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When slavery is discussed in the media and is taught in schools, very little is mentioned of the strong and fierce resistance which Africans put up against the slavers and their accomplices.

Source: Story of Ghanaian Slave Woman Who Led the Biggest Slave Revolt in The West Indies In 1733

The Amazon fires are scorching the Earth’s most vital ecosystem at such a voracious rate that by the time you read this, thousands more trees will have turned to ashes. Brazil’s space research agency calculates that one-and-a-half soccer fields worth of rainforest burns every single minute. That destruction includes more than trees — it is engulfing everything that lives in the forest and cannot escape.

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s gaslighting around global aid for his country to fight the devastating fires in the Amazon is a perfect — perfectly awful — example of what happens when nationalist demagogues take power, says Frida Ghitis.

Source: Bolsonaro’s ego stands in the way of saving the Amazon opinion) – CNN

Cochise led an Apache uprising against the United States government in Arizona territory in 1861 and kept fighting for 11 more years.

Source: Cochise: The Legendary Apache Leader Who Fought For His Tribe’s Freedom

As we write this post, in various regions of the world women’s NGOs are assembling to prepare for next year’s UN Commission On The Status Of Women which marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995). Contained within that declaration the following is urged of governments to: “Take all appropriate measures to eliminate harmful, medically unnecessary or coercive medical interventions…” and that “Acts of violence against women also include forced sterilization and forced abortion, coercive/forced use of contraceptives…” (section D, paragraph 115).

Source: UN Women Staying Silent As China Forcibly Sterilizes Uyghur Women In Detention Centers | TIBET, ACTIVISM AND INFORMATION

When they hear us. This time, Columbia University was forced to see and hear members of the distinguished Black Law Student Association as these future legal lions roared across this prestigious, picturesque Ivy League institution and called for the resignation of Elizabeth Lederer, a lead prosecutor in the Central Park Five case and a lecturer on their campus. Lederer quietly resigned on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 12, 2019. It comes seven years after the same organization demanded that she resign following the airing of the 2012 documentary “The Central Park Five.” They didn’t see us then. But they see us now.

Source: Black Columbia law students force Central Park 5 prosecutor to resign – Rolling Out

Across the country today, children left their classes to protest against climate change. This is my message to them.

Source: My generation trashed the planet. So I salute the children striking back. – Sustainable Human

Biological fallacies were used to justify slavery. Why can’t doctors let them go?

A 95-year-old man from New Zealand took four buses to join a local march against racism to show his support for the Muslim community in the wake of a terror attack targeting mosques in Christchurch that left 50 people dead.

Source: 95-year-old man catches four buses to join march against racism | TheHill