reflections on the need to use physical violence as an African American woman

https://repository.upenn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/6907f0b8-fd01-4525-9bbe-20f6cfc7cd7f/content

Andrea, 25, was harassed by another female student since her freshmen year in college because of her relationship with a male classmate. By Andrea’s junior year she had endured multiple episodes of relational aggression and two verbal altercations with the female student.

While the situation was the typical girlfriend/boyfriend drama, Andrea did not want to fight the female student but got tired of the harassment and decided to fight as she felt she had no other choice. Because the incident was premeditated, the consequence Andrea received was expulsion from the university. Here is a segment of the events that led to the altercation:

…So this was September of my junior year, it was around my birthday weekend, it was my birthday weekend. I had friends come up from Delaware, around this time at the school, it wasn’t a pep rally we had some type of function. I can’t remember exactly what it was but a lot of people were there so you could have your off campus people come in or whatever the case may be. 

As I’m walking, after the party is over, as I’m walking back to one of my friends’ dorm rooms, she’s walking behind me like, swinging behind my head as if she’s going to hit me. What she didn’t know was I had two of my friends behind her, and they didn’t say anything because they wanted to see what exactly it was she was going to do. 

So that was my breaking point at that time because now, I don’t know what you’re thinking and in my mind I’m thinking eventually you’re going to get me, so before you get me, now I’m saying to myself I have to get you first. So we actually were on our way to get something to eat and one of her friends said oh is the party going to be in room 207, so I said okay great, I think that’s where she lives at. 

Mind you by this point in time, I’m not living on campus I’m commuting back and forth between Lincoln University and Delaware. So I said when we come back, I got something for her. We came back from getting something to eat, changed my clothes and everything and this was where I got myself in trouble because by this time everything that I’m doing is premeditated, changed my clothes and everything. 

I say I’m going to go to room 207 and I’m going to see if she’s there, knock on the door, she opened it, my friend hit her first, and we just started fighting and that’s how the fight happened…With that I ended up getting assault charges, battery charges, so I ended up with one count of misdemeanor for assault, they tried to add on some robbing, some robbing, I had to ask my friends, did y’all steal something? 

Because I didn’t understand you see, that’s the thing, not being knowledgeable I didn’t know that it was going to be to that magnitude of us getting in trouble, but because we entered into their room they automatically put that down…

…I actually did talk to one of the administrative officers, somebody that my mom knew and he told me Andrea, he was like, I wish you would have come to me at the beginning when this first was an issue so then that way we could have been able to resolve [this]. Because now you are telling me all these things she’s done to you from your freshmen year until now, it’s not going to matter because you look like the bad guy because you approached her. 

You went to her dorm room…and it didn’t help that all my friends were there, not to jump her, they were there to celebrate my birthday but because they were there, it looked like I called them up to say hey listen, we need to go jump this girl and it wasn’t worth it, I ended up getting kicked out of school…

gallium

  What is gallium?

Gallium is a chemical element with the symbol Ga and atomic number 31. It’s a soft, silvery metal that sits in group 13 of the periodic table, below aluminum.

  Is it a rare earth?

No, gallium is not a rare earth element. It’s a metal in group 13 of the periodic table, classified as a post-transition metal, alongside aluminum and indium. 

  What is it used for?

Electronics: Gallium arsenide and gallium nitride are vital for semiconductors in LEDs, solar cells, 5G telecom, and high-frequency circuits. For example, gallium-based chips power smartphones, satellites, and military radar systems.

  Where does it comes from?

China ~90% (630 metric tons)

Russia ~5% (35 metric tons)

Japan ~3% (21 metric tons)

South Korea ~1% (7 metric tons)

  What kind of ore is it found in?

Bauxite, Primary source (~95%) Aluminum ore; contains 10–50 ppm gallium.

NED fomenting revolutions

 https://www.borderlens.com/2025/10/03/american-hand-in-nepals-gen-z-revolt-following-the-money-and-reading-the-signs/

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), an American foundation established by Congress in 1983 to provide funding to democracy-building efforts overseas, steps into the spotlight of this investigation. Its FY2024 Asia Grant Listings provide dazzling details. A $65,000 grant with the title Promoting Youth Civic Engagement and Movement Building was allotted to set up youth centers of civic education and outreach. Another, very much bigger, $135,000 entry funded Strengthening Youth Participation in Advocacy and Reform Campaigns, with specific allocations to training and coordination of young democracy movement activists. A $20,000 grant concentrated on Developing New Media Strategies in Support of Democracy and Human Rights, training young influencers on digital security and platform usage, while connecting global networks across boundaries.

In the meantime, $71,250 was spent on Strengthening Media Coverage of Democracy Issues to widen digital reporting and video coverage of governance and rights. Lastly, another round of $65,000 was aimed at Facilitating Access to Justice for Human Rights Defenders, establishing online legal support centers and documentation mechanisms. In addition to these, the Asia infographic within the FY24 pages of NED showed Nepal’s overall allotment to amount to $1,741,377, a substantial amount within the context of its limited civic space.

