Michael Herbert

Another child set for execution in Occupied Iran. Taha Alimirzaei is 17. He knows he's about to be executed — because he wants a Free Iran. He saw how the world fought to "Free Palestine." Do you think he knows the world can't be bothered to fight for him?

PATRICK TROUGHTON #BOTD 1920 Doctor Who 1966-69 72-73 83 85 Jason & the Argonauts -The Omen Scars of Dracula - Treasure Island Phantom of the Opera - The Gorgon Sinbad & the Eye of the Tiger - Hamlet Frankenstein & the Monster From Hell A Family at War -The Saint -The Sweeney

How do you tell the world they’re preparing to execute a child? He is only 16 #AlirezaMasnoo 💔 Sixty days in custody. Sixty days of torture. Until a child is forced to confess. Now they call it “moharebeh.” Now they prepare the rope! 😭 Sixteen… An age for school, for dreams, for life; not for a noose. If we stay silent, they won’t just take his voice… they will take his life!😭😭 Say his name before it’s too late. 🕊️ #DigitalBlackOutIran‌ #KingRezaPahlavi‌ForIran

When Dorothy Height showed up at Barnard College in 1929 with her admission letter in hand, a dean looked at her and told her they had already reached their quota of "two Negro students per year." Height had just graduated with honors from an integrated high school in Rankin, Pennsylvania, a small steel town outside Pittsburgh. She had won a national oratorical contest and a $1,000 scholarship. None of it mattered. "It was such a shock to me," she later recalled. "I never thought there would be a racial quota. I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep for days." Unwilling to give up on her dreams, she walked into New York University with her Barnard acceptance letter in hand -- and they admitted her on the spot. She earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees in four years. Years later, Height said the rejection at Barnard taught her the most important lesson of her life: "That there is no advantage in bitterness, that I needed to go into action, which is something I have tried to follow since." Born on this day in 1912, Dorothy Height would become what President Barack Obama called "the godmother of the Civil Rights Movement," observing that she was "the only woman at the highest level of the Civil Rights Movement -- witnessing every march and milestone along the way." Yet for decades, sexism ensured that her name was rarely mentioned alongside the men she worked beside as an equal. In 1933, Height graduated from NYU with a master's degree in educational psychology and began working as a caseworker with the New York City Welfare Department. But it was a chance encounter four years later, in 1937, that set her on the path of her life's work. The 25-year-old Height was assigned to escort First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt into a meeting of the National Council of Negro Women. The organization's founder, the legendary Mary McLeod Bethune -- the daughter of former slaves who had built a college for Black women and become one of the most powerful figures of the New Deal era -- noticed the young woman's poise and ability. "What is your name?" Bethune asked. "Dorothy Height," she whispered. "We need you," Bethune said. By the time Height returned from walking Roosevelt to her car, Bethune had already appointed her to a committee. "On that fall day," Height later wrote in her memoir, "the redoubtable Mary McLeod Bethune put her hand on me. She drew me into her dazzling orbit of people in power and people in poverty." Height joined Bethune's crusade to end poll taxes, lynching, and unfair employment practices. "I don't think that outside of my mother and my church," she reflected, "there's been anything of greater influence than Mary McLeod Bethune." In 1957, two years after Bethune's death, Height was named president of the National Council of Negro Women -- a position she would hold for the next forty years. She advised presidents from Eisenhower to Obama, pushing Eisenhower on desegregating schools and Johnson on appointing Black women to government positions. And she became the only woman working directly alongside the leaders who would come to be known as the "Big Six" of the Civil Rights Movement: Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, James Farmer, Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young. On August 28, 1963, Height sat an arm's length from King as he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington. But she was not allowed to speak. Height had helped organize the march. She mobilized thousands of women volunteers and arranged transportation. When it came time to set the program, the male leaders refused to include a single woman as a speaker. Height pushed back. #archaeohistories

@bibutatwhatcost I see. Does it occur to you that it is possible to feel empathy with girls who are relieved their boundaries and privacy are more secure and they no longer have to pretend that a boy can be a girl?

@PulpLibrarian Much prefer the 70s series...

Van Der Valk (1972-77 and 1991-92). This is the 1991 opening credit sequence. Nicolas Freeling had published nine crime novels featuring Amsterdam detective Piet van der Valk by the time Thames TV decided to make a show about their lead character in 1972. Barry Foster took the title role, with extensive location filming and a thumping theme song that became an unlikely No. 1 hit in the UK pop charts in 1973. It's quite a tough minded show, with many complex cases and excellent supporting cast. Thames TV brought Foster back in 1991 for another two series, possibly inspired by the success of Central TVs Inspector Morse. A reboot in 2020 was made by Company Pictures starring Marc Warren. There's also been various films and mini-series made over the years as well as a number of radio dramas. Alas the same can't be said of fellow fictional Amsterdam cops Grijpstra and De Gier. Janwillem Van De Wetering's crime novels were made into a 1979 movie with Rutger Hauer and Rijk de Gooyer, but we're still awaiting their arrival on the small screen.

