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aleskandro

Growing up as a child of the Erasmus generation, I believed in a borderless Europe. Now, walls and fear return. Governments fund weapons, not education; they focus on borders, not people. I recall traveling from Valencia to Brussels, London, and Brno, meeting diverse souls, and sharing knowledge. Our future depends on staying human.

#globalsolidarity #AntiWar #peace #EuropeanUnion #AntiImperialism

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Aleskandro · No borders, no strangers - only peopleI grew up in a small town in southern Italy as a child of the Erasmus generation. I never knew borders - not in the way past generations did. Thanks to the European Union, I could move freely, study abroad, live, and work in different countries without a passport or visa. I was never a foreigner - only a person among people. And yet, despite everything we have built together, despite decades of peace...
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STREET ART UTOPIA

Street Art for Ukraine (14 Photos)

Since Russia invaded Ukraine street artists worldwide have wielded their brushes and spray paints, creating a powerful collection of anti-war murals and protest art. These artists visually express their resistance to the war in Ukraine and advocate for fundamental human rights and values. We've curated a collection of street art by artists who dedicate their creative talents to supporting peace in Ukraine. These striking pieces serve as reminders of the human cost of war while displaying […]

streetartutopia.com/2025/02/24

#antiwar#antiwarstreetart#artisticprotest
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Ms. Que Banh

Nguyễn Thị Bình is a granddaughter of the Nationalist leader Phan Chu Trinh. She grew up in a land that had been under French rule since 1858. The country’s resources were plundered, & the people exploited as cheap labour & reduced to grinding poverty. So determined were the French to maintain their colonial hold at any cost, they collaborated in power-sharing with Japanese #fascist #occupiers who brought horror & starvation from 1940-1945.

Despite this, led by the #VietMinh Front, people of Vietnam triumphed in the #AugustRevolution of 1945 & the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam (DRV) was declared on September 2nd. Democratic elections took place in January 1946 but French troops, with the open support of the US & Britain, attacked the new Viet Minh administration in the south of the country & the #WarOfResistance against #France began.

Binh studied French at Lycée Sisowath in Cambodia & worked as a teacher during the #French #colonisation of Vietnam. She joined #VietnamCommunistParty in 1948. Upon joining, she immediately began work as a #grassroots #AntiColonial organiser. From 1945-1951, she took part in intellectual protest movements against French #colonists. She was arrested & jailed between 1951-1953 in #Saigon by the French #colonial authority in Vietnam. She was repeatedly interrogated under torture & sentenced to death but was reprieved & released in very poor health in 1954.

Upon release from prison, Binh went north to work in #Hanoi for the National #WomensUnion. Her job took her to many localities where she witnessed first-hand the impact of #colonialism & the French War on ordinary people & especially women & children.

1954 was a year of victory for the Vietnamese army. The defeated French were forced to sign the #GenevaAccords recognising the independence, sovereignty & unity of Vietnam. The country was temporarily split in two at the 17th parallel, with the French moving to the south from which they would withdraw, while the Viet Minh went to the north. A general election for the government of a united country was to follow within 2 years.

But it never happened. The #USA came centre stage to ensure that the Accords were never implemented. Driven by strategic interests in the region, it made sure that Vietnam stayed divided – preventing an election that would have swept Ho Chi Minh to power with 80% support, while bankrolling & controlling the reactionary #regime of Diem-Nhu south of the 17th parallel. This regime violently suppressed all opposition, executing of thousands of Viet Minh supporters & condemning hundreds of thousands to concentration camps and prisons.

In response, the NLF (for liberation of South Vietnam & unification) was formed in 1960. Nguyen Thi Chau Sa was assigned to the Foreign Affairs Section of its Re-unification Committee & given the name Nguyen Thi Binh (Peace). From 1962 onwards, her high-profile diplomatic work, took her across the world. She represented the aspirations of the people of Vietnam in every country & forum she visited, while the world’s strongest #imperialist power made all-out war on her small country.

During the #VietnamWar, she became a member of the #Vietcong Central Committee and a vice-chairperson of the South Vietnamese #WomensLiberation Association. In 1969 she was appointed foreign minister of the Provisional #Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam. A fluent French speaker, Bình played a major role in the #ParisPeaceAccords - an agreement that was supposed to end the war & restore peace in Vietnam.

