In 1965 on #ThisDayInHistory, #RogerAllenLaPorte became the third American to #SelfImmolate over the #VietnamWar, outside the UN. A part of the #CatholicWorker Movement and a strong #pacifist, he considered his death to be a religious act in protest of an immoral imperialist war.
Man reportedly lit himself on fire outside Boston’s Israeli consulate to protest Gaza genocide

A man in Boston reportedly lit himself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Boston on September 11, making him the third person in the U.S. to self-immolate outside an Israeli consulate since the Gaza genocide began nearly one year ago.

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