The Occupation of Alcatraz was a 19-month long protest which began on this day in 1969, when 89 Native Americans and their supporters occupied and reclaimed Alcatraz Island as indigenous land.

The protest was led by Richard Oakes and Grace Thorpe. The group chose the name Indians of All Tribes (IOAT) for themselves and lived on the island together until the protest was forcibly ended by the U.S. government.

IOAT claimed that, under the Treaty of Fort Laramie between the U.S. and the Lakota tribe, all retired, abandoned, or out-of-use federal land was returned to the Indians who once occupied it.

By late May of 1971, the government had cut off all electrical power and all telephone service to the island. Left without power, fresh water, and in the face of diminishing public support and sympathy, the number of occupiers began to dwindle. On June 11th, 1971, a large force of federal officers removed the remaining 15 people from the island.

A Look Back at the Occupation of Alcatraz, 51 Years Later

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  • WokePalpatine [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Finished re-watching Welcome To The NHK last night. It was really good. Pretty sad that Japan and the world are basically the same now. I think it does a good job showing people pulling each other down and/or trying to exploit each other to cope with modern life, either as a social issue or a more specifically economic one. Over and over it shows the main character relapse and even as he expands his horizons via otaku hobbies (or his IRL ‘friends’) each one has this dark underside that needs to be resisted or avoided or hoped against. You can see the seeds of misogyny and fascist-conspiratorial thinking in his friend Yamazaki, but also himself and his female sempai from high school (which I thought was really interesting to do since it’s easy to present it as a male-only thing when it’s not). She clearly has some kind of schizophrenia and depression that rubs off on him because he’s probably just depressed or something. I read that the original book has him taking legal drugs and that’s the cause of the visions and thoughts but since the anime cut that it makes it seem like he has some form of intrusive thoughts or schizophrenia as well, which ends up being a little clunky message-wise. Only thing I really didn’t like is the first ED song and the way it ends in . . .

    spoiler

    . . . a very, very convenient, happy way for everyone. I definitely think they should have had at least one person still sad and or relapsing into their past ways at the end to not make it seem so fairytale-like.

    Misaki in it plays the part of the external anime girl saviour/manic pixie dream girl type so it’s obviously being unrealistic from the get-go and its double-mindedness on whether it wants to praise or condemn otaku/hikkikomori culture make it hard for me to discern if it’s being used as a warning to otakus or praising them in a “just get a job and things will work out; your way of life is can coexist with being married and working” sort of way, which I don’t find nearly as interesting.

    I like the double aspect to each character, they have a side that’s able to coexist with social living but a dysfunctional side that doesn’t that they usually hide and seemingly other people choose to overlook or ignore as well. So many times it’s obvious that there’s a problem with them but people choose to believe the obvious lies they’re saying because they don’t want or can’t do anything about it.

    • WokePalpatine [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      And playin’ shmups this morning. Playing Blast Wing and Sonic Wings Special on Saturn. And Sonic Wings/Aero Fighters 2/3 on NGCD. I’m getting better at shmups at least. Learning to do pattern recognition, better overall positioning, reading the playspace, etc. Still not great though. I’m not good enough to actually beat AF2 without using a 2nd player to spam infinite continues in the harder stages in loop 2. Although I finally beat the last stage in loop 1 without doing that on easy which was an accomplishment for me.

      I think I hate arcade-centric shmups. I just don’t like how they’re made in regards to difficulty and how aggressive they are with bullet patterns and stuff. AF2 has this really herky-jerky difficulty curve where it’s clear that in arcade they’re trying to stop a player from getting 30+ minutes of playtime. AF3 actually has a pretty smooth one for some reason, maybe they realized their mistake with 2. And Sonic Wings Special (which is basically AF4) is kind of inbetween where they drop the second loop/NG+ system and instead have more unlockables and encourage you to keep replaying the game with all/most of the characters/ships.