For anyone wondering about the relatively modern seeming readability and understability of the inscription:
The stone shown in the pictures is the “hunger stone of Tetschen” and is located in modern day Czechia. It bears several inscriptions, the oldest one being from 1616. However the inscription shown in the second picture, that says “ Wenn du mich siehst dann weine” - “if you see me, cry” is considerably younger and was carved only about 100 years ago in the early 20th century.
The developement stage of the german language around the 1600s would be barely understandable and even only slightly recognizable as german for present day german speakers. Also the spelling would probably be very different, “i” would rather be written as “y” for example.
(Though personally I have to disagree on the “barely understandable” part, German from around 1600 is actually fairly understandable when you read it nowadays)
Don’t use Facebook (including Instagram and WhatsApp), Twitter, TikTok, Tumblr, really any social media app or messenger, forum, or even Discord if you are seeking an abortion. Only use things like Signal (assuming it’s still safe) that are heavily point-to-point encrypted.
Tech corporations aren’t your friends, they will rat you out to fascists.
As several people pointed out in the notes already, but don’t trust Signal either. Only communicate through messengers or emailers that allow you to encrypt your messages. If you live near folk that will help you, please only speak to them about it instead and on over any apps.
On this day, 12 August 1887, pioneering Colombian socialist and women’s rights advocate María Cano, known as the “Flor del trabajo” (“Labour flower”), was born in Antioquia. At the time, women in Colombia could not hold most jobs, participate in elections, or even spend their own money.
Cano was from a middle-class family, but came into contact with lots of people regularly at her local library, and began to support people living in poor neighbourhoods. At the age of 38 she became a socialist, and a leading activist in the Socialist Revolutionary Party, which made her the first woman political leader in the country. She toured widely, wrote agitational texts and gave fiery speeches to huge crowds of mining, oil and banana workers. She was placed under police surveillance, repeatedly arrested and security forces occasionally opened fire to disperse her audiences.
Following a strike of banana workers in 1928 which was violently crushed that December, Cano was jailed for conspiracy, despite not having been present. She was subsequently purged from her Party as an “adventurist”, but she continued her outreach work and strike solidarity until the end of her life in 1967. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2056032097915263/?type=3
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