Walter Rodney, born in Guyana on 22nd of march in 1942, Pan-African, Marxist intellectual who was assassinated by the Guyanese government in 1980 at 38 years old.

Rodney attended the University College of the West Indies in 1960 and was awarded a first class honors degree in History in 1963. He later earned a PhD in African History in 1966 at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, England, at the age of 24.

Rodney traveled extensively and became well-known as an activist, scholar, and formidable orator. He taught at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania from 1966-67 and 1969-1974, and in 1968 at his alma mater University of the West Indies.

On October 15th, 1968, the government of Jamaica declared Rodney a "persona non grata" and banned him from the country. Following his dismissal by the University of the West Indies, students and poor people in West Kingston protested, leading to the "Rodney Riots", which caused six deaths and millions of dollars in damages.

In 1972, Rodney published "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa". Historian Melissa Turner describes the work this way: "A brutal critique of long-standing and persistent exploitation of Africa by Western powers, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa remains a powerful, popular, and controversial work in which Rodney argued that the early period of African contact with Europe, including the slave trade, sowed the seeds for continued African economic underdevelopment and had dramatically negative social and political consequences as well. He argued that, while the roots of Africa’s ailments rested with intentional underdevelopment and exploitation under European capitalist and colonial systems, the only way for true liberation to take place was for Africans to become cognizant of their own complicity in this exploitation and to take back the power they gave up to the exploiters."

On June 13th, 1980, Rodney was killed in Georgetown, Guyana via a bomb given to him by Gregory Smith, a sergeant in the Guyana Defence Force, one month after returning Zimbabwe. In 2015, a "Commission of Inquiry" in Guyana that the country's then president, Linden Forbes Burnham, was complicit in his murder.

"If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be through revolutionary means."

Walter Rodney

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Decolonial Marxism Essays From The Pan African Revolution

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By what standards can we equate the violence of blacks who have been oppressed, suppressed, depressed and repressed for four centuries with the violence of white fascists? Violence aimed at the recovery of human dignity and at equality cannot be judged by the same yardstick as violence aimed at maintenance of discrimination and oppression.”

From: The groundings with my brothers

Image via https://velo-gap.de/2020/05/26/duerkopp-kettenlos-1912-kardanantrieb/ who have lovingly restoreded this specimen into a rideable state

Another option for a bicycle drivetrain beyond chain, penny-farthing, the velocipede or lever-driven bicycles is just put a driveshaft on there, like a car.

There's scant information out there as to how good it is, mostly because by 1920 or so everybody stopped doing it. CeramicSpeed has some kind of vaporware around this for the roadbike I have posted about before but they made the error of trying to do this shit high-tech and with gear changes instead of figuring you could just get good at pedalling your singlespeed so it sucks.

The singlespeed driveshaft bike, all enclosed? Yeah, might be onto something

I know RSS bots in the threadiverse are somewhat controversial, but I found this instance that is RSS feeds only. (I think there are others?)

Here is the text of Introduction to rss.ponder.cat the pinned post with links to all current feeds, which isn't available on hb because it was posted before anyone here subscribed to [email protected]. This way the links resolve properly within hb.

Not a well formulated proposal, just an idea:

It might be interesting to create RSS-based communities, for example a sibling to /c/podcasts that subs itself to a bunch of podcast RSS feeds, then the user can browse recent episodes of shows recommended by the community.

Or a /c/news sibling, same as above.

Other potential RSS feeds: reddits, youtubes, peertubes, share your notification inbox publicly--- endless really.

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It gets better. By that I mean worse. The school admins starting lying and saying it was shut down due to copyright issues.

The statement began:

After Friday night’s performance of The Crucible, we received several complaints as to an unauthorized change in the script of the play. Upon investigation, we learned that the performance did not reflect the original script. These alterations were not approved by the licensing company or administration. The performance contract for The Crucible does not allow modifications without prior written approval. Failing to follow the proper licensing approval process for additions led to a breach in our contract with the play’s publisher. The infraction resulted in an automatic termination of the licensing agreement. The second performance of The Crucible could not occur because we were no longer covered by a copyright agreement.

Suddenly, the demonic and disgusting content had been magically transformed into a copyright violation. Three students stated that no words of the text had been changed in any way. The only possible material in the production that might have given the licensor pause was that the production began with a wordless scene of the young women of Salem dancing in the woods at night, enacting what is described by dialogue in the text.

[It's] an interpretive choice that was unlikely to have been in violation of the license since it altered not the text, the spirit nor the intention of the show. Would it have been advisable to have checked with the licensor? Yes. Was it flagrantly out of bounds? I think not.

I enjoyed the first 1/3rd the article which is to that point. But in the last 2/3rd the writer goes on and on and on and on trying to find definitive proof that the school admins are lying. Why bother? They're lying.

Old Man: We have 2 people dead in DC. We have 50,000 dead in Gaza. And, how many children starved to death last night? In 1956, Israel invaded Sinai. They invaded Gaza. The United States president at the time, Dwight Eisenhower, put his foot down and he told the French and the British get the heck out of the Suez Canal, and he told Israel to get the heck out of Sinai and out of Gaza. Now, where would we be today if we had a president that could have said that 2 years ago?

Reporter 1: Can you describe again the Elias personality that you met?

Old Man: Quiet and friendly. Quiet and friendly. Yeah. Yeah.

Reporter 2: What's your age if you don't mind?

Old Man: 71. Yeah. I'm the guy with all the with all the signs in the window.

Reporter 1: What do you hope happens next?

Old Man: Ceasefire. No more deaths. No more deaths in DC. No more deaths in Gaza.

Reporter 1: What about with your neighbor?

Old Man: I don't know.

Reporter 3: If you could say something to him right now, what would you want to communicate to him? What would you have said, if you like you said earlier, could talk to him?

Old Man: I would have repeated, what I've already said, "Guns and bombs are not going to end this genocide."

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I lost my canvasing job because I could not convince people directly complicit in genocide living extremely wealthy lives to donate $20 a month to feed the children their government is bombing.

I want to give up. I am about to run out of rent and bill money, all my savings and meager inheritance from my dead grandmother is gone. I gave almost all of it away, then I lost my job.

I don't know what to do now, my mind wanders to adventurism.

I was at the produce aisle in the supermarket buying potatoes when an old man pulled up to one of the digital scales with a shopping cart laden with the cheapest processed meatballs you can get. He then proceeded to weigh every single container, either to make sure they contained the promised 360 grams or hoping some of the boxes had extra meatballs in them