Happy International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, 2025.
#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #internationaldayfortheabolitionofslavery #happyinternationaldayfortheabolitionofslavery #abolition #abolitionism #abolitionist #abolitionists #slavery #forcedlabor #forcedlabour #childlabor #childlabour #servitude #modernslavery #stopslavery #endslavery #abolishslavery #slavetrade
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1859, #JohnBrown and a dozen #abolitionists seized the armoury at #HarpersFerry, hoping to arm a #slave uprising. Slavery never ended in the US, and all it takes for evil like that to flourish is for good people to do nothing.
What a nice surprise!! Right now I'm sitting on the train and on my way to an event as part of the International Week for Anarchist Prisoners.
There I find you here on Mastodon with the news of my release exactly two years ago. Later, at an event in Wuppertal, which is in North Rhine-Westphalia, I will talk about the prison term and the importance of solidarity.
I have been able to do this again and again in the last two years, and I have also held various workshops on 'How do I write prisoners' (it is important to me that it is about all prisoners, not just the political and anarchist ones).
In addition, I regularly attend trials, with a focus on class justice. For a small non-commercial radio, I then report on the court cases.
However, I would not have been able to do all this without the solidarity support. Neither would I have managed to survive the 27 years in prison, nor would I have been able to arrive in freedom in life afterwards.
#solidarity #prison #abolition #abolitionists #prisoners #freedom #prisonniers #anarchist #anarchistprisoners
#germany #wuppertal #NorthRhineWestphalia #nordrheinwestfalen #SocialJustice #classwar #courtwatch
Why not roll back the #15thAmendment and #13thAmendment while they're at it!! WTF!
Secretary of Defense #PeteHegseth promotes repealing #WomensRightToVote
by Judd Legum
Aug 11, 2025
"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who oversees about 3 million military service members and civilian employees, reposted a video last week advocating repealing the #19thAmendment, which guarantees women the right to vote. The video is an excerpt from CNN anchor Pamela Brown's interview with #ChristianNationalist pastor #DougWilson, who Brown reports believes 'women shouldn't be able to vote.'
"Brown speaks to two pastors in Wilson's Idaho church who agree with Wilson. 'In my ideal society, we would vote as households,' pastor Toby Sumpter says. 'And I would ordinarily be the one to cast the vote.' (This is the model also advocated by Wilson.) Pastor Jared Longshore says he supports the repeal of the 19th Amendment because 'the current system is not good for humans.'
"Hegseth is a member of a church that is part of Wilson's network, the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (#CREC), in Tennessee. When a CREC branch recently opened in Washington, DC, Hegseth attended. Longshore delivered the sermon.
"Hegseth's response to the video — 'All of Christ for All of Life' — is a Christian nationalist slogan used frequently by Wilson. It stands for the idea that Christianity should dominate all aspects of life, including government.
In response to media inquiries, the Pentagon reiterated Hegseth's admiration for Wilson and his ideology. 'The Secretary very much appreciates many of Mr. Wilson's writings and teachings,' Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said.
Beyond repealing women's #VotingRights, what are Wilson's 'writing and teachings'? Let's review.
"Wilson argues that slavery benefited blacks and whites and was 'based on mutual affection'
"Wilson has sought to recast slavery in the pre-Civil War South as a mutually beneficial relationship in many cases. In a 1996 pamphlet co-written by Wilson, Southern Slavery as It Was, he argued that '[s]lavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with pervasive racial animosity.' According to Wilson, '[b]ecause of its predominantly #patriarchal character, it was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence.' He asserts that "[t]here has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world,' which he attributes to 'the predominance of Christianity.'
Wilson claims that '[s]lave life was to [the slaves] a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes and good medical care.' He urges people not to 'overlook the benefits of slavery for both blacks and whites.'
"In Wilson's 2005 book, Black and Tan, he defends #SouthernSlavery as It Was, and writes 'that slavery was far more benign in practice than it was made to appear in the literature of the #abolitionists.'' He also claims that slavery was biblically justified, claiming that 'the Christians who owned slaves in the South were on firm scriptural ground.' "
Read more:
https://popular.info/p/slavery-patriarchy-and-pete-hegseths
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/GquRa
#ChristianNationalism #ChristoFascism #WhiteSupremacy #USPol #HandmaidsTale #WelcomeToGilead #TheKnotsAndCrosses #Dystopia
A Different Revolution
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/07/04/a-different-revolution/
There were two original sins that drove the colonial ruling class to separate from their country and support a war for independence, writes Ace Thelin. By Ace Thelin Special to Consortium News It’s long past time Americans face the truth…
#Politics #AmericanEmpire #Books #CivilRights #Commentary #History #HumanRights #IndigenousPeople #U.s. #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #Abolitionists #AceThelin #ColonialRulingClass #FoundingFathers #GeraldHorne #GloriousRevolution #IndependenceDay #Maroons #NedBlackhawk #Shay’sRebellion #SlaveOwners #SlaveTrade #ThomasJefferson #WarForIndependence
Replicas of Abolition Era posters have been going up in New Bedford after ICE agents have appeared in the city.
