signalmankenneth (03-07-2021), ThatOwlWoman (03-08-2021)
The commemoration of a pivotal moment in the fight for voting rights for African Americans will honor four giants of the civil rights movement who lost their lives in 2020, including the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis.
The Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee will mark the 56th anniversary of Bloody Sunday - the day on March 7, 1965, that civil rights marchers were brutally beaten by law enforcement officers on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge. Lewis, the Rev. Joseph Lowery, the Rev. C.T. Vivian, and attorney Bruce Boynton are the late civil rights leaders who will be honored on Sunday.
https://abc11.com/society/bloody-sun...abc11-3/7/2021
I was in Selma for the 50th anniversary and marched with the giants of the movement
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
ברוך השם
signalmankenneth (03-07-2021), ThatOwlWoman (03-08-2021)
Guno צְבִי (03-07-2021), signalmankenneth (03-07-2021)
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
ברוך השם
Poor Guno. Lying fuck. Cannot stand having to actual prove his lies and bullshit. Like Trumpet his inbred sibling.
Guno צְבִי (03-07-2021)
You do not know what I have been involved in the movement, although I was too young for bloody Sunday, had family involved in the freedom riders, I was also involve in voter registration drives in the late 60's in cracka land before going into the Navy
Thankfully the federal government got involved to straighten up the crackas
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
ברוך השם
HONOURING ANOTHER CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT "BLOODY SUNDAY"
From the late 1960's to the late 1990's a 30 year odd, bitter conflict was fought in Northern Ireland. It was a very dirty, horrific guerrilla war, that also involved bombing and tit -for- tat sectarian murders. It was triggered by a civil rights movement headed by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA). The Civil Rights movement was based in the city of Londonderry, but if ever you visit there don't say "Londonderry", or you'll likey get a swift kick in balls, the Irish Catholics and Nationalist who live there call it "Derry". They've erased the "London" part of the official name of their city, because they're not too fond, to say the least, of anything British.
The Island of Ireland is divided between the "Republic of Ireland" (officially named "Ireland") which covers the lower five -sixths of the island and "Norther Ireland" (or "Ulster"). By the time the 1960's arrived the Catholic/Nationalist people of Northern Ireland had bourne the brunt of 50 years of discrimination and oppression by the Protestant Unionists (persons loyal the Britain) who also lived in Northern Ireland. In the city of Derry, for example, a gerrymander kept the minority Protestant?Unionists in power; elections always returened a Unionist majority to the City Corporation. This resulted in Derry being deprived of investments in social services and infrastructure; for instance motorways were intentionally not extended to the city, public schools were in a state of disrepair and could only provide a poor quality of education due to funding restriction, the cities housing stock was in an appalling state, a university that ought have been built in Derry, was located in a small, nearby Protestant town instead. Many other Catolic/Nationalist communities living in Unionist Northern Ireland suffer the same kinds of discrimination and injustices.
This discrimination led to Derry becoming the focal point of a Civil Right campaign in the 1960's which was spear-headed by an organization called the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA). NICRA staged many protest marches and rallies in Derry and other towns in Northern Ireland and these event aggravated the local Unions. At times conlict between the opposing groups erupted in nasty shirmishes and small to moderate outreakes rioting and other kinds of civil disorder. In 1968, however a protest campaigns led by NICRA began to turn ugly with increasing eruptions of severe violence between Derry's Catholics and groups of Unions. By August of that year the British government has lost patience with the ever escalating cycle of violence in Northern Ireland and sent in British Army troops.
The arrival of British troops in Northern Ireland in 1968, pretty much marked the start of what are generally known as" The Troubles." I've always found that term utterly inadequate, you don't refer to 30-years of guerrilla warefare, bombings, executions, torture, sectarian murders, terrorist massacre, communities split by blind hatred , "trouble", "trouble" is what naughty boys get into at school (!) A journalist who knew his stuff about the conflict in Northern Ireland, once called it a "dirty war". Here's an example of what he meant...At 8:30am a father is at home getting ready for work. He lives in a Unionist neighbourhood of Belfast (Northern Ireland's capititall city). This man is 35 years old, is happliy married and has three young children. He hears someone knocking on the front door. His wife opens the door and finds a man in his thirties standing there who asks if he could have a brief word with her husband. She says she with go and get him, and by this time three curious children are peering at the stranger standing in the front door. In a minute or two the husband arrives at the door greets the stranger, as he waits for the stranger to to say what his business is, the strager pulls a .32 revolver from his coat pocket and shoots the husband through the forehead in full sight of the children. He then walkes calmly to his Ford Escort car parked outside the house and drives away. The only thing the shooter knew about the man he killed was that he was a Protestant who lived in a Unionist neighbourhood. That's a real story, BTW. And there are scores of others almost exactly the same that happened during "The Troubles". And if you think that's ugly, much, much uglier things went down during the 30 years of "The Troubles" (I couldn't describe most of them for you - they are that horrific).
