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On Feb 27, we will take to the streets in 🇩🇪 and in front of German embassies worldwide!
This day marks the 70th anniversary of the debt cancellation 🇩🇪 received after #WW2 in the #LondonAgreement.
Here is a little history lesson that you may not have heard in school:
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This day marks the 70th anniversary of the debt cancellation 🇩🇪 received after #WW2 in the #LondonAgreement.
Here is a little history lesson that you may not have heard in school:
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Post-war 🇩🇪 was a heavily indebted country:
there was pre-war debt, consisting of outstanding reparation payments from WW1 & private debts of German banks & companies (standstill debt), the amount of the debt made by the Nazi Government (Konversionskasse) and post-war debt👇[2/18
there was pre-war debt, consisting of outstanding reparation payments from WW1 & private debts of German banks & companies (standstill debt), the amount of the debt made by the Nazi Government (Konversionskasse) and post-war debt👇[2/18
Bear in mind that the #DeNazification of 🇩🇪 was never properly done: major powerful figures from the Third Reich remained in influential political & economic positions after the war, and were able to build their businesses also due to the outcome of the #LondonAgreement.👇[3/18]
The #Zapatista tour of #Ireland, a long aul’ thread (but pix and vids!) to wrap up
In 1994 indigenous peasants in the mountains of SE Mexico rose up against #neoliberal capitalism, their latest struggle in 500 years of resisting colonialism…
#LaGiraZapatistaVa #EZLN
In 1994 indigenous peasants in the mountains of SE Mexico rose up against #neoliberal capitalism, their latest struggle in 500 years of resisting colonialism…
#LaGiraZapatistaVa #EZLN
If you need a backgrounder, here's Mick McCaughan, ex-Latin American correspondent for the Irish Times and Guardian introducing why the #Zapatistas matter:
27 years later, they hold liberated territory the size of Munster –
governing themselves from below
with a powerful #womxn’s movement
practicing #AgroEcology
and with their own culture, education system, community media...
@GalwayFeminist:
rss.com/podcasts/theza…
governing themselves from below
with a powerful #womxn’s movement
practicing #AgroEcology
and with their own culture, education system, community media...
@GalwayFeminist:
rss.com/podcasts/theza…
The #Zapatista tour of #Ireland is winding up...
They have met w social movements and communities in struggle across the island...
Each learning from each other, and thinking together...
How do we build a better world?
They have met w social movements and communities in struggle across the island...
Each learning from each other, and thinking together...
How do we build a better world?
Y'day they visited #LoughNeagh and heard from lake protectors who are challenging agricultural pollution and sand dredging of the lake bed.
The struggle against #extractivism is a global one.
The struggle against #extractivism is a global one.
At the #Belfast community garden GROW, working across community divides and with migrant & women's groups.
June 27-28: ‘Regime change’ #MilitaryCoup anniversary dates in #Guatemala & #Honduras: a somber reminder from @rightsaction mailchi.mp/rightsaction/j…
On June 27, 1954, Jacobo Arbenz – Guatemala’s elected President – was forced from office, after a drawn out, U.S. orchestrated military coup against Arbenz’ government.
On June 28, 2009, Mel Zelaya @MelZelayaR – #Honduras’ elected President – was forced out of the country at gun point, in a military #coup legitimized & supported by the #US @StateDept & #Canada @CanadaFP
