Activists

[Ulitzer95 12,642]

On 09/10/2022 at 13:46, Ulitzer95 said:

Facebook post from the UCU reporting the death of Avtar Singh Jouhl OBE (wiki), 84, Indian-British anti-racism campaigner and one-time president of the Indian Workers' Association. 

Known, amongst other things, for hosting Malcolm X during his 1965 visit to the UK.

Guardian obit at some point I imagine.

As I suspected, Guardian obit.

[WEP 893]

On 02/11/2022 at 12:13, gcreptile said:

DDP pick for the right livelihood theme team. My theory is that every winner of that award gets a QO. Let's see...

Just another pick of htt team has passed away: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2022/celebs_D.html#daly99h022

https://rightlivelihood.org/news/laureate-herman-daly-who-brought-economy-and-ecology-together-dies-at-84/

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/11/04/herman-daly-ecological-economist-dead/

[YoungWillz 21,050]

On 03/10/2022 at 14:21, gcreptile said:

Vicky Phelan has not been well enough to get interviewed lately:

https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/ryan-tubridy-explains-vicky-phelans-28132650

 

She was also not to be seen while her documentary was premiered. And she hasn't been on social media at all the past weeks. Seems like this is going to be it.

Correct. 6 weeks to the day since @gcreptile posted this about Vicky Phelan.

[gcreptile 10,976]

Gustavo Moncayo, Colombian peace activist and the "peace walker" has died rather quick at 69:

https://confidencialcolombia.com/nacion/fallecio-gustavo-moncayo-el-caminante-por-la-paz/2022/11/15/

 

I might have played him in the DDP because he has an english wikipedia page.

[wannamaker 1,407]

On 22/04/2021 at 18:00, arghton said:

https://www.rionegro.com.ar/murio-mercedes-colas-de-merono-vicepresidenta-de-madres-de-plaza-de-mayo-1781156/

Mercedes Colás de Meroño, vice president of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo has died aged 95.

 

The alive main people of Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo are getting older. These groups got Videla behind bars.

 

Here's a list of some of them who are still alive:

 

Grandmothers:

Mirta Acuña de Baravalle (b. 1925) One of the founders of these organizations.

Rosa Tarlovsky de Roisinblit (b. 1919) One of the founders of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and current Vice President.

Beatriz H. C. Aicardi de Neuhaus (b. 1925?) One of the founders of Grandmothers

Estela de Carlotto (b. 1930) Current President of Grandmothers

 

Mothers:

Hebe de Bonafini (b. 1928) Leader of Mothers, one of the founders of Mothers

Haydeé Gastelú (birth date likely 1928, she and the ones below have a Spanish wikipedia) One of the founders of Mothers

Taty Almeida (b. 1930)

Nora Cortiñas (b. 1930)

Elia Espen (b. 1931)

Vera Vigevani de Jarach (b. 1928)

Zaida Franz (b. 1928) Mother of astronomy student Ana Teresa Diego (1954-1976)

Sara Rus (b. 1927)

Carmen Loréfice (b. 1925)

Delia Giovanola (1926-2022)

 

 

Hebe de Bonafini dead

[Ulitzer95 12,642]

23 minutes ago, wannamaker said:

 

Hebe de Bonafini dead

"Bonafini expressed support for figures such as Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Augusto Sandino, Yasser Arafat, Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales, and the mothers of ETA prisoners. She declared herself against social democracy, capitalism, neo-liberalism, globalization, and the International Monetary Fund.^[15] She also attacked Bolivian protesters for occupying Plaza de Mayo, calling them "shitty"; and suggested seizing the Supreme Court by force at the delays of the application of the Audiovisual Media Law."

Got to ask yourself what the true motives are of these "mothers".

[Superstar 295]

9 hours ago, wannamaker said:

 

Hebe de Bonafini dead

Glad she's dead. She was an awful person.

She's in hell lol.

Quote

"In the wake of the 11 September 2001 attacks, Bonafini generated international controversy when she defended the actions of the terrorist airline hijackers saying "I felt that there were many people in that moment who were happy and felt that the blood of so many in that moment were avenged... because the NATO bombings, the blockades and the millions of children who die of hunger in this world, that was due to this power that those men attacked, with their own bodies. And everyone knew it." Bonafini stood behind her support to organizations accused of terrorism such as FARC.^[8] Walter Wendelin [eu], leader of the etarran Askapena organization, was invited as guest teacher in the University of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.^[9]"

 

[Ulitzer95 12,642]

Once again, I ask what are the true motives of the “Mothers”? 
 

Seems like an organisational front for a darker movement, perhaps linked to Marxism?

[Charles De Gaulle 484]

16 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Once again, I ask what are the true motives of the “Mothers”? 
 

Seems like an organisational front for a darker movement, perhaps linked to Marxism?

Nah. I think she just had really radical, outspoken Marxist opinions. She lost two of her sons to a right wing military dictatorship. People who are victimised like that by right wing dictatorships will end up developing extreme views in the opposite direction for obvious reasons.

 

It's the same reason why people who fled Cuba or who are from former Soviet Union countries tend to hold very right wing views.

