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On this day, 19 April 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising broke out in earnest when Jewish people fought back against Nazi attempts to deport them to the Treblinka extermination camp. 2,000 German troops and police backed up with tanks entered the ghetto with the intention of removing the surviving residents, and were met by around 750 resistance fighters with a small number of smuggled small arms and some home-made Molotov cocktails. They forced the Germans to retreat and come back with reinforcements. After several days of failure to overcome the rebels, the Germans began burning down the entire ghetto one building at a time.Despite this, the resistance managed to hold out against the onslaught for 27 days, killing around 300 Germans. While some fighters managed to escape through the sewers, 7,000 Jewish people were killed and another 7,000 eventually deported to Treblinka.More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9062/Warsaw-Ghetto-Uprising To access this hyperlink, click our link in bio then click this photoPictured: Warsaw ghetto resistance fighters including Malka Zdrojewicz, right, who survived the death camps.

TIL that George Orwell was spied on by a Soviet secret agent named Hugh O'Donnell, code-name O'Brien. In a coincidence, (book spoiler) Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four to have a spy named O'Brien betray the main character, without knowing about the Soviet spy codenamed "O'Brien." [source, comments]

TIL during a rap beef, Jay-Z wrote a diss song against Nas, describing him having an affair with Nas girlfriend. Jay-Z's mom was disgusted with her son's behaviour and made him apologize to Nas and his family [source, comments]

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Hexenjagd christlicher Fundis auf einen schwulen Lehrer https://www.watson.ch/!454793518

Russlands Griff nach Afrika – wo der Kreml überall Soldaten hinschickt https://www.watson.ch/!811216168

Graffiti spotted in Quebec City

Good Idea: Turn Banana Stems into Period pads.
https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12905-021-01265-w


The focus is always on regular bananas for ripening as a fruit and some varieties such as plantain are ignored yet they are feeding people globally and are a great source of fibre and vitamins

What do we usually do with banana stems?
we can turn these banana stems into high value, highly sought products with great social impact.
Research says that an average medium to large sized stem can
produce 3000 period pads! So instead of letting these fibers go to waste, we can use it as another ressource stream.

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On this day, 20 April 1939, US jazz singer Billie Holiday released the song "Strange Fruit." The song was originally written as a poem by a Jewish songwriter, Abel Meeropol, who wrote it in protest and response to the photo of the lynchings of J. Thomas Shipp, 18, and Abraham S. Smith, 19 in Marion, Indiana.Meeropol performed this poem under a pseudonym, Lewis Allan, with the name "Bitter Fruit" and eventually published this work in a teacher’s union publication under the noscript "Strange Fruit." Meeropol got it handed to a nightclub owner who showed Billie Holiday.Holiday was affected by these lyrics growing up as a Black woman in segregated United States with a father who was killed by the US medical institution for being a Black man after turning him down for lung treatment, eventually killing him at 39.Before a studio release, Holiday performed this song as a finishing piece for her sets at the Café Society Club - the first racially integrated nightclub in NYC. She would sit on a stool with only a mic and spotlight on her as she sang. She would perform no encore and leave the stage for the audience to remember her last words. Holiday performed this to stand against racism in the US knowing the possible result of singing these words.While this song rose her to national prominence, it also made her a target for racist institutional holds to follow her through her life. She was targeted, pursued, and eventually arrested in 1947 on possession of narcotics charges. After being imprisoned for a year, she was barred from ever receiving a cabaret performer’s license. Through all this, "Strange Fruit'' resonates for those personally affected and holds a reminder for listeners of the racist history in the United States and the trauma brought on by this racism that continues today.More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12659/strange-fruit-releasedTo access this hyperlink, click our link bio then click this photo