She was expected to be replaced by a male Vietcong representative after preliminary talks, but became one of the group's most visible international public figures. During this time, she was famous for representing Vietnamese women with her elegant & gracious style, and was referred to by the media as "Madame Bình". She was also referred to as the "Viet Cong Queen" by Western media.

After the war, she was appointed Minister of Education of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 1982-1986; the first female minister ever in the history of Vietnam. Binh was a member of the Central Committee of Vietnam's Communist Party from 1987-1992. She was the Deputy Chair of the Party's Central Foreign Affairs Commission & Chair of the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee. The National Assembly elected her twice to position of Vice President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for the terms 1992–1997 & 1997–2002.

Bình has authored several op-eds, including a one on the state newspaper Nhân Dân in which she voiced concerns that the current personnel policy of the Communist Party of Vietnam have allowed some "incompetent and opportunistic" individuals to enter the party's apparatus. She also criticized the Party's focus on increasing membership at the expense of "quality."

From March 2009-2014, she served as a member of the support committee of #RussellTribunal on #Palestine.

Madame Bình became a source of inspiration & namesake for Madame Binh Graphics Collective, a #RadicalLeft all-women poster, printmaking, & street art collective based in NYC from 1970s-1980s.
Many Americans in the #AntiWar movement were proud to wear T-shirts printed with the portrait of "Madame Binh". By then, she had become a symbol for female soldiers of the legitimacy of Vietnam's efforts.

Madame Bình has been awarded many prestigious awards & honours, including the Order of Ho Chi Minh & Resistance Order (First Class). In 2021, President of Vietnam Nguyễn Xuân Phúc awarded her the 75-year Party Membership Commemorative Medal.
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam, the Government of Vietnam commissioned the official portraits for 12 former foreign ministers from 1945-2020. Nguyễn Thị Bình was included among them as the only South Vietnamese foreign minister & the only woman.

Ref: Nguyen Thi Binh". Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography (3rd ed.). Boston: Northeastern University Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-55553-421-9

Ref: Triantafillou, Eric (3 May 2012). "Graphic Uprising". The Brooklyn Rail. 

Ref: russelltribunalonpalestine.com

Ref: Hy V. Luong (2003), Postwar Vietnam: dynamics of a transforming society, Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 0847698653

Signature of Madame Bình on her capacity as Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam in a diplomatic document co-signed by Nguyễn Duy Trinh, her counterpart from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam)
Black and white photo of Nguyễn Thị Bình (centre-left) with Nguyễn Thị Định alongside other "Long-Haired Army" leaders (Viet Cong women).
3 black-and-white photographs set against a light beige background. The left image presents a close-up of Madame Binh in traditional clothing with soft lighting emphasizing her features. The center photograph features a group of three people, with Binh & a female comrade, prominently displayed; they are positioned outside a building with decorative architecture. The right image shows Binh speaking at a press conference, surrounded by multiple microphones, with additional artistic elements and a map of Vietnam visible in the background.
#AsianMastodon#Vietnam#VietnameseRevolutionaries
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James M Branum - יעקב מתתיהו ☮

I sent a request to the #Biden administration today (by a few different channels) and I'm hoping that as many peace-minded folks as possible use our voices now to persuade President Joe Biden to pardon all US servicemembers who are alleged to have violated UCMJ Articles 85, 86, & 87 (AWOL, Desertion and Missing Movement) during the years of the #Afghanistan and #Iraq wars.

If you or an organization you work with would be willing to endorse this request, or would be willing to make a public statement (which might be a letter to the editor, op--ed, etc.), please be in touch.

Time is of the essence was Biden leaves office on January 20th.

bit.ly/BidenPardons

Photos of Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden and a QR code Text: 1977 President Jimmy Carter pardoned those who resisted the draft during 3 the Vietnam War. 2024 President Joe Biden has a historic opportunity to pardon those who went AWOL during the years of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Learn more at: bit.ly/BidenPardons
#Peace#AntiWar
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Christine Johnson

Next up is the University of Missouri Press, where you get 40% through December 15 with code Holiday24.

For this press, it's a look at the history of activism in #StLouis during the turbulent 1960s and 70s. Long before the #Ferguson uprising, #StL city residents were engaged in #BlackPower, #GayRights, #Environmental and #AntiWar activities.

