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   wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 19:17:27 JST wet forest moon folklorist

   the woman who was killed for flying a rainbow flag was named Laura Ann Carleton. I just want to remember her name

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     Loukas Christodoulou (loukas@mastodon.nu)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 19:17:25 JST Loukas Christodoulou

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     @seachanger something I've noticed about successful resistance movements is they constantly celebrate and remember their martyrs. They don't keep sharing the face of the people who are oppressing them, they share the faces of those they have lost.

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     inquiline (inquiline@union.place)'s status on Friday, 25-Aug-2023 19:17:30 JST inquiline

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     • Loukas Christodoulou

     @seachanger ufff, just watching trump's mugshot float by for the 600th time, the significance of @Loukas's post just sunk in further

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     Kermode (gemlog@tilde.zone)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 08:50:10 JST Kermode

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     • GeofCox

     Norman R. Morrison (December 29, 1933 – November 2, 1965) was an American anti-war activist. On November 2, 1965, Morrison doused himself in kerosene and set himself on fire below the office of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at the Pentagon, to protest United States involvement in the Vietnam War.

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     GeofCox (geofcox@climatejustice.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 08:50:12 JST GeofCox

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     @seachanger

     A lifetime ago, as a small boy, I read about a man in America that set himself alight on the steps of the Pentagon, in protest against the Vietnam war. I vowed to remember him - and his name, Norman Morrison, has been with me ever since.