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[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

May 20 is celebrated in Miami as Cuba’s “Independence Day.” In Cuba, people don’t care about the date because it wasn’t really about Cuban independence. It was about U.S. control over Cuba.

On May 20, 1902, a four-year U.S. military occupation ended and Cuba officially became a republic. But Cuba was still controlled by the United States. For example, Cuba’s Constitution allowed the U.S. to invade militarily whenever it wanted. It’s no surprise then that the Trump administration chose May 20 to announce an indictment against Cuba’s former President Raúl Castro, which could be used as a pretext to try to take control of Cuba, just as it did more than a century ago.

Belly of the Beast journalist Liz Oliva Fernández breaks it down

[a character looks pissed at a sheet of paper, on which they are doing their best to draw an wobbly anarchist logo] Dear diary, It can be really hard to draw clean lines When you have no rulers

https://thebad.website/comic/practical_limitations_of_anarchism

Hallo Gedankenfabrik

Crossposted from https://lemmy.radio/post/13618800

Today I watched the Poison Ivy episode of Batman The Animated Series; Pretty Poison. And I gotta say, Ivy was right.

Harvey Dent spearheaded a project to use Wayne Foundation funds to turn a field of wildflowers into a penitentiary. The twist: That field contained the last surviving specimens of the Wild Thorny Rose. Poison Ivy, a chemical botanist, saves the last rose and uses it for revenge. She kisses Harvey with a poison made from the rose on her lips. Batman grabs a sample and tried to synthesise an antidote, but doing so requires a sample of the origin of the toxin: the wild thorny rose, extinct. So he goes and fights Poison Ivy for the antidote and saves Harvey.

But I think Harvey is the bad guy here. He destroyed a piece of nature to build a prison. And he didn't even conduct an environmental survey to look for ecological damage first! If he'd have hired Ivy, she could have warned him about the rose, and he could have come up with a plan to save it. Also, prisons are bad! Harvey is the district attorney, he's part of the power structure. And he has Bruce Wayne's money behind him. Ivy had nowhere to turn for justice other than vigilantism. I stand with Ivy.

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