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Rebecca Hall is uncovering the hidden history of women-led slave revolts – and she’s doing it via graphic novel

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Historian Rebecca Hall speaks to Leyla Reynolds about hidden histories, women-led slave revolts and why she’s doing academia differently.

You don’t often see historians presenting their work via illustration. But thinking about it, why not? What better way to bring the past to vivid life?

That’s exactly the approach taken by Dr Rebecca Hall, a historian who’s seeking to uncover the hidden legacies of transatlantic slavery via graphic novel.

Her new book, WAKE, is a collaboration with artist Hugo Martinez and explores the under-researched history of women-led slave revolts in the Americas.

The book explores both the revolts that took place on slave ships during the so-called ‘Middle Passage’ stage of the Triangular Trade and uprisings that happened in colonial New York, pieced together from historical evidence ranging from slave ship logs to forensic matter taken from enslaved African burial grounds in the city.

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Mexico: Students Burn Electoral Building, Demand Release of 19 Political Prisoners

By Ben Robinson

Two days before the national elections were held in Mexico on June 4, a group of normalistas (students who attend rural teachers’ colleges) set fire to a National Electoral Institute (INE, Instituto Nacional Electoral) building in Tuxtla-Gutierrez, Chiapas in demand for the freedom of 17 imprisoned normalistas. The 17 normalistas were arrested last month after seizing buses and occupying a highway on May 18 as part of protests against online exams.

Following the arrests last month, normalistas and activists targeted a state official building, promising to prevent the national elections in the state of Chiapas if the students weren’t released.

Graffiti reads, “If there is no freedom there will be no elections”

In the most recent action, the INE building was set ablaze with an incendiary device which caused damage to furniture and computers. The slogan, “Free the normalistas” was spray painted on the wall of the building.

The normalistas had originally rallied on May 18 to demand that admission exams be taken in person, as many do not have internet access in rural areas. At this protest, 74 women and 19 men were arrested; of the 93 arrested 17 remain in prison. Two indigenous protesters were disappeared after the protest.

The burning of the INE is the most recent combative action demanding the freedom of the students; previous actions involved blocking highways and targeting official government buildings. The normalistas have made it clear that their demands will not be satisfied through the ballot box, and that their resistance will continue to grow.

Next Step: ‘Self-Spreading’ Vaccines to Pose Multiple Risks — Including End of any Consent

from Children’s Health Defense at globalresearch…

June 03, 2022 June 2021 Theme: Media Disinformation, Science and Medicine

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Proponents argue self-disseminating vaccines could mean they no longer have to run complex mass vaccination programs. Critics say the vaccines pose many health risks and would also spell the end of informed consent.

In October 2019, the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security co-sponsored the “pandemic exercise,” Event 201.

A little more than a year later, when the Event 201 scenario morphed from “hypothetical” to concrete, it became clear that sponsors of the event intended to see the majority of the world vaccinated against COVID-19.

Accomplishing this goal is a “monumental challenge,” however. In the U.S., more than one-third (38% to 45%) of adults continue to decline the unlicensed, Emergency Use Authorization injections, despite a marketing blitz that has included both carrots (ranging from the chance to win cash payments to a free order of fries) and sticks (such as nasty calls to “get personal” and “shun” the unvaccinated).

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