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Chris Kempshall: History and Politics of Star Wars

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I've decided to start this book, after watching the recent excellent video on the #StarWars Series #Andor by #transwoman youtuber Jessie Gender (www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjMsPsaVyr8), which cites this study multiple times. I also feel that this could be an interesting tengential approach to the issue of #autoritarism and #fascism, as it appears that George Lucas' political messages (because, yes, Star Wars has always been political and well, woke) is based more on a popular idea of what #dictatorship and #imperialism are based more than on pure historical and political science theory. This is like looking at something from the embossed traces it left on the ground. It might also help me choose my next readings on these topics, while making for a really agreable reading, as I'm now quite exhausted and not in the state to digest more complexe analysis.

Annales HSS

🇬🇧 #AnnalesinEnglish 🇬🇧

Two articles on Oceania:

▶️ Adrian MUCKLE & Benoît TRÉPIED, Under the Colonial Radar? The History and Memory of an “Invisible” Mixed-Race Household in New Caledonia
👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.20

▶️ Lauren BENTON & Adam CLULOW, How Not to Possess an Island: Pitcairn and the Legal Circuits of British Empire in the Pacific World
👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.21

at home in my head

#capitalism #imperialism #colonialism #classwar #eattherich

elymaiis

“If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day; if you teach a man to fish, he will eat for a lifetime,” but you have done neither. You have stood before us and eaten fish after fish, and chided us for our greed as you have done so. You have cast aside their offal and simultaneously chided us for our waste. You then told us that, coincidentally, you owned the river, and our parents should have gotten us the same if we wanted fish. You gave a man a fish to murder us if we step too close to the river, or speak too loud, or eat a fish from another river. You’ve copyrighted the fishing net. It costs us fish to leave.

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This is cultural #imperialism. It is not amusing, it's wrong; and as a white, reasonably middle-class Scottish person, I strive to call it out as I see it. It doesn't matter what Campbell believed - these words have all the cadence of your extremely egalitarian Uncle Greg. He'd never speak ill of immigrants in public - met a few, 'imself - but at family gatherings, he'll regale you with patter like, "they should fuck off back to their own country and see to their own."

MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History June 11, 1913: Cops shot Black & White IWW members (Industrial Workers of the World) and AFL maritime workers in New Orleans. As a result, one worker died and two were injured. The imprisoned another 43 IWW members. They were striking against United Fruit Company for better wages. This strike was part of a strike wave at ports along the eastern seaboard, particularly in Philadelphia, led by African American IWW organizer Ben Fletcher. Most of these strikes were successful. However, the one in New Orleans was lost. United Fruit would go on to become one of the most powerful corporations of the 20th century. They ultimately controlled vast territories and transportation networks in Central America, Colombia, and the West Indies, and maintained a virtual monopoly in the so-called banana republics of Costa Rica, Honduras, and Guatemala. In 1954, they lobbied for the overthrow of the Arbenz …

Today in Labor History June 11, 1913: Cops shot Black & White IWW members (Industrial Workers of the World) and AFL maritime workers in New Orleans. As a result, one worker died and two were injured. The imprisoned another 43 IWW members. They were striking against United Fruit Company for better wages. This strike was part of a strike wave at ports along the eastern seaboard, particularly in Philadelphia, led by African American IWW organizer Ben Fletcher. Most of these strikes were successful. However, the one in New Orleans was lost. United Fruit would go on to become one of the most powerful corporations of the 20th century. They ultimately controlled vast territories and transportation networks in Central America, Colombia, and the West Indies, and maintained a virtual monopoly in the so-called banana republics of Costa Rica, Honduras, and Guatemala. In 1954, they lobbied for the overthrow of the Arbenz government in Guatemala, which was successfully planned and orchestrated by the CIA, led by CIA-director Allan Dulles, who was also a board member of United Fruit. In the 1980s, United Fruit officially became Chiquita. Their violence and corruption were described in the works of Garcia Garcia Marquez, Thomas Pynchon, O. Henry, and Pablo Neruda.

