass the story on.
Feel free to embed this post—just credit World of Paleoanthropology and link readers back to the documentary sources. Happy cave‑surfing!
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#upperpaleolithic #unescoworldheritage #sulawesirockart #stoneage #rockartresearch #rockart
World of Paleoanthropology @[email protected] · 2025-07-15 · 20:52 UTC
Rock Art on Screen: 12 Free Documentaries That Bring the Painted Past to Life
By Seth Chagi for World of Paleoanthropology
“We carry the torch of ancient storytellers each time we switch on a screen.” — Stoic reflection after too many late‑night documentary binges
Rock art feels simultaneously intimate and cosmic—handprints that whisper I was here across 30,000 years. The internet, bless its algorithmic heart, is brimming with free films that let us wander those caves and escarpments without the knee‑scrapes, bat guano, or UNESCO paperwork. Below are a dozen feature‑length (20 min +) documentaries your audience can stream today. I’ve grouped them by theme and noted what each one can teach us. Pop some popcorn (or Aquafor‑coated trail mix if you’re truly hardcore) and prepare to time‑travel.
1. Deep Time Immersion
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“Cave of Forgotten Dreams”89 minWatchDocumentaries.comWerner Herzog’s 3‑D glide through Chauvet (32 kya) is as close as most of us will get to those charcoal lions. Perfect for discussing preservation ethics, pigment chemistry, and the phenomenology of darkness.“Inside France’s Chauvet Cave” (DW Documentary)52 minYouTubeA more traditional science‑journalist tour that balances visuals with up‑to‑date uranium‑thorium dating and virtual‑reality replication work. Great classroom fodder on 3‑D scanning.
2. Rock Art & Global Narratives
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“Les secrets des fresques d’Amazonie”88 minARTE.tvTakes viewers into Colombia’s Serranía de la Lindosa cliff murals—tens of thousands of figures dated ≥12 kya—while foregrounding Indigenous perspectives and environmental stakes.“Oldest Cave Art Found in Sulawesi”24 minYouTube (Griffith Univ.)Concise but rich breakdown of the 45 kya pig panel & new 51 kya hunting scene; use it to spark debates on symbolic cognition outside Europe.“KIMBERLEY ROCK ART: A World Treasure”45 minYouTubeExplores Australia’s Gwion Gwion & Wandjina iconography, weaving in modern Aboriginal custodianship and cutting‑edge optically stimulated luminescence dating.“The Rock Art of Arnhem Land” (Part I)26 minYouTubeVeteran archaeologist Paul Taçon walks viewers through x‑ray kangaroos and Lightning Man motifs; ideal primer on superimposition sequences.
3. Mediterranean & Atlantic Europe
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“Rock‑Art Sites of Tadrart Acacus” (UNESCO/NHK)28 minUNESCO.orgSahara pastoralism in motion—perfect for stressing how climate shifts shaped iconographic changes.“Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin”28 minYouTube (UNESCO)Surveys 758 Iberian sites; includes rare footage of Levantine‑style hunters in eastern Spain. Good segue into discussions of pigment sourcing.“Prehistoric Rock Art of the Côa Valley & Siega Verde”30 minUNESCO.orgNight‑shot filming of open‑air engravings (≈25 kya onward) highlights why Foz Côa is a conservation victory.“Exploring the Ancient Art of Altamira”24 minYouTubeA guided VR‑style tour of Spain’s “Sistine Chapel of the Palaeolithic,” complete with replica cave construction details—great for public‑engagement case studies.
4. Decoding Symbolic Systems
TitleRuntimePlatformWhy Watch“How Art Made the World – Ep 2: The Day Pictures Were Born”59 minYouTube (BBC series)Frames cave art within a cognitive‑evolution story: why image‑making matters for social cohesion.**“Paleo Cave Art Mysteries” (Episode 1 of 3)22 minYouTube**Paleoanthropologist Neil Bockoven dives into dot‑and‑line signs (à la von Petzinger) and therianthropes; a bite‑sized springboard for symbol taxonomy exercises.
How to Use This Playlist – (of course, you could just be like me and want to watch them, but here are some fun activities for those of you who may be teachers, professors, and the like for your students to better engage with the content):
1. Chronological Viewing Party: Start with Acacus for Holocene climate context, swing through European Upper Palaeolithic masterpieces, then finish in the Amazon to spotlight New World debates.
2. Data‑Extraction Exercise: Have students log motifs, substrates, and dating techniques in a shared Zotero group to spot regional patterns.
3. Compare Custodianship Models: Contrast Indigenous‑led management in Australia with state oversight in France and Spain—fertile ground for ethical discussions.
4. DIY Experimental Archaeology: After watching the Altamira VR segment, try recreating blowing techniques with ochre and charcoal on butcher paper (outdoors, trust me).
Remember: every dash of ochre, every engraved aurochs, is a dialogue across millennia. Hit play, listen closely, and pass the story on.
Feel free to embed this post—just credit World of Paleoanthropology and link readers back to the documentary sources. Happy cave‑surfing!
#Altamira #AncientArt #Anthropology #Archaeology #ArtHistory #CaveArt #CavePainting #ChauvetCave #GwionGwion #HandsOnHistory #HumanEvolution #Lascaux #PaleoArt #Paleolithic #ParietalArt #Petroglyphs #PrehistoricArt #Prehistory #RockArt #RockArtResearch #StoneAge #SulawesiRockArt #UNESCOWorldHeritage #UpperPaleolithic
#altamira #ancientart #anthropology #archaeology #arthistory #caveart
Pierre-Yves Comtois @[email protected] · 2024-12-15 · 18:21 UTC
Inviter la faune au jardin
Dans une boîte sous mon lit, j’ai trouvé un dessin que j’aimais bien en très mauvais état. Après l’avoir numérisé et remis en état, je l’ai mis en couleur. Il illustre les aménagements possibles pour inviter la petite faune au jardin. Il a été créé pour un atelier que j’ai donné pour les Amis du Jardin botanique de Montréal. Comme l’hiver est la saison idéale pour rêver au jardin à venir, le voici :

Pour les oiseaux
- Un espace dégagé pour voir venir les prédateurs, éloigné des fenêtres ;
- De l’eau (même en hiver) ;
- De la nourriture (graminées, arbres fruitiers, variété de vivaces, d’arbres et d’arbustes attirant les insectes) ;
- Un abri contre le froid et les prédateurs (conifères) ;
- des nichoirs.
Pour les papillons, pollinisateurs et autres insectes utiles :
- Un espace ensoleillé pour accumuler de l’énergie (espace dégagé, abrité du vent, pierres qui conservent la chaleur) ;
- De l’eau et des minéraux (abreuvoir à papillons rempli de sable ou de gravillons et d’eau) ;
- De la nourriture (plantes nectarifères et variété de plantes-hôte : annuelles, vivaces, arbustes, grimpantes, arbres) ;
- Un abri pour hiverner (paillis, feuilles mortes, tas de compost, bois morts, hôtel à insectes).
Pour les reptiles et amphibiens
- Un espace ensoleillé pour accumuler de l’énergie (pierres qui conservent la chaleur du soleil) ;
- Un espace pour la reproduction et la chasse (bassin) ;
- De la nourriture (les matières organiques, l’eau et la diversité des plantes attirent les insectes) ;
- Un abri pour hiverner (terre libre sous l’eau, espace bien drainé sous des pierres, feuilles mortes).
Évidemment, tous les pesticides sont à bannir. Tout ce qui nuit aux insectes nuira indirectement aux oiseaux insectivores, aux reptiles et aux batraciens. La présence des chats et des chiens est donc également à proscrire. Il n’y a pas de mangeoires sur ce dessin parce qu’elles peuvent avoir des effets négatifs. Les oiseaux s’y habituent et se retrouvent dépourvus si les mangeoires ne sont plus remplies. De plus, les attroupements d’oiseaux près des mangeoires favorisent la propagation des maladies. Et es déchets de mangeoire attirent des indésirables comme les rongeurs.
Si je devais refaire ce dessin, je soulignerais davantage l’importance des plantes indigènes dont les cycles correspondent à ceux de la faune indigène. La présence de plantes annuelles permet d’allonger les périodes de floraison et de compenser les effets des changements climatiques et les aléas de la météo. Bon jardinage !
Pour aller plus loin
- La Fondation de la faune du Québec offre plusieurs publications sur l’aménagement pour favoriser la présence des oiseaux et de la petite faune.
- Gilles Paquet et Jacques Jutras, Ministère de l’Environnement et de la Faune, Installation de structures pour favoriser la petite faune, 1996
- Gilles Paquet, Jacques Jutras et Michel Lepage, Ministère de l’Environnement et de la Faune, Aménagement de milieux pour les amphibiens et les reptiles, 1996
- Kimberley Cornish, Le jardinier paresseux, Créer un jardin pour la faune dans votre cour, 2021
- Britanie Sullivan, Un point cinq, Marmottes, lapins, oiseaux… cohabiter avec la faune des jardins urbains, 2023
- INC, Inviter la faune dans les jardins avec l’Office français de la biodiversité, 2022
#aménagementPaysager #amphibiens #écosystème #biodiversité #horticulture #illustration #jardin #oiseaux #petiteFaune #reptile
#reptile #petitefaune #oiseaux #jardin #illustration #horticulture
abolitionmedia @[email protected] · 2024-08-22 · 03:31 UTC