"The Troubles" were an example of what military men call "Low- Intensity Warefare. That meant a lot of the fighting was carried out in urban setting using guerrill tactics.The Republicans also carried out a bombing campaign against British commercial, infrastructure and political targets There were two sides (1) THE PEPUBLICANS (WHO WANTED THE BRITISH OUT OF IRELAND AN END TO EXISTENCE OF NORTHERN IRELAND IN A UNITED IRISH REPUBLIC the Official Irish Republican Army (IRA), the provisional IRA and the Irish Nationalist Liberation Army (INLA) and (2) THE LOYALISTS (LOYAL TO THE BRITISH CROWN) Britsh Army, The British intelligence forces, and the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), plus the Loyalist paramilitaries including the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF), the Ulster Defense Association (UDA) and the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).
By 1970 things were getting worse in "The Troubles", there was escalating violence across Northern Ireland and in consequence, the British government introduced internment (imprisonment without trial) in 1971. In August that year 342 were arrested and imprisoned without trial on suspicion of being associated with the IRA. This ,naturally, triggered major rioting across Norther Ireland by Republicans and Nationalist (the overwhelming majority of whom were Catholics. IRA activity also sharply spiked, and in the months after August 30 British soldiers were shot. A great deal of this violence was concentrated in the city of Derry. So the IRA and the Provos put up barriers in the city to establish "no-go" zones for the British army and the RUC in the city. By the end of 1971 they had set up about 30 barricades to prevent access to a part of the city they declared as "FREE DERRY" (This was like the 2020 rioters in Seattle usind barricades to cordoning off CHAZ - "THE CAPITOL HILL AUTONOMOUS ZONE." The difference is that where "CHAZ" was set up by a group of young, middle-class wanker, "FREE DERRY" was the real deal. It was a full frontal defiance, a big - "FUCK YOU" - in the face of the British army; and in those days, the British army didn't like taking any shit.
The development in the story comes in 1972 when the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Brian Faulkner, banned all parades and marches in Northern Ireland. Despite the ban NICRA -the Northern Ireland Civil Liberties Association decided they would defy the ban and go ahead with a march to protest internment. The authorities decided to compromise and allow NICRA to march through the Catholic areas of Derry but not to Guildhall in the city centre. If they attempted to proceed to Guildhall, as they had planned they would be stopped. The cities authorities expected violence, and the 1st Battalion Parachut Regiment were order to travel to Derry to contain any possible violent rioting.
So it was that on Sunday the 30th January, 15,000 NICRA protesters set off on their march through the city of Derry. As the marchers neared the city centre their pat was blocked by British army barriers. Most of the marchers re-routed down Rossville street towards the Bogside, in a direction away from the city centre.
There were 101 troops from the !st Battalion Parachute Regiment manning the barricades that blocked off the marchers access to the centre of Derry city. I have to explain that these men were probably the toughest troops in the British army, they were an extremely highly-trained military elite. They were combat specialists - trained in the martial arts and hand-to-hand killing techniques. They were NOT the kind of people you fuck with On this day they were all armed with British-made .762 SLR assault rifles. These rifles fire high-velocity rounds that are capable of passing through iron railing and brick walks, and human bodies When and SLR rifle is fired it releases a major CRACK !! sound like a howitzer. If you're not expecting it and a .762 SLR fires off a shot you may well shit your pants in shock at the giant, angry "CRACK" sound of the rifle. The Australian army used .762 SLRs in Vietnam, they were standard issue in the Australian army for many years. When I was in high school I was in the Army Cadet and we had rifle traing at a local army barricks using .762 SLRs. We had to wear ear-muffs when we were shooting then, but I can still remember the "balls out" noise that firing each round produced, man; those SLRs were bad-ass rifles.
Here's how the story ends. A journal who was covering the NICRA march in Derry that Sunday said that he notice the Parachute Regiment troops looked "really hyped up" That sounds right because, at 4:07 pm they were order the chase the rioters down Rossville street, which they did both on foot and in armoured vehicles. When they caught up with the marchers they began beating and assaulting them ferociously, clubbing them with their rifle butts, firing rubber bullets into them at close range, hurling vicious abuse and making threats to kill. Shortly after this, they began firing their .762 SLRs without warning at the marchers. By 4:28 pm, they has shot 26 unarmed marcher who posing no threat, of the 26 hit, 14 were killed.
The incident is called BLOODY SUNDAY and ceremonies of remembrance are held in Ireland every year on the 30th January. I visited Derry in 1988, when I was a young man and stayed in the city for two weeks. Because I'm Australian, I like drinking beer, and I tried out the local brews in quite a few of the the city's pubs while I was there. Whenever I walked into a Derry pub, the drinkers inside would all go very quiet, as the people were very leery of strangers who looked English. As soon as I ordered my first pint, and everyone could hear my Australian accent, every thing was cool and the locals in the pub made me feel right at home. It was in these pubs that I learned all about "BLOODY SUNDAY". I had a rough knowledge of "The Troubles" that I had picked up from reading some books about the conflict in Australia but that was no substite for hearing the story of "NICRA", "FREE DERRY" and, of course, "BLOODY SUNDAY" from guys who were born and raised in the city. Ordinarily,these guys would not welcome discussion about violent events from the past like "Bloody Sunday", but because they could see that I had a genuine interest in the politics of "The Troubles" they were happy to tell me about what had happened and what the personally remembered
Guno צְבִי (03-08-2021)
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