FIFA’s broadcast cameras appeared to avoid showing this moment, likely due to rules around political gestures and protests.
But today, Lumumba covered his mouth and mimed a gun to his head in a powerful protest against the silence surrounding the conflict in eastern DR Congo.
One of the world’s most active crises has displaced thousands, and he used the World Cup stage to make sure people could not look away.
This is what true influence looks like. 🇨🇩👏
"Rent is too high!" Because housing is a commodity for profit. Wall Street & corporate landlords hoard properties, driving up prices. Immigrants are tenants, not the landlords.
"Groceries cost too much!" & "Healthcare is too expensive!" Because of corporate profiteering. Giant monopolies like Kroger & Big Pharma jack up prices to enrich shareholders. Immigrants struggle with these costs, as much or more than other people.
"There aren't enough jobs!" & "Welfare spending is through the roof!" Because capitalism benefits from unemployment to keep wages low. The bosses use this to pit workers against each other. Immigrants aren't the ones slashing wages or hoarding wealth.
"Women don't feel safe!" & "Traffic is terrible!" Studies show immigrant communities have lower crime rates. Women don’t feel safe and won’t be safe in a system that protects pedophiles and sex traffickers- like those in the Epstein files. Traffic is a result of failed public infrastructure & car-centric planning, funded by auto & oil giants.
Many problems. One answer: end capitalism before it ends us! The enemy isn't the immigrant. The enemy is the capitalist who exploits and oppress us all.
Stop stupifying the public for your racist agenda and to protect billionaires!
This train station in China cost $7.8 billion to build.
America could have built 4 of these over the last 2 years for under $32 billion, but we decided to send that money to Israel so they could kill a bunch of civilians.
"We will kill you graveyard dead."
Florida Sheriff Wayne Ivey threatened to kill anti-ICE protesters, offering multiple graphic, sadistic descriptions of how police would do it.
Irish fighter Paddy McCorry defeated Israeli Shuki Farage, raised the Palestinian flag, and repeatedly shouted “Free Palestine” inside the cage while beating Shuki who is a soldier in the ‘IDF’.
NEW: Gaza’s "youngest influencer" killed in an Israeli airstrike, according to The Guardian.
The home of 11-year-old Yaqeen Hammad was reportedly hit by heavy airstrikes in central Gaza (Guardian).
Hammad's body was reportedly found under rubble.
Hammad was known for sharing survival tips on her Instagram page as well as distributing supplies to other children.
RIP.
Emmanuel Macron: "We need to strenghten our friendship with Captain Ibrahim Traore, President of Burkina Faso, as we convince him to allow our Military bases in his country"
Ibrahim Traore: "But you're already friends with USA, Britain, Brazil, Canada. Do you have any Military bases in those countries?"
Cuban people on the streets begging: "americans PLEASE stop k*lling us for no reason oh my god we are human beings youre k*lling us"
Live american reaction: 🦗