For decades, most Black political commentary has expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people, but recently, a new phenomenon has appeared, particularly on social media platforms, which accuses all Palestinians of being anti-Black racists, and asserts that aligning with them is either of no use to Black people or even that it is detrimental to our own cause. Some of these individuals are Democratic Party operatives attempting to maintain Black voter loyalty as Israeli war crimes in Gaza remain a campaign issue. Others are of a right wing tendency which either supports U.S. imperialism or asserts that Black politics can and should stand alone, and that any talk of solidarity with Palestinians or other peoples is misguided.
It’s not surprising that these questions have come to the fore as the Democratic National Convention is taking place in Chicago, while so-called ceasefire talks take place in Israel, even though Israel continues to reject any talk of a real ceasefire and Kamala Harris promises to keep sending them weapons. Black Agenda Report editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka provides his analysis in conversation with Executive Editor Margaret Kimberley.
Margaret Kimberley: Every time I think I’m not going to be surprised by anything new, something like this happens, seeing Black people demean the Palestinian cause and ahistorically accuse all of them of being anti-Black racists, actually saying that everybody is an anti-Black racist, and that Black people have no friends and no reason to to be in alignment with anyone else anywhere else in the world. Is this new? I don’t recall voices like this being so prominent. What do you think is behind this new narrative?
Ajamu Baraka: You know, Margaret, I think it is relatively new and is I think reflective of a certain kind of political and ideological trajectory that we’ve seen emerge over the last few decades beginning in the 1970s. Even though the “civil rights,” Black Liberation and anti-Vietnam war movements emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, the state launched its most sustained and coherent counter revolutionary and counter insurgency strategy against the “new left” but primarily the Black liberation movement in the 1970s. The Black liberation movement was subjected to, of course, violent repression, but the ideological component, the ideological and the cultural component of that suppression took on very sophisticated forms in the 1970s.
The objectives in the 1970s were primarily ideological and cultural. The main task for the state, as they saw it, was to create the conditions in which there’ll never be a repeat of the generation that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s that rocked the entire world. And they have been fairly successful in undermining the continuity of Black struggle in the U.S., the Black radical struggle, ensuring that there was an effective, what I call Americanization of the African in the U.S., with the result being that there are Black folks who are more American, who identify with the so-called American experience, than with the African and colonial experience that has really informed our existence in this country and around the world.
The other element that capped off this process of Americanization, politically and culturally and ideologically, was the ascendancy of Barack Obama beginning in 2008. In that last vestiges of critical thought of this survivalist ability of Black people to separate themselves from the perspectives and positions of white America and the American state. Always being suspicious of moves made by the American state, especially as it related to other people of color. That suspicion was almost completely eliminated. There was this wholesale identification with the U.S. state, people proudly embracing their “Americanism.” And Barack Obama led our people to some of the most backward political positions ever held by Black people in this country. Barack Obama was able to carry out criminal activity that could not have been carried out by a white leader, like the attack on Libya, the expansion of the U.S. Africa Command, AFRICOM, that had just been put in place a few months before he took power, an expansion that saw the U.S. military footprint on the African continent increased by 1,900% . The 2,400% expansion of the Department of Defense 1033 program, the program responsible for shifting military grade weapons from the military to police forces across the country, resulting in their military enhancement.
These are moves that could not have been made without significant opposition from Black folks, if they had been attempted by a white politician. So this sort of move toward a more conservatism among Black folks was the foundation that was laid. Connected to that was in the emergence of this philosophical political framework referred to as Afropessimism.
This framework has been one of the most detrimental frames that I think has ever emerged among Black folks, because using this frame, where, as you said in your intro, everyone is supposed to be anti-Black, including other colonized people. And so therefore the ability to empathize with other colonized people, to stand in solidarity with them, to build the kinds of coalitions we used to build as a normal part of the Black radical tradition has been undermined by the popularity of this frame. Emerging first in academia, where most of this backwardness develops, it then bleeds into our movement spaces.
So that you have young folks, new to the movement, not very well grounded in the radical history of our movement, not understanding the concept of internationalism, embracing this nonsense that politically and ideologically, has us trapped in a corner and with nowhere to go, with no allies, and therefore the only route that can be taken is to beg white folks, for example, for “reparations.” There’s no no desire to build movement, because it can’t be built. There’s no attempt to try to change the world, because, as Frank Wilderson, one of the creators of this psy-op, claims that the only way that you can deal with the ongoing and unrelenting racism of white folks is for the world to end.
And so this kind of petty bourgeois passivity and resignation has become part of the discourse among some elements in the Black community. So this move toward criticizing and rejecting Kamala Harris because she’s not black, or suggesting that there’s no affinity with Palestinians who are being slaughtered by the U.S. state is just the latest manifestation of this kind of political backwardness that has gained a bit of a foothold in our community.
Some who identify as Afropessimist try to disassociate themselves from this new reactionary development. But it is disingenuous for the proponents of Afropessimism to pretend that there is no connection between Wilderson’s Afropessimism creation and the right-wing positions of ADOS. The ADOS movement and its pork-chop nationalist positions on Palestine, immigrants and non-Black coalitional politics represent a natural rightist logic of Afropessimism presumptions and worldviews.
MK: You know, Ajamu, one of the things I find most interesting about this ideology is that in order to believe in it, you have to separate our experience here from everything else that happens in the world, including things that the state here carries out around the world. So we have people who believe that the same state that carries out a genocide in Gaza will, for some reason, decide to do right by Black people and pay us reparations. It’s just illogical to me, but that is a central part of this ideology.
AB: It really is. It’s really irrational in some ways. Now we understand that the reparations demand is a legitimate demand being made by African peoples and other indigenous peoples here in the Americas and on the African continent. It emanates from very real historical realities that emerged as a consequence of the peoples of Europe that became “white” spilling out of Europe into the Americas, beginning in 1492 and the subsequent creation of what we refer to today as Western civilization and the West. That power dynamic between the “West” and the rest of us is what shapes contemporary social, national and most importantly, economic relations. It was the creation of the West, a parasitic process that came at the expense of peoples of the global South, their freedom, development, and humanity.
This oppressive power dynamic is the basis of the solidarity work that all of us have been involved in over the decades as part of the Black radical tradition. But this kind of understanding of the centrality of internationalism, an internationalism driven by an understanding of the interconnectedness of the struggles against Western colonial/capitalist domination no longer occupies a prominent place among contemporary activists or the general Black population. This is because of the lack of continuity in our movement and resistance work. Consequently, not only is the general public largely unaware of this tradition, younger people coming into movement spaces have a very underdeveloped awareness of elements of the Black radical tradition. And when you have that sort of political vacuum, then all kinds of mischievous ideological formulations can get a foothold.
One of the consequences of this, which makes it new, is that part of embracing this concept, for example with the Palestinians, there’s no connection to their struggle and ours, is that it results in people taking positions that are fundamentally immoral. Here we see the U.S. state supporting the fascists in Israel engaging in racist terror in Gaza, murdering primarily women and children, starving people to death, raping both women and men, denying them medical care.
This is one of the most egregious and outrageous developments we have seen in the post war period, and is being live streamed for Black folks. We have never stood on the side of the oppressor in that way, this notion that there’s no connection, and therefore no concern, is basically an immoral position. In fact, I would argue that is an anti-Black position that’s not part of our tradition at all.
There is a new political tendency in the U.S. that captures this backwards sentiment – the “American Descendants of Slaves,”(ADOS). These individuals embody the devastating impact of the racist colonial experience in the U.S. in which their identification with the “master” is total. They are in effect still slaves or at best dark skinned white folks. In fact, cracker white folks, because in their attitudes and their worldviews, they sound just like them in their their attitudes toward migrants who’ve been forced to come to the U.S. as a consequence of the U.S. destroying the economies of peoples here in the Americas, their position on the suffering of Palestinians, their hyper identification with their relationship to the U.S. state, their inability to identify with Africa and being an African, but their embrace of “Americanism” and America, which, in my estimation is white nationalism.
So these are phenomenal political trajectories. They have never been part of our tradition. In fact, as I said, it’s anti-Black. But the other element too, with this Afropessimist phenomenon, is that, in some ways, it is so typically, “American”, and is very U.S. centric. It’s a form of intellectual imperialism that exceptionalizes the U.S. Black experience, and then attempts to universalize that experience onto the rest of the African world.
It posits that the experiences of Black people in the U.S. represents something unique. That enslavement and the colonial process during the post-slave period we were subjected to is in some way fundamentally different fromthe enslavement and colonial experience of the African people throughout the African world. And part of that motivation we all understand is this, I think, the irrational belief that, as you said in your question, that a system, a society, that can rationalize the wholesale murder of a non-white population in Gaza is somehow going to turn around and do right, if you will, with African people in the U.S. by giving them cash reparations.
This position has moved the reparation demand from a progressive position to a position that is now much more dubious, and perhaps, even reactionary because of that demand being captured by these right-wing elements. Unless radical Black forces are able to recapture and define reparations progressively, the demand has the possibility of becoming a real detriment for radical work in the U.S. It is starting to be used as a weapon to undermine our political oppositionality in this country, because it is starting to mean that we have a stake in the continuation of the U.S. state in order for us to get our money! Articulated by these right-wing ADOS elements, the demand suggests the belief that the enemy can repair you, that some money in your pocket is somehow going to offset the centuries of exploitation and oppression, and the cost of that is to identify with the American state, as opposed to identifying with the oppressed around the world that are still being destroyed by the same American state that these elements so fervently identify with.
MK: I saw something on the X platform, Twitter, a post from Iddo Moed , who is Israel’s ambassador to Canada. So now we have Israeli officials weighing in on this issue, and he said, “Demanding black Americans to stand up for Palestinians is absurd in so many ways. Read why.” And then we see comments from someone named David Saranga , who is from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a former ambassador to Romania, Director of the Digital Diplomacy Bureau. In other words, I would say, head propagandist, making very racist statements about Arab people, condemning them by saying they had slavery, they did. But he doesn’t mention European slavery, for some reason. But at any rate, he is backing up these people who are telling us that we should not have solidarity with Palestine. And this is not really surprising, but it tells us how dangerous this new narrative is.
AB: It really does, and it should cause people who are trying to be critical, people who still have some degree of a critical faculty to question their political and ideological position. It’s the same message we have for elements of the broader left when they continue to find themselves on the same side of U.S. imperialism on various Issues and subjects from Nicaragua to Ukraine. When these ADOS forces, when these Black- “white nationalists” find themselves being appealed to and in alignment with Israeli fascists, then it should be something that would cause them to pause and maybe at least attempt to rethink their positions.
But of course, they don’t, because there’s not a historical grounding in their positions. There’s not any ideological substance to it. In fact, because they are so disconnected from the Black radical tradition, they don’t even understand that it was in the U.S. that the revolutionary pan Africanist movement really emerged before it moved to the African continent. They’re completely disconnected from that. There’s no understanding among these forces of the reality of colonialism and why part of the Black radical tradition always connected the struggle against racial oppression in the U.S. with the anti-colonial struggle globally. There’s no understanding of that, and therefore that’s why they take these backward political positions, and that’s how such a reactionary framework like this Afropessimism can, in fact, take hold and fundamentally confuse people and undermine the kind of traditional leadership role that Africans in the U.S. (Black people) have played at phases of history as part of the global anti- colonial struggles.
The ADOS folks have no understanding of the kind of solidarity that has been expressed toward struggles in the U.S. They have no understanding of the significance of a Kwame Nkrumah going to an HBCU in the U.S. and then ending up as the first President of Ghana, or even Namdi Azikiwe, who also attended HBCUs and became Nigeria’s first president, the role of a WEB Dubois, Queen Mother Moore, Claudia Jones, the African Blood Brotherhood, and even someone like Malcolm. The Afropessimists will argue that they understand the role of Africans in the U.S. in global struggles but that it is the unprincipled appropriation of Black energy in “other” struggle that is the problem. And here again lies the link between Afropessimism and ADOS and the degeneration of Black politics in the U.S.
Afropessimists and their ADOS offshoots are so deluded in their thinking that for them and their aggressive identification with the U.S., they have come up with a theory of blackness and anti-Blackness in which everybody non-Black is or potentially anti-Black. If you can’t trace your lineage to what they call foundational Black folks in the U.S., then, as Biden told Charlamagne tha God, you ain’t really Black. Therefore, even someone like Malcolm, whose mother was from Grenada, wouldn’t qualify as Black according to this framework that they operate from. This is the kind of backwardness that we see, and that’s the kind of backwardness that racist fascist like the Israelis see as an entry point to continue spreading the confusion, and that’s why we can’t play with this movement.
Luckily, this tendency still represents a minority tendency in our people, but we can no longer ignore them. This anti-Black tendency has to be directly confronted. And, you know, we’ve been engaged in conversation with some of them, and they’ve been coming after me, but I’m fully prepared to deal with the conversation, because some of them can be won back. They’re just confused. They have no real foundation. But the main thing that I’m confronting is this immorality. Black people never, have never supported genocide. We’ve never stood on the side of these forces that are responsible for the massive death and destruction throughout the so-called Middle East or West Asia and Africa. We’ve always been a force that understood that because of our own experiences, we had a sensitivity to oppression. We’ve always stood with the oppressed. This phenomenon represented by these individuals is essentially anti-Black.
MK: And lastly, let’s talk about what’s going on now between the U.S. and Israel. Secretary of State Blinken, is in Israel now on one of their phony ceasefire negotiations. The only ceasefire that can come about is for the U.S. to stop arming Israel, but they simultaneously say they will never do that. Biden has said that. Kamala Harris has said that. So any talk of ceasefire
is phony, but the Democratic National Convention is going on now, and I’m guessing that’s part of the impetus for doing this is to give the impression that there is going to be some change in U.S. foreign policy vis a vis Israel, when no such thing is going to happen. What are your thoughts on these public relations stunts and the movement against Israeli war crimes?
AB: It is fundamentally immoral, the kind of game that’s being played at the expense of Palestinian lives. As soon as the Frenchman, Antony Blinken, announced that he was going back to Israel again. I knew that the jig was up that they were going to meet with Netanyahu, and they were going to agree to the so called Bridging Proposal, which is nothing more than the introduction of new elements into the negotiation that went beyond the agreement that the Hamas and Palestinian leadership embraced back in May, the framework that was advanced by the Biden administration. And it was the Netanyahu government that began to put, you know, new elements into the game, because they don’t want to see any kind of ceasefire. They want to maintain control of the Gaza Strip. And that is reflected in the elements that were part of the so-called Bridging Proposal. They want to remain. They want to control the Rafah crossing. They want to control the Philadelphi corridor, the strip along the border between Gaza and Egypt. They even want to have an IDF presence in what is known as the Netzarim Junction, a corridor between southern and northern Gaza in which, if people are allowed to go back to Northern Gaza, to reoccupy the destroyed northern Gaza, the ruins that used to be their houses and communities, the Israelis want to be able to, in essence, screen and search everyone moving from the South back to the North. Continuing the degradation and undignified treatment of Palestinians before they are allowed to go to Northern Gaza.
The Palestinian resistance under the leadership of Hamas, have rejected those as non-starters. But now Antony Blinken says it is on Hamas to basically accept this “Bridging Proposal,” and if they don’t accept it, then basically, then they’ll be blamed for the collapse of the talks. It is fundamentally immoral. It is a game, a game that is really quite troubling. And turning to the gathering of democrats in Chicago related to this issue, it’s not just ADOS that’s implicated in the whitewashing of U.S. criminology and the support of Netanyahu and the fascists in Israel. It is the broader Black community also that votes Democrat. Black democrats, many who are now party bosses, are celebrating their new found unity at the expense of the people of Palestine. They want to avoid the issue of the Biden/Harris administration giving active support to a racialized genocide. Harris pretends to have more concern for the people of Gaza but her administration continues to send weapons of mass destruction to Israel to use against an oppressed, occupied people whose only crime is that the Israeli colonists want their land.
This is something we can’t we can’t allow to to go forward without critique, you know, and we don’t need to care about what the consequences of that might be in terms of who gets elected, who gets a chance to sit in the white people’s house, because the Democrats or the Republicans, vis a vis the Palestinian issue, there’s no difference between those two positions. Both are hawkish. Both are abetting criminality, and so therefore we should not give our vote, which means our consent to the immoral and criminal activity of this administration.
However, people are supposed to forget about the slaughter in Gaza for the greater good of the party. Just embrace the Democrats and this new phony generation of hope being fueled by the bourgeois press around Kamala Harris, who nobody really knows what she stands for. It is outrageous, immoral.
Kwame Ture reminded us that whenever you talk about the contradictions of the people but you don’t mention the role of the enemy in producing those contradictions you will always end-up blaming the people and diverting attention away from machinations of the colonial/capitalist system.
The immorality and opportunism of ADOS has its foundation in the bazaar and afro-American ( I used afro intentionally) elitist formulations of Afropessimism. But is not just Black folks who identify with ADOS that represent the success of the state’s counterrevolutionary efforts, it is also reflected in the millions of our folks who are ready to deny the moral culpability of the democrats with the racist rampage being waged by the Israeli fascists in Gaze. The racist “othering” of Palestinians by Black folks in the U.S. is a new phenomenon. One that must be aggressively confronted if we are to save the soul and sanity of our people in this wasteland called the United States of America.
It is still possible to win our folks back to themselves and to rebuild a politics of resistance informed by a vision of a new world in which all forms of exploitation and oppression are defeated.
Authentic revolutionaries embrace that spirit of optimism. This approach distinguishes us from the cynicism of the bourgeoisie and the despair and resignation of the petit-bourgeois Frank Wildersons of the world.
MK: Thank you so much. Ajamu, we will have to continue our conversations as this campaign season moves forward.
AB: Thank you.
Ajamu Baraka is the Chairman of the Coordinating Committee of the Black Alliance for Peace and an editor and contributing columnist for the Black Agenda Report. Baraka serves on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Peace Council and leadership body of the U.S.-based United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC) and the Steering Committee of the Black is Back Coalition.
Margaret Kimberley is the author of Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents . You can support her work on Patreon and also find it on the Twitter , Bluesky , and Telegram platforms. She can be reached via email at margaret dot kimberley at blackagendareport.com.

