“Refaat loved feeding those around him.”
— Read on electronicintifada.net/content/refaat-was-determined-deliver-his-message-family/47836
Los Quijotes | The Anarchist Library
On July 17, 1936, Spanish nationalist forces, led by right-wing General Francisco Franco attempted a coup d’etat against the newly-elected popular front Republic. In the context of the social and political upheaval following the mass based resistance to the fascist uprising, the anarchist movement in Spain organized the strongest and most radical opposition to fascism as well as a far-reaching social revolution.
— Read on theanarchistlibrary.org/library/fifth-estate-collective-quijotes-del-ideal-los-quijotes
Some Lessons about Zionism and Anti-Zionism from an Ongoing Genocide – Steve Salaita
Generally speaking, Palestinians have behaved as all communities facing extinction behave. Their so-called violence, subject to endless rumination by celebrity academics, isn’t a conundrum to lament; it is an opportunity to more thoroughly explore the mutual depravities of Zionism and capitalism.
What, then, have we learned about anti-Zionism in the Anglosphere since October 7?
— Read on stevesalaita.com/some-lessons-about-zionism-and-anti-zionism-from-an-ongoing-genocide/
Reminiscences of Spain | The Anarchist Library
We just finished and regard each other silently for a while with vacant woolgathering eyes. It’s not an embarrassing silence. It’s just as if we intuitively agreed to dream for a few moments. I call them to attention with a question, and they all start talking at once.
— Read on theanarchistlibrary.org/library/galstad-revolutionary-spain-7
Manitoba premier urges Trudeau to move up NATO spending timeline to save Canada-U.S. relationship | CBC News
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is urging the federal government to speed up its efforts to reach NATO’s spending benchmark in order to save the Canada-U.S. trade relationship ahead of potentially shifting sands south of the border.
— Read on www.cbc.ca/news/politics/wab-kinew-nato-trudeau-1.7266035
Amtrak Borealis ridership from Milwaukee to Twin Cities tops 18,500
About 300 passengers are boarding each of the eastbound and westbound Amtrak trains daily, according to the agency.
— Read on www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2024/07/09/amtrak-borealis-ridership-from-milwaukee-to-twin-cities-tops-18500/74327634007/
Coyote Woman in the City | Hood Museum
Rose the Coyote. No one’s princess, she is the very modern hip, brassy, singing, dancing trickster star of her own show.
— Read on hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/objects/p.989.10
Ornithofauna Prevailing at Al-Mawasi Ecosystem of the Gaza Strip, Palestine
No badjacketing: the state wants to kill us; let’s not cooperate | libcom.org
An article by the Twin Cities General Defense Committee (GDC) of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) about the dangers of ‘badjacketing’, which is defined as ‘creating suspicion, by spreading rumors or unsubstantiated accusations, that people are undercovers, infiltrators, snitches, or cooperators. ‘
— Read on libcom.org/article/no-badjacketing-state-wants-kill-us-lets-not-cooperate
1969-?: The strategy of tension in Italy | libcom.org
Faced with a huge growth of working class power, with strikes, occupations, self-reduction of prices and mass squatting the intelligence services began carrying out terrorist acts with the help of fascist groups. Anarchists and the left were blamed, and working class militants were arrested. The worst such attack was the worst terrorist attack in Europe in the 20th Century – the bombing of the Bologna train station which killed 85 people
— Read on libcom.org/article/1969-strategy-tension-italy