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THE PERSPECTIVE OF REBELLION AND STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE The Patriot forces during the American Revolution were considered rebels by the British monarchy, as they were seen as defiant and opposing the government's policies. On the American side, Patriots were hailed as liberation heroes, fighting against the injustice of British policies and colonial oppression that restricted human rights. Eventually, after the sustained efforts of the American Revolution, America was able to declare its independence with the support of the 13 colonies that resisted British rule. Sounds are familiar? No double standard please #seedifferentperspective

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor the sovereignty, resilience, and immense contributions that Native Americans have made to the world; and we recommit to upholding our solemn trust and treaty responsibilities to Tribal Nations, strengthening our Nation-to-Nation ties. For centuries, Indigenous Peoples were forcibly removed from ancestral lands, displaced, assimilated, and banned from worshiping or performing many sacred ceremonies. Yet today, they remain some of our greatest environmental stewards. They maintain strong religious beliefs that still feed the soul of our Nation. And they have chosen to serve in the United States Armed Forces at a higher rate than any other group. Native peoples challenge us to confront our past and do better, and their contributions to scholarship, law, the arts, public service, and more continue to guide us forward. #indigenousrights #indigenouspeople #indigenous #diversitymatters READ the full proclamation on Indigenous Peoples’ Day https://www.whitehouse.gov

Christians aren’t getting enough heat for what is happening in Pal-ine. There are more Christian Zi*onists in the United States alone than there are Jews in the entire world, and it is directly because of Christian Zio*nism that Izrael has the kind of military, political, and social power that it has. Jewish Zio.nism without Christian Zio.nists would just be a fringe extremist movement without any systemic power. White Christianity is responsible for countless atrocities throughout history, where they used a bastardized version of their faith to justify chattel slavery, gen-o-cide, rape, destruction of the lands they came across, and so much else. Christians: you have a direct responsibility to push back against the extremism in your community and to dismantle the systems of oppression that your ancestors put into place and which you still benefit from today. And I expect to see you making A LOT more noise about Pal-ine.

Today we commemorate the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. On the 27th of January, 1945, Soviet forces advanced to the camp, liberating approximately 7,000 individuals who had survived the systematic extermination driven by the racial fanaticism of the National Socialists. The global community continues to reflect upon this harrowing occurrence. Presently, only a handful of individuals remain who can bear witness to these events from personal experience. Nonetheless, it is imperative for our society to persist in the solemn remembrance of the innocent victims and to engage with their memory in a manner befitting their dignity. In the current context, this dignity also encompasses the responsibility to prevent the politicization of these memories. The Holocaust represents an unparalleled rupture in the fabric of civilization, rendering any comparisons inappropriate. Upholding the dignity of the victims is an obligation incumbent upon successive generations. Through commemoration, we have the means to avert the repetition of history. The mantra 'Never again' is more pertinent now than ever. #MemoryAndDignity #HolocaustRemembrance #NeverAgainIsNow  #HolocaustGedenktag #NieWieder #ErinnernFürDieZukunft #AuschwitzBefreiung #GegenDasVergessen #27Januar #GeschichteErinnern #MahnungDerGeschichte #ZumGedenken #WeRemember  

Purity of thought, purity of mind and spirit, these are some of the values our founding fathers have taught us. Today we not only remember their sacrifices for the nation but also celebrate our freedom. Jai Hind. #UNITERPAcademy #HappyIndependenceDay #IndependenceDay

Slavery and the “American Way of War,” 1607–1861 - PDF: https://lnkd.in/gEPibFZC For the two and a half centuries that followed the establishment of England’s first North American colony at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607, the practice of slavery and warfare on that continent were inextricably intertwined. The enslavement of Native Americans taken captive in war was a recurrent objective of early military campaigns in the colonies, from New England to the Carolinas. Slave raiding not only provided labor, it served vital strategic functions. It allowed the militarily weak English colonies to cement alliances with powerful Native American confederacies by providing a ready market for their prisoners. Slave raiding was also a form of proxy-war, by which the authority of rival imperial powers was undermined by the enslavement of their native subjects. The relationship between slavery and warfare was, however, a dynamic and contingent one. Slave raiding declined as a characteristic of North American conflict by the early eighteenth century. As racialized plantation societies developed in the southern colonies, enslaved Africans and their descendants supplanted indentured Europeans and Native Americans in the rice and tobacco fields. Yet war and slavery remained intimately bound. The colonies’ own plantation societies proved strategically vulnerable, as runaways and rebels forged alliances with external enemies. Plantation slavery itself took on the characteristics of an “internalwar.” The fundamental insecurities generated by an actually or potentially rebellious enslaved population forged a militarized southern society and shaped America’s early military institutions to a degree that has largely gone unrecognized. America’s “way of war” cannot be understood without reference to slavery. The persistent use of organized military force exemplified by the militia against the enslaved serves to confirm the essential nature of North American slavery as an “internal war.” More broadly, it is just one element in the long and deeply intertwined relationship between slavery and warfare in North America. This began in the earliest days of colonization, as Native Americans seized in war were enslaved in colonial households and plantations or traded within and between colonies. Slave raiding by Native American allies to feed this commerce in captives was a foundation of, in particular, South Carolina’s war making. The business of slave raiding served both to cement alliances with native confederacies and undermine rival colonial powers, through an indirect strategy of attacks on people under their protection. Yet slavery was a strategic “Achilles’ heel” for southern colonies themselves. Fear of enslavement turned the military might of the Yamasee Confederacy against their Carolinian allies in 1715.