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

Veteran anarchist and Class War founder Ian Bone is now suffering from Parkinson's and looking rather frail here 

 

An impassioned orator in his time.  Count the F words 

 

 

[Redrumours 861]

12 hours ago, DevonDeathTrip said:

Veteran anarchist and Class War founder Ian Bone is now suffering from Parkinson's and looking rather frail here 

 

An impassioned orator in his time.  Count the F words 

 

 

About  101  then somebody shouted "cut"

[YoungWillz 21,050]

On 02/09/2022 at 19:35, gcreptile said:

Barbara Ehrenreich, leftist-feminist-socialist activist and author, dead at 81:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/books/barbara-ehrenreich-dead.html

 

Can I get "rule of three" going, next one Julia Reichert?

Julia Reichert dead: https://www.wyso.org/local-and-statewide-news/2022-12-02/julia-reichert-oscar-winning-godmother-of-documentaries-dies

[msc 18,477]

7 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Julia Reichert dead: https://www.wyso.org/local-and-statewide-news/2022-12-02/julia-reichert-oscar-winning-godmother-of-documentaries-dies

 

DDP title race, 2022:

 

[Spade_Cooley 9,530]

3 minutes ago, msc said:

 

DDP title race, 2022:

 

 

While we were all staring at Pele and George Alagiah to decide it... hilariously enough, I'd provisionally marked her out of 2023 consideration because she seemed to be stepping her workload up in recent months.

[msc 18,477]

2 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said:

 

While we were all staring at Pele and George Alagiah to decide it... hilariously enough, I'd provisionally marked her out of 2023 consideration because she seemed to be stepping her workload up in recent months.

 

She was in the dreaded 15th to 25th zone on my DDP shortlist but I was erring to keeping her as the stats for her cancer's prognosis grew suitably grim in the next 12 months.

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Mamie King-Chalmers, who was one of three Black people forced to brace themselves against a building while being blasted with water from a firehose in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, has died. She was 81. A photo of the scene was snapped by Charles Moore and appeared in Life magazine.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/mamie-king-chalmers-woman-in-civil-rights-photo-dies-at-81/2022/12/02/551516dc-729b-11ed-867c-8ec695e4afcd_story.html

[YoungWillz 21,050]

From the appropriate Scavvy Hunt thread:

 

On 02/06/2016 at 20:05, RoverAndOut said:

 

I'm surprised no one picked Charlene Mitchell on the Presidential politics one: Aged 86, she is (as far as I can tell) the only surviving candidate from the 1968 Presidential election, when Richard Nixon beat Hubert Humphrey. She was the Communist Party's candidate, was under the required age to enter office and has remained involved in politics right up into the late 2000s. Maybe that's what put people off (it did me) but I'm surprised no one took a punt, particularly since Reptile took a punt on La Donna Harris, who I considered healthier than Mitchell.

There's occasional tweets that Charlene Mitchell has died, but no reporting so far. Hoax? And if so, why would anyone bother?

[Ulitzer95 12,642]

10 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

From the appropriate Scavvy Hunt thread:

 

There's occasional tweets that Charlene Mitchell has died, but no reporting so far. Hoax? And if so, why would anyone bother?

Doubt it's a hoax. Lots of tributes over Facebook too.

[drol 11,951]

Chinese jailed dissident Wang Bingzhang (wiki) in poor health after suffering three strokes.

 

 

[drol 11,951]

On 16/12/2022 at 14:02, YoungWillz said:

From the appropriate Scavvy Hunt thread:

 

There's occasional tweets that Charlene Mitchell has died, but no reporting so far. Hoax? And if so, why would anyone bother?

Someone on Twitter is calling fake news, I actually think the media are just being really slow/uninterested.

[lilham 757]

Charlene Mitchell was not under the age to run for President; if her birthdate on wiki is correct, she was 38, and Article II requires one to be at least 35.

[JR976evil 906]

11 minutes ago, lilham said:

Charlene Mitchell was not under the age to run for President; if her birthdate on wiki is correct, she was 38, and Article II requires one to be at least 35.

She’d come a long way from Ramsay Street 

[Ulitzer95 12,642]

On 16/12/2022 at 13:02, YoungWillz said:

From the appropriate Scavvy Hunt thread:

 

There's occasional tweets that Charlene Mitchell has died, but no reporting so far. Hoax? And if so, why would anyone bother?

Obit.

[drol 11,951]

On 23/04/2021 at 00:00, arghton said:

https://www.rionegro.com.ar/murio-mercedes-colas-de-merono-vicepresidenta-de-madres-de-plaza-de-mayo-1781156/

Mercedes Colás de Meroño, vice president of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo has died aged 95.

 

The alive main people of Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo are getting older. These groups got Videla behind bars.

 

Haydeé Gastelú (birth date likely 1928, she and the ones below have a Spanish wikipedia) One of the founders of Mothers

 

Haydeé Gastelú dead at 94.

[Ulitzer95 12,642]

Brian Davies (wiki), British animal welfare activist who founded the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), dead at 87.