YoungWillz 21,050 Posted August 28, 2020 Vicky Phelan back in the news: https://www.newstalk.com/news/cancer-terminology-pressure-phelan-1067606 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Banana 859 Posted September 1, 2020 Patson Dzamara, the brother of missing anti-Mugabe journalist/political activist Itai Dzamara, has died of colon cancer at 34. He was a politician and human rights activist in his own right. Itai, leader of the protest group Occupy Africa Unity Square was abducted from a barbershop in March 2015 and his whereabouts remain unknown. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,530 Posted September 3, 2020 Twitter reporting the death of anarchist activist/theorist/anthropologist David Graeber, who coined the term "the 99%" during his time in Occupy Wall Street and wrote the 2018 best-seller Bullshit Jobs on the theory that 2/3 of all jobs have no reason to exist. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Great Cornholio 902 Posted September 3, 2020 5 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said: Twitter reporting the death of anarchist activist/theorist/anthropologist David Graeber, who coined the term "the 99% during his time in Occupy Wall Street and wrote the 2018 best-seller Bullshit Jobs on the theory that 2/3 of all jobs have no reason to exist. 1/3 of all jobs across the UK can be replaced with automation, so I agree with him there. In fact, I bet automation will boom in the upcoming months... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,976 Posted September 3, 2020 I always "kind of" wanted to read bis books. But he was always a bit looked down upon by more orthodox economists, even the mainstream center-left ones. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted September 8, 2020 Ted Halstead, a climate change activist who supported a number of causes and organizations, has died. He was 52. Halstead's death was as a result of a biking accident. https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2020/09/ted-halstead/616162/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,050 Posted September 9, 2020 On 22/07/2020 at 08:53, drol said: So, George Bizos is the last living figure linked to Rivonia Trials, right? Will turn 93 in November. Apparently according to Twitter, George Bizos hasn't made it. Awaiting a reliable news source though... 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted September 9, 2020 24 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Apparently according to Twitter, George Bizos hasn't made it. Awaiting a reliable news source though... It’s not Twitter reporting it. It’s his daughter, using her Twitter account. I don’t need a journalist as a ‘more reliable source’ for Christ sake. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,644 Posted September 9, 2020 Seeing as all the lawyers and defendants are now deceased, here are the last living people associated with the Rivonia Trial: Denis Kuny b. 1932 – defence counsel on the trial. Still enjoys a lot of coverage, interviewed as recent as 2019. Abdulhay Jassat b. unknown – arrested and intended to be put on trial as a defendant, but escaped. Still making appearances a few years ago. Moosa Moolla b. 1934 – arrested and intended to be put on trial as a defendant, but escaped. Still making appearances a few years ago. Mac Maharaj b. 1935 – last living defendant of the Little Rivonia Trial, associated with the main one which preceded it. F. W. de Klerk b. 1936 – latter President of South Africa who freed Mandela. Still quite active. Ronnie Kasrils b. 1938 – latter Deputy Defence Minister who awarded the defendants medals for their activism. Also can't find evidence of Lionel Stanley Gay being alive or dead. He was a defendant turned informer in the Little Rivonia trial so would have every reason to "disappear" afterwards for his own safety. Very little out there on him. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CoffinLodger 1,248 Posted September 10, 2020 On 22/07/2020 at 09:38, CoffinLodger said: That's right. Anyway it's the end of an era.R.I.P On 22/07/2020 at 08:53, drol said: So, George Bizos is the last living figure linked to Rivonia Trials, right? Will turn 93 in November. No he won't ! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-54094248 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,530 Posted September 10, 2020 2 hours ago, CoffinLodger said: No he won't ! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-54094248 Thinking about getting a T-shirt featuring the "Carsini Wines" logo from the classic "LIQUID FILTH" episode of Columbo. Thoughts? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,745 Posted September 16, 2020 Russian neo-nazi, anti-LGBT "activist", restruct movement and format 18 founder Maxim Martsinkevich found dead in an isolution unit at 36. http://rapsinews.com/judicial_news/20200916/306278600.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jcc 228 Posted November 11, 2020 Lucille Bridges. Just saw daughter Ruby on Trevor Noah's Daily Show the other night who, remarkably, seems to bear no resentment to her former tormentors. