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Patrice Emery Lumumba was born on 2 July 1925, at Onalua village near the Katako-Kombe Town in the Sankuru district of north-eastern Kasai, Congo (modern day the Democratic Republic of Congo). . Lumumba’s tribe was the Batetela (Tetela) which is a dynamic branch of the Mongo-Nkutshu family of central Congo. He grew up in a mud-brick house. The Congo was a colony of Belgium and, as such, he attended both Protestant and Catholic schools run by white Belgian missionaries. Lumumba was intelligent and used to ask too many problematic questions

Lumumba was ambitious and aimed for social mobility, predominantly to form part of the “evolue”, the upper strata of the middle class; the highest-level indigenous Congolese could attain in the Belgian colony. His first employment was at the Postal Office as a postal clerk in Stanleyville City in 1954. However, Lumumba was accused of embezzlement and was jailed in 1955. Due to an extensive interview with King Baudouin, when he visited the Congo in 1955, Lumumba’s sentence was reduced in 1956. Lumumba, after working for almost three years,was appointed as the sales director for a brewery company in Léopoldville (currently known as Kinshasa) in 1957. This is how Lumumba left Stanleyville (currently known as Kisangani) for the Congo's capital city, Kinshasa.

While Lumumba was working in Stanleyville, he joined the Belgian Liberal Political Party. When he relocated to Léopoldville to work at the brewery, he helped to find the Movement National Congolais (MNC) political party. Lumumba's good personality and public speaking skills won him many admirers, making him a focal point within the party. While in prison in 1955, Lumumba reconsidered his status as an evolue and made a major shift towards Pan-Africanism and Congolese nationalism. The notion of nationalism enabled different ethnic groups that made up the Congolese society to come together and fight against colonial economic exploitation, political repression and cultural oppression.

The Belgian led government, in 1959, announced that Congolese local elections should take place within five years to full Congolese independence. At the Luluabourg Congress meeting in April 1959, various political groups and some members of MNC that favoured a unitary form of government for the Congo chose Lumumba to lead them. Within the MNC, however, there were other leaders that considered Lumumba’s views as radical and not good for the nation. It is argued that the result of this difference of opinion, was a split in the MNC party in July 1959 with a majority of the members following Albert Kalonji. Even though Lumumba had left Stanleyville , he was briefly detained on charges of encouraging the outbreak of riots in Stanleyville in November 1959. He was released from detention in time to attend the Round Table Conference in Brussels which paved the way for Congo’s general elections. Lumumba was an effective speaker in each of the Congo's major vehicular languages as well as in French when compared to other Congolese leaders and this helped his campaigning.

After the May 1960 general elections, Congo achieved independence on 30 June 1960 with Lumumba as the leader of the largest single party. He was selected to become the Congo's first prime minister and his political rival, Joseph Kasavubu, became president of the Congo.

As the prime minister, Lumumba faced sudden emergencies.The Congolese elite feared Lumumba’s notion of nationalism and participatory democracy and thus they started revolting against him. The revolt of the army and the secession of the provinces of Katanga and Southern Kasai were further emergencies. Lumumba sent Congolese troops to Southern Kasai province in attempt to restore the situation but the poorly trained soldiers killed thousands of Congolese civilians. The United Nations, through Secretary General Hammerskjöld, blamed Lumumba for the massacre of civilians. Lumumba disliked Belgium and the UN for not helping to restore order and unity in Congo. The Congolese elite conspired with foreign states, specifically the CIA and US administration, to get rid of Lumumba. When Lumumba asked for military help from the Soviet Union against the secessionist provinces of Southern Kasai and Katanga, President Kasavubu dismissed him from office on 5th September 1960. This was the beginning of the end of the political life of Patrice Lumumba. The Congolese National Assembly disagreed with the decision of the president and ordered Lumumba back in power as prime minister. This did not happen since a faction of the Congolese army, under Colonel Mobutu, took over the government instead and put Lumumba under the house arrest under the protection of Ghanaian troops of the UN force. Lumumba managed to get out of the house arrest in Kinshasa and attempted to leave for Stanleyville, but he was arrested by an army patrol and held prisoner in a military camp at Thysville.

