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MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today In Labor History April 3, 1917: After the U.S. declared war, sailors, escorted by police, destroyed the IWW building in Kansas City. The action inspired similar attacks in Detroit, Duluth and other towns that had a large IWW presence. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceBrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliceBrutality</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antiwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wwi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wwi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/kansascity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kansascity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/redscare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>redscare</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/palmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>palmer</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today In Labor History March 26, 1918: American anarchist Philip Grosser wrote about being tortured in the prison on Alcatraz Island, while serving time there for refusing to serve in World War I. By 1920, he was the only draft resistor still serving time at Alcatraz. Alexander Berkman referred to him as "one of [my] finest comrades."</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/philipgrosser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philipgrosser</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/alexanderberkman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alexanderberkman</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/alcatraz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alcatraz</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/torture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>torture</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarResistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wwi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wwi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antiwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/biography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biography</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History March 23, 1918: 101 IWW members went on trial in Chicago for opposing World War I and for violating the Espionage Act. In September, 1917, 165 IWW leaders were arrested for conspiring to subvert the draft and encourage desertion. Their trial lasted five months, the longest criminal trial in American history up to that time. The jury found them all guilty. The judge sentenced Big Bill Haywood and 14 others to 20 years in prison. 33 others were given 10 years each. They were also fined a total of $2,500,000. The trial virtually destroyed the IWW. Haywood jumped bail and fled to the USSR, where he remained until his death 10 years later. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ussr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ussr</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>soviet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBillHaywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigBillHaywood</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antiwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RedScare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedScare</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History March 13, 1979: The Marxist New Jewel movement, led by Maurice Bishop, overthrew the prime minister of Grenada. Bishop led the People’s Revolutionary Government of Grenada until 1983, when he was overthrown and executed in a coup supported by the U.S. Bishop supported anti-racist struggles around the world and the fight to end Apartheid. Under his leadership, Granada gave women equal pay to men and provided paid maternity leave. They also banned sexual discrimination and introduced free public health and literacy programs that brought the national illiteracy rate from 35% down to 5%. In 1983, the U.S. invaded Granada. 19 U.S. soldiers and 45 Grenadian soldiers died in the fighting that ensued. The invasion effectively ended the so-called “Vietnam Syndrome,” where U.S. leaders feared that overt regime change, with U.S. boots on the ground, would spark large antiwar protests, like those that rocked the nation in the 1960s and early 70s. The Grenada invasion paved the way for much more aggressive interventions like Panama, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/grenada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grenada</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cuba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cuba</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/apartheid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>apartheid</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/equalpay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>equalpay</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feminism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antiwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/publichealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publichealth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sexism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sexism</span></a></p>
aleskandro<p>Growing up as a child of the Erasmus generation, I believed in a borderless Europe. Now, walls and fear return. Governments fund weapons, not education; they focus on borders, not people. I recall traveling from Valencia to Brussels, London, and Brno, meeting diverse souls, and sharing knowledge. Our future depends on staying human.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/globalsolidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>globalsolidarity</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AntiWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiWar</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/peace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peace</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/EuropeanUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeanUnion</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AntiImperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiImperialism</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://aleskandro.com/posts/no-country-borders-people-strangers/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aleskandro.com/posts/no-countr</span><span class="invisible">y-borders-people-strangers/</span></a></p>
