The girl from Iparenzo @materialgirl@mastodon.bida.im

Lo spirito natalizio, in Veneto.

Benjamin Zephaniah has died, aged 65. The poet, novelist and activist had been diagnosed with a brain tumour only eight weeks ago.

Last year he shared his life story, his passion for language and his love for all people (and animals) with Ian McMillan on Radio 3's The Verb (and there's plenty of his wonderful verse too).

On BBC Sounds https://bbc.in/4abh2ne

#poetry #performance #literature #poet #obituary

Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden) with Mr. Bean

#multiverse

Today in Labor History December 5, 1928: The Colombian military slaughtered up to 2,000 people in the Banana Massacre. Workers had been on strike against United Fruit Company since November 12. They were participating in a peaceful demonstration, with their wives and children. The Columbian troops set up machine guns on the rooftops near the demonstration and closed off the access streets so no one could escape. The soldiers threw the dead into mass graves or dumped them in the sea. U.S. officials in Colombia had portrayed the workers as communists and subversives and even threatened to invade if the Colombian government didn’t protect United Fruit’s interests. Gabriel García Márquez depicted the massacre in his novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” as did Álvaro Cepeda Samudio in his “La Casa Grande.”

United Fruit, which is now called Chiquita, controlled vast quantities of territory in Central America, and the Caribbean, maintained a near monopoly in many of the banana republics in which it operated (e.g., Honduras, Guatemala, Costa Rica). By 1930, it was the largest employer in Central America and the largest land owner. In 1952, the government of Jacobo Arbenz, in Guatemala, began giving away unused land, owned by United Fruit, to landless peasants. In 1954, the CIA deposed the Arbenz government, leading to decades of brutal dictatorship and genocide of Guatemala’s indigenous population. The head of the CIA at that time was former board member of United Fruit, Allen Dulles, who also oversaw the over throw of the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, the Bay of Pigs invasion, and the MK Ultra LSD mind control experiments.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #strike #massacre #columbia #UnitedFruit #children #communism #cia #genocide #indigenous #GabrielGarciaMarquez #fiction #novel #books #author #writer @bookstadon

A Catania, stamattina all'alba, celerini, agenti della Digos e Vigili del fuoco hanno sgomberato lo Studentato 95100, nato nel 2018 per dare risposte al bisogno di un tetto sulla testa da parte di studenti universitari e precari e il Consultorio “Mi cuerpo es mio”, spazio medico e sociale autogestito

https://www.osservatoriorepressione.info/catania-sgomberato-lo-studentato-95100-consultorio-mi-cuerpo-es-mio/

I CONSULTORI NON SI CHIUDONO! PRESIDIO sotto la Regione Lazio, domani 6 dicembre alle ore 17.

Ancora in presidio, questa volta sotto la Regione Lazio, alle ore 17. Non ci fermeremo fino a che tutti i servizi non verranno riportati al consultorio di Largo delle Sette Chiese. Venite e fate girare!

Licenziato per una bestemmia, secondo giorno di sciopero alla Covisian https://www.radiocittafujiko.it/licenziato-per-una-bestemmia-secondo-giorno-di-sciopero-alla-covisian/ #ATTUALITA'EPOLITICA #licenziamento #Articolo18 #Bestemmia #Featured #covisian #LOCALE #hera

#GoatHerdersGuideToTheGalaxy

now this is a headline

L'attacco alla Casa delle donne Lucha y Siesta continua https://www.ondarossa.info/newsredazione/2023/11/lattacco-alla-casa-donne-lucha-y-siesta

Dietro il gruppo dei #Provita c'è il figlio del fascista Roberto Fiore, costretto alla latitanza per sfuggire ai processi per terrorismo nero fino a prescrizione, tra i partecipanti alla devastazione novax della sede della CGIL realizzata con strumenti più efficaci di un portacandela privo di innesco.

"Nel 2012 viene fondato il giornale Notizie ProVita il cui caporedattore era Alessandro Fiore, figlio dell’ex leader di Forza Nuova Roberto Fiore"

https://www.fanpage.it/politica/chi-ce-dietro-provita-famiglia-e-perche-lassociazione-antiabortista-e-diventata-cosi-influente/

52 years ago
A band called 'Death' was punk before punk was punk

Formed in Nov. 71' by the 3 Hackney brothers, they were influential pioneers of the genre and, along with Pure Hell, the first all-black proto-punk/punk band.

#knowyourroots

#protopunk #history #punkrockhistory