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— From the Cell to the Street: Iranian Women Never Surrender!
On this International Women's Day, Iran is under bombardment, and Iranian women are, as they have always been, in the middle of the fire, not as victims, but as fighters.
From the first days of the Islamic Republic, women were the ones who refused. When Khomeini imposed the mandatory hijab in 1979, women took to the streets within days. For nearly five decades they paid the price of that refusal with imprisonment, with lashes, with death. The regime built its entire ideological architecture on the control of women's bodies, women's movement, women's voices. And for five decades, women dismantled that architecture brick by brick.
When Mahsa Jina Amini was murdered in September 2022, it was women who lit the flame that became the Woman-Life-Freedom uprising. Not because they were told to. Not because a party or a leader gave them permission. But because they had been burning for decades and finally the fire became visible to the world.
That flame did not die. In December 2025 and January 2026, women were again at the front of the uprisings, organizing, leading, inspiring. The regime responded with its full and brutal force. Women were beaten in the streets. Shot with live ammunition. Sexually abused in detention. Tortured in cells. Some were killed. Their names may not yet be known to the world but we know them. We carry them. We honor every woman who gave her life in those weeks demanding nothing more than the right to exist freely and with dignity.
The prisons filled again with women who had dared to stand up. Today, as bombs fall on Iranian cities, those same women remain in detention. Some have been transferred to Revolutionary Guard military bases, used as human shields. Their cases are being rushed through courts in silence and blackout. The risk of mass executions is real.
Now war has been added to oppression. Women in Tehran, in Minab, in cities across Iran are sheltering their children from missiles while their sisters rot in cells. They are nursing the wounded in damaged hospitals. They are documenting atrocities on phones connected to illegal VPNs. They are keeping the memory of the struggle alive in the darkest moment.
We say clearly: the liberation of Iranian women will not come from American bombs or Israeli missiles. It will not come from a monarchy that treated women as property before the Islamic Republic treated them as sinners. It will come, it is already coming, from the women themselves. From below.
On this 8th of March we honor every Iranian woman who refused. Every woman who burned her hijab. Every woman who went into the street. Every woman who was beaten, tortured, and abused for daring to demand freedom. Every woman who was killed and whose blood waters the seeds of the struggle. Every woman who is in a cell today. Every woman who is alive and still fighting.
They are not waiting to be liberated. They are the liberation.
No Mullah! No Shah!
Woman—Life—Freedom!
Anarchist Front
source : #^https://t.me/AnarchistFront
links/liens : #^https://link.kompektiva.org/@anarchistfront
#8mars #8m2026 #womenrights #droitsdesfemmes #iran #afghanistan -
Today, May 8, 2025. On May 8, 1945, let us not forget the massacre that took place in Sétif, Guelma, and Kherrata, where over 45,000 Algerians were killed.
They took to the streets to demand a free and independent Algeria, and France did not hesitate to commit these atrocities.
رحمهم الله 🇩🇿
#SetifMassacre #NeverForget #AlgerianHistory #May8 #Guelma #Kherrata #IndependenceStruggle #Algeria #HistoricalMemory #Algerie #الجزائر #8mai #8mai1945 #8ماي
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. What it should produce is a belief that knowledge is attainable in a measure, though with difficulty; that much of what passes for knowledge at any given time is likely to be more or less mistaken, but that the mistakes can be rectified by care and industry. In acting upon our beliefs, we should be very cautious where a small error would mean disaster; nevertheless it is upon our beliefs that we must act. This state of mind is rather difficult: it requires a high degree of intellectual culture without emotional atrophy. But though difficult it is not impossible; it is in fact the scientific temper. Knowledge, like other good things, is difficult, but not impossible; the dogmatist forgets the difficulty, the skeptic denies the possibility. Both are mistaken, and their errors, when wide-spread, produce social disaster.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 1, ch. 2 “The Aims of Education” (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/826…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #action #caution #dogma #dogmatism #education #knowledge #rationality #science #selfawareness #skeptic #skepticism #truthseeking #pedagogy
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In Nzed, highlighting the latest Amnesty report on criminal #Israel: "This is irrefutable. This is genocide. And it must stop now." https://asiapacificreport.nz/2024/12/07/amnesty-international-doubles-down-on-israeli-gaza-genocide-atrocities-report-at-nz-rally/ #StopArmingIsrael #ICJ4Netanyahu #ICC4Israel
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Because the US, and Australia too, delivers it impunity, unaccountable criminal #Israel gets away with the most foul atrocities and abuses of Palestinian children. https://www.dci-palestine.org/_they_were_trying_to_exterminate_us_palestinian_children_in_gaza_tortured_by_the_israeli_military #StopArmingIsrael #ICC4Israel
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RT by @eu_eeas: The 🇪🇺 is appalled by the recent dramatic escalation of violence in #Darfur.
The international community cannot turn a blind eye on what is happening in Darfur and allow another genocide in this region. #KeepEyesOnSudan #AUEU
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/JosepBorrellF/status/1723669213812854821#m
[2023-11-12 11:48 UTC]
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RT by @eu_eeas: The 🇪🇺 is appalled by the recent dramatic escalation of violence in #Darfur.
