Venezuela: Communard Union Holds Founding Congress, Elects Leadership By Ricardo Vaz, Venezuelanalysis. March 7, 2022 Venezuela: Communard Union Holds Founding Congress, Elects Leadership2022-03-072022-03-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220307-6.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Hundreds of activists were present in the Communard Union’s first congress. Tatuy Tv. The growing grassroots network vows to expand popular power and move forward in the construction of socialism. Caracas ‒ Venezuelan communards gathered on March 3 and 4 to officially launch a national organization. More than 450 delegates were present in El Maizal Commune, Lara State, for the founding congress of the Communard Union. The collective aims to build a network of social organizations throughout the […]
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Less than two weeks after protesters in Montreal pulled down and defaced a statue of John Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, the founding father’s legacy took another hit: his severed bronze head was put on a postage stamp. James Bone, a federal government employee who curates stamp collections at Library and Archives Canada, reportedly had a sheet of stamps made featuring a photo of the head that was broken off Macdonald’s statue when the memorial was pulled down by demonstrators on Aug. 29 at Montreal’s Dominion Square. The sheet was made using a service in which Canada Post prints custom stamps […]
The rags-to-riches legend of Cosmos from 2017 (turning a $17 million token sale into roughly $104 million by 2019) almost came to an end in February 2020 when the interoperability project’s co-founders engaged in a scathing feud. Jae Kwon accused Zaki Manian of blasphemy, arguing over whether this software was “godly” and demanding that Manian renounce his “self-professed godliness.” (This is a quasi-religious industry, after all. Kwon did not respond to requests for comment by press time.) Many tokens are blatantly tethered to their celebrity creators. Would Cosmos fade into the already expansive graveyard of once-hyped token projects? Don’t put dirt […]
Last month, the author of The New York Times Magazine’s Pulitzer-wining project 1619, aimed at re-examining the legacy of slavery in the US, said it was immoral to use the word “violence” when talking about destructive protests against racial discrimination in the country that resulted in buildings being burnt, destroyed, and looted. The New York Times and its Sunday supplement The New York Times Magazine have criticised the founding fathers of the United States for being slave owners, but don’t address the skeletons in their own closet, the New York Post reported. An investigative report, conducted by Michael Goodwin, revealed that […]
A direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson wants the Washington, D.C., memorial to America’s third president ripped down because he “owned more than 600 slaves.” Lucian K Truscott IV penned an opinion piece published Monday in The New York Times in which he noted that while Jefferson’s motto was “all men are created equal,” he “never did much to make those words come true.” “The memorial is a shrine to a man who during his lifetime owned more than 600 slaves and had at least six children with one of them, Sally Hemings,” Truscott wrote. “Upon his death, he did not free […]
As nationwide protests in honor of black victims of police brutality have become accompanied by calls to defund and restructure the police, Harvard professor and researcher Caroline Light tells Sputnik that it’s also important for the US to examine the relationship between its own unethical history and how it justifies violence. “We already have this massive architecture of armed citizenship, which is based so much on implicit biases that disproportionately assume criminality when they see a black or brown face,” Light, who specializes in gender, critical race and ethnic studies, noted to Political Misfits hosts Bob Schlehuber and Jamarl Thomas on […]
Bonnie Pointer. Courtesy of the artist hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of the artist Bonnie Pointer. Courtesy of the artist Bonnie Pointer, a Grammy-winning singer and songwriter who was a founding member of vocal group the Pointer Sisters, has died at the age of 69. Her death was announced in a statement that included a remembrance from her older sister, Anita Pointer. “Bonnie was my best friend and we talked every day; we never had a fight in our life. I already miss her, and I will see her again one day.” No cause was given. The Pointer Sisters evolved from […]