Anonymous asked: Those photos confirm that horses were the first terrestrial life. They were the first vertebrates to leave the primordial oceans and walk on land.
On this day, 26 October 1881 communist Indigenous activist Dolores Cacuango was born in Ecuador to a family of poor hacienda workers. She ran away from her family to Quito, where she got a job as a maid, learned Spanish and gradually became radicalised. Cacuango moved back to her home town to help organise with the working class to improve their conditions. A liberal revolution took place in 1916, which claimed it would give back land stolen from Indigenous people by big landowners and the Church. But the promises of the new government were largely unmet, and poor campesinos continued to be largely landless and ruthlessly exploited. Cacuango took part in the landless and Indigenous movements, and strongly advocated for women’s rights and campaigned against the endemic sexual of abuse of Indigenous women by hacienda bosses, becoming famed for her fiery speeches in Spanish and Kichwa. She took part in various uprisings and strikes, became a leading member of the Communist Party, co-founded the Indigenous Ecuadorian Federation in 1944 and lived until the age of 89.
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Voter suppression is on the rise. Again. And unsurprisingly, it’s Republicans who are doing it.
I would like to point out that, this isn’t Russia doing this. It isn’t China. These aren’t Russian bots. These are Republican politicians and the disproportionately whitevoters who very reliably support their draconian policies.
In the 2016 election Republican legislators enacted racist voter ID laws, then they closed down driver’s license offices near black communities so that the required ID was harder to get, they closed down record numbers of polling places in black neighborhoods, they used the Supreme Court to gut the Voting Rights Act, they purged thousands of eligible, legally registered black people from voter rolls, they used gerrymandering to dilute the vote of black people, and Republicans continue to use mass incarceration as another indirect means of voter suppression.