The international community cannot turn a blind eye on what is happening in Darfur and allow another genocide in this region. #KeepEyesOnSudan #AUEU
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/JosepBorrellF/status/1723669213812854821#m
[2023-11-12 11:48 UTC]
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How the Sabres Were Ruined by Milan Lucic’s Hit on Ryan Miller
The Buffalo Sabres have been trapped at the bottom of a chasm of futility for the better part of the last 11 years. We've discussed a few of the reasons for such, including the 2014 trade of Ryan Miller that ushered in the era of atrocious hockey ...
Read more:
https://thehockeywriters.com/sabres-impact-lucic-hit-miller-2011/?src=mast2#BuffaloSabres #HockeyHistory #SabresHistory #MilanLucic #RyanMiller
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How the Sabres Were Ruined by Milan Lucic’s Hit on Ryan Miller
The Buffalo Sabres have been trapped at the bottom of a chasm of futility for the better part of the last 11 years. We've discussed a few of the reasons for such, including the 2014 trade of Ryan Miller that ushered in the era of atrocious hockey ...
Read more:
https://thehockeywriters.com/sabres-impact-lucic-hit-miller-2011/?src=mast2#BuffaloSabres #HockeyHistory #SabresHistory #MilanLucic #RyanMiller
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How the Sabres Were Ruined by Milan Lucic’s Hit on Ryan Miller
The Buffalo Sabres have been trapped at the bottom of a chasm of futility for the better part of the last 11 years. We've discussed a few of the reasons for such, including the 2014 trade of Ryan Miller that ushered in the era of atrocious hockey ...
Read more:
https://thehockeywriters.com/sabres-impact-lucic-hit-miller-2011/?src=mast2#BuffaloSabres #HockeyHistory #SabresHistory #MilanLucic #RyanMiller
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/𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙤/
Dicen que el infierno no está bajo tierra, sino en una carretera secundaria sin cobertura a las tres de la mañana.
El coche soltó un último suspiro de humo negro y se quedó mudo.
Silencio absoluto.
Un silencio denso, físico, de esos que te taponean los oídos y te hacen notar el latido de tu propia sangre en las sienes.Bajé del coche y el frío me dio un bofetón seco.
La oscuridad era tan brutal que me sentí ciego, perdido en un abismo de alquitrán donde el cielo y el asfalto eran la misma boca de lobo.
Busqué el móvil en el bolsillo, pero la pantalla estaba muerta, un cristal negro que no devolvía ni un reflejo.Y entonces, lo vi.
A unos metros, una luz roja rasgaba la negrura.
Un punto escarlata, estático, sangrando en mitad del vacío.
No era un faro, ni la luna, ni una señal de obra parpadeante.
Era una luz fija, un ojo incandescente que parecía clavado en el aire.
Me acerqué, atraído por esa única brizna de color como una polilla hipnotizada, aunque cada instinto me gritaba que diera media vuelta.Bajo el resplandor rojo, distinguí un bulto.
Bajo, ancho, indefinido.
No era una roca ni un animal atropellado.
Era una barrera, un obstáculo que cortaba el paso de forma antinatural.
Parecía absorber la poca luz que había, una masa de sombra más oscura que la propia noche.Me quedé ahí, paralizado.
El tiempo se volvió elástico.
Empecé a sentir que la oscuridad a mis espaldas ya no estaba vacía.
Sombras que se movían por el rabillo del ojo, un susurro que no llegaba a ser voz pero que me erizaba el vello de la nuca.
Dicen que si miras mucho tiempo al abismo, el abismo te devuelve la mirada.
Yo sigo aquí, atrapado por ese brillo rojo, sabiendo que lo que sea que se esconde bajo esa luz acaba de notar que estoy aquí. Y lo peor es que ha empezado a sonreír.◆═════════●★●═════════◆
#terror #suspenso #miedo #oscuridad #luzroja #carretera #misterio #noche #relato #horror #cuento #miedo #nocturno #relatocorto #leyenda #sombras
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Throw Them All in the Trash Bin of History: Why Authoritarian “Communist” Leaders Deserve No Praise
There’s a strange trend that never seems to die: people—especially some folks on the left—continue to romanticize and defend authoritarian communist leaders like Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Enver Hoxha, and an entire laundry list of other so‑called “revolutionaries” who ended up running deeply authoritarian regimes. And let me be completely honest from the start: I think this is nonsense. When people try to excuse or justify the atrocities committed by these […] -
If you haven't seen the #JohnPilger #documentaries about #Cambodia & how the #USgovernment is why #PolPot #KhmerRouge gained & retained power - please watch them.
It's important #geopolitical #history.
It was one of the worst #genocide atrocities in modern human history. Cambodians were #dehumanized like Vietnamese were. Both sovereign nations suffered many years of embargoes by US & their Western allies, along with Cold War pals back then - China. US was still angry & bitter about losing their imperialist invasion in Vietnam & they opted to punish Cambodia, Vietnam & Laos - they are really sore losers.As you watch these #documentary films - please try to pay attention to how US officials haven't really changed their scripts in decades. They use similar lies/political deflective/avoidance verbal dances to this day. In 2024, they're talking about Arabs like they used to talk about Cambodians, Vietnamese & Laotians - like none of us are human beings. It's just collateral damage when a million or more POC folks, far from Western worlds, are mass murdered for political power games.
