Advertised at local libraries, online, etc. this week, in addition to the items in previous calendar posts:
theintercept.com/2021/09/28/israel-palestine-unc-academic-freedom/
ncnewsline.com/briefs/unc-chapel-hill-makes-list-of-10-worst-campuses-for-free-speech/
portside.org/2024-09-25/student-faces-deportation-after-suspension-pro-palestine-protest at Cornell University
[Germany arrested a German and Ukrainian couple for broadcasting RT and other Russian media over the Internet: www.rt.com/news/604810-germany-arrested-rt-broadcasts/ ]
[ www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2024/10/03/leonard-peltiers-80th-birthday-statement-released/ ]
[Everything a voter needs? -- www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/votingrecord/ ]
[According to an October 4th email, PSL's Claudia-Karina 2024 campaign will be an "official write-in" in North Carolina, and will be on the ballot or an official write-in in every state but Alaska, Arkansas, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, and South Dakota, with the addition of Georgia and Pennsylvania, where they were "kicked off by Democrats." Stein-Ware 2024 claims to have the most ballot access of the left parties.]
[UNAC has called for actions against the war in the Middle East October 5-7th: "Israel/US Hands off Lebanon and Iran! No to Expanding War! Free Palestine"]
[Webinars and events in October, but not in NC: samidoun.net/2024/10/october-2024-seattle-al-aqsa-flood-month-of-action/ ]
[Samuel Mena Jr, a journalist, apparently set himself on fire over the war in the Middle East Saturday, October 5th: www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/10/06/journalist-fire-dc-israel-gaza-protest/ ]
[Support for Disabled Student Activist Being Targeted by UNC GoFundMe fundraiser -- Laura Saavedra was subjected to police violence by Lee Roberts and the rest of UNC's administration on April 30th and September 27th the police apparently seized her cellphone to conduct a fishing expedition, exposing her on-campus address, causing her to temporarily relocate out of fear for her safety. Despite being exonerated of any misconduct after April 30th and reinstated as a student, she lost a Morehead-Cain scholarship, losing $12,000 dollars. As of October 8th evening there have been $5,238 in donations on GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-disabled-student-activist-being-targeted-by-unc For more on the events of April 30th at UNC: indyweek.com/news/orange/our-campuses-have-been-turned-into-war-zones-the-aftermath-of-police-action-at-uncs-pro-palestinian-encampment/ ]
I finally checked the situation regarding free newspapers, etc. at the Chapel Hill Public Library. [The allowed publications inside are now labelled, there is indeed space for more, and there aren't any new outdoor boxes; more to come on the Chapel Hill Public Library's newspaper bans/blacklisting.]
Tyler Cohen of GMU spoke on economics and AI at UNC September 11th.
[The September 13, 1971 airplane crash in Mongolia that killed CPC vice chair Lin Biao: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Biao_incident
Aniplex Online Fest 2024 was September 16th; I'm not sure how long it will be streaming: aniplex-online-fest.com
[April 14, 1934-September 22, 2024: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredric_Jameson and newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/singularity ]
US 1787 Constitution Week September 17-23
September 23, 1642, at the beginning of the First English Civil War: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Powick_Bridge
[Around 1493 in Egg an der Sihl, near Einsiedeln, canton of Schwyz in the Old Swiss Confederacy-September 24, 1541 in Salzburg: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus ]
September 24th at 6pm at the Fedex (?) Center at UNC there was a talk by the author of Legacy of Lies. El Salvador 1981-1984.
The Great Escape from HM Maze Prison or Long Kesh by IRA POWs September 25, 1983: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_Prison_escape
September 25, 2024 the BBC reported that Japan sent a warship through the Taiwan Strait for the "first" time (since WWII?), and the BBC connected it to a Chinese transit between Japanese islands. The Sazanami (a reused name?)? Going to an exercise, with ships from Australia and New Zealand. Is this what the UK did in the Corfu Channel off Albania in the late 40's? DPR Korea has idol-type groups, but the BBC's What in the World talked about a K-pop boy band idol group made up of northern 'defectors.' Even the BBC admits that many of the people who leave DPR Korea do so for economic reasons, though they won't say that economic warfare is going on. Apparently the UK also has a problem with new introduced tick species and diseases.
Strangely enough, after the events in late spring, September 25th was First Amendment Day at UNC, with several events, but I didn't post this in time; the keynote address, 5:15-6:30pm, was by L. Rank from FIRE, and the group has been getting around: firstamendmenday.unc.edu Freedom of speech is now just an afterthought for the ACLU.
September 26, 1580 -- Francis Drake returned to Plymouth, England, having circumnavigated the globe.
September 26, 1983: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident
Captured by the Taliban September 26, 2010 and killed by a US rescue attempt: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Linda_Norgrove
Palestine: A Struggle Against Zionism and Imperialism will be September 26th at 6:30pm at or near UNC (?): tinyurl.com/sosunc , speakoutsocialists.org , or DM @sonsocialists Climate and capital discussions were on the 11th and 12th in the Student Union. The origins of the oppression of women on the 19th at the Union.
September 26th 5:30pm at the Seymour Center in Chapel Hill How to be a Trans Ally; RSVP??
Fran Brun will be at the Chapel Hill Public Library September 26th at 6pm?
[Fighting resumed in Nagorno-Karabakh September 27, 2020 and September 19-23 in 2023: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan ]
[The September 27, 2024 assassination of Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah.]
[September 28, 1901 -- an attack on occupying US soldiers, called a massacre, during a now 'forgotten' occupation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balangiga_massacre and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_Philippines ]
Cielos del Sur: Historias de Latinoamerica will be September 28th at 12pm at Morehead Planetarium; there is a ticket cost: go.unc.edu/Skies2024
[September 28-29th, the 27th Carrboro Music Festival: www.carrboromusicfestival.com/311/Carrboro-Music-Festival ]
A death cafe September 28th 2-4pm at the Chapel Hill Public Library, RSVP on Meetup or contact Stephanie at sagetransitionsdoulagiver com
September 28th at 2pm in Kingston, New York: occupypeace.com/
Michaelmas is September 29th in many Western Christian churches: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_(archangel)#Feasts and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaelmas [and thewritersalmanac.substack.com/p/the-writers-almanac-from-sunday-september-d5a -- also considered the anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's birth in 1547; he was baptized on October 9th: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes ]
[September 29, 1938 – a meteorite hit a car parked in a garage in Benld, Illinois: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benld,_Illinois and web.archive.org/web/20180601054919/http://meteorites.wustl.edu/illinois_meteorites.htm ]
[US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, born in New Mexico, was assassinated by the Obama administration September 30, 2011 in Al Jawf governorate of Yemen, followed by the assassination of two his children, age 16 and 8, in that order, under Obama and Trump: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki ]
[September 27-29th in Raleigh: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-international-festival-authentic-food-drinks-performances-tickets-850951156817 ]
[September 29th 10am-1pm a Food Swap in northern Chapel Hill: www.facebook.com/events/494433940037244/ ]
[The third annual Chapboro Book Crawl will be September 29th 11am-5pm: www.peel.gallery/events/chapelboro-book-crawl-jley7-x5tfg ]
A meeting and block party September 29th 3-6pm at Southern Community Park in Chapel Hill: communityhometrust.org
RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Matt Taibbi, etc. September 29th at 12pm in Washington, DC: www.mahanow.org/rescue-republic-rally
[September 29th 4-7pm Hispanic Heritage Kermes and El Futuro's 20th anniversary in Durham: elfuturo-nc.org/calendar/ ]
[September 30th is Orange Shirt Day/National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, for awareness about the forced Indian residential schools in the US and Canada: cpcml.ca/ITN2024/TI5424.HTM#1 ]
[Mao Tse-tung/Zedong declared the People's Republic of China October 1, 1949 in Tiananmen Square, Beijing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China ] [ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong#Establishment_of_the_People's_Republic_of_China ]
[October 1st is World Vegetarian Day and Charlotte VegFest is October 12th.]
[October 1st at 1pm at the JCRA in Raleigh: Plant-lover's Tour "Japanese maples;" free for members, $5 dollars otherwise.]
A Relic Screening and Discussion October 1st 6:30-9pm in Carolina Hall 104.
[From the Chatham County Public Health Department; also, free flu and coronavirus vaccinations and coronavirus at-home testing kits are available at the Health Department, or see www.vaccines.gov --
"PITTSBORO, NC— Chatham County Public Libraries is excited to announce a month-long hygiene drive running from October 1 to October 31, 2024. All donated supplies will be given to Love Chatham, a 501c3 non-profit, in Siler City for distribution.
WHAT: Hygiene Drive
WHEN: October 1-31, 2024
WHERE: Chatham Community Library- 197 NC 87, Pittsboro, NC 27312
Goldston Public Library- 9235 Pittsboro-Goldston Rd, Goldston, NC 27252
Wren Memorial Library- 500 North Second Ave, Siler City, NC 27344
WHY: This initiative aims to combat hygiene poverty in Chatham County by donating hygiene items to any library branch to help those in need. All donated items will be distributed by Love Chatham. Hygiene poverty means individuals or families struggle to afford basic hygiene products, which can significantly impact their self-worth and self-respect. Hygiene insecurity is a real issue and a true side effect of hygiene poverty.
The most needed hygiene items include:
· Band-aids
· Bandanas
· Bar soap
· Body wipes
· Chapstick
· Combs
· Conditioner
· Deodorant
· Feminine hygiene products
· Hand sanitizer
· Lotion
· Nail clippers
· Shampoo
· Toothpaste
· Toothbrushes
To learn more about Love Chatham visit lovechatham.org
Residents may visit the libraries’ website chathamlibraries.org or contact the Chatham Community Library at Call: (919) 545-8084 for more information on this and other events and programs.
Members of the media interested in attending/covering this event are asked to please notify Public Information Officer, Kara Lusk in advance at Call: (919) 542-8258 or kara.lusk [at chathamcountync gov]."
[World Habitat Day (human habitats) is October 2nd: www.un.org/en/observances/habitat-day and the International Day of Non-Violence: www.un.org/en/observances/non-violence-day ]
[A new moon, Darsh Amas, Rosh Hashana, and Gandhi Jayanti are on October 2nd?]
[West Germany formally annexed the German Democratic Republic at midnight on October 3, 1990: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany#Die_Wende_(German_reunification) , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_reunification and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Unity_Day ]
[The US repeatedly attacked a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan early on October 3, 2015, killing 12 staff, 10 patients (3 children), and wounding 37. The US, NATO, and Afghanistan were all informed where the hospital was and the NATO command was called when the attack started: progressive.org/dispatches/u.s.-airstrike-doctors-without-borders-hospital-war-crime/ Eleven days after the attack a US tank forcibly entered the hospital compound. The media loudly accuses disfavored countries of deliberately attacking hospitals and medical personnel, or did before it became a standard Israeli tactic, but this story from 2015 quickly dropped out of the news. In general when a government the US is hostile to allegedly commits a war crime, the media trumpets it as a planned atrocity that definitely happened, but when the USA, UK, Australia, Canada, Israel, Saudi Arabia, etc. do something it is an understandable accident due to the fog of war and is swept under the rug. Israel attacked a hospital in Gaza in early October 2023, but only Russia, Syria, etc. (did I hear Sudan mentioned in 2024?) get blamed for sort of thing, at least in the mainstream media.]
[October 3rd is National Butterfly and Hummingbird Day, according to this website: www.checkiday.com/f02bef8d28e18640fbae4bf031ae363b/national-butterfly-and-hummingbird-day ]
World Space Week is October 4th - 10th: www.un.org/en/observances/world-space-week
[Shawnee leader Tecumseh was killed while fighting near Chatham, Ontario, Canada October 5, 1813.]