From the military camp, Lumumba was transferred to Elisabethville, Katanga on January 18, 1961 despite the presence of United Nations troops, he was picked up by a small group led by Katanga's interior minister, Godefroid Munongo. Lumumba was taken to a nearby house where he was assassinated.

Lumumba's assassination made him a symbol of struggle for champions of African nations' attempts to bond and set themselves free from the influence of the European Colonizers.

Patrice Émery Lumumba - South Africa history online

Why Patrice Lumumba Was a Threat

How the West Destroyed Congo’s Hopes for Independence

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

CW: Meat, Fourth of July

Obviously I hate the Fourth, but ever since I've gotten sober I'll take any excuse I can to get my sober living house together to celebrate us being sober and having queer family with each other. As much as they drive me up a wall often, I do love them. Everybody at the house knows I fucking hate the Fourth, but I have the day off and need something to do with my cooking energy so fuck it we ball

I went to a food bank last week and got some pork butt, stole a few things from work, bought a few small things from the grocery store and we're having a full barbecue tomorrow. I used my work's smoker to smoke the pork, and did a bunch of the other stuff at the work kitchen just because it was easier to do in an industrial kitchen with a big dishwasher. But we'll be having pulled pork, Mac and cheese, coleslaw, baked beans, cheesy broccoli, and homemade fries! When I get paid on Friday I'm gonna see about getting some non-alcoholic beer at the house because I'd really love some for the event, trying to get some queer friends to come over.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Perpetually patching up thigh holes

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

fuuuuuuuuck workeither my one boomer colleague or members of the public are snitching on me/general front desk staff for not Doing the Song and Dance enough - directly after giving me phony ass praise for taking on an extra project, my direct supervisor told me "also, make sure you're not forgetting to say hi to people as they walk into the rec center :) :) :)" (idk if it's really his fault, he probably has limited latitude to just Not Respond to those kinds of customer complaints, but still but still but still)

can we bring the original, actual definition of emotional labor re: service workers/public servants back into public consciousness and destroy the pop psych "oh shit being a good friend or partner is hard sometimes, sorry buddy that's a you problem nayuta-peace" conception of it that's taken over???

career switching to this parks department community service shit sounded real nice on paper (serving the collective good!! no (direct) profit motive!!) but goddam do i fucking hate the american public & their expectation that just because you're in a public-facing position you become some wholly servile wretch rather than just a motherfucker who's there to do a job for a wage.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Does Trump have a petty beef with the Smithsonian? Why did they sneak moving the space shuttle out of the air and space museum into the budget bill.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Texas senators wanted it to be moved to Houston

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

adhd posting, horrors of amerikan healthcare (but also honest question, need advice)dystopian as it is have any of my adhd brethren had luck using medfinder during shortages? paying 50 bones for the privilege of just finding a place that has medicine that lets you function is obviously degrading and humiliating but ive blown more money than that on lame nights out drinking and my lock-in pills actually help me be a full human being and shit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Never heard of it, although idk if I'm extraordinarily lucky or if my med and dosage is just less common or what but I've never had to wait more than a week for the pharmacy I use to get more in when they run out.

Iirc you're taking Vyvanse right? Have you tried generic Adderall extended release (label on the bottle calls it 'D-Amphetamine ER Salt Combo CP')? Might be worth asking your doc if you can try it and see if that's easier to get filled. Idr if you tried a few different stims or not.

I believe it should also be cheaper than Vyvanse unless there's a generic for that now

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express scripts has my adhd meds in stock but because my pharmacy insurance is a competitor to express scripts i cannot use express scripts and my insurance's mail-service pharmacy does not have my meds but will get them in the third week of july so if i send a script to them i get the honor of being allowed on their waitlist and and and an eviscerated

fuckin-deserve dean-neutral (<--- the DEA if that wasn't clear)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

i don't really even know what this stuff is but i've been smearing big globs of it on bread and eating it and holy FUCK it's addictingly delicious wtf

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

fain-cool Mad Max? Like zombies, fighting in the desert? I dont get it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Stop procrastinating reading, me... luffy-exhausted

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

But I'm behind on Capital marx-doomer

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

if having my mental breakdowns on here isn't ok please ban me thanks

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

What’s with all the hype for that Kat girl running for congress? She doesn’t really seem particularly progressive and “both sides” the Iran-Israel conflict. Is it just because she’s young and says vaguely progressive sounding things?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

The libs need someone to believe in. Idk I've never heard of this person

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Having a hard time writing a response to this person when I need to keep it professional but also tell them hey half the shit you just said is just blatantly incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

some kind of rat or mouse knawed a hole in my bathroom ceiling doggirl-gloom

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Sorry, someone gave me bad directions. I was trying to get to your cheese cellar

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

I was hungry vivian-shrug

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

I posted here about being hired at UPS, but I got screwed. The job posting and every email I got said it was a permanent position. When I show up for orientation they tell me it's not permanent, it's seasonal.