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sideik 236 Posted November 20, 2020 On 27/08/2020 at 19:19, drol said: Varavara Rao discharged. After being refused the bail, he is now back in hospital for a two weeks treatment, the report says he is "almost on the deathbed", he suffers dementia and an urinary tract infection. Looking for an early release or real life threatening situation? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,953 Posted November 20, 2020 10 minutes ago, Sideik said: After being refused the bail, he is now back in hospital for a two weeks treatment, the report says he is "almost on the deathbed", he suffers dementia and an urinary tract infection. Looking for an early release or real life threatening situation? "Tanto tuonò che piovve", my friend. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted November 27, 2020 Bruce Boynton, a civil rights icon who helped inspire the historic Freedom Rides of 1961, has died at 83. The civil rights attorney and Alabama's first Black special prosecutor passed away earlier this week in Selma from cancer, according to former Alabama state Sen. Hank Sanders, a friend of Boynton's. Boynton's place in the Freedom Rides movement began in 1958 while a student at Howard University Law School in Washington, DC. Traveling on a bus bound for Alabama, Boynton got out to eat when the bus stopped for a break in Richmond, Virginia. He said he sat down in the "clinically clean" White area of the restaurant after seeing the unkempt "Blacks" section. He placed his order with the waitress. "She left and came back with the manager. The manager poked his finger in my face and said ... 'move,'" using a racial slur, Boynton recalled in his interview. "And I knew that I would not move, and I refused to, and that was the case." Boynton was later convicted of trespassing but went on to challenge his sentence with his attorney Thurgood Marshall, who later became the first Black Supreme Court justice. The appeal sparked the historic US Supreme Court ruling in Boynton v. Virginia. In a 7-2 decision in 1960, the Court banned bus station racial segregation. SC 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,050 Posted January 9, 2021 Look, I don't know or care who Ezra Nawi is, but as he is dead and picked for pools: https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/radical-leftist-activist-ezra-nawi-has-died-at-the-age-of-69-654825 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,976 Posted January 9, 2021 6 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Look, I don't know or care who Ezra Nawi is, but as he is dead and picked for pools: https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/radical-leftist-activist-ezra-nawi-has-died-at-the-age-of-69-654825 Hardcore leftist activist in Israel. Also the partner of some Irish politician. A slight obit risk. But yes, picked by a few people here and there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,530 Posted January 9, 2021 3 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: Look, I don't know or care who Ezra Nawi is, but as he is dead and picked for pools: https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/radical-leftist-activist-ezra-nawi-has-died-at-the-age-of-69-654825 Palestine independence activist/paedophile 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Death Impends 7,977 Posted January 9, 2021 41 minutes ago, gcreptile said: Hardcore leftist activist in Israel. Also the partner of some Irish politician. A slight obit risk. But yes, picked by a few people here and there. Fun fact: Said politician, David Norris, was a cult DDP pick in 2014, being picked by DDT and a few others. The interesting ways these past DDP picks are all connected. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
torbrexbones 717 Posted January 9, 2021 I wonder if Greta Thunberg will die a virgin. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,644 Posted January 9, 2021 6 minutes ago, torbrexbones said: I wonder if Greta Thunberg will die a virgin. Nah. Someone out there will shag her. She’s proper mental as well. They tend to be the wild ones in the sack. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Charles De Gaulle 484 Posted January 9, 2021 10 minutes ago, torbrexbones said: I wonder if Greta Thunberg will die a virgin. She probably lost her virginity already so I doubt it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted January 10, 2021 8 hours ago, torbrexbones said: I wonder if Greta Thunberg will die a virgin. Is that important to you? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,976 Posted January 10, 2021 One of the big decisions for the new teams was on picking Irish campaigner Vicky Phelan or not. She's now going to spend the next 6 months in the USA, on "alternative treatment", the alternative would be palliative care: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/vicky-phelan-going-to-us-for-months-of-experimental-cancer-treatment-1.4454345 She says she has about 10 tumours in her body. Her immunotherapy worked pretty well for 3 years, but not perfectly, so some tumours shrunk some didn't. She's hoping for an additional 2-3 good years. And in about 2 months she will see the first effects, or not. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