[Hertha von Dechend was born October 5, 1915 in Heidelberg, Germany and passed away April 23, 2001 in Frankfurt am Main: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertha_von_Dechend (in German), www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/376103?journalCode=isis (Isis article by Uta Lindgren) www.google.com/search?q=hertha+von+dechend , and astronomie-mythos.net/Dateien/Ein%20Vulkan%20ist%20erloschen%20-%20Hertha%20von%20Dechend%20in%20memoriam.htm (also by Uta Lindgren, but in German, I haven't gone over the Google translation in detail yet; Uta Lindgren? -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uta_Lindgren). Criticism and biography: web.archive.org/web/20220729214718/http://members.westnet.com.au/gary-david-thompson/page9j.html ] [Her archived papers: www.frobenius-institut.de/sammlungen/nachlaesse ]
[Harpal Brar, a founder and former chair of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (founded July 3, 2004?) was born October 5, 1939 in Muktsar, Punjab, India: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpal_Brar , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain_(Marxist–Leninist) , and thecommunists.org/about/ ]
[Sarah York visited Panama as a guest of President Manuel Noriega October 5-11, 1988 and again on a family vacation October 8-17, 1989, shortly before the US invaded the country in December 1989.]
[October 5th is World Teachers Day.] [World Teachers' Day is October 5th, and began in 1994: en.unesco.org/commemorations/worldteachersday ]
The Parkwood Fall Flea Market will be October 5th in the morning in Durham [8am-12pm at the mosque at 5122 Revere Road in Durham]
[Discuss Durham's ongoing "Unified Development Ordinance" rewrite process this fall:
Tuesday, October 1 at 5:30PM, East Regional Library, 211 Lick Creek Lane
Saturday, October 5 at 10AM, South Regional Library, 4505 S Alston Ave
Tuesday, October 22 at 6PM, Zoom Virtual Meeting
Saturday, November 9 at 10:30AM, North Regional Library, 221 Milton Rd
Tuesday, November 19 at 5:30PM, Main Library, 300 N Roxboro Rd
[On Raleigh's next Comprehensive Plan: raleighnc.gov/planning/services/raleighs-next-comprehensive-plan ]
[October 5th 9am at NCSU -- the Friends of the JCRA Annual Plant Giveaway, free]
[October 5th 9am-2pm at 1020 US Highway 70 West in Hillsborough; organized by the Master Gardener Volunteers of Orange County: www.plantfestnc.org/ ]
[Public Safety Day October 5th 10am-2pm: www.morrisvillenc.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/4633/62 ]
[October 5th 11am-6pm at Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh: shoplocalraleigh.org/slr-events/falling-for-local-dix-park/ ]
[October 5th 11am-6pm the inaugural Wake Forest Pride Fest: www.facebook.com/events/285573627892928
The Bless the Block Party will be October 5th 1-4pm: sside.org or ssidechurch on Facebook
October 5th 1-5pm Hispanic Heritage Month Festival at 9217 Seawell School Road
[An annual Bluegrass Festival in Hillsborough October 5th 1-6pm; there is a ticket cost: moorefields.org/events/bluegrassfestival2023-6p99h ]
The 20th anniversary Really Really Free Market will be October 5th on the Carrboro Town Commons 2pm to dusk.
[Health Care for All NC will celebrate its 30th anniversary at its 2024 Annual Meeting October 5th 2-4:30pm at Color Works Meeting Space in Greensboro: givebutter.com/hcfanc2024annualmeeting?gbtid=7f29310669fe4fbd9280b3973565a863 and HealthCareforAllNC.org ; there are other events, #MedicareDisadvantage, etc.]
[The annual Celebrate Fuquay-Varina is October 3rd and 5th in Wake County: www.celebratefv.com
]
[The 49th annual Selma Railroad Days will be October 4-6th in Selma in Johnston County: selma-nc.com/special-events/48th-annual-selma-railroad-days/ ]
[October 4-6th in Smithfield in Johnston County: www.johnstoncountync.org/ava-gardner/visit-the-museum/ava-gardner-festival/ ]
[The Carolina Renaissance Festival will be ever weekend from October 5th to November 24th in Huntersville, NC: Carolina.renfestinfo.com ]
[American Craft Week events, October 5-13th: discoverseagrove.com/events/american-craft-week-main-event/ ]
[October 5-6th: www.raleighfilmandartfestival.org/ ]
[EgyptFest in Raleigh: October 5-6th and 12-13th: www.stmarync.com/egyptfest.html ]
[The monthly Saturday Slowdown in Hillsborough: www.ramblerillfarm.com/ ]
[OktoberFest Weekend October 5-6th in Mebane, NC: steelstringbrewery.com/ ]
[Sunshine Lavender Farm Open House October 5th 10am-2pm: www.facebook.com/events/3796313267273360/ ]
[October 5th 9am-9pm -- the 96th Wendell Harvest Festival: www.wendellchamber.com/wendell-harvest-festival/ ]
[October 5th 5-8pm: www.milb.com/durham/events/fan-fest ]
[October 5th Halloween Family Fun Day: cityofraleighmuseum.org/Events ]
[October 5th 10am-5pm: raleighnc.gov/arts/services/arts-centers/fall-arts-fair ]
[Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away at the NCMA October 5th 6-11pm: ncartmuseum.org/series/outdoor-films/ ]
[October 5th Raleigh Foodie Fare: triangleonthecheap.com/makrs-society-markets/ ]
[October 5-13th: downtownraleigh.org/restaurant-week ]
[There are free tours of the re-opened NC State Capitol on Saturdays?]
[German-American Day October 6th; Germantown, Pennsylvania was founded in 1683: Wikipedia's "On this day" and the next item.]
[Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl October 6, 1914 to April 18, 2002.]
[October 6, 1934 -- general strike, 'rebellion,' and declaration of a brief Catalan State.]
[The 1973 Arab-Israeli War October 6-25th: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War ]
[The October 1973 Arab-Israeli War/Yom Kippur War/Ramadan War took Israel by surprise 50 years ago October 6th and ended October 25th. It led to the 1973 oil crisis, profiled for a week on the BBC at the beginning of October. Allegedly one reason there hasn't been an Arab-Israeli war since 1973 is because everyone knows that Israel is an undeclared nuclear power and is ready to use them, even against the countries that give it so much diplomatic and material support, such as the EU. But what about in 1973? [On a recent episode of WUNC's Due South on Jimmy Carter, a historian from NCSU highlighted the US goverment's 20th century compromise of powerful Egypt as preventing (state-level) Arab-Israeli wars, though the current war could be called a US, European, and Israeli war against or involving Arab Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and non-Arab Iran.]
[Students occupying Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand were massacred the morning of October 6, 1976: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_October_1976_massacre ]
[The bombing of Cubana Flight 455 by a US-backed Cuban exile group was October 6, 1976: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubana_de_Aviaci%C3%B3n_Flight_455 ]
[Following Mao's death on September 9th, the pro-Cultural Revolution "Gang of Four" were arrested early October 6th, and Hua Guofeng officially came to power October 7, 1976 and he was eclipsed within a few years by the rehabilitated Deng Xiaoping: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua_Guofeng and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping ] [ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_roader ]
[October 6, 1989 in the Castro neighborhood: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castro_Sweep]
[The Museum of Life and Science in Durham will have free admission for residents of Durham October 6th.]
[The India Food Fest: Charlestown, SC will be October 6th 11:30am-4:30pm at the Scottish Rite Center at 1051 Sam Rittenburg Boulevard in Charlestown; organized by iagcchs.org ]
[Late on October 6th the BBC reported that a pacifistic Russian Ukraine War opponent who had been arrested early on and then, after being freed from prison, joined the Ukrainian military, has been killed in action. And the Israeli government is 'investigating' how five Hezbollah rockets reached Haifa, the country's third largest city, on the 6th for the first time, injuring five people. It has been claimed that Israel's multiple anti-missile defense systems work well against rocket fire from Gaza, but can't stop some of the missiles operated by Hezbollah and Iran, and that Israel is covering up the amount of damage done by Iran's recent fusillade and how precise their targeting might have been. Maybe it is "Western" citizens who are being kept in the dark about the realities of the two wars in Middle East and Ukraine. Russia was supposed to have a very small economy (smaller than Italy?), being a 'gas station with nuclear weapons,' and the "Axis of Resistance" wasn't supposed to be a big problem for the NATO or Israel militaries, but the "West" hasn't defeated even Hamas or recovered the prisoners after a year of brutality. Hamas fired rockets not that long ago. The Red Sea remains dangerous for "Western" shipping. There has been speculation online that Russia might give some of its missiles to Resistance forces, in retaliation for NATO firing missiles into Russia. I also saw a rumor, or buried news item, saying that Israel had killed Russians in Syria and that Russia interfered with Israeli missile attacks on Lebanon (?). The mainstream media makes it seem like the Russian air defense systems in Syria aren't doing anything, given that Israel constantly bombs the country, even an embassy compound. Would Russia and China help Iran if the US launches a major war, as the Israeli government probably desires? Many media sources I read claim that Ukraine is losing and close to collapse, while others portray Russia as not doing very well, though that was more of the mainstream media drumbeat in 2022-2023 and now they are quiet about that war. I don't have enough information, but the major newspapers are probably covering for the US government like the broadcast media, even if they go into much more detail. I think Mark Twain said something about the news being misinforming, but if you ignore it you don't know what is going on. Chinese citizens were killed by terrorists in Pakistan over the weekend.]
[Neo-Babylonian ruler Nebuchadnezzar II, the Great, is supposed to have passed away October 7, 562 BCE in Babylon: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebuchadnezzar_II ]
[The British King George III declared the area west of the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River a buffering Indian Reserve following the French and Indian/Seven Years' War.]
[Edgar Allan Poe passed away October 7, 1849 and there are still questions about the circumstances.]
[Japan seized Pohnpei, now part of the Federated States of Micronesia, from Germany on October 7, 1914 during WWI.]
[Sonderkommando workers at Auschwitz found out that they were to be killed in the near future and rebelled October 7, 1944.]
[The German Democratic Republic was founded October 7, 1949, after West Germany's founding May 23rd that year: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany ] [From an Austrian party: mronline.org/2024/10/10/gdr-at-75/ ]
[Russian president Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born October 7, 1952 in Leningrad, now St Petersburg: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Putin ]
[October 7, 2000: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Hezbollah_cross-border_raid ]
[The USA invaded Afghanistan October 7, 2001: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Afghanistan ]
[Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya was assassinated in her apartment building in Moscow October 7, 2006; she was born in New York City August 30, 1958 to Soviet UN diplomats of Ukrainian ethnicity: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Politkovskaya ]
[October 7, 2023 Hamas' stunning Operation al Aqsa Flood offensive by land, air, and sea took the Israeli government completely by surprise, or they knew it was coming, but allowed it to happen, as a justification for their desired ethnic cleansing campaign. Or is the claim going to be that the Israeli government knew that al Aqsa Flood was coming, but underestimated what a Palestinian guerrilla army could accomplish?] [Several 2023 statements, actions, and links were posted here: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2023/10/psl-free-palestine-free-all-palestinian.html and I plan a 2024 post. Hezbollah took action on the 8th and there might have been a lone wolf attack by a police officer on Israeli tourists in Alexandria, Egypt by October 8th.]
[October 7th is Bathtub Day?]
["Parmer Edge" annexation hearing in Durham October 7th [The rural Coca Cola 'farm' between Glover, Angier, Ellis, and Rigsbee, a headwater of Northeast Creek in or near the Bethesda community; the purpose of the annexation request isn't stated and for whatever reason many or most of the members of the Planning Commission voted against it a few months ago, but I overlooked that hearing.] : cityordinances.durhamnc.gov/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Meetings/ViewMeeting?id=662&doctype=1 ]
[Chatham County released its 750-page proposed new UDO August 31st, the Planning Board was to vote on recommending it October 1st, and there will be a hearing October 7th at the Chatham County Agricultural Center: chathamjournal.com/2024/09/29/whats-next-for-chatham-county-the-path-forward-with-the-udo , www.recodechathamnc.org , etc.]
