Translation:
Palestine Liberation Organization
We are all for the resistance
From the Palestinian National Covenant - Article 26
The Palestine Liberation Organization, representative of the Palestinian revolutionary forces, is responsible for the Palestinian Arab people's movement in its struggle - to retrieve its homeland, liberate and return to it and exercise the right to self-determination in it - in all military, political, and financial fields and also for whatever may be required by the Palestine case on the inter-Arab and international levels.
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was established in 1964 and has been the embodiment of the Palestinian national movement. It is a broad national front, or an umbrella organization, comprised of numerous organizations of the resistance movement, political parties, popular organizations, and independent personalities and figures from all sectors of life. The Arab Summit in 1974 recognized the PLO as the “sole and legitimate representative of the Palestinian people” and since then the PLO has represented Palestine at the United Nations, the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries (NAM), the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), and in many other fora. In addition to its broad national and political goals, the PLO has dealt with numerous tasks with regard to the life of the Palestinian people in their main communities and throughout the world through the establishment of several institutions in such realms as health, education and social services. As such, the PLO is more than a national liberation movement striving to achieve the national goals of the Palestinian people, including the independence of the State of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital.
PLO: History of a Revolution - Episode 1 - 13 Jul 09
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One thing I've been thinking about lately is how we talk about Nat Turner.
He was a religious fundamentalist and holy warrior.
He killed aristocratic white families indiscriminately.
But the thing we remember him for was his resistance to slavery, not the other details.
So my question to the audience is: Do you condemn Nat Turner's terrorism?
I think about this a lot with John Brown. I don't know if we would have gotten along, per se.
Dude was fucking wild. I've skimmed his planned constitution for a nation, and two things stood out to me:
It was an outrageous Calvinist theocracy, and
It was still ~~substantially~~ tremendously better overall than the US constitution
I think you're already headed to this point, but Nat Turner's "baby killing" was a crucial propaganda point hammered repeatedly by antebellum slavers
I always wondered whether it was true. I didn't care, but empire always lies
Afaik, it happened. It's been like a decade+, but I have a memory of reading nat's testimony, describing killing the child of the slavemasters in his sleep because the child had become his owner when he killed the parents.
History is like poetry....
Not a chance in hell would I condemn him. I don't call for the deaths of slavers' children, but more importantly I'm not about to criticize the strategy of people who were treated as chattel seeking liberation. Any and all possible excesses on their part are the fault of the slavers