• The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      12 days ago

      the vast majority of americans don’t know the first thing about political movements originating from the global south. let’s start there

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          11 days ago
          • the women’s war in syria
          • liberation movement throughout africa seeking to erode neocolonialism
          • the origins and collapse of congolese independence work that was disrupted by the CIA leading to the current civil war
          • who the opposition to Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela is

          there’s all sorts

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              11 days ago

              Syria is absolutely part of the global south. you know the global south is primarily about economic exploitation and not geography, right? and good for you knowing these things. but most americans aren’t keyed into all this at all

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      11 days ago

      We could start with the violent history of union formation. I only got like one line in an elementary school textbook telling me the pinkertons existed and that was it. Then we can move on to the violent bombing of Tulsa, OK which nobody talks about.