Mediterranean Anti-NATO Strike, Anti-War Strike, Dockworkers Block Ports
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD02S4ZDWZU
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And so ... it began ...
Mediterranean Anti-NATO Strike, Anti-War Strike, Dockworkers Block Ports
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD02S4ZDWZU
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And so ... it began ...
The ProPublica union is raising money for a strike fund. Management wants to be able to replace reporters and workers with AI.
Please give them some support if you can:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-propublica-workers-for-fair-contracts
The ProPublica union is raising money for a strike fund. Management wants to be able to replace reporters and workers with AI.
Please give them some support if you can:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-propublica-workers-for-fair-contracts
“Historic Mediterranean Dockworkers' Strike
More Than 20 Ports Launch Strike Against War, Militarization, and Port Privatization”
by ANA VRAČAR in Savage Minds on Substack
“Unionists involved in preparing the action described it as the result of a long and complex process, built on dockworkers’ solidarity with Palestine and their struggles for dignified working conditions at home”
https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/historic-mediterranean-dockworkers
#Press #Mediterranean #DockWorkers #Strike #Palestine #Solidarity
“Historic Mediterranean Dockworkers' Strike
More Than 20 Ports Launch Strike Against War, Militarization, and Port Privatization”
by ANA VRAČAR in Savage Minds on Substack
“Unionists involved in preparing the action described it as the result of a long and complex process, built on dockworkers’ solidarity with Palestine and their struggles for dignified working conditions at home”
https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/historic-mediterranean-dockworkers
#Press #Mediterranean #DockWorkers #Strike #Palestine #Solidarity
UESF teacher strike in san francisco, first in over 50 years, is eminent. Set to start this Monday February 9.
Give the gift that keeps on giving: SOLIDARITY!
*donate to their strike fund
*join the picket lines
*keep you children home
Scabs are class traitors
UESF teacher strike in san francisco, first in over 50 years, is eminent. Set to start this Monday February 9.
Give the gift that keeps on giving: SOLIDARITY!
*donate to their strike fund
*join the picket lines
*keep you children home
Scabs are class traitors
1/ READY TO STRIKE: More than 80% of our members signed a pledge saying we are prepared to strike unless @ProPublica agrees to a fair contract.
https://www.propublicaguild.org/updates/the-propublica-guild-is-ready-to-strike-for-a-fair-contract
The union for ProPublica is raising money for a strike fund. Management has been trying to keep the option open to replace their workers with AI. Please share out:
1/ READY TO STRIKE: More than 80% of our members signed a pledge saying we are prepared to strike unless @ProPublica agrees to a fair contract.
https://www.propublicaguild.org/updates/the-propublica-guild-is-ready-to-strike-for-a-fair-contract
The union for ProPublica is raising money for a strike fund. Management has been trying to keep the option open to replace their workers with AI. Please share out:
"An estimated 3,000 Long Beach Unified students walked out of school on Friday, with many marching to City Hall, in protest of the federal government’s militant immigration crackdowns, including federal agents’ recent killing of two people in Minneapolis"
https://lbpost.com/news/long-beach-students-walk-out-as-part-of-nationwide-anti-ice-protest/
Today in Labor History February 1, 1912: The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) started the San Diego Free Speech Fight in response to a city ordinance preventing public speaking in and around the Stingaree neighborhood (now known as the Gaslamp Quarter). The authorities were trying to squelch labor and radical organizing in the multi-ethnic, working-class neighborhood, infamous for its houses of prostitution, gambling dens, opium dens and Chinese ghetto. Even as late as the 1980s, it still had a skid row feel, with its multitude of tattoo parlors, bars, sailors, junkies and fascination parlors. As a kid, I remember watching the con artists running games of 3-Card Monte on the sidewalks there.
The IWW had been active in San Diego since 1906. They organized timber workers and cigar makers, as well as workers at San Diego Consolidated Gas and Electric Company. Their strike at the power company led to the formation of a public service union, which disbanded in 1911, when many Wobblies flocked to Tijuana to join the anarchist Magonista revolution there. For more on this, read “The Desert Revolution,” by Lowell Blaisdell.
As the Free Speech fight progressed, anarchists, socialists and liberals joined the struggle, deliberately speaking in the restricted zone so that the jails would overflow. And they all demanded individual trials in order to clog up the legal system. Jail conditions were horrendous. Prisoners were crowded into the drunk tanks and forced to sleep on vermin-infested floors. Beatings were routine. 63-year-old Michael Hoy died from a police beating in jail. The IWW called on members from across the country to ride the rails to San Diego to join the fight. At least 5,000 heeded the call.
The local papers, of course, ran countless editorials attacking the radicals and glorifying the police. This encouraged vigilantes, who’d patrol the rail yards looking for incoming Wobblies. They deported many across county lines where they forced them to kiss the flag and run through gauntlets of men who beat them with pick axe handles. On May 7, the cops killed another Wobbly, Joseph Mikolash. And on May 15, vigilantes kidnapped Emma Goldman and her companion Ben Reitman, who had come to show their support. However, before deporting them, the vigilantes tarred and feathered Reitman and raped him with a cane. Ben Reitman was a physician who focused his practice on providing treatment for tramps, hobos, prostitutes and the most marginalized members of society. He also wrote the book “Boxcar Bertha.” The July 11, 1912 edition of the IWW’s “Little Red Songbook” included the song: “We’re Bound for San Diego:”
In that town called San Diego, when the workers try to talk,
The cops will smash them with a sap and tell them “take a walk.”