Ms. Que Banh<p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/BornFeisty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BornFeisty</span></a>.</p><p>That happens, when you're conceived in a bomb bunker shelter underground & your Mom was terrified during entire eviction of you from her womb, because gunfire was active outside hospital while she was evicting me from her vagina.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsianMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WarChild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarChild</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AntiWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiWar</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History February 4, 1869: Labor leader and Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) co-founder William D. "Big Bill" Haywood was born. Haywood started mining at age nine. He became secretary-treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) in 1900 and co-founded the IWW in 1905. He was a WFM organizer during the Colorado Labor Wars (1903-1904), in which 33 miners were killed. </p><p>At the IWW’s first convention (1905), he said, “We are here to confederate the workers of this country into a working-class movement that shall have for its purpose the emancipation of the working-class from the slave bondage of capitalism. The aims and objects of this organization shall be to put the working-class in possession of the economic power, the means of life, in control of the machinery of production and distribution, without regard to capitalist masters.” With the IWW, he came up with the propaganda ploy of sending workers’ kids out of town, for their own safety, during the Lawrence Textile Strike (1912), leading to a media backlash against the mill owners and the ultimate victory for the workers.</p><p>In 1907, he was falsely charged with the bombing murder of former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg, but was acquitted with the counsel of Clarence Darrow. The WFM dismissed him in 1918 because of his radicalism. That same year, the Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (future first commissioner of Major League Baseball) convicted him of violating the Alien and Sedition acts during the first Red Scare for his antiwar activism. They sentenced him to 20 years in prison. However, he jumped bail and fled to the Soviet Union, where he died in 1928 from heart failure and alcoholism. His ashes were split between the Kremlin Wall Mausoleum and the Haymarket Martyrs Monument in Chicago.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bigbillhaywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigbillhaywood</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wfm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wfm</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/haymarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>haymarket</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/kremlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kremlin</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antiwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>soviet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sabotage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sabotage</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>soviet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sabotage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sabotage</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/generalstrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>generalstrike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mlb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mlb</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/kremlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kremlin</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History February 4, 1900: Jacques Prévert was born (1900-1977). Prevert was a poet, surrealist and libertarian socialist who glorified the spirit of rebellion & revolt. </p><p>Excerpt from “Song in the Blood”<br>There are great puddles of blood on the world<br>Where’s it going all this spilled blood<br>Murder’s blood. . . war’s blood. . .<br>Misery’s blood. . .<br>And the blood of men tortured in prisons. . .<br>The blood of children calmly tortured by their papa<br> And their mama. . .<br>And the blood of men whose heads bleed in<br> Padded cells<br>And the roofer’s blood<br>When the roofer slips and falls from the roof</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pr%C3%A9vert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prévert</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ferlinghetti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ferlinghetti</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antiwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Poet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/surrealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surrealism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rebellion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rebellion</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/revolt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>revolt</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>In honor of Black History Month, a short biography of Ben Fletcher (April 13, 1890 – 1949), Wobbly and revolutionary. Fletcher joined the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 1912 and became secretary of the IWW District Council in 1913. He also co-founded the interracial Local 8 in 1913. Also in 1913, he led a successful strike of over 10,000 dockers. At that time, roughly one-third of the dockers on the Philadelphia waterfront were black. Another 33% were Irish. And about 33% were Polish and Lithuanian. Prior to the IWW organizing drive, the employers routinely pitted black workers against white, and Polish against Irish. The IWW was one of the only unions of the era that organized workers into the same locals, regardless of race or ethnicity. And its main leader in Philadelphia was an African American, Ben Fletcher. </p><p>By 1916, thanks in large part to Fletcher’s organizing skill, all but two of Philadelphia’s docks were controlled by the IWW. And the IWW maintained control of the Philly waterfront for about a decade. After the 1913 strike, Fletcher travelled up and down the east coast organizing dockers. However, he was nearly lynched in Norfolk, Virginia in 1917. At that time, roughly 10% of the IWW’s 1 million members were African American. Most had been rejected from other unions because of their skin color. In 1918, the state arrested him for treason, sentencing him to ten years, for the crime of organizing workers during wartime. He served three years. Fletcher supposedly said to Big Bill Haywood after the trial that the judge had been using “very ungrammatical language. . . His sentences are much too long.”</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/benfletcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>benfletcher</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/philadelphia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philadelphia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/longshore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>longshore</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/docker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>docker</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/waterfront" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>waterfront</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/worldwarone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>worldwarone</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antiwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/freespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freespeech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/blackhistorymonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackhistorymonth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMastadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastadon</span></a></p>