17 year old anti-fascist resistance fighter Albina Mali-Hočevar in 1942.... Albina Mali-Hočevar joined the anti-fascist underground in what is now Slovenia, then under Axis occupation. Like many teenagers drawn into resistance networks, she served as a courier, lookout, and organizer, roles that demanded nerve as much as strength. Capture meant imprisonment, torture, or execution, not just for fighters, but often for their families. Across Yugoslavia, the resistance became one of the largest in occupied Europe, with an estimated 800,000 people involved by the war’s end. Women made up roughly 20–25% of its ranks, an unusually high figure for World War II, serving not only as support but as armed combatants and commanders. Youth participation was common. Teenagers could move more freely, arousing less suspicion, yet they faced the same mortal risks. Many, like Albina, survived only by constant movement and silence. After the war, survivors were honored in socialist Yugoslavia as symbols of sacrifice and unity, though individual stories often faded outside their regions. Albina later became a teacher, spending her postwar life educating children—choosing creation over conflict after surviving one of Europe’s darkest chapters. Albina was wounded during the war by shrapnel/explosive fragments, which caused permanent damage to one eye and left facial scarring. © History Pictures #drthehistories

‼️‼️‼️‼️MELIKA AZIZI HAS NOT BEEN HANGED ! Stop sharing this news, this is putting her life in danger! She is still in prison, and her family confirms they have spoken to her. She may be granted release on bail. If no Iranian opposition media confirms the death of one of our young people, do not share it! This puts them in danger! Vidéo : Alekmgr on Instagram

🚨 FALSE ALARM: Melika Azizi has NOT been executed. If you shared this news, please delete your posts. Spreading fake execution rumors only helps the Islamic Republic. It distracts the world, discredits real reports, and puts the actual political prisoners currently facing the gallows at even greater risk. Our credibility is our strongest weapon against this terror state. Please verify the source before you share!

Yesterday, on the eve of the Iranian New Year (Nowruz), the Islamic Republic hanged five teenagers who had been detained during the January protests in the cities of Qom and Ilam. Today, 18-year-old Melika Azizi from the city of Rasht, who was arrested for burning regime symbols during the protests, faces imminent execution in Rasht prison on the charge of Moharebeh (waging war against Allah). #IranMassacre‌ won't stop!

18-year-old Melika Azizi has been executed by the Islamic Regime in Iran under the charge of being an "Enemy of God" (Moharebeh). She was violently arrested during the nationwide January protests in the city of Masal, Gilan Province of Iran, following her participation in protests against the Islamic Regime. Melika was held in Lakan Prison in Rasht, where she was subjected to physical abuse and denied contact with her family, who also faced pressure by the Islamic regime's security forces. Rest in Peace, Melika 🙏💔

House by a lake with blue mountains, 1933–35 by German Expressionist painter Gabriele Münter #Womensart

Awful, heartbreaking, unacceptable We’ve just been at the funeral of two young volunteer paramedics in southern Lebanon - killed in a direct Israeli strike… one was only 16 years old They were killed whilst wearing their full kit according to witnesses - returning from the scene of an earlier strike The deliberate targeting of healthcare workers is a war crime but Israel has killed dozens here in recent weeks (and many more in 2024 and in Gaza)

Day 482 of the Nonstop Protests in Georgia! 🇬🇪

25 March 1911. 146 garment workers (124 women and 23 men) were killed in a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. It was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city and one of the deadliest in US history.

#OnThisDay in welfare history, 1723: the Workhouse Test Act or Poor Relief Act comes into force, bringing into English law the use of workhouses to contain poor & destitute people seeking welfare… More here: workhouses.org.uk/poorlaws/1723i… Full text of the Act: workhouses.org.uk/poorlaws/1723a…

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Be more Jessie! One of the few known working-class Scottish suffragettes 💪💜 Jessie Stephen grew up in Maryhill, Glasgow and worked as a domestic servant in her youth. Jessie dedicated her life to championing workers’ rights and women’s suffrage. She became a powerful voice for social change. Although a fearless campaigner for women’s rights, her activism extended beyond this. She had a lifelong political career as a trade unionist, councillor, and advocate for equality. Jessie’s life was celebrated in an exhibition held last year at Maryhill Burgh Halls. #ScottishWomen #WomenOScotland

@DuncanLindsay It's common sense that boys should not be in the Girl Guides. Single sex spaces are vital for women and girls. The blames lies with so-called trans activists for giving misleading advice on the Equality Act which the Supreme Court has rectified, rightly.

Can't stop thinking about how shameful and hateful this is Bending to the baying mob when this will impact just a handful of hurt and confused children plus their friends who enjoy having them there Kids suffer for adults' bigotry yet again

Explaining why Girl Guides are for girls only on @TimesRadio last night:

Days in the sun... Patrick Troughton, born #OTD in 1920, photographed for @RadioTimes by Don Smith on location for the #DoctorWho story The Enemy of the World at Climping Beach, West Sussex, in November 1967.