Lumumba – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org Produce less. Distribute it fairly. Create a greener world for all. Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:48:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.greensocialthought.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-ggef_logo_small-1-32x32.png Lumumba – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org 32 32 Good Panther, Bad Panther https://www.greensocialthought.org/biodiversity-biodevastation/good-panther-bad-panther/ Sat, 31 Mar 2018 15:17:34 +0000 https://gst.riz-om.network/reprint/good-panther-bad-panther/ by Paul Street

The latest Marvel Comics science-fiction movie “Black Panther” is stealth ruling-class propaganda, consistent with its production by the great manufactory of mass consent that is the American corporate entertainment complex. Did you expect something different? If so, why?]]> by Paul Street

The latest Marvel Comics science-fiction movie “Black Panther” is stealth ruling-class propaganda, consistent with its production by the great manufactory of mass consent that is the American corporate entertainment complex.

Did you expect something different? If so, why?

]]> A Revolutionary Speech: Patrice Lumumba and the Birth of the Republic of Congo https://www.greensocialthought.org/biodiversity-biodevastation/revolutionary-speech-patrice-lumumba-and-birth-republic-congo/ Thu, 02 Jun 2016 15:56:50 +0000 https://gst.riz-om.network/reprint/revolutionary-speech-patrice-lumumba-and-birth-republic-congo/ by Ludo de Witte

A Revolutionary Speech: Patrice Lumumba and the Birth of the Republic of Congo by Ludo de Witte Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese independence leader and first democratically elected Prime Minister, was executed 55 years ago on 17th January, 1961. He had been beated and tortured in a culmination of two assassination plots by the Belgian government and the CIA, ordered directly by President Dwight Eisenhower to ‘eliminate’ the charismatic leader, with the cooperation of British intelligence and Katangan authorities.  Just months before his deposition in a coup, Lumumba had delivered a powerful speech declaring the independence of the Republic of Congo and speaking eloquently about the struggle against racism and colonization, “an indispensable struggle to […]]]> by Ludo de Witte

A Revolutionary Speech: Patrice Lumumba and the Birth of the Republic of Congo

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Patrice Lumumba, the Congolese independence leader and first democratically elected Prime Minister, was executed 55 years ago on 17th January, 1961. He had been beated and tortured in a culmination of two assassination plots by the Belgian government and the CIA, ordered directly by President Dwight Eisenhower to ‘eliminate’ the charismatic leader, with the cooperation of British intelligence and Katangan authorities. 

Just months before his deposition in a coup, Lumumba had delivered a powerful speech declaring the independence of the Republic of Congo and speaking eloquently about the struggle against racism and colonization, “an indispensable struggle to put an end to the humiliating slavery which was imposed on us by force.”

 


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