11 Feb 2024, Lunar New Year vigil for Palestine led by Nodutdol and 30+ Korean, Palestinian, Asian American, and anti-war organizations, Queens, NY
The text on the kite in the first photo comes from "If I Must Die" by Palestinian martyr, poet, and educator Refaat Alareer; the text on the placard in the second photo comes from a quote by the Vietnamese revolutionary Hồ Chí Minh.
I usually don't post stuff from where I live but I was hoping y'all could spread this around especially if you live in NYC.
Transcript: Missing 12 year old girl. Date: 03/21/2023
Name: Kaniya Graham
Age: 12
Missing since: 03/16/2023
Image Description: A black girl in a white jacket, with black zippers, a black Tshirt with a green graphic, black leggings(?), and white sneakers. She is standing in a bedroom with a flower in her hand, smiling.
"That Æthelswith was the bestower of such gifts is consistent with the other things we know about her. In 868 she witnessed a West-Saxon charter, in which she made a grant of fifteen hides of her own land in Berkshire. She also witnessed all of her husband King Burgred’s charters. Though we only see glimpses of her influence, Æthelswith, like other Mercian queens before her, was a politician.
In 874, twenty one years after Æthelswith married Burgred, the royal couple were forced out of their kingdom by an encroaching Viking army. They fled together to safety in Rome. While Burgred died soon after they arrived, Æthelswith outlived him for another decade, which she spent in Italy.
Queen Æthelswith passed away in 888 in Pavia, and was laid to rest there. She may have been undertaking a pilgrimage when she died. Her body and the ring that she once bestowed were both buried underground a thousand miles apart. And they say medieval women didn’t travel…"