Assata Shakur, born on this day in 1947, is a revolutionary socialist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) who became the first woman to be added to the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list in 2013.
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Shakur grew up in New York City and Wilmington, North Carolina. She became involved in political activism at Borough of Manhattan Community College and City College of New York, participating in sit-ins and civil rights protests.
After graduating from college, Shakur briefly joined the Black Panther Party, leading its Harlem chapter. She left the Panthers and joined the Black Liberation Army, a black power group that was inspired by the Viet Cong and Algerian resistance movements and waged guerrilla warfare against the U.S. government from 1970 to 1981. Shakur was one of the targets of the FBI’s COINTELPRO program.
After being involved in a shootout with New Jersey police officers, Shakur was convicted on multiple counts of assault and murder and sentenced to life in prison. In 1979, BLA members freed her in a bloodless prison escape.
Shakur successfully sought political asylum in Cuba, where she died on September 25, 2025, at the age of 78
“I didn’t know what a fool they had made out of me until I grew up and started to read real history.”
- Assata Shakur
I hope you nerds have a good month of July 
Remember no crackers
The way Touareg people get orientalized is annoying, for anyone who doesn’t know how it is, a lot of times when Touaregs are mentioned the same line is used “did you know that in Touareg society men cover up and women don’t”, backhanded compliment that reduces their culture into “opposite day ayrabs”.
Every single of these posts or mentions or videos plays exactly like this one right here:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1lOyPo76uFsRelated.
A friend of mine was sharing this music with from ‘Tinariwen’ which is a Touareg musical group. I guess they are somewhat popular.
Well it turns out they are openly supporting the NATO-backed terrorist “Azawad Liberation Front” 🫠
I feel its connected to this weird orientalism where they are legible primarily because they are opposed to AES. Idk it just seemed relevant
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
This Black woman I was crushing on is now saying the whole “Black Americans are Indigenous to the Americas” shit now.
Yeah, never mind, I think I’m done here.
What a bizarre take. Is that at all a common sentiment? What does she mean? The trans-atlantic slave trade is documented history.
It’s gotten traction that has led to a “vocal minority” kind of dynamic, but trust me, most Black Americans definitely don’t believe in this BS. At least I hope that is the case.
I remember hearing some of those theories growing up. Did she say which theory she believed?
She believes that all Indigenous people of all lands of the world are “Black” and that Black people are the “original” people of every region on Earth. She believes that most Black Americans are not of African descent but instead fall under some “Aboriginal Black American” kind of category. She thinks these “Aboriginal Black Americans” lived alongside those who are more commonly known as Indigenous Americans way before the transatlantic slave trade. She pointed to Melanesians and Aboriginal Australians as “proof” of this in a way to basically argue “See, Blackness isn’t only from Africa!” I can’t with this. I genuinely liked her but hell nah. I AM AN AFRICAN.
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bumping oldies off my cellular phone
I’m on and off with Hasan Piker but every time I see the crtitisism he gets being over “Uyghur genocide denialism”, “Pro-Putin”, and “being against the Democratic Party” tells me that it’ll be a very long time (if ever) before Americans widely adopt a principled leftist stance. It kind of vindicates BadEmpanada, who’s viewed as “insane” by most of them.
Edit: I’m on and off in that I’ve liked how he opened his audience up to Lenin and anti-imperialist ideas. I have not been happy with his current sheepdogging for the Democratic Party lately.
Hasan went to bat for GraHHam Platner, minimized the war criminality of it, and glazes liberal zionists. I can’t even consider him a leftist of any stripe.
If a western “progressive” isn’t anti-imperialist, they’re not leftist, they’re a liberal at best (and that’s not a good thing at all! The project of liberalism is welded to genocide). If their socialism isn’t internationalist in nature, then is it… national socialism?
My larger point is that if someone like him is considered extreme than Americans have a much larger mountain to overcome.
