James Chumsa

@jschumsa.bsky.social

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Came here to escape Meta and engage in revolutionary discourse. Raging Leninist living on Coast Salish Territory. ☭

A simple poster that reads in big red letters on the top "Cuba's National Day of Rebellion" and underneath "Celebration & Commemoration." The rest of the poster reads "4:00pm Sat July 25 Esquimalt Gorge Park 1070 Tillicum Road Victoria. Poltluck at 4:00pm. Speakers & Live Music. Admission by donation; All proceeds received going to the Cuban Health Care system. Organized by the Victoria Friends of Cuba, victoriafriendsofcuba.wordpress.com/. In the middle of the poster is a photo of the several Cuban flags held up in front of a sunrise, the people holding the flags appearing as shadows.
A large square lightly coloured room with 5 flags on the wall. On the left hung vertically are the Lebanese and Greenland flags. In the middle is a Palestine flag hung horizontally with the text "FREE PALESTINE" on it and a graphic of a red, green, and black fist. to the right hung vertically is the state flag of Venezuela and a Cuban flag. In front of the flags is a long table with with a red table cloth on top and chairs behind it. There are water bottles, pens, paper, and a cellphone on this table. There are four chairs in the foreground facing the table and flags. Directly above the Palestine flag is a large black rectangular monitor with two black speakers on the side. Below the flag is a wooden upright piano. To the left is a wall with a water cooler and door to the hallway. To the right is a wall with another grey door with and exit sign above it and a bright light shining out its window. There is a black doormat at the foot of this door along with a fire extinguisher on the wall beside it.
Speaker Dave McKee sits at a table in the center of the photo in the corner of the room, while everyone else is sitting in chairs facing him. To the right is the doors to the room and through the windows of the doors we see young teenagers in their cadets uniforms. Dave Mckee has white hair and a big white moustache and is wearing black thick rimmed glasses. He is sitting facing us and opening to a water bottle while looking to the left, towards someone in a red shirt who appears to be speaking to him. There are other people in the room whom we see the backs of their heads.
A poster with a title that reads "PEOPLE'S VOICE: WORKING CLASS MEDIA IN A CAPITALIST WORLD." At the bottom are the details listed: "JUNE 4/ NANAIMO/ 7PM BEBAN PARK SOCIAL CENTRE (2300 BOWEN ROAD, MEETING ROOM ONE) FOR MORE INFORMATION EMAIL CPCBCORGANIZER@GMAIL.COM . Between are photos of the two featured speakers; on the left is the caption "DAVE MCKEE/ EDITOR OF PEOPLE'S VOICE" under a photo of an man with a large white mustache and thick rim glasses. To the right is the caption "KIMBALL CARIOU/ CANADIAN PEACE CONGRESS" under a photo of a man with white hair and white beard wearing glasses and speaking into a microphone. Above the title at the top is a large photo of Canadian prime minister Mark Carney holding a Canadian hundred dollar bill and grinning with flames behind him.
In the background to the right is a bluish white square building with a mural painted on it depicting two hands locked together. The sleeve on the left hand has the Palestinian flag while the sleeve of the right has the Cuban flag, with flowers painted around either. In the foreground to the left beside this mural is a man wearing a dark green peaked cap with a red star sewn on front. He has dark hair, eyes, mustache and beard and wears glasses with a black thick brow. Surrounding in the back ground is a bright cloudy sky and a street below between the man and the mural. The building the mural is on sits on a grassy area with a palm tree on the left and several trees on the right in front of other blue buildings.
A poster that reads: "Che Guevara Work Brigade 2026 Report, 7 pm Friday May 22, 2994 Douglas (BCGEU hall front entrance)." "Three young people from Vancouver Island will report on their recent trip to Cuba on the Volunteer Work Brigade." "Sponsored by the Victoria Friends of Cuba, https://victoriafriendsofcuba.wordpress.com/." The poster shows a photo of 60 people standing outdoors smiling and holding up a colourful banner that reads "BRIGADA DE TRABAJO VOLUNTARIO ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA VOLUNTEER WORK BRIGADE/www.CanadianNetworkOnCuba.ca/Brigade" They appear to be standing on a set of stairs leading to an outdoor roofed area behind them held up by blue pillars.
