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Resistance, Remembrance, and Comunidad: Cinco de Mayo, Mount Pleasant, and the Rebuilding That Erases

Cinco de Mayo is often misunderstood in the United States. It is reduced to a marketing holiday, a day of beer specials, paper flags, mariachi clichés, and the shallow consumption of Mexican culture without the burden of remembering Mexican history. But the heart of Cinco de Mayo is not consumption. It is resistance.

The day remembers the Battle of Puebla, May 5, 1862, when Mexican forces defeated the French army, then one of the most powerful military forces in the world. It was not Mexican Independence Day. It was not the founding of Mexico. It was a day when a people under pressure from empire stood their ground. It was a day when the powerful were resisted by those who were supposed to lose. It was, at its deepest level, a day about memory, dignity, land, sovereignty, and the refusal to be swallowed by imperial appetite. (MySA)

That is why, for me, Cinco de Mayo cannot be separated from another May 5: May 5, 1991, in Washington, D.C.

I was there.

Read the rest of the essay at PeaceGrooves.com.

https://youtu.be/8gTbRow_PjQ?si=WohJ4l5UdxAjJCCL
#lespresso #labuso #truthbomb #iof #babykillers #rapists #idf #israel #zionism #naziism #trumpcrimefamily #israel #netanyahu #zionism #war #warcrimes #gaza #iran #lebanon #uspol #netanyahu #gaza #freepalestine #MeeadAbualRub #palestine #wallandsettlementauthority #soba #IdnaalKhalil #israelisettlers #iof #israelioccupyingforces #AbuAlRub #armedsettlers #intimidation #teargas

In Backlash to Campus #ProPalestine #Protests, Echoes of #StandingRock and the Global Crackdown on #ClimateProtest

The use of #militarized police and “#antiterrorism” laws against #activists is not new in the U.S.

by Alleen Brown, Drilled
This story is co-published with the Center for Media and Democracy and #CensoredNews

May 3, 2024

"As soon as a single #Palestinian activist showed up at an anti-#DakotaAccessPipeline camp on the edge of the Standing Rock reservation in 2016, intelligence analysts for the mercenary security firm #TigerSwan were on alert.

"El-Zabri, the Palestinian activist surveilled at Standing Rock, was among 79 people arrested this week while protesting at the #UniversityOfTexas at #Austin. 'It really felt like the same as Standing Rock, when we were facing the police,' he said.

"''There was a whole army that looked like it was at war in #RiotGear. They eventually used #TearGas and #PepperSpray.'

"'They're afraid of what we have to say and the people that we can touch,' said Cornell senior Yanenowi Logan, who is Deer Clan from the #SenecaNation and has been negotiating with campus administrators.

"Logan said that by standing up for Gazans, she and other Native organizers are also standing up for themselves. 'We want to be able to show them that, hey, we're still here,' she said. 'You can try to kill us. You can burn our crops. You can do whatever you want to do, but we're still going to persist.'"

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/05/drilled-in-backlash-to-campus-pro.html

#Genocide #Israel #Palestine #FreePalestine #GazaSolidarity #NoDAPL #Colonialism

This quote is from a different event, but worth calling out. I recommend reading the full story.

//Vasquez said it was especially terrifying to see police teargas reproductive justice protests, given the concerns that exposure can potentially cause abortion or miscarriage, which in some states can lead to criminalization and arrest: “Knowing the aftermath of being teargassed, it’s like watching a car crash you’ve already been through.”//
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#Teargas #GeorgeFloydProtests #TeargasHealthEffects

Tear gas is not benign. This story analyzes its overuse and consequences from the 2020 George Floyd protests in Portland.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2023/apr/17/teargas-effect-portland-police-investigation

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#Teargas #PortlandProtests #GeorgeFloydProtests #TeargasIsNotBenign