Kat Marchán 🐈
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After the recent attack at Barton Springs, I analyzed publicly available city hate incident data with the help of #Austin Free Press. We found that #LGBTQIA+ folks face more reported hate incidents than any other marginalized group.
We break down the data and report on what the city plans to do about it: https://austinfreepress.org/barton-stings/
#politics#USpol#Texas #news #transphobia #trans #extremism #law #police #transgender#racism
#Paris : Chaque jour, la #police municipale et la nationale contrôlent les #cyclistes. Je les vois régulièrement notamment à l'angle Rivoli/Sébastopol.
Ils sont parfois 10 ou 12 au même endroit.
Je sais maintenant où passent mes impôts !!!
On leur dit que ce ne sont pas les vélos qui tuent sur la route ?
𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱【ツ】☮(📍🇸🇮)
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Today in Labor History August 26, 1913: The Dublin lock-out began, a 5- month strike over terrible living and working conditions, and for union recognition. At the time, some Irish workers were living with 55 people per house. The Infant mortality rate among the poor was 142 per 1,000 births. TB-related deaths were 50% higher than in England or Scotland. The main organizers of the strike were 2 syndicalists, James Larkin and IWW cofounder, James Connolly. Several workers were killed by police and by strikebreakers. Hundreds were injured. WB Yeats’ poem, September 1913, is often viewed as a commentary on the brutality of the strike. Connolly was later executed as a leader of the Easter Rising, in 1916.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #dublin #lockout #union #strike #ireland #socialism #jameslarkin #jamesconnolly #IWW #police #policebrutality
Today in Labor History August 26, 1913: The Dublin lock-out began, a 5- month strike over terrible living and working conditions, and for union recognition. At the time, some Irish workers were living with 55 people per house. The Infant mortality rate among the poor was 142 per 1,000 births. TB-related deaths were 50% higher than in England or Scotland. The main organizers of the strike were 2 syndicalists, James Larkin and IWW cofounder, James Connolly. Several workers were killed by police and by strikebreakers. Hundreds were injured. WB Yeats’ poem, September 1913, is often viewed as a commentary on the brutality of the strike. Connolly was later executed as a leader of the Easter Rising, in 1916.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #dublin #lockout #union #strike #ireland #socialism #jameslarkin #jamesconnolly #IWW #police #policebrutality
Michael Bacon
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Today in Labor History August 25, 1921, the Battle of Blair Mountain began in Logan County, West Virginia. It was the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War, and the largest labor uprising in U.S. history. 10,000-15,000 coal miners battled 3,000 cops, private cops and vigilantes, who were backed by the coal bosses. Up to 100 miners died in the fighting, along with 10-30 Baldwin-Felts detectives and three national guards. Nearly 1,000 people were arrested. One million rounds were fired. And the government bombed striking coal miners by air, using homemade bombs and poison gas left over from World War I. This was the second time the government had used planes to bomb its own citizens within the U.S. (the first was against African American during the Tulsa pogrom, earlier that same year).
The Battle of Matewan had occurred just a year before. Baldwin-Felt private police tried to arrest Sheriff Sid Hatfield, who supported the miners, using a bogus arrest warrant. Unbeknownst to the detectives, armed miners had surrounded them. No one knows who shot first, but when the smoke had cleared, there were seven dead detectives, including Albert and Lee Felts, and four dead townspeople, including the mayor. On August 1, 1921, surviving members of Baldwin-Felts assassinated Hatfield in broad daylight, on the steps of Welch County courthouse, as his wife watched in horror. As news of his death spread, miners began arming themselves and threatened to march to the anti-union stronghold of Logan County to overthrow Sheriff Dan Chaffin, the coal company tyrant who murdered miners with impunity. Fearing a bloodbath, Mother Jones tried to dissuade them from marching. Many accused her of losing her nerve. The march led to all-out war, as the authorities sent in police, private cops, and deputized vigilantes to battle the miners.