Man in the foreground staring into the camera, wearing a dark green cap with a red star stitched onto it and round black reflective sunglasses. He has fairly light skin and dark hair, including a dark mustache, and his chin is cropped out. In the background is a massive crowd of people of various ages and genders, some individuals showing up as a blur. They are mostly wearing either red or white shirts, some wearing various hats while others do not, some wear glasses, and one is seen wearing a backpack. Sticking out from this crowd are various flags of nations and organizations such as unions, the flags being various combinations of white, red, yellow, blue, and green. There is also a picket sign in the crowd and farther back a long banner. Even farther beyond the crowd are square grey buildings and floodlights illuminating the whole crowd, with a dark sky behind.
Wooden frame standing on grass holds up a banner that reads NO TO U.S. ANNEXATION/ BUILD CANADA WITH FREE AND EQUAL NATIONS/ PUBLIC DEMOCRACY FOR ALL in black letters except for "NO," "ANNEXATION," "CANADA" and "ALL" in red with "ANNEXATION" underlined. Beside the main text in the bottom corner of the banner is peace symbol surrounded by the text "FREEDOM FROM WAR COALITION." At the bottom is a red, black, and green swirl design. Right behind the framed banner is a circle of dirt with a leafless tree growing out. Behind the tree are train train tracks running horizontally on the grass. Behind the train tracks are cars parked on a street and further behind that are buildings.
A busy scene on a sunny day in Victoria British Columbia. Standing are a group of people waving Cuban flags seen from their backs. They are standing on a grassy area facing a sidewalk in front of a road full of cars, trucks, and automobiles. Further in the distances is the Empress Hotel, a large British colonial style building which has on top a small Canadian flag. Between the road and the Empress are trees of various shapes and shades of green. In the foreground are some stationary bicycles and someone sitting on a concrete ledge next to them.
A framed portrait of a hand drawn horse hanging on a wall. The full body of the horse is standing side profile within a yellow circle with a red edge and green background. Surrounding the horse in the portrait from top right moving clockwise is a red flag, red star, "2026" in bold numbers, and a square stamp showing three horses mid gallop. A top the portrait are the large yellow characters "马年大吉" while underneath "同志 詹姆斯" and surrounding the horse is "可靠", "活力", and "智".
A projection screen showing a slide titled "In Defense of Muammar Gaddafi: Revealing the Other side of Libya's Late Revolutionary" above a photo of Muammar Gaddafi wearing sunglasses with is hand resting on his cheek. Beside this projection screen to the right is an individual with dark hair, black think rimed square glasses, wearing a turtleneck and a blazer with a lanyard on their neck. This person is starting at an open laptop that is on a podium.
A page from People's Voice newspaper. Top right corner reads in red bold letters "PEOPLE'S VOICE" and beside it "| FEBRUARY 1-14, 2026 | 11" as the header. On the left side in the main body of the page is a title for an article that reads "Book is a disturbing account of RCMP infiltration of political and social movements in Canada" while the image of the book "A Communist for the RCMP" is shown below. Beside to the left are two other articles titled "Historian Henry Heller was engaged teacher, figure in Winnipeg left" and "always a rose - and red," the latter appearing to be poetry.
Photo of the book A Communist for the RCMP: The Uncovered Story of a SOCIAL MOVEMENT INFORMANT by Dennis Gruending, foreward by Gregory S. Kealy. The book has a red cover with a black outline and shows a drawing of three people sitting and talking in a living room while smoking and drinking coffee, with a shadow on the wall behind them shaped like a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer. The books is on a stained wood coffee table.
Light reddish brown henna stain on the back of a hand in the shape of a Chinese character.
Hand drawing of a snake curled up a tree, next to a red Chinese communist party flag and a Chinese stamp with a smaller snake on it. Surrounded are Chinese characters, at top reads in bold "吉木蛇年" while in thin characters in the middle "共产党 / 红旗 / 同志 / 詹姆斯" with "壽" to the side and "James" in red letters above "永 / 和平的 / 合作" and "2025" made out of snakes beside "福 / 禄 / 寿". This is all on a yellow background with a red boarder, inside a wooden picture frame hung on a wall.
Man with glasses and dark beard holding a box set containing Frank Herbert's Dune, Dune Messiah, and Children of Dune. Behind is a bookshelf full of books with Soviet antiques on top.
A newspaper clipping, in the top left margin reads "10 | PEOPLE'S VOICE | MAY 16-31, 2019" with below an article titled in big letters "Zizek vs Peterson: Debate of the Century?" Within the article body is an image containing the head shot of Slavoj Žižek.
Young man with glasses smiling while next to a window where the inside of an office is visible. Visible in the office is a bookshelf and a large abstract modern art piece that is black, grey, red, and white with a few touches of yellow.