Year Zero:
https://watchdocumentaries.com/year-zero-the-silent-death-of-cambodiaYear One:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SkUc5MrZ1JUReturn to Year Zero:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VjZBWtjKzVk#AsianMastodon #Cambodians #WarSurvivorsForPeace #WarCrimes #FuckTheUSA #USAterrorism #USATerrorists #TootSEA #NeverForget #Genocide #SouthEastAsia #geopolitics #USALies #warmongers #WarCriminals #AmericanAbuses #NeverTrustUSA #USAWarCrimes #SponsoredByUSA #USABullies #Decolonization #educational #USAFundsGenocide
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/116560569258597909
Periodistas científicos de la organización African Climate Reporters (ACR) alertaron sobre el rápido declive de las poblaciones mundiales de abejas melíferas, advirtiendo que los pesticidas, el cambio climático, la destrucción del hábitat y otras prácticas ambientales perjudiciales amenazan la seguridad alimentaria, la biodiversidad y la sostenibilidad ambiental.
El grupo emitió un comunicado ayer con motivo del Día Mundial de la Abeja Melífera.
https://leadership.ng/pesticides-clima…te-change-threaten-global-bee-population/
#CambioClimático #ConvulsiónClimática #AtrocidadMasiva #contaminación #medioambiente #clima
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📌Una de cada cuatro gasolineras aprovechó la bajada del IVA para aplicar otra subida de precios este domingo
https://carabanchel.net/una-de-cada-cuatro-gasolineras-aprovecho-la-bajada-del-iva-para-aplicar-otra-subida-de-precios-este-domingo/
#Carabanchel #Madrid #VIDEOS #bajadasdeimpuestos #CNMC #facua #gasoil #gasolina #gasolineras #IVA #márgenes -
NSW Police brutal suppression of #ProPalestine protests is dismantling #Australia's #RightToProtest. Have we become #HongKong, #Tiananmen, #PutinsRussia or #TrumpsAmerica? Who are our governments serving? I deplored and deplore the invasion of our first peoples, I deplore the atrocity of #Bondi. I deplore the continuous assault on #Palestinians. One atrocity does not nullify another.
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Más allá del crimen de la casa de Aramberri.
Hoy vamos a adentrarnos en la historia de la familia Montemayor, tristemente conocida por el infame crimen de la casa de Aramberri. El matrimonio, compuesto por María Antonia Lozano Martínez (de 20 años) y Delfino Montemayor Martínez (de 23 años), se casó el 28 de octubre de 1901. Eran originarios de General Zuazua, en el estado de Nuevo León, y tuvieron al menos cuatro hijos, según los registros.
AnunciosLa familia vivió una serie de tragedias. Su primera hija, Florinda Montemayor, nació el 16 de noviembre de 1903. Sin embargo, no vivió mucho tiempo, pues falleció el 26 de abril de 1905, cuando solo tenía un año, debido a gastroenteritis. Para ese entonces, María Antonia había dado a luz a su segunda hija, Felipa Montemayor, nacida el 5 de febrero de 1905. Lamentablemente, Felipa corrió con una suerte similar: murió de bronconeumonía el 4 de septiembre de 1906, sin llegar a cumplir dos años.
AnunciosEl tercer hijo del matrimonio, y único varón registrado, Héctor Montemayor, nació el 18 de agosto de 1908. Héctor también falleció en su infancia, el 25 de junio de 1909, a causa de una meningitis cerebral aguda.
Ya por finalizar, nació la que todo el mundo conoció por el crimen: Florinda Montemayor, el 23 de enero de 1911. Esta segunda Florinda fue víctima de uno de los crímenes más atroces de la época, pues murió de manera violenta el 5 de abril de 1933, a la edad de 22 años.
Lo curioso es que parecía que la desgracia perseguía a la familia Montemayor, ya que cuando los infantes murieron, todavía no vivían en la famosa casa de Aramberri, lugar donde se cometió el crimen que los haría tristemente célebres.
AnunciosReflexionando sobre todo esto, me doy cuenta de algo aún más terrible: Delfino Montemayor fue quien tuvo que enterrar a sus cuatro hijos y a su esposa, todos ellos fallecidos a edades muy tempranas. La única hija que llegó a la adultez, Florinda, tuvo un final aún más espantoso. Es verdaderamente desgarrador.
Si quieres conocer más detalles sobre este impactante caso y cómo el destino selló el trágico final de los Montemayor, sigue explorando nuestro blog para descubrir todos los misterios ocultos detrás de esta historia.
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El pasado fin de semana fui a ver #Furiosa al cine y me sorprendió que hubiese niños, sí, niños, pero no niños mayores, niños pequeños... y no solo uno, sino niños en plural.
No éramos muchos en la sala pero conté un total de siete niños, de los cuales una tenía no más de cinco años 😮, otro de siete 😮 y unos cuantos de diez años.