[The usually exceedingly weak Draconid meteor shower is active October 8-9th: www.amsmeteors.org/meteor-showers/2020-meteor-shower-list/ The much stronger Orionid meteor shower peaks October 20-21, followed by the Southern and Northern Taurids and the Leonids in November: www.amsmeteors.org/meteor-showers/meteor-shower-calendar/ Halloween is a good time to look for meteors.] [According to a book by David Levy [The Sky: A User's Guide], the Kappa Cygnids, annual Andromedids, Northern Piscids, might be visible now [around October], and the Monocertids, the strong Geminid and Ursid showers, the Coma Bernicids, and the strong Quadrantids later in the year; there might have been a reclassification of the showers since then, and the dates might have been refined. The AMS website lists additional, sometimes very obscure, fall-winter meteor showers.]
[The Second Opium War/Second Anglo-Chinese War/Arrow War/Anglo-French Expedition to China was October 8, 1856-October 24, 1860: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Opium_War ]
[Argentinian politician Juan Domingo Peron October 8, 1895-July 1, 1974: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Perón ]
[January 15th is Chosŏn'gŭl Day in DPR Korea, celebrating the creation of Korea's writing system on that day in in 1444. The ROK's separate Hangul Proclamation Day commemorates October 9, 1446.]
[Che Guevara, 39, was executed before 1:10pm October 9, 1967 in La Higuera, Department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara ]
[October 9th is Emergency Nurses Day?]
[There will be a UNAC webinar, "Activists in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine talk about the Fight for Sovereignty in West Asia while living with U.S./Israeli Genocidal Violence," Wednesday, Oct 9th, at 12 noon EST: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TupUubbiRqStBv0IksAzzA#/registration ]
["Palestine: Journalism to Reveal and Journalism to Deceive: Palestine and Journalistic Integrity" October 9th at 12:30pm; organized by: justpeaceadvocates.ca -- us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0kF1T3ssTjWjnpvFWu_sFw?link_id=8&can_id=daf90de7697fd5ae682ef1e44d6a257e&source=email-canada-revenue-agency-cra-needs-to-audit-the-biggest-israel-charity-united-israel-appeal&email_referrer=email_2480140&email_subject=webinar-wed-oct-9th-at-1230-pm-et730-pm-palestine-journalism-to-reveal-and-journalism-to-deceive-palestine-and-journalistic-integrity#/registration ]
[The South Carolina State Fair will be October 9-20th in Columbia, SC: scstatefair.org ]
["Canadian Academics for a Just Foreign Policy: Defending Free Speech and Academic Freedom on Our University and College Campuses" October 9th at 6:30pm ET: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QT0UbKPUSDalQa-i1vYTlg#/registration ] [October 2nd CSIS and the Canadian Border Services Agency questioned CFPI Board member Tamara Lorincz: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im6JqYYhBPQ ]
[A supernova was noticed near theta Ophiuchi, a star visible now, around October 10, 1604; this was the last supernova in our galaxy that was definitely seen, it is sometimes called Kepler's Supernova. There was one in Cassiopeia in the late 1600's and another in Sagittarius around 1890-1908.] [It happened to join a conjunction of orange Mars and yellow Jupiter?]
[April 7, 1772-October 10, 1837: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fourier ]
[William Lassell (June 18, 1799 – October 5, 1880; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lassell ) discovered Neptune's largest moon, Triton, one of many, October 10, 1846 and Uranus' moons Ariel and Umbriel October 24, 1851: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triton_(moon) and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_(moon) ]
[Party Foundation Day is October 10th in DPR Korea, commemorating the 1945 founding of a predecessor to today's Workers' Party of Korea: www.naenara.com.kp/en/event/?part=20151010/ ]
[According to Wikipedia, October 10th is also Vietnam's Capital Liberation Day and Cuban Independence Day, commemorating the Grito de Yara at the beginning of the Ten Years' War in 1868. It took two more wars before Spanish rule was successfully overthrown in 1898, followed by a few years of direct occupation and decades of subservience to the USA.]
[The Outer Space Treaty, banning the placement of nuclear weapons in space, military activities on the Moon, claims of sovereignty over celestial bodies, etc., came into effect October 10, 1967. The US is now trying to create alleged rules or norms to cover US and other "Western" economic exploitation, expropriation, privatization, and seizure of bodies such as the Moon, competing with China and Russia, among the other peoples of the world with an interest in what goes on in space.]
[Red Lion, 赤毛 Akage, premiered in Japan October 10, 1969 and here December 17, 1969: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lion_(film) ]
[The first major hostilities by the FMNL (founded October 10, 1980) were January 10, 1981: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farabundo_Mart%C3%AD_National_Liberation_Front ]
[The crewed Apollo 7 mission lifted off October 11, 1968.]
[October 11, 2002 in Myyrmaki, Finland: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myyrmanni_bombing ] [The perpetrator is supposed to have been Petri Erkki Tapio Gerdt (April 17, 1983 – October 11, 2002).]
[October 10th is Moe no Hi [萌えの日] and World Sight Day?] [October 11th: [The Chinese Double Ninth Festival, Yom Kippur, and US National Coming Out Day since 1988.] [萌 mo(eru) kiza(su)]
[According to School of the Americas Watch, October 10th is the anniversary of Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz firing 16 shots into Mexico, killing 16-year-old José Antonio Elena Rodríguez, similar to what the Israeli military does to Palestinian children accused of stone-throwing.]
[The Tryon International Film Festival will be October 10-13th: TryonInternationalFilmFestival.org ]
[Organized by VJP in Durham, with Josh Ruebner: "Truman to Biden: US Policy Toward the Ongoing Palestinian Nakba" -- October 10th at 7pm ET: lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/wgbjdmr/lp/44b016bc-4232-4347-b072-1c3ab0646b3f?source_id=c1f29660-d4d4-438d-8f5d-1b85dd1571d0&source_type=em&c=s8d9O9WIfs_FkEaM-ZxNmMyQkrF5mdf0JADnSMP1W0UzGhuqK4v-Sw== ]
[October 11th is World Egg Day?] [October 11th: [The Chinese Double Ninth Festival, Yom Kippur, US National Coming Out Day (since 1988), etc.]
[About 1724-1807, with a birth commemoration October 11th in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan? -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magtymguly_Pyragy ]
"GOLDSTON, NC— Goldston Public Library has rescheduled its Indoor Plant Swap that was cancelled last week due to poor weather conditions from Helene. The Plant Swap will be held on Friday, October 11, 2024, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
WHAT: Goldston’s Indoor Plant Swap
WHEN: Friday, October 11: 11:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: E.M. Harris Jr. Conference Room, Goldston Public Library
9235 Pittsboro-Goldston Road
Goldston, NC 27252
WHO: Join Goldston Public Library for an engaging start to the event with a presentation by Beatrice Boggs Allen, Belle Boggs, and Richard Allen who will discuss their new book, Plant Pets. They will offer some tips on growing plant pets and will be available for a Q&A session.
McIntyre’s Books’ staff will be on site during the event for attendees to purchase their own copy of Plant Pets.
Following the authors’ presentation, participants and the Chatham County community are encouraged to drop off a plant or cuttings (indoor plants only) and pick up a new plant to take home. A Master Gardener will be present to provide expert care tips and help attendees pick the right plant for their homes.
Please ensure that all items brought in are pest-free and labeled, if possible.
For more information, individuals may contact the library at Call: 919-898-4522919-898-4522 or goldston.library [at chathamlibraries org].
Information about all Chatham County Library branches can be found at www.chathamlibraries.org.
Kara Lusk
Public Information Officer
Chatham County Government"
Beyond Bars: The Hidden Costs of the Criminal Legal System October 10th at the Nasher Museum of Art (with free admission?) at Duke University? -- triangleonthecheap.com/free-fims-admission-nasher-museum-art-duke-university/
["GOLDSTON, NC— Goldston Public Library has rescheduled its Indoor Plant Swap that was cancelled last week due to poor weather conditions from Helene. The Plant Swap will be held on Friday, October 11, 2024, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.
[Voter registration for the upcoming election will end at 5pm October 11th [for most people]: www.ncsbe.gov/voting/upcoming-election ; elsewhere on the website people can confirm if they are already registered.]
[Fall for Greenville, the Greenville in South Carolina, will be October 11-13th: FallforGreenville.net ]
[October 11-13, 2024 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia, in "Reagan National Airport" and near the Pentagon: 2023.animeusa.org ]
[The first discovery of a comet through photography, in a photo taken at Lick Observatory October 12, 1892; the comet was near Altair in Aquila -- Star Names, page 59.]
[The musical Jesus Chris Superstar premiered October 12, 1971 in Manhattan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ_Superstar ]
[October 12th is Universal Music Day?]
[TGA Garba Night will be October 12th from 6:30pm at Panther Creek High School in Cary: ncgta.org ; If I'm not mistaken, this is near the Panther Creek that is a tributary of Northeast Creek, related to the Parmer Edge annexation hearing October 7th in Durham.]
[Hum Sum Diwali 2024 in Cary October 12th.]
[Brajboro Cow Sanctuary open house in Chapel Hill: brajboro.com/open-every-saturday-1 ]
[October 12th 12-6pm[8pm]: www.oakcitybrewingcompany.com/event/8th-annual-oak-and-smoke/ ]
[October 12th in Selma, NC: triangleonthecheap.com/old-north-state-food-hall-selma/ ]
[Charlotte VegFest will be October 12th: 2024charlottevegfest.com ]
[The Duck Jazz Festival will be October 12-13th on the northern Outer Banks of North Carolina: townfduck.com ]
[John Lloyd Stephens (November 28, 1805 – October 13, 1852): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lloyd_Stephens ]
[Takiji Kobayashi, the author of Kanikousen, 蟹工船, was born October 13, 1903 in Odate, Akita and is thought to have died from torture February 20, 1933 in Tokyo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takiji_Kobayashi and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kani_Kōsen and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takiji_Kobayashi ]
[The Miracle of the Sun/Milagre do Sol was reportedly seen at Cova da Iria in Fatima, Portugal October 13, 1917: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_Sun ]
[October 13th is No Bra Day, for breast cancer awareness?]
[The Battle of Hastings between Norman William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, and Anglo-Saxon English king Harold Godwinson was October 14, 1066 in East Sussex: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings Monday, September 25th: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stamford_Bridge ]
[Napoleon won the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt against King Frederick William III of Prussia October 14, 1806, now in eastern Germany: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jena–Auerstedt ]
[There was a popular uprising against Thailand's anti-communist military government October 14, 1973: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Thai_popular_uprising ]
[Soviet astronomer Klim Ivanovych Churyumov was born February 19, 1937 and passed away October 14, 2016.]
[Solar eclipses were visible from the USA October 14, 2023 and April 8, 2024.]
[Columbus Day, Indigenous People's Day, and Canada's Thanksgiving Day are on Monday, October 14th.]
Get a free photo ID for voting 5-7pm every Monday, through October 14th, at the Chapel Hill Public Library.
The Hillsborough Death Café October 14th 5:45-7:45pm: @deathcafehillsborough on Facebook
Something ending in October? Duke Forest is closed to the public, for deer hunting, September 23rd to December 13th: dukeforest.duke.edu/management/deer-management/
Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS will be visible from the Northern Hemisphere and bright in October [from October 10th or 11th??]?? How high in the sky? Perihelion will be this week [in September], on the 27th. -- spaceweather.com , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2023_A3_(Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) , etc. [ skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/get-ready-for-comet-tsuchinshan-atlas-the-best-is-yet-to-come/ , www.astronomy.com/observing/comet-tsuchinshan-atlas-will-soon-move-into-the-evening-sky/ , and britastro.org/section_news_item/comet-c-2023-a3-tsuchinshan-atlas-looking-good-for-october ]
[German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born October 15, 1844 in Rocken, Saxony, Prussia, in the German Confederation, and passed away August 25, 1900 in Weimar, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, in the German Empire: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche ]
[Elena Stasova October 15, 1873-December 31, 1966: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Stasova ]
[The first Crimean War began October 16, 1853.]
