Above Photo: Billy Mitchell, member of the Georgia House of Representatives, speaks as counter-protesters gather during Confederate Memorial Day at Stone Mountain Park east of Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. April 30, 2022. Dustin Chambers / Reuters. Atlanta, Georgia – Carrying signs decrying “racist traitors,” about a hundred civil rights activists marched and chanted at Georgia’s Stone Mountain on Saturday to protest at the return of an annual celebration of the Confederacy at the foot of a towering monument to the heroes of the South’s pro-slavery past. As dozens of state and local police, including SWAT teams with armored trucks, looked on, the […]
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Monument To Colonialism Toppled On Indigenous Peoples’ Day By Charles Davis, Business Insider. October 13, 2020 Monument To Colonialism Toppled On Indigenous Peoples’ Day2020-10-132020-10-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/santafe-e1602616056104.jpg200px200px Above photo: “Ogha Po’oge” is the indigenous, Tewa term for the city named “Santa Fe” by Spanish colonists. The Tewa language is spoken by the modern-day Puebo people. Charles Davis. Two protesters chained themselves to an obelisk in Santa Fe to protest the New Mexico capital’s failure to remove the celebration of settler victory over “savage” indigenous peoples. New Mexico – Visitors to the historic plaza in Santa Fe, a bastion of liberalism in northern New Mexico, will […]
India launched a rural-employment guarantee scheme in 2005, to safeguard the livelihood of people living in rural areas by promising at least 100 days’ paid work a year to every adult member of each family. Aside from economic security, the scheme also created rural assets. India’s Rural Development Minister, Narendra Singh Tomar, revealed on Friday that “there has been an increase of 52.11 percent in total employment generation” through the Mahatma Gandhi rural job scheme during the COVID-19 lockdown period. The scheme was launched by Manmohan Singh of the Indian National Congress Party, in 2005, shortly after he was elected Prime […]
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, D.C., will be dedicated on Sept. 17. A stainless steel, woven “tapestry” made by artist Tomas Osinski stands behind the statues, and depicts the cliffs at Normandy. Alan Karchmer/Eisenhower Memorial Commission hide caption toggle caption Alan Karchmer/Eisenhower Memorial Commission The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, D.C., will be dedicated on Sept. 17. A stainless steel, woven “tapestry” made by artist Tomas Osinski stands behind the statues, and depicts the cliffs at Normandy. Alan Karchmer/Eisenhower Memorial Commission Dwight David Eisenhower was one of the towering figures of the 20th century: A five-star general, he […]
Chadwick Boseman’s hometown is already working on a statue dedicated to the late actor—but it will not replace the Confederate monument that still stands in the town square. After the actor’s tragic death from colon cancer, fans began signing a petition calling for Anderson, South Carolina, where Boseman was born and raised, to replace the Confederate statue that claims the soldiers who fought for the South “were in the right” with one dedicated to Boseman, the town’s most famous resident. More than 60,000 people have signed it so far, although it’s unclear how many of the signatories hail from Anderson itself. […]
The Heyward Shepherd monument in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, was smeared with what appeared to be feces on Tuesday morning. There have been many calls on social media for the statue, which sits nearby John Brown’s Fort, to be removed or vandalized in recent weeks. Shepherd was a free black man and the first person killed during John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry. TRENDING: BREAKING: President Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Illegal Immigrants From 2020 Census Count For the Purpose of Congressional Representation The monument was placed by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans in […]
The U.S. isn’t the only country where statues of controversial historical figures have been swept aside by protesters seeking a clean break with the past. Above, workers load a statue of KGB founder Felix Dzerzhinsky on a flatbed truck after it was toppled in Moscow on Aug. 23, 1991. Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP hide caption toggle caption Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP The U.S. isn’t the only country where statues of controversial historical figures have been swept aside by protesters seeking a clean break with the past. Above, workers load a statue of KGB founder Felix Dzerzhinsky on a flatbed truck after it was toppled in […]
Mother Jones: We are in a moment of reckoning over racism, not only taking down Confederate statues to eradicate these lingering odes to white supremacy but also examining how deeply our society has been shaped by slavery and its aftermath. Last year, the New York Times’ 1619 Project traced the influence of slavery on everything from American capitalism to the American diet. Today, individuals, brands, and lawmakers are taking stock. In this reappraisal, the Electoral College is likewise due for a second look. In the last five elections, the Electoral College has handed the presidency to two Republicans who lost the popular vote: George […]