Sin haber visto la película, antes del inicio ya me encontraba incómodo con esa situación, porque conozco lo atroz que pueden ser algunas escenas de #MadMax (y quién haya visto alguna, lo sabe), pues al final de la película les hubiera dicho algo a esos padres. Libre expresión, pero me callé. Hay escenas que hasta mi mujer giró la cabeza, creo que es un claro ejemplo de la situación.
Desde aquí digo, NO llevéis a vuestros hijos a este tipo de películas... ¡por Dios! por algo está etiquetada para mayores de +16 años. No les hagáis ver algo que vuestro cerebro maduro entiende pero el suyo seguro que no... porque no puedo saber que se les pasará por la cabeza al ver esas imágenes pero no creo que sea algo que puedan o ni siquiera sepan cómo asimilar, toda la violencia explícita, etc.
Para esto tenéis la página del estado con las calificaciones de cada película, simplemente revisadla para ver si podéis o no ir con vuestros hijos. Hacedlo por ellos, ya tienen las guerras y violencia de la vida real, que tienen que conocer para intentar mejorar y evitarlas en el futuro, por lo que no les hagáis pasad por esto también. Son vuestros hijos.
https://sede.mcu.gob.es/CatalogoICAA/Peliculas/Detalle?Pelicula=217223
#cine #pegi #edad #violencia #categoria #brutalidad #mundo #apolcalíptico #dureza #hijos #niño #niña -
Era un sabato pomeriggio come tanti quello di 32 anni fa, il 23 maggio del 1992.
Io non vivevo più a casa con i miei genitori e di solito il sabato andavo sempre a trovarli e, insieme a loro, ci recavamo a casa di mia nonna materna che abitava al piano di sopra.
Era un modo per passare dei momenti lieti, si cenava tutti insieme, una tradizione a cui tenevamo per mantenere ancora più saldo l’affetto familiare.
La nonna nella sua cucina aveva sempre un piccolo televisore acceso, le piaceva guardare un po' di tutto mentre si dedicava a cucinare, le piaceva, per lei era un momento di ritrovo familiare.
Ma quel sabato pomeriggio, un tragico evento, avrebbe trasformato quei momenti lieti in una sensazione di amarezza e di sconforto.
Ad un certo punto, le trasmissioni TV che stavano andando in onda, furono interrotte per dar spazio ad un’edizione straordinaria del telegiornale, nella quale venne annunciato il terribile e vile attentato di stampo terroristico-mafioso, nel tratto di autostrada A29 in prossimità dello svincolo di Capaci, attentato nel quale persero la vita i giudici Giovanni Falcone e Francesca Morvillo, moglie del magistrato, e tre dei cinque uomini della scorta Vito Schifani, Rocco Dicillo e Antonio Montinaro.
Mia madre, donna di una sensibilità fuori dal comune, che si metteva a piangere anche quando apprendeva in tv la morte di un attore o di un attrice, appresa la notizia dell’attentato scoppiò a piangere, cercai di consolarla con un abbraccio.
In quel momento tutto sembrava perduto, sconforto e rabbia era in ogni cittadino palermitano e ancora non potevamo immaginare quello che sarebbe successo da lì a un paio di mesi dopo, il 19 luglio 1992, dove ancora un atroce attentato di stampo mafioso avrebbe ucciso il giudice Paolo Borsellino e gli uomini e una donna della sua scorta.
Proprio il giudice Paolo Borsellino, dopo la morte del suo amico Giovanni, in un suo discorso disse:
“CHI HA PAURA MUORE OGNI GIORNO. CHI NON HA PAURA, MUORE UNA VOLTA SOLA”.
Lo scorso anno ho realizzato un piccolo video, che ripropongo, dedicandolo a Giovanni, Francesca, Vito, Rocco ed Antonio.
https://peertube.uno/w/uwY8QRYQGqEJs3tRjfzYmF
#palermo #panormus #sicilia #sicily #photography #fotografia #storia #story #art #culture #europe #world #città #capaci #strage #falcone #morvillo #vito #schifani #antonio #montinaro #rocco #dicillo #mafiamerda #lamafiaeunamontagnadimerda #stragedicapaci -
Today, we remember Guevara of Gaza, Mohammed Al-Aswad, on the 51st anniversary of his martyrdom.
Mohammed was 13 years old when Marxist revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara paid his first visit to the Gaza Strip that was, at the time, administered by Egypt.
Little did he know that he will become a resistance icon and nicknamed “Gaza’s Guevara” for his tremendous role in the resistance against the occupation in Gaza and his continuous revolt against injustice and colonialism, as well as his ability to hide and confuse the enemy.
Originally, Mohammed al-Aswad, or “Gaza’s Guevara” was born in the coastal city of Haifa in 1946. Later, the boy and his family sought refuge after they were displaced from their city as a result of the 1948 Nakba and eventually ended up in a refugee camp in Gaza.
Al-Aswad grew up to become a resistance activist against the Zionist regime and was jailed for two years. After his release in 1970, he joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and gradually got promoted to commander of the PFLP military wing in the Gaza Strip.
During that time, he focused on training and educating resistance forces, as well as organizing demonstrations and strikes against the occupation, applying Martyr Bassel al-Araj’s doctrine: “If you don’t want to be engaged (in fighting oppression), your intellect is pointless.”