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For decades, most Black political commentary has expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people, but recently, a new phenomenon has appeared, particularly on social media platforms, which accuses all Palestinians of being anti-Black racists, and asserts that aligning with them is either of no use to Black people or even that it is detrimental to our own cause. Some of these individuals are Democratic Party operatives attempting to maintain Black voter loyalty as Israeli war crimes in Gaza remain a campaign issue. Others are of a right wing tendency which either supports U.S. imperialism or asserts that Black politics can and should stand alone, and that any talk of solidarity with Palestinians or other peoples is misguided.
It’s not surprising that these questions have come to the fore as the Democratic National Convention is taking place in Chicago, while so-called ceasefire talks take place in Israel, even though Israel continues to reject any talk of a real ceasefire and Kamala Harris promises to keep sending them weapons. Black Agenda Report editor and columnist Ajamu Baraka provides his analysis in conversation with Executive Editor Margaret Kimberley.
Margaret Kimberley: Every time I think I’m not going to be surprised by anything new, something like this happens, seeing Black people demean the Palestinian cause and ahistorically accuse all of them of being anti-Black racists, actually saying that everybody is an anti-Black racist, and that Black people have no friends and no reason to to be in alignment with anyone else anywhere else in the world. Is this new? I don’t recall voices like this being so prominent. What do you think is behind this new narrative?
Ajamu Baraka: You know, Margaret, I think it is relatively new and is I think reflective of a certain kind of political and ideological trajectory that we’ve seen emerge over the last few decades beginning in the 1970s. Even though the “civil rights,” Black Liberation and anti-Vietnam war movements emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, the state launched its most sustained and coherent counter revolutionary and counter insurgency strategy against the “new left” but primarily the Black liberation movement in the 1970s. The Black liberation movement was subjected to, of course, violent repression, but the ideological component, the ideological and the cultural component of that suppression took on very sophisticated forms in the 1970s.
The objectives in the 1970s were primarily ideological and cultural. The main task for the state, as they saw it, was to create the conditions in which there’ll never be a repeat of the generation that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s that rocked the entire world. And they have been fairly successful in undermining the continuity of Black struggle in the U.S., the Black radical struggle, ensuring that there was an effective, what I call Americanization of the African in the U.S., with the result being that there are Black folks who are more American, who identify with the so-called American experience, than with the African and colonial experience that has really informed our existence in this country and around the world.
The other element that capped off this process of Americanization, politically and culturally and ideologically, was the ascendancy of Barack Obama beginning in 2008. In that last vestiges of critical thought of this survivalist ability of Black people to separate themselves from the perspectives and positions of white America and the American state. Always being suspicious of moves made by the American state, especially as it related to other people of color. That suspicion was almost completely eliminated. There was this wholesale identification with the U.S. state, people proudly embracing their “Americanism.” And Barack Obama led our people to some of the most backward political positions ever held by Black people in this country. Barack Obama was able to carry out criminal activity that could not have been carried out by a white leader, like the attack on Libya, the expansion of the U.S. Africa Command, AFRICOM, that had just been put in place a few months before he took power, an expansion that saw the U.S. military footprint on the African continent increased by 1,900% . The 2,400% expansion of the Department of Defense 1033 program, the program responsible for shifting military grade weapons from the military to police forces across the country, resulting in their military enhancement.
These are moves that could not have been made without significant opposition from Black folks, if they had been attempted by a white politician. So this sort of move toward a more conservatism among Black folks was the foundation that was laid. Connected to that was in the emergence of this philosophical political framework referred to as Afropessimism.
This framework has been one of the most detrimental frames that I think has ever emerged among Black folks, because using this frame, where, as you said in your intro, everyone is supposed to be anti-Black, including other colonized people. And so therefore the ability to empathize with other colonized people, to stand in solidarity with them, to build the kinds of coalitions we used to build as a normal part of the Black radical tradition has been undermined by the popularity of this frame. Emerging first in academia, where most of this backwardness develops, it then bleeds into our movement spaces.
So that you have young folks, new to the movement, not very well grounded in the radical history of our movement, not understanding the concept of internationalism, embracing this nonsense that politically and ideologically, has us trapped in a corner and with nowhere to go, with no allies, and therefore the only route that can be taken is to beg white folks, for example, for “reparations.” There’s no no desire to build movement, because it can’t be built. There’s no attempt to try to change the world, because, as Frank Wilderson, one of the creators of this psy-op, claims that the only way that you can deal with the ongoing and unrelenting racism of white folks is for the world to end.
And so this kind of petty bourgeois passivity and resignation has become part of the discourse among some elements in the Black community. So this move toward criticizing and rejecting Kamala Harris because she’s not black, or suggesting that there’s no affinity with Palestinians who are being slaughtered by the U.S. state is just the latest manifestation of this kind of political backwardness that has gained a bit of a foothold in our community.
Some who identify as Afropessimist try to disassociate themselves from this new reactionary development. But it is disingenuous for the proponents of Afropessimism to pretend that there is no connection between Wilderson’s Afropessimism creation and the right-wing positions of ADOS. The ADOS movement and its pork-chop nationalist positions on Palestine, immigrants and non-Black coalitional politics represent a natural rightist logic of Afropessimism presumptions and worldviews.
MK: You know, Ajamu, one of the things I find most interesting about this ideology is that in order to believe in it, you have to separate our experience here from everything else that happens in the world, including things that the state here carries out around the world. So we have people who believe that the same state that carries out a genocide in Gaza will, for some reason, decide to do right by Black people and pay us reparations. It’s just illogical to me, but that is a central part of this ideology.
AB: It really is. It’s really irrational in some ways. Now we understand that the reparations demand is a legitimate demand being made by African peoples and other indigenous peoples here in the Americas and on the African continent. It emanates from very real historical realities that emerged as a consequence of the peoples of Europe that became “white” spilling out of Europe into the Americas, beginning in 1492 and the subsequent creation of what we refer to today as Western civilization and the West. That power dynamic between the “West” and the rest of us is what shapes contemporary social, national and most importantly, economic relations. It was the creation of the West, a parasitic process that came at the expense of peoples of the global South, their freedom, development, and humanity.
This oppressive power dynamic is the basis of the solidarity work that all of us have been involved in over the decades as part of the Black radical tradition. But this kind of understanding of the centrality of internationalism, an internationalism driven by an understanding of the interconnectedness of the struggles against Western colonial/capitalist domination no longer occupies a prominent place among contemporary activists or the general Black population. This is because of the lack of continuity in our movement and resistance work. Consequently, not only is the general public largely unaware of this tradition, younger people coming into movement spaces have a very underdeveloped awareness of elements of the Black radical tradition. And when you have that sort of political vacuum, then all kinds of mischievous ideological formulations can get a foothold.
One of the consequences of this, which makes it new, is that part of embracing this concept, for example with the Palestinians, there’s no connection to their struggle and ours, is that it results in people taking positions that are fundamentally immoral. Here we see the U.S. state supporting the fascists in Israel engaging in racist terror in Gaza, murdering primarily women and children, starving people to death, raping both women and men, denying them medical care.
This is one of the most egregious and outrageous developments we have seen in the post war period, and is being live streamed for Black folks. We have never stood on the side of the oppressor in that way, this notion that there’s no connection, and therefore no concern, is basically an immoral position. In fact, I would argue that is an anti-Black position that’s not part of our tradition at all.
There is a new political tendency in the U.S. that captures this backwards sentiment – the “American Descendants of Slaves,”(ADOS). These individuals embody the devastating impact of the racist colonial experience in the U.S. in which their identification with the “master” is total. They are in effect still slaves or at best dark skinned white folks. In fact, cracker white folks, because in their attitudes and their worldviews, they sound just like them in their their attitudes toward migrants who’ve been forced to come to the U.S. as a consequence of the U.S. destroying the economies of peoples here in the Americas, their position on the suffering of Palestinians, their hyper identification with their relationship to the U.S. state, their inability to identify with Africa and being an African, but their embrace of “Americanism” and America, which, in my estimation is white nationalism.
So these are phenomenal political trajectories. They have never been part of our tradition. In fact, as I said, it’s anti-Black. But the other element too, with this Afropessimist phenomenon, is that, in some ways, it is so typically, “American”, and is very U.S. centric. It’s a form of intellectual imperialism that exceptionalizes the U.S. Black experience, and then attempts to universalize that experience onto the rest of the African world.
It posits that the experiences of Black people in the U.S. represents something unique. That enslavement and the colonial process during the post-slave period we were subjected to is in some way fundamentally different fromthe enslavement and colonial experience of the African people throughout the African world. And part of that motivation we all understand is this, I think, the irrational belief that, as you said in your question, that a system, a society, that can rationalize the wholesale murder of a non-white population in Gaza is somehow going to turn around and do right, if you will, with African people in the U.S. by giving them cash reparations.
This position has moved the reparation demand from a progressive position to a position that is now much more dubious, and perhaps, even reactionary because of that demand being captured by these right-wing elements. Unless radical Black forces are able to recapture and define reparations progressively, the demand has the possibility of becoming a real detriment for radical work in the U.S. It is starting to be used as a weapon to undermine our political oppositionality in this country, because it is starting to mean that we have a stake in the continuation of the U.S. state in order for us to get our money! Articulated by these right-wing ADOS elements, the demand suggests the belief that the enemy can repair you, that some money in your pocket is somehow going to offset the centuries of exploitation and oppression, and the cost of that is to identify with the American state, as opposed to identifying with the oppressed around the world that are still being destroyed by the same American state that these elements so fervently identify with.
MK: I saw something on the X platform, Twitter, a post from Iddo Moed , who is Israel’s ambassador to Canada. So now we have Israeli officials weighing in on this issue, and he said, “Demanding black Americans to stand up for Palestinians is absurd in so many ways. Read why.” And then we see comments from someone named David Saranga , who is from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a former ambassador to Romania, Director of the Digital Diplomacy Bureau. In other words, I would say, head propagandist, making very racist statements about Arab people, condemning them by saying they had slavery, they did. But he doesn’t mention European slavery, for some reason. But at any rate, he is backing up these people who are telling us that we should not have solidarity with Palestine. And this is not really surprising, but it tells us how dangerous this new narrative is.
AB: It really does, and it should cause people who are trying to be critical, people who still have some degree of a critical faculty to question their political and ideological position. It’s the same message we have for elements of the broader left when they continue to find themselves on the same side of U.S. imperialism on various Issues and subjects from Nicaragua to Ukraine. When these ADOS forces, when these Black- “white nationalists” find themselves being appealed to and in alignment with Israeli fascists, then it should be something that would cause them to pause and maybe at least attempt to rethink their positions.
But of course, they don’t, because there’s not a historical grounding in their positions. There’s not any ideological substance to it. In fact, because they are so disconnected from the Black radical tradition, they don’t even understand that it was in the U.S. that the revolutionary pan Africanist movement really emerged before it moved to the African continent. They’re completely disconnected from that. There’s no understanding among these forces of the reality of colonialism and why part of the Black radical tradition always connected the struggle against racial oppression in the U.S. with the anti-colonial struggle globally. There’s no understanding of that, and therefore that’s why they take these backward political positions, and that’s how such a reactionary framework like this Afropessimism can, in fact, take hold and fundamentally confuse people and undermine the kind of traditional leadership role that Africans in the U.S. (Black people) have played at phases of history as part of the global anti- colonial struggles.
The ADOS folks have no understanding of the kind of solidarity that has been expressed toward struggles in the U.S. They have no understanding of the significance of a Kwame Nkrumah going to an HBCU in the U.S. and then ending up as the first President of Ghana, or even Namdi Azikiwe, who also attended HBCUs and became Nigeria’s first president, the role of a WEB Dubois, Queen Mother Moore, Claudia Jones, the African Blood Brotherhood, and even someone like Malcolm. The Afropessimists will argue that they understand the role of Africans in the U.S. in global struggles but that it is the unprincipled appropriation of Black energy in “other” struggle that is the problem. And here again lies the link between Afropessimism and ADOS and the degeneration of Black politics in the U.S.
Afropessimists and their ADOS offshoots are so deluded in their thinking that for them and their aggressive identification with the U.S., they have come up with a theory of blackness and anti-Blackness in which everybody non-Black is or potentially anti-Black. If you can’t trace your lineage to what they call foundational Black folks in the U.S., then, as Biden told Charlamagne tha God, you ain’t really Black. Therefore, even someone like Malcolm, whose mother was from Grenada, wouldn’t qualify as Black according to this framework that they operate from. This is the kind of backwardness that we see, and that’s the kind of backwardness that racist fascist like the Israelis see as an entry point to continue spreading the confusion, and that’s why we can’t play with this movement.
Luckily, this tendency still represents a minority tendency in our people, but we can no longer ignore them. This anti-Black tendency has to be directly confronted. And, you know, we’ve been engaged in conversation with some of them, and they’ve been coming after me, but I’m fully prepared to deal with the conversation, because some of them can be won back. They’re just confused. They have no real foundation. But the main thing that I’m confronting is this immorality. Black people never, have never supported genocide. We’ve never stood on the side of these forces that are responsible for the massive death and destruction throughout the so-called Middle East or West Asia and Africa. We’ve always been a force that understood that because of our own experiences, we had a sensitivity to oppression. We’ve always stood with the oppressed. This phenomenon represented by these individuals is essentially anti-Black.
MK: And lastly, let’s talk about what’s going on now between the U.S. and Israel. Secretary of State Blinken, is in Israel now on one of their phony ceasefire negotiations. The only ceasefire that can come about is for the U.S. to stop arming Israel, but they simultaneously say they will never do that. Biden has said that. Kamala Harris has said that. So any talk of ceasefire
is phony, but the Democratic National Convention is going on now, and I’m guessing that’s part of the impetus for doing this is to give the impression that there is going to be some change in U.S. foreign policy vis a vis Israel, when no such thing is going to happen. What are your thoughts on these public relations stunts and the movement against Israeli war crimes?
AB: It is fundamentally immoral, the kind of game that’s being played at the expense of Palestinian lives. As soon as the Frenchman, Antony Blinken, announced that he was going back to Israel again. I knew that the jig was up that they were going to meet with Netanyahu, and they were going to agree to the so called Bridging Proposal, which is nothing more than the introduction of new elements into the negotiation that went beyond the agreement that the Hamas and Palestinian leadership embraced back in May, the framework that was advanced by the Biden administration. And it was the Netanyahu government that began to put, you know, new elements into the game, because they don’t want to see any kind of ceasefire. They want to maintain control of the Gaza Strip. And that is reflected in the elements that were part of the so-called Bridging Proposal. They want to remain. They want to control the Rafah crossing. They want to control the Philadelphi corridor, the strip along the border between Gaza and Egypt. They even want to have an IDF presence in what is known as the Netzarim Junction, a corridor between southern and northern Gaza in which, if people are allowed to go back to Northern Gaza, to reoccupy the destroyed northern Gaza, the ruins that used to be their houses and communities, the Israelis want to be able to, in essence, screen and search everyone moving from the South back to the North. Continuing the degradation and undignified treatment of Palestinians before they are allowed to go to Northern Gaza.
The Palestinian resistance under the leadership of Hamas, have rejected those as non-starters. But now Antony Blinken says it is on Hamas to basically accept this “Bridging Proposal,” and if they don’t accept it, then basically, then they’ll be blamed for the collapse of the talks. It is fundamentally immoral. It is a game, a game that is really quite troubling. And turning to the gathering of democrats in Chicago related to this issue, it’s not just ADOS that’s implicated in the whitewashing of U.S. criminology and the support of Netanyahu and the fascists in Israel. It is the broader Black community also that votes Democrat. Black democrats, many who are now party bosses, are celebrating their new found unity at the expense of the people of Palestine. They want to avoid the issue of the Biden/Harris administration giving active support to a racialized genocide. Harris pretends to have more concern for the people of Gaza but her administration continues to send weapons of mass destruction to Israel to use against an oppressed, occupied people whose only crime is that the Israeli colonists want their land.
This is something we can’t we can’t allow to to go forward without critique, you know, and we don’t need to care about what the consequences of that might be in terms of who gets elected, who gets a chance to sit in the white people’s house, because the Democrats or the Republicans, vis a vis the Palestinian issue, there’s no difference between those two positions. Both are hawkish. Both are abetting criminality, and so therefore we should not give our vote, which means our consent to the immoral and criminal activity of this administration.
However, people are supposed to forget about the slaughter in Gaza for the greater good of the party. Just embrace the Democrats and this new phony generation of hope being fueled by the bourgeois press around Kamala Harris, who nobody really knows what she stands for. It is outrageous, immoral.
Kwame Ture reminded us that whenever you talk about the contradictions of the people but you don’t mention the role of the enemy in producing those contradictions you will always end-up blaming the people and diverting attention away from machinations of the colonial/capitalist system.
The immorality and opportunism of ADOS has its foundation in the bazaar and afro-American ( I used afro intentionally) elitist formulations of Afropessimism. But is not just Black folks who identify with ADOS that represent the success of the state’s counterrevolutionary efforts, it is also reflected in the millions of our folks who are ready to deny the moral culpability of the democrats with the racist rampage being waged by the Israeli fascists in Gaze. The racist “othering” of Palestinians by Black folks in the U.S. is a new phenomenon. One that must be aggressively confronted if we are to save the soul and sanity of our people in this wasteland called the United States of America.
It is still possible to win our folks back to themselves and to rebuild a politics of resistance informed by a vision of a new world in which all forms of exploitation and oppression are defeated.
Authentic revolutionaries embrace that spirit of optimism. This approach distinguishes us from the cynicism of the bourgeoisie and the despair and resignation of the petit-bourgeois Frank Wildersons of the world.
MK: Thank you so much. Ajamu, we will have to continue our conversations as this campaign season moves forward.
AB: Thank you.
Ajamu Baraka is the Chairman of the Coordinating Committee of the Black Alliance for Peace and an editor and contributing columnist for the Black Agenda Report. Baraka serves on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Peace Council and leadership body of the U.S.-based United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC) and the Steering Committee of the Black is Back Coalition.
Margaret Kimberley is the author of Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents . You can support her work on Patreon and also find it on the Twitter , Bluesky , and Telegram platforms. She can be reached via email at margaret dot kimberley at blackagendareport.com.

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#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag @[email protected] · 2024-01-29 · 11:22 UTC

CW: COMMUNITY NORMS - SIMILAR TO #QOTO PROBABLY...

