#OtD 11 Feb 1977 longshore workers and activists of @ILWU_10's Southern Africa Liberation Support Committee volunteered to load donations into two shipping containers to be sent to freedom fighters from Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12500/longshore-workers-aid-african-freedom-fighters
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Recorded #OnthisDay 32 years ago:
Pavement - Peel Session 1994
The complete session recorded by Pavement on 11 February 1994 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 26th of that month.
Tracklist:
1. Brink of the Clouds (0:17)
2. Tartar Martyr (5:06)
3. Pueblo Domain (9:48)
4. The Sutcliffe Catering Song (14:38)
https://vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2019/08/pavement-peel-session-1994.html
Recorded #OnthisDay 32 years ago:
Pavement - Peel Session 1994
The complete session recorded by Pavement on 11 February 1994 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 26th of that month.
Tracklist:
1. Brink of the Clouds (0:17)
2. Tartar Martyr (5:06)
3. Pueblo Domain (9:48)
4. The Sutcliffe Catering Song (14:38)
https://vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2019/08/pavement-peel-session-1994.html
#OtD 11 Feb 2004 80 unemployed workers looted a supermarket in Levoca, Slovakia. It kickstarted a militant wave of protest against sweeping benefit cuts primarily by Roma people which ended up winning better conditions for all unemployed people https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8295/slovakian-unemployment-riots
#OtD 11 Feb 1813 Harriet Jacobs, a Black woman who escaped slavery and went on to write Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, was born in North Carolina. month Read more about her important autobiography, first published in 1861, here: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8284/birth-of-harriet-jacobs
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10 years ago today, we told the world
"We have detected gravitational waves. We did it!"
Relive the moment we shared our result with the world https://www.youtube.com/live/aEPIwEJmZyE
#OtD 11 Feb 1954 a concentration camp was opened in Tefía, Canary Islands, to intern LGBT people imprisoned when homosexuality was banned later that year. The camp was in hostile conditions and guards humiliated and beat prisoners and gave rotten food https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8291/tef%C3%ADa-concentration-camp-opened
#OtD 11 Feb 1967 a protest against police repression was held outside the LGBTQ Black Cat Tavern in LA, endorsed by PRIDE (Personal Rights in Defense and Education), may be the first use of the term “pride” in the LGBTQ rights movement. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8292/black-cat-protest
#OtD 11 Feb 1930 2000 unemployed workers stormed Cleveland City Hall, demanding jobs or relief and only dispersing after police threatened to turn fire hoses on them https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8288/cleveland-unemployed-protes
#OtD 11 Feb 1890 Italian poet, teacher and anti-fascist, Virgilia d'Andrea, was born. D'Andrea joined the Italian anti-war movement in 1917 and published her first book in 1922. The rise of fascism forced her to flee Italy in 1923 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8285/virgilia-d'andrea
#OtD 11 Feb 1987 Mark Ashton, leading member of Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners, died aged just 26. @LGSMpride raised huge amounts of money for Welsh miners during the strike of 1984-5 and brought together the LGBT & workers movts. More in our pod: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/06/10/e23-25-lesbians-gays-support-the-miners/
#OtD 11 Feb 1940 USSR made an agreement with Nazi Germany to export hundreds of thousands of tonnes of oil, grain, manganese and rubber. Ironically, these goods enabled German forces to invade the USSR later https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8290/nazi-soviet-commercial-agreement
#OtD 11 Feb 1937, 48,000 workers at General Motors in Flint, Michigan won their iconic sit-down strike after 44 days. This strike played a major role in the unionization of the US auto industry. Read a detailed account of the strike in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/strike-jeremy-brecher
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#OnThisDay, 11 Feb 1989, the Rev Barbara Harris is consecrated, the first woman to become a Bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Due to death threats, she was advised to wear a bulletproof vest at the ceremony: she declined.
"I certainly don't want to be one of the boys. I want to offer my peculiar gifts as a black woman... a sensitivity and an awareness that comes out of more than a passing acquaintance with oppression."
10 years ago today, we told the world
"We have detected gravitational waves. We did it!"
Relive the moment we shared our result with the world https://www.youtube.com/live/aEPIwEJmZyE
#OnThisDay, 11 Feb 1989, the Rev Barbara Harris is consecrated, the first woman to become a Bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Due to death threats, she was advised to wear a bulletproof vest at the ceremony: she declined.
"I certainly don't want to be one of the boys. I want to offer my peculiar gifts as a black woman... a sensitivity and an awareness that comes out of more than a passing acquaintance with oppression."
#OtD 11 Feb 1916, Lithuanian-born Jewish anarchist Emma Goldman was arrested in New York City on charges of violating the Comstock Act, for distributing information about birth control. We've made available some of her work and merch here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/emma-goldman