The united states has deployed marines to help prop up the us-backed president in Haiti (the previous non-us basked president was, of course, ousted by the US in 2004). This is a reminder that Haiti is the first and most successful slave revolution and the us and france never forgave them for it.
4K notes
·
View notes
𝔎𝔲𝔯𝔱 ℭ𝔬𝔟𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢𝔰 𝔅𝔢𝔞𝔫 ℭ𝔬𝔟𝔞𝔦𝔫
1K notes
·
View notes
October 28/29, 2023 - A small selection of the world-wide protests in solidarity with Palestine. In Europe and North America hundreds of thousands took to the streets to condemn their governments' complicity in Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people, and demanding an end to Israel's genocide and apartheid. [videos]
Solidarity demonstrations pictured here:
London, UK
Berlin, Germany / New York City, USA
Athens, Greece
Toronto, Canada / Paris, France / Rome, Italy
Detroit, USA / San Francisco, USA
Bilbao, Basque Country / Lille, France / Montpellier, France
Los Angeles, USA
Glasgow, Scotland / Marseille, France
Thessaloniki, Greece / Madrid, Spain / Valencia, Spain
Den Haag, the Netherlands
856 notes
·
View notes
Gold lamé evening dress with jacket, 1955, American.
By Don Loper.
Worn by Frances Abrams McCall at her second wedding.
Chicago Historical Society
162 notes
·
View notes