You can read my complete biography of Fletcher here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/05/13/ben-fletcher-and-the-iww-dockers/

#workingclass #LaborHistory
#cia #unitedfruit #union #IWW #strike #prison #benfletcher #philadelphia #neworleans #prison #wages #imperialism #writer #author #books #novel #poetry @bookstadon

Yellow sign with a white rifle. Reads "Bananas" in red, cursive above the gun, and "United FruitCo." in black, below the gun.

Erin Conroy

A #MustRead thread: https://progressives.social/@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes@treehouse.systems/112158149698062526

When US responded to #ICJ ruling of plausible case, by stripping all funding from #UNRWA, I argued that was active US execution of #Genocide against #Gaza. New spending bill defunding it until 2025 outstrips that in viciousness & scope.

ALSO NOTE her citation of CNN reporting from 3 wks ago: UN clearly says Israeli govt ***used torture on UN staff*** to extract false confessions.

cc @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

#Colonialism
#Imperialism
#USPolitics

"While several of those donors have recently announced their intention to resume funding, the U.S. government, which has historically been a top donor to UNRWA, has instead doubled down. The spending bill passed the House on Friday afternoon with a 286-135 vote. Twenty-three House Democrats voted against the bill, with several issuing statements directly linking their “no” votes to the UNRWA provision. The Senate overwhelmingly approved the bill early on Saturday in a 74-24 vote."

Please also note that despite the U.S. State Department playing a little shell game with the truth, the reality is that the Biden administration originally suspended UNRWA funding over accusations that ultimately came from Israel (you know, the country currently engaging in a genocide in Gaza) and for which literally no credible evidence has ever been produced - we'll talk about that more in the three replies with citations I'll publish under this post.

So let's review here: the U.S. and much of the so-called West, cut funding to a UN aid organization that represents the only way to to prevent a literal famine in Gaza, based entirely on unverified accusations from a government engaging in a literal genocide against Palestinians in the territory. Additionally, Israel has never presented any hard evidence that these allegations are true, and that UN agency says Israeli officials extracted flimsy confessions of a UNRWA relationship with Hamas using literal torture. Finally, despite this lack of evidence, Israel's long history of attempting to dismantle the agency that feeds Palestinians, and a UN agency's report that torture was used to extract confessions, the American government's bipartisan position almost two months later is that helping Israel engineer a famine in Gaza by suspending UNRWA aid for the next year at a minimum, is cool and good actually. In fact, we're also going to keep funding Israel and we continue to ship weapons to Netanyahu's military during an ongoing genocide.

At what point does this stop being Israel's genocide in Gaza, and start being a joint American-Israeli genocide in Gaza? Because frankly, I think we're already there.

MikeDunnAuthor

Content warning US Genocide in Philippines

Today in Labor History February 4, 1899: A U.S. sentry shot Filipino soldiers, leading to the Battle of Manila, the first and largest battle of the Philippine-American war. 55 Americans and 238 Filipinos died in the battle. The war, as a whole, was essentially a revolt against the U.S. occupation. However, after 14 years, the Americans were in control and the Philippines had become a de facto territory of the U.S. Up to 6,000 Americans and 12,000-20,000 Filipinos died in the war. However, as many as 1 million civilians died from famine and disease during the genocidal U.S. occupation. The Manila correspondent for the Philadelphia Ledger wrote in 1901, “Our men have been relentless, have killed to exterminate men, women, children, prisoners and captives, active insurgents and suspected people from lads of ten up.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #philippines #filipino #imperialism #warcrimes #genocide #insurgency #independence #occupation #revolt

Filipino casualties on the first day of the Philippine-American War. Original caption is 'Insurgent dead just as they fell in the trench near Santa Ana, February 5th. The trench was circular, and the picture shows but a small portion.' By This file is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States. - US Archiv ARCWEB ARC Identifier: 524389, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=371036

it's kat!

Content warning slavery, colonialism, royal parasites

the royals & slavery...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPD0hAIZ90w
#imperialism #colonialism #slavery #notMyKing #reparations #abolishTheMonarchy