None of these entries say “regime change” outright. But when mapped against what unfolded in September, the overlap is striking. Discord-based organizing cells echo the movement building workshops. Viral protest videos mirror the new media strategies grants. Polished livestreams and citizen documentaries recall the strengthened media coverage line items. The digital safety trainings resonate with encrypted messaging groups that sustained protest communication. Taken together, these grants look less like unrelated workshops and more like scaffolding for a movement, quietly assembled and ready to be activated once a crisis broke.

Fauci funded GOF

https://nypost.com/2023/06/14/us-taxpayers-funded-2-million-for-research-in-wuhan-report/

Trade wars

 

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/brazilian-soybeans-and-chinas-food-security/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1910197874693976503.html

ICE Raid on Hyundai 2

https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/2025/09/17/trip-tollison-shares-thoughts-on-hyundai-raid/86171344007/

Tollison said it is imperative they come back, as South Koreans who work for Hyundai Motor Company are the only ones who can install and teach future employees how to use the technology there, such as battery cell equipment.

“You have sophisticated, talented South Koreans here installing battery equipment,” said Tollison. “The frustration, and I feel it too, is that there's no other entity in the world that has this proprietary technology that has to be installed by certain individuals. We are relying on South Korea.”

“It's a minor setback,” said Tollison. “We have all the confidence in the world that they're going to continue to get back on schedule as fast as possible. The agreement is still intact.”

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-11-11/national/diplomacy/Koreans-detained-in-Georgia-battery-plant-raid-preparing-class-action-lawsuit-against-ICE/2441737

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-11-01/business/industry/Trump-to-prioritize-new-manufacturing-visas-to-safeguard-Korean-workers-Georgia-Gov/2434005

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-09-06/national/diplomacy/Trump-defends-immigration-raid-at-HyundaiLG-battery-plant-in-Georgia/2392929

“They were illegal aliens and ICE was just doing its job,” Trump told reporters at the White House, adding he had heard about it just before the news conference.

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-09-07/business/industry/ICE-raid-surfaces-risks-as-Korea-Inc-eyes-largescale-investment-in-United-States/2393302

Korean workers face hurdles in obtaining professional work visas such as H-1B, intracompany transfer visas like L-1 and E-2 or short-term business visas like B-1. 

Acquiring a B-1 visa takes at least 100 days, and smaller subcontractors face even greater difficulties than large contractors due to employment requirements. 

The U.S. State Department said 27.8 percent of B-1 visa applications were rejected last year, meaning more than one in four applicants were turned away after waiting months.

Industry groups have called for a dedicated work visa quota for Korean professionals. The Korea International Trade Association and Korean firms have proposed creating 15,000 E-4 visas annually, similar to quotas already in place for other countries. Australia has 10,500, Singapore 5,400 and Chile 1,400 — but Korea currently has none.

“Visa issues are not something companies can resolve on their own — they require government-to-government talks,” said Chang Sang-sik, head of the International Trade Research Institute at the Korea International Trade Association. “The U.S. government needs to resolve visa bottlenecks for essential personnel if it wants Korean investment projects to proceed smoothly.”

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-10-15/business/industry/A-month-after-ICE-raid-and-detention-LG-Energy-is-bringing-workers-back-to-Georgia/2420786

Industry insiders said uncertainty over business visas has eased after a Korea-U. S. working group confirmed that holders of short-term B-1 visas or Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) permits are authorized to perform installation, inspection and maintenance work at U.S. battery plants.

 The U.S. State Department and U.S. Embassy in Seoul published a fact sheet on Oct. 4, clarifying that both B-1 and ESTA holders can legally perform such activities.

Thoughts on Mao

I was taught a long time ago that Mao was the greatest killer in human history.

Yet I continue to see most of the nation of China continue to revere him. Do they know something that I don't know?

1. He defeated the KMT who only survived by running away. His followers must have thought there was value in his message, value worth dying for. I believe part of his message was that government must serve the people. Is that a bad thing?

2. He started The Great Leap Forward. I was taught he was a stupid man who told Chinese to melt down their cookware and farm equipment. That may have happened in some villages but the long term goal was absolutely correct. China now makes steel and ships. Never again will Japanese roam China cutting off Chinese heads as they did in Nanking. China can now fight back. He had a vision and carried it out.

3. He started the Cultural Revolution which did have some terrible excesses. But after 5000 years of Chinese history and dynasties which weakened the nation and allowed invaders to ravage China over and over, it was time for a change. Now China is the only nation in the world that even America can not bully.

4. One Child Policy. I saw a documentary about how bad it was. But what about the hard times it prevented. No one talks about that but you can surely believe that famine and anarchy are even worse than being limited to one child. Again, if you poll the Chinese, I suspect most of them accept that OCP was the right policy for the time.

5. I think Mao was involved in encouraging a culture that valued human capital. So that education was universal. No matter how poor the village. No matter how remote. Every child, boy and girl, received a free education and a good lunch at school.

6. I grew up in Florida and was taught that Democracy was the best starting in elementary school. Yet I keep seeing American government doing stupid things. Over and over. Now I understand that democracy puts power in the hands of the most popular. While China requires a high level of education and proven intelligence (verified by hard exams) to start at the lowest level. Promotion only after years of experience and proven ability. This is why China can do multi-decade projects like rare earths.

Do you honestly think China would be better off with their versions of Newsom, Harris, Biden and Trump? How many American politicians could pass an algebra class. How many voters? This is why our energy grid is in such terrible shape. Democracy.