[Karl Johann Kautsky October 16, 1854-October 17, 1938: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kautsky ]
[Albanian revolutionary and statesman Enver Hoxha was born October 16, 1908 in Gjirokaster, at the time in the Ottoman Empire, and passed away April 11, 1985 in Tirana, Albania: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enver_Hoxha , etc.] [Hoxha's works are available from or posted for free on The November 8th Publishing House ( november8ph.ca/ ), marx2mao.com , marxists.org , revolutionarydemocracy.org , enverhoxha.info , www.enver-hoxha.net/ (these two are multi-lingual), www.enverhoxha.ru/ (in Russian), neodemocracy.blogspot.com, redstarpublishers.org/ , and could be expensive on Amazon, etc.
[The Million Worker March was October 17, 2004 in Washington, DC. Thousands participated (and there were one or more buses from the Triangle and elsewhere in North Carolina) and while there were not actually one million people there, according to the Wikipedia article the endorsing unions represented about 3.5 million workers. There is now a book by an organizer.]
[National Opossum Day is apparently also October 17th, celebrating and raising awareness of the USA's last marsupial, a possibly misunderstood beneficial animal frequently hit on roads during the winter. Being a marsupial, a female possum could have young in her pouch or riding on her back, and even if the mother is killed, the pups might be able to be saved by a wildlife rehabilitator. Various people who should know have informed me that opossums either can't get rabies or are very unlikely to infect someone, so a good Samaritan is unlikely to get infected helping injured opossums, though it would still be best to wear gloves, wash thoroughly afterward, etc. Unfortunately a few species are barred by law from rehabilitation in North Carolina because of the danger of rabies, but opossums are not on that list and I have handled injured opossums. I'm surprised that none used their teeth and claws. On the other hand, I think I read that rabies can take years to manifest in humans. In mid-October a year or two ago opossums were going to a nearby persimmon tree most nights. Many species gather in or under fruiting persimmons, day and night, myself included, but 2024 might be a poor fruiting year, due to the early summer drought.]
Early voting is October 17th-November 2nd? [It seems to be: www.ncsbe.gov/voting/upcoming-election ]
[The West End Poetry Festival 2024 -- October 17-19th in Carrboro: www.carrboronc.gov/2977/Festival-Schedule-2024 ]
[October 17th is a full moon and Ashwina Purnima?] [In Louise Riotte's Sleeping with a Sunflower October's Full Moon is called the Hunter's Moon, following the Harvest Moon and preceding the Beaver Moon, when trapping was done, before the winter freeze by December; these are supposed to be Native American names, probably from much further north than NC.]
[Global Beats: An Evening with the Arts in Raleigh Friday, October 18th: internationalfocus.org/fall-2024-global-social ]
[The 49th Annual Carolina BalloonFest will be October 18-20th in Statesville, NC: CarolinaBalloonFest.com ]
[Samora Machel, president of Mozambique, was killed in a suspicious plane crash October 19, 1986, resulting in the country turning away from socialist construction.]
[Niche Gardens, a pioneering native plant nursery a few miles southwest of Carrboro went out of business October 18, 2019. Besides the retail nursery there were display gardens. NCSU graduate Kim Hawks founded Niche Gardens on Dawson Road in 1986, when gardening with native plants was a more unusual concept. The nursery was also a pioneer in selling plants online.]
[Brazilian Alberto Santos-Dumont flew his airship Number 6 over a short course in Paris in 29 minutes, 30 seconds October 19, 1901. Airships and Zeppelins existed by that time. CDB Bryan compares this event to the reported performance of 19th and early 20th century "mystery airships" in his Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind. See also Wikipedia.]
Homestead Road Plant Swap October 19th 12-2pm in Chapel Hill
[The ICC Fall Food Festival will be October 19th 10am-3pm in Apex: icc-church.org ]
Orange County GOP 6th annual blue grass and BBQ October 19th 11am-3pm at Exchange Club Park in Hillsborough; there is a ticket cost.
[The Morrisville Diwali Festival will be October 19th 6-9pm: www.morrisvillenc.gov/recreation/parks-recreation-cultural-resources/special-events/diwali ]
[The Halloween Boo Bash October 19th 11am-2pm in downtown Wake Forest: www.wakeforestnc.gov/meetings-events/halloween-boo-bash ]
[Kamala Devi Harris was born October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris ]
[Libyan leader Qaddafi was killed brutally and without trial October 20, 2011, after having given up Libya's nuclear weapons program, such as it was, and opening up to the US and EU imperialists. Hillary Clinton reportedly laughed watching it on video. This is the model being offered to DPR Korea if it unilaterally "denuclearizes." ]
[The Breast Cancer Hub's OctoberFest 2024 will be October 20th in Concord, NC: BreastCancerHub.org ]
[Tens of thousands of demonstrators (maybe 50,000) participated in the March on the Pentagon October 21st, 1967, protesting the Vietnam War. There was a much smaller March on the Pentagon in 2018, see a previous post.] [The Women's March on the Pentagon, etc. October 21-22, 2018: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2018/10/reportback-from-womens-march-on.html ]
[National Reptile Awareness Day is October 21st: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_environmental_dates ?]
[Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz October 22, 1783 in Galatta, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire-September 18, 1840 in Philadelphia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_Samuel_Rafinesque ]
[American journalist and revolutionary John Reed was born October 22, 1887 in Portland, Oregon. He wrote Ten Days That Shook the World, a first-hand account of the Great October Socialist Revolution, and he is one of three Americans honored with burial in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.]
[The traditional Western Scorpio period, following Libra the Scales/Balance, formerly the claws of Scorpius the Scorpion, begins October 24th, but apparently the Sun is now 'in' Virgo September 21st to November 1st, in Libra until November 23rd, in Scorpius until November 30th, in Ophiuchus until December 18th, and then in Sagittarius, etc. ]
[According to the Larousse Encyclopedia of Astrology, 1980 translation, etc., Libra, an air, cardinal, and positive polarity sign, is associated with the planet Venus, Fridays, copper, the color blue, the kidneys, adrenal glands, lumbar region, ovaries, skin, and related diseases, etc. Scorpio, a water, fixed, and negative polarity sign, is associated with Mars and Pluto, Tuesdays, iron, steel, plutonium, dark red, the reproductive and excretory organs, large intestine, and bladder, and, as an eagle, is reportedly the fourth beast in the Bible's Book of Revelation, along with Leo, Taurus, and Aquarius. The constellations Libra, Ara, and Virgo might be historically related, and Scorpius and Sagittarius, besides Libra being Scorpius' reapportioned claws.] [I forgot to note the associated birth gemstones, such as coral, emeralds, and opals for Libra and beryls, obsidian, rubies, sardonyx, and topaz for Scorpio, though there is not a set list off correspondences. The Milky Way passes through both Scorpius and Sagittarius in the south.]
[Augusta Foote Arnold October 24, 1844 in Seneca Falls, New York-May 9, 1904 in Manhattan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta_Foote_Arnold ]
[Georgian Bolshevik Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze October 24, 1886 in Ghoresha, now in the western central area of the Republic of Georgia – February 18, 1937 in Moscow, interred in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.]
[Disarmament Week is October 24th - 30th: www.un.org/en/observances/disarmament-week It begins with United Nations Day, when the UN was founded: www.un.org/en/observances/un-day October 24th is also World Development Information Day: www.un.org/en/observances/development-information-day ]
[Durham YMCA Trunk or Treat at the Durham Central Park October 24th 5:30-7:30pm: www.ymcatriangle.org/node/175902 ]
[The Battle of Agincourt was near Azincourt in northern France October 25, 1415, during the Hundred Years' War. The English defeated a larger French army: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt ]
[Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr October 25, 1888 in Winchester, Virginia March 11, 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_E._Byrd ]
[Early kamikaze attacks began during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 25, 1944: Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, 2002.]
[The afternoon of October 25, 2018 F-15s were dispatched to fruitlessly look for a white UFO, not appearing on radar, at an altitude of about 40,000,' between Seattle and Portland – Flying Saucer Digest #219 Winter 2018.]
[October 25th is supposed to be the 75th anniversary of Effigy Mounds National Monument and the 26th is supposed to be the 50th anniversary of the Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site.]
[The free Fridays on the Front Porch is still held at the Carolina Inn, across from the main UNC campus in Chapel Hill, 5-8pm April 19th-October 25 in 2024.]
[The naval Battle of Myeongnyang between invading Japanese forces and Joseon Korea was around October 26, 1597.]
[Angelina Emily Grimké Weld (February 20, 1805 – October 26, 1879)]
[Hillary Rodham Clinton was born October 26, 1947 in Chicago: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton ]
[Hezbollah leader Abbas al-Musawi (عباس الموسوي; October 26 1952 – killed by Israel, using the then new US Apache helicopter, February 16 1992 with his wife and son, age five, and four more).]
October 26th 12-5pm -- Dia de Carolina: chapelhillarts.org
[October 26th 12-4pm in Raleigh: www.facebook.com/events/s/wellness-fair/1189646475449938/ ]
[Scare-o-lina Skies at Morehead Planetarium at UNC in Chapel Hill October 26th and 27th: moreheadplanetarium.org/calendar/ ]
[Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site's Fall Festival in Four Oaks, Johnston County, October 26th 10am-4pm: historicsites.nc.gov/news/events/bentonvilles-fall-festival ]
[The NC Dussehra Festival will October 26th at 4pm in Morrisville, NC: hsnctemple.org ]
[Fall Fantasy Market in Raleigh October 26th: tapyardraleigh.com/ ]
[Shubh Diwali Celebrations will held October 26th-November 2nd in Greensboro, NC: baps.org.greensboro ]
[The Great Comet of 1577 reached perihelion round October 27th and was noted 5 days later in Peru. It was noted in the native Mexican Codex Aubin Wednesday, November 6th. It was seen around the world, but it isn't expected to ever return.]
[The Pinckney's Treaty was October 27, 1795.]
[The Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, with Tashkent as its capital, was created within the RSFSR April 30, 1918. The name varied. It was abolished October 27, 1924 and ultimately divided into the Central Asian republics of the USSR, today independent countries.]
[100 Federal and other forces attacked the Pit River Indians occupying the Lassen National Forest in Burney, California October 27, 1970. Ishi, a Yahi, had lived in this area of northern California.]
[October 27th 4-6pm, rain date TBA, a Friends of Bolin Creek picnic dinner at the Jean Earnhardt Historic Farmstead (for more information: triangleland.org/company-news/landowner-qa ), 600 Bolin Brook Farm, in Chapel Hill; food and drink from Mediterranean Deli; free, but there is a suggested donation of $10 dollars; RSVP by October 24th at: www.eventbrite.com/e/friends-of-bolin-creek-picnic-dinner-tickets-1040233204517 ]
[October 28-30 in Vancouver, Canada: www.climatefairshare.ca/#sessions ]
[Yahya Ibrahim Hassan Sinwar was born October 29, 1962 in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, at the time controlled by Egypt: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Sinwar ]
[French structuralist anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss November 28, 1908 – October 30, 2009]
[The Madrid Peace Conference of 1991 was October 30-November 1, jointly sponsored by the US and the USSR, regarding Palestine, etc.]
