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  1. I am thinking of the South African election of 1994 that finally ended the apartheid system. I was working for the electoral commission as a scribe. During the election I was reassigned to the National Crisis Centre. This was a medium sized room in a Joburg skyscraper. Tables were shoved together down the middle of the room and down the middle of the tables were two rows of phones. There must have been maybe forty phones.

    There were about three or four of us in the crisis centre. I nervously mentioned to one of the other workers that I had only heard about my assignment the previous day. I didn't have any training. "Training?" they echoed blankly. None of us had any training.

    Of course we got in early before the polling stations opened. We sat there in silence waiting for the first call. The run up to the election had been violent. there had even been a siege of our building, including exchanges of gunfire and deaths while we were trapped in the building. Overall, thousands of people had died during that period.

    We didn't know what kind of calls we were going to get. Would they be about missing stationery or bombs?

    Finally one of the phones rang. It was like an electric shock had hit all of us. We looked up and down the line of phones for the one that was ringing.

    I can still feel the cold horror as I realized the phones didn't have lights on. We had no idea which phone was ringing.

    If you had checked in on the crisis centre, poking your head around the door to see how we were doing, you would have seen a couple of us sitting in immobile despair in our seats, and a couple of others crawling like spiders on the oversized table, grabbing handfuls of phones and desperately shouting "Hello? Hello?"

    #southAfrica #apartheid

  2. Jazz​/​The African Sound

    amf.didiermary.fr/jazz-african

    “Jazz​/​The African Sound” by Chris McGregor & The Castle Lager Big Band, one of the most important African records of all time, a lost global jazz classic, and a true holy grail for collectors of Jazz and WorldJazz.

    Christopher McGregor (1936 – 1990) was a South African Jazz pianist, bandleader and composer born in Somerset […]

    #60smusic #Apartheid #BrassBand #Jazz #LiveMusic #SouthAfrica

  3. *** Edit Note: Just learned the event below occurred in 2019. I'd like to believe Harvard Law students in 2026 would be just as outraged and militant, if not more so.

    The Israeli Consul General, Dani Dayan, showed up at Harvard Law to lecture students on “the legal strategy of Israeli settlements.”

    The students didn’t debate him. They stood up, held signs that said settlements are a war crime, and walked out.

    Occupation doesn’t get a polite lecture hall. It gets an empty room.

    #Harvard #Students #Israel #WarCrimes #Apartheid

  4. I'm exhausted. I no longer have the strength to desire anything from this life. My mental health is shattered, and my heart is weary from all this pain.I try to stay strong every day,but I feel I can't bear it anymore.💔
    Please help us.Please donate to us
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    #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
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    #Fedivers
    @Shibanarchiste
    @gvenema
    @apenkop
    @lateinhemd
    @glmxndr
    @tekul

  5. I'm exhausted. I no longer have the strength to desire anything from this life. My mental health is shattered, and my heart is weary from all this pain.I try to stay strong every day,but I feel I can't bear it anymore.💔
    Please help us.Please donate to us
    gofund.me/d0cc0587
    #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
    #Palestine #FediForGaza
    #FediForGaza
    #Fedivers
    @Shibanarchiste
    @gvenema
    @apenkop
    @lateinhemd
    @glmxndr
    @tekul

  6. I'm exhausted. I no longer have the strength to desire anything from this life. My mental health is shattered, and my heart is weary from all this pain.I try to stay strong every day,but I feel I can't bear it anymore.💔
    Please help us.Please donate to us
    gofund.me/d0cc0587
    #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
    #Palestine #FediForGaza
    #FediForGaza
    #Fedivers
    @Shibanarchiste
    @gvenema
    @apenkop
    @lateinhemd
    @glmxndr
    @tekul

  7. During his visit to the Gaza border area, students from the “Soldiers” religious school in Sderot chanted and called on Netanyahu to take revenge against Palestinians and “erase their name from existence.” Netanyahu nodded his head in approval.👇💔🇵🇸
    gofund.me/d0cc0587
    #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
    #Palestine #fediforgaz
    #Fedivers
    @Shibanarchiste
    @gvenema
    @imigueldiaz
    @simon_brooke
    @apenkop
    @kathimmel