Snippety Snap (she/her)<p>New server, new <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Introduction</span></a><br>Greetings! I am a resident of the Pacific Northwest, USA. Currently surviving the mess in the US as best I can, so I occasionally drop an F-bomb. Sorry, not sorry. </p><p><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/HealthcareIsAHumanRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HealthcareIsAHumanRight</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/UniversalHealthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UniversalHealthcare</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/Medicare4All" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Medicare4All</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/MedicareForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MedicareForAll</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/ProChoice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProChoice</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/BansOffOurBodies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BansOffOurBodies</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/BlackLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLivesMatter</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/ReparationsNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReparationsNow</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/AntiWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiWar</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoWar</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/NoJusticeNoPeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoJusticeNoPeace</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/TransLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransLivesMatter</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/HousingIsAHumanRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HousingIsAHumanRight</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/ClimateChangeIsReal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChangeIsReal</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/AntiFascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiFascist</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/COVIDIsNotOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVIDIsNotOver</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History January 31, 1971: For the second time in six months, rioting broke out during an anti-war protest in East Los Angeles. Police fired into the crowd, killing one protester. The anti-war demonstrations were organized by the Chicano Moratorium. Chicanos were dying at a higher rate during the Vietnam War than white Americans. During the August 29, 1970 protests, police killed three people, including Journalist and Civil Rights activist Ruben Salazar. Oscar Zeta Acosta portrayed Salazar in his 1973 novel, “The Revolt of the Cockroach People.” Hunter S. Thompson portrayed Acosta as his “Samoan attorney” in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” Salazar was the first Mexican journalist for a mainstream newspaper (L.A. Times) to write about the Chicano community. He also worked as the Times’ bureau chief in Mexico City and covered both the Tlatelolco Massacre and the U.S. occupation of the Dominican Republic, both in 1965. Because of his outspoken support for the Chicano movement, and his criticism of racism and police abuse against the Chicano community, he was a target of FBI surveillance. Many believe his death was an assassination.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RubenSalazar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RubenSalazar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/chicano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chicano</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/moratorium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>moratorium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antiwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/riot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>riot</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/policebrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policebrutality</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/huntersthompson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>huntersthompson</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vietnam</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/eastla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eastla</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/losangeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>losangeles</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/freepress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freepress</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oscarzetaocosta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oscarzetaocosta</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>novel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
Ms. Que Banh<p>Nguyễn Thị Bình is a granddaughter of the Nationalist leader Phan Chu Trinh. She grew up in a land that had been under French rule since 1858. The country’s resources were plundered, & the people exploited as cheap labour & reduced to grinding poverty. So determined were the French to maintain their colonial hold at any cost, they collaborated in power-sharing with Japanese <a href="https://beige.party/tags/fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascist</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/occupiers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>occupiers</span></a> who brought horror & starvation from 1940-1945.</p><p>Despite this, led by the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietMinh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VietMinh</span></a> Front, people of Vietnam triumphed in the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AugustRevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AugustRevolution</span></a> of 1945 & the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam (DRV) was declared on September 2nd. Democratic elections took place in January 1946 but French troops, with the open support of the US & Britain, attacked the new Viet Minh administration in the south of the country & the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WarOfResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarOfResistance</span></a> against <a href="https://beige.party/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> began.