Phật 81⬙ Śighra pōrabhāba pākara lēkhāyiba pīra kusuma

Haile Woldetensae

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1885

Louis Riel, Métis leader who headed two rebellions against a Canadian incursion into their territory, is hanged for treason.
"I will perhaps be one day acknowledged as more than a leader of the half-breeds, 
and if I am I will have an opportunity of being acknowledged as a leader of good in this great country."

1926

Antonio Gramsci, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is arrested by Mussolini and sentenced to twenty years in prison, during which time he would write his famous “Prison Notebooks.”
“‘Vanguards’ without armies to back them up, ‘commandos’ without infantry or artillery, these too are transpositions from the language of rhetorical heroism.”

1983

Revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara assumes power in Burkina Faso, nationalizing mineral wealth and redistributing land.

“It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.”

1997

Fela Kuti, Nigerian father of Afrobeat pioneer and frequent presidential candidate, dies from AIDS-related complications.

pincushion socialism

At its core, Socialism calls for social ownership and control of the economy. That means that either the State or the workers or in some instances, both, own major sectors of the economy. Socialists believe that this model allows for basic services to be provided more cheaply and fairly. It is NOT to be confused with communism – a political ideology where there is a total absence of government which, ironically, many of the detractors on the political right seem to favor.

Democratic Socialism is the combination of a political democracy and a socialist or mixed economy. Although Bernie Sanders is advocating for economic reform, he doesn’t want to do away with Capitalism entirely. He believes that the government should pay for health care and higher education, but those services should be provided by a combination of the public and private sector.

Historically, Socialism has been a polarizing term in American politics, but as more people are turning a deaf ear to all of the fear mongering coming from the corporate media, they are also becoming more educated on the facts – especially the reality that we already have wonderful, rather quotidian, socialist aspects to our American way of life: our highway system, public libraries, police and fire departments, the postal service, garbage collection, and dozens of more positive ways that our lives are impacted by a functional Socialism – ways that we take for granted each and every day.

According to recent Gallup survey, 47% of Americans would consider voting for a Socialist as President and according to the PEW Research Center, younger people are also more likely to favor Socialism with nearly half of Americans, 29 years old and younger, having a positive view of Socialism.

2009

Millions of Iranians take to the streets in the pro-democracy Green Movement in Iran.

“My hands and yours,
must tear down this curtain.”

 

1649

A mutiny in the New Model Army of England by the Levellers, who called for the expansion of suffrage, religious toleration, and sweeping political reforms, is crushed when its leaders are executed.
“We do now hold ourselves bound in mutual duty to each other to take the best care we can for the future to avoid both the danger of returning into a slavish condition and chargeable remedy of another war.”

1967

Heavyweight champion boxer Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the US Armed Forces, leading to a charge for draft evasion and being stripped of his titles.

“I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong. No Vietcong ever called me nigger.”

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Work using field recordings and electromagnetic field generated sounds
recorded in Linz, Austria this year.

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Taatquaouinan luxury

A short excerpt from a recording I made of a long train ride –
a train almost entirely filled with Syrian refugees – into München.
Hours later, we, as a group, were greeted by a large number of
security personnel and media.

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警方夺走西藏喇嘛丹增德勒骨灰

BEIJING — The Chinese police forcibly seized the ashes of a prominent Tibetan monk whose death in prison this month set off public demonstrations and raised suspicions about his treatment while incarcerated, supporters of the monk said on Tuesday.

Geshe Nyima, a cousin of the revered religious figure and community leader, Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, 65, said that four Tibetans transporting his cremated remains to his hometown, in the southwestern province of Sichuan, for Buddhist funeral rites were held at gunpoint by Chinese police officers last Thursday night in the town of Luding and forced to hand them over.

“The ashes were taken back and not given to the family,” said Geshe Nyima, speaking in a conference call from Dharamsala, India, where he lives in exile.

“Police said that they would throw the ashes into the nearby river. The four people don’t know what happened to the ashes.”