His integrity made Moshe Dayan, former occupation Minister of Security, say, “We run Gaza by day, and Guevara and his comrades run it at night.”
In one operation a group of his comrades stormed an area besieged by the regime, targeting it with explosives and machine gun fire, killing four Zionist soldiers and injuring many others. This operation occurred in full view of the besieged Palestinians, forced the occupation to retreat, and broke the siege.
He wrote, “I cannot stand the sight of our people suffering the horrors of the terrible occupation and remain silent. I can’t wait; I can’t stand it. I desire to hit them and hit them. No, rather, I desire to destroy and destroy this enemy in every place.
We can only prove our existence by action, not by words.”
Two years later, on March 9th of 1973, the occupation located Guevara after four years of chasing him. They besieged him in Gaza with hundreds of soldiers, tanks, and planes. Guevara did not falter. He and his two comrades—Kamel Al-Asmi and Abdulhadi Al-Hayek—emerged ready to battle and refusing to surrender. All three were martyred. Moshe Dayan himself came to Gaza to ensure that Guevara, the nightmare that haunted the zionists, was truly martyred.
Three years later, “Gaza’s Guevara” was martyred during a heroic battle in the Strip.
Ernesto Che Guevara’s visit to Gaza
Martyr Mohammed al-Aswad’s story is vivid proof of the significant and strong relationship between Che Guevara and the Palestinian cause, which Gaza has become the symbol of.
In fact, Che Guevara’s visit to the Strip on June 18, 1959, at the invitation of the late Egyptian President and leader Gamal Abdel-Nasser, came to establish a state of solidarity and harmony between Cuba and the Palestinian cause.
His visit to Gaza transformed the cause from regional to global and reflected his famous phrase: “Solidarity is a condition that must always be practiced.”
The occupation of Palestine and the systematic ethnic cleansing against its population triggered the establishment of Palestinian Resistance forces and the emergence of freedom fighters, legitimized by Abdel-Nasser, who was considered a leader against colonialism and imperialism.
To break the determination and resilience of the Resistance, occupation forces, led by Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister from 2001 till 2006, continuously attacked the Gaza Strip and its refugee camps, committing horrible massacres against many Palestinians and Egyptian soldiers, with no reaction from the international community that simply turned a blind eye to the atrocities.
A historic visit by all means
Che’s visit came in support of Palestinian national liberation and revolutionary movements against imperialism and colonization.
It was an exceptional visit that was met enthusiastically by resistance leaders and Palestinians.
He was accompanied to al-Bureij Camp, where Zionist committed some of the most horrible massacres, and saw the poverty and hardship that Palestinians were living in, advised Palestinian leaders to pursue the path of resistance, which they tread through their people’s resilience and steadfastness.
During the visit, he addressed the camp leader Mustafa Abu Midyan, saying, “You should show me what you have done to liberate your country. Where are the training camps? Where are the arms manufacturing factories? Where are the people’s mobilization centers?” With these words, Guevara was trying to lay out the foundations necessary for any resistance movement.
At the same time, he urged Palestinian refugees to continue their struggle in order to liberate their land from the occupation, offering to supply the Palestinian resistance with arms and training.
And the impact still echoes
Following the historic visit, Cuba offered scholarships, granted citizenships, and organized many conferences all in support of Palestine and the Palestinian people.
In addition, the island of Cuba was one of the first countries to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization when it was founded in 1964.
Soon after his visit, the Marxist doctor became an icon for the Palestinian resistance and fighters and a symbol of revolution, especially for leftist movements.
Hasta Siempre
On this occasion, on the 54th anniversary of his martyrdom, it goes without saying that Che’s resistance, integrity, and solidarity is what we are in need of to liberate the oppressed nations, such as Palestine, Yemen, and any country in the world from Western imperialism, colonialism, and military occupation. His memory still brings forth devoted revolutionary resistance figures such “Gaza’s Guevara”, Mohammed al-Aswad.
Armed with his forwardness and valor, he would have been on the frontlines in Gaza fighting the Israeli siege. He would have been digging, using a tool as simple as a spoon, alongside the other six, the freedom tunnel that liberates the whole of Palestine from the operators of the Gilboa Prison.
source: Resistance News Network, Al Mayadeen
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Today, we remember Guevara of Gaza, Mohammed Al-Aswad, on the 51st anniversary of his martyrdom.
Mohammed was 13 years old when Marxist revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara paid his first visit to the Gaza Strip that was, at the time, administered by Egypt.
Little did he know that he will become a resistance icon and nicknamed “Gaza’s Guevara” for his tremendous role in the resistance against the occupation in Gaza and his continuous revolt against injustice and colonialism, as well as his ability to hide and confuse the enemy.
Originally, Mohammed al-Aswad, or “Gaza’s Guevara” was born in the coastal city of Haifa in 1946. Later, the boy and his family sought refuge after they were displaced from their city as a result of the 1948 Nakba and eventually ended up in a refugee camp in Gaza.