COMMUNITY NORMS - SIMILAR TO #QOTO OR CAN BE USED FROM
(Originally for racial healing events and activities)
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Our primary commitment is to learn from each other. We will listen to each other and not talk at each other. We welcome differences amongst us in backgrounds, skills, interests, and values.
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Assume good intentions; but recognize impact; and emergently respond to harm.
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Debate ideas, not the individual sharing the idea or practice.
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Engage tension but do so with loving kindness to others & to self.
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Step Up & Step Back. Be mindful of taking up much more space than others. On the same note, empower yourself to speak up when others are dominating the conversation.
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Respect others' points of view (even when you think and believe differently).
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Prioritize confidentiality. Share the lesson; hold the identity/story (What's said here stays here). Obtain consent.
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Be a charitable listener. assume all you engage with have something to teach you.
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Speak openly to your experiences, values, & perspectives.
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Source: “Racial Healing Retreat” led by Kimberlee Yolanda Williams
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Kathy Reid @[email protected] · 2022-11-08 · 06:18 UTC

Good evening #folx, and welcome to today's edition of Kathy's #connectionlist #connection #introduction, where I curate a collection of interesting people and surface them - to connect us all more richly and deeply on the #Fediverse.
@pbone is a Mozillian and I'll be forever grateful to him and the Aussie team who made me so welcome as a part-timer. Thank you, Paul! 🇦🇺
@venessap is another #Geelong lady and she's also a #PhD candidate and she's a #moderation and #governance specialist 🇦🇺
@judy2k is class all the way down! Jk, jk, but that is one of my favourite presentations of his. You can catch it here:
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I met @gavintapp through the #opendata and #govhack communities - and he's into #data 🇦🇺
@rana is new to #Mastodon and I'd like everyone to say hello and make her feel welcome, please. Welcome, Rana! 👋
@pdcawley has a mighty fine #beard and they are a #folk singer #folksinging. They are also into #bread and #breadmaking. This means they have enough points to become an honorary Melbourne / Naarm person. There's a points system :-) 🇬🇧
@kimberlee is a Professor of #law in #Sydney and a long-time friend of the Aussie #opensource community 🇦🇺
@joncruz is amazing and if you've ever used #Inkscape you have Jon to thank. Thank you so much, Jon! Hope you're well! 🇺🇸
That's all for tonight, but I'll do a list every day until ... well until we don't need to 👋

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abolitionmedia @[email protected] · 2026-05-20 · 05:55 UTC

Betrayal in Venezuela

On May 16, 2026, Alex Saab, once a diplomat serving Venezuela who had already suffered imprisonment at the hands of the United States, was turned over to the United States once again. Interim president Delcy Rodriguez’s action against Saab was one of treachery and should be referred to as such. The pain of seeing the Bolivarian revolution being picked apart by Donald Trump with the help of some willing participants in Venezuela is devastating to anyone who supported the rights of sovereignty and self-determination for that country and its people. That pain must be acknowledged and expressed, but it cannot turn into a denial of what we are witnessing. It is clear that there has been a high-level betrayal of Chavismo and the Bolivarian revolution, and the evidence cannot be ignored any longer.
Alex Saab was serving as a Venezuelan diplomat in 2020 when the maximum pressure campaign of unilateral coercive measures deprived Venezuela of the ability to provide food for its people. Saab traveled internationally, repeatedly to Iran, in order to break this sanctions blockade. On one of those trips on June 12, 2020, his plane stopped in Cabo Verde, an island nation located off the west coast of Africa, to refuel, and he was arrested on orders of the United States and in violation of Cabo Verde law.
Saab’s rights of diplomatic immunity were violated first by Trump and then by the Joe Biden administration, which kidnapped him again in 2021 and sent him to Miami, Florida, to face U.S. charges. After three long years of captivity, Biden granted Saab clemency and freed him as part of a prisoner swap in December 2023, and he returned to Venezuela. But as fate would have it, he still was not safe.
Saab, like Rodriguez and other Venezuelan officials, is under U.S. indictment. The use of lawfare has been perfected by this second Trump administration, and President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, First Combatant Cilia Flores, are being held in a New York City jail as a result. The U.S. had no right to kidnap Saab in 2020, to send him to the U.S. in 2021 or to send him back again. The U.S. has no right to kidnap the Maduro and Flores either. These prosecutions violate international law and are even dubious under U.S. law. But if no one confronts the U.S. forcefully, any such rules aren’t worth the paper they are written on.
The question of this latest violation of Saab’s rights raises a bigger question about who is running Venezuela. Delcy Rodriguez is the nominal head of state, but she is following Washington’s orders. The January 3, 2026, kidnapping of Maduro and Flores has created a very strange situation. On that day, there was a firefight with U.S. forces that killed 32 of the Cubans who protected Maduro. Although the large-scale invasion that was feared didn’t take place, the end result is the same because Washington is calling the shots in the capital city of Caracas.
The U.S. strategy of removing Maduro and then having a compliant successor do its bidding was an act of evil genius. Now, Trump brags about Venezuela becoming the 51st state. He does not mean that literally of course. He wouldn’t make millions of Black and brown Venezuelans U.S. citizens, but the point is clear. The U.S. is stealing Venezuela’s oil revenue and preventing any of its oil from reaching Cuba and China, too. Every U.S. proposal for neo-liberal “reform” is being enacted by the new Venezuelan state while meetings with CIA officials publicly take place in Caracas.
In the wake of the January 3rd kidnapping, there was much debate about whether Maduro had been betrayed in a deal with the U.S. and, if so, by whom. Most conjecture pointed to Delcy Rodriguez as the perpetrator but the answer to that question is not and perhaps will never be known. In any case, such a question leads nowhere and isn’t the issue that should be pondered at this moment.
The issue is not about any individual but about the Bolivarian revolution and whether or not high-ranking officials in the United Socialist Party (PSUV) were actually still in support of it. Years of maximum pressure devastated Venezuela’s infrastructure, healthcare system, and most importantly its oil production. The constant pressure of fighting the U.S. hegemon is one that can only be withstood by true revolutionaries. If no one truly fits that description, the day comes when a critical mass heads for the exits, succumbs to the U.S., and little by little begins dismantling Chavismo.
Anti-imperialists are justified in feeling sadness or anger while watching the project they defended for many years being destroyed. But denials and refusals to name what is playing out before our eyes are not justified and do nothing to help the Venezuelan people, who are at Washington’s mercy.
It was rumored as early as February that Saab was in custody. No one can say why the U.S. chose to move when it did, but the Rodriguez government has been working to give an appearance of normalcy while also carrying out Washington’s wishes. The betrayal of Saab will go down in history as a turning point, which makes it harder to ignore the obvious. The rationales for the treachery were odd. Contradictory statements describe both a deportation and an extradition. First, it was said that he was a Colombian citizen and not a Venezuelan. If so, it is difficult to explain how a non-citizen represented Venezuela internationally or why he wasn’t sent to Colombia instead of to the U.S. Also, Venezuela has no extradition treaty with the U.S., which makes that explanation a lie as well.
The rhetorical contortions show that the game is up. Anti-imperialists may feel a sense of loss as they watch the state they once defended now take part in deception against its own people. The only thing worse than that is self-deception, which too many leftists have engaged in ever since January 3rd. It is time to shake out the cobwebs and ask very simple questions. Why would the U.S. kidnap the president and then allow Venezuela to act on its own behalf? It is absurd to think that such a scenario might be true. Snatching two people while seeming to leave the state intact was a very shrewd move that ensured U.S. control without incurring the political risks that come with war and invasion.
Cuba is also under threat from the U.S. The latest iteration of the 60-year-long blockade has cut off its oil supply. There is scarce gasoline and electricity, and Cubans from infancy to old age are dying as a result. The Trump administration has indicted 94-year-old Raúl Castro as well. Like Venezuela, Cuba is told that giving up its revolution will result in the resumption of aid and fuel.
It cannot and should not be denied that the U.S. has secured long-held plans to cut off energy to China and to destroy socialist nations in this hemisphere. But recognition of those facts requires truthfulness on the part of anti-imperialists. Alex Saab being sent to the U.S. gulag makes a mockery of any efforts to explain away what the current Venezuelan government is doing to its people.
The situation is dire, and that means serious analysis, not wishful thinking, is the order of the day for anyone claiming to be an anti-imperialist. Not only is Saab once again in U.S. hands, but the corporate media smear him by referring to him as a money launderer, a “bagman,” and a billionaire tycoon, spreading every war propaganda narrative from the Trump administration. The moment is indeed disheartening, but like every other difficult moment, it must be confronted as it is.
The questions are serious and hard to answer for those who are not in Venezuela, but perhaps international supporters are not the people whose guidance should be sought after. The people of Venezuela will ultimately decide what to do about the traitors in their midst. The decades of support for their struggle has to continue with honesty and humility. Venezuelans have acted on their own behalf in the past, such as undoing a 2002 military coup against Hugo Chavez in just two days.
Those in the “belly of the beast” also have a hard task ahead. What have our years of support and visits to Venezuela amounted to? Most USians are convinced that Nicolas Maduro is a drug dealer and they think that is true because that is what they have been told over and over again. The same people who might oppose an invasion are nonchalant if their government undermines another and causes suffering in the process. That acceptance of human rights violations is an indication that our work is not done.
Regardless of how we proceed outside of Venezuela, we must admit that the current state has, at the very least, chosen the path of least resistance and is merely performing as it claims to uphold its sovereignty. It would be very tragic if supporters of the Venezuelan people also engaged in performance instead of acting upon what is obviously true. But the betrayal does not have to be permanent. What kind of struggle are we willing to undertake alongside the Venezuelan people? The answer to that question will determine how long Venezuela will live under imperialist control.
Margaret Kimberley is the author of Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents. You can support her work on Patreon and also find it on Twitter, Bluesky, and Telegram platforms. She can be reached via email at [email protected].
source: Black Agenda Report
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abolitionmedia @[email protected] · 2026-05-20 · 05:55 UTC

