TeddyBelgraveEducation

A popular education project based in Trinidad and Tobago, committed to helping us grasp a better understanding of local, regional and international politics.

[TeddyBelgraveEducation @TeddyBelgrave]

The 1970 Black Power Revolution; A 🧵 (Part 1)

[SARA 𓂆 @saragaza94]

In World War II..

-Denmark surrendered in 6 hours
-Luxembourg one day
-France after 46 days
-Netherlands after 5 days
-Belgium 18 days
-Norway after 62 days
-Poland after 35 days

Gaza has been fighting steadfastly great powers for 300 days.

[TeddyBelgraveEducation @TeddyBelgrave]

@delorisbaugh @RealRenk @JamaicaObserver https://t.co/qdBkIKveVV

[BrianMier @BrianMteleSUR]

This week, Brazil's President Lula wrote off the housing debt of 21 million families who acquired their properties through the Minha Casa Minha Vida social housing program. Families on the Bolsa Familia welfare program no longer have to pay for their housing.

[Hüseyin Dogru (Back-Up) @redstreamnet]

Happy Birthday to the Brazilian Marxist educator and philosopher Paulo Freire! He was known for his influential book Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970), which theorized how oppressed people could be empowered by revolutionary education.

His innovative teaching methods emphasized active student participation and encouraged critical questioning of the teacher. As a result, his students were able to achieve literacy after only 30 hours of lessons.

Freire believed that socialism and Marxism provided a framework for understanding and challenging systems of oppression. He argued that education could be a tool for social change, and teachers should work to create a more equal society.

Despite facing repression and censorship from right-wing forces in Brazil and worldwide, Freire's work inspires educators and activists. At the same time, his vision remains as relevant today as ever in the struggle for social justice.

[Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 Commentary @zhao_dashuai]

Zhu Datong, a Communist Party member about to be executed in 1949 Shanghai.

He's smiling, because he's been told the People's Liberation Army have reached the outskirts of Shanghai.

He knew the revolution has won

More pictures of other martyrs of the revolution
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[TeddyBelgraveEducation @TeddyBelgrave]

While the "West Indies" can be defined according to this description you referenced, in the non-English speaking Islands, it is generally understood to refer to the English-speaking places, especially in the Spanish and Kreyol/French speaking islands.

[Tenille Clarke @tenilleclarke1]

West Indies refers to the geographical arc that extends from Florida to Venezuela - not the simplistic translation you just referenced. I appreciate your implicated point on “West Indian” (there’s room for dialogue there), but “Caribbeans” will never, ever be an acceptable term.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Lady Sarah Forbes Bonetta was orphaned in 1848 when her parents were killed in a slave-hunting war.
In 1850, she was taken to England & presented to Queen Victoria as a “gift”. She became the queen’s goddaughter & a celebrity known for her intelligence.

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[TeddyBelgraveEducation @TeddyBelgrave]

Indentureship are always done in bad faith and usually to serve divisive agendas. However comparisons between the two ought to be done to understand how European imperialism affected both groups, and continues to do so in these modern times.

[TeddyBelgraveEducation @TeddyBelgrave]

The replies to this thread is an unfortunate reflection of the state of our education system, especially as it relates to the origins of so-called "Indentured Servitude" which is itself a European euphemism that masks the reality of Indentureship

[The Cutlass Magazine®️ @cutlassmagazine]

Many disagree on whether we should celebrate the “arrival” as it began a period of immense hardship lasting for generations. We can all agree the “survival” of our ancestors should be recognized. They were brought to replace slavery. Some came willingly, fleeing abuse or poverty.

[TeddyBelgraveEducation @TeddyBelgrave]

Yes Indians "chose" to come here; but just like the refugees of modern times, this isn't a choice they would have otherwise made had there not been any invading European armies. It is unfortunate that the state of our politics often means that comparisons between slavery and

[BreakThrough News @BTnewsroom]

The son of Patrice Lumumba and the daughter of Che Guevara stand together in Caracas, Venezuela to honor Hugo Chavez on the 10th anniversary of his passing.

No matter how hard the Empire tried, they couldn’t assassinate anti-imperialism out of existence. It’s growing again.

[Steven Donziger @SDonziger]

I am gutted that Indigenous leader Eduardo Mendúa of the Cofán – an Amazon nation leading the fight against @Chevron – was just murdered in his village. He was leading a campaign to block new oil wells on his ancestral lands.

I fear this was a political assassination. RIP.💔👊

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

The police chief whose department was responsible for the death of Tyre Nichols, 29, in January, trained with Israeli police in 2013.

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

Israeli police arrest Jewish rabbis for protesting the incarceration of Israeli youth who refuse to serve in Israel's occupation forces.
https://t.co/HuCmowPbY7

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

French protesters clash with police in Paris as over a million people demonstrate against Macron's pension plan.

[Kejan Haynes @KejanHaynes]

The Office of the Prime Minister confirms PM Rowley "began feeling faint" last night after a long night touring pan yards and a long day touring a new facility in Pt Lisas. He's ok now

[CaribbeanNewsNetwork @caribbeannewsuk]

#HAITI: A driver of #Cuba's medical brigade here has been kidnapped by gangsters in Port-au-Prince, the government in Havana said on Tuesday.