{"id":16453,"date":"2020-12-06T21:57:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T02:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/2020\/12\/06\/harriet-tubman-armed-and-dangerous\/"},"modified":"2020-12-06T21:57:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T02:57:04","slug":"harriet-tubman-armed-and-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/2020\/12\/06\/harriet-tubman-armed-and-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Harriet Tubman: Armed and dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By MIKE ALEWITZ<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI FREED THOUSANDS OF SLAVES and could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves.\u201d \u2014 Harriet Tubman\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lumberjack \/ Nurse \/ Underground Railroad Conductor \/ Suffragist \/ Abolitionist \/ Armed Insurrectionist. Dec. 6, 1849 \u2014 Harriet Tubman escapes from her New York owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When I was commissioned to create a series of murals for the new millennium, I chose Harriet Tubman, and the struggle for reparations from slavery, as my subject.  Harriet is now being sanitized so that she can be on a US $20 bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a widely-covered statement issued in response to calls to remove a rifle from the mural, THE DREAMS OF HARRIET TUBMAN, by Mike Alewitz, June 14, 2000:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I WILL NOT DISARM HARRIET TUBMAN\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHarriet Tubman was a fierce opponent of slavery in all its forms. She was opposed by the Southern slave-master and Northern industrialist alike. She was an organizer, educator, leader of the abolitionist movement, feminist, conductor on the underground railroad, and armed insurrectionist against slavery. Then, as now, Harriet was feared not because she carried a gun, but because she organized a mass, militant and uncompromising struggle for social justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are those who would like to transform Harriet Tubman into a safe and acceptable icon for corporate America.\u00a0They wish to disarm her both physically and politically. I will not help them.\u00a0I will not disarm Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman belongs to working people throughout the world. Harriet Tubman\u2019s life, the war to end slavery, and the continuation of that struggle today deserve to be portrayed in murals, poems, and songs by many artists.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image: <\/strong>\u201cGENERAL HARRIET TUBMAN\u201d\u00a0(So named by John Brown, in honor of her militancy and command of action). Detail from the mural: \u201cTHE DREAMS OF HARRIET TUBMAN \u2014 EDUCATION FOR ALL.\u201d From a Series of Murals by Mike Alewitz \/ Maryland \/ 2000. This piece, in Joppa, Md., was attacked and vandalized by Nazis, but repaired and defended by a community coalition.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harriet Tubman – Armed & Dangerous: https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/pub?id=1qFQMuNfGQTq8n0XPHomhPDkxHC3BZ0DdoPS33ixHK3E<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By MIKE ALEWITZ \u201cI FREED THOUSANDS OF SLAVES and could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves.\u201d \u2014 Harriet Tubman\u00a0 Lumberjack \/ Nurse \/ Underground Railroad Conductor \/ Suffragist \/ Abolitionist \/ Armed Insurrectionist. Dec. 6, 1849 \u2014 Harriet Tubman escapes from her New York owners. ***** When I was commissioned to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13882114,"featured_media":15418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30821,30822,27755],"tags":[31016],"class_list":["post-16453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-black-liberation-racism","category-books-the-arts","category-american-history","tag-harriet-tubman"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.5","language":"es","enabled_languages":["en","es"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t