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12 Oct

Depictions of historical victories over colonizers.

1: Native Hawaiians killed British colonizer Captain James Cook.⁠
2: Hanging of French colonial soldier during the Haitian Revolution.⁠
3: Ambon revolt of 1817 led by Kapitan Pattimura against the Dutch colonizers.⁠
4: Philippine warriors kill Portuguese colonizer Magellan.

5: The Zulus killing the British Lieutenants Melvill and Coghill at the Battle of Isandlwana in 1879.⁠

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redfish

@redfishstream

11 Oct

With 30+ cases, the White House had more new confirmed COVID-19 cases last week than Vietnam as a whole with only 5.

With 1,100+ cases total, Vietnam with over 96 million people, managed to contain the pandemic much better than most larger & wealthier countries like the U.S.

How has the Socialist Republic of Vietnam been so successful in fighting the coronavirus?⁠ (a thread)

• Early on the government made firm decisions to prioritise & preserve the health of its people even if it would come at the cost of the economy.⁠

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redfish

@redfishstream

10 Oct

As Indonesian students and workers are rising up, here's a short history of the last mass uprising that took place in the fourth most populous country in the world: the one that toppled the US-backed right-wing dictator Suharto in 1998.

In 1965, General Suharto, backed by the CIA, came to power & oversaw the political genocide of up to 2 million Indonesian communists, trade unionists & other leftists, the jailing of a milllion more & destroying the largest communist movement outside of the Soviet Union & China.

Fearing a communist revolution, the US, UK and Australia supported Suharto in pushing aside the leftist nationalist Sukarno and establishing a 33-year repressive military dictatorship on the dead bodies of executed communists.

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@redfishstream

10 Oct

Women have been on the forefront in Indonesia's uprising against neoliberalism and the government.⁠ #TolakOmnibusLaw

Video of Indonesian mothers in Ternate blocking police cars to demand student protesters to be released.

Indonesian woman carrying a sign reading "Resist oligarchy and patriarchy".

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redfish

@redfishstream

24 Sep

That time Malcolm X met Fidel Castro in Harlem 60 years ago on this day. (A thread)

A year after the Cuban Revolution, Castro and his delegation came to New York to attend the UN General Assembly, but the management of the Manhattan hotel the delegation booked now refused to house them after the US government already pressured other hotels to reject the Cubans.

Upon learning of their situation, Malcolm X invited them to come uptown to Harlem, to stay at the Black-owned Hotel Theresa, where Malcolm X said he would be greeted with open arms.

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redfish

@redfishstream

17 Sep

The reported mass hysterectomies on migrant women in an ICE detention camp in the U.S. point to a long and dark history of forced sterilizations of the oppressed and marginalized.

Here are some of the other instances white racists in the U.S. drove through genocidal policies via the reproductive organs of people of color:

- From 1930 to 1970, one-third of the women in Puerto Rico were sterilized through the programs designed by the Eugenics Board of the United States, to "catalyze economic growth" and respond to the "depression-era unemployment."

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