Forwarded from SolarHoboism
Happy birthday, Chelsea Manning! (December 17, 1987)
As a member of the US Army, Chelsea Manning struggled with her gender identity and the moral weight of the innumerable crimes which she was privy and party to in America’s Middle Eastern wars. Downloading nearly 500,000 documents and smuggling them past security, Manning set out to expose them to the world. Rebuffed by mainstream news outlets, Manning gave the documents to WikiLeaks. She continued passing information on to WikiLeaks until she was caught and arrested. Her sentence of 35 years in prison caused outrage and was later commuted. She was imprisoned again for over a year recently for not testifying against wikileaks.
“In our zeal to kill the enemy, we internally debated the definition of torture. We held individuals at Guantanamo for years without due process. We inexplicably turned a blind eye to torture and executions by the Iraqi government. And we stomached countless other acts in the name of our war on terror.”
As a member of the US Army, Chelsea Manning struggled with her gender identity and the moral weight of the innumerable crimes which she was privy and party to in America’s Middle Eastern wars. Downloading nearly 500,000 documents and smuggling them past security, Manning set out to expose them to the world. Rebuffed by mainstream news outlets, Manning gave the documents to WikiLeaks. She continued passing information on to WikiLeaks until she was caught and arrested. Her sentence of 35 years in prison caused outrage and was later commuted. She was imprisoned again for over a year recently for not testifying against wikileaks.
“In our zeal to kill the enemy, we internally debated the definition of torture. We held individuals at Guantanamo for years without due process. We inexplicably turned a blind eye to torture and executions by the Iraqi government. And we stomached countless other acts in the name of our war on terror.”
Forwarded from The Black Lives Revolution (BLM)
We are joining the Choctaw and Chickasaw Freedmen in asking Representative Deb Haaland to publicly pledge her support for citizenship and equal rights for Freedmen of the Five Tribes in Indian Territory before being seriously considered for the position of Secretary of the Interior and to outline and commit to a plan for Freedmen integration and inclusion in Indian Territory.
https://twitter.com/ChoctawFreedmen/status/1330941790262861828
https://twitter.com/ChoctawFreedmen/status/1330941790262861828
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Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen
Deb Haaland co-sponsored a bill that removed protections for Black descendants of enslaved people owned by members of the Five Slaveholding Tribes in 2019. In four of these tribes, there are active Jim Crow policies. We must hold her accountable. https:/…
"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." -Gandhi
Forwarded from Syndiegram (Kozy Raccoon)
"Many of the representatives that came out most forcefully against Ocasio-Cortez have close ties to oil and gas."
The extreme center strikes again. They just keep doing it, over and over and over again. From the UK to the US, from Canada to EU countries, from Australia to all of South America. They'll use all legal and illegal means to detain power, then use progressives and leftists only to gain new voters, to then steal their slogans and transform them into empty pandering and leave the people to rot. Fucking hell. Just burn this shit to the ground.
prospect.org/politics/establishment-strikes-back-aoc-versus-centrist-democrats/
The extreme center strikes again. They just keep doing it, over and over and over again. From the UK to the US, from Canada to EU countries, from Australia to all of South America. They'll use all legal and illegal means to detain power, then use progressives and leftists only to gain new voters, to then steal their slogans and transform them into empty pandering and leave the people to rot. Fucking hell. Just burn this shit to the ground.
prospect.org/politics/establishment-strikes-back-aoc-versus-centrist-democrats/