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equiteesorg · 8 days

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#free congo #help congo #congo genocide #congo crisis #democratic republic of the congo #dr congo #save congo #congolese #congolaise #congo #humanity #human rights

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troythecatfish · 16 days

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going-to-superhell · 18 days

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#free congo #congo genocide #help congo #congo #democratic republic of the congo #save congo #congo crisis

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alwaysbewoke · 4 months

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As we are inundated daily on social media with receipts of savagery perpetrated against Palestinian people, let us also amplify the voices of the unheard persecuted people of the #Sudan #DRC #Congo #Rwanda. Listen now to @poet_ktwo in his own words. Power to the people. #weoutchea #gullah #geechee refugees_easthorn @refugees

#Sudan #DRC #Congo #Rwanda #Stand With Sudan #DRC Struggles #Congo Crisis #Rwanda Resilience #Listen To Survivors #Human Rights Heroes #Global Solidarity #Refugees East Horn\

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addthespaghetti · 1 month

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if you are purposefully ignorant about the genocide happening to the people in palestine and congo, fuck you. seriously fuck you. we are living through a time where we have all of the information of the world at our fingertips and you still choose to purposely ignorant and support the oppressor, the colonizers.

i’m tired of trying to educate ignorant people and getting called chronically online because i care about the innocent people getting murdered. if you are purposely ignorant, you are just as bad as the people committing the atrocities happening in gaza and congo.

free palestine 🇵🇸

free congo 🇨🇩

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imjusthereforthegayness · 1 month

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Don’t stop talking. @amahlamusic

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bobmorane · 2 months

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Congo 64' Guns for Hire

#Warwave #Congo Crisis #Cold war

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dazedasian · 15 days

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VERY IMPORTANT VIDEO!! if you can’t watch it rn, please save it by liking for later..

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the-muse-of-not-writing · 21 days

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just a reminder that Congo is still suffering. 7 million people are internally displaced because of violence, extreme poverty and mining expansions for cobalt, the stuff running all our technology. the people that have to work in the mines are under horrible conditions and aren't being treated any better.

Pappy Orion on TikTok is currently working in Congo to help people there. He has a charity and a online form you can fill out to volunteer for work.

#free congo #human rights #congo crisis #eyes on congo #save congo

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dag-hammarskjold · 28 days

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I cannot believe it, I found the Hammarskjold movie

I really enjoyed it, it is about everything I would ask for

Thoughts under the read more, will include spoilers

I really like the direction, the dichotomy between Hammarskjold the Secretary-General and Dag the person. I see why some wanted more focus on the crisis itself, but I actually think the crisis is not that relevant to him, as the subject of the movie. And given the almost 2 hour run time already, I think it was the right decision.

I cannot talk about the dichotomy between Secretary-General and man without talking about Peter. I remember reading that the director added Peter as a stand-in for him, as a voice to which he said what he wanted to Dag. I definitely see that, but his sub-plot with Dag was so good it is barely noticeable. (And I respect the rpf self insert shipping 😂)

In the movie, Dag and Peter knew each other since University, but were estranged after Peter tried to kiss him on a camping trip. It’s almost like a romcom setup - the love interest reappears into the protagonist’s life in a time of turmoil and uncertainty, reigniting feelings the protagonist long repressed. In the past, Peter even gave him a gift - a statue of a unicorn - something Dag would later use in Markings to describe himself.

The conflict within Dag is so palpable. When Dag was told Peter had previously been found guilty of homosexuality in Sweden, the first thing he asked was if anyone else knew. When he rejected Peter for the second time, Greenback his pet monkey and sole companion died almost simultaneously… the parallel writes itself doesn’t it?

The Congo crisis itself was probably the weaker part of the movie, and I am fine with it. It quietly builds up in the background, and ends almost just as unsatisfyingly quiet. Because there is no fight at the climax, this is not a 3-arc narrative where everything is resolved, not even like the more well-known crises in the Cold War where everything ended generally better than it started, the crisis continued on for years, if not till modern day. Hammarskjold died, and the movie ends with him. I would suggest watching a different movie if you want to focus on the events of the crisis.

It somewhat reminds me of reading about the crisis in real life: you know what it is from the start, there is no gallant fight, you watch them walk away less hurt than the good people, you watch them win using all the dirty tricks, you know it doesn’t matter that the pilot who shot his plane down had tears in his eyes, you know how it ends.

Most other characters are relatively one-note, and I think it fits. Dag was a lonely, perhaps very repressed man. I think on some level he was afraid of being known so intimately, the way Peter did, and thus he keeps most people (that he didn’t know prior to being at the UN) at arm’s length.

The use of quotes from Markings were also well-chosen and well-timed. I could almost recite them by heart, and they fit very well into the plot. The movie does a really good job making you want to see Dag happy - in a cottage near his friends, back home in Sweden, no stressful job, and perhaps love. When Peter sent him a letter telling Dag that he had a right to be happy too, and Dag replied that Peter would be welcome when his term ended, it hurts ever more knowing it was too late.

I previously said this movie was my Oppenheimer, but that isn’t entirely accurate now, I suppose. Oppenheimer was a deeply polarising individual - the father of the atomic bomb - the movie must balance between his point of view and addressing the reality/horrors of him and his creation.

But Hammarskjold does not have this baggage - he is still by a wide margin considered the best Secretary-General of the UN, remembered universally positively. For once, Hammarskjold didn’t have to be the image of an impossibly perfect Secretary-General, he can be Dag. And I think he has more than earned it.

If this movie is all that the world will ever learn about Dag Hammarskjold, I would be satisfied. I would rank this a 10/10, but I am very easily satisfied by movies.

(If I got anything wrong, it’s probably because the version I watched had a dub in a language I do not speak, and subtitles that were not in sync with the movie)

#dag hammarskjold #united nations #hammarskjold (2023)#hammarskjold fight for peace #congo crisis

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captain-price-unofficially · 5 months

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The Congolese army and mercenary column advancing towards Stanleyville, 28 Nov 1964

#congo crisis #cold war #november

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troythecatfish · 1 month

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divinationdrawings · 5 months

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If you have a cell phone, you might be carrying a piece of the Congo, which is in crisis. Donate your time by spreading awareness! Donate relief with the IRC link or another charity, I would love to know if anyone has a particular favorite NGO charity to promote for the Congo!

#ngo donation #ngo #congo #free congo #congo crisis #congo genocide #democratic republic of the congo #dr congo #the congo #activism #activist art #political art #neocolonialism #cell phone #charity #donations #fundraising #crowdfunding #raise awareness

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enig-og-tro · 3 months

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#war #aesthetic #congo crisis

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bonesashesglass · 23 days

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Don’t stop talking about Congo 🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩

#free congo #Congo #save Congo #congo genocide #help congo #democratic republic of the congo #congo crisis #don’t stop talking about Congo #human rights #activism #social activism #social justice

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fuzzythememe · 2 months

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https://twitter.com/africansinnews/status/1764017964821467256

#mutual aid #important #urgent #emergency #please spread #please help #help #free palestine #donations #free congo #congo genocide #congo crisis

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