You can read my full article on the battle and its historical roots here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/14/the-battle-of-blair-mountain/
#workingclass #LaborHistory#BlairMountain #mining #coal #westvirginia #matewan #police #vigilantes #racism #tulsa #motherjones
Today in Labor History August 25, 1921, the Battle of Blair Mountain began in Logan County, West Virginia. It was the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War, and the largest labor uprising in U.S. history. 10,000-15,000 coal miners battled 3,000 cops, private cops and vigilantes, who were backed by the coal bosses. Up to 100 miners died in the fighting, along with 10-30 Baldwin-Felts detectives and three national guards. Nearly 1,000 people were arrested. One million rounds were fired. And the government bombed striking coal miners by air, using homemade bombs and poison gas left over from World War I. This was the second time the government had used planes to bomb its own citizens within the U.S. (the first was against African American during the Tulsa pogrom, earlier that same year).
The Battle of Matewan had occurred just a year before. Baldwin-Felt private police tried to arrest Sheriff Sid Hatfield, who supported the miners, using a bogus arrest warrant. Unbeknownst to the detectives, armed miners had surrounded them. No one knows who shot first, but when the smoke had cleared, there were seven dead detectives, including Albert and Lee Felts, and four dead townspeople, including the mayor. On August 1, 1921, surviving members of Baldwin-Felts assassinated Hatfield in broad daylight, on the steps of Welch County courthouse, as his wife watched in horror. As news of his death spread, miners began arming themselves and threatened to march to the anti-union stronghold of Logan County to overthrow Sheriff Dan Chaffin, the coal company tyrant who murdered miners with impunity. Fearing a bloodbath, Mother Jones tried to dissuade them from marching. Many accused her of losing her nerve. The march led to all-out war, as the authorities sent in police, private cops, and deputized vigilantes to battle the miners.
You can read my full article on the battle and its historical roots here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/14/the-battle-of-blair-mountain/
#workingclass #LaborHistory#BlairMountain #mining #coal #westvirginia #matewan #police #vigilantes #racism #tulsa #motherjones
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Jonathan Cook stopped by cops in pro-Palestine crackdown
#palestine #journalism #uk #police
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/08/22/jonathan-cook-police-stop/
Jonathan Cook stopped by cops in pro-Palestine crackdown
#palestine #journalism #uk #police
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/08/22/jonathan-cook-police-stop/
joene 🏴🍉
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Far-right politicians will do anything to make sure they can push their capitalist plans through. And fans of capitalism will say that we don't live in a dictatorship.
#capitalism #anticapitalism #eattherich #feedthepoor #police #acab #allcopsarebastards #fuckthepolice #anarchism #activism #climate
Far-right politicians will do anything to make sure they can push their capitalist plans through. And fans of capitalism will say that we don't live in a dictatorship.
#capitalism #anticapitalism #eattherich #feedthepoor #police #acab #allcopsarebastards #fuckthepolice #anarchism #activism #climate
Intrusive facial recognition is being rolled out by the police without parliamentary scrutiny or public debate.
We need to regulate the use of this invasive and harmful technology before we sleepwalk into a surveillance state rooted in racial bias.
#facialrecognition #surveillance #ukpolitics #ukpol #police #policing
The Met Police are deploying biased facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival this weekend.
Last week we joined civil society groups in calling for the plans to be scrapped.
It “unfairly targets the community that carnival exists to celebrate.”
#facialrecognition #ukpolitics #ukpol #surveillance #metpolice #police
Joachim
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"Parents who find Signal on their child's phone should contact the police." - Petra Lundh, Sweden's National Police Commissioner
I don’t know what’s worse: if they actually believe this, or if they’re deliberately trying to fool the masses. Both are terrifying.
Framing a basic right to private communication as a danger isn’t just careless, it’s harmful.
What’s next? Criminals drive cars, call us if you see one.
#privacy #signal#E2EE #chatcontrol #encryption #freespeech #digitalrights #surveillance #police
Gabriele Svelto
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