</p><p>Binh studied French at Lycée Sisowath in Cambodia & worked as a teacher during the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/French" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>French</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/colonisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonisation</span></a> of Vietnam. She joined <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnamCommunistParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VietnamCommunistParty</span></a> in 1948. Upon joining, she immediately began work as a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/grassroots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grassroots</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AntiColonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiColonial</span></a> organiser. From 1945-1951, she took part in intellectual protest movements against French <a href="https://beige.party/tags/colonists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonists</span></a>. She was arrested & jailed between 1951-1953 in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Saigon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Saigon</span></a> by the French <a href="https://beige.party/tags/colonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonial</span></a> authority in Vietnam. She was repeatedly interrogated under torture & sentenced to death but was reprieved & released in very poor health in 1954.</p><p>Upon release from prison, Binh went north to work in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Hanoi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hanoi</span></a> for the National <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WomensUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensUnion</span></a>. Her job took her to many localities where she witnessed first-hand the impact of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> & the French War on ordinary people & especially women & children. </p><p>1954 was a year of victory for the Vietnamese army. The defeated French were forced to sign the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/GenevaAccords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenevaAccords</span></a> recognising the independence, sovereignty & unity of Vietnam. The country was temporarily split in two at the 17th parallel, with the French moving to the south from which they would withdraw, while the Viet Minh went to the north. A general election for the government of a united country was to follow within 2 years. </p><p>But it never happened. The <a href="https://beige.party/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> came centre stage to ensure that the Accords were never implemented. Driven by strategic interests in the region, it made sure that Vietnam stayed divided – preventing an election that would have swept Ho Chi Minh to power with 80% support, while bankrolling & controlling the reactionary <a href="https://beige.party/tags/regime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>regime</span></a> of Diem-Nhu south of the 17th parallel. This regime violently suppressed all opposition, executing of thousands of Viet Minh supporters & condemning hundreds of thousands to concentration camps and prisons.</p><p>In response, the NLF (for liberation of South Vietnam & unification) was formed in 1960. Nguyen Thi Chau Sa was assigned to the Foreign Affairs Section of its Re-unification Committee & given the name Nguyen Thi Binh (Peace). From 1962 onwards, her high-profile diplomatic work, took her across the world. She represented the aspirations of the people of Vietnam in every country & forum she visited, while the world’s strongest <a href="https://beige.party/tags/imperialist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imperialist</span></a> power made all-out war on her small country.</p><p>During the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnamWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VietnamWar</span></a>, she became a member of the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Vietcong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vietcong</span></a> Central Committee and a vice-chairperson of the South Vietnamese <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WomensLiberation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensLiberation</span></a> Association. In 1969 she was appointed foreign minister of the Provisional <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Revolutionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Revolutionary</span></a> Government of the Republic of South Vietnam. A fluent French speaker, Bình played a major role in the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ParisPeaceAccords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ParisPeaceAccords</span></a> - an agreement that was supposed to end the war & restore peace in Vietnam.</p><p>She was expected to be replaced by a male Vietcong representative after preliminary talks, but became one of the group's most visible international public figures. During this time, she was famous for representing Vietnamese women with her elegant & gracious style, and was referred to by the media as "Madame Bình". She was also referred to as the "Viet Cong Queen" by Western media.</p><p>After the war, she was appointed Minister of Education of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam from 1982-1986; the first female minister ever in the history of Vietnam. Binh was a member of the Central Committee of Vietnam's Communist Party from 1987-1992. She was the Deputy Chair of the Party's Central Foreign Affairs Commission & Chair of the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee. The National Assembly elected her twice to position of Vice President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for the terms 1992–1997 & 1997–2002.</p><p>Bình has authored several op-eds, including a one on the state newspaper Nhân Dân in which she voiced concerns that the current personnel policy of the Communist Party of Vietnam have allowed some "incompetent and opportunistic" individuals to enter the party's apparatus. She also criticized the Party's focus on increasing membership at the expense of "quality."</p><p>From March 2009-2014, she served as a member of the support committee of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/RussellTribunal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussellTribunal</span></a> on <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a>.</p><p>Madame Bình became a source of inspiration & namesake for Madame Binh Graphics Collective, a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/RadicalLeft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadicalLeft</span></a> all-women poster, printmaking, & street art collective based in NYC from 1970s-1980s.