@juergen_hubert #opposition in necciary like you see in other contries with constitutional crises: #Georgia #Bulgaria #Russia
No end to any #sanctions on #Russia until they:
a) return to 1992 borders, including #Georgia
b) pay full reparations to #Ukraine and #Georgia
c) remove all troops from #Ukraine, #Moldova, #Georgia, #Syria and the entire #African continent
d) hold free and fair elections
e) hand over all indicted individuals to the #ICC
f) return all #POWs and kidnapped #Ukranian citizens
g) disarm
h) say thank you
Don’t let Russia off the hook | Andriy Yermak https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/11/us-leadership-european-support-ukrainians-peace-russia-jeddah?CMP=share_btn_url
I don't often do black and white but this is a perennial favorite from the Krog Street Tunnel in Atlanta many moons ago.
Find prints here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/underworld-the-krog-street-tunnel-mark-e-tisdale.html
Boo hiss! #DC's #BlackLivesMatter mural will be erased. Look back at the iconic street painting
March 8, 2025
"#WashingtonDC's iconic 'Black Lives Matter' street mural, which has served as a powerful symbol of #activism and a gathering place for #joy and #resistance, will soon be gone.
"The decision to remove the enormous mural near the #WhiteHouse comes after a U.S. Rep. #AndrewClyde, R-#Georgia, introduced legislation earlier this week that gave D.C. an ultimatum: either paint over the slogan or risk losing federal funding. The bill also called for the area in downtown D.C. to be re-named from #BlackLivesMatterPlaza to Liberty Plaza."
Read more:
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/08/nx-s1-5321872/dc-black-lives-matter-street-mural-history?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#USPol #ErasingHistory #BLM #StreetArt #BlackHistory #Racism #Censorship #FascistBlackmail #Fascism #BlackHistoryIsUSHistory #FederalFunding #Authoritarianism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Racism
#librarydefenders in #Georgia, there is an urgent need to block the criminalization of librarians! Call the Georgia House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee members telling them to vote no on SB74! Find your representative here: https://www.legistorm.com/organization/summary/131359/Georgia_House_Judiciary_Non_Civil_Committee.html
Cotton sharecropper family. Macon County, Georgia
#MaconCounty #Georgia #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
A Tennessee mainstream news piece went out yesterday covering Patriot Front and including detailed aerial photographs of their compound in the east of the state.
While we're glad that this information is reaching a wide audience, and overall Phil Williams has done fantastic work covering the far right, we'd also like to note that our group is the one that originally exposed Ian Michael Elliott in 2021 and also first discovered and published the location and ownership of the compound in 2024.
We're not mentioning our original pieces because we're in it for the credit, but because it's better for everyone when news sources cite original antifascist grassroots research. The more exposure our pieces get, the more likely it is we get tips on white supremacist activity.
More links exposing white supremacists and neo-Nazis in the south:
https://arelephanteau.noblogs.org/post/2024/11/15/aryan-freedom-network-north-carolina-exposed/
A rainy night view of the Atlanta skyline - one from the archives that I recently revisited to add to Etsy.
Prints on Etsy (US) and Pixels (most locations and additional print choices).
Etsy - https://marktisdaleart.etsy.com/listing/1882910265/atlanta-wall-art-atlanta-skyline-print
Pixels - https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/atlanta-skyline-at-night-mark-tisdale.html
South Carolina governor declares state of emergency as wildfires erupt in Carolinas, Georgia
10 active wildfires remained in the Carolinas and Georgia early Monday, with some residents forced to flee their homes as flames raged nearby.
America’s Forgotten History of #ForcedSterilization
By Sanjana Manjeshwar on November 4, 2020
"In early September, a nurse working at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) detention center in #Georgia came forward with shocking allegations of medical neglect and abuse, claiming that numerous involuntary #hysterectomies (uterus removal surgeries) were performed on detained #ImmigrantWomen. This allegation understandably evoked fury and outrage among the general public, with numerous people denouncing it as a #HumanRights violation and yet another example of the current administration’s cruelty towards women and immigrants. Many people, including prominent liberal politicians and public figures, viewed it as something distinctly un-American and at odds with our country’s values — a common refrain that echoed in response to the allegation was 'This isn’t the America I know.' There were countless comparisons to #NaziGermany and other #totalitarian, human rights-abusing regimes, as well as a pervasive sense that the United States was engaging in a uniquely cruel and unprecedented act. Unfortunately, this is a misleading impression.
"While the allegations against ICE are undoubtedly horrific and must be investigated, they are not at all unprecedented or un-American — in fact, they are very American. The United States has a long, egregious, and largely unknown history of eugenics and forced #sterilization, primarily directed towards #PoorWomen, #DisabledWomen, and #WomenOfColor.
"The American #eugenics movement originated in the late 1800s and has always been undeniably based in #racism and #nativism. The word 'eugenics' originally referred to the biological improvement of human genes, but was used as a pseudoscience to justify discriminatory and destructive acts against supposedly undesirable people, such as extremely restrictive #ImmigrationLaws, #AntiMiscegenationLaws, and forced sterilization. The ultimate goal of the eugenics movement was to 'breed out' undesirable traits in order to create a society with a 'superior' genetic makeup, which essentially meant reducing the population of the #NonWhite and the mentally ill. The eugenics movement was widely accepted in American society well into the 20th century, and was not at all relegated to the fringes of society like one might expect. In fact, most states had federally funded eugenics boards, and state-ordered sterilization was a common occurrence. Sterilization was seen as one of the most effective ways to stem the growth of an 'undesirable' population, since ending a woman’s reproductive capabilities meant that she would no longer be able to contribute to the population.
