Notices by MikeDunnAuthor (mikedunnauthor@kolektiva.social)

@MakBerberovic
Actually, many people are arguing exactly that.

Today in Labor History March 16, 2003: Israeli Defense Forces murdered American activist Rachel Corrie in Rafah by running over her with a bulldozer. She had been defending a Palestinian home that the IDF was trying to demolish as part of their collective punishment of the Palestinian people.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #RachelCorie #idf #palestine #warcrimes #israel #collectivepunishment #rafah

Today in Labor History March 15, 2019: Nearly 1.5 million young people in 123 countries went on strike to protest climate change. The School Strike for Climate movement began after Swedish high school student Greta Thunberg staged a protest in August 2018 outside the Swedish parliament with a sign that read "Skolstrejk för klimatet" ("School strike for climate").

Scientists argue that We Cannot Afford The Rich:

And it's not just all that excess carbon they pump into the atmosphere...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00723-3

#inequality #poverty #wealth #disease #climatecrisis

Today in Labor History March 11, 1858: The Great Indian Mutiny, also known as the Sepoy Rebellion, ended with massacres by the British. 6,000 British troops died in the fighting. However, at least 800,000 Indians died in the fighting and from the famines and epidemics that resulted.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #sepoy #mutiny #uprising #revolt #british #colonialism #india #massacre #rebellion #independence #famine

Today in Labor History March 5, 1906: U.S. Army troops beat the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, during Moro Rebellion, Philippines. However, it wasn’t even close to being a battle. The U.S. had overwhelming firepower, slaughtering nearly everyone they encountered, men, women and children, and then posed with the corpses. Only six people survived. Mark Twain said, “In what way was it a battle? We cleaned up our four days’ work and made it complete by butchering these helpless people.” The Moro Rebellion (1899-1913) was a liberation struggle against U.S. colonialism by Muslims in the Southern Philippines, (Mindanao, Jolo and the neighboring Sulu Archipelago).

#workingclass #LaborHistory #moro #philippines #rebellion #imperialism #massacre #colonialism #warcrimes

Today, for Black History Month, we remember Malcolm X, who was assassinated on this date, February 21, 1965: in the Audubon Ballroom, New York City.

#blackhistorymonth #workingclass #LaborHistory #malcolmx #assassination #BlackMastadon

Thousands of frontline workers may have died unnecessarily from covid due to federal governments failure to provide PPE according to New study. Majority were low wage, black. Hispanic or immigrant workers

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/us-government-failure-protect-frontline-workers-covid-led-thousands-deaths-scientists-say

#covid #covid19 #pandemic #PublicHealth #excessdeaths #frontlineworkers #PPE #workplacesafety #WorkingClass

Unenforceable demand for Israel to take action to prevent acts of genocide as it wages war against Gaza, without calling for an immediate ceasefire....

This is a victory?

Hasn't Israel been claiming all along that they are protecting civilians? Preventing genocide?

#freepalestine #palestine #gaza #EndTheOccupation

Today in Labor History January 19, 1812: Luddites torched Oatlands Mill in Yorkshire, England. In order to avoid losing their jobs to machines, Luddites destroyed equipment in protest. Their movement was named for Ned Ludd, a fictional weaver who supposedly smashed knitting frames after being whipped by his boss. Luddite rebellions continued from 1811-1816, until the military quashed their uprising.

Chant no more your old rhymes about bold Robin Hood
His feats I but little admire
I will sing the Achievements of General Ludd
Now the Hero of Nottinghamshire.

The sentiment for this poem comes from the fact that Robin Hood was a paternalistic hero, a displaced aristocrat who stole from his class brethren and gave to the poor; whereas Ned Ludd represented the autonomy and self-sufficiency of the working class.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #luddite #sabotage #vandalism #robinhood #rebellion #military #uprising #solidarity #technology #poetry @bookstadon

Today in Labor History January 18, 1943: The first uprising of Jews began in the Warsaw Ghetto, marking the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In the summer of 1942, over a quarter million Jews were deported from the ghetto to Treblinka and murdered. In response, the remaining Jews began building bunkers and smuggling weapons and explosives into the ghetto. On January 18, 1943, when the Nazis began their second deportation of the Jews, the armed insurgency began. They fought with whatever they could smuggle into the ghetto: handguns, gasoline bottles and a few other weapons. They inflicted enough casualties on the Nazis that the deportation was halted within a few days. Only 5,000 Jews were removed, instead of the 8,000 planned. They knew from the start that the uprising was doomed. Most of the Jewish fighters did not expect to survive. Rather, they saw their resistance as a battle for their honor and a protest against the world's silence. Marek Edelman, one of the few survivors, said their inspiration to fight was "not to allow the Germans alone to pick the time and place of our deaths."