October 31, 1973 -- an IRA prison escape via helicopter. [Three IRA prisoners escaped from the Mountjoy Prison in Dublin, Ireland in a commandeered Aérospatiale Alouette II helicopter October 31, 1973, the subject of at least one song, though the escapees were eventually recaptured. The same type of helicopter was used in a prison escape as recently as July 2018 in France and they were gunships in the Algerian War.]
[Diwali and Halloween coincide this year.] [For Diwali events during October see saathee.com/events ; the 31st is also Samhain, Narak Chaturdashi, and Deepavali, they say.]
[A war with the Seminoles was November 20, 1817 to October 31, 1818; others were in 1812 and December 8, 1835 to August 14, 1842 and there was a Florida Indian war December 15, 1855 to May 8, 1858.]
[World Cities Day is October 31st: www.un.org/en/observances/cities-day ]
The last known Labrador duck was a male killed in the fall of 1875 off Long Island, now preserved in Washington, DC. Another specimen was supposed to have been killed December 2, 1878 in Elmira, New York, but the remains have since been lost: web.archive.org/web/20150215071011/http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct/speciesinfo/labradorduck.htm
[The Taliban offered to surrender very early in the Afghanistan War, according to an article I saw at the end of the war. Unfortunately I don't remember where the article was; here is a New York Times article discussing a surrender offer as early as November 2001: www.nytimes.com/2021/08/23/world/middleeast/afghanistan-taliban-deal-united-states.html Also: www.consortiumnews.com/2011/020811b.html Whether there really was a genuine offer of full surrender, the Taliban faced armed opposition and did not control all of Afghanistan at the beginning of October 2001, but now they are the national government, well-armed, and apparently have at least some support among non-Pashtuns and even among the Hazara ethnic group, who they formerly and are apparently still persecuting. After withdrawing, the US and other countries withheld vital aid, after destroying Afghanistan's economy and making it dependent on foreign aid over 40 years of war, hammering the Afghan population for leverage against the Taliban, like the hammering of the populations of Gaza, Cuba, Venezuela, Syria, Iran, Yemen, and 90's Iraq.]
[The 8th Annual Day of the Dead at the City of Raleigh Museum November 1st 6:30-9pm; the 2023 website: iamquixote.com/service/7th-annual-day-of-the-dead-city-of-raleigh-museum/ ]
[A supernova in Cassiopeia in our galaxy was seen from about November 2, 1572 into 1574 and peaked around November 16th; it is sometimes called Tycho's Supernova.]
[Georges Eugène Sorel was born November 2, 1847 in Cherbourg, France and passed away August 29, 1922 in Boulogne-sur-Seine, near Paris: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Sorel ] [His most influential work is probably Reflections on Violence, published in 1908.]
[Patrick Joseph Buchanan was born November 2, 1938 in Washington, DC: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Buchanan ]
November 2nd 12-5pm -- Dia de los Muertos: chapelhillarts.org
The Statesville Pumpkin Festival will be November 2nd: StatesvillePumpkinFest.com ]
[November 3rd is Culture Day ( 文化の日 , Bunka no Hi) in Japan, celebrating the arts, culture, and scholarship; the Apollo 11 astronauts are among the recipients of the Order of Culture presented on this day. The post-war Japanese constitution, which the ruling rightist Liberal Democratic Party wants to amend, was announced November 3, 1946. November 3rd had already been a holiday, commemorating the birth of Emperor Meiji, who ruled 1867-1912, during the Meiji Revolution or Restoration that created modern capitalist/imperialist Japan.
[The USSR launched Sputnik 2 November 3, 1957.]
[The Greensboro Massacre was November 3, 1979. KKK and American Nazi Party members fired on a "Death to the Klan" demonstration organized by the now disbanded Communist Workers' Party, killing 5 people and wounding others. Some police were present and the local police and Federal agencies had infiltrated the KKK and neo-Nazi groups. For more information see: www.greensboromassacrelessonstoday.org/ ] [There is a previous post.]
[The Tigray War in northern Ethiopia was November 3, 2020-November 3, 2022: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigray_war ]
[DST will end in the USA on Sunday, November 3, 2024 for another year.] [The Federal government seems to control US time standards, but local governments can opt out, though few do so, despite regular complaints.]
[The NCBG's annual Jenny Elder Finch Memorial Lecture, "What We Sow in Cultivating Our Places -- How a Garden Culture of Care Grows Places and Their People," given by author and producer Jennifer Jewell, will be November 3rd 5:30-6:45pm, in-person and streamed online, but preregistration is necessary: ncbg.unc.edu/event/fitch-memorial-lecture-2024/ ]
[British working class democratic reformer Thomas Hardy (not the famous author) was acquitted of High Treason on Guy Fawkes Day (November 5th) 1794, but at a high personal cost. Subsequently the other arrested radicals were also acquitted or prosecution was dropped. Who could vote or otherwise participate in British bourgeois democracy was very restricted until well into the 20th century. For more information see an article in Monthly Review: monthlyreview.org/2019/11/01/the-trial-of-thomas-hardy/ and Thomas Hardy's Wikipedia entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardy_(political_reformer) ]
[Eugene V Debs, a founder of the Industrial Workers of the World and presidential candidate of the Socialist Party of America, was born November 5, 1855. He was imprisoned for advocating draft resistance during WWI, and sentenced to a decade in prison and loss of suffrage November 18, 1918, but ran for the presidency again in 1920, from a Federal prison in Atlanta. President Harding commuted his sentence in 1921 and he died in 1926.]
[Travis Walton is supposed to have been abducted by a UFO November 5, 1975 near Snowflake, Arizona, and was missing for a few days.]
[The general election will be November 5th and absentee ballots must be returned by 7:30pm in North Carolina, in most cases. I think I heard that under Federal if not State law people can request a provisional ballot if there is a problem on the 5th, and it will be counted if the problem or dispute can be resolved. After a long political and legal struggle pushed for years by the Republicans, voting in North Carolina now requires a State-accepted photo ID: www.ncsbe.gov/voting/upcoming-election ]
[The Battle of Tippecanoe was November 7, 1811 in Indiana.]
[The Bolshevik Great October Socialist Revolution in the Russian Empire began November 7, 1917 [107 years ago], October 25th under the calendar in use at the time; it followed the bourgeois democratic February or March Revolution that had begun March 8, 1917 (February 23rd under the old calendar): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Revolution and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Revolution ]
[The 11th annual Verse and Vino, organized by the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation, will be November 7th at the Charlotte Convention Center: foundation.cmlibrary.org/events/verse-vino
[Hitler's failed Munich or Beer Hall Putsch coup attempt was November 8-9, 1923. The German Republic had been declared November 9, 1918, Kristallnacht was November 9, 1938, and the Berlin Wall was breached November 9, 1989: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_reunification#Day_of_German_Unity ]
[November 9-10 in 2024: durhampotterytour.com ]
[Armistice Day/Veterans Day/Canadian Remembrance Day is Monday, November 11th.]
[COP29 will be November 11-22 in Baku, Azerbaijan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference ]
[Asteroid 21 Lutetia was discovered November 15, 1852: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_Lutetia ]
[Nature writer Edwin Way Teale passed away October 18, 1980. He was born June 2, 1899 in Joliet, Illinois.]
[November 24, 1898-November 12, 1969: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Shaoqi ]
[The COP29 climate change conference will be in November in Baku, the capital of oil-rich Azerbaijan, though maybe the escalating war in the Middle East will derail plans.]
[November 22-24th, the 17th annual: discoverseagrove.com/events/celebration-of-seagrove-potters-main-event/ ]
[The Raleigh Christmas Parade will return November 23rd at 9:30am.]
AKD of the JVP was born November 24, 1968 in Galewela, Sri Lanka: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anura_Kumara_Dissanayake
[US Thanksiving is Thursday, November 28th in 2024.]
[NAARPR's inaugural Southern Regional Organizing Conference will be December 6-8th in Jacksonville, Florida: popularresistance.org/naarpr-organizing-conference-2024-call-to-action/ (Fight Back! News)]
[Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site's 'In Heavenly Peace:' Bentonville's Christmas Open House in Four Oaks, Johnston County, December 7th5-8:30pm: historicsites.nc.gov/news/events/heavenly-peace-bentonvilles-christmas-open-house ]
December 15, 1944 -- 97 Italian WWII POWs escaped from a UK prison in Doonfoot, Ayr?
[ September 27, 2024-January 5, 2025, with other events, at UNC: ackland.org/exhibition/durer-to-matisse-400-years-of-european-prints/ ]
[Sign the Ignacio Ramonet (a former editor of Le Monde diplomatique) letter urging Biden to remove Cuba from the US "State Sponsors of Terrorism List:" docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScaHeuAkEQjoSBRCnVwM-11KHXeYtsgWUYm4accRnIx5Khmcw/viewform?s=08&fbzx=1890844770816095830 ]
[Sign up to get an announcement about the demonstration against an upcoming ICBM test at Vandenberg SFB in California, which will be on short notice: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScR4AiszL7eEOJaAsGU_BCvyTqGdoFlpLOhKoXz89EvzYxTXg/viewform?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=e8ef5f4b-d351-4b64-9622-eebdefc2c0ac Send a letter to Congress: rootsaction.org/eliminate-icbms ]
[October Surprise at RDU1 -- volunteer to help organize a union (flyering, etc.) at the Amazon warehouse in or near Raleigh: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPzoNOW_q6qcXqmLdxfGok4CQ_JIIU8vShx2C2pplCnoSAaw/viewform?pli=1 A union victory here would be the second at Amazon and the first in the South.]
Triangle Guerrilla Cinema, as one word, on Instagram
The Wake Tech Dental Hygiene Program is accepting new patients.
Banned Books Week is September 22-28 (?) and Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill is supporting the Prison Books Collective (Prison Banned Books Week was September 15-21): flyleafbooks.com/support-prison-books-collective
It looked like large American persimmons are falling from a still green tree up the road on the 24th. There are very few on the nearby tree this year, though some might have been picked off by animals early. Pawpaws and some (fox??) grapes ripen around now in this area [and black walnuts, or are they in October?]. The domesticated Bartlett-type pears I missed last year? At Coker Arboretum the parsley hawthorn fruit were still green. I was surprised to see that a few cypress were standing in a pool of water on the 24th. I'm not sure if I've seen a pool there before. It has been warmer and summerlike, often wet, and there were brief showers, "heat lighning," and thunder over 24 hours ago, and cloudy most of the day. A yellow light was reflected in the clouds over RTP in the evening, it being fall and greenhouses lit at night.
At UNC's Coker Arboretum on September 24th higanbana (Lycoris radiata) plants were abundant in the north and west, but almost all were just naked flower stalks. The very last few flowers were in the southwest. I'm not sure how much longer they will last. I hadn't seen one blooming in person before, and they are more of a flesh red or pink than blood red or bright/deep red. Lycoris radiata have about six long, thin petals and very long and red flower parts and they are in the Amaryllis family (as is or was the much smaller and similarly six-petalled yellow stargrass, a Hypoxis, that I saw blooming on the hill behind the main part of the NCBG months ago; I thought it was also called yellow-eyed grass, like blue-eyed grass, which is in the iris family) and are native to Asia. [The yellow-eyed grasses are in the genus Xyris.] Higanbana is a Japanese name and in Japan they are associated with death and the afterlife (ヒガンバナ, apparently 彼岸花 in Japanese kanji, or manjushage/manjushake, 曼珠沙華, and 石蒜 in Chinese, "stone" plus "garlic;" apparently they were first brought to this country around 1854 [, allegedly to the garden of Lavinia Cole Roberts in New Bern, NC; they were first introduced to Japan from China around 700 CE]: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoris_radiata , dl.ndl.go.jp/en/pid/1908225/1/47 , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higan , and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanzu_River [and southerngardenhistory.org/plant-profiles/spider-lily-lycoris-radiata/ and www.uaex.uada.edu/yard-garden/resource-library/plant-week/red-spiderlily.aspx , plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/lycoris-radiata/common-name/equinox-flower/ , plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/lycoris-squamigera/ (the light pink Lycoris), powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60455959-2 , www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000683573#synonyms ] ). Higanbana sometimes appear in anime, though far less than cherries and probably less even than hydrangeas and lilies. I've seen Asiatic dayflowers depicted in anime at least once, but maybe never a kiri (桐) tree or Paulownia tomentosa, a Japanese government symbol and part of Japanese culture like the cherries. UNC actively gets rid of Paulownias [I think]; there used to be a large tree northeast of the hospital. I didn't see any of the pale pink Lycoris on the north side of Coker. Native magenta purple-blooming ironweed was also all but done flowering. The bright orange-flowered spotted jewelweed is still blooming and must attract the ruby-throated hummingbirds, but there are masses of flowers at Coker, unlike in my neighborhood for the most part. Of course not all flowers are meant for hummingbirds to drink from. I think hummingbirds also hunt for insects at flowers. A pink to purple azalea was blooming somewhere on campus. A white Hibiscus at the entrance of the Chapel Hill Public Library on Estes Drive was still blooming. The white ornamental osmanthus here is about done blooming.