  8. During his visit to the Gaza border area, students from the “Soldiers” religious school in Sderot chanted and called on Netanyahu to take revenge against Palestinians and “erase their name from existence.” Netanyahu nodded his head in approval.👇💔🇵🇸
    gofund.me/d0cc0587
    #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
    #Palestine #fediforgaz
    #Fedivers
    @Shibanarchiste
    @gvenema
    @imigueldiaz
    @simon_brooke
    @apenkop
    @kathimmel

  9. During his visit to the Gaza border area, students from the “Soldiers” religious school in Sderot chanted and called on Netanyahu to take revenge against Palestinians and “erase their name from existence.” Netanyahu nodded his head in approval.👇💔🇵🇸
    gofund.me/d0cc0587
    #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
    #Palestine #fediforgaz
    #Fedivers
    @Shibanarchiste
    @gvenema
    @imigueldiaz
    @simon_brooke
    @apenkop
    @kathimmel

  10. RE: mastodon.social/@inthesetimes/

    i don’t agree with the take that #GloriaSteinem was an unquestionable ally of domestic workers and, especially of BIPOC; but this thread by In These Times is legit.

    i give USA #feminism, especially Friedan and Steinem, all the props for being the first to openly declare #zionism equal to #apartheid.

    but their modus operandi was lay bare at that 1975 International Women’s Year conference: they were good at appropriating the revolutionary work of BIPOC and neutralizing it for hegemonic gain

  11. My family consists of 6 people, 3 of whom are children, and I am the sole provider for all of them. We are going through an extraordinarily difficult crisis and harsh conditions, and I am no longer able to support them on my own

    I sincerely hope you can help us overcome this ordeal amidst these dire circumstances.

    I beg you a million times: please donate and share this campaign🇵🇸
    gofund.me/d0cc0587
    #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
    #fediforgaz

  12. My family consists of 6 people, 3 of whom are children, and I am the sole provider for all of them. We are going through an extraordinarily difficult crisis and harsh conditions, and I am no longer able to support them on my own

    I sincerely hope you can help us overcome this ordeal amidst these dire circumstances.

    I beg you a million times: please donate and share this campaign🇵🇸
    gofund.me/d0cc0587
    #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
    #fediforgaz

  13. My family consists of 6 people, 3 of whom are children, and I am the sole provider for all of them. We are going through an extraordinarily difficult crisis and harsh conditions, and I am no longer able to support them on my own

    I sincerely hope you can help us overcome this ordeal amidst these dire circumstances.

    I beg you a million times: please donate and share this campaign🇵🇸
    gofund.me/d0cc0587
    #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Gaza #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
    #fediforgaz

  14. 🎥: “Justice is not measured by where we stand after history has issued its verdict. It is measured by where we stand when the verdict is still being rendered.”

    from #MiddleEastEye on Telegram

    #NewYorkCity Mayor #ZohranMamdani has compared #NelsonMandela’s struggle against apartheid in #SouthAfrica to the #Palestinian struggle for freedom and self-determination. #Mamdani made the remarks at the inaugural Nelson Mandela Global Leadership Forum in New York City.

    Mandela was an anti-#apartheid activist who later became South Africa’s first democratically elected president and is widely regarded as one of the most significant figures in the global fight against racial oppression and injustice.

    Mamdani drew parallels between Mandela’s struggle and the situation facing Palestinians today, citing kidnapped Gaza doctor Dr. #HussamAbuSafiya, who is still detained by Israeli forces, as an example.

    #FreePalestine #Palestine #Israel #NYC #news #politics #USpol @palestine

  15. I had a good day yesterday, watching 4 films :)

    "The Last First: Winter K2" (imdb.com/title/tt39150288/) - a rather heavy one to start with, about an expedition up the #mountain #K2 that goes badly wrong.

    Next was "The Wind's Thirst" (imdb.com/title/tt39172060/), about some indigenous Colombians at the mercy of #coal extraction and #WindFarm projects redirecting river water and subjecting them to violence.

    "Hell's Army" (imdb.com/title/tt39830102/) - was very interesting - about the origins of the #WagnerGroup and their involvement in various wars.
    In the Q&A afterwards, they said that some former Wagner Group members are now security on #Russia's "Shadow Fleet" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_).

    Last was "Notes From The Underground" (sheffdocfest.com/film/notes-un) about the #HipHop music scene in #CapeTown and how it developed under #apartheid up to the present day.
    In their Q&A they said they spent 34 days in 2017 filming, but lost all the footage in the burglary :( After mourning for a while, they then had to go back and shoot it all again.