Betrayal in Venezuela

On May 16, 2026, Alex Saab, once a diplomat serving Venezuela who had already suffered imprisonment at the hands of the United States, was turned over to the United States once again. Interim president Delcy Rodriguez’s action against Saab was one of treachery and should be referred to as such. The pain of seeing the Bolivarian revolution being picked apart by Donald Trump with the help of some willing participants in Venezuela is devastating to anyone who supported the rights of sovereignty and self-determination for that country and its people. That pain must be acknowledged and expressed, but it cannot turn into a denial of what we are witnessing. It is clear that there has been a high-level betrayal of Chavismo and the Bolivarian revolution, and the evidence cannot be ignored any longer.
Alex Saab was serving as a Venezuelan diplomat in 2020 when the maximum pressure campaign of unilateral coercive measures deprived Venezuela of the ability to provide food for its people. Saab traveled internationally, repeatedly to Iran, in order to break this sanctions blockade. On one of those trips on June 12, 2020, his plane stopped in Cabo Verde, an island nation located off the west coast of Africa, to refuel, and he was arrested on orders of the United States and in violation of Cabo Verde law.
Saab’s rights of diplomatic immunity were violated first by Trump and then by the Joe Biden administration, which kidnapped him again in 2021 and sent him to Miami, Florida, to face U.S. charges. After three long years of captivity, Biden granted Saab clemency and freed him as part of a prisoner swap in December 2023, and he returned to Venezuela. But as fate would have it, he still was not safe.
Saab, like Rodriguez and other Venezuelan officials, is under U.S. indictment. The use of lawfare has been perfected by this second Trump administration, and President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, First Combatant Cilia Flores, are being held in a New York City jail as a result. The U.S. had no right to kidnap Saab in 2020, to send him to the U.S. in 2021 or to send him back again. The U.S. has no right to kidnap the Maduro and Flores either. These prosecutions violate international law and are even dubious under U.S. law. But if no one confronts the U.S. forcefully, any such rules aren’t worth the paper they are written on.
The question of this latest violation of Saab’s rights raises a bigger question about who is running Venezuela. Delcy Rodriguez is the nominal head of state, but she is following Washington’s orders. The January 3, 2026, kidnapping of Maduro and Flores has created a very strange situation. On that day, there was a firefight with U.S. forces that killed 32 of the Cubans who protected Maduro. Although the large-scale invasion that was feared didn’t take place, the end result is the same because Washington is calling the shots in the capital city of Caracas.
The U.S. strategy of removing Maduro and then having a compliant successor do its bidding was an act of evil genius. Now, Trump brags about Venezuela becoming the 51st state. He does not mean that literally of course. He wouldn’t make millions of Black and brown Venezuelans U.S. citizens, but the point is clear. The U.S. is stealing Venezuela’s oil revenue and preventing any of its oil from reaching Cuba and China, too. Every U.S. proposal for neo-liberal “reform” is being enacted by the new Venezuelan state while meetings with CIA officials publicly take place in Caracas.
In the wake of the January 3rd kidnapping, there was much debate about whether Maduro had been betrayed in a deal with the U.S. and, if so, by whom. Most conjecture pointed to Delcy Rodriguez as the perpetrator but the answer to that question is not and perhaps will never be known. In any case, such a question leads nowhere and isn’t the issue that should be pondered at this moment.
The issue is not about any individual but about the Bolivarian revolution and whether or not high-ranking officials in the United Socialist Party (PSUV) were actually still in support of it. Years of maximum pressure devastated Venezuela’s infrastructure, healthcare system, and most importantly its oil production. The constant pressure of fighting the U.S. hegemon is one that can only be withstood by true revolutionaries. If no one truly fits that description, the day comes when a critical mass heads for the exits, succumbs to the U.S., and little by little begins dismantling Chavismo.
Anti-imperialists are justified in feeling sadness or anger while watching the project they defended for many years being destroyed. But denials and refusals to name what is playing out before our eyes are not justified and do nothing to help the Venezuelan people, who are at Washington’s mercy.
It was rumored as early as February that Saab was in custody. No one can say why the U.S. chose to move when it did, but the Rodriguez government has been working to give an appearance of normalcy while also carrying out Washington’s wishes. The betrayal of Saab will go down in history as a turning point, which makes it harder to ignore the obvious. The rationales for the treachery were odd. Contradictory statements describe both a deportation and an extradition. First, it was said that he was a Colombian citizen and not a Venezuelan. If so, it is difficult to explain how a non-citizen represented Venezuela internationally or why he wasn’t sent to Colombia instead of to the U.S. Also, Venezuela has no extradition treaty with the U.S., which makes that explanation a lie as well.
The rhetorical contortions show that the game is up. Anti-imperialists may feel a sense of loss as they watch the state they once defended now take part in deception against its own people. The only thing worse than that is self-deception, which too many leftists have engaged in ever since January 3rd. It is time to shake out the cobwebs and ask very simple questions. Why would the U.S. kidnap the president and then allow Venezuela to act on its own behalf? It is absurd to think that such a scenario might be true. Snatching two people while seeming to leave the state intact was a very shrewd move that ensured U.S. control without incurring the political risks that come with war and invasion.
Cuba is also under threat from the U.S. The latest iteration of the 60-year-long blockade has cut off its oil supply. There is scarce gasoline and electricity, and Cubans from infancy to old age are dying as a result. The Trump administration has indicted 94-year-old Raúl Castro as well. Like Venezuela, Cuba is told that giving up its revolution will result in the resumption of aid and fuel.
It cannot and should not be denied that the U.S. has secured long-held plans to cut off energy to China and to destroy socialist nations in this hemisphere. But recognition of those facts requires truthfulness on the part of anti-imperialists. Alex Saab being sent to the U.S. gulag makes a mockery of any efforts to explain away what the current Venezuelan government is doing to its people.
The situation is dire, and that means serious analysis, not wishful thinking, is the order of the day for anyone claiming to be an anti-imperialist. Not only is Saab once again in U.S. hands, but the corporate media smear him by referring to him as a money launderer, a “bagman,” and a billionaire tycoon, spreading every war propaganda narrative from the Trump administration. The moment is indeed disheartening, but like every other difficult moment, it must be confronted as it is.
The questions are serious and hard to answer for those who are not in Venezuela, but perhaps international supporters are not the people whose guidance should be sought after. The people of Venezuela will ultimately decide what to do about the traitors in their midst. The decades of support for their struggle has to continue with honesty and humility. Venezuelans have acted on their own behalf in the past, such as undoing a 2002 military coup against Hugo Chavez in just two days.
Those in the “belly of the beast” also have a hard task ahead. What have our years of support and visits to Venezuela amounted to? Most USians are convinced that Nicolas Maduro is a drug dealer and they think that is true because that is what they have been told over and over again. The same people who might oppose an invasion are nonchalant if their government undermines another and causes suffering in the process. That acceptance of human rights violations is an indication that our work is not done.
Regardless of how we proceed outside of Venezuela, we must admit that the current state has, at the very least, chosen the path of least resistance and is merely performing as it claims to uphold its sovereignty. It would be very tragic if supporters of the Venezuelan people also engaged in performance instead of acting upon what is obviously true. But the betrayal does not have to be permanent. What kind of struggle are we willing to undertake alongside the Venezuelan people? The answer to that question will determine how long Venezuela will live under imperialist control.
Margaret Kimberley is the author of Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents. You can support her work on Patreon and also find it on Twitter, Bluesky, and Telegram platforms. She can be reached via email at [email protected].
source: Black Agenda Report
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Panethos @[email protected] · 2025-09-01 · 18:45 UTC
States with the most “City” communities
Source: garden-city.org
Listed below are the states with the most communities that include “city” in their name. This includes cities, towns, villages, hamlets, municipalities, unincorporated places, and census designated places. It does not include ghost towns, townships nor equivalent “towns” in Wisconsin, New York and elsewhere.
When one thinks about it, the popularity of Garden City makes sense given humans love living in scenic and/or bucolic locations. What name epitomizes those feelings better? Also among the top ten “city” names are Lake City and Forest City. Peace!
Source: townofgardencity.com
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Leading states:
- Texas = 54
- Illinois = 51
- Missouri = 40
- Florida and Michigan = 38 each
- Iowa = 34
- California = 29
- Indiana = 27
- Kansas and Oklahoma = 26 each
Source: gardencityidaho.org
Most common “city” names or variations:
- Garden City = 16
- Lake City = 12
- Junction City = 11
- Union City = 10
- Forest City = 8
- Central City, Oil City, Silver City, White(s) = 7 each
Source: gardencitymi.org
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ALABAMA = 11
Alexander City, Dodge City, Frisco City, Garden City, Hobson City, Midland City, Morgan City, Pell City, Phenix City, Rainbow City, and Sardis City
ALASKA = 0
ARIZONA = 13
Arizona City, Black Canyon City, Bullhead City, Central Heights-Midland City, Circle City, Colorado City, Huachuca City, Joseph City, Lake Havasu City, Rainbow City, Sun City, Sun City West, and Tuba City
ARKANSAS = 11
Arkansas City, Bluff City, Buffalo City, Cave City, Central City, Cherokee City, Diamond City, Forrest City, Junction City, Lake City, and Star City
CALIFORNIA = 29
Amador City, Big Bear City, Brandy City, Butte City, California City, Cathedral City, Cave City, City of Industry, Crescent City, Culver City, Daly City, Foster City, Holy City, King City, Lake City, Marin City, Montgomery City, National City, Nevada City, Oil City, Queen City, Redwood City, Sand City, South Yuba City, Spicer City, Suisun City, Temple City, Union City, and Yuba City
COLORADO = 10
Adams City, Canon City, Central City, Colorado City, Commerce City, Garden City, Lake City, Ohio City, Orchard City, and Sugar City
CONNECTICUT = 1
Jewett City
DELAWARE = 0
FLORIDA = 38
Amelia City, Angel City, Cooper City, Crescent City, Cross City, Dade City, Dade City North, Dickerson City, Everglades City, Floral City, Florida City, Forest City, Greenacres City, Grove City, Haines City, Highland City, Highlands City, Intercession City, Jacob City, Kenneth City, Lake City, Leisure City, Little Lake City, Miles City, Myakka City, Ocean City, Orange City, Palm City, Palm River-Clair-Mel City, Panama City, Panama City Beach, Plant City, Polk City, St. James City, Sun City, Sun City Center, and White City (2)
GEORGIA = 15
Garden City, Iron City, Junction City, Lake City, Lumber City, Mountain City, Peachtree City, Pebble City, Pecan City, Ray City, Sale City, Silver City, Tate City, Twin City, and Union City
HAWAII = 2
Lanai City and Pearl City
IDAHO = 6
Butte City, Elk City, Garden City, Idaho City, Malad City, and Sugar City
ILLINOIS = 51
Bay City, Bayle City, Beecher City, Bluff City (2), Calumet City, Central City, Clay City, Coal City, Crescent City, Dallas City, Dalton City, Fairmont City, Farmer City, Forest City, Future City, Gibson City, Granite City, Grove City, Hanna City, Hervey City, Hunt City, Illinois City, Johnston City, Junction City, Lake City, Mason City, Midland City, Miller City, Monroe City, Mound City, New City, Norris City, North City, Park City, Pearl City, Piper City, Prairie City, Rapids City, Rend City, Rock City, Schram City, Shale City, Shanghai City, Standard City, Star City, Steel City, Texas City, West City, White City, and Yates City
INDIANA = 27
Burns City, Cambridge City, Clay City (2), Coal City, Columbia City, Fountain City, Garden City, Gas City, Grant City, Harris City, Hartford City, Lincoln City, Michigan City, Mineral City, Monroe City, Oakland City, Parker City, Prairie City, Rome City, Saline City, Star City, State Line City, Switz City, Tell City, Union City, and Valley City
IOWA = 34
Albert City, Barnes City, Cedar City, Central City, Charles City, Columbus City, Dakota City, Davis City, Decatur City, Dow City, Forest City, Garden City, Gilmore City, Grant City, Iowa City, La Porte City, Lake City, Maharishi Vedic City, Mason City, May City, Orange City, Polk City, Prairie City, Promise City, Rockwell City, Sac City, Shannon City, Silver City, Sioux City, Stone City, Story City, Swea City, Walnut City, and Webster City
KANSAS = 26
Arkansas City, Baldwin City, Bird City, Bluff City, Bush City, Cawker City, Dodge City, Elk City, Empire City, Forest City, Garden City, Gove City, Hill City, Johnson City, Junction City, Kansas City, Lake City, Mound City, Ness City, Osage City, Page City, Park City, Scott City, Strong City, Sun City, and White City
KENTUCKY = 17
Bell City, Calvert City, Cannel City, Cave City, Central City, Clay City, Elkhorn City, Gold City, Junction City, Lee City, Mining City, Oil City, Park City, Silver City, Sublimity City, White City, and Whitley City
LOUISIANA = 6
Amite City, Bossier City, Bridge City, Junction City, Morgan City, and Oil City
MAINE = 1
Forest City
MARYLAND = 7
Chesapeake City, Cottage City, Ellicott City, Maryland City, Ocean City, Pocomoke City, and West Ocean City
MASSACHUSETTS = 0
MICHIGAN = 38
Barton City, Bay City, Beal City, Boyne City, Brown City, Cass City, Cement City, Copper City, Filer City, Foster City, Garden City, Gould City, Grindstone City, Howard City, Huron City, Imlay City, Kent City, Lake City, Mackinaw City, Maple City, Marine City, Mass City, Minden City, National City, Nessen City, Oil City, Pearl City, Rapid City, Reed City, Rogers City, Rose City, Sherman City, Star City, Summit City, Tamarack City, Tawas City, Traverse City, and Union City
MINNESOTA = 17
Alma City, Big Bend City, Cannon City, Center City, Chisago City, Clara City, Forest City, Garden City, Grove City, Hill City, Holmes City, Illgen City, Lake City, Minnesota City, Murphy City, Pine City, and Rush City
MISSISSIPPI = 5
Calhoun City, Delta City, Morgan City, Silver City, and Yazoo City
MISSOURI = 40
Appleton City, Bates City, Bell City, Benton City, Bragg City, Crystal City, Forest City, Garden City, Gilman City, Golden City, Grant City, Green City, Gunn City, Haywood City, Jefferson City, Junction City, Kansas City, Kimberling City, King City, Kingdom City, Lowry City, Missouri City, Monroe City, Montgomery City, Mound City, Neck City, North Kansas City, Pierce City, Platte City, Queen City, Schell City, Scott City, Southwest City, Stark City, Stotts City, University City, Velda City, Webb City, Wilson City, and Wright City
MONTANA = 7
Cooke City, Jefferson City, Martin City, Miles City, Montana City, Park City, and Virginia City
NEBRASKA = 14
Beaver City, Central City, Dakota City, David City, Falls City, Howard City, Loup City, Mason City, Nebraska City, Pawnee City, Republican City, Rising City, South Sioux City, and Steele City
NEVADA = 5
Boulder City, Carson City, Mountain City, Silver City, and Virginia City
NEW HAMPSHIRE = 0
NEW JERSEY = 14
Atlantic City, Bordentown City, Burlington City, Corbin City, Egg Harbor City, Gloucester City, Jersey City, Margate City, Neptune City, Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Surf City, Union City, and Ventnor City
NEW MEXICO = 5
City of the Sun, Cotton City, Navajo City, Silver City, and Whites City
NEW YORK = 6
Garden City, Garden City Park, Garden City South, Johnson City, New City, and New York City
NORTH CAROLINA = 15
Bessemer City, Boger City, Bryson City, Cove City, Elizabeth City, Elm City, Forest City, James City, Morehead City, Oak City, Siler City, Silver City, Soul City, Surf City, and Tabor City
NORTH DAKOTA = 8
Canton City, Grace City, Michigan City, Pick City, Tower City, Valley City, Watford City, and Willow City
OHIO = 22
Beach City, Cream City, Crown City, Dexter City, Grove City, Holiday City, Jerry City, Jones City, Junction City, Lime City, Lore City, Miller City, Mineral City, Murray City, Ohio City, Oval City, Plain City, Pleasant City, Quaker City, Tipp City, Union City, and Valley City
OKLAHOMA = 26
Boise City, Cimarron City, Cox City, Custer City, Del City, Dill City, Eagle City, Elk City, Elmore City, Empire City, Harden City, Kaw City, Little City, Lost City, Marble City, Midwest City, Oil City, Oklahoma City, Ponca City, Ratliff City, Silver City, Spelter City, Strong City, Union City, Webb City, and Wright City
OREGON = 19
Baker City, Canyon City, Columbia City, Dunes City, Elk City, Falls City, Island City, Johnson City, Junction City, Kansas City, King City, Lincoln City, Mill City, Oregon City, Pacific City, Pelican City, Prairie City, Tri-City, and White City
PENNSYLVANIA = 21
Arnold City, Broad Top City, Central City, Dickson City, Evans City, Fayette City, Ford City, Forest City, Grier City, Grove City, Harrison City, Homer City, James City, Jamison City, Karns City, Lake City, Lumber City, Mahanoy City, Oil City, Spring City, and Union City
RHODE ISLAND = 0
SOUTH CAROLINA = 2
Garden City and Lake City
SOUTH DAKOTA = 10
Big Stone City, Central City, Claire City, Crook City, Garden City, Hill City, Lake City, Mound City, North Sioux City, and Prairie City
TENNESSEE = 14
Ashland City, Bluff City, Cumberland City, Jefferson City, Johnson City, Lenoir City, Maury City, Morrison City, Mountain City, Park City, Spring City, Summer City, Tracy City, and Union City
TEXAS = 54
Archer City, Arthur City, Bay City, Beach City, Bridge City, Caney City, Citrus City, Clarksville City, Close City, Coffee City, Colorado City, Crystal City, Dell City, Denver City, Dodd City, Dogwood City, Falls City, Frankel City, Gary City, Garden City, Gun Barrel City, Haltom City, Horizon City, Jacinto City, Johnson City, Karnes City, Knox City, Lake City, Lake Colorado City, Lakeside City, Lane City, League City, Liberty City, Mirando City, Missouri City, Mobile City, Monroe City, Mound City, Mountain City, Ore City, Pearl City, Post Oak Bend City, Queen City, Rio Grande City, Rose City, Royse City, Selman City, Sterling City, Sullivan City, Texas City, Todd City, Universal City, Warren City, Wolfe City,
UTAH = 13
Bear River City, Brigham City, Bryce Canyon City, Cedar City, Garden City, Heber City, Oak City, Park City, Plain City, Salt Lake City, Spring City, West Valley City, and White City
VERMONT = 0
VIRGINIA = 7
Charles City, Chase City, Dale City, Gate City, Pamplin City, Stephens City, and Weber City
WASHINGTON = 12
Basin City, Bay City, Benton City, Coulee City, Electric City, Elmer City, Fall City, Gould City, Junction City, Navy Yard City, Ocean City, and Royal City
WEST VIRGINIA = 12
Coal City, Cub City, Dupont City, Elk City, Hartford City, Lost City, Mineral City, Paden City, Raymond City, Star City, Sulphur City, and Union City
WISCONSIN = 14
Bay City, Bloom City, Buffalo City, Coral City, Cuba City, Fountain City, Genoa City, Glenwood City, Hager City, Junction City, Marathon City, Oil City, Slab City, and Tunnel City
WYOMING = 2
Atlantic City and Jeffrey City
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SOURCES: en.wikipedia.org for each state – cities, towns, municipalities, census designated places, villages, hamlets, and unincorporated places.
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Panethos @[email protected] · 2025-09-01 · 18:45 UTC
States with the most “City” communities
Source: garden-city.org
Listed below are the states with the most communities that include “city” in their name. This includes cities, towns, villages, hamlets, municipalities, unincorporated places, and census designated places. It does not include ghost towns, townships nor equivalent “towns” in Wisconsin, New York and elsewhere.
When one thinks about it, the popularity of Garden City makes sense given humans love living in scenic and/or bucolic locations. What name epitomizes those feelings better? Also among the top ten “city” names are Lake City and Forest City. Peace!
Source: townofgardencity.com
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Leading states:
- Texas = 54
- Illinois = 51
- Missouri = 40
- Florida and Michigan = 38 each
- Iowa = 34
- California = 29
- Indiana = 27
- Kansas and Oklahoma = 26 each
Source: gardencityidaho.org
Most common “city” names or variations:
- Garden City = 16
- Lake City = 12
- Junction City = 11
- Union City = 10
- Forest City = 8
- Central City, Oil City, Silver City, White(s) = 7 each
Source: gardencitymi.org
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ALABAMA = 11
Alexander City, Dodge City, Frisco City, Garden City, Hobson City, Midland City, Morgan City, Pell City, Phenix City, Rainbow City, and Sardis City
