The UK’s Natural History Museum is reviewing options for its Charles Darwin exhibits, including possible removal, after an internal review ordered amid Black Lives Matter protests found that they could be deemed “offensive.” The museum’s directors are scrutinizing collections that may be considered “problematic,” which could lead to removal or lesser […]
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Is Burning Prisons The New Knocking Down Confederate Statues? By Branden Janese, The North Star. July 30, 2020 Is Burning Prisons The New Knocking Down Confederate Statues?2020-07-302020-07-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/ap_20207849435637-e1596131135716.jpg200px200px Saturday afternoon in Seattle, Washington, a construction site where a youth detention center was being built burned to the ground. The King County juvenile […]
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 […]
Pulling Down Statues: A Tradition Dating Back To US Independence By Andrew Lawler, National Geographic. July 10, 2020 Pulling Down Statues: A Tradition Dating Back To US Independence2020-07-102020-07-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/william_walcutt_statue_george_iii-e1594407892394.png200px200px Above photo: ”Pulling Down the Statue of George III”, William Walcutt (1819-1882), painting in oils. Wikimedia. Enthusiasm for the American Revolution led […]
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Illinois) appeared to confirm conservatives’‘slippery slope’ concerns about the tearing down of historical monuments, when she told CNN she is open to memorials to George Washington being removed. Duckworth, who has been floated as a possible pick for Joe Biden’s vice presidential nominee, took no umbrage with […]
The Democrat party hates America. The Democrat party supports the Maoist revolution tearing down statues and erasing US history. Advertisement – story continues below Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) on Sunday said she is open to taking down statues of George Washington. Duckworth also slammed President Trump’s Mount Rushmore visit for […]
President Trump delivered an unforgettable speech on Friday night at Mount Rushmore National Park in South Dakota. The president defined the current battle between good and wickedness in America today. President Trump vowed to defend America, its heroes and its history. This is while Democrats vow to tear down statues, […]
Still standing. After the recent spate of violence, arson and attacks on American monuments and history Americans still strongly support Mount Rushmore and historic statues. Despite the best efforts by those on the left Americans still love their country. Via Rasmussen Reports: TRENDING: A New Low. Snopes Uses Local Crips […]
Four Giant Reasons To Remove The Statues By Lee Camp, Consortium News. July 1, 2020 Four Giant Reasons To Remove The Statues2020-07-012020-07-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/confederate_soldier-e1593633034203.jpg200px200px From a Robert E. Lee Descendant. We should relocate our racist statues to museums where we can remember our racist history in the appropriate context. I’m a descendant […]
As the trend of statue-toppling gains traction worldwide, RT takes a look at a special German museum where outdated sculptures go to rest in peace – even though many hark back to war. From the 19th-century colonial conquests in Africa to Prussian militarism and Nazism, German history is full of […]
Venezuelan political activist Elizabeth Rogliani posted a video warning Americans to be concerned about the toppling of statues and attempted erasure of American history. “I remember the statues of Christopher Columbus being knocked down. After that, the street names changed. Not all of them, but quite a few of them,” […]
__________HaaretzNo Statues of Trump, Ever. May His Name Be Blotted Out But let the record show that a man named George Perry Floyd Jr. changed the world. Even in Israel we’ve seen it– with the police killing of Eyad Hallaq – because, in death, George Floyd forced us to look […]
In today’s episode of Fault Lines, hosts Jamal Thomas and Shane Stranahan discussed a variety of issues from the latest charges against Julian Assange to the strategies and tactics of the Black Lives Matter protesters. Guests: Caleb Maupin – Speaker, writer, journalist, political analyst, and author of City Builders and […]
BET Founder Robert Johnson, in an interview with Fox News, slammed the white liberal Antifa “anarchists” who are tearing down Confederate statues all across the United States. Johnson said that black people actually laugh at white people who think that black people care about Confederate statues. Johnson said white protesters […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107969/30/1079693069_0:171:3124:1929_1200x675_80_0_0_702317a8a652c63b45766f81b9e52528.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Tim Korso. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202006241079710048-all-statues-toppled-now-its-senators-turn-wisconsin-protesters-beat-up-dem-lawmaker-over-photo/ The demonstrations against the arrest of a black man by police in Madison come in the wake of the so-called George Floyd protests, which have been rocking the US for over three weeks now. The rallies have on many occasions turned […]
A row of police officers stand guard with the statue of former President Andrew Jackson after protesters tried to topple it in Washington, DC on June 22, 2020. Eric Baradat /AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Eric Baradat /AFP via Getty Images A row of police officers stand […]
Earlier today President Trump spoke to reporters at the White House before he left for his rally in Arizona later today. President Trump told reporters he will use the Veterans’ Memorial Preservation Act to go after the jailed hoodlums who attempted to tear down the Andrew Jackson statue last night […]
France is among the former colonial powers facing questions over the honouring of historical figures which stand in its prominent cities. The French Empire was deeply involved in the global slave trade as were some of its most famous personalities. Two statues in Paris have been splashed with red paint […]
One of the vandals in Thousand Oaks Three men in Thousand Oaks, California were caught on camera vandalizing a Black Lives Matter flag. The owner put up a surveillance camera to catch the vandals of his sign. One of the villains is a sheriff’s office employee. The three men were […]
In the wake of protests against deeply entrenched racism, statues of slave traders and Confederate leaders are being torn town and toppled both in the U.S. and abroad. The dismantling of Confederate statues in this particular moment are not spontaneous acts of destruction; they follow decades of debate and peaceful […]
A statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson stands tall on the grounds of the West Virginia Capitol building in Charleston. Dave Mistich/West Virginia Public Broadcasting hide caption toggle caption Dave Mistich/West Virginia Public Broadcasting A statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson stands tall on the grounds of the West Virginia […]
The US, as well as many major cities around the globe, are witnessing an ongoing wave of anti-racism and anti-police-brutality protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd and many other African-Americans at the hands of white police officers. Many Confederate statues and monuments have been removed, either officially or […]
The Black Lives Matter mob ripped down two Confederate statues in Raleigh, North Carolina on Friday night.Because history is racist. The mob hung one statue from a street pole. The mob believes this is enlightened behavior.They are illiterate, fragile idiots. Watch as anti-racist protesters tear down part of a confederate […]
Two years ago in August 2017 President Trump warned that Democrats will soon be taking down Washington and Jefferson statues. Trump called it. President Trump: George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status? Are we going to now […]