A historical vignette that I’d never heard of; from the Wikipedia page on the Great Famine in Ireland:
In 1847, midway through the Great Irish Famine (1845?1849), a group of American Indian Choctaws collected $710 … and sent it to help starving Irish men, women and children. “It had been just 16 years since the Choctaw [...]
Palestinian resistance fighters, Lebanon, late 1960s (via)
Students in M?rida (Yucat?n, Mexico) celebrate the Day of the Revolution.
From the website of the astonishing “To the Left for Independence,” a “Communist and pro-Sardinian Independence Political Organization.” Thanks to Paul for the link, if that doesn’t go without saying.
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Some thoughts on Mike Davis’ Late Victorian Holocausts.
Everyone should know about the events that Mike Davis chronicles in this book. Worldwide famines beginning in 1877 killed tens of millions in India, China, Brazil and Africa; altogether around fifty million people died for starvation or disease. Famines with comparable death tolls occurred again around 1890, and [...]
Me again. Two days in a row! Tomorrow? We’ll see. For today, a photo:
(May Day, London, 2008, photo from flickr)
And if you enjoy that, please to be visiting the African Activist Archive. Amazing collection of photos and posters and so forth.
photo from Nepal, via Flickr
Here’s an image I just made for this morning’s lecture on writing systems of the world (and specifically why we know so little about the Mayan writing system):
As long as it’s still June (and even when it’s not!), check out these amazing photos by Diana Davies from the early days of the Gay Liberation movement in New York. Lots of lovely color photos.