Proud of this City's history of welcoming and protecting refugees!
#newbedford #abolitionists #abolition #iceagents #kidnappers #history #ice #refugees #historyrepeating
"They Can't Beat All of Us"
A Report Back from the #FloridaAbolitionistGathering
#CrimethInc, March 15, 2025
"From February 28 to March 2, hundreds of #abolitionists and #anarchists from across the country converged in Gainesville for the first Florida Abolitionist Gathering (#FAG). Across a passionate weekend of #workshops, films, food, #debate, #ritual, and #protest, the contours of a robust regional #resistance movement came into focus.
"The #intergenerational, heavily #queer and #trans, and strongly multi-issue and anarchist group of abolitionists that converged in Florida articulated an expansive vision of #liberation anchored in the urgent need to dismantle the #PrisonIndustrial complex in all its manifestations. The gathering showed that even as liberals wring their hands about the death of democracy, scrappy groups of organizers continue to fight back—and sometimes win—deep within the belly of the beast."
Read more:
https://crimethinc.com/2025/03/15/they-cant-beat-all-of-us-a-reportback-from-the-florida-abolitionist-gathering
#Resistance #Resist #USPol
Happy International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, 2 December, 2024.
#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #internationaldayfortheabolitionofslavery #happyinternationaldayfortheabolitionofslavery #internationaldayfortheabolitionofslavery2024 #2024internationaldayfortheabolitionofslavery #abolition #abolitionism #abolitionist #abolitionists #slavery #forcedlabor #forcedlabour #servitude #slavetrade
Harriet Tubman posthumously named a general in Veterans Day ceremony
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/12/g-s1-33792/harriet-tubman-posthumously-named-a-general-in-veterans-day-ceremony
* revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, 1st woman to oversee American military action during time of war
* posthumously awarded rank of general, Maryland National Guard
remembering: Harriet Tubman
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112061097554595664
#IWD #HarrietTubman #UndergroundRailroad #antislavery #suffrage #WomensRights #abolitionists #slavery #UScivilWar #BlackHistory
This is a really good #book. I want to read more and follow more #abolitionists. I also want to remember that joy is importance to sustaining movements and all of us.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/8a4576b8-c738-4fa9-9cdf-ca9306feae33
Same as it ever was
https://jacobin.com/2024/10/blm-protests-media-uk-palestine
#abolitionists #BLM #civilrights #directaction #Occupy #organize #solidarity #Suffragettes
This is a GREAT article about an early american Abolitionist and his times. Thank you @jalcine !! (I'd never heard of this man. I wish I could read about his wife.)
#Abolitionists #Abolition #BenFranklin #Histodons #History https://todon.eu/@jalcine/113252419652530411
When I read about abolitionist men the first thing I think is, how noble. Then I read about their wives and daughters who harvested, cooked, canned, wove, sewed and cleaned while their men waxed philosophical about freedom and morality and I wonder at how shallow their ideals were. #abolitionists #transcendentalists #freedom #slavery #misogyny #hypocrisy
6 surprising #facts about the #DeclarationofIndependence
https://www.fastcompany.com/91147830/july-4th-surprising-facts-declaration-of-independence
The nation’s #founding document failed to achieve its most immediate goal, but in time #abolitionists and #feminists shifted its focus to #humanrights, transforming it into arguably the most consequential #freedom document ever composed.
#abolitionists, decarceralists, you know anyone writing about the Ukrainian/Russian conflict and the release of criminals from prison if they join the respective war effort, looking through an abolitionist lens?
I've read texts on US prisons arguing that even the most serious criminals are needed on the barricades - with this being policy in the biggest global conflict, i'd expect someone to have analysed.
Boosts appreciated.
Meet 16 #women #abolitionists you probably never learned about in #school
Fascinating stained glass window (1877, Warren RI) about to be sent to Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis (and an interesting letter to the editor from 1877, as well as additional references on the website window.webflow.io )
Join Arthur Torrington, co-founder of the Windrush Foundation, and follow in the footsteps of three #Abolitionists #Sancho, #Equiano and #Gugoana walked in #Westminster in the 18th century. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-equiano-society-walking-with-sancho-equiano-cugoano-tickets-741640816647 Saturday, 28 October, 1100 & 1300 #Windrush