    There were loads of other interesting-looking films I would like to watch, but I could only make the Sunday :(

    There was also a #BurningMan series on #HBO (imdb.com/title/tt29033873) that they showed a couple of episodes from, but I was too late to get tickets. I really need to look out for that as my mate said it was good!

    #FilmFestival #Documentary #Sheffield

  16. So, the departure of Donald Pols from Milieudefensie to Tata Steel is turning out to be a 'dodged a bullet' kind of situation.

    Pols was fired from Tata after a single day, because he was the leader of the ASF in South-Africa during his student years.

    The ASF was a far-right organization fighting for apartheid. Pols was literally trying to prevent Melson Mandela from speaking in public.

    That's pretty close to stereotypically evil. Fuck that dude.

    nos.nl/artikel/2616817-pols-na

    #Milieudefensie #DonaldPols #apartheid #racism #NelsonMandela #Mandela #NL #NLnews

  17. RE: snowfan.it/@Majden888/11662849

    Oh this? Just Israeli barbarians doing what they do best, being barbarians; beating up women and children (this is tame, they’ve already murdered tens of thousands of them in an ongoing genocide).

    #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #barbarians

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    #image #photography
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  19. Either Israel has no place in Western civilisation, or the West has no right to call itself civilised.

    If your allies are barbarians, you are barbarians.

    #israel #barbarians #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism

  20. Children suffer from severe psychological stress due to the daily pressures they face in a time when humanity is being written about, and the world is living without humanity. #image #photography #diplomacy / #reactionary / #iran #iran #usmilitary #genocide #genocide #apartheid #settlercolonialism #gaza #palestine #StopIsrael #humanitarianaid #palestine #donate #palestine

  21. theguardian.com/commentisfree/. "The #deathpenalty is morally repugnant. How much more so, then, when it is made the default, must be speedily carried out, cannot be subject to #clemency, & is blatantly #discriminatory - not merely in practice but inherently. The #law passed by Israel’s #Knesset on Monday is worded to effectively apply only to #Palestinians, entrenching what many... have identified as practices amounting to #apartheid."

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    #Apartheid #Sionisme #Fascisme #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #gazaverified #gazagenocide #freepalestine #palestine #federalaid

  23. Prices are skyrocketing, and we're trying to cope, but the situation is becoming unbearable… Any donation, no matter how small, will make a big difference. If you can't donate, please share this post or comment so others can see it.

    😭

    #Apartheid #Sionisme #Fascisme #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #gazaverified #gazagenocide #freepalestine #palestine #federalaid

  24. "Jews are above the law." — Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's National Security Minister, as he personally led the forced eviction of a Palestinian family from their home — on camera, with legal papers, and zero shame.

    He didn't just watch. He showed up. He said it. He did it.

    This is not a rogue official. This is the Minister of National Security.

    #Palestine #HumanRights #Apartheid #BenGvir #InternationalLaw #EthnicCleansing #HoldThemAccountable

  25. „Oft höre ich auch, der Aufruf zum #Boykott israelischer Unternehmen und Organisationen – wie etwa jener der #BDS-Bewegung – sei anti­semitisch, weil es an den Boykott jüdischer Geschäfte der Nazis erinnere.

    Um den Vorwurf zu prüfen, lohnt es sich zu untersuchen, was die BDS-Bewegung, die 2005 von Organisationen der palästinensischen Zivilbevölkerung gegründet wurde, mit ihrer Kampagne überhaupt bewirken möchte.

    Inspiriert von der Anti-#Apartheid-Bewegung aus #Südafrika fordert die BDS-Bewegung die Beendigung der #Besatzung des Westjordanlands, der Golanhöhen und Ostjerusalems, das Rückkehrrecht für palästinensische Flüchtlinge von 1948 & die Gleichberechtigung für arabisch-palästinensische Bürger:innen Israels. Dies sind allesamt politische Ziele, die sich an den Menschenrechten, demokratischen Grundsätzen und zahlreichen Resolutionen der #UNO orientieren und die weder die Vertreibung noch die Unterjochung jüdischer Israelis implizieren."
    republik.ch/2026/03/14/das-spi

    #israel #Genozid