And it vindicates BadEmpanada who says Americans are too selfish to ever let leftism firmly take root. It’s a bitter pill but he’s largely correct
Yes and yes and it’s been very disappointing seeing how even many American “leftists” I run into on a regular basis aren’t.
Can’t get over how bro literally glazes liberal Zios. I lost respect for Piker a long time ago, honestly
His NATO-leftist stances on Ukraine irritate me as well. I’m just saying that if he’s considered too extreme for Americans than it really shows how much more progress has to be made for principled leftism to gain ground
I curse him whenever I read his name. One of many.
He hasn’t publicly done or said anything that would get him immediately imprisoned or killed by the US government, and therefore I curse him whenever I read his name. I am not a cop.
Coward.
It would be better if Hasan did nothing at all instead of what he does which actively gives legitimacy to zionist dogs and the genocidal democratic party.
But its easier for you to accuse me of being a cop. Block me.
Everyone who doesn’t tolerate his liberal zionism is a cop, I love fedjacketing!
Also at least respond directly to the person you’re mocking @AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml
Freed Prisoner Georges Abdollah on Elias Rodriguez.
Promoting adventurism 🙁 must be cop
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I have never seen an apocalypse prepper outside of the west, let alone someone talking about “when society collapses I’m going to do x y z”.
It’s because post-apocalyptic fiction are modern Wild West stories. And like cowboy westerns, there’s paranoia indigenous people will fight back against settlers. The bunker chuds have an imagination rooted in what their ancestors did, which is genocide and colonialism.
Other cultures who experienced colonialism went through actual apocalyptic conditions. They know what societal collapse looks like.
what you hope they mean: i am learning skills and stockpiling resources so i can help my community if the worst should happen
what they actually mean: i have bought 1000 expired MREs and half a ton of ammunition for my 40 rifles so i can murder undesirables if they get anywhere near my suburban mcmansion
Palestine is getting treated in a weird way by people, instead of a cause for a people’s liberation, it has become a virtue symbol, instead of things being done to help Palestine being free, talking about who football player, who mayor of what, who singer who actor, who held the flag of Palestine and who did not, I guess in this dark time they may feel like they’re able to do nothing, and that the few things the capitalists allow them to have, the few spread around treats have the blood of palestinian children wiped from them.
Many such cases
Shit did we have another “antisemetism” struggle sesh while I was gone? What a shitshow, they never learn. I see using this site way less than I used to was the right choice, still not gonna leave y’all fellow poc comrades tho, you make it worth it
Honestly, I keep on missing struggle seshes and I think it’s for my own good.
Since Ziohran dropped his “I lied UwU” video, he’s vowed to arrest Hamas leaders, AYE-COOOOOOOOONDEMN-ed 10/7 (again), and publicly mourned the death of a child-killing war criminal
I’ve noticed that it’s been all quiet on the Copdani front on HB recently. I guess we’re at the “umm why do you care so much about him?” stage of sophistry.
Can’t wait for all the crackers on here to fall head over heels for the next AOC clone!
Mamdani is brown/muslim people’s Contrapoint or Obama, a lot of the followers are/were former bigots who were compensating and were willing to overlook many red flags just to avoid being seen as bigots or having bigots agree with them.
nothing will change with this site until it reckons with its liberal zionism. the same with platner and piker and its yankee chauvinism.
I swear that I kept feeling like I was being gaslit by all these Mamdani-glazing “leftists.” Like, I was just thinking to myself, “There’s no way you guys actually back this guy. Am I missing something? What the fuck?”
I really think people need to realize that this DSA left" they’re so fond of is just another wing of the Democrat Party, i.e., liberals. It’s amazing how many self-proclaimed Marxists kept earning
s when it comes to this subject.Really shows the power of charisma. Same reason FDR caused so many leftist orgs to split.
