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  1. Gendered oppression: divide and rule.

    Have you ever wondered why there seems to be so much hostility, or at best indifference, between feminists and trans people?

    And then... who benefits from keeping us divided?

    I have!!

    neurofabulous.org.uk/gendered-

    Thoughts and comments welcome. I've also now added a comments section at the bottom, following someone's comment that my site was from the Dark Ages... though they were more polite about it 😊

    (me)

  2. Mobile’s Civil Rights Story

    Mobile, Alabama, has preserved a civil-rights history often overshadowed by Birmingham and Montgomery. Local activists such as John LeFlore challenged segregation in buses, schools, voting, and public life, while churches and the longshoremen’s union provided organizing space. Today the city’s museums, heritage trail, historic sites, and emerging Civil Rights and Cultural Heritage District connect that struggle to the places where it unfolded. #civilrights

  3. #OTD October 16th in 1859, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry started. Abolitionist Brown and his followers tried to start a slave revolt to end slavery in the US.

    Can you locate on a #map where the raid took place?

    Click to guess: whereintheworldgame.com/?id=15

    #History #JohnBrown #Civilrights

  4. ACLU: ACLU Marks the Supreme Court Term with New Digital Museum Experience Highlighting Landmark SCOTUS Cases. “Today, the ACLU launched The People’s Archive, a dynamic digital museum that combines photography, audio, print, and video chronicling the organization’s key civil rights and civil liberties milestones throughout its over 100-year history.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/10/15/aclu-aclu-marks-the-supreme-court-term-with-new-digital-museum-experience-highlighting-landmark-scotus-cases/
  5. The execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will not be livestreamed as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had previously announced. Donald Trump announced the plan was off in a post on Truth Social: I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how […]#Civilrights #Law #News #Policy #Politics
    Trump calls off livestream of execution
  6. On July 25, 1914, the #Austria-n Council of Ministers suspended the most important civil rights enshrined in the constitution: personal liberty, the inviolability of the home, the rights of association and assembly, the privacy of correspondence, press freedom, etc.
    mrp.oeaw.ac.at/pages/show.html
    We will discuss this on Nov. 11 during the presentation of our World War I-era volumes.
    #histodon #histodons #history #government #HabsburgMonarchy #AustriaHungary #WWI #civilRights

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