Fan Noli’s famous poem “Anës lumenjve” (1928) performed by actor Timo Flloko in the Albanian movie “Lulëkuqet mbi mure” (1976) (lit. “Red poppies on walls”)

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Esfahan university now

Kuwaiti magazine ‘Al-Arabi’ front cover shows Syrian teenage girls carrying rifles as they prepare to combat the Zionist entity in 1967

Here and Elsewhere, Anne-Marie Miéville / Jean-Luc Godard / Jean-Pierre Gorin (1976)

A couple poses near their home on their wedding day in East Beirut, Lebanon 1989. Photo by Joseph Barrak.

A woman casts off her Black veil abayas as she escapes away from ISIS control areas 2015.

October 3, 2022 - Protesting Iranian schoolgirls kick their pro-government school director out of their schoolgrounds. Students across Iran have been occupying their schools in protest after the death of Jina Mahsa Amini. [video]

“having sex is not all there is to lgbtq+ people and our identities. we aren’t inherently any more sexual than cishets and asexuals also exist” and “having sex is one of the most demonised parts of our community and it should not be so much of a taboo” are two concepts that can and should co-exist

Cuba is genuinely such an inspiring and beautiful country. It's not just that its people passed a referendum to legalize gay marriage and adoption, but that it came after a year of consultation and modifications by Cuban citizens and activists which made it go way beyond just gay marriage to being one of the most progressive family laws in the world, and was itself enabled by Cuba's 2019 constitutional referendum which was also voted on by its citizens. Cuba is in lockstep with its people and that is why its revolution persists even after 60+ years of sanctions, invasions, and destabilizations by the US empire.

"You can put a man on the Moon but you'll never put an imperialist in Havana." - Fidel Castro

Never Forget the Reign of Terror waged against Muslims (and by extension, Sikhs profiled as being Muslim) in the nearly two decades following 9/11.

On September 11th 1973, US-backed General Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected leader of Chile, Salvadore Allende. Pinochet ordered an air strike on the Presidential Palace, labor activists and famous folk guitarists were rounded up for torture, disappeared, and killed. Pinochet converted the national football stadium into a detention facility like Guantanamo Bay. Chile’s economy was turned into a plantation for the 1%, as inequality and poverty skyrocketed under the imposed Milton Friedman-style economic model. Over 40,000 Chileans became victims of Pinochet’s terror. In response, the Nixon administration committed more money, more training, more torture equipment. The world didn’t begin on September 11th, 2001. Rather, for the first time in modern history, Americans were visited by the same violence the US has imposed since its creation. In Chile, the US murdered tens of thousands and impoverished millions. This wasn’t America’s first foray in international terrorism, nor would it be the last. The United States security state is a terrorist and a plague on the people of the world.

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“I DESIRE YOUR WIFE” at the new york city dyke march, june 1993

“I was a police officer for nearly ten years and I was a bastard. We all were.

“This essay has been kicking around in my head for years now and I’ve never felt confident enough to write it. It’s a time in my life I’m ashamed of. It’s a time that I hurt people and, through inaction, allowed others to be hurt. It’s a time that I acted as a violent agent of capitalism and white supremacy. Under the guise of public safety, I personally ruined people’s lives but in so doing, made the public no safer… so did the family members and close friends of mine who also bore the badge alongside me.

“But enough is enough.

“The reforms aren’t working. Incrementalism isn’t happening. Unarmed Black, indigenous, and people of color are being killed by cops in the streets and the police are savagely attacking the people protesting these murders.

“American policing is a thick blue tumor strangling the life from our communities and if you don’t believe it when the poor and the marginalized say it, if you don’t believe it when you see cops across the country shooting journalists with less-lethal bullets and caustic chemicals, maybe you’ll believe it when you hear it straight from the pig’s mouth.”

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honestly don’t get people who say “this is all because you didn’t vote in 2016″ cause like. people did vote. trump did lose the popular vote. that’s a p significant thing that happened, like people did go out to vote. it’s just that as it turns out, in this country, voting does jack shit

not to mention, obama did say in 2009 that he would codify roe v wade, and he was president for 8 full years. biden said that he would codify roe v wade, and he’s the president right now. and of course, roe v wade never got codified in all this time. so maybe this isn’t the fault of people not voting, and the fault of politicians who fundamentally do not give a shit about us, and simply use our rights as bargaining chips to get into power

Trans men at San Francisco Pride, 1994

Frontiers of Dreams and Fears, Mai Masri (2001)