<br>Many Americans in the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AntiWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiWar</span></a> movement were proud to wear T-shirts printed with the portrait of "Madame Binh". By then, she had become a symbol for female soldiers of the legitimacy of Vietnam's efforts.</p><p>Madame Bình has been awarded many prestigious awards & honours, including the Order of Ho Chi Minh & Resistance Order (First Class). In 2021, President of Vietnam Nguyễn Xuân Phúc awarded her the 75-year Party Membership Commemorative Medal.<br>To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam, the Government of Vietnam commissioned the official portraits for 12 former foreign ministers from 1945-2020. Nguyễn Thị Bình was included among them as the only South Vietnamese foreign minister & the only woman.</p><p>Ref: Nguyen Thi Binh". Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biography (3rd ed.). Boston: Northeastern University Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-55553-421-9</p><p>Ref: Triantafillou, Eric (3 May 2012). "Graphic Uprising". The Brooklyn Rail. </p><p>Ref: <a href="https://www.russelltribunalonpalestine.com/en/about-rtop/patrons.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">russelltribunalonpalestine.com</span><span class="invisible">/en/about-rtop/patrons.html</span></a></p><p>Ref: Hy V. Luong (2003), Postwar Vietnam: dynamics of a transforming society, Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 0847698653</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsianMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Vietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vietnam</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnameseRevolutionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VietnameseRevolutionaries</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ColonialResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColonialResistance</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Communist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Communist</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnameseHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VietnameseHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsianHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SouthEastAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthEastAsia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Viet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Viet</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geopolitics</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/USWarOnVietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USWarOnVietnam</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LongLiveVietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LongLiveVietnam</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietnameseSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VietnameseSovereignty</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LearnHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LearnHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TootSEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TootSEA</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WomenOfTheResistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenOfTheResistance</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Changemakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Changemakers</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Feminist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Feminist</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TrailblazingWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrailblazingWomen</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WomenWhoChangeTheWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenWhoChangeTheWorld</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VietCongWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VietCongWomen</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/DebunkingUSLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DebunkingUSLies</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History January 19, 1920: Crystal Eastman, Roger Nash Baldwin, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (from the IWW) and others founded the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Their original focus was freedom of speech, primarily anti-war speech, and supporting conscientious objectors. In 1923, they defended author Upton Sinclair after he was arrested for trying to read the First Amendment during an IWW rally. In 1925, they persuaded John T. Scopes to defy Tennessee's anti-evolution law in The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes. Clarence Darrow, an ACLU member, headed Scopes' legal team. The ACLU lost the case and Scopes was fined $100. In 1926, they defended H. L. Mencken, who deliberately broke Boston law by distributing copies of his banned American Mercury magazine and won their first major acquittal. However, they kicked Elizabeth Gurley Flynn off their board in 1940 because of her Communist affiliations. And they refused defend Paul Robeson and other leftists in the 1950s.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/elizabethgurleyflynn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elizabethgurleyflynn</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/aclu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aclu</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uptonsinclair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uptonsinclair</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PaulRobeson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PaulRobeson</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/clarencedarrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>clarencedarrow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hlmencken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hlmencken</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/freespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freespeech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antiwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/school" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>school</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/freeppress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freeppress</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/firstamendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>firstamendment</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History January 11, 1911: Leonard Abbott, Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman opened the first American Modern School in New York City. They modeled it after the Modern Schools that anarchist Francisco Ferrer had created in Spain. 