#convicts — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #convicts, aggregated by home.social.
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Britain abolished #slavery in 1833 parliament granted £20m compensation - for lost income - to former enslavers. Prominent British families moved to the colonies with proceeds of slavery’s abolition, most prolifically in South Australia, which prided itself on being “the free state” devoid of #convicts
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/21/colonial-australias-foundation-is-stained-with-the-profits-of-british-slavery#Capitalism #Colonialism #labourmovement #workingclasshistory
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Wednesday, August 5, 2026
"It started flying right at me": Russian drone seen targeting vegetable seller at Kherson market in horrific video footage . . . . . Russian ballistic missile attack kills 15, injures 51 in Kyiv and surrounding area . . . . . Over 8,300 glide bombs dropped by Russia on Ukraine in July in record figure since full-scale invasion . . . . . US stocks of ATACMS, Precision Strike missiles at rock bottom after virtually all used in Iran war . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/wednesday-august-5-2026/
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Peter O'shaughnessy (1923 - 2013) performance of "A convict's tour to hell" By #FrankThePoet
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A Convict’s Tour Of Hell
Lashed 590 times, Francis Macnamara was sent to solitary confinement, to the treadmill, and worked on chain gangs.
Throughout incarceration, Frank the Poet continued to entertain his fellow convicts with rebellious verse.
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Russia’s prison population falls as #convicts are sent to war
#Russia's #prison population decreased by more than 180,000 #inmates over 5 years, driven by Moscow’s recruitment of prisoners to fight in #Ukraine
Arkady Gostev, head of Russia’s Federal #Penitentiary Service, said Russia now holds 282,000 prisoners , down from 465,000 at the end of 2021, according to state media. The decrease amounts to nearly 40%.
https://kyivindependent.com/russias-prison-population-falls-as-convicts-sent-to-war/
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The forgotten political history of Australia's convicts
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-30/forgotten-political-history-of-australia-convicts/103621728
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150th Anniversary of #Catalpa (ten year planned prison escape via ship)
(Note: #Fenian from Irish culture the band of warriors, #Fianna, led by the hero Fionn macCumhaill - anglicised to #FinnMcCool )
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“First Impressions” Artwork, The Rocks, Sydney, NSW, Australia
The sandstone relief sculpture symbolises the origins and settlement of the colony of New South Wales, by depicting elements of Sydney history in the middle of the rocks area. The Rocks is a very popular spot where locals and tourists mingle at the open-air Markets, perusing handmade fashions and street food.
This fairly large sculpture is located at the intersection of Playfair and George Street. It has three sides, with a figure or figures carved into each side. Very popular spot for pictures. Each side represents a particular group of people that established themselves in Sydney early on: The Convicts, The Settlers, and The Soldier.
"First Impressions" was commissioned by the Sydney Cove Redevelopment Authority in 1979.
http://welchwrite.com/blog/2026/02/16/first-impressions/
#sculpture #artwork #soldier #settlers #convicts #therocks #history #historicaldistrict #architecture #sydney #australia #travel
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Big Quarry Literature and Settlers Caught on Screen
The complex anxiety of quarry noir"We dig holes in Australia...It’s what we do. It’s all we’ve ever done, we’re just the world’s quarry, an enormous pit, ever since we struck gold a hundred and fifty years ago." >>
https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-australias-quarry-noir-mines-our-anxiety-about-our-biggest-industry-239523"Dr James Finlay reflects on how Australia’s convict past has been represented on screen, tracing shifts from early cinematic melodrama through to television drama and contemporary film, and considering how these visual narratives continue to shape national memory." >>
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/history-now-caught-on-screen-australias-convict-history/id1674476464?i=1000749142755James Findlay, Caught on Screen, Australia’s Convict History in Film and Television, 2025 >>
https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/caught-on-screen-9798765100523/#mining #extractivism #Literature #film #screen #culture #SettlerSociety #convicts #history #Australia #fiction #narratives #QuarryNoir #BigQuarry #books #NationalAnxiety #criminality #FirstNationsPeoples
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Reframing #Jan6 After the #Pardons, the #Purge In its campaign of “uprooting the foot soldiers,” the #Trump #DOJ has# fired or #demoted more than two dozen Jan. 6 #prosecutors, even as those they sent to #prison walk free. #democracy #corruption #criminal #crimes #convicted #convicts #domesticterrorism #maga #trump #criminals #prosecution #authoritarian no #justice #victims #survivors https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/nyregion/january-6-capitol-riot-prosecutors.html
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Revolutionaries, Rebels & Radicals Transported as Convicts to AUS
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Russia plans to use convicts with hepatitis B and C for meat-grinder assaults in Ukraine
Ukrainian intelligence has reported that the #Russian #military leadership has decided to form assault units from #convicts with hepatitis B and C and send them to war against #Ukraine.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/10/29/7481924/
#RussianAggression #hepatitis #RussianArmy #MeatGrinder #soldiers
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“Convicts” is based on Horton Foote’s “The Orphans’ Home Cycle”- a series of nine one act plays. You can read them for free here (https://archive.org/details/orphanshomecycle00foot/page/n5/mode/2up)
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This week’s #WestWed leading men are Robert Duvall, Lukas Haas and the late James Earl Jones, who will be very missed
#Convicts #RobertDuvall #LukasHaas #JamesEarlJones #RIPJamesEarlJones #90smovies -
Here for “Convicts”
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Is This the Real #Reason #ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump Promises to #Pardon #January6th #Insurrection #Convicts
If past is prologue and Trump #loses the #election, is there any reason to think he won’t enlist #violent #rightwingers to #challenge the #outcome during the weeks between #ElectionDay and January 6, 2025? He should be #asked about it at this week’s #debate.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/is-this-the-real-reason-trump-promises-to-pardon-january-6th-convicts
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This is François-Maurice Lepailleur, a political prisoner exiled to Australia on the HMS Buffalo in 1839-40 for taking up arms to fight democracy against autocratic British colonial rule in Canada.
At that time, the Australian penal colonies were a dumping ground, not only for criminals but also for political prisoners gathered from across the British Empire.
Read about the Patriot convicts and their experiences once they reached Australia… https://ausgeo.co/patriotconvicts
📷 courtesy of City of Montreal
#ausgeo #australia #canada #seeaustralia #exploremore #history #convicts #ship
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A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies by Clare Anderson
Between 1415, when the Portuguese first used convicts for colonization purposes in the North African enclave of Ceuta, to the 1960s and the dissolution of Stalin's gulags, global powers including the Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, British, Russians, Chinese and Japanese transported millions of convicts to forts, penal settlements and penal colonies all over the world.
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Ep 67, looking at the UNESCO World Heritage listed Maria Island, has been remixed with a slower pace. Have a listen now if you found the earlier version a little too busy. 🙂
🎧 https://www.australianhistoriespodcast.com.au/67-maria-island/ 🎧
From it's aboriginal heritage, to use as a convict and then industrial site, to it's present day national park status - a rich interesting history.
#AustralianHistory #OzHist #AustralianPodcast #History #convicts #AustralianStories #MariaIsland #Tasmania #ConvictsTasmania #NationalParks