Zohran is a goofy ass clown for pretending he ever had the power to arrest Bibi and giving life to a ridiculous larp, but he did not “vow to arrest Hamas leaders” at least not the way you’re describing it
He was responding to a rancid zionist “journalist” pulling a whatabout and asking if he would arrest Hamas and understandably instead of larping, inviting legal censure and screaming “Glory to Hamas!” he deflected by pointing out the ICC also has warrants out for Hamas leaders, thereby deflating what is in fact a dangerous legal smear for a Brown Muslim man in America and exposing the hypocrisy of the zionist ghoul who asked that question
Western Gen Z seems pretty fucked. I know online isn’t entirely indicative of irl but I have noticed more fashy behavior from the hyper-obsession with body image to the rampant anti-intellectualism and gross bigotry.
the genocide, war, and the epstein files have literally only made them joke about jews and nothing else. even all the progressive momentum seems to mostly be young poc as far as i’ve seen.
Seems to always be the case. Another user on here pointed out how all generational stereotypes are about white people of each generation. All the left-leaning western Gen Z I’ve met have been poc or women.
and ppl (whites) here on hexbear tried to tell me I actually wasn’t seeing “clanker” used against black people as a “funny” stand-in for slurs
“it’s just a star wars thing”, “it’s just used against AI bros”
90% of the clanker memes were racist, their entire punchlines were dogwhistles about black people.
Wtf
Crackers always have to find a way to ruin things.
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White trans people in a nutshell
White trans people will fight to their last breath to defend all racism from a white trans woman it’s insane but will still call themselves leftists lmao white queers in general have the biggest victim complex and they’re insufferable to be around
The fucking yass tattoo with the schutzstaffel is killing me tho
v*ush fanbase
Damn I wonder when all the (cracker) Copdani stans here will have to say about him admitting he can’t arrest Netanyahu. I wonder how they will reconcile this with their previous drooling over this major campaign promise. Oh wow, more “he never said that” gaslighting and lying. What a surprise!
Also, won’t do anything about the illegal land sales but is happy to create speech restriction zones around where they’re being conducted and sicc the cops on protestors.
Actions speak louder than words
Can’t wait for the next wave of “ummmm why do you care so much about the NYC mayor sweaty???” since they have no actual counterargument
They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
Honestly putting out that statement that he can’t arrest Netanyahu was a ridiculous stunt. And I honestly don’t even really care all that much, for the most part. Its the fact that, as you pointed out, created that buffer zone for protests against the sale of stolen land. Not only that, early on he kept on feeding into the growing “antisemitism” narrative. And after all this time he still has Zionists down his neck. Every news story I saw on his nothing burger statement had interviews with a bunch of malding Zionists.
Also it shouldn’t go without saying, but it also feeds into the growing mainstream Democrat narrative that Netanyahu is the entire problem and not the entity itself.
Give the average cracker “leftist” their bike lanes and healthcare and they will go “fuck you I got mine”, their only problem with throwing Palestinians under the bus is if the bus costs money to ride.
I don’t debate people Hamas would have shot
Hamas didnt really shoot that many people though. They actually took casualties because they didnt shoot at women and elderly in civilian clothes who ended up shooting at them. This was discussed in the documentary “Whats hidden is greater.”
I just realized youre saying hexbears are iof and im laughing
wait link to documentary?
Got you.
Channel is private now? The link didn’t work. Idk if you can search it.
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Oh wait found it in another.
https://t.me/unity_of_fields/1219
If anyone can download this and upload to the tankie tube?
They tried to censor it from the internet
https://tankie.tube/w/bUHGTVVF3Ksro9gsMzGaPx I have uploaded it
But there are two versions you can find on tankie.tube to search up: https://tankie.tube/search?search=What's+Hidden+Is+Deeper%3A+Al+Aqsa+Flood&searchTarget=local
Thank you 😊
This version is in Arabic.
So I was able to get my HRT (and other meds) totally covered this time around. Thank fuck! It’s been raining a shitload so they said they were willing to deliver it for me.
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I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Yay!