1909, Ferrer was wrongfully convicted of fomenting an insurrection. He was executed in 1909, leading to worldwide protest. The creators of the American Modern Schools designed them to counter the discipline, formality and regimentation of traditional American schools. Regular working people ran the schools for the children of workers. They sought to abolish all forms of authority, including educational, with the goal of creating a society based on free association and free thought. By the time of the World War I in 1914, Modern Schools were operating in Philadelphia, Detroit, New York, Seattle, Portland, Chicago and Salt Lake City, with more soon to follow in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and Paterson. They taught classes in English, Yiddish, Czech, Italian and Spanish. Some of the students at the original New York Modern School were visual artist Man Ray and early birth control advocate Margaret Sanger’s son. Organizers of the Modern Schools believed that learning was a life-long process that never ended. Therefore, parents were encouraged to participate in the operation of the schools and to attend evening and weekend lectures. Some of the speakers at these lectures included Clarence Darrow, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Jack London, Upton Sinclair, and Man Ray. The schools also served as cultural centers for the promotion of unionism, free speech, sexual liberation, and anti-militarism. The last Modern School in America was in Lakewood, New Jersey. It operated from 1933 to 1958. Two of its last students were the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who were accused of giving secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviets.</p><p>You can read my article on the U.S. Modern School movement here: The Modern School Movement (Fifth Estate, #411, Spring, 2022): <a href="https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/411-spring-2022/the-modern-school-movement/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">fifthestate.org/archive/411-sp</span><span class="invisible">ring-2022/the-modern-school-movement/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ModernSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ModernSchool</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/children" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>children</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FranciscoFerrer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FranciscoFerrer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/emmagoldman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emmagoldman</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spain</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/newyork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newyork</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/freespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freespeech</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antiwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiwar</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Daojoan</span></a></span> This toot is reminiscent of an entry in the politically charged 18th century lexicon of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/British" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>British</span></a> author Samuel Johnson, which was also used by <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> filmmaker Stanley Kubrick in the politically charged <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AntiWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiWar</span></a> film “Paths of Glory” starring <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Hollywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hollywood</span></a> legend Kirk Douglas.</p><p>The daring and defining quote is “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” </p><p>Note: It can be other things as well; two things can be true at the same time.</p><p>More: <a href="http://www.sitnews.us/MacDougall/052806_macdougall.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sitnews.us/MacDougall/052806_m</span><span class="invisible">acdougall.html</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History January 2, 1905: A conference of 23 industrial unionists met in Chicago and issued a manifesto calling for an industrial Union Congress to be held in Chicago on June 27—a meeting that would lead to the formation of the Industrial Workers of the World (AKA: IWW or "Wobblies"). The IWW founding members were a veritable who’s who of radical labor leaders: Mother Jones, Lucy Parsons, Eugene Debs, Big Bill Haywood, James Connolly, Daniel DeLeon, Vincent St. John, Ralph Chaplin. </p><p>The IWW was, and continues to be, a revolutionary union fighting for the abolition of bosses, an end to wage slavery, as well as worker control of the means of production, through organization and education, sabotage, direct action, mutual aid, and the General Strike. Their motto: An Injury to One is an Injury to All. At its height, in the 1910s, the IWW had well over 150,000 members in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK. They have always had strong ties to anarchist and socialist movements and been staunchly opposed to imperialist and capitalist wars (No War but Class War). Over the years, dozens of IWW members were murdered by cops, goons and vigilantes. Hundreds were imprisoned and deported. Their offices were burned to the ground. Members were forced to run gauntlets. Some were lynched.</p><p>Despite the devastation to the union caused by the Palmer Raids (the first red scare) in the late 1910s, the IWW persisted. In the 1990s and 2000s, they spear-headed the original Starbucks Union Drive. They organized bike messengers, exotic dancers, janitors at queer night clubs, indie publishers, recyclers, food coops and Whole Foods. They were also involved in the 2016 prisoner strike at 20 prisons in the U.S., and in organizing a General Strike in Wisconsin, in 2011, in response to that state’s anti-union legislation and the subsequent occupation of the State House.</p><p>You can read more IWW history in the following articles:<br><a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/?s=lucy+parsons" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">michaeldunnauthor.com/?s=lucy+</span><span class="invisible">parsons</span></a><br><a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/04/union-busting-by-the-pinkertons/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/</span><span class="invisible">04/union-busting-by-the-pinkertons/</span></a><br><a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/05/13/ben-fletcher-and-the-iww-dockers/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/05/</span><span class="invisible">13/ben-fletcher-and-the-iww-dockers/</span></a><br><a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/05/19/tom-mooney-and-warren-billings/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/05/</span><span class="invisible">19/tom-mooney-and-warren-billings/</span></a><br><a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/05/frank-little/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/</span><span