"The Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell (1927) decided that a Virginia law authorizing the mandatory sterilization of inmates in mental institutions was constitutional. #CarrieBuck, a 'feeble minded woman' whose mental illness had been in her family for the past three generations, was committed to a state mental institution and was set to undergo a sterilization procedure which required a hearing. The Supreme Court found that the Virginia law was valuable and did not violate the Constitution, and would prevent the United States from 'being swamped with incompetence…Three generations of imbeciles is enough.' The Court has never explicitly overturned #BuckVersusBell.
"California’s '#AsexualizationActs' in the 1910s and 1920s led to the sterilization of 20,000 disproportionately #Black and #Mexican people who were deemed to be mentally ill. #Hitler and the #Nazis were reportedly inspired by #California’s laws when formulating their own #genocidal eugenics policies in the 1930s. When discussing the Asexualization Acts of California, Hitler wrote, 'There is today one state in which at least weak beginnings toward a better conception [of citizenship] are noticeable. Of course, it is not our model German Republic, but the #UnitedStates.'
"Throughout the 20th century, nearly 70,0000 people (overwhelmingly working-class women of color) were sterilized in over 30 states. #Black women, #Latina women, and #NativeAmerican women were specifically targeted. From the 1930s to the 1970s, nearly one-third of the women in #PuertoRico, a U.S. territory, were coerced into sterilization when government officials claimed that Puerto Rico’s economy would benefit from a reduced population. Sterilization was so common that it became known as '#LaOperación (The Operation)' among Puerto Ricans.
"Black women were also disproportionately and forcibly sterilized and subjected to reproductive abuse. In #NorthCarolina in the 1960s, Black women made up 65 percent of all sterilizations of women, although they were only 25 percent of the population. One Black woman who was subjected to a forced hysterectomy during this time was #FannieLouHamer, a renowned #CivilRights activist. Hamer described how nonconsensual sterilizations of working-class Black women in the South were so common that they were colloquially known as a '#MississippiAppendectomy'.
"Additionally, many Native American women were sterilized against their will. According to a report by historian Jane Lawrence, the Indian Health Service was accused of sterilizing nearly 25% of #Indigenous women during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1973, the year that Roe v. Wade was decided by the Supreme Court, supposedly ensuring reproductive rights for all American women, the reproductive rights of thousands of Indigenous women were entirely ignored as they were forcibly sterilized.
"Forced sterilization, especially in exchange for a sentence reduction, occurs often in the criminal #LegalSystem today. Government-sanctioned efforts to prevent incarcerated people from reproducing were widespread in the 20th century, and still continue today. In 2017, a judge in #Tennessee offered to reduce the jail sentences of convicted people who appeared before him in court if they
'volunteered' to undergo sterilization. In 2009, a 21-year-old woman in #WestVirginia convicted of #marijuana possession underwent sterilization as part of her probation. In 2018, an #Oklahoma woman convicted of cashing a counterfeit check received a reduced sentence after undergoing sterilization at the suggestion of the judge. According to a report by the Center for Investigative Reporting, almost 150 women considered likely to return to prison were sterilized in California prisons between 2004 and 2003. Although they had to sign 'consent' forms, the procedure, when posed as an incentive for a reduced sentence, generates an ongoing debate about whether or not consent actually exists in these situations. Proponents of the sterilization of incarcerated individuals often cite a lack of 'personal responsibility,' when in reality, many of these individuals face a lack of support and resources. Even if incarceration was somehow the singular determinant of one’s morals and character, sterilization as part of a prison sentence is still a fundamental violation of the right to #ReproductiveAutonomy — something judges and prison officials choose to ignore."
Read more:
https://bpr.studentorg.berkeley.edu/2020/11/04/americas-forgotten-history-of-forced-sterilization/
#USPol #reproductiverights #Fascism #BodilyAutomony #USHistory #WhiteNationalism #Genocide
Side of a cotton cabin in Georgia
Farm boy with sack full of boll weevils which he has picked off of cotton plants. Macon County, Georgia
#MaconCounty #Georgia #America #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
Hey theATL.social!
Wondering what's going on in the Gold Dome (#Georgia's state legislature - the General Assembly)?
Or, you know what's going on and it's making you ?
Here's an amazing tool built by a colleague: https://gafasttrack.com
This site takes the mess of bills, amendments published on the General Assembly's website and distills them to the key points - and, provides you an opportunity to call/email the respective legislators on issues important to you.
Although things on the Federal side of things are highlighting the news, on the State side, there are still many levers of democracy to press to get things done, and keep bad things from happening.
Let's go do #Democracy
Cotton hoers leaving the fields for lunch. Farmer's daughter and laborers, whites and blacks. Georgia
#Farmer #Georgia #SouthernGeorgia #American #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
The landowner's daughter hoes cotton on a south Georgia farm
#Georgia #DorotheaLange #SouthGeorgia #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange
"The rowdy town hall was one of the first examples in Georgia of Trump-driven backlash trickling down to the grassroots. So many people showed up that some were turned away by local authorities. Others filed into overflow rooms to watch the back-and-forth."
A big bone of contention for these voters is the firing of hundreds of workers at the nearby CDC in Atlanta.
#Musk #Trump #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #SuperRich #EconomicElites #Georgia
/15
"U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick was peppered with boos and catcalls throughout a town hall meeting in Roswell [Georgia] late Thursday, as hundreds of critics jeered the Republican for backing President Donald Trump’s agenda during his first month in office."
~ Greg Bluestein
#Musk #Trump #economy #TaxCuts #billionaires #SuperRich #EconomicElites #Georgia
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Near Tifton, Georgia. Tobacco farms, like Southern cotton farms, carry a heavy surplus which they employ at seasonal peaks
#Tifton #Georgia #Southern #America #American #undefined #photography #DorotheaLange