Black Militia Marches On Stone Mountain, Demands Removal Of Confederate Monument By Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance. July 7, 2020 Black Militia Marches On Stone Mountain, Demands Removal Of Confederate Monument2020-07-072020-07-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/black-militia-at-stone-mountain-park-ga-july-4-2020.-from-wxia.-e1594149521842.png200px200px Above photo: Black militia at Stone Mountain Park, GA July 4, 2020. From WXIA. Newsweek reports “About 1,000 heavily armed militia, all of whom were Black, marched through Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park on Saturday, challenging white nationalist groups in the area to either come out and fight or join them in demonstrating against the government. Stone Mountain State Park officials said the Black militia group was peaceful, orderly and escorted by police […]
President Trump threw down the gauntlet on Independence Day weekend. President Trump told Americans he will always protect our history, our monuments and our way of life! Today America defined the current battle between good and evil. President Trump promised the South Dakota crowd: “I am here as your president to proclaim before the country and before the world this monument will never be desecrated. These heroes will never be defaced. They’re legacy will never, ever be destroyed. Their achievements will never be forgotten. TRENDING: LIVESTREAM VIDEO: Via RSBN– President Donald Trump with First Lady Melania Speaks at Mount Rushmore on […]
A Montana Democrat was arrested for ripping down the Kalispell 10 Commandments monument with a chain tied to a pickup truck. Man arrested for taking down Kalispell monument with chain, pickup truckhttps://t.co/miNUAwYbbp — NBC Montana (@NBCMontana) June 28, 2020 FOX News reported: TRENDING: Black Lives Matter Mob Marches Through Beverly Hills Neighborhood Chanting ‘Eat the Rich’ (VIDEO) Montana police arrested a man who they said pulled down a courthouse Ten Commandments monument with a chain and a pickup truck, according to reports. Anthony Weimer was booked into jail on a charge of felony criminal mischief following the incident Saturday in Kalispell, […]
On Tuesday night, Stephen Colbert will host John Bolton for his first late-night interview since the publication of his new book, The Room Where It Happened. But on Monday, he scored an even bigger guest: first lady Melania Trump. Well, actually it was actress Laura Benanti, who returned to The Late Show to show off her expert Melania impression. The fact that she was performing from home did nothing to dim her brilliance. Asked by Colbert how she’s holding up, she replied, “Oh, Stephen, these protesters are frightening. Every day, they tear down another cold, lifeless monument to white supremacy. I […]
A small German party has installed a monument to the first Soviet leader, Vladimir Lenin, in the western city of Gelsenkirchen. City authorities sought to block the initiative but ended up launching an online educational campaign. The former West Germany has seen the very first monument to Lenin erected on its soil on Saturday, courtesy of a tiny fringe party, the Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany (MLPD). The party proudly unveiled the over two-meter (6.5-foot) tall statue, originally produced in the former Czechoslovakia in 1957 and now placed outside of its office in Gelsenkirchen. The MLPD told the crowd of its red […]
Senator Tom Cotton has accidentally kicked off an effort to rechristen the Washington Monument after mockingly dubbing it the “Obelisk of Wokeness.” Inspired netizens soon ran with the idea, however, even starting a petition. The Republican lawmaker laid into what he called the “woke child mob” in a speech on the Senate floor on Thursday, taking aim at a “cancel culture” that seeks to tear down anything not in line with fashionable progressive attitudes, from movies to monuments. “So, where does this cancel culture take us? What is the logical conclusion? What is the end of the cancel culture?” Cotton asked. […]
British Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has “challenged” government officials around the world to remove “racist statues” after protesters in Bristol tore down a monument to a 17th-century slave trader. The statue of Edward Colston, a Bristol merchant who traded tens of thousands of African slaves to the Americas, was ripped down amid anti-racism protests in the city on Sunday. Colston bequethed his wealth to charities on his death in 1721 and his name remains on numerous buildings and streets in Bristol, becoming an increasing source of contention. After toppling his statue, protesters danced on the momument, yelping in delight […]
The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors monument in Birmingham, Ala., seen here in 2016, has been the subject of legal controversy in recent years. Jay Reeves/AP hide caption toggle caption Jay Reeves/AP The Confederate Soldiers and Sailors monument in Birmingham, Ala., seen here in 2016, has been the subject of legal controversy in recent years. Jay Reeves/AP Piece by piece, authorities overnight began pulling down a 5-story-tall monument to Confederate troops that has stood for more than a century in Birmingham, Ala. By the time the workers paused Tuesday morning, little was left of a spire that had become a lightning rod […]