ALASKA = 0
ARIZONA = 13
Arizona City, Black Canyon City, Bullhead City, Central Heights-Midland City, Circle City, Colorado City, Huachuca City, Joseph City, Lake Havasu City, Rainbow City, Sun City, Sun City West, and Tuba City
ARKANSAS = 11
Arkansas City, Bluff City, Buffalo City, Cave City, Central City, Cherokee City, Diamond City, Forrest City, Junction City, Lake City, and Star City
CALIFORNIA = 29
Amador City, Big Bear City, Brandy City, Butte City, California City, Cathedral City, Cave City, City of Industry, Crescent City, Culver City, Daly City, Foster City, Holy City, King City, Lake City, Marin City, Montgomery City, National City, Nevada City, Oil City, Queen City, Redwood City, Sand City, South Yuba City, Spicer City, Suisun City, Temple City, Union City, and Yuba City
COLORADO = 10
Adams City, Canon City, Central City, Colorado City, Commerce City, Garden City, Lake City, Ohio City, Orchard City, and Sugar City
CONNECTICUT = 1
Jewett City
DELAWARE = 0
FLORIDA = 38
Amelia City, Angel City, Cooper City, Crescent City, Cross City, Dade City, Dade City North, Dickerson City, Everglades City, Floral City, Florida City, Forest City, Greenacres City, Grove City, Haines City, Highland City, Highlands City, Intercession City, Jacob City, Kenneth City, Lake City, Leisure City, Little Lake City, Miles City, Myakka City, Ocean City, Orange City, Palm City, Palm River-Clair-Mel City, Panama City, Panama City Beach, Plant City, Polk City, St. James City, Sun City, Sun City Center, and White City (2)
GEORGIA = 15
Garden City, Iron City, Junction City, Lake City, Lumber City, Mountain City, Peachtree City, Pebble City, Pecan City, Ray City, Sale City, Silver City, Tate City, Twin City, and Union City
HAWAII = 2
Lanai City and Pearl City
IDAHO = 6
Butte City, Elk City, Garden City, Idaho City, Malad City, and Sugar City
ILLINOIS = 51
Bay City, Bayle City, Beecher City, Bluff City (2), Calumet City, Central City, Clay City, Coal City, Crescent City, Dallas City, Dalton City, Fairmont City, Farmer City, Forest City, Future City, Gibson City, Granite City, Grove City, Hanna City, Hervey City, Hunt City, Illinois City, Johnston City, Junction City, Lake City, Mason City, Midland City, Miller City, Monroe City, Mound City, New City, Norris City, North City, Park City, Pearl City, Piper City, Prairie City, Rapids City, Rend City, Rock City, Schram City, Shale City, Shanghai City, Standard City, Star City, Steel City, Texas City, West City, White City, and Yates City
INDIANA = 27
Burns City, Cambridge City, Clay City (2), Coal City, Columbia City, Fountain City, Garden City, Gas City, Grant City, Harris City, Hartford City, Lincoln City, Michigan City, Mineral City, Monroe City, Oakland City, Parker City, Prairie City, Rome City, Saline City, Star City, State Line City, Switz City, Tell City, Union City, and Valley City
IOWA = 34
Albert City, Barnes City, Cedar City, Central City, Charles City, Columbus City, Dakota City, Davis City, Decatur City, Dow City, Forest City, Garden City, Gilmore City, Grant City, Iowa City, La Porte City, Lake City, Maharishi Vedic City, Mason City, May City, Orange City, Polk City, Prairie City, Promise City, Rockwell City, Sac City, Shannon City, Silver City, Sioux City, Stone City, Story City, Swea City, Walnut City, and Webster City
KANSAS = 26
Arkansas City, Baldwin City, Bird City, Bluff City, Bush City, Cawker City, Dodge City, Elk City, Empire City, Forest City, Garden City, Gove City, Hill City, Johnson City, Junction City, Kansas City, Lake City, Mound City, Ness City, Osage City, Page City, Park City, Scott City, Strong City, Sun City, and White City
KENTUCKY = 17
Bell City, Calvert City, Cannel City, Cave City, Central City, Clay City, Elkhorn City, Gold City, Junction City, Lee City, Mining City, Oil City, Park City, Silver City, Sublimity City, White City, and Whitley City
LOUISIANA = 6
Amite City, Bossier City, Bridge City, Junction City, Morgan City, and Oil City
MAINE = 1
Forest City
MARYLAND = 7
Chesapeake City, Cottage City, Ellicott City, Maryland City, Ocean City, Pocomoke City, and West Ocean City
MASSACHUSETTS = 0
MICHIGAN = 38
Barton City, Bay City, Beal City, Boyne City, Brown City, Cass City, Cement City, Copper City, Filer City, Foster City, Garden City, Gould City, Grindstone City, Howard City, Huron City, Imlay City, Kent City, Lake City, Mackinaw City, Maple City, Marine City, Mass City, Minden City, National City, Nessen City, Oil City, Pearl City, Rapid City, Reed City, Rogers City, Rose City, Sherman City, Star City, Summit City, Tamarack City, Tawas City, Traverse City, and Union City
MINNESOTA = 17
Alma City, Big Bend City, Cannon City, Center City, Chisago City, Clara City, Forest City, Garden City, Grove City, Hill City, Holmes City, Illgen City, Lake City, Minnesota City, Murphy City, Pine City, and Rush City
MISSISSIPPI = 5
Calhoun City, Delta City, Morgan City, Silver City, and Yazoo City
MISSOURI = 40
Appleton City, Bates City, Bell City, Benton City, Bragg City, Crystal City, Forest City, Garden City, Gilman City, Golden City, Grant City, Green City, Gunn City, Haywood City, Jefferson City, Junction City, Kansas City, Kimberling City, King City, Kingdom City, Lowry City, Missouri City, Monroe City, Montgomery City, Mound City, Neck City, North Kansas City, Pierce City, Platte City, Queen City, Schell City, Scott City, Southwest City, Stark City, Stotts City, University City, Velda City, Webb City, Wilson City, and Wright City
MONTANA = 7
Cooke City, Jefferson City, Martin City, Miles City, Montana City, Park City, and Virginia City
NEBRASKA = 14
Beaver City, Central City, Dakota City, David City, Falls City, Howard City, Loup City, Mason City, Nebraska City, Pawnee City, Republican City, Rising City, South Sioux City, and Steele City
NEVADA = 5
Boulder City, Carson City, Mountain City, Silver City, and Virginia City
NEW HAMPSHIRE = 0
NEW JERSEY = 14
Atlantic City, Bordentown City, Burlington City, Corbin City, Egg Harbor City, Gloucester City, Jersey City, Margate City, Neptune City, Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Surf City, Union City, and Ventnor City
NEW MEXICO = 5
City of the Sun, Cotton City, Navajo City, Silver City, and Whites City
NEW YORK = 6
Garden City, Garden City Park, Garden City South, Johnson City, New City, and New York City
NORTH CAROLINA = 15
Bessemer City, Boger City, Bryson City, Cove City, Elizabeth City, Elm City, Forest City, James City, Morehead City, Oak City, Siler City, Silver City, Soul City, Surf City, and Tabor City
NORTH DAKOTA = 8
Canton City, Grace City, Michigan City, Pick City, Tower City, Valley City, Watford City, and Willow City
OHIO = 22
Beach City, Cream City, Crown City, Dexter City, Grove City, Holiday City, Jerry City, Jones City, Junction City, Lime City, Lore City, Miller City, Mineral City, Murray City, Ohio City, Oval City, Plain City, Pleasant City, Quaker City, Tipp City, Union City, and Valley City
OKLAHOMA = 26
Boise City, Cimarron City, Cox City, Custer City, Del City, Dill City, Eagle City, Elk City, Elmore City, Empire City, Harden City, Kaw City, Little City, Lost City, Marble City, Midwest City, Oil City, Oklahoma City, Ponca City, Ratliff City, Silver City, Spelter City, Strong City, Union City, Webb City, and Wright City
OREGON = 19
Baker City, Canyon City, Columbia City, Dunes City, Elk City, Falls City, Island City, Johnson City, Junction City, Kansas City, King City, Lincoln City, Mill City, Oregon City, Pacific City, Pelican City, Prairie City, Tri-City, and White City
PENNSYLVANIA = 21
Arnold City, Broad Top City, Central City, Dickson City, Evans City, Fayette City, Ford City, Forest City, Grier City, Grove City, Harrison City, Homer City, James City, Jamison City, Karns City, Lake City, Lumber City, Mahanoy City, Oil City, Spring City, and Union City
RHODE ISLAND = 0
SOUTH CAROLINA = 2
Garden City and Lake City
SOUTH DAKOTA = 10
Big Stone City, Central City, Claire City, Crook City, Garden City, Hill City, Lake City, Mound City, North Sioux City, and Prairie City
TENNESSEE = 14
Ashland City, Bluff City, Cumberland City, Jefferson City, Johnson City, Lenoir City, Maury City, Morrison City, Mountain City, Park City, Spring City, Summer City, Tracy City, and Union City
TEXAS = 54
Archer City, Arthur City, Bay City, Beach City, Bridge City, Caney City, Citrus City, Clarksville City, Close City, Coffee City, Colorado City, Crystal City, Dell City, Denver City, Dodd City, Dogwood City, Falls City, Frankel City, Gary City, Garden City, Gun Barrel City, Haltom City, Horizon City, Jacinto City, Johnson City, Karnes City, Knox City, Lake City, Lake Colorado City, Lakeside City, Lane City, League City, Liberty City, Mirando City, Missouri City, Mobile City, Monroe City, Mound City, Mountain City, Ore City, Pearl City, Post Oak Bend City, Queen City, Rio Grande City, Rose City, Royse City, Selman City, Sterling City, Sullivan City, Texas City, Todd City, Universal City, Warren City, Wolfe City,
UTAH = 13
Bear River City, Brigham City, Bryce Canyon City, Cedar City, Garden City, Heber City, Oak City, Park City, Plain City, Salt Lake City, Spring City, West Valley City, and White City
VERMONT = 0
VIRGINIA = 7
Charles City, Chase City, Dale City, Gate City, Pamplin City, Stephens City, and Weber City
WASHINGTON = 12
Basin City, Bay City, Benton City, Coulee City, Electric City, Elmer City, Fall City, Gould City, Junction City, Navy Yard City, Ocean City, and Royal City
WEST VIRGINIA = 12
Coal City, Cub City, Dupont City, Elk City, Hartford City, Lost City, Mineral City, Paden City, Raymond City, Star City, Sulphur City, and Union City
WISCONSIN = 14
Bay City, Bloom City, Buffalo City, Coral City, Cuba City, Fountain City, Genoa City, Glenwood City, Hager City, Junction City, Marathon City, Oil City, Slab City, and Tunnel City
WYOMING = 2
Atlantic City and Jeffrey City
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SOURCES: en.wikipedia.org for each state – cities, towns, municipalities, census designated places, villages, hamlets, and unincorporated places.
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Panethos @[email protected] · 2025-09-01 · 18:45 UTC
States with the most “City” communities
Source: garden-city.org
Listed below are the states with the most communities that include “city” in their name. This includes cities, towns, villages, hamlets, municipalities, unincorporated places, and census designated places. It does not include ghost towns, townships nor equivalent “towns” in Wisconsin, New York and elsewhere.
When one thinks about it, the popularity of Garden City makes sense given humans love living in scenic and/or bucolic locations. What name epitomizes those feelings better? Also among the top ten “city” names are Lake City and Forest City. Peace!
Source: townofgardencity.com
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Leading states:
- Texas = 54
- Illinois = 51
- Missouri = 40
- Florida and Michigan = 38 each
- Iowa = 34
- California = 29
- Indiana = 27
- Kansas and Oklahoma = 26 each
Source: gardencityidaho.org
Most common “city” names or variations:
- Garden City = 16
- Lake City = 12
- Junction City = 11
- Union City = 10
- Forest City = 8
- Central City, Oil City, Silver City, White(s) = 7 each
Source: gardencitymi.org
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ALABAMA = 11
Alexander City, Dodge City, Frisco City, Garden City, Hobson City, Midland City, Morgan City, Pell City, Phenix City, Rainbow City, and Sardis City
ALASKA = 0
ARIZONA = 13
Arizona City, Black Canyon City, Bullhead City, Central Heights-Midland City, Circle City, Colorado City, Huachuca City, Joseph City, Lake Havasu City, Rainbow City, Sun City, Sun City West, and Tuba City
ARKANSAS = 11
Arkansas City, Bluff City, Buffalo City, Cave City, Central City, Cherokee City, Diamond City, Forrest City, Junction City, Lake City, and Star City
CALIFORNIA = 29
Amador City, Big Bear City, Brandy City, Butte City, California City, Cathedral City, Cave City, City of Industry, Crescent City, Culver City, Daly City, Foster City, Holy City, King City, Lake City, Marin City, Montgomery City, National City, Nevada City, Oil City, Queen City, Redwood City, Sand City, South Yuba City, Spicer City, Suisun City, Temple City, Union City, and Yuba City
COLORADO = 10
Adams City, Canon City, Central City, Colorado City, Commerce City, Garden City, Lake City, Ohio City, Orchard City, and Sugar City
CONNECTICUT = 1
Jewett City
DELAWARE = 0
FLORIDA = 38
Amelia City, Angel City, Cooper City, Crescent City, Cross City, Dade City, Dade City North, Dickerson City, Everglades City, Floral City, Florida City, Forest City, Greenacres City, Grove City, Haines City, Highland City, Highlands City, Intercession City, Jacob City, Kenneth City, Lake City, Leisure City, Little Lake City, Miles City, Myakka City, Ocean City, Orange City, Palm City, Palm River-Clair-Mel City, Panama City, Panama City Beach, Plant City, Polk City, St. James City, Sun City, Sun City Center, and White City (2)
GEORGIA = 15
Garden City, Iron City, Junction City, Lake City, Lumber City, Mountain City, Peachtree City, Pebble City, Pecan City, Ray City, Sale City, Silver City, Tate City, Twin City, and Union City
HAWAII = 2
Lanai City and Pearl City
IDAHO = 6
Butte City, Elk City, Garden City, Idaho City, Malad City, and Sugar City
ILLINOIS = 51
Bay City, Bayle City, Beecher City, Bluff City (2), Calumet City, Central City, Clay City, Coal City, Crescent City, Dallas City, Dalton City, Fairmont City, Farmer City, Forest City, Future City, Gibson City, Granite City, Grove City, Hanna City, Hervey City, Hunt City, Illinois City, Johnston City, Junction City, Lake City, Mason City, Midland City, Miller City, Monroe City, Mound City, New City, Norris City, North City, Park City, Pearl City, Piper City, Prairie City, Rapids City, Rend City, Rock City, Schram City, Shale City, Shanghai City, Standard City, Star City, Steel City, Texas City, West City, White City, and Yates City
INDIANA = 27
Burns City, Cambridge City, Clay City (2), Coal City, Columbia City, Fountain City, Garden City, Gas City, Grant City, Harris City, Hartford City, Lincoln City, Michigan City, Mineral City, Monroe City, Oakland City, Parker City, Prairie City, Rome City, Saline City, Star City, State Line City, Switz City, Tell City, Union City, and Valley City
IOWA = 34
Albert City, Barnes City, Cedar City, Central City, Charles City, Columbus City, Dakota City, Davis City, Decatur City, Dow City, Forest City, Garden City, Gilmore City, Grant City, Iowa City, La Porte City, Lake City, Maharishi Vedic City, Mason City, May City, Orange City, Polk City, Prairie City, Promise City, Rockwell City, Sac City, Shannon City, Silver City, Sioux City, Stone City, Story City, Swea City, Walnut City, and Webster City
KANSAS = 26
Arkansas City, Baldwin City, Bird City, Bluff City, Bush City, Cawker City, Dodge City, Elk City, Empire City, Forest City, Garden City, Gove City, Hill City, Johnson City, Junction City, Kansas City, Lake City, Mound City, Ness City, Osage City, Page City, Park City, Scott City, Strong City, Sun City, and White City
KENTUCKY = 17
Bell City, Calvert City, Cannel City, Cave City, Central City, Clay City, Elkhorn City, Gold City, Junction City, Lee City, Mining City, Oil City, Park City, Silver City, Sublimity City, White City, and Whitley City
LOUISIANA = 6
Amite City, Bossier City, Bridge City, Junction City, Morgan City, and Oil City
MAINE = 1
Forest City
MARYLAND = 7
Chesapeake City, Cottage City, Ellicott City, Maryland City, Ocean City, Pocomoke City, and West Ocean City
MASSACHUSETTS = 0
MICHIGAN = 38
Barton City, Bay City, Beal City, Boyne City, Brown City, Cass City, Cement City, Copper City, Filer City, Foster City, Garden City, Gould City, Grindstone City, Howard City, Huron City, Imlay City, Kent City, Lake City, Mackinaw City, Maple City, Marine City, Mass City, Minden City, National City, Nessen City, Oil City, Pearl City, Rapid City, Reed City, Rogers City, Rose City, Sherman City, Star City, Summit City, Tamarack City, Tawas City, Traverse City, and Union City
MINNESOTA = 17
Alma City, Big Bend City, Cannon City, Center City, Chisago City, Clara City, Forest City, Garden City, Grove City, Hill City, Holmes City, Illgen City, Lake City, Minnesota City, Murphy City, Pine City, and Rush City
MISSISSIPPI = 5
Calhoun City, Delta City, Morgan City, Silver City, and Yazoo City
MISSOURI = 40
Appleton City, Bates City, Bell City, Benton City, Bragg City, Crystal City, Forest City, Garden City, Gilman City, Golden City, Grant City, Green City, Gunn City, Haywood City, Jefferson City, Junction City, Kansas City, Kimberling City, King City, Kingdom City, Lowry City, Missouri City, Monroe City, Montgomery City, Mound City, Neck City, North Kansas City, Pierce City, Platte City, Queen City, Schell City, Scott City, Southwest City, Stark City, Stotts City, University City, Velda City, Webb City, Wilson City, and Wright City
MONTANA = 7
Cooke City, Jefferson City, Martin City, Miles City, Montana City, Park City, and Virginia City
NEBRASKA = 14
Beaver City, Central City, Dakota City, David City, Falls City, Howard City, Loup City, Mason City, Nebraska City, Pawnee City, Republican City, Rising City, South Sioux City, and Steele City
NEVADA = 5
Boulder City, Carson City, Mountain City, Silver City, and Virginia City
NEW HAMPSHIRE = 0
NEW JERSEY = 14
Atlantic City, Bordentown City, Burlington City, Corbin City, Egg Harbor City, Gloucester City, Jersey City, Margate City, Neptune City, Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Surf City, Union City, and Ventnor City
NEW MEXICO = 5
City of the Sun, Cotton City, Navajo City, Silver City, and Whites City
NEW YORK = 6
Garden City, Garden City Park, Garden City South, Johnson City, New City, and New York City
NORTH CAROLINA = 15
Bessemer City, Boger City, Bryson City, Cove City, Elizabeth City, Elm City, Forest City, James City, Morehead City, Oak City, Siler City, Silver City, Soul City, Surf City, and Tabor City
NORTH DAKOTA = 8
Canton City, Grace City, Michigan City, Pick City, Tower City, Valley City, Watford City, and Willow City
OHIO = 22
Beach City, Cream City, Crown City, Dexter City, Grove City, Holiday City, Jerry City, Jones City, Junction City, Lime City, Lore City, Miller City, Mineral City, Murray City, Ohio City, Oval City, Plain City, Pleasant City, Quaker City, Tipp City, Union City, and Valley City
OKLAHOMA = 26
Boise City, Cimarron City, Cox City, Custer City, Del City, Dill City, Eagle City, Elk City, Elmore City, Empire City, Harden City, Kaw City, Little City, Lost City, Marble City, Midwest City, Oil City, Oklahoma City, Ponca City, Ratliff City, Silver City, Spelter City, Strong City, Union City, Webb City, and Wright City
OREGON = 19
Baker City, Canyon City, Columbia City, Dunes City, Elk City, Falls City, Island City, Johnson City, Junction City, Kansas City, King City, Lincoln City, Mill City, Oregon City, Pacific City, Pelican City, Prairie City, Tri-City, and White City
PENNSYLVANIA = 21
Arnold City, Broad Top City, Central City, Dickson City, Evans City, Fayette City, Ford City, Forest City, Grier City, Grove City, Harrison City, Homer City, James City, Jamison City, Karns City, Lake City, Lumber City, Mahanoy City, Oil City, Spring City, and Union City
RHODE ISLAND = 0
SOUTH CAROLINA = 2
Garden City and Lake City
SOUTH DAKOTA = 10
Big Stone City, Central City, Claire City, Crook City, Garden City, Hill City, Lake City, Mound City, North Sioux City, and Prairie City
TENNESSEE = 14
Ashland City, Bluff City, Cumberland City, Jefferson City, Johnson City, Lenoir City, Maury City, Morrison City, Mountain City, Park City, Spring City, Summer City, Tracy City, and Union City
TEXAS = 54
Archer City, Arthur City, Bay City, Beach City, Bridge City, Caney City, Citrus City, Clarksville City, Close City, Coffee City, Colorado City, Crystal City, Dell City, Denver City, Dodd City, Dogwood City, Falls City, Frankel City, Gary City, Garden City, Gun Barrel City, Haltom City, Horizon City, Jacinto City, Johnson City, Karnes City, Knox City, Lake City, Lake Colorado City, Lakeside City, Lane City, League City, Liberty City, Mirando City, Missouri City, Mobile City, Monroe City, Mound City, Mountain City, Ore City, Pearl City, Post Oak Bend City, Queen City, Rio Grande City, Rose City, Royse City, Selman City, Sterling City, Sullivan City, Texas City, Todd City, Universal City, Warren City, Wolfe City,
UTAH = 13
Bear River City, Brigham City, Bryce Canyon City, Cedar City, Garden City, Heber City, Oak City, Park City, Plain City, Salt Lake City, Spring City, West Valley City, and White City
VERMONT = 0
VIRGINIA = 7
Charles City, Chase City, Dale City, Gate City, Pamplin City, Stephens City, and Weber City
WASHINGTON = 12
Basin City, Bay City, Benton City, Coulee City, Electric City, Elmer City, Fall City, Gould City, Junction City, Navy Yard City, Ocean City, and Royal City
WEST VIRGINIA = 12
Coal City, Cub City, Dupont City, Elk City, Hartford City, Lost City, Mineral City, Paden City, Raymond City, Star City, Sulphur City, and Union City
WISCONSIN = 14
Bay City, Bloom City, Buffalo City, Coral City, Cuba City, Fountain City, Genoa City, Glenwood City, Hager City, Junction City, Marathon City, Oil City, Slab City, and Tunnel City
WYOMING = 2
Atlantic City and Jeffrey City
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SOURCES: en.wikipedia.org for each state – cities, towns, municipalities, census designated places, villages, hamlets, and unincorporated places.
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Panethos @[email protected] · 2025-09-01 · 18:45 UTC
States with the most “City” communities
Source: garden-city.org
Listed below are the states with the most communities that include “city” in their name. This includes cities, towns, villages, hamlets, municipalities, unincorporated places, and census designated places. It does not include ghost towns, townships nor equivalent “towns” in Wisconsin, New York and elsewhere.
When one thinks about it, the popularity of Garden City makes sense given humans love living in scenic and/or bucolic locations. What name epitomizes those feelings better? Also among the top ten “city” names are Lake City and Forest City. Peace!
Source: townofgardencity.com
