“Se mi conficchi un coltello nella schiena per ventitré centimetri e ne tiri fuori quindici, non c'è stato un miglioramento. Se lo tiri fuori del tutto non c'è stato un miglioramento. Il miglioramento è curare la ferita che il colpo ha causato. E loro non l'hanno neanche tirato fuori il coltello, neanche a parlarne di curare la ferita. Loro non ammetterebbero neanche l'esistenza del coltello.”
#MalcomX #drawing #noracism

Today in Labor History September 14, 1960: Mobutu led a coup in Congo, against president Patrice Lumumba, just months after winning independence from Belgium. Lumumba was later executed. During years of brutal colonial rule, the Belgians slaughtered up to 10 million people, or half Congo’s entire population. However, millions more died under the Mobutu dictatorship, which lasted from 1971 until 1997.

President Eisenhower authorized the assassination of Lumumba because of his ties with the Soviet Union. The U.S., and its European allies, wanted control over Congo’s resources, particularly its rich uranium deposits, both to fuel their civilian and military nuclear programs, and, in particular, to keep them out of the hands of the Soviet Union, which was allied with Lumumba. The wonderful 2024 documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” does a really great job of uncovering the concealed history of the assassination of Lumumba and the coup d’etat in Congo. But it’s really about so much more: Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte. There’s even a “slumber party” with Fidel Castro at Malcolm X’s home, in New York, after the U.S. authorities convince all the hotels in New York to refuse Castro a place to sleep during a UN conference, and he attempts to camp out on the sidewalk with his contingent.

One of the people the CIA used in its early attempts to assassinate Lumumba was chemist Sidney Gottlieb, who ran the agency’s secret MKULTRA mind control program. Gottlieb tried, but failed, to kill Lumumba with poisoned toothpaste. He also tried, and failed, to assassinate Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar and with radioactively poisoned shoes. MKULTRA was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The program gave hallucinogenic drugs, like LSD and Mescaline, to 7,000 unwitting U.S. war veterans, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #congo #belgium #lumumba #coup #cia #malcomx #fidelcastro #communism #socialism #soviet #russia #ussr #imperialism #nuclear #atomic #coldwar #jazz #mkultra #hallucinogens

@Starcade Check out #MalcomX (1992) which is a significant even if it's not entirely historically accurate. Denzel stars in it.

@Starcade I haven't seen most of #SpikeLee's movies because most of his films deal with the Black Experience that I have very little interest in &/or affinity for but I have seen #MalcomX & #InsideMan both of which I liked.

I've been listening to the Imagine An America podcast (from the National Civil Rights Museum), and there have been some thought-provoking discussions so far, but I really enjoyed the interview with Spike Lee. Check it out for yourself:
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/imagineanamerica/episodes/Audacious-Artivism-Telling-Our-Stories-through-Film-with-Spike-Lee-e34nog9

#SpikeLee #podcast #NationalCivilRightsMuseum #blackfilm #MalcomX #blackkklansman #ImagineAnAmerica

"Los mismos intereses están en juego. Las mismas partes están alineadas, los mismos esquemas están en marcha en el Congo que en Mississippi. El mismo interés — ninguna diferencia en absoluto." — Malcolm X
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“La lucha palestina no es sólo un grito de justicia, es una batalla sin cuartel por los derechos humanos más fundamentales que toda alma viviente de este planeta debería heredar por derecho de nacimiento”. - Malcolm X.
#Antiimperialismo #PalestinaLibre #MalcomX

"No puedes entender lo que está pasando en Mississippi si no entiendes lo que está pasando en el Congo. Y no puedes realmente estar interesado en lo que está pasando en Mississippi si no estás también interesado en lo que está pasando en el Congo. Ambos son lo mismo." — Malcolm X
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Today in Labor History June 30, 1960: Congo won independence from Belgium after years of brutal colonial rule which slaughtered up to 10 million people, or half its entire population. However, imperial powers continued to exploit the people of Congo, even after independence. In 1961, the CIA orchestrated a coup that tortured, murdered, and overthrew its first democratically elected president, Patrice Lumumba, after a failed coup against him by Mobutu Sese Seku, who would later become dictator from 1971 until 1997.

President Eisenhower authorized the assassination because of Lumumba’s ties with the Soviet Union. The U.S., and its European allies, wanted control over Congo’s resources, particularly its rich uranium deposits, both to fuel their civilian and military nuclear programs, and, in particular, to keep them out of the hands of the Soviet Union, which was allied with Lumumba. The wonderful 2024 documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” does a really great job of uncovering the concealed history of the 1961 assassination of Lumumba and the coup d’etat in Congo. But it’s really about so much more: Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte. There’s even a “slumber party” with Fidel Castro at Malcolm X’s home, in New York, after the U.S. authorities convince all the hotels in New York to refuse Castro a place to sleep during a UN conference, and he attempts to camp out on the sidewalk with his contingent.

One of the people the CIA used in its early attempts to assassinate Lumumba was chemist Sidney Gottlieb, who ran the agencies secret MKULTRA mind control program. Gottlieb tried, but failed, to kill Lumumba with poisoned toothpaste. He also tried, and failed, to assassinate Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar and with radioactively poisoned shoes. MKULTRA was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The program gave hallucinogenic drugs, like LSD and Mescaline, to 7,000 unwitting U.S. war veterans, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #congo #belgium #lumumba #coup #cia #malcomx #fidelcastro #communism #socialism #soviet #russia #ussr #imperialism #nuclear #atomic #coldwar #jazz #mkultra #hallucinogens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfGdlfrOugg (Part 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4TONNIHJkc (Part 2)

#MannyMarable on #MalcomX

I Art I Malcolm X https://bit.ly/3I7UMfm
Happy birthday Malcom X !
Did you know that Malcolm was a feminist and often objected to orthodox rules for women in mosques?
#art #design #zerflin #zerflinwork #zerflinart #illustration #MalcomX

100 years Malcom X
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Thinking Writing Fighting
By Meister Jeder and AI Reve 5/25
#dada #Dadaismus #MalcomX

100 years Malcom X
No. O10
Thinking Writing Fighting
By Meister Jeder and AI Reve 5/25
#dada #Dadaismus #MalcomX

100 years Malcom X
No. Oo9
Thinking Writing Fighting
By Meister Jeder and AI Reve 5/25
#dada #Dadaismus #MalcomX

100 years Malcom X
No. Oo8
Thinking Writing Fighting
By Meister Jeder and AI Reve 5/25
#dada #Dadaismus #MalcomX

100 years Malcom X
No. Oo7
Thinking Writing Fighting
By Meister Jeder and AI Reve 5/25
#dada #Dadaismus #MalcomX

100 years Malcom X
No. Oo6
Thinking Writing Fighting
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#dada #Dadaismus #MalcomX

100 years Malcom X
No. Oo5
Thinking Writing Fighting
By Meister Jeder and AI Reve 5/25
#dada #Dadaismus #MalcomX

100 years Malcom X
No. Oo4
Thinking Writing Fighting
By Meister Jeder and AI Reve 5/25
#dada #Dadaismus #MalcomX