"The #KentStateMassacre, which occurred on May 4, 1970, involved the Ohio #NationalGuard shooting unarmed #CollegeStudents during a #protest against the Vietnam War at Kent State University, resulting in four deaths and nine injuries. This tragic event sparked widespread outrage and led to the largest student strike in U.S. history."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
#USHistory #Histodon
WATCH: For Once Trump Gets It Right
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/24/watch-for-once-trump-gets-it-right/
Robert Scheer discusses Trump’s executive order banning government censorship and a range of free-press matters with Consortium News’ editor in chief Joe Lauria. By Robert Scheer This is the political season to be thankful for small favors of optimism, and…
#Politics #Censorship #CivilRights #Commentary #JulianAssange #NorthKorea #PressFreedom #RobertParry #Russia #Russiagate #Secrecy #SocialMedia #Surveillance #TrumpAdministration #U.s.JusticeDept. #U.s.SupremeCourrt #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #Amazon #Apple #BenjaminNetanyahu #ChrisHedges #CiaWhistleblower #CraigMurray #Democrats #DepartmentOfHomelandSecurity #EdwardSnowden #ElonMusk #ExecutiveOrders #F.b.i. #Facebook #FirstAmendment #GlobalNews #Google #Hamas #HunterBidenLaptop #J.EdgarHoover #JeffBezos #JimmyCarter #JoeLauria #JohnKiriakou #KentStateMassacre #LarryFlint #MarkZuckerberg #MartinLutherKing #MattTaibbi #MichaelShellenberger #NinaJankowicz #OppositionResearch #PalestinianGenocide #Partisanship #PresidentDonaldTrump #Propornot #RichardMedhurst #RobertScheer #RollingStoneMagazine #SteveWitkoff #TheLosAngelesTimes #TheNewYorkPost #TheNewYorkTimes #TheWashingtonPost #Tiktok #TwitterFiles #U.k.TerrorismAct
54 years since the #KentState massacre—and a warning for today - World Socialist Web Site
#KentStateMassacre #CampusProtests #StudentProtests #StudentEncampments
‘Biden’s Vietnam’: #Progressive lawmakers warn not to repeat campus protest history
Students protesting for #Palestinian liberation have also referenced the legacy of student resistance and state crackdowns at inflection points throughout American history.
By Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing
05/04/2024 04:12 PM EDT
"Progressive lawmakers this week compared recent police crackdowns on student anti-war demonstrations to the deadly response to anti-Vietnam War campus protests over 50 years ago, warning the Biden administration not to repeat history.
"In a social media post Saturday, Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) marked the 54th anniversary of the Kent State shootings, when the Ohio National Guard shot and killed four students and injured nine others at an anti-Vietnam War protest. In her post, she compared the historic tragedy to the recent wave of police crackdowns on campuses across the country.
"'On the 54th anniversary of the #KentStateMassacre, students across our country are being brutalized for standing up to #EndlessWar,' Bush wrote. “Our country must learn to actually uphold the rights of #FreeSpeech & assembly upon which it was founded.”
"In a similar post, Rep. #IlhanOmar (D-Minn.) wrote: “54 years ago, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed students at Kent State. Students have a right to speak out, organize, and protest systemic wrongs. We can’t silence those expressing dissent, no matter how uncomfortable their protests may be to those in power.'"
Read more:
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/04/bidens-vietnam-campus-protest-israel-hamas-00156154
#CeasefireNow #Palestine
#Gaza #GazaSolidarity #FreePalestine
On this day, I do not shill for an entertainment property that has been over-milked for capitalistic gain by an already multi-hundred-billion-dollar corporation.
Today, I remember Allison, Bill, Jeff, and Sandy. On this day in 1970, my Alma Mater was senselessly attacked.
Students were gathered to protest a war, when the authorities descended on them. Sound familiar recently?
But this time, after a suspicious huddle By the National Guard troops, live bullets were fired on the students, who were more than a football field’s length away from the troops. Half of those killed were part of the protest; the other half were not - Bill was even in the ROTC program on campus. This attack would become known as the Kent State Massacre. 9 students were wounded, 1 of those paralyzed for life, and as the song says, “Four Dead in Ohio.”
Never forget the lengths government goes to in order to keep us in line, whether it means monitoring our every communication, or firing senselessly into a crowd of unarmed students.
I hope you are resting easily, Jeff, Allison, Bill, and Sandy, and may the gods have blessed your sacrifice in your next lives.
via Wikipedia: "The #KentState shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre and the #KentStateMassacre) were the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State University campus. The shootings took place on May 4, 1970, during a rally opposing the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War into Cambodia by United States military forces as well as protesting the National Guard presence on campus and the draft."
@agiletortoise May 4, 1970 wasn’t that long ago. #kentstatemassacre
What a Vietnam War Riot Says about Today’s Culture Wars youtu.be/AF-G9Iov28M
#trans #LGBTQ #LGBT #GAY #KentStateMassacre #KentState
Today is the anniversary of the #KentStateMassacre, where National Guard troops attempting to quell protests of Nixon's escalation of military action in Cambodia shot into a crowd of students.
I want to share with you a parallel to how #JordanNeely's death is being covered.
