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Dear friends, #Congress (#INC) likes to claim that it "fought" for #India's independence & refers to its political opponents as #fascists. How many of you know that only did #INC *not* EXCLUSIVELY "fight" for #Independence (AND #Gandhi was "happy" to settle for #DominionStatus)+
But also the party known as #INC by #IndiraGandhi was *not* even the same party that was formed in #1885 ? A thread about the #Congress follows: +
In 1883, retired civil servant (AO #Hume), a #Scottish ornithologist. Hume first expressed the idea that "educated" #Indians should fight for greater freedom and representation for themselves in the #British government of #India, claiming it as both the Indians' right and duty +
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👀Queremos mapear todas las iniciativas de #viviendacooperativa
🫂Nos ayudais tageándolas para visibilizarlas en un hilo?
📖Estamos haciendo un libro y un docu para demostrar que #CoHabitarTransformador y dar a conocer este modelo de vivienda aquí: goteo.cc/eltinglado Image
¿Empezamos lanzando alguno nosotras para romper el hielo?

@BordaCoop fue uno de los primeros proyectos en Cesión de uso. Situado en el barrio de #LaBordeta de Barcelona buscando garantizar el acceso a una vivienda digna y asequible, ligadas a las reivindicaciones de @CanBatllo Image
Cerca del río Manzanares, las 17 unidades familiares de la promoción de #LasCarolinas de @EntrepatiosCoop es la primera cooperativa en cesión de uso de la ciudad de Madrid. Image
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#1jour1citation #TissagEstival Petit fil de l'été, sans queue ni tête, au gré des lectures / découvertes
On commence en douceur du côté de l'Australie, avec Deborah Bird Rose, "Oiseaux de pluie" (2009) (in Vers des humanités écologiques, Wildproject, 2019)
wildproject.org/livres/vers-de…
"Une personne, dans ce contexte [peuples Yarralin du fleuve Victoria], est à la fois autonome et connectée, emmêlée dans des relations d'interdépendance, portant toujours des responsabilités pour d'autres, et étant toujours bénéficiaire de l'action des autres" (p. 46)
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#1jour1citation #TissagEstival Toujours Deborah Bird Rose, un peu plus loin, en cadeau à un ami que je rencontre ce midi (hâte! 😉😊)
"D’autres conteurs, comme l’oiseau de pluie, sont séquentiels ; ils racontent ce qui va se passer.
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#SusanBAnthony didn't want to be pardoned any more than #Thoreau wanted his Aunt Maria to pay the tax he withheld to protest war & #slavery. Trump never read 1 of the most influential essays ever written, Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience."

You can! For free! Link below. Image
.@smithsonian on the influence of #Thoreau's 1849 essay "Civil Disobedience," which he wrote to explain his decision to deliberately break a law (payment of a tax) to protest injustice (war & #slavery).

Link to full text below. smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mar…
#Thoreau: American government is a tradition "endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity. It has not the vitality & force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will."

Essay: xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper2/thorea…
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