Showing yet again why the #Midwest matters.

upress.missouri.edu/9780826222

University of Missouri PressLeft in the MidwestDespite St. Louis's mid-twentieth-century reputation as a conservative and sleepy midwestern metropolis, the city and its surrounding region have long playe...
#bookstodon#missouri
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Sally Strange

RIP Alice Brock, of "Alice's Restaurant" fame.

TIL: Alice helped Arlo Guthrie write the first part of the song. The restaurant of the song, the Back Room, was in Massachusetts, but was closed by the time the song became famous. She was also a librarian and an author.

For the kids who don't want to spend 20 minutes listening to the whole story: in between the catchy chorus about how you can get anything you want at Alice's restaurant, Arlo sing-talks a long story. It starts with a big dinner at Alice's. Then Arlo and his pal take some trash to the dump, but the dump is closed, so they leave the trash in a ravine. Then they get arrested for littering and Alice bails them out. THEN, later on, Arlo gets called for the Vietnam draft, but since he has this criminal conviction for littering he is not, as the song puts it, "moral enough join the Army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after bein’ a litterbug." Hence why it became an anti-war anthem.

#music #FolkMusic #AntiWar #ArloGuthrie #ProtestSongs

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Ms. Que Banh

#WeShallOvercome with the #PowerOfThePeoples 💗✌️✊️💗

The most accomplished interpretive #folksinger of the 1960s, #JoanBaez has influenced nearly every aspect of popular music in a career still going strong. Baez is possessed of a once-in-a-lifetime soprano, which, since the late '50s, she has put in the service of folk and pop #music as well as a variety of political causes. Starting out in Boston, Baez first gained recognition at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, then cut her debut album, Joan Baez (October 1960), for Vanguard Records. It was made up of 13 traditional songs, some of them children's ballads, given near-definitive treatment. A moderate success on release, the album took off after the breakthrough of Joan Baez, Vol. 2 (September 1961), and both albums became huge hits, as did Baez's third album, Joan Baez in Concert, Pt. 1 (September 1962). Each album went gold and stayed in the bestseller charts more than two years.

From 1962 to 1964, Baez was the popular face of #FolkMusic, headlining festivals and concert tours and singing at political events, including the August 1963 March on Washington. During this period, she began to champion the work of folk songwriter Bob Dylan, and gradually her repertoire moved from traditional material toward the socially conscious work of the emerging generation of '60s artists like him. Her albums of this period were Joan Baez in Concert, Pt. 2 (November 1963) and Joan Baez 5 (October 1964), which contained her cover of Phil Ochs' "There But for Fortune," a Top Ten hit in the U.K. Like other popular folk performers, Baez was affected by the changes in popular music wrought by the appearance of the Beatles in the U.S. in 1964 and Dylan's introduction of folk-rock in 1965, and she began to augment her simple acoustic guitar backing with other instruments, initially on Farewell, Angelina (October 1965). It was followed by a Christmas album, Noël (October 1966), and Joan (August 1967), albums on which she was accompanied by an orchestra conducted by Peter Schickele. Baez continued to experiment in the late '60s, releasing Baptism (June 1968), in which she recited poetry, and Any Day Now (December 1968), a double album of Dylan songs done with country backing, which went gold.

In March 1968, Baez had married #antiwar protest leader David Harris, who was imprisoned as a draft evader. Harris was a country music fan, and Baez's turn toward country, which continued on David's Album (June 1969) and One Day at a Time (March 1970), reflected his taste. Blessed Are... (August 1971) was a gold-selling double album that spawned a gold Top Ten hit in Baez's cover of the Band's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." It was followed by Carry It On (December 1971), the soundtrack to a documentary about Baez and Harris. Baez switched record label affiliation to A&M Records with Come from the Shadows (May 1972), which moved her in a more pop direction. Where Are You Now, My Son? (May 1973) included sounds taped during Baez's visit to Hanoi in December 1972. In the late '60s and early '70s, Baez moved toward pop/rock music and also began to write her own songs, culminating in the gold-selling Diamonds & Rust (April 1975), which was followed by the entirely self-written Gulf Winds (October 1976). Baez moved to the Portrait label of CBS Records with Blowin' Away (June 1977), but she left the label after Honest Lullaby (May 1979), and her next album, European Tour (1980), was released only outside the U.S. It was another seven years before she found an American record label, Gold Castle, for Recently (1987), which was followed by the live album Diamonds & Rust in the Bullring (January 1989) and Speaking of Dreams (October 1989). Baez moved to Virgin Records for Play Me Backwards (August 1992).

