cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37912362

[from Cuba In Context - weekly newsletter of the #BellyOfTheBeast news/video collective]

Anti-racist icon Assata Shakur, who lived in exile in Cuba for decades, has died at the age of 78. We hear from three Afro-Cuban women who knew her and were inspired by her life and legacy.

Also in this week’s newsletter:

  • ​Watch how Cuba’s organic urban gardens feed neighborhoods
  • Miami artists targeted over Cuba trip
  • Inside our latest film screening in New York City
  • Cuba wins second straight Youth “Baseball5” World Championship
  • U.S. says blockade is a lie – while it ramps up sanctions
  • Trump to send more money for regime change in Cuba?
  • Carmakazi@piefed.socialEnglish
    71·
    3 days ago

    She lived in exile because she shot a New Jersey state trooper dead during a traffic stop, not because she was an “activist.”

    • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
      55·
      3 days ago

      That’s what ML activism is. If you’re not 100% with them, you’re a target. There’s plenty historical accounts of slaughtering former allies when they became inconvenient.

      While we might say all cops are bad, because the system makes it impossible for them to be good. We still generally acknowledge that many of them are basically good people as flawed as humans are. And don’t deserve death just because we disagree with them. But you’ll never get an authoritarian to agree with that.

      They’ve been posting and reposting this for the last week solid iirc. Baffled that it doesn’t get much traction outside the triad. They keep retrying.