Al-Aswad grew up to become a resistance activist against the Zionist regime and was jailed for two years. After his release in 1970, he joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and gradually got promoted to commander of the PFLP military wing in the Gaza Strip.
During that time, he focused on training and educating resistance forces, as well as organizing demonstrations and strikes against the occupation, applying Martyr Bassel al-Araj’s doctrine: “If you don’t want to be engaged (in fighting oppression), your intellect is pointless.”
His integrity made Moshe Dayan, former occupation Minister of Security, say, “We run Gaza by day, and Guevara and his comrades run it at night.”
In one operation a group of his comrades stormed an area besieged by the regime, targeting it with explosives and machine gun fire, killing four Zionist soldiers and injuring many others. This operation occurred in full view of the besieged Palestinians, forced the occupation to retreat, and broke the siege.
He wrote, “I cannot stand the sight of our people suffering the horrors of the terrible occupation and remain silent. I can’t wait; I can’t stand it. I desire to hit them and hit them. No, rather, I desire to destroy and destroy this enemy in every place.
We can only prove our existence by action, not by words.”
Two years later, on March 9th of 1973, the occupation located Guevara after four years of chasing him. They besieged him in Gaza with hundreds of soldiers, tanks, and planes. Guevara did not falter. He and his two comrades—Kamel Al-Asmi and Abdulhadi Al-Hayek—emerged ready to battle and refusing to surrender. All three were martyred. Moshe Dayan himself came to Gaza to ensure that Guevara, the nightmare that haunted the zionists, was truly martyred.
Three years later, “Gaza’s Guevara” was martyred during a heroic battle in the Strip.
Ernesto Che Guevara’s visit to Gaza
Martyr Mohammed al-Aswad’s story is vivid proof of the significant and strong relationship between Che Guevara and the Palestinian cause, which Gaza has become the symbol of.
In fact, Che Guevara’s visit to the Strip on June 18, 1959, at the invitation of the late Egyptian President and leader Gamal Abdel-Nasser, came to establish a state of solidarity and harmony between Cuba and the Palestinian cause.
His visit to Gaza transformed the cause from regional to global and reflected his famous phrase: “Solidarity is a condition that must always be practiced.”
The occupation of Palestine and the systematic ethnic cleansing against its population triggered the establishment of Palestinian Resistance forces and the emergence of freedom fighters, legitimized by Abdel-Nasser, who was considered a leader against colonialism and imperialism.
To break the determination and resilience of the Resistance, occupation forces, led by Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister from 2001 till 2006, continuously attacked the Gaza Strip and its refugee camps, committing horrible massacres against many Palestinians and Egyptian soldiers, with no reaction from the international community that simply turned a blind eye to the atrocities.
A historic visit by all means
Che’s visit came in support of Palestinian national liberation and revolutionary movements against imperialism and colonization.
It was an exceptional visit that was met enthusiastically by resistance leaders and Palestinians.
He was accompanied to al-Bureij Camp, where Zionist committed some of the most horrible massacres, and saw the poverty and hardship that Palestinians were living in, advised Palestinian leaders to pursue the path of resistance, which they tread through their people’s resilience and steadfastness.
During the visit, he addressed the camp leader Mustafa Abu Midyan, saying, “You should show me what you have done to liberate your country. Where are the training camps? Where are the arms manufacturing factories? Where are the people’s mobilization centers?” With these words, Guevara was trying to lay out the foundations necessary for any resistance movement.
At the same time, he urged Palestinian refugees to continue their struggle in order to liberate their land from the occupation, offering to supply the Palestinian resistance with arms and training.
And the impact still echoes
Following the historic visit, Cuba offered scholarships, granted citizenships, and organized many conferences all in support of Palestine and the Palestinian people.
In addition, the island of Cuba was one of the first countries to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization when it was founded in 1964.
Soon after his visit, the Marxist doctor became an icon for the Palestinian resistance and fighters and a symbol of revolution, especially for leftist movements.
Hasta Siempre
On this occasion, on the 54th anniversary of his martyrdom, it goes without saying that Che’s resistance, integrity, and solidarity is what we are in need of to liberate the oppressed nations, such as Palestine, Yemen, and any country in the world from Western imperialism, colonialism, and military occupation. His memory still brings forth devoted revolutionary resistance figures such “Gaza’s Guevara”, Mohammed al-Aswad.
Armed with his forwardness and valor, he would have been on the frontlines in Gaza fighting the Israeli siege. He would have been digging, using a tool as simple as a spoon, alongside the other six, the freedom tunnel that liberates the whole of Palestine from the operators of the Gilboa Prison.
source: Resistance News Network, Al Mayadeen
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I'm often inspired to share my thoughts, expound upon something I've read that sparks that inspiration, or pose a bit of socratric reasoning in discourse. Sometimes we actually edjumacate ourselves by asking the tough questions rhetorically. Sometimes it's even more effective if we share those quests with others. It can be a phrase, a paragraph, or a sentence that ignites that quest for understanding within me, and whether I'm simply working it through it myself for my own sake or a genuine desire to share some kind of enlightenment or wisdom with others, I usually feel better doing it in the public eye at the end of the day when all is said and done.
There's a bit of a stir in the Fediverse. Darnell offers us some valuable considerations and specifics in the link to his blog post below.
