Passionate Patriots: 1968 DNC Nightmare in Chicago
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Source:FRS FreeState
The Democratic Party cost themselves the presidential election of 1968 and a chance to win the White House for a third straight time and 8-10 presidential elections, going back to 1932 with FDR. To go along with another Democratic Congress because of how divided they were on the Vietnam War. A lot of that can be blamed on President Johnson’s handling of the Vietnam War, but…
Massive London protest demands permanent ceasefire in Gaza
TENS of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched through central London on Saturday (25) to call for a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the latest in a series of weekend demonstrations in the capital since the seven-week war began.Saturday’s rally, which involved 45,000 campaigners according to police estimates, took place during a four-day truce between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, the first break in the fighting, but protesters said that was not enough.
not seeing much reporting on the intense level of police brutality at anti-mobilization/conscription protests in Russia. cannot provide any sources in English other than this one?
so may google translate be your friend.
sources below contain videos and photos documenting instances of violence and police brutality, the outcome as well as violence recorded in real time. please take care
violent detention of a protester: arm broken in two places
a protester with an injured head (tw: blood)
an elderly man getting detained, dragged to the police van
detention of an unconscious protester
head injury (tw: blood)
more instances are reported without photographic evidence.
Mario Savio giving a speech at Berkeley in 1964 during an occupation of the university
There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part!
You can't even passively take part!
And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop!
And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!
Only Critical Thinkers Taking to the Streets Can Save Us
Only Critical Thinkers Taking to the Streets Can Save Us
I just finished watching an hour-long interview on Garland Nixon’s “Saturday Morning Live with Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern” (see above). Both the guests are former U.S. government insiders with wide experience in Russia.
As an anti-imperialist, I found the program quite sobering.
Scott Ritter, it turns out, has drastically changed his assessment of what’s occurring in Ukraine.
His previous…
"you think we want to sacrifice you? that's horrible, we wouldn't do that! actually you're here as lab rats for our new ✨Painless Death Drink ✨ cool, right?"
Mitch: Video: Chicago 1968: The Democratic Convention
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FreeState MD
1968 is when the Democratic Party changed and no longer became a Northeastern progressive party with a Southern coalition. Made up of people who basically make up the Religious-Right and Neoconservative wing of the Republican Party today. With Liberal Democrats spread out all over the country. By 1968 the Democratic Party was moving away from the South and becoming the party of the…