In 1993, Vanguard released Rare, Live & Classic, a three-CD boxed set retrospective. Ring Them Bells, a live album on which Baez was joined by musical descendants like Mary Chapin Carpenter and Indigo Girls, came out on Guardian Records in 1995. Gone from Danger, her first studio album in five years, followed in 1997, and it was another six years before the release of Dark Chords on a Big Guitar in 2003. A November 2004 concert in New York was documented on the 2005 release Bowery Songs. Baez's 24th studio album, Day After Tomorrow, produced by Steve Earle, was released on September 9, 2008, by Bobolink/Razor & Tie, followed by Sing Me Home almost exactly a year later in 2009.. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi

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YouTubeJoan Baez - We Shall Overcome (BBC Television Theatre, London - June 5, 1965)By John1948SevenB
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Cat, destroyer of worlds

Boris Kagarlitsky and the challenges of the left today: International conference

Ever defiant in the face of repression and a five-year jail term, Boris Kagarlitsky, Russia’s best-known socialist thinker, has just published his latest book, The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left.

This special online conference in Kagarlitsky’s honour will address the double aspect of his contribution: his wide-ranging analysis of the left’s dilemmas in the face of multiple global crises and the advance of the far right; and his resistance — together with other persecuted anti-war activists in the Russian Federation — to the authoritarianism of the regime of Vladimir Putin.

After an opening address by Nancy Fraser the four sessions of the conference cover:

  • Discussion of The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left
  • The situation of the Left in Russia
  • Imperialism(s) today
  • Political repression and the threat to intellectual freedom in Russia and beyond
  • The final session also launches the Kagarlitsky Network for Academic and Intellectual Freedom

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#Kagarlitsky#NancyFraser#socialist
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Raccoon 🏳️‍🌈 :unverified:

Lately I've seen talk about #Russian people, claiming they support the war.

Remember that #Putin's propaganda efforts go both ways. By lying to his people about the war, he manufactures excess consent. By shutting them out of our feeds, we give them less ways to learn the truth of his #genocide in #Ukraine.

By lying about the nature and scope of #AntiWar sentiments, saying it is small protests of the draft, Putin makes dissent seem fringe to everyone, in #Russia and outside.

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Arbella Bet-Shlimon

[#Halabja thread 5/16]

In any case, the claim died out—until Saddam Hussein became a US enemy upon invading #Kuwait in 1990. The US, doing a 180, started using his atrocities to justify a military operation.

From that point on, the claim—which, again, had originated with Iran-hating figures in the Pentagon and, outside the US government, had been confined mostly to the far right—started to appear on the #antiwar left.

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Bread and Circuses

Let’s get personal, shall we? I’ve been here a while now, and as I’m feeling quite comfortable at Mastodon, I’d like to share a bit more about myself beyond my passion for the climate and the environment.

To begin with, I’m a male, he/him, hetero, strongly supporting LGBTQ rights. I’m a baby boomer, born at 312 PPM 🌏, a United Statesian, although I lived in Europe (mostly Hungary) for several years, and traveled extensively for work before retiring in 2012. I’ve never been good at sustaining long-term romantic relationships, and I’ve finally settled into comfortable singlehood.

I like to say I’m made of contrasts.

For example, I’m rather funny and quite personable, but I don’t enjoy small talk and I hate parties. I currently live in the Bible Belt, but I’m an outspoken atheist. While I can easily fit into most social situations, I don’t feel comfortable around large groups and prefer being alone most of the time. I live near two huge military bases, but I detest the USA’s militaristic, troop-worshiping culture. I’m almost always cheerful, which masks my deeply felt existential nihilism. I’m a neat freak, but also rather lazy, preferring fun over work.

I’ll finish up with some hashtags to add flavor...

#AkiraKurosawa#AlfredHitchcock#AntiCapitalism
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