There were two whitish mushroom fairy rings on the west side of West Franklin Street. Dark reddish brown medium-sized ants, flies, and slugs ate some of the mushrooms here; some seemed to be giving off a great deal of heat and it didn't seem to be from decay. Mostly small ones are still coming up. There were a few fallen bright red blackgum leaves in the parking lot at the Chapel Hill Public Library, but I couldn't find the tree. In the fall blackgums often turn red and pink like a glowing furnace. Many leaves are falling, but trees are still green.
Killdeer or other plovers were calling around Eastgate and I saw a large bird flying in the west. Later I saw one barred owl on Park Place near Forest Theatre at UNC and heard one or two more. Sometimes groups of owls can be seen and heard in the center of the campus at night around now. I heard a gray catbird 'meowing' in a thicket in Coker near Morehead Planetarium. It was probably too early to see chimney swifts funneling into the hollow Davie Poplar to spend the night. I saw one to three Eastern chipmunks still active at UNC.
I saw a small bluish-white butterfly, probably not a cabbage white, at Duke University by Broad Street; maybe a larger butterfly or dragonfly up Broad Street before Englewood (at Knox Street?), and a white or yellow butterfly by a wet area with cattails in a strip mall across from Eastgate. A female (?) black swallowtail butterfly hatched out here, not the first. Now I see that a bird must have eaten it, leaving two front wings. I didn't see any sicklepods by Duke. I saw a deer on Farrington Road north of Ephesus Church Road and one down the road a few days ago. I saw a rabbit and an Emmelina monodactyla (?) moth here. There are a few red and black leaf beetles on the blue dayflowers and the little or a kind of gray stinkbug (shieldbug? Pentatomoidea?) has appeared for the seeds (?). I'm not sure if the tiny relatively bright red flies are associated with the dayflowers. The frogs seem to be making some quiet sounds, but I think they are fine, or I hope so. I've been seeing small bullfrogs and one or more green frogs, and toads are around. The gray treefrogs mostly stopped calling around the beginning of August? There was a dead rough earth snake (?) on the road on the 24th. I saw two (?) dead gray squirrels on the roads in Durham on the 24th, but that is relatively few. Copperheads could be out on the roads at night with the warmer weather. Maybe I can find one tonight.
White oak and other acorns are falling, some still green, but they might be falling because they have acorn weevil grubs inside. A stand of ragweed was flowering? I heard radio report about NCSU research into using native pokeweed to gather rare earth metals from mine waste. A kind of evening primrose, goldenrods, yellow sweet clover, green-headed coneflowers, white asters, tickseeds, etc. are blooming.
[Suddenly the blue and yellow cultivated asters, resembling New England asters, were blooming by the 27th. Blue asters of some kind grow wild on a few dry roadsides in Durham. It was warm, even hot, and humid before the hurricane, with heavy rain and some gusty winds the morning of the 27th, but it started clearing after about 11:30am and was pretty clear that night and on the 28th. There was some flooding into buildings with this storm. A few sulphurs, or one seen multiple times, were out on the 28th, maybe visiting the red canna, and there were more earwigs; they seem to have become more common. I saw a fresh-looking reddish-brown, white, and gray-violet skipper, I think on the morning of the 26th. Morning glories are still blooming. The cicadas and katydids are still calling. Groundsel, a tree-sized aster relative, might have been flowering the week of hurricane Helene. A dark milkweed seedpod opened by the 28th, while the other two are still green.]
[There was a red flower on the regrown cypressvine on October 3rd, the first? I saw one or more cloudless sulphurs and maybe other butterflies. There are fewer tickseed flowers now, but many asters, and still some mushrooms. Webworms were on the persimmon, etc. [and a hickory] at one point. Some of the small sicklepods have green seedpods. A few days ago one morning a red male cardinal on a piece of stone seemed to be eating fallen dayflower seeds and getting more directly off the plants. Dayflowers flower and seed continuously, some until frosted. Something cut off some of the rich, dark blue flowers on the 3rd. A few of the flowers have been pale, I think due to the cooling temperatures at night. In the winter I've seen sparrows picking the hanging seeds of river oats and maybe other plants. Yellowjackets are apparently a problem after the WNC flooding, but I have seen about one here so far this fall. A freelance reporter also told WUNC's Due South that the animal sounds seemed strange in WNC after the hurricane. Could it be that people paid more attention to them, without as much noise pollution, as happened during the pandemic lockdowns? A mockingbird perched in an American beautyberry on the 3rd, but the berries are mostly or all gone. I haven't seen a common mockingbird in a while. I saw one large anole on the 3rd. I heard a gray treefrog during around midday and a few cicadas buzzed. Some birds have been singing, and the hawks, owls, and red-bellied woodpeckers. Swifts have been around during the day. Squirrels have been littering the ground with cut off Spanish oak branches, probably for the acorns. Despite the early drought, there might be a lot of acorns here this fall. Very small, soft green and yellow pot-shaped galls of some kind pock mark the undersides of many of the leaves, on the major veins. I got a large, puffed up American (?) toad and a narrow green katydid off the relatively warm road after dark on I think the 2nd. The morning of the 4th Jupiter hadn't moved much, but I think Mars was in the center of Gemini. Faint Cancer was somewhere north of Gemini and south of Ursa Major. Near dawn Canis Major, Columba the Dove (I didn't identify it at the time, though), parts of Puppis, Orion, Lepus, Eridanus were above the trees in the south. The Big Dipper, the front of giant Leo, and I think Alphard or Alfard in Hydra (the "heart?") were coming up in the east. Earlier I had a sort of good and Moonless view of Aquarius and Capricornus and then Pisces and Cetus in the south. Cepheus was in the north for a while. It was almost completely clear for a change, but I think the night of the 4th-5th will be cloudier. There are some rooftop and rural astronomy events in the area.[
[October 6th: September-October might be a good time to see large red-orange, black, and silvery white gulf fritillary butterflies at Jordan Lake and even more so in Atlanta, Georgia. Large blue passionflowers, a larval foodplant, grow or grew near the Seaforth access Jordan Lake, at Rollingview and Holly Point and probably elsewhere around Falls Lake, and at Occoneechee Mountain, south of Hillsborough and the Eno, while the small greenish-yellow species is probably much more common, now common on my street and there were some at the old Venable Hall at UNC. I've seen gulf fritillaries on exposed sand at Jordan Lake during a late summer or fall drought and I think visiting flowers where I live, maybe Lantanas. They seem to like ornamental Lantanas.]
[October 8th: It looked like Mars was next to the star Wasat in mid-Gemini this morning. I thought I heard a gray treefrog during the day a few days ago.]
[October 11th: I was surprised to find a young oakworm, over 1cm on the 10th. I found a dead one earlier, but thought that it must have been from the summer. There is a chance of far south auroras this weekend. It has been pretty cool, but clear, since Helene for stargazing. I've been hearing a scolding thrasher (?), I heard the towhee one day, a few frogs and toads have been around, one garden spider, I found a tiny dark brown moth fly (?) on the 11th, etc. The squirrels, including a young one without a tail, seem to have finished with the Spanish or Southern red oaks. Few tickseeds are blooming now, but more asters, etc. "Mums" to begin soon.]
UNC cut down the large oak by Hamilton Hall, a maple that held a large mistletoe in front of Lenoir dining hall, and the very pale pink sasanqua/sazanka camellias around Bingham that I liked (though maybe some were moved). The camellias bloomed in late fall and early winter. UNC plans to cut down the two large overcup oaks in the Pit. A while ago they cut the red maples in front of the Undergraduate Library and something happened to one east of the Old Well on Cameron Avenue. A honeylocust is now pretty tall in "Battle Grove" (?) east of Coker Arboretum, though, and there is at least one honeylocust in Coker. I tried to get some seeds from somewhere to sprout, but I think one came up in the winter after early snow melted and died and drought might have killed another. A new catalpa was planted in Coker?
[The metal magazine racks, including the 'historic' orange Boiling Point magazine rack, have been removed from the entrance of the Undergraduate Library. I don't know what happened to it, but I might have picked up the Boiling Point rack if I had known that the racks were being gotten rid of, though it appeared sometime after I graduated. Maybe they were saved.]
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| The Boiling Point (orange) and other magazine racks, now gone, on the east side of the entrance to the Undergraduate Library at UNC October 27, 2019 ©. Boiling Point was the left student magazine for a few years, but didn't have its own racks when I was a member. Even in 2019 there might have been fewer student publications at UNC than 10-15 years ago. In the photo Triangle Free Press is using the rack, and that regional free monthly left newspaper has existed for decades. I think Appalachian Voices is also using the rack. |
Were the UNC fraternities not involved in the "Flagstock" event?
Electronic Intifada was back on YouTube (and other services) for its weekly livestream on the 25th (held every Wednesday)?
The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal against Nevada's alleged clerical error or Democratic Party conspiracy that kept Jill Stein and Butch Ware off the ballot, though the campaign collected something like three times the necessary number of signatures (more than 29,000).
On WUNC's Due South on the 24th I think they discussed Anatomy of a Purple State, and talked about independent being the largest voter registration in the State. This registration was apparently created around 1978, back when the NC Democrats were the ones grossly gerrymandering. Apparently someone is running for Congress (?) as an independent and would be the first independent member from NC, but they are thought unlikely to win. They did not discuss punitive ballot access laws and how the mainstream media sidelines candidates, even the 2024 Republican candidate for the presidency. During the Biden-Harris administration it has been revealed that even local Democratic Party politicians are in lock step with their national leadership on issues such as Ukraine policy and often aren't much better on the war in the Middle East, but voters can't have any choice other than the warmongering and "authoritarian" Democrats, warmongering and "authoritarian" Republicans, and "the couch." Before that segment there was disdainful discussion of some Republican woman candidate who once said that Obama should be put against a wall, on pay per view.
A pro-Democratic Party professor analyzed Trump's use of the word "they," and not as a pronoun, with Steve Inskeep the morning of the 23rd. Apparently "they" means something like conspiracymongering and dehumanization. I wondered how many times Inskeep and NPR have used "they" for those purposes. Terry Gross had something about NPR's favored "Russiagate" conspiracy theory on Fresh Air on the 24th.
Someone, maybe connected with Dick Cheney, alleged on On Point today that Americans are putting up Ukrainian flags and back Biden-Harris' campaign in Ukraine. Maybe both of the guests, representing different views, were Republicans.
Some reporter on The World: "nothing would harm liberal democracy more" than Trump winning in November, and China considers its system superior to "liberal democracy." Of course Harris is saying that she is more anti-China than Trump. Biden and now Harris demand votes from the left, because Trump is worse, but then they appeal to the right and attack the left.