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Leading states:
- Texas = 54
- Illinois = 51
- Missouri = 40
- Florida and Michigan = 38 each
- Iowa = 34
- California = 29
- Indiana = 27
- Kansas and Oklahoma = 26 each
Source: gardencityidaho.org
Most common “city” names or variations:
- Garden City = 16
- Lake City = 12
- Junction City = 11
- Union City = 10
- Forest City = 8
- Central City, Oil City, Silver City, White(s) = 7 each
Source: gardencitymi.org
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ALABAMA = 11
Alexander City, Dodge City, Frisco City, Garden City, Hobson City, Midland City, Morgan City, Pell City, Phenix City, Rainbow City, and Sardis City
ALASKA = 0
ARIZONA = 13
Arizona City, Black Canyon City, Bullhead City, Central Heights-Midland City, Circle City, Colorado City, Huachuca City, Joseph City, Lake Havasu City, Rainbow City, Sun City, Sun City West, and Tuba City
ARKANSAS = 11
Arkansas City, Bluff City, Buffalo City, Cave City, Central City, Cherokee City, Diamond City, Forrest City, Junction City, Lake City, and Star City
CALIFORNIA = 29
Amador City, Big Bear City, Brandy City, Butte City, California City, Cathedral City, Cave City, City of Industry, Crescent City, Culver City, Daly City, Foster City, Holy City, King City, Lake City, Marin City, Montgomery City, National City, Nevada City, Oil City, Queen City, Redwood City, Sand City, South Yuba City, Spicer City, Suisun City, Temple City, Union City, and Yuba City
COLORADO = 10
Adams City, Canon City, Central City, Colorado City, Commerce City, Garden City, Lake City, Ohio City, Orchard City, and Sugar City
CONNECTICUT = 1
Jewett City
DELAWARE = 0
FLORIDA = 38
Amelia City, Angel City, Cooper City, Crescent City, Cross City, Dade City, Dade City North, Dickerson City, Everglades City, Floral City, Florida City, Forest City, Greenacres City, Grove City, Haines City, Highland City, Highlands City, Intercession City, Jacob City, Kenneth City, Lake City, Leisure City, Little Lake City, Miles City, Myakka City, Ocean City, Orange City, Palm City, Palm River-Clair-Mel City, Panama City, Panama City Beach, Plant City, Polk City, St. James City, Sun City, Sun City Center, and White City (2)
GEORGIA = 15
Garden City, Iron City, Junction City, Lake City, Lumber City, Mountain City, Peachtree City, Pebble City, Pecan City, Ray City, Sale City, Silver City, Tate City, Twin City, and Union City
HAWAII = 2
Lanai City and Pearl City
IDAHO = 6
Butte City, Elk City, Garden City, Idaho City, Malad City, and Sugar City
ILLINOIS = 51
Bay City, Bayle City, Beecher City, Bluff City (2), Calumet City, Central City, Clay City, Coal City, Crescent City, Dallas City, Dalton City, Fairmont City, Farmer City, Forest City, Future City, Gibson City, Granite City, Grove City, Hanna City, Hervey City, Hunt City, Illinois City, Johnston City, Junction City, Lake City, Mason City, Midland City, Miller City, Monroe City, Mound City, New City, Norris City, North City, Park City, Pearl City, Piper City, Prairie City, Rapids City, Rend City, Rock City, Schram City, Shale City, Shanghai City, Standard City, Star City, Steel City, Texas City, West City, White City, and Yates City
INDIANA = 27
Burns City, Cambridge City, Clay City (2), Coal City, Columbia City, Fountain City, Garden City, Gas City, Grant City, Harris City, Hartford City, Lincoln City, Michigan City, Mineral City, Monroe City, Oakland City, Parker City, Prairie City, Rome City, Saline City, Star City, State Line City, Switz City, Tell City, Union City, and Valley City
IOWA = 34
Albert City, Barnes City, Cedar City, Central City, Charles City, Columbus City, Dakota City, Davis City, Decatur City, Dow City, Forest City, Garden City, Gilmore City, Grant City, Iowa City, La Porte City, Lake City, Maharishi Vedic City, Mason City, May City, Orange City, Polk City, Prairie City, Promise City, Rockwell City, Sac City, Shannon City, Silver City, Sioux City, Stone City, Story City, Swea City, Walnut City, and Webster City
KANSAS = 26
Arkansas City, Baldwin City, Bird City, Bluff City, Bush City, Cawker City, Dodge City, Elk City, Empire City, Forest City, Garden City, Gove City, Hill City, Johnson City, Junction City, Kansas City, Lake City, Mound City, Ness City, Osage City, Page City, Park City, Scott City, Strong City, Sun City, and White City
KENTUCKY = 17
Bell City, Calvert City, Cannel City, Cave City, Central City, Clay City, Elkhorn City, Gold City, Junction City, Lee City, Mining City, Oil City, Park City, Silver City, Sublimity City, White City, and Whitley City
LOUISIANA = 6
Amite City, Bossier City, Bridge City, Junction City, Morgan City, and Oil City
MAINE = 1
Forest City
MARYLAND = 7
Chesapeake City, Cottage City, Ellicott City, Maryland City, Ocean City, Pocomoke City, and West Ocean City
MASSACHUSETTS = 0
MICHIGAN = 38
Barton City, Bay City, Beal City, Boyne City, Brown City, Cass City, Cement City, Copper City, Filer City, Foster City, Garden City, Gould City, Grindstone City, Howard City, Huron City, Imlay City, Kent City, Lake City, Mackinaw City, Maple City, Marine City, Mass City, Minden City, National City, Nessen City, Oil City, Pearl City, Rapid City, Reed City, Rogers City, Rose City, Sherman City, Star City, Summit City, Tamarack City, Tawas City, Traverse City, and Union City
MINNESOTA = 17
Alma City, Big Bend City, Cannon City, Center City, Chisago City, Clara City, Forest City, Garden City, Grove City, Hill City, Holmes City, Illgen City, Lake City, Minnesota City, Murphy City, Pine City, and Rush City
MISSISSIPPI = 5
Calhoun City, Delta City, Morgan City, Silver City, and Yazoo City
MISSOURI = 40
Appleton City, Bates City, Bell City, Benton City, Bragg City, Crystal City, Forest City, Garden City, Gilman City, Golden City, Grant City, Green City, Gunn City, Haywood City, Jefferson City, Junction City, Kansas City, Kimberling City, King City, Kingdom City, Lowry City, Missouri City, Monroe City, Montgomery City, Mound City, Neck City, North Kansas City, Pierce City, Platte City, Queen City, Schell City, Scott City, Southwest City, Stark City, Stotts City, University City, Velda City, Webb City, Wilson City, and Wright City
MONTANA = 7
Cooke City, Jefferson City, Martin City, Miles City, Montana City, Park City, and Virginia City
NEBRASKA = 14
Beaver City, Central City, Dakota City, David City, Falls City, Howard City, Loup City, Mason City, Nebraska City, Pawnee City, Republican City, Rising City, South Sioux City, and Steele City
NEVADA = 5
Boulder City, Carson City, Mountain City, Silver City, and Virginia City
NEW HAMPSHIRE = 0
NEW JERSEY = 14
Atlantic City, Bordentown City, Burlington City, Corbin City, Egg Harbor City, Gloucester City, Jersey City, Margate City, Neptune City, Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Surf City, Union City, and Ventnor City
NEW MEXICO = 5
City of the Sun, Cotton City, Navajo City, Silver City, and Whites City
NEW YORK = 6
Garden City, Garden City Park, Garden City South, Johnson City, New City, and New York City
NORTH CAROLINA = 15
Bessemer City, Boger City, Bryson City, Cove City, Elizabeth City, Elm City, Forest City, James City, Morehead City, Oak City, Siler City, Silver City, Soul City, Surf City, and Tabor City
NORTH DAKOTA = 8
Canton City, Grace City, Michigan City, Pick City, Tower City, Valley City, Watford City, and Willow City
OHIO = 22
Beach City, Cream City, Crown City, Dexter City, Grove City, Holiday City, Jerry City, Jones City, Junction City, Lime City, Lore City, Miller City, Mineral City, Murray City, Ohio City, Oval City, Plain City, Pleasant City, Quaker City, Tipp City, Union City, and Valley City
OKLAHOMA = 26
Boise City, Cimarron City, Cox City, Custer City, Del City, Dill City, Eagle City, Elk City, Elmore City, Empire City, Harden City, Kaw City, Little City, Lost City, Marble City, Midwest City, Oil City, Oklahoma City, Ponca City, Ratliff City, Silver City, Spelter City, Strong City, Union City, Webb City, and Wright City
OREGON = 18
Baker City, Canyon City, Columbia City, Dunes City, Elk City, Falls City, Island City, Johnson City, Junction City, King City, Lincoln City, Mill City, Oregon City, Pacific City, Pelican City, Prairie City, Tri-City, and White City
PENNSYLVANIA = 21
Arnold City, Broad Top City, Central City, Dickson City, Evans City, Fayette City, Ford City, Forest City, Grier City, Grove City, Harrison City, Homer City, James City, Jamison City, Karns City, Lake City, Lumber City, Mahanoy City, Oil City, Spring City, and Union City
RHODE ISLAND = 0
SOUTH CAROLINA = 2
Garden City and Lake City
SOUTH DAKOTA = 10
Big Stone City, Central City, Claire City, Crook City, Garden City, Hill City, Lake City, Mound City, North Sioux City, and Prairie City
TENNESSEE = 14
Ashland City, Bluff City, Cumberland City, Jefferson City, Johnson City, Lenoir City, Maury City, Morrison City, Mountain City, Park City, Spring City, Summer City, Tracy City, and Union City
TEXAS = 54
Archer City, Arthur City, Bay City, Beach City, Bridge City, Caney City, Citrus City, Clarksville City, Close City, Coffee City, Colorado City, Crystal City, Dell City, Denver City, Dodd City, Dogwood City, Falls City, Frankel City, Gary City, Garden City, Gun Barrel City, Haltom City, Horizon City, Jacinto City, Johnson City, Karnes City, Knox City, Lake City, Lake Colorado City, Lakeside City, Lane City, League City, Liberty City, Mirando City, Missouri City, Mobile City, Monroe City, Mound City, Mountain City, Ore City, Pearl City, Post Oak Bend City, Queen City, Rio Grande City, Rose City, Royse City, Selman City, Sterling City, Sullivan City, Texas City, Todd City, Universal City, Warren City, Wolfe City,
UTAH = 13
Bear River City, Brigham City, Bryce Canyon City, Cedar City, Garden City, Heber City, Oak City, Park City, Plain City, Salt Lake City, Spring City, West Valley City, and White City
VERMONT = 0
VIRGINIA = 7
Charles City, Chase City, Dale City, Gate City, Pamplin City, Stephens City, and Weber City
WASHINGTON = 12
Basin City, Bay City, Benton City, Coulee City, Electric City, Elmer City, Fall City, Gould City, Junction City, Navy Yard City, Ocean City, and Royal City
WEST VIRGINIA = 12
Coal City, Cub City, Dupont City, Elk City, Hartford City, Lost City, Mineral City, Paden City, Raymond City, Star City, Sulphur City, and Union City
WISCONSIN = 14
Bay City, Bloom City, Buffalo City, Coral City, Cuba City, Fountain City, Genoa City, Glenwood City, Hager City, Junction City, Marathon City, Oil City, Slab City, and Tunnel City
WYOMING = 2
Atlantic City and Jeffrey City
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SOURCES: en.wikipedia.org for each state – cities, towns, municipalities, census designated places, villages, hamlets, and unincorporated places.
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Panethos @[email protected] · 2025-09-01 · 18:45 UTC
States with the most “City” communities
Source: garden-city.org
Listed below are the states with the most communities that include “city” in their name. This includes cities, towns, villages, hamlets, municipalities, unincorporated places, and census designated places. It does not include ghost towns, townships nor equivalent “towns” in Wisconsin, New York and elsewhere.
When one thinks about it, the popularity of Garden City makes sense given humans love living in scenic and/or bucolic locations. What name epitomizes those feelings better? Also among the top ten “city” names are Lake City and Forest City. Peace!
Source: townofgardencity.com
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Leading states:
- Texas = 54
- Illinois = 51
- Missouri = 40
- Florida and Michigan = 38 each
- Iowa = 34
- California = 29
- Indiana = 27
- Kansas and Oklahoma = 26 each
Source: gardencityidaho.org
Most common “city” names or variations:
- Garden City = 16
- Lake City = 12
- Junction City = 11
- Union City = 10
- Forest City = 8
- Central City, Oil City, Silver City, White(s) = 7 each
Source: gardencitymi.org
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ALABAMA = 11
Alexander City, Dodge City, Frisco City, Garden City, Hobson City, Midland City, Morgan City, Pell City, Phenix City, Rainbow City, and Sardis City
ALASKA = 0
ARIZONA = 13
Arizona City, Black Canyon City, Bullhead City, Central Heights-Midland City, Circle City, Colorado City, Huachuca City, Joseph City, Lake Havasu City, Rainbow City, Sun City, Sun City West, and Tuba City
ARKANSAS = 11
Arkansas City, Bluff City, Buffalo City, Cave City, Central City, Cherokee City, Diamond City, Forrest City, Junction City, Lake City, and Star City
CALIFORNIA = 29
Amador City, Big Bear City, Brandy City, Butte City, California City, Cathedral City, Cave City, City of Industry, Crescent City, Culver City, Daly City, Foster City, Holy City, King City, Lake City, Marin City, Montgomery City, National City, Nevada City, Oil City, Queen City, Redwood City, Sand City, South Yuba City, Spicer City, Suisun City, Temple City, Union City, and Yuba City
COLORADO = 10
Adams City, Canon City, Central City, Colorado City, Commerce City, Garden City, Lake City, Ohio City, Orchard City, and Sugar City
CONNECTICUT = 1
Jewett City
DELAWARE = 0
FLORIDA = 38
Amelia City, Angel City, Cooper City, Crescent City, Cross City, Dade City, Dade City North, Dickerson City, Everglades City, Floral City, Florida City, Forest City, Greenacres City, Grove City, Haines City, Highland City, Highlands City, Intercession City, Jacob City, Kenneth City, Lake City, Leisure City, Little Lake City, Miles City, Myakka City, Ocean City, Orange City, Palm City, Palm River-Clair-Mel City, Panama City, Panama City Beach, Plant City, Polk City, St. James City, Sun City, Sun City Center, and White City (2)
GEORGIA = 15
Garden City, Iron City, Junction City, Lake City, Lumber City, Mountain City, Peachtree City, Pebble City, Pecan City, Ray City, Sale City, Silver City, Tate City, Twin City, and Union City
HAWAII = 2
Lanai City and Pearl City
IDAHO = 6
Butte City, Elk City, Garden City, Idaho City, Malad City, and Sugar City
ILLINOIS = 51
Bay City, Bayle City, Beecher City, Bluff City (2), Calumet City, Central City, Clay City, Coal City, Crescent City, Dallas City, Dalton City, Fairmont City, Farmer City, Forest City, Future City, Gibson City, Granite City, Grove City, Hanna City, Hervey City, Hunt City, Illinois City, Johnston City, Junction City, Lake City, Mason City, Midland City, Miller City, Monroe City, Mound City, New City, Norris City, North City, Park City, Pearl City, Piper City, Prairie City, Rapids City, Rend City, Rock City, Schram City, Shale City, Shanghai City, Standard City, Star City, Steel City, Texas City, West City, White City, and Yates City
INDIANA = 27
Burns City, Cambridge City, Clay City (2), Coal City, Columbia City, Fountain City, Garden City, Gas City, Grant City, Harris City, Hartford City, Lincoln City, Michigan City, Mineral City, Monroe City, Oakland City, Parker City, Prairie City, Rome City, Saline City, Star City, State Line City, Switz City, Tell City, Union City, and Valley City
IOWA = 34
Albert City, Barnes City, Cedar City, Central City, Charles City, Columbus City, Dakota City, Davis City, Decatur City, Dow City, Forest City, Garden City, Gilmore City, Grant City, Iowa City, La Porte City, Lake City, Maharishi Vedic City, Mason City, May City, Orange City, Polk City, Prairie City, Promise City, Rockwell City, Sac City, Shannon City, Silver City, Sioux City, Stone City, Story City, Swea City, Walnut City, and Webster City
KANSAS = 26
Arkansas City, Baldwin City, Bird City, Bluff City, Bush City, Cawker City, Dodge City, Elk City, Empire City, Forest City, Garden City, Gove City, Hill City, Johnson City, Junction City, Kansas City, Lake City, Mound City, Ness City, Osage City, Page City, Park City, Scott City, Strong City, Sun City, and White City
KENTUCKY = 17
Bell City, Calvert City, Cannel City, Cave City, Central City, Clay City, Elkhorn City, Gold City, Junction City, Lee City, Mining City, Oil City, Park City, Silver City, Sublimity City, White City, and Whitley City
LOUISIANA = 6
Amite City, Bossier City, Bridge City, Junction City, Morgan City, and Oil City
MAINE = 1
Forest City
MARYLAND = 7
Chesapeake City, Cottage City, Ellicott City, Maryland City, Ocean City, Pocomoke City, and West Ocean City
MASSACHUSETTS = 0
MICHIGAN = 38
Barton City, Bay City, Beal City, Boyne City, Brown City, Cass City, Cement City, Copper City, Filer City, Foster City, Garden City, Gould City, Grindstone City, Howard City, Huron City, Imlay City, Kent City, Lake City, Mackinaw City, Maple City, Marine City, Mass City, Minden City, National City, Nessen City, Oil City, Pearl City, Rapid City, Reed City, Rogers City, Rose City, Sherman City, Star City, Summit City, Tamarack City, Tawas City, Traverse City, and Union City
MINNESOTA = 17
Alma City, Big Bend City, Cannon City, Center City, Chisago City, Clara City, Forest City, Garden City, Grove City, Hill City, Holmes City, Illgen City, Lake City, Minnesota City, Murphy City, Pine City, and Rush City
MISSISSIPPI = 5
Calhoun City, Delta City, Morgan City, Silver City, and Yazoo City
MISSOURI = 40
Appleton City, Bates City, Bell City, Benton City, Bragg City, Crystal City, Forest City, Garden City, Gilman City, Golden City, Grant City, Green City, Gunn City, Haywood City, Jefferson City, Junction City, Kansas City, Kimberling City, King City, Kingdom City, Lowry City, Missouri City, Monroe City, Montgomery City, Mound City, Neck City, North Kansas City, Pierce City, Platte City, Queen City, Schell City, Scott City, Southwest City, Stark City, Stotts City, University City, Velda City, Webb City, Wilson City, and Wright City
MONTANA = 7
Cooke City, Jefferson City, Martin City, Miles City, Montana City, Park City, and Virginia City
NEBRASKA = 14
Beaver City, Central City, Dakota City, David City, Falls City, Howard City, Loup City, Mason City, Nebraska City, Pawnee City, Republican City, Rising City, South Sioux City, and Steele City
NEVADA = 5
Boulder City, Carson City, Mountain City, Silver City, and Virginia City
NEW HAMPSHIRE = 0
NEW JERSEY = 14
Atlantic City, Bordentown City, Burlington City, Corbin City, Egg Harbor City, Gloucester City, Jersey City, Margate City, Neptune City, Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Surf City, Union City, and Ventnor City
NEW MEXICO = 5
City of the Sun, Cotton City, Navajo City, Silver City, and Whites City
NEW YORK = 6
Garden City, Garden City Park, Garden City South, Johnson City, New City, and New York City
NORTH CAROLINA = 15
Bessemer City, Boger City, Bryson City, Cove City, Elizabeth City, Elm City, Forest City, James City, Morehead City, Oak City, Siler City, Silver City, Soul City, Surf City, and Tabor City
NORTH DAKOTA = 8
Canton City, Grace City, Michigan City, Pick City, Tower City, Valley City, Watford City, and Willow City
OHIO = 22
Beach City, Cream City, Crown City, Dexter City, Grove City, Holiday City, Jerry City, Jones City, Junction City, Lime City, Lore City, Miller City, Mineral City, Murray City, Ohio City, Oval City, Plain City, Pleasant City, Quaker City, Tipp City, Union City, and Valley City
OKLAHOMA = 26
Boise City, Cimarron City, Cox City, Custer City, Del City, Dill City, Eagle City, Elk City, Elmore City, Empire City, Harden City, Kaw City, Little City, Lost City, Marble City, Midwest City, Oil City, Oklahoma City, Ponca City, Ratliff City, Silver City, Spelter City, Strong City, Union City, Webb City, and Wright City
OREGON = 18
Baker City, Canyon City, Columbia City, Dunes City, Elk City, Falls City, Island City, Johnson City, Junction City, King City, Lincoln City, Mill City, Oregon City, Pacific City, Pelican City, Prairie City, Tri-City, and White City
PENNSYLVANIA = 21
Arnold City, Broad Top City, Central City, Dickson City, Evans City, Fayette City, Ford City, Forest City, Grier City, Grove City, Harrison City, Homer City, James City, Jamison City, Karns City, Lake City, Lumber City, Mahanoy City, Oil City, Spring City, and Union City
RHODE ISLAND = 0
SOUTH CAROLINA = 2
Garden City and Lake City
SOUTH DAKOTA = 10
Big Stone City, Central City, Claire City, Crook City, Garden City, Hill City, Lake City, Mound City, North Sioux City, and Prairie City
TENNESSEE = 14
Ashland City, Bluff City, Cumberland City, Jefferson City, Johnson City, Lenoir City, Maury City, Morrison City, Mountain City, Park City, Spring City, Summer City, Tracy City, and Union City
TEXAS = 54
Archer City, Arthur City, Bay City, Beach City, Bridge City, Caney City, Citrus City, Clarksville City, Close City, Coffee City, Colorado City, Crystal City, Dell City, Denver City, Dodd City, Dogwood City, Falls City, Frankel City, Gary City, Garden City, Gun Barrel City, Haltom City, Horizon City, Jacinto City, Johnson City, Karnes City, Knox City, Lake City, Lake Colorado City, Lakeside City, Lane City, League City, Liberty City, Mirando City, Missouri City, Mobile City, Monroe City, Mound City, Mountain City, Ore City, Pearl City, Post Oak Bend City, Queen City, Rio Grande City, Rose City, Royse City, Selman City, Sterling City, Sullivan City, Texas City, Todd City, Universal City, Warren City, Wolfe City,
UTAH = 13
Bear River City, Brigham City, Bryce Canyon City, Cedar City, Garden City, Heber City, Oak City, Park City, Plain City, Salt Lake City, Spring City, West Valley City, and White City
VERMONT = 0
VIRGINIA = 7
Charles City, Chase City, Dale City, Gate City, Pamplin City, Stephens City, and Weber City
WASHINGTON = 12
Basin City, Bay City, Benton City, Coulee City, Electric City, Elmer City, Fall City, Gould City, Junction City, Navy Yard City, Ocean City, and Royal City
WEST VIRGINIA = 12
Coal City, Cub City, Dupont City, Elk City, Hartford City, Lost City, Mineral City, Paden City, Raymond City, Star City, Sulphur City, and Union City
WISCONSIN = 14
Bay City, Bloom City, Buffalo City, Coral City, Cuba City, Fountain City, Genoa City, Glenwood City, Hager City, Junction City, Marathon City, Oil City, Slab City, and Tunnel City
WYOMING = 2
Atlantic City and Jeffrey City
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SOURCES: en.wikipedia.org for each state – cities, towns, municipalities, census designated places, villages, hamlets, and unincorporated places.
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abolitionmedia @[email protected] · 2025-07-06 · 02:43 UTC