For me, I think the most interesting part when you read between the lines is, ...
> This latest move could be a way for Meta to use Threads to thwart any potential ActivityPub powered rivals in the Fediverse (like Pixelfed, Friendica & WordPress).
Note that nowhere is masto even listed there - it's insignificant. The #ActivityPub powered rivals in the #Fediverse cited are what have been considered for many years the direct corollaries to #InstaSPAM and #Faceplant, respectively, which of course are the exceedingly capable platforms #Pixelfed and #Friendica.
In all of that, considering that #WordPress is the big game changer here of most recent repute, enjoying a 42% market share of all websites worldwide certainly blows away anything Meta has to offer, but even though it is past the 4th of May, Faceplant and InstaSPAM still do comprise the #phantom_menace flavor of this week.
- Pixelfed has a very nice interface for browsing images. Unlike InstaSPAM however, there isn't this overwhelming nausea attending user accounts with duck-ass selfie-kisses blown into bacteria laden bathroom mirrors, or the overwhelming shitposting of memes scraped from other non-verbal teenage neanderthals. So yes, there's less traffic, typically, but actual photos of things that are actually important and relevant to the people posting them, and more so, liked and boosted by people who appreciate such sentimentalism or professional art. On the downside, is Pixelfed's relatively lackluster editor that fails to provide the poster with paragraph breaks in the WebUI with any reliability, it's mastocrap-like paltry 500 character limit per post, and a complete lack of formatting capabilities (i.e., Markdown or BBCode, Etc.). Having said that, the 500 character limit is easily remedied in a single entry of a config file, which is a blessing to many who have resorted to using the #A11Y alt-text fields to provide the descriptions and narratives for images uploaded, but the other sophomoric qualities of the editor leave massively huge run on paragraphs for the reader to endure - like this one, for example :p
Other awesome projects either spawned directly from, or inspired by the success of Pixelfed are the FediDB research database, which although pretty, leaves much to be desired with respect to completeness; Sup, a client/server federated chat app model; Loops, a closed beta service that aims to position itself as a replacement for, and similar to YouTube shorts; and PubKit, a tool service in closed beta at this time that attempts to service the same or similar tests that the production https://funfedi.dev/ resource does.
- Friendica was once a platform that closely mimicked the look and feel of Faceplant. And then it wasn't, as the Faceplant monoverse continued to evolve in look and feel, and Friendica lagged in what I typically refer to as "Prettiness". Those days are long past, Friendica looks better and better with each and every successive release, and there's an obvious effort on improving the UX for users, making it much more intuitive, and the UI, tending to the "Prettiness" that I do indeed place so much emphasis on.
Once the original darling of the Fediverse, Friendica is once again at the top of the heap with a few others. This does not include the increasingly marginalized masto brand, as more and more adoptees continue to turn their backs to that has-been flagship.
After increasingly pervasive betrayals of both the #FOSS and #DeSoc philosophies and advocates for the past couple of years, eventually revealing it's own EEE aspirations by actively conflating it's masto brand and registered trademarks with that of Fediverse. Even worse, overtly engaging in an onboarding scheme that actively funnels new #Fedizens to one masto machine in particular, in grand, deprecated silo fashion, the masto corporation has populated one of the largest monolithic vertical gardens in the Fediverse itself. The sad part is that, being just another twitter clone, it still has no sense of community and offers nearly a million users a single point of failure. Ouch!
This masto mega-silo problem becomes even less relevant when you visit the Friendica page above, and gloss over the phenomenal feature set and attention given to interoperability with a shopping list of other platforms, protocols, and clients, including:
RSS/Atom, StatusNet, GNU social, Diaspora, SMTP/IMAP, Bluesky, Tumblr, GNU Social, pump.io, Libertree, Blogger, WordPress, Twidere, AndStatus, Bitlbee, Choqok, Frentcl, Gwibber, Hotot, IdentiCurse, Pidgin/Purple, Mustard, Pino, TTYtter.
Now, you might note that Twitter/X has walled off its deprecated monolithic garden, but that doesn't mean that the client and other toolsets that work with those APIs don't still work just fine with Friendica. And we're not even stating the obvious here - ActivityPub clients like Husky, Fedilab, and Sengi work just fine with Friendica, including Friendiqa and Relatica - two fine examples among the numerous choices you have for native Friendica apps for Android and desktop.
For more of an in-depth read on Relatica, here's an article I published a while back
The second most interesting thing that Darnell mentions, I think, has to do with the verbiage in which he characterizes Existing and traditional Fediverse powered platforms. Rivals. He calls them, "...ActivityPub powered rivals". Hmmmm....
I do believe that's the first time I've actually heard it put quite like that. But it's true. to be certain, it wasn't, not by a longshot, just a little while ago, but now? Well, it's nothing that we've done here in the Fediverse, except for continue to just ignore what's going on with the #subjugated_chattel that have all but succumbed to the #Sunnyvale_Syndrome, and get on with the good work of building and #dogfooding FOSS. But, ...
