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raised by Liberation Theology activists, corrupted by sweaty-palmed gamers in the fraught oughties | he/him/pattycakes | recovering airhead | world's #1 fussbudget | Dearborn shall outlive cringe boomers

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pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 9d

we once produced breathtaking items

Wendy Witch World #41
Harvey Publications, 10/71

wendy wears red before a ballet slipper pink background: her wand is suspended in the air & directed at a toaster and an ocean of toast occupies the bottom half of the magazine cover

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 10d

it is!

It is the story of the triumph against apartheid, of perseverance, of a great American city, of organized labor, and, of course, a great basketball team.

Mandela wore the jacket and hat in the early morning hours on June 29. The outfit was a gift of stars Isiah Thomas and John Salley the night before when Mandela spoke to an enthralled crowd of 49,000 people at old Tiger Stadium.

The celebratory concert at Tiger Stadium featured a host of dignitaries, including then-Mayor Coleman Young, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Rosa Parks, who Salley got to personally escort to her seat, and a 2,000-member choir. Celebrities and political power players paid thousands of dollars for a seat, while local charities and community organizations brought in youth groups, and supplied tickets to people walking the streets of downtown Detroit.

After all, when Mandela visited the U.S. in 1990 to raise awareness and funds for the African National Congress, he only stopped in eight cities. Why did Detroit make the cut?

In jail and behind the thick prison walls, we could hear loud and clear your voice calling for our release. We felt your impatience with our enslavement -Nelson Mandela
It was certainly no accident. Before his visit to Tiger Stadium, Mandela visited the Ford River Rouge Assembly Plant in Dearborn. Hundreds of mostly black union workers anxiously waited at the historic plant, one of the first to be fully integrated, with pro-Mandela buttons, shirts and signs.

Poor health and a tight schedule forced Mandela to be hours late, and he was only able to talk for six minutes. But he would later say it was one of the warmest receptions he received on his tour.

“The man who stands before you is not a stranger,” Mandela told cheering auto workers, according to Associated Press reports. “I am a member of the UAW; I am your flesh and blood. I am your comrade.”

In fact, some of those loudest voices in America came from Detroit. More specifically they came from the UAW.

The UAW and other powerful unions in the United States were the driving force of organized labor being an outspoken international critic of the South African government and apartheid. In 1978, the UAW withdrew funds from banks with ties to Pretoria, the South African capital. Unions led the divestment movement against South Africa, removing money from banks that did business there and boycotting companies that did the same.

Cities and states were pressured to do the same, removing billions of dollars in pension funds. Eventually, 26 states, 80 cities and 150 colleges as well as many other unions did the same, reported the Washington Post at the time of Mandela’s visit.

Even Congress was forced to act, making divestment official policy in the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act. And in a signal of the power of organized labor and the anti-Apartheid movement in general, even after President Ronald Reagan vetoed the bill, a Republican-controlled Senate overruled the veto by super-majority vote.

Upon visiting the plant, former UAW President Douglas Fraser noted the significance of Mandela’s visit to the Dearborn plant. As reported by UPI:

Former UAW President Douglas Fraser said there was a “special nostalgia” in Mandela visiting the Rouge plant, where he said union members were once treated with brutality.

“It’s a certain kind of kinship,” Fraser said. “It’s a revolution, a fight for dignity and democracy. He’s fighting for much more.”

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 10d

inshallah

Mandela in Pistons apparel with fist raised to the heavens

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 10d

mfer looks like Baby Jane & Blanche somehow mated

Blanche & Baby Jane in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 10d

i’m not gonna make it to Tuesday

Echo smith cool kids official music video

haley on vocals
gary peters on guitar
dana nessel on bass
Debbie Stabenow stirrin the soup

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

I'll see you soon. hope not. bye bye.

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

you need his help badly; um yeah, whatever. good knowing you.

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

bless you. um not that you believe in God; you should.

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

for the rest of your life.

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

like you don't like it; and you're about to burn your mouth

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

good luck getting that from someone else, cause they'll make it too hot like you don't like

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

let's just say this . you remember eating my tortellini that you like so much?

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

and none of his work. but I'm not happy about this. and i don't own you. I don't control you

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

got a lot of games at his house -- because of his damn parents by the way and none

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

whatever playing ping pong I know he's

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

and i'm sure you're over there playing ping pong

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

that were in it. it's not not right. what i'm feeling

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

has not been felt by since World War II by some people

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

because what I'm going through right now...

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

would rather you have just shot me right in the fucking head

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

you know: if you hated me, why didn't you just kill me?

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

white male with beard and brown eyes recording himself with a look of conternation, set in 2009: he appears facing the camera in this every subsequent photo

hello. remember me? or are you too drunk?

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

my indefatigable inner critic upon reading "Oh, the Places You'll Go!"

Spider-Man Macho Man Bonesaw: "You're going nowhere!"

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

“People on Linkedin getting ready to post some bullshit” meme w/ Haley Stevens superimposed on the guy limbering up

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

Chait begrudgingly reconciling with the fact that he must one day find it within his heart to share this planet with Muslims who don't curtsy & say "thank you, sir" when duplicitous Western forces indiscriminately pulverize their people

ugly ass Chait with the contemplative hands-to-face posture

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

establishment Dem pols: i'm a resister, a FIGHTER also establishment Dem pols: THE SAVAGES ARE COMING FOR ME!!

Nessel says she won’t attend Michigan Dems convention over safety concerns - Attorney general cites harassment and concerns about antisemitism within the party

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

thank you for changing my life meme:

pictured are Norm Finkelstein & Allan Dershowitz on Democracy Now in 2003

text: i’m literally Allan Dershowitz being held to account for my Hasbaric proclivities

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

these compunctionless crackers must be shunned by the public in every way imaginable

screenshot of an excerpt from an article on Mrs. Goldman's white supremacist, anti-Black & anti-Arab twitter activities

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

Cherry Coke-Kane was one of the great sartorial displays of 1990s professional wrestling

90's Cherry Coke can

wrestling superstar Kane in red & black

pipsqueak@peppermintplankton· 11d

you reside at the nebulous intersection of flailing flopsweat and despicable demonization

L'Etat C'est Moi @letatcestmoi.bs... • 9r

Liberal Apologia @ Islamophobia
Leftist Scapegoating
Weaponizes Antisemitism

TAKE THIS SEAT BACK, Detroit!!