Tag: Assassination

Well, Hell’s Bells. It’s An Assassination.

I wish peace and comfort to those who love him, and I hope his workplaces treat his family right financially.

Trump Ally Charlie Kirk Shot and Killed Shortly After Discussing Trans Mass Shooters

The co-founder of Turning Point USA was launching a tour with a stop at Utah Valley University.

Charlie Kirk, a far-right agitator and political activist, was shot and killed on Wednesday according to video of the incident and confirmation by Andrew Kolvet, Kirk’s spokesman.

“The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead,” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social. “No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie.”

Kirk, who has built a following engaging in debates on college campuses around various political and social issues, was shot at Utah Valley University. Kirk, who is the executive director of Turning Point USA, was there to launch The American Comeback Tour at the school.

“Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?” an audience member asked Kirk, who was sitting under a tent, according to a video of the event. Kirk often hosts his events under a tent in the campus quad.

“Too many,” Kirk responded. Though the conversation continued, moments later a gunshot can be heard in video footage and Kirk slumps in his seat. The exchange occurred about two minutes into the event, according to Deseret News.

No suspect is in custody according to a spokesperson from the university. Following the shooting, UVU advised students on campus to “secure in place until police officers can escort you safely off campus.” The roads to the campus were also closed. (snip-MORE)

https://www.them.us/story/charlie-kirk-shot-killed-trans-turning-point-trump

Peace & Justice History for 12/4

(The third entry makes me giggle.)

December 4, 1833
The American Anti-Slavery Society was formed by Arthur Tappan in Philadelphia. He and his brother Lewis had been active abolitionists throughout their lives, including providing legal defense for the Africans who mutinied on the slave ship Amistad.

Arthur Tappan
The Anti-Slavery Society produced The Slave’s Friend, a monthly pamphlet of Christian and abolitionist poems, songs, and stories for children. In its pages, young readers were encouraged to collect money for the anti-slavery cause.
December 4, 1916
Five members of a women’s suffrage group unrolled a banner from the visitor’s gallery during President Wilson’s annual message (state of the union) to Congress, asking, “Mr. President, What will you do for woman suffrage?” There was no mention of the issue in his speech.

Wilson and suffrage 
December 4, 1969

President Richard Nixon
President Richard Nixon, Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew and 40 U.S. governors embarked on a fact-finding mission to discover the causes of the generation gap. They viewed films of “simulated acid trips” and listened to hours of “anti-establishment rock music.”

Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew
December 4, 1969

Fred Hampton
Black Panther party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police officers with cooperation from the FBI.
Hampton had founded the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party at the age of 20. He led in establishing the Breakfast for Children program and a free health clinic on the west side of the City. A main purpose of the Panthers was to resist police violence. One of Hampton’s achievements was to persuade Chicago’s most powerful street gangs to agree on a non-aggression pact. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, however, considered the Panthers as “the greatest threat to the internal security of the country.” The Panther party headquarters had been raided three times with over 100 members arrested. The Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Frank Church (D-Idaho), revealed in 1976 that William O’Neal, Hampton’s bodyguard, was an FBI informant who had delivered an apartment floor-plan to the Bureau with an “X” marking the bed where Hampton died. About 100 shots were fired by the police, just one from the building. The survivors, including Deborah Johnson, Hampton’s pregnant girlfriend, were arrested and charged with attempting to murder the police.
“You can kill a revolutionary, but you can’t kill a revolution!” – Fred Hampton

Chicago police remove the body of Fred Hampton, slain by police on Chicago’s west side, Dec 4, 1969
Remembrance by someone who worked with Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton
December 4, 1970
Cesar Chavez was sentenced to 20 days in jail for refusing to call off the United Farm Workers’ consumer boycott of Bud Antle, Inc., the country’s second largest lettuce grower. Antle had signed a contract with Teamsters Local 890 though only 5% of the workers voted to ratify it. Nor had there ever been an election for the workers to choose a union to represent them. The boycott had been called to pressure Antle to negotiate with the Farm Workers.
 
Lettuce & Grape boycott poster
UFW chronology  About the boycott  About Cesar Chavez for students

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorydecember.htm#december4

Peace & Justice History for 11/22:

November 22, 1909

In New York City, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union went on strike against sweatshop conditions in what became known as the “Uprising of the 20,000” and the “Girl’s Revolt.”
The strikers won the support of other workers and the women’s suffrage movement for their persistence and unity in the face of police brutality and biased courts. A judge told arrested pickets: “You are on strike against God.” This was the first mass strike by women in the U.S.
ILGWU timeline 
November 22, 1963
President John F. Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas during a motorcade.
Vice President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as president within hours.
November 22, 1968

What is believed to be the first interracial kiss on U.S. broadcast television occurred in an episode of Star Trek between William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols.
More about this kiss 
November 22, 1998
7,000 marched on the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas (SOA) at Fort Benning, outside Columbus, Georgia.They were protesting the school’s training of Latin American soldiers and other security personnel who return to their countries and are involved in violence and oppression of their populations. 2,319 people were arrested for trespassing.
Protests at the School of the Americas, organized by SOA Watch, occur every November. The school is now known by the U.S. Army as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.

2002 protest at SOA
Visit School of the Americas watch.

https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorynovember.htm#november22