Since I only wanted the job because it was union with good benefits, I left. Seasonal work doesn't count towards seniority or the probationary period before you join the union.

I talked to a UPS employee who pointed out that they aren't allowed to hire non-union positions except during the holiday season. But I'd basically have to take the job and hope I get my 30 days before the holiday, then file a grievance and hope it's possible, since I wouldn't be union yet and the contract doesn't make clear if you can grieve that.

Sucks, but I'm making much more money doing gig work now, so I guess I can keep doing it and try again when a position opens. They're really overstaffed at UPS because they closed a bunch of locations so people are transferring.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

what's some cool shit to do in denver? I'm going there in a few weeks for a thing, but I'm kinda thinking of extending the trip into a mini vacation. I'm effectively going alone and don't already know anyone in the area.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

The art museum is really fun if you're into that

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Probably nature. There will be bright clear sunny skies in the 80s. Go bag a fourteener or do a river float.

When I want to explore a town, I usually look for where the vegan restaurants and punk venues are, and then base my destinations from whatever neighborhood has the best density of that stuff

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Wish I had some weed right now damn do I want to smoke some weed right now

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Stop Killing Games Initiative Reaches 1,000,000 Signatures

To the delight of gamers and video game preservation enthusiasts worldwide, YouTuber Ross Scott's Stop Killing Games petition has finally reached 1,000,000 signatures after gaining enormous momentum over the past few days and breaking several hundred-thousand milestones at breakneck speed.

For context, the appeal was directed at the European Commission, which is required to address any petition that reaches 1 million signatures. The campaign challenges the practice of video game developers delisting and discontinuing games at will without issuing refunds to the players or at the very least preserving the titles as single-player experiences that wouldn't entail any server hosting-related costs.

With the petition now boasting the coveted million, Ross will have the opportunity to present the initiative to the European Commission and speak at a public hearing in the European Parliament, thus greatly increasing the chances of the movement's core objective – forcing game studios to leave games in a playable state – becoming law in the EU.

"The site says we have cleared 1 million signatures! I hate being like this, but there's a chance a significant number of them aren't real. That means we have to keep signing in overdrive mode to make up for them! I'll have a video on this later today." - Ross

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:

I shall now bake a blueberry pie.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Got some cinnamon raisin bagels. Gonna use them for peanut butter banana sandwich breakfasts >=]

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Just found out that "the world's poorest president", Jose Mujica from Uruguay, was an avowed Marxist guerrilla who was tortured and imprisoned for 14 years during the military dictatorship years. I first heard about him when Reddit fawned over him donating his presidential salary and driving his '87 vw beetle from his farm to work every day. Somehow they didn't mention how his ideological beliefs made him such a down to earth guy. He died a few months ago. Rip to a real one lenin-sleeping

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

saw that i got a call from a friend on discord whom i was supposed to play elden ring nightreign with today while i was on the go and wrote to him that i'd be there in fifteen minutes, only to see when i got home that he is already playing with two other friends, one of whom clearly said he couldn't play today and the other one i don't know. this friend knows that i feel lonely and that i dont have anything to do today. fuck my life

where do i find other better friends also i might have a slight very boring case of borderline personality disorder and want to die

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

I live in a town with more hair salons than people but when I need a haircut at 4:30 pm everything is either closed or appointment only wtf

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Every time I blink Gareth Reynolds has a new podcast

I'll listen to all of them though tbh

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Having a bad mental health day, and then a broccolihead almost slams at me full speed on an e-scooter and yells at me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Lemon-lime flavor is a child's soda

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

sophisticated limoncello enjoyers queen-ohoho

kelly

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

more like a boomer soda. kids love all those wacky flavors

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

it is july 3 and stalin saved the world from fascism

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