The Terrible Origins of July 4th

As the Fourth of July grows closer, let us examine the reality of “independence day”. BAR is republishing this article from 2021.
The causes of the July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence are rarely taught in this country. The American colonists chafed under British rules limiting their settlements and feared they would end slavery. The “patriots” motives were anything but noble.
“He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.” — Declaration of Independence
The July 4 holiday in the United States commemorates the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Anyone educated in this country has been propagandized with lies about patriotic colonists seeking freedom from a tyrannical British monarch. Our minds were filled with tales of Paul Revere and Betsy Ross which erase the role that indigenous and Black people played as they attempted to end true tyranny over their lives. The present day traditions of enjoying cookouts, vacations, and fireworks should not obscure the true meaning of this date. In fact, analyzing this history is an absolute necessity.
The men who every school child is taught to think of as “patriots” had two concerns which pushed them to declare independence. First, in 1763 the British emerged victorious after the end of a conflict against France. It was known in Europe as the Seven Years War and in America as the French and Indian War. The American moniker existed precisely because the French allied themselves with indigenous nations against the British. British victory brought them French held territory west of the Appalachians in the region now comprising midwestern states, but they knew they could not easily end indigenous wars if settlers along the eastern seaboard were allowed to go further west.
Because of continued resistance from leaders such as Pontiac of the Ottawa nation, King George III issued the Proclamation of 1763, which forbade settlement west of the Appalachian mountains. One of the speculators poised to become a wealthier man if settlements were permitted to move westward was George Washington.
He was not alone in his wish to conquer the entire continent and to get rich doing it. Property claims had already been made in these regions, and neither he nor the rest of his cohort were going to let British treaties with indigenous people stand in their way. They largely ignored the edict and went wherever they wanted to go.
Their second concern was whether the British were committed to continuing the previously unfettered right to slave holding. In 1769 an enslaved man named James Somerset was purchased in Virginia and brought to England. He eventually escaped but was recaptured and was in the process of being sold to Jamaica. But Somerset had friends who went to court on his behalf. In 1772 a judge ruled that enslaved people could not be forcibly removed from England.
The ruling didn’t end slavery in British territories and in fact it lasted in those regions for 50 more years. But even this narrow decision was too much for white Americans who feared that the crown might undermine or even end their right to slaveholding.
The ongoing effort to subdue native peoples created more conflict with colonial settlers. Virginia’s royal governor Lord Dunmore joined colonists in encroaching on western native lands and he incited the short lived Dunmore’s War 1774. But the marriage of convenience was short lived as the crown sought to keep the settlers under control by seizing their stores of gunpowder. The battle of Lexington and Concord was just one result of this conflict over armaments. In Virginia it ended with Dunmore taking refuge on a ship offshore in 1775. From that hiding place he hoped to manage people who were determined to do what they wanted. He declared martial law, threatened to burn Williamsburg to the ground, and declared that enslaved people would win freedom by serving in the king’s army. Some 800 of them did just that and formed what became known as the Ethiopian Regiment. White settlers were in a constant state of fear of slave revolts and Dunmore’s actions meant to keep them in check only heightened their determination to run the country without British interference.
While slaveholding appeared to be under threat, British efforts to create loyalty among the people of Quebec again threatened the colonists’ plan to take the entire continent. The Quebec Act of 1774 provided religious freedom to Catholics and declared that their land claims extended to the regions of the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley that American colonists wanted for themselves.
The crown and the colonists were both determined to seize lands from native peoples and to continue enslavement. But their interests were also hostile to one another and war was the inevitable result. White settlers wanted full independence for themselves and no control over their actions at all.
The indigenous populations were nearly eradicated in the decades long quest for conquest. Expanding slavery was an integral part of those efforts against native peoples. Genocide could not be carried out completely nor could any accommodation be made with European nations in the quest to control land from sea to shining sea. That is why the settlers declared their independence.
The process of decolonizing ourselves is a difficult one. We have been cut off from our history and we don’t know where or how our people played a part. As we try to educate ourselves we may find it difficult to give up traditions that we have claimed as our own. Regardless of personal choices made on July 4th, the causes of the Declaration of Independence must be known and acknowledged. That is the beginning of true independence for Black people.
Margaret Kimberley
Source: Black Agenda Report

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