The World Wars and some other stuff

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[locallovewitch-deactivated20201]

hey so uhhh here’s an important update on what’s apparently happening at the border, especially with the use of the old japanese internment camps

all i can say is i’m sickened by this mess, by the atrocities committed against innocent people. and now there will be no surveillance. no one will be able to see what happens to these people. the UN, the media, and any other human rights organizations cannot get into these facilities, either, in order to stop what’s happening. by the way, coast guard members were apparently aiding in this process as well. so now it’s only a matter of time before it becomes a military movement.

no one gets in. no one gets out.

so when are we going to call this what it is? it’s fascism. it’s genocide. and if we don’t stop it now, it’s going to be disastrous.

contact your senators, your representatives, anyone that’s in office that can get off their lazy ass and do something.

[locallovewitch-deactivated20201]

can y’all please reblog this i’m begging

[adrianjune]

https://time.com/5605120/trump-migrant-children-fort-sill/

Trump Administration to Hold Migrant Children at Base That Served as WWII Japanese Internment Camp

HHS said Fort Sill will be used “as a temporary emergency influx shelter”

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-conditions-idUSKBN1K82X1

Migrants in U.S. custody describe life in 'ice boxes' and 'dog pounds'

During their detention last month in a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facili...

[quiet-curiosity]

This makes me want to vomit, this is so horrible. 

Here are some donation links.  RAICES : raicestexas.org

ACLU : aclu.org

[thecolorblockcurator]

Not art related but incredibly important

I read, this Sunday June 30. ICE Raids were going start in 10 major cities including Chicago, LA, Miami, Atlanta, Baltimore, New York, and other cities. However, they have been postponed for two weeks from now. Honestly I don’t believe it.

There is a very long, very terrifying article on the Washington post if you want to read it. Basically, ICE has been prepping and gearing up for this mass raid and it sounds terrifying. Just google mass ice raids Sunday and you’ll find it (I’m on my phone so I can’t link it up)

To all of you:

Please stay safe. If your on a visa for school or work or whatever have your papers with you. ICE has been know in the past to just take people and sort it out later while you’re in custody, probably in horrible conditions. They supposedly postponed the raid but I dont know, it seems like a cover to me, it just sounds suspicious. So please stay safe. Go to ACLU and read your rights.

It’s hard to know what to do to make and impact in this horrible situation. But getting the word out is key. Physically going out and protesting is also important. You can donate to the foundations I’ve listed above in my previous reblog (nikkilanecreates). I also urge you to go to VolunteerMatch and find something local that you can do to help out families, kids, and communities who are rightfully scared given the state of everything.

And finally if you support these attacks that this horrible presidential administration been promoting please leave this blog. You’re not welcome here.

[halab1-deactivated20220711]

Willem Arondeus was a Dutch resistance fighter who gave his life trying to protect his Jewish countrymen from the Nazis. Born in Amsterdam in 1895, Willem was one of six children. From a young age, he was a talented artist and his parents encouraged his creativity, until he came out as homosexual at age 17. In a time when nearly all gay people were in the closet, Willem’s parents could not accept his choice to live openly. Their rejection led Willem to run away from home. On his own, Willem took odd jobs and eventually became a successful visual artist and writer. He was commissioned to paint a mural for Rotterdam’s town hall, in a style that combined modern abstract painting with a traditional Dutch motif. Willem was a well-respected author who published a popular biography of Dutch painter and political activist Matthijs Maris. In 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands. Willem immediately joined the resistance movement, and urged his fellow artists to fight against the Nazi occupation. WIllem published illegal anti-Nazi pamphlets calling for mass resistance against the Germans. Willem was especially committed to saving Amsterdam’s Jewish community. Bringing in others to the cause, Willem arranged for Dutch Jews to be hidden in people’s homes. He used his artistic skills to create false identity papers. In 1943, Willem hatched a brazen plan. Dressed as a German Army captain, and with 15 men behind him, Willem boldly marched into the Public Record Office, where lists identifying people as Jews were kept. Willem drugged the guards and planted a firebomb. The resulting blaze destroyed tens of thousands of documents, and delayed or prevented many Jews from being identified by the Nazis. Unfortunately, Willem was captured by the Germans and sentenced to death. Willem’s last words before being executed in July, 1943 were, “Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.” In 1986 Yad Vashem recognized Arondeus as Righteous Among the Nations. Because of his sexual orientation, Willem’s story was omitted from Dutch history books. Only in the last 20 years has his courage become widely known.

