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!!
text: Israeli Jews and Palestinian Israelis come together to demand an end to the war on #Gaza.
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Peace activists have taken part in a protest in Israel's third-largest city, Haifa, demanding a ceasefire in the war on Gaza and the exchange of captives and prisoners between Hamas and #Israel.
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Currently, they [the protestors] are chanting 'refuse to kill, refuse to fight, refuse to murder' - this is our call," says Omri Evron, a member of the Communist Party of Israel, who helped organise the anti-war protest.
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Korean War, like Vietnam, had its detractors. Here, Paul Robeson addresses a "Hands Off Korea" rally from a sound truck at the corner of 126th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem, July 3, 1950.
Photo: Marty Lederhandler for the AP via Duplo Expresso
December 8, 2023 - Hundreds of people gathered in Guernica, Basque Country, to form a human flag in solidarity with the Palestinian people, as air raid sirens filled the air.
The town of Guernica became symbol and a rallying cry against war crimes and the slaughter of civillians after German and Italian planes bombed the town for Franco's fascists in 1937, during the Spanish civil war, killing hundreds of innocent civillians. [video]