They throw them in a bull pen and they feed them rotten beans.
And they call that “law and order” in the city, so it seems.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #sandiego #freespeech #policebrutality #prison #IWW #anarchism #Revolution #socialism #strike #magonista #Tijuana #vigilantes #EmmaGoldman #acab #mexico #books #author #writer #fiction #nonfiction @bookstadon
Today in Labor History February 1, 1912: The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) started the San Diego Free Speech Fight in response to a city ordinance preventing public speaking in and around the Stingaree neighborhood (now known as the Gaslamp Quarter). The authorities were trying to squelch labor and radical organizing in the multi-ethnic, working-class neighborhood, infamous for its houses of prostitution, gambling dens, opium dens and Chinese ghetto. Even as late as the 1980s, it still had a skid row feel, with its multitude of tattoo parlors, bars, sailors, junkies and fascination parlors. As a kid, I remember watching the con artists running games of 3-Card Monte on the sidewalks there.
The IWW had been active in San Diego since 1906. They organized timber workers and cigar makers, as well as workers at San Diego Consolidated Gas and Electric Company. Their strike at the power company led to the formation of a public service union, which disbanded in 1911, when many Wobblies flocked to Tijuana to join the anarchist Magonista revolution there. For more on this, read “The Desert Revolution,” by Lowell Blaisdell.
As the Free Speech fight progressed, anarchists, socialists and liberals joined the struggle, deliberately speaking in the restricted zone so that the jails would overflow. And they all demanded individual trials in order to clog up the legal system. Jail conditions were horrendous. Prisoners were crowded into the drunk tanks and forced to sleep on vermin-infested floors. Beatings were routine. 63-year-old Michael Hoy died from a police beating in jail. The IWW called on members from across the country to ride the rails to San Diego to join the fight. At least 5,000 heeded the call.
The local papers, of course, ran countless editorials attacking the radicals and glorifying the police. This encouraged vigilantes, who’d patrol the rail yards looking for incoming Wobblies. They deported many across county lines where they forced them to kiss the flag and run through gauntlets of men who beat them with pick axe handles. On May 7, the cops killed another Wobbly, Joseph Mikolash. And on May 15, vigilantes kidnapped Emma Goldman and her companion Ben Reitman, who had come to show their support. However, before deporting them, the vigilantes tarred and feathered Reitman and raped him with a cane. Ben Reitman was a physician who focused his practice on providing treatment for tramps, hobos, prostitutes and the most marginalized members of society. He also wrote the book “Boxcar Bertha.” The July 11, 1912 edition of the IWW’s “Little Red Songbook” included the song: “We’re Bound for San Diego:”
In that town called San Diego, when the workers try to talk,
The cops will smash them with a sap and tell them “take a walk.”
They throw them in a bull pen and they feed them rotten beans.
And they call that “law and order” in the city, so it seems.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #sandiego #freespeech #policebrutality #prison #IWW #anarchism #Revolution #socialism #strike #magonista #Tijuana #vigilantes #EmmaGoldman #acab #mexico #books #author #writer #fiction #nonfiction @bookstadon
"What I do want to scream is that a strike is not a spell... Power concedes nothing without a demand—and that demand is not a word, not a spell. It is a strike"
I skimmed this essay before I realized who wrote it, but the author (Tabitha Arnold) makes stunning textile art
redid link: https://archive.ph/i92wW
"What I do want to scream is that a strike is not a spell... Power concedes nothing without a demand—and that demand is not a word, not a spell. It is a strike"
I skimmed this essay before I realized who wrote it, but the author (Tabitha Arnold) makes stunning textile art
redid link: https://archive.ph/i92wW
The people of Minneapolis are doing the rest of the people in the former USA a massive favour right now.
ICE tried their best to get Minneapolis to riot. They did everything they could including murdering innocent people on camera in broad daylight and boasting about it.
Minneapolis has responded with dignity and compassion towards ICE's victims. They have stood up and been counted. They have not backed down in the face of terrorists in their community.
Most importantly they organised themselves, they didn't wait for the Democracts to pull their fingers out of their arses to organise a politely worded petition or some other waste of time.
I think the best action they have taken was the strike and "buy nothing day". That showed the fascists that they have real power. Not just numbers on the ground but figures on company spreadsheets. Money and violence are the only languages fascists understand. Though their grasp of economics is very limited of course.
As far as I can see there are no real "leaders" of the protests. People are just coming together to do the right thing for their communities, neighbours and friends. True anarchy. Its a wonderful thing to see. No wonder the fascists and their boot lickers hate the protestors and demonise them at every turn.
The fascists are desperately trying to find "proof" that one of their bogeymen in organising and funding the protesters. They cannot understand anything apart from self-interest backed by violence. Altruism is anathema to them.
The people of Minneapolis and Minnesota are the exact opposite of the MAGA fascists. They care about one another.
#Minnesota #Minneapolis #USA #ICE #Anarchy #Strike #Boycott #BuyNothing
at a local school
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"An estimated 3,000 Long Beach Unified students walked out of school on Friday, with many marching to City Hall, in protest of the federal government’s militant immigration crackdowns, including federal agents’ recent killing of two people in Minneapolis"
https://lbpost.com/news/long-beach-students-walk-out-as-part-of-nationwide-anti-ice-protest/
