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@stefan@stefanbohacek.online · 6d ago

So it was only yesterday when I learned that some of the spiritual and work songs sung by Black slaves here in the US were used to communicate messages and directions on how to escape. "Harriet Tubman; a significant American Abolitionist who saved many enslaved Africans from slavery through the Underground Railroad used songs such as “Go Down Moses," to indicate safety and “Wade in the Water” to signal escapees to get in the water to hide their scent." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_the_Underground_Railroad #TIL #history #BlackHistory #UndergroundRailroad #slavery #music #songs

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MissConstrue

@MissConstrue@mefi.social · May 25, 2026

Da Pope has dropped an #encyclical. An encyclical is a pastoral letter issued by the #Pope. Historically encyclicals serve as a key instrument of the Pope’s ordinary magisterium to guide the faithful on matters of faith, morals, devotion, or social discipline, they are generally not infallible pronouncements ex cathedra. I’m still reading and digesting, but a quick skim suggests that this is the biggest thing to drop from the #Vatican in my lifetime. There’s, #AI, there’s transhumanism, there’s social contract, he apologizes for the Church’s blind eye to #slavery, he declared that “just war” is no longer a thing…in a change of policy held since the Crusades. He calls for #OpenSource, he quotes #Tolkien. (I like Da Pope.) There’s a lot. You can read it here. It’s gonna take me a while to map it all out. https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

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ProgressivePower

@ProgressivePower@newsie.social · May 08, 2026

Repair man showed up to the house with a confederate flag on the back of his truck #maga #trump #politics #slavery #confederate

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Palm Oil Detectives

@palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk · May 07, 2026

#Gold #mining kills #indigenous peoples 🩸 forcing women and children into sex #slavery! Help #Yanomami people forced violently from their #rainforest homes for the #greed of gold! 🪙⛔️ #BoycottGold #BoycottGold4Yanomami 🫶🌳@palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk https://wp.me/pcFhgU-8uY?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

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Dragofix

@Dragofix@veganism.social · May 06, 2026

Brazil prosecutors launch suit against meatpacking giant JBS over beef tied to slavery-like labor https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/04/brazil-prosecutors-launch-suit-against-meatpacking-giant-jbs-over-beef-tied-to-slavery-like-labor/ #Brazil #environment #AnimalRights #AnimalAgriculture #JBS #meat #beef #slavery #labor

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Claire McNab

@2legged@mastodon.ie · May 06, 2026

#KemiBadenoch says that the #UK was built on #FossilFuels. But #Ecotricity founder #DaleVince dismisses Bad Enoch's fantasy. He says that the UK was "built on slavery, on racism, on colonialism, on Empire. We abused the rest of the world to be a rich country" Dale Vince is of course entirely right. So his comments should be commonplace and unworthy of sharing. But the UK has never de-imperialised. So Dale is on his own. 😡 #ukpol #BritishEmpire #colonialism #slavery #racism #imperialism

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Steve Woods

@wood5y@mastodonapp.uk · Apr 13, 2026

From The Grauniad letters page. "I am confident that my ancestor William Wilberforce would find the Reform party’s claim that the UK made “huge sacrifices” to end the slave trade both ignorant and tone‑deaf." #UK_Politics #ReformUK 🐸 #racism #slavery https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/12/reform-uk-ugly-response-to-slavery-reparations-claims

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Palm Oil Detectives

@palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 07, 2026

Today is #InternationalWomensDay #IWD. #Gold #mining forces women and children into sex #slavery! Help #Yanomami people forced from their #rainforest homes for the #greed of gold! 🪙⛔️ #BoycottGold #BoycottGold4Yanomami 🫶🌳 @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://wp.me/pcFhgU-8uY?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

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William Lindsey

@wdlindsy@toad.social · Feb 01, 2026

Heather Cox Richardson looks at Stephen Miller's "call for a 'labor class' excluded from citizenship and a voice in government" and explores its close parallels to the call of slaveholding elites in the US prior to the Civil War to defend slavery and uphold a hierarchical, male-dominated white Christian society in which some people have rights and humanity and others are excluded. #StephenMiller #slavery #immigrants /1 https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-31-2026

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