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Tuesday, July 14, 2020

workingclasshistory: On this day, 14 July 1970, Puerto Rican... 14

On this day, 14 July 1970, Puerto Rican street gang-turned activist group the Young Lords occupied Lincoln Hospital’s major administrative building in response to the city’s indifference to the health needs of Puerto Ricans and African Americans in the South Bronx and the deplorable conditions of health care delivery at Lincoln Hospital. The Young Lords actions at Lincoln were an extension of the group’s activism around issues of public health in East Harlem. Their health activism included the Garbage Offensive, which protested against irregular sanitation services; the launch of breakfast programs for poor children; the Lead Offensive, during which they conducted door-to-door medical home visits in collaboration with progressive nurses, medical technicians and doctors to test local children for lead poisoning and adults for tuberculosis; and the takeover of a city operated Tuberculosis truck (pictured).
More Young Lords writings on health here: https://libcom.org/library/young-lords-reader-%E2%80%9Chealth-hospitals%E2%80%9D https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1474940729357739/?type=3

Monday, June 15, 2020

workingclasshistory:On this day, 15 June 1990, the Battle of... 14

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 15 June 1990, the Battle of Century City took place, as police in Los Angeles attacked striking janitors and their supporters during a peaceful Service Employees International Union demonstration.
Janitors in the Century City office complex, most of whom were employed by cleaning contractor ISS, had gone out on strike on May 29 demanding improvements to pay and conditions. On the June 15 protest, LAPD officers brutally attacked the workers and their supporters, leaving several people seriously injured, including one pregnant woman who miscarried as a result.
Rather than deter the workers, the violence caused mass outrage. And ISS subsequently agreed to recognise the workers’ union, provide for family health coverage and pay a living wage. The event also began to be commemorated with the creation of an annual June 15 Justice for Janitors Day. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1451681311683681/?type=3

thunderstruck9: Devin Leonardi (American, 1981-2014), Roundup,... 14

thunderstruck9:

Devin Leonardi (American, 1981-2014), Roundup, 2010. Acrylic on paper, 20 x 29 in.

Saturday, January 25, 2020

workingclasshistory: On this day, 27 October 1970, the Nixon... 14

workingclasshistory:

On this day, 27 October 1970, the Nixon administration passed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act, as part of their “war on drugs”. A Nixon adviser, John Ehrlichman, later admitted “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
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Saturday, October 5, 2019

oldshowbiz: 1946 - The Ballad of Isaac Woodward, the World War... 14

oldshowbiz:

1946 - The Ballad of Isaac Woodward, the World War Two veteran who had his eyes gouged out by a bigoted cop from South Carolina in 1946.

Sunday, September 8, 2019

aka14kgold: emmagoldman42: ICE Agent Opens Fire on Immigrants Outside a South Nashville Grocery... 14

aka14kgold:

emmagoldman42:

ICE Agent Opens Fire on Immigrants Outside a South Nashville Grocery Store

“bystander managed to speak with one of the witnesses verifying their story—ICE shot first and used lethal force when a community member exercised their right to refuse to show ID. No other weapon was fired. Nashville Metro Police arrived on the scene after the ICE agent reported gunfire, and soon thereafter, FBI agents arrived to take over and initiate a federal investigation.

“This is unlike anything we have seen before. We have never seen an ICE agent use lethal force in a civil matter before,” said Anna Albescu, member of The MIX. The ICE agent who was involved in this incident was one of two agents involved in a prior incident that occurred in Hermitage, TN, on July 22, 2019.”

“In light of what happened this morning, it is clear that Immigration Customs and Enforcement officials are aware and frustrated that community members understand how to exercise their rights. Now, ICE agents are taking out their frustrations on our neighbors by escalating civil matters into use of lethal force,” said Hernan Crescencio, member of the MIX.

Thursday, May 9, 2019

bmashina: A Kuwaiti girl, her lamb, an Iraqi T-55 and a burning... 14

bmashina:

A Kuwaiti girl, her lamb, an Iraqi T-55 and a burning oil well. 1991-the year

Friday, January 25, 2019

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Saturday, December 22, 2018

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Sunday, November 25, 2018

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Sunday, November 18, 2018

peashooter85:Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev pats a man’s belly... 14

peashooter85:

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev pats a man’s belly for some reason during his visit to Iowa in 1959.