#workingclass #LaborHistory #holocaust #genocide #nazis #worldwar2 #uprising #warsaw #jews #antisemitism

Today in Labor History January 10, 1859: Anarchist educator Francisco Ferrer was born. Ferrer started the first Modern Schools in Spain and inspired hundreds more to be created throughout the world. He opposed the Church’s monopoly over education and created Spain’s first secular, co-educational schools. In 1909, a kangaroo court convicted him of fomenting an insurrection. They executed him by firing squad on October 13, 1909. His execution caused worldwide condemnation and protests. George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as anarchists and radicals like Peter Kropotkin and Emma Goldman protested the execution. You can read my article on the U.S. Modern School movement here: The Modern School Movement (Fifth Estate, #411, Spring, 2022). https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/411-spring-2022/the-modern-school-movement/

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #anarchism #ModernSchool #FranciscoFerrer #spain #education #school #insurrection

@GreenSkyOverMe

That latter detail is strange about Karl liebknecht. Why is that?

I once did an interview about Food Not Bombs at a multi kulti radio station near Rosa Luxemburg platz, Berlin.

Today in Labor History January 5, 1919: Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg launched the Spartacist Uprising in Berlin. Part of the post-WWI Revolution occurring throughout Germany, the Spartacist uprising was essentially a power struggle between the Spartacists and other Council Communists (left-wing, anti-authoritarian communists) against the Social Democrats. 500,000 workers participated in the General Strike they called for January 7 to replace the moderate Social Democratic government with a communist one. Many of the workers obtained arms. They tried, but failed, to get the support of the Navy, which remained neutral in the conflict. However, the Social Democrats got the anti-Communist Freikorps paramilitary to fight for their side. The Freikorps had weapons and military equipment leftover from WWI and were able to quash the uprising within a week. The Freikorps was comprised of WWI vets, many of whom were suffering from PTSD. Many went on to became Nazis. Up to 200 people died in the fighting, including 17 Freikorps soldiers. The Social Democrats captured, beat and executed Liebknecht and Luxemburg.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #spartacist #berlin #wwi #communism #nazis #RosaLuxemburg #generalstrike #ptsd #uprising #Revolution

Support the Global Strike today to demand a Gaza ceasefire.

#GeneralStrike #gaza #FreePalestine #EndTheSiege #EndTheOccupation #solidarity

Today in Labor History December 3, 1946: Female retail clerks at Hastings and Kahn’s launched the Oakland General Strike, the last General Strike to occur in the U.S. Other workers soon joined in. Over 100,000 workers participated in the 3-day Oakland General Strike, which was part of the 1945-1946 strike wave, the largest strike wave in US history. Over 5 million workers participated in the nationwide strike wave, including 225,000 UAW members, 174,000 electric workers struck, 750,000 steel workers, 250,000 railroad workers. There were several other General Strikes in 1946, too, including Lancaster, PA; Stamford, CT; Rochester, NY. In reaction to this strike wave, Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947, which severely restricted the powers and activities of unions. It also banned General Strikes, stripping away the most powerful tool workers had.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #oakland #GeneralStrike #strike #wildcat #union #TaftHartley

UK Descending into Authoritarianism as it bans demonstrations & stifles free speech.

Human Rights Watch’s UK Director Yasmine Ahmed recently said: “Not only is the government talking about ripping up domestic human rights law and ignoring its international obligations, it has launched an open attack on the right to peacefully demonstrate, is locking up climate protesters, criminalizing refugees and has given the police unprecedented powers over citizens.”

#FreeSpeech #authoritarianism #uk #britain #Demonstrations #protest #immigration #ClimateCrisis #palestine

Direct Action Gets the Goods!

#protest #solidarity #organize #DirectAction #resist

Today in Labor History November 21, 1921: The original Columbine Massacre occurred in Serine, Colorado. State police and company thugs used machine guns against the unarmed miners, slaughtering six striking IWW members, all of whom were unarmed. Dozens more were injured.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #IWW #columbine #massacre #colorado #police #union #strike #PoliceBrutality #PoliceMurder

Direct Action Gets the Goods!

#DirectAction #feminism #solidarity #sabotage #protest #EqualRights