It's got a lot to do with what you might call interlopers, carpetbaggers, snakeoil salesmen, infestation, or maybe just plain old encroachment of aged and abusive #dreadnoughts into the Fediverse that stubbornly adhere to their deprecated, monolithic silo model of privacy farming technologies.
Hitherto all of these ActivityPub refits and forays into a Privacy mindful and respecting network of social communications systems, people kept using terms like Alternatives, for ActivityPub powered platforms such as the three main platforms mentioned in Darnell's blog article.
Now, they're being elevated to the rank of Rivals? But we, we, didn't do anything!
Neither did the GPL'd Linux Kernel - it just continued to do what FOSS does. It doesn't care what thinks it may be in competition with, or what considers it a threat, or rival or yes, REPLACEMENT for things like Faceplant and InstaSPAM.
Yes, FOSS just lumbers and chugs right along, relatively oblivious to whatever the proprietary, closed source contemporaries think of it - with respect to Linux, It actually entered the jurisdiction of a market dominated by Microsoft, IBM, and a couple of others, was lampooned and ridiculed, until it was considered a Cancer, by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, but this wasn't Microsoft or others encroaching into a space where only Linux and the BSDs resided...
This time it is different, because it's the other way around, but the end result will be the same. In the meantime, the perceived hostile invader, at the moment, is Zuckerberg's Meta. This isn't an EEE in the works, it's a desperate attempt to reach and hold onto the the coping that lines the deep end of a swimming pool which InstaSPAM and Faceplant must learn to swim in, and yet cannot - in the meantime, until it is able to tread those waters, it is feebly dog-paddling toward the edge where a handhold can be made while it is fitted with water-wings.
Even though both Tom (everyone's friend) and Eugen are happily traveling around the world snapping photographs and flirting with photography as a hobby, #Mark_Zuckerberg really doesn't wanna be #Myspaced.
If you don't move, you atrophy.
But Friendica, WordPress, and Pixelfed? Well, they're just FOSS, and they're just doing what FOSS does - exist, improve, and evolve. independently and irrespective of commercial threats by would be competitors.
Existing Fediverse platforms continue to onboard new Fedizens hourly, that's not slowing down, and it isn't going to either. Some of these n00bs are straddling the fence until they get their sea legs, existing in both worlds, while others are just cutting ties with the deprecated monolithic silos and jumping into the pool head first.
This phenomena of adoption and the logarithmic increase in onboarding and the deployment of new Fediverse instances is only going to pick up pace as the masses of users on platforms like #Threads and #Bluesky continue to become aware of the Fediverse, and the freedoms they can enjoy in social communication through leveraging WordPress, Pixelfed, and Friendica (and it goes without saying, all the rest of the wonderful platforms too).
With a community facade that pretended to hold the reigns of masto having been dropped, leaving a new 501(c)(3) masto corporation in the US steered by the likes of Twitter founders themselves, the steam is running out on that brand, and although Meta, via Threads, is certainly welcome to participate in the #FEP process (they actually are), there's really no foothold with which they can insert a toe and dictate very much at all that the community itself isn't inclined to adopt already, independently and without concern of capture by well funded special interest groups - like the new US masto corp.
But in closing, let's get back to why all of this doesn't even really matter where existing traditional Fediverse platforms are concerned - or the millions of users actively engaged on those thousands of hubs and instances:
Because it's FOSS, it evolves organically, and just doesn't care about that kind of stuff, lolz.
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RE: https://one.darnell.one/users/darnell/statuses/112405069391666443
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This little baby-girl's name is Reem Abu Hayya: She not only lost her #parents but her entire family, #grandparents, #uncles, #aunts, and #siblings.
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This little baby-girl's name is Reem Abu Hayya: She not only lost her #parents but her entire family, #grandparents, #uncles, #aunts, and #siblings.
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#CEASEFIRE #gaza #palestine #orphan #civilians #siblings #children #genocide #loss #suffering #pain #trauma #deaths #killings #horror #endisraelswarcrimes #stopisrael #stopthegenocide #idf #atrocities #bibi #netanyahu #IDF #KhanYounis
This little baby-girl's name is Reem Abu Hayya: She not only lost her #parents but her entire family, #grandparents, #uncles, #aunts, and #siblings.
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#CEASEFIRE #gaza #palestine #orphan #civilians #siblings #children #genocide #loss #suffering #pain #trauma #deaths #killings #horror #endisraelswarcrimes #stopisrael #stopthegenocide #idf #atrocities #bibi #netanyahu #IDF #KhanYounis
This little baby-girl's name is Reem Abu Hayya: She not only lost her #parents but her entire family, #grandparents, #uncles, #aunts, and #siblings.
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#CEASEFIRE #gaza #palestine #orphan #civilians #siblings #children #genocide #loss #suffering #pain #trauma #deaths #killings #horror #endisraelswarcrimes #stopisrael #stopthegenocide #idf #atrocities #bibi #netanyahu #IDF #KhanYounis
This little baby-girl's name is Reem Abu Hayya: She not only lost her #parents but her entire family, #grandparents, #uncles, #aunts, and #siblings.
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Three #Palestinian #men, #father and #uncles in mourning - next to the body of their 5-year-old #son and #nephew who was #murdered during a recent #IDF attack.