Saturday, November 10, 2018

justsomeantifas: justsomeantifas: jeff bezos: hellen keller a literal anticapitalist: Hellen... 14

Friday, November 9, 2018

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Sunday, October 28, 2018

yeinesomemdarre: tikkunolamorgtfo: jewish-privilege: brainsta... 14

yeinesomemdarre:

tikkunolamorgtfo:

jewish-privilege:

brainstatic:

“Don’t call Trump supporters nazis, it hurts their feelings.”

Yes, this is real (link to tweet). Yes, Tucker Carlson is literally repeating Nazi propaganda that aided the genocide of the Romani during the Holocaust. Yes, I am furious.

(Also, although there is a large population of Romani in Romania, they aren’t indigenous to Romania. They’re a diasporic group originally from northern India.)

Romani and Jewish have been screaming at the top of their lungs for years about neo-fascism in Europe, and Americans were totally aloof.

Then neo-fascism reared its head in America, but Roma and Jews were left out of the conversation in terms of people being impacted, because our oppression was “over.”

Now Tucker Carlson is on live TV using slurs and Nazi propaganda about Romani people, and I’m 90% most people on the left are just going to ignore it.

It’s fucking starting y'all. It’s happening again.

If you’re not Jewish or Roma PLEASE BOOST THIS.

Monday, October 1, 2018

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The Banality of Brett Kavanaugh:

left-reminders:

“The masters of the universe, it turns out, are losers.

The Brett Kavanaugh hearing was a kaleidoscope of family and God and prestigious clerkships spliced with boofing and ralphing and brewskis. It was a thorough dressing-down. In the end, one was left with the impression of an unremarkable guy who was born on a conveyor belt to power, without much obligation to distinguish himself from his peers. On the contrary, his success was relatively guaranteed on the condition that he didn’t distinguish himself from them, that he simply play nice with the fellas — and not necessarily so nice with women — from prep school to the Ivy League to the White House and beyond.

What struck me most about yesterday’s hearing, cutting through Kavanaugh’s tone-deaf retorts and indignant whinging and his frequent professions of love for beer, is how utterly ordinary he is. This guy is juvenile, arrogant, sexist — and very familiar. It pointed to a larger truth: the people running the show are callous and dangerous, but they’re also astonishingly average. They have no irreplaceable qualities or insights that would oblige us to put up with their bullshit. They would hate for us to realize this.”

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

reverseracism: Oklahoma Police Chief Who Lost Job Because of Neo-Nazi Ties Gets Hired for New Police... 14

Sunday, September 16, 2018

pinkprincessrei: allthecanadianpolitics: what a convenient... 14

pinkprincessrei:

allthecanadianpolitics:

what a convenient date 🤔🤔🤔

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Submitted by @goshgay.

For everyone who doesn’t know there’s a strike against McDonald’s on that date. Don’t fall for this. Support striking workers.

Massachusetts police tweet lets slip scale of leftwing surveillance 14

Saturday, September 15, 2018

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Friday, September 14, 2018

oupacademic: “In the decades after enfranchisement, women’s... 14

oupacademic:

“In the decades after enfranchisement, women’s voting participation trailed that of men… Yet recent decades ushered in more equal rates of voter participation. Among whites, blacks, and Latinos alike, women have voted at higher rates in the last eight presidential elections. In U.S. presidential elections, women have outvoted men. In the 2012 presidential election, the proportion of eligible women voting was 63.7% and the proportion of men 59.8%.”

Although women’s voter turnout has caught up to men’s in recent decades, women’s participation in other forms of electoral activity continue to trail. In recent years researchers found that U.S. women are consistently less likely to participate in many activities in American politics—including making campaign contributions, joining political organizations, and writing letters to elected representatives.

One of the most prominent sets of explanations for gender gaps in participation emphasizes individual-level factors, such as women’s lower levels of the sorts of resources that enable political participation. Women simply have fewer resources, relative to men, and resources are crucial predictors of engagement.

Explore more gender differences in voting and political behavior.

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