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using repeat satellite imagery to track tank movements through plantations and across roads. five tanks visible on 4m wide road in upper left-hand corner of image above. Rafah, Gaza. Aug 1, 2014.

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"I won’t deny I don’t know where I’m at." Malcolm’s last public speech was on February 18, 1965, at Barnard College (2). (Full scale version here.) Speaking to an audience of about 1,500, Malcolm drew parallels between anti-colonialism abroad and “the revolt of the American Negro” at home.

We are seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter.

Malcolm applied for a pistol permit at the 28th Precinct police station (3) before returning to the offices of the Organization for Afro-American Unity (OAUU) and the Muslim Mosque, Inc., at the Hotel Theresa (4). Here, Malcolm held a press conference in response to the firebombing of his family’s home four days earlier and on the OAUU’s approach to defending African-American voting rights.

If the American Negro were American, he wouldn’t need civil rights legislation and voter registration drives. You can’t use kids against the Ku Klux Klan. What you need are armed and equipped units, and if the government won’t send them, we will. I’ve never advocated violence, but I do believe in protecting ourselves from those who want to harm us.

Later, Malcolm took part in a call-in show at CBS Radio (5). (Full scale version here.) Malcolm was joined by Aubrey Barnette, a former member of the Nation of Islam who had left the group before Malcolm and had recently written an article in the Saturday Evening Post critical of the Nation, as well as a lecturer on extremist groups, Gordon Hall. Every call from radio listeners was for Malcolm. Anticipating David Harvey’s “Rebel Cities” rhetoric, Malcolm pointed to the city’s design and function as a signal cause of social stress and disillusionment.

How are you going to incite people who are living in slums and ghettos? It’s the city structure that incites. A city that continues to let people live in rat-nest dens in Harlem and pay higher rent in Harlem than they pay downtown. This is what incites it. Who lets merchants outcharge or overcharge people for their groceries and their clothing, and other commodities in Harlem, while you pay less for it downtown. This is what incites it. A city that will not create some kind of employment for people who are barred from having jobs just because their skin is black. That’s what incites it. Don’t ever accuse a Black man for voicing his resentment and dissatisfaction over the criminal condition of his people as being responsible for inciting a situation. You have to indict the society that allows these things to exist.

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Around 1 am on February 18, 1965—three days before his assassination—Malcolm X and supporters moved his family’s belongings from their home at 2311 97th St in East Elmhurst, Queens, circled in the above February 1966 aerial photograph, just south of LaGuardia Airport. (Full scale 88MB scanned photograph available here.) The Nation of Islam had fought to evict Malcolm and his family from the Nation-owned house for months and, in all likelihood, were responsible for its firebombing only four nights prior.

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"We are in a society where the power is in the hands of those who are the worst breed in humanity." Malcolm X visited Rochester, NY, on February 16, 1965, five days before his assassination. He first spoke at the Colgate Rochester Divinity School (1) and then the Corn Hill Methodist Church (2) labeled in the 1969 aerial photograph above. (Full scale 90MB scanned photograph available here.) Malcolm discussed the hypocrisy of politicians who avoided dealing with systematic discrimination against African-Americans while trying to secure “friendly” relationships with newly independent African countries.

What was their strategy? The “friendly” approach. … A benevolent approach. A philanthropic approach. Call it benevolent colonialism. Philanthropic imperialism. Humanitarianism backed up by dollarism. Tokenism. This is the approach that they used. They didn’t go over there well-meaning. How could you leave here and go on the African continent with Peace Corps and Crossroads and these other outfits when you’re hanging Black people in Mississippi? How could you do it? How could you train missionaries, supposedly over there to teach them about Christ, and wouldn’t let a Black man in your Christ’s church right here in Rochester, much less in the South. You know, that’s something to think about. Makes me get hot when I think about it.

More and more, Malcolm was successfully positioning the struggle for civil rights in the United States within the global struggle for human rights.

… As long as the Black man in America calls his struggle a struggle of civil rights, … in the civil rights context it’s domestic and it remains within the jurisdiction of the United States. … And the difference with other people was that they didn’t call their grievances civil rights grievances, they called them human rights grievances. “Civil rights” are within the jurisdiction of the government where they are involved. But “human rights” is part of the Charter of the United Nations. … One of the first steps … was to make our grievances international and make the world see that our problem was no longer a Negro problem or an American problem, but a human problem. A problem for humanity.”

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"We are for the betterment of the community by any means necessary." Fifty years ago today, on February 15, 1965, Malcolm X spoke to the Organization for Afro-American Unity (OAAU) in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom, circled in the 1966 aerial photograph above. (Full scale 86MB scanned photograph available here.) Five days later, he would be assassinated at the same site.

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"A map showing the area in which the Krakatoa explosion could be heard, from The eruption of Krakatoa, and subsequent phenomena, 1888"(via The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times - Nautilus)

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"NORMAL LUNAR CRATER" by James Nasmyth, 1874, from The moon : considered as a planet, a world, and a satellite

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Riot//Control

Educate yourself on how to react when police try to violently break up peaceful protests, and how to keep yourself and others safe. The whole zine, which, unfortunately, is authored anonymously, is presented on the linked website, and definitely worth a read. I sent a copy to a friend in Turkey last summer, and now I’m linking it here for my American friends.