class="invisible">05/frank-little/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wobblies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wobblies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeneralStrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeneralStrike</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sabotage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sabotage</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/directaction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>directaction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lucyparsons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lucyparsons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bigbillhaywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigbillhaywood</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/eugenedebs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eugenedebs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/jamesconnolly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jamesconnolly</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/palmerraids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>palmerraids</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antiwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/classwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>classwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>revolution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mutualaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mutualaid</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/motherjones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>motherjones</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>How Universities Are Trying to Stop Another Year of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Activism</span></a></p><p>Big public universities, historically at the forefront of catalyzing activist movements, are now using legal action, disciplinary efforts, and rule changes to chill speech and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dissent</span></a>. </p><p>by Annie Ham, Sydney Sasser<br>December 2 2024</p><p>"'College students often have a really important role in social change in the country,' said Graeme Blair, a political science professor at UCLA, who was among UCLA faculty arrested at a spring protest. 'The implications are pretty serious, not just for speech on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a>, but for speech on other unpopular issues, which in many ways is the point of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protests</span></a>.'"</p><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2024/12/02/universities-activism-gaza-protests/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2024/12/02/un</span><span class="invisible">iversities-activism-gaza-protests/</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CeasefireNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CeasefireNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorldWarBibi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WorldWarBibi</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraeliWarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IsraeliWarCrimes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProjectEsther" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProjectEsther</span></a></p>
at home in my head<p>Next episode of AHIMH is up.</p><p>"The U.S. Motto: Money Over Lives"</p><p>CW: Su*c*de and spoilers for the film "Dog"</p><p>"The enemy is the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it’s profitable; it’s the insurance companies who deny us health care when it’s profitable; it’s the banks who take away our homes when it’s profitable. Our enemies are not 5000 miles away, they are right here at home. If we organize and fight with our sisters and brothers, we can stop this war, we can stop this government, and we can create a better world.”</p><p>- Mike Prsyner, PSL member and anti-war veteran </p><p>Link to podcast:<br><a href="https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/Ka8LMlwbBPb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">spotifycreators-web.app.link/e</span><span class="invisible">/Ka8LMlwbBPb</span></a></p><p>Link to Youtube:<br><a href="https://youtu.be/n2Spw9v8Lns" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/n2Spw9v8Lns</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Link to Wordpress:<br><a href="https://harrisees.wordpress.com/2024/12/24/the-u-s-motto-money-over-lives" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">harrisees.wordpress.com/2024/1</span><span class="invisible">2/24/the-u-s-motto-money-over-lives</span></a></p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/mangione" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mangione</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/election2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>election2024</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/antiwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antiwar</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gaza</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>palestine</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a></p>
Animated Short Of The Day<p>ジャンピング (Jumping) (1984) [6 min] by Osamu Tezuka | <a href="https://socel.net/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> </p><p>CW: Mild nudity<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xonwEDkrxI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=6xonwEDkrx</span><span class="invisible">I</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://socel.net/tags/2D" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2D</span></a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/2DAnimation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2DAnimation</span></a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/AnimatedShort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnimatedShort</span></a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/AnimatedShortOfTheDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnimatedShortOfTheDay</span></a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/Animation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Animation</span></a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/Anime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anime</span></a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/OsamuTezuka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OsamuTezuka</span></a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/Jumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jumping</span></a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/FirstPerson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPerson</span></a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/AntiWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiWar</span></a> <a href="https://socel.net/tags/Classic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Classic</span></a></p>
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