Category Archives: world history
Doctor Who: Preview Clips Of “The Butterfly Effect”
And for those of you who came in late:
And a public encouraging word from Doctor No. 12:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZS05j0y5ozE
‘We Are Risking Our Lives To Keep The World Informed’
Profiles In Courage, 4/29-4/30/2024
MAY 4TH UPDATE:
MAY 5TH UPDATE:
Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks On His 70th Birthday–And Later In The Week Speaks To USA Today
Imprisoned Black Panther activist speaks to student encampment by speakerphone
Incarcerated Black Panther activist Mumia Abu-Jamal told USA TODAY he supports “anti-imperialist” student encampments spreading across the country to protest the war in Gaza. He has been in prison for over 40 years after being convicted for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer. Abu-Jamal’s death sentence was overturned by a federal court. He has maintained his innocence.
Today’s activism on college campuses reminds 70-year-old Abu-Jamal of his youth during protests against the war in Vietnam and the civil rights movement for Black Americans, he said in a brief phone call from Mahanoy state prison in Pennsylvania. He compared the protests to people once holding up lighters at concerts. Today, people tend to use cell phones.
“These are flickers of light in an anti-imperialist movement,” he said. “It’s remarkable to see.”
Abu-Jamal was set to speak Friday afternoon to the City College of New York student encampment in West Harlem, but Muslim students were in prayer on the campus lawn, so his call would be rescheduled for the evening. On Thursday, he spoke to Columbia University’s student encampment via speakerphone. A microphone amplified his voice.
− Eduardo Cuevas
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How it happened, according to the Mumia Abu-Jamal Listserv:
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Folks, I was being interviewed by USA Today at the City College encampment and Mumia called and I thought to pass him over to the journalist. Mumia’s remarks made it to this long list of updates. Hurray. Very positive intro to his remarks.
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APRIL 27th UPDATE:
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APRIL 28th UPDATE:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/28/pro-palestinian-cuny-protesters-mumia-abu-jamal
Asante Sana, Faith Ringgold
“Doctor Who” (2024) Trailers
Asante Sana, Lou Gossett Jr., 87
My Response To Dara Horn of #TheAtlanticmag
This is an edited version of what I left in her email prompt on her website:
“Hello, first of all, I want to say that I admire the passion of/in your writing. Yes, take no prisoners (pun unintended). I think you wrote something for The Smithsonian about Anne Frank that I really enjoyed.
“Since we no longer have an old Village Voice Letters Page to emphatically argue these points:
“I appreciated your article. I’m unapologetically on the other side of this issue. Because of that (most of my tears are for those Palestinian babies), I would have appreciated it a lot more if it had carried this paragraph or something like it, using your argument and tone:
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‘Many people–including some of my fellow, deluded Jewish Americans–incorrectly believe that Israel is an apartheid state. Therefore, openly supporting such a state, in their (the activists’) view, means that they (the victims in the article) are fair game, whether in Harvard Yard or at a music festival in Israel. I think this ‘thinking’ is morally, politically and spiritually bankrupt and I would have believed so if there was a substantial Afrikanner-American population in the United States being abused during the apartheid years. (There was not.) No one has the right to make an American citizen, privileged or not, feel unsafe in the United States because of their views of, and open love for, their ancestral homeland.’
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“We’ll agree to disagree on this one. But thanks again for that work on Anne Frank.
–TSB”
Happy African Heritage Month!
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