After 4pm, with Tom Bowman: "The Taliban and other anti-Afghan forces" couldn't attack occupation command centers with EMF-detecting drones, but China can, says some US soldier (from the 101st Airborne?). The other side in the training exercise is codenamed "Geronimo." "The future," says Bowman, is a robot "dog" with a machine gun that could come into your house and kill you. Israel is still using real dogs to torture and kill people.
And then, Trump is a liar who must be "fact checked" at all times, to prove that a "journalist" isn't standing with Trump, but they think it is obvious that Iran is trying to kill Trump. Only now do they say that Qasem Soleimani, assassinated by Trump in 2020, was "a mythic figure" in Iran. NPR was basically fine with it at the time.
NPR and the BBC have been downplaying Israel's attacks on Lebanon, though it seems to be going in the same direction as their attack on Gaza. A French former Lebanon peacekeeper (?!) and an American sounding woman from Haaretz were backing Israel's attacks early on the 25th on the BBC. Another time they had an "independent" legislator from Lebanon on, no doubt to criticize Hezbollah and absolve Israel. Since when does Israel care about UN resolutions? -- they accuse Hezbollah of not withdrawing from the border after 2006, the BBC reported.
The US, and therefore the mainstream media, are talking about a humanitarian crisis in Sudan, but I haven't heard anything about Gaza in a while. Nearly 42,000 Gazans have been killed? NPR and to a lesser extent the BBC can talk about passive suffering in Palestine and Lebanon, but not active resistance to the source of their current suffering. Compare to the coverage of western Ukrainians. No eastern Ukrainians exist, they say, in so many words.
Around the 22nd or 21st Julian Warrwicker (sic?) on the BBC defined being a proxy as receiving weapons, money, support, advice, etc. to I think a Hezbollah connected journalist or official. I don't think they are going to starting referring to the Ukrainian government or Israel as a US proxy or satellite. Even the UK and other major European countries aren't very independent from the US government anymore.
September 24th at 8pm NPR reported that a Muslim or Arab American group is critically (?) backing Harris-Walz, and I don't think they ever reported MAPAC's endorsement or any endorsements of Trump-Vance, other than individual Muslim or Arab American voters incensed with Biden-Harris. NPR avoids covering Trump unless it can benefit Harris. They don't cover third parties or independent candidates running for high offices, right or left (unless it can benefit Harris or a similarly anointed Democrat), and they didn't even cover well-known Democrats in recent presidential primaries. It isn't like they didn't have enough air time. Maybe they've 'always' been this way.
Latino USA on NPR, serving the yanqui empire.
On the dismal BBC on the 26th, a Ukrainian woman legislator on how Russia is the world's biggest aggressor, it doesn't care about its people, and it shouldn't be on the UN Security Council, an irrational situation (coming out of WWII and nuclear arms). Others want to carve Russia up, but how, and then how would NATO's post-cold war existence be justified? And what if China 'moved' then west? Send Turkey east to appeal to Turkic and Islamic peoples?
Or is the USA the next large, cosmopolitan country that is going to split up? The BBC suddenly, in recent weeks, has a media show and one on the "gathering storm" of US political disaster, with new episodes early on the 26th. Why would people ever think a 'dark cabal' controls the US?; militias; Bundy; the John Birch Society; etc. Does the Democratic Party have a strange interest in talk of "civil war," "slow" or not? A "civil war" would allow them to disenfranchise, imprison, or kill political opponents and govern by decree. A major war with Russia or China, or even Iran, Korea, or Venezuela, would give them similar powers on the "homefront."
In the news October 4th: In response to Liz Cheney campaigning with Kamala Harris Trump, unlike the Democrats, made an anti-war appeal, saying something about his opponents promising unending war. Some people on the left (?) say that they intend to vote for Trump as the lesser evil in this election, compared to the the party of Harris, Biden, the Cheneys, etc. I don't think Trump is an anti-war or peace-making candidate, but he aired a sentiment top Republican and Democratic party presidential candidates rarely if ever say, whether he truly meant it or not. But he has also advocated letting Israel do as it wishes in the current war, though in practice that also seems to be the policy of Biden and Harris. I saw a headline claiming that the US wanted Israel to invade Lebanon. Trump also openly assassinated Iranian and Iraqi leaders in Iraq, which is asking for a war, and Republicans have long advocated starting a war with Iran. Trump could have gotten the US out of Syria and Iraq, as well as Afghanistan, and normalized relations with Iran and DPR Korea, making a major US war harder to ignite. He worsened economic and covert warfare against Venezuela, Cuba, China, etc. and ended arms control agreements and the nuclear deal with Iran (though Iran denies having a nuclear weapon program or the desire to have nuclear weapons, even given that nearby Israel, Pakistan, and NATO forces have nuclear weapons).
[October 6th: Allegedly Trump "...called on Benjamin Netanyahu to end the carnage in Gaza; he vows to end the bloodshed in Ukraine, well before we are all incinerated in an atomic apocalypse; he promises A DEAL with Iran to head off the no longer merely looming regional catastrophic combat and recently went out of his way to announce he does NOT want war with China. Now this may all be pie in the sky, but the mere fact that a candidate for the American presidency utters such words is encouraging, and it is far superior to the Dems’ nauseating foreign policy." I don't agree with everything in this article and it is news to me if Trump has come out against continuing the war in Gaza, wants to negotiate with Iran, and stated that he doesn't want a war with China: www.counterpunch.org/2024/10/04/elections-war-and-what-they-mean-for-labor-with-or-without-presidential-endorsements/ Of course, he didn't start a war with China during his first term and there was a deal with Iran when he came into office. I think even Biden claimed to be for negotiating with Iran, but the US government wanted to add conditions, so the negotiations came to nothing, as with the decline in US-China relations. The Democrats were "...good on domestic policy and appalling on foreign policy" prior to Bill Clinton, and the Republicans were "...decent on foreign policy and appalling domestically" prior to George W Bush? What about the violence fomented abroad under Reagan and George HW Bush and left criticism of Carter's foreign and domestic policies, even if he is known for some progressive stands now? Comments saying that Trump is more or less the lesser evil can be found on nakedcapitalism.com One commenter often traces our current situation back to Bill Clinton, but then what about the previous decades?]
Maybe even more than with Hamas, the BBC and others have to add some variation of 'Iran-backed,' etc. almost every time they mention Hezbollah. They rarely if ever feel compelled to mention that Israel, western Ukraine, Taiwan, the Philippines, Haiti, Egypt, etc. are heavily backed by the US and NATO. When Israel is accused of carrying out genocide and war crimes, it is doing them with American money, weapons, information, other material support, the US veto at the UN, Biden's echoing of whatever Israeli propaganda puts out, etc. War is also made cheaper for Israel with US tax dollars, so they can afford constant war and social welfare. It has been suggested that the current wars in the Middle East and eastern Europe might make the US a target for terrorism in coming decades, as happened September 11, 2001, assuming that WWIII doesn't break out first.
[Also, I have a suspicion that the BBC, if not NPR, is devoting much more time to speculation about what Israel might bomb in retaliate for Iran's retaliation a few days ago than they did to speculation about what Iran might do when Israel attacked it. Maybe they want to deny that Iran can retaliate effectively, with air power. Someone in Iran apparently threatened to destroy oil facilities throughout the region if Israel attacks Iran's facilities, but that seems over the top and would probably provoke a massive war. On the other hand, I think it has been claimed that mad dog Israel would take the hapless Europeans and others down with them, with nuclear weapons, if Israel were to face dissolution. Biden claims to be against an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, but Israel hasn't seemed to listen to Biden up to now.
On the 3rd the BBC had a "rare" interview with a senior official from Hamas, and they devoted some time to a defense of giving Hamas a "platform." At one point a reporter (Jeremy Bowen?) claimed that they can't talk to Hamas because Israel doesn't give them unfettered, free access to Gaza. I doubt that they can't find people from Hamas to interview, because of Israel. They are probably afraid to interview the 'other side'/"terrorists," maybe for legal and other reasons, and want to ignore resistance to Israel and the "West." They also rarely interview senior figures from Hezbollah (they even have reporters in Beirut and south), Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Zimbabwe, China (though they also rarely interview Taiwanese officials), Russia, the government of Russian-held Ukraine (I don't remember the BBC interviewing any official from eastern Ukraine in many years, if ever, and NPR is even worse in doing "journalism" abroad), Colombian gurerrillas (they have interviewed gurerrillas in Myanmar and probably Syria), etc. If NPR, the BBC, or even Biden-Harris really have questions about what the Chinese government, etc. is thinking, they could try asking, in an honest way. Jeremy Bowen said that the BBC interviewed senior figures in Syria and Libya -- but that was like a decade ago. NPR only wants to talk about suffering, powerless civilians in Palestine and Lebanon. Maybe they legal can't talk to US-designated "terrorists," or fear US government retaliation if they do. There are countries even in the EU that treat Hezbollah as a legal political party. As in Gaza, Israel bombed a health center in central Beirut a few days ago. There has been very little coverage of Israel's losses in Palestine and losses from Iran's retaliation (any expensive fighter jets? Commercial satellite images of sites in Israel have been painted over with "clouds?"), but surprisingly the media has admitted that Israel has lost a few soldiers invading Lebanon. The losses might be larger than Israel is admitting. The Lebanese army isn't fighting, but lost something like two soldiers. The mainstream media might think that Israel won't hit them in Lebanon. There has been speculation that many NATO personnel deployed in Ukraine have been killed, but it is being covered up, even more than Ukraine's real casualty statistics.
On the 4th the BBC has an interview with the widow (?) of the man killed in Butler, Pennsylvania. I'm not sure that NPR ever spoke to anyone, or maybe I'm forgetting. They didn't make a big deal about the assassination attempts, unlike with the "insurrection" in 2021. There was more prolonged attention to the second attempt. I didn't really want to hear Ukraine War boosters trying to distance themselves from the second assassination, or the mainstream media saying that Slovakia's Robert Fico and now our Donald Trump are solely at fault if they get killed, and it is great when Russian civilians connected to the government get killed (the media was more moderate regarding Israel's device bombings across Lebanon, though it was similar to Ukraine's attacks). I doubt that they will take that line if a "Western" warmonger meets their end in terrorist violence. NPR had blatant propaganda for Harris on the 3rd, and "conspiracy theories" about 'October Surprises.' Sometime they brought up Hillary Clinton's emails, and blamed the FBI and Trump, or maybe I'm mixing up different stories. They must say that Clinton did nothing wrong, ever. Only Trump and Vance utter untruths and and "conspiracy theories," while Biden, Harris, and Walz might make mistakes, but never lie for Israel, personal power, or other causes, or have serious memory problems. You can't disagree about certain "facts" ruled upon in the Democratic Party's favor by NPR.]
[Someone on "1A" said that Harris isn't using the "autocracy" versus "democracy" rhetoric as much as Biden. Harris might not be doing it, but NPR still is. Zwillick highlighted Trump's call for a day of unrestricted police violence, and the first or second reference he went to was Nazi Germany, and a movie, The Purge. Wasn't there another movie? Of course it brings to mind the Philippines and they mentioned Mobutu. Will they mention that Trump went to the left of Harris on US warmongering and adventurism (I doubt it), sincere or not? NPR wants "anti-war" sentiments to stay with Russian liberals, or to be barely tolerated on US college campuses. They don't want to talk about opposition to Biden-Harris' wars, except for "far right," "isolationist" Republicans who love Israel, but not Ukraine (unlike those great "internationalist," anti-Trump Republicans who brought us the Iraq War). Only the AfD, MAGA Republicans, the FPO, etc. can be portrayed as opposed to NATO's war in Ukraine, and Robert Fico was portrayed as a rightist on NPR. They seemed to give more enduring attention to DEI programs being cut on college campuses in 2024. Next they set up the intenational hour as Iran beating up on beleagured Israel.]