[greatwar-1914]

The sentiment of every American mother. Patriotic sheet music, 1917.

[lithicc]

Spanish anarchists pose triumphantly with the skull of a fascist

[ithelpstodream]

“Because of the general hostility of people I kept quiet. It wasn’t until recently that I felt safe to come out and I felt an overwhelming desire that I wanted to break free. So I came out and I’ve not regretted it.”

❤❤❤

[transgenderhelp]

And here’s a link to the article (one that doesn’t deadname her)

[greatwar-1914]

An Austro-Hungarian soldier demonstrates how to use a personal armored carapace designed to protect an infantryman in No Man’s Land. 

[mimozka-deactivated20220128]

27 January: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

On this day we honour and remember the approximately 22 million innocent souls who fell victims to hate racism and prejudice crimes, nearly 7.5 million of which were slaughtered for being who they were.

6 million Jews (1.5 million of which were children)

1.5 million Romani

270 000 People with disabilities (be it physical or mental)

55 000 gay people (approximately)

14 million civilians, caught in the crossfire, famine and ugliness of war from all over Europe.

This day is an important reminder of what once was and what should never be again.

May their rest be more peaceful than their life and may their memory be a blessing.

Never Forget.

[1950sunlimited]

How to Survive an Atomic Bomb, 1950

this government-promoted book suggested that men wear wide brimmed hats to protect against the heat flash when the bomb exploded. 

[chirasul]

they mocked my fedora. but who will be laughing after the bombs drop

[greatwar-1914]

Rasputin’s poisoned, shot, drowned, and frozen body.

[1staif]

First World War Christmas postcard

[greatwar-1914]

German soldiers and a mule.  The German army also provided gas masks for its animals.

[greatwar-1914]

Tough neighbors. American political cartoon, 1916.

[tealpaws]

[nalgenebottle-deactivated201706]

This is a good map

[businessinsider]

WELCOME TO THE NUKE CLUB: Here’s where the world’s 15,741 nuclear warheads are

[greatwar-1914]

“After the war, a medal and maybe a job.”  An anti-war cartoon by John French Sloan, 1914.

[explore-blog]

Legendary graphic designer Seymour Chwast launches a digital archive, spanning more than half a century of revolutionary visual communication. 

[oldpainting]

Seymour Chwast

[liquidprowlerrook]

Happy Veterans Day to all the strong and beautiful viet women who resisted French colonization and US imperialism. You are the reason we have been able to keep our language and culture. by Thi Nguyen

[vietoi-deactivated20160621]

I wasn’t able to find any source in vietnamese, but apparently her name is Lâm Thị Đẹp and this photo was taken in 1972 at Sóc Trăng by Minh Trường. She was supposedly 18 when this photo was taken, and part of the armed group of the National Liberation Front for South Vietnam (NFL) / Mặt trận Dân tộc Giải phóng miền Nam Việt Nam.  And yes, this is how they called themselves. Don’t you fucking dare call them “Viet Cong” if you’re not vietnamese or other indigenous community from Việt Nam and the surrounding. Free history lesson: “Viet Cong” was used by the US and came from “Việt Nam Cộng sản” or “Việt gian cộng sản” used by Sài Gòn and the anti-Communist South Vietnamese. “Viet Cong” is derogatory and a slur. It was used to frame innocent folk, as “commie”.