Marjan Boelsma
@MarjanBoelsma
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'Memory is a weapon' Don Mattera @marjanboelsma.bsky.social #FreeMovementForAll #ArchiveAzaniaCom Against forgetting: https://t.co/fwVdZWjoMJ
Rotterdam
Joined February 2012
Thousands of Tunisians marched in the capital on Saturday in a protest against “injustice and repression”, accusing President Kais Saied of cementing one-man rule by using the judiciary and police.
reuters.com
Thousands of Tunisians marched in the capital on Saturday in a protest against “injustice and repression”, accusing President Kais Saied of cementing one-man rule by using the judiciary and police.
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The British government killed over 2 million Kenyans between 1951- 1960.
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'Officials in the Netherlands are demanding answers from a U.S. commission after panels honoring Black vets at a World War II cemetery were taken down' https://t.co/ZI3u5sj6f9
ms.now
Officials in the Netherlands are demanding answers from a U.S. commission after panels honoring Black vets at a World War II cemetery were taken down.
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'Similarly, whites account for 7.3 percent of the population but continue to own nearly three-quarters of all farmland while Blacks account for 81 percent of the population yet own 4 percent of the land.'
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2 of every 3 Black South Africans remain mired in poverty, or roughly 30 million people out of a total population of 52 million. 1% White South Africans living in poverty. https://t.co/3JB6Yllneq
blackagendareport.com
Decades of unmet promises and endemic corruption have eroded the ANC's dominance, creating a surge for a party led by South Africa's white minority.
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'Het ontnemen van verhalen, en vermogen om ze te vertellen, is buitengewoon belangrijke stap in ontmenselijking. Daarmee maak je het eenvoudiger om mensen te doden,omdat ze niet langer als mens worden gezien,maar als iets wat er eigenlijk al niet meer is' https://t.co/RICv749kj1
oneworld.nl
De Amerikaanse schrijver Ta-Nehisi Coates, wiens bekroonde werk op sommige scholen wordt verboden, roept op ‘te vechten’ voor kunst, cultuur en zelfbevrijding in tijden van autocratie. Want verhalen,...
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'In a society where the most dehumanizing imagery has retreated from store shelves, why does the tradition of blackface persist in living rooms, streets, and schools?' https://t.co/bgL6HPLC9B
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Screening 'And She Didn't Die'. Kethiwe Ngcobo is piecing together the extraordinary life of her mother, Lauretta Ngcobo – a rural South African storyteller turned revolutionary, exile and celebrated feminist writer. #IDFA Met #OneWorld @seadanourhussen Foto met Kethiwe Ngcobo
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Israeli settler militias are attacking Palestinian homes in the Wadi Sa’ir area, north of Hebron.
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Bevrijding van Parijs en 'whites only overwinningsparade'
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Israel’s decades-long project of colonialism, dispossession, and propaganda has aimed to erase Palestine itself. The media narrative framing Gaza as separate from the West Bank, East Jerusalem, or the millions of Palestinians denied their right of return is part of that erasure.
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'...about the importance of being born into a ‘conscious life’. With this consciousness comes the realisation that you have ‘justified the unjustifiable and made sacred what shouldn’t be’.
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'There are no promised lands except the ones we carry within us.’ Josie Fanon https://t.co/AwGoLTGwfi
versobooks.com
Throughout her almost thirty-year-long career as a journalist and political analyst, Josie Fanon’s gaze remained fixed on Palestine. Palestinian freedom sat at the centre of her Third World politics,...
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'het geweld tegen de Palestijnen, mogelijk gemaakt vanuit het Westen, zal vroeg of laat zijn weg naar datzelfde Westen vinden' https://t.co/RICv749S8z
oneworld.nl
De Amerikaanse schrijver Ta-Nehisi Coates, wiens bekroonde werk op sommige scholen wordt verboden, roept op ‘te vechten’ voor kunst, cultuur en zelfbevrijding in tijden van autocratie. Want verhalen,...
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'And She Didn’t Die tells the life story of South African writer and resistance fighter Lauretta Ngcobo, as seen through the eyes of her daughter, film director Kethiwe Ngcobo https://t.co/Gs0LXR7Xd2
festival.idfa.nl
And She Didn’t Die tells the life story of South African writer and resistance fighter Lauretta Ngcobo, as seen through the eyes of her daughter, film director Kethiwe Ngcobo. Lauretta grew up in...
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'Mamdani’s father is known to be a great admirer of the Ghanaian freedom fighter, Kwame Nkrumah, who led the fight for independence from British rule and served as the newly independent country’s first president from 1957' https://t.co/MHOBkOeYEC
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'How do you navigate the idolatry and hero-worship, especially from liberal, often white audiences who convert moral courage into spectacle? Does this adulation depoliticize the struggle you represent?”
africasacountry.com
Francesca Albanese’s visit to South Africa exposed a truth we prefer not to face: that our moral witness has hardened into ritual. We watch, we clap, we call it solidarity.
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If this can translate to the return of the land to the dispossesed Afrikan majority, it would be of more interest. We need to stop being distracted by 'performative unity' & 'diversity' with no subtantive shift in power & lived outcomes for Afrikan people. No shade on Siya.
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