[On the 4th or 3rd the BBC also interviewed a former British soldier (with a very British accent) who relocated his family and dogs to northern Israel at some point and welcomes the invasion of Lebanon, etc. Someone said that Israel is helping the Lebanese (the ones who hate Shia Muslims more than they want their country to be free from Israeli occupation?), as was said about Gaza, but the BBC can't platform Hezbollah, etc. Evacuation might be prudent, but I find it very strange that Israel can give orders for Gazans and Lebanese to evacuate, and their tents still get bombed. Of course the US advised or claimed to advise Japanese civilians to evacuate cities during WWII. Would Americans like to be ordered to evacuate their cities by a country bombing them and committing war crimes? The US and Israel like to blame their opponents for making them commit war crimes, kill civilians, and starve people in Iraq and Gaza, rather than being honest. On the other hand, many Israelis have been open about their views, since Biden and Harris are protecting them at the UN and sent in the US Navy.]
[Little mention on NPR of the new UK-Mauritius deal regarding Diego Garcia and other strategic Indian Ocean islands, called a betrayal or inadequate by some of the Chagossians who were forced off the Chagos Islands so the UK could give the US a base from which to bomb the Middle East and carry out military adventures. And yet there are civilians living there now, brought in to service the military, but they aren't Chagossians. I don't think the islands were populated prior to European colonialism, though, unlike militarized Hawaii, Okinawa, and Puerto Rico.] [October 3rd UK-Mauritius agreement, without consulting the Chagossians themselves: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagos_Archipelago ]
[Amazingly, the played an entire clip on Jill Stein speaking on the war in the Middle East on NPR the morning of Monday, October 7th, a first, during a long story on Arab-American and Muslim voters in Michigan, regarding the war, by Leila Falden, reporting from Michigan over a few days. But NPR is getting out the vote for Harris-Walz and the Democratic Party in general, so the next statement was something like it is a two party system and Stein (no mention of the Green Party) has no chance of winning. Maybe there was more along those lines. I heard that abolitionists, maybe the first Republicans, were accused of being spoilers by the now long-extinct Whig Party. Obviously Stein-Ware isn't likely to win, but people are free to vote as they wish and there are reasons to vote for a third party regardless of their chances of winning, and in theory Stein could win. Maybe NPR is talking about Jill Stein this time because support for the Greens has markedly increased. Some of the speakers were very anti-Harris, even if they consider themselves Democratic voters. The tone of the story was that Harris is trying to win over war opponents in Michigan (with tiny gestures), remember Trump's Islamophobic travel bans, and there are no other options. NPR has no interest in reporting or evaluating whether Trump's position on the war has changed, but on the 8th On Point was going to ask whether "the media is sane washing" Trump (and on warmongering "Left, Right, and Center" that evening, they portrayed Hezbollah and I think Iran as irrational and aggressive). In other news, for a future post, early October provides yet more reason to worry that anti-war speech is slowly being censored and banned, both online and off. I didn't hear it, but the evening of the 8th All Things Considered was going to interview two Jewish members of Congress on the alleged dramatic rise in anti-semitism, even prior to October 7, 2023, specifically mentioning college campuses. They are going for the European method of suppressing war opponents. Who is more likely to start a war with Iran in the near future, Harris or Trump, or are they both likely to do so? Netanyahu is threatening Lebanon with the Gaza treatment, and is already bombing Lebanese medical facilities and infrastructure, if not schools.]
[Spinning the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize the morning of October 10th: On NPR, Eleanor Beardsly ended her report by stating, without offering any evidence, that the Nobel committee is or must be aiming this critique at Iran (a non-nuclear country, without a known weapons program, being threatened and attacked by nuclear-armed and proliferating countries), DPR Korea, and Russia, I think in that order. On the BBC, I think they named only Korea and Russia. In the evening they were silent about it.]
The week of October 7th, Israel is being accused of firing on the UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, who aren't authorized to fire back and might not even be heavily armed. Israel suddenly demands that UN resolutions be followed to the letter, except the resolutions regarding Israeli actions. Israel also bombed and destroyed crowded residential towers in Beirut, without giving any warning to the residents, who deny that any Hezbollah officials were there. Civilians are again under siege, being shot if they attempt to flee, and cut off from food, water, and fuel Northern Gaza.
The Democrats demand votes from the left, but make substantial appeals to the right only. It has been reported that the US government wants Israel to attack Lebanon. They claim to want a ceasefire in Gaza, but it doesn't seem like they are working very hard to get one, etc. They don't deserve another four years, and then there have been claims that Trump might not be worse on Palestine than Biden-Harris, besides allegedly wanting to end the Ukraine War. But what about war with Iran and China? It isn't clear what his intentions are. Just in on the BBC, Israel wants to ban UNRWA.]
[From an October 12th Stein-Ware campaign email, a first? --
"That’s right, yesterday we made history when the DNC and their handpicked candidate Kamala Harris put out the first ever national ad attacking Jill, once again demonstrating that they’re terrified by the momentum that keeps growing for our people-powered campaign.
They claim that Republicans have been helping Jill. That’s an interesting take when Kamala can’t stop bragging about her endorsements from over 200 Republicans including the architect of the Iraq war, Dick Cheney. Just last week, Kamala was campaigning with Liz Cheney at her side and was breathless in her praise for the warmongering ex-Veep when she thanked him for '...all he’s done to serve his country.' Given she’s running on a promise to preside over 'the most lethal fighting force in the world' her praise for Dick Cheney is quite sincere.
[...]
Eight years have passed since Hilary Clinton managed to lose the election to a crude racist and misogynistic game show host. In that time, the anti-Democratic Party has done nothing to address the real reasons they’ve lost the support of so many voters. Instead they’ve doubled down on their attacks on Jill Stein because according to them, the only way to 'save democracy' is to pour millions of dollars into stopping the voters from having the choice to vote for candidates who are anti-genocide, pro-worker, and ready to tackle climate emergency on day one.
The dirty Dems think they own your vote. Votes are earned, not owned. They’re not just afraid of Jill and Butch – they’re afraid of you! Your vote is your voice and they’re desperate to silence the millions of people who are sick and tired of the corporate duopoly of war and Wall Street. That’s why they resort to lies and bullying; because they work for their billionaire donors and won’t embrace the policies the people need."
From an October 10th campaign email on a bizarre sounding situation in Ohio (what party holds the Ohio Secretary of State office?) [a court hearing October 16th]:
"We have an update on Ohio. If you haven’t heard, someone not authorized to submit paperwork on behalf of the campaign turned in a document requesting to withdraw the Vice Presidential candidate from the ballot, after the deadline to submit a new candidate.
The person who submitted this paperwork to the Ohio Secretary of State admitted when turning in the form that the signature on the form was not “wet” (it was a graphic that was copy and pasted), and that they were not a campaign staffer.
The Secretary of State should have rejected it on those grounds alone. But instead, they accepted the form - then declared no votes for Jill would count.
To make this even more incredible and unacceptable, our Ohio VP candidate then sent the SoS a notarized affidavit stating that she didn’t authorize the withdrawal form, and the SoS replied that they wouldn’t accept it because the notarization wasn’t “embossed”... after they had accepted the original, unauthorized VP withdrawal form with a copy-pasted signature."
Also, Abandon Harris (previously Abandon Biden) endorsed Stein-Ware Monday, October 7th: x.com/Abandonbiden24/status/1843275082376069409 [
[October 17th endorsement by the American Arab and Muslim Political Action Committee: ampacmi.org/general-elections-2024/ ]
MAPAC events (see their website):
There will be an NC Governor Forum at the Islamic Association of Raleigh September 28th 2-4pm
A Fayetteville Forum -- US Congress District 8 on the 29th 2-4pm
A Voter Education Event at the IAR October 4th 7:30-9:00pm
Originally posted at: mapacendorsmentpresident.tiiny.site
Muslim American Public Affairs Council
PO. Box 18196
Raleigh NC 27606
Website: www.mapacnc.com
For Immediate Release
MAPAC Announces Early Endorsement for U.S
Honorable leaders and fellow community members, today on behalf of the Muslim American
Public Affairs Council (MAPAC), we stand as a proud and unwavering voice of the Muslim
American community in the political sphere. Our mission is to ensure that our voices are not
only heard but respected, our concerns are not only raised but addressed, and our values are not
only represented but reflected in the policies that shape our nation.
We have long sought meaningful engagement with all political parties, assessing candidates not
by their words, but by their actions. We ask one critical question: Do they truly listen to the
Muslim community? Do they understand our struggles and invite us to actively shape the
decisions that affect us? Unfortunately, both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have shown us
that they do not.
During the Democratic National Convention, despite our concerted efforts and the rallying cries
of many, our voices were silenced. Muslim and Arab leaders were ignored as we sought to
address the atrocities in Palestine. The majority of Americans, including many within the
Democratic base, demand an end to the Israeli war on Gaza, a halt to the flow of American
weapons used to commit unspeakable acts, and accountability for those who perpetuate these
horrors. Yet, Harris, through her actions, has made it clear that she will continue the policies of
the current administration, offering unwavering support to Israel while turning a blind eye to the
oppression of Palestinians.
In contrast, Dr. Jill Stein represents the leadership that our community has long sought. She has
not only spoken out for Palestinian rights, but she has traveled this nation to amplify our voices,
to stand shoulder to shoulder with us, and to include us in her vision for a just and equitable
future. Dr. Stein’s commitment is clear. She has appointed a Muslim running mate, Professor
Butch Ware, and has dedicated her campaign to fighting the genocide funded by American tax
dollars. Her genuine care for our community was evident when she spent hours with us,
listening, engaging, and offering solutions grounded in justice and humanity.
The American people, by vast majority, oppose using their tax dollars to fund wars, to prop up
unjust regimes, and to ignore the cries of the oppressed. There is a hunger in this country for
reform
—reform that Dr. Stein and her campaign represent. While we may not agree with every
point in her platform, we recognize her as the most courageous and effective advocate for real
change in both foreign policy and democratic reform in this race.
Muslim American Public Affairs Council
PO. Box 18196
Raleigh NC 27606
Website: www.mapacnc.com
For Immediate Release
MAPAC Announces Early Endorsement for U.S
Muslim American Public Affairs Council
Dr. Khodr Zaarour
Chairman
P.O. Box 18196
Raleigh, NC 27619
From the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee:
Senate Unanimously Passes Resolution Honoring Wadee AlFayoumi
Washington, DC | www.adc.org | September 25, 2024 – Last night, the US Senate unanimously passed the resolution honoring Wadee AlFayoumi, recognizing the importance of the Palestinian keffiyeh as a symbol of Palestinian culture, and highlighting the danger of dehumanizing and demonizing rhetoric which contributed to Wadee’s brutal murder. This historic passage marks the first time that Congress recognizes Palestinian Americans in a resolution, and places them in the Congressional Record as symbols of resilience and pride.
The resolution was drafted by the Muslim Civic Coalition in partnership with ADC, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), and Representative Delia Ramirez (D-IL), and was successfully passed due to incredible advocacy from community members across the country.
ADC National Government Affairs and Advocacy Director Chris Habiby said, “Palestinian Americans, like Arab Americans more broadly, are a proud and beautiful community that represent the best of our nation. This resolution is a strong statement denouncing the hate which motivated Wadee’s murder and the attack on his mother, and pushes back against false narratives demonizing Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim Americans. What is absolutely clear is that hate has no place in America, and every child deserves to live in safety while thriving. It was an honor to work with and support the Muslim Civic Coalition as we ensured that Wadee’s name is forever remembered in the halls of Congress.”
From UNC's Daily Tar Heel opinion page September 25th --
Op-ed: Students for Justice in Palestine respond to recent DTH column's removal
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