Today in labor history April 28, 1896: Tristan Tzara was born. He was a Romanian-French poet, journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, film director. He co-founded the anti-establishment Dada movement. During Hitler’s rise to power, he participated in the anti-fascist movement and the French Communist Party. In 1934, Tzara organized a mock trial of Salvador Dalí because of his fawning over Hitler and Franco. The surrealists Andre Breton, Paul Éluard and René Crevel helped run the trial. In the 1940s, Tzara lived in Marseilles with a large group of anti-fascist artists and writers, under the protection of American diplomat Varian Fry. These included Victor Serge, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Andre Breton and Max Ernst. Later he joined the French Resistance, writing propaganda and running their pirate radio station. After the Liberation of Paris, he wrote for L'Éternelle Revue, a communist newspaper edited by Jean-Paul Sartre. Other contributors to the newspaper included Louis Aragon, Éluard, Jacques Prévert and Pablo Picasso.
"On April 18th, nearly 300 members of the Pittsburgh community came together to fight back against transphobic hate. People took concrete steps to disrupt Michael Knowles‘ attempt to advocate genocide on the University of Pittsburgh campus, and in doing so, overcame attempts by liberals and moderates to pacify and defang resistance. Here’s what went down."
There is an excellent free resource out there for survival situations- military field manuals. A quick search will find you hundreds of different ones. Many are not useful for non-military situations but many have excellent tutorials on bush-craft, field-craft and wilderness survival, urban survival during riots and civil disturbance, hiding in plain site, first survival actions after biological weapons are deployed, field first aid, and my latest find: SERE- Survival, Evasion and Recovery which has a lot of primitive survival info.
The key to using these manuals is disregard anything that doesn't have relevance to you and look for the useful information as it applies which might be only a small section in each. There are lots of different sources for finding these manuals, but here are 2 links for you to get started. The manuals are free to download usually on PDF and are a valuable addition to your preps.
I'm here to make friends so I don't feel so alone here at the end of the world. You like #cats? That's a follow. You like/make #music? Follow. You have #ADHD? Follow. You geek out about your hobbies? You like #scifi and/or #fantasy? Follow! Are you funny? Kind? #Antifascist? Worried about the #ClimateCrisis? Follow, follow, follow!
🐍 Longtime #Python developer & maintainer of various popular libraries (Fabric, Paramiko, Invoke, &c)
💻 Longtime #Linux (#Unix) #sysadmin & #DevOps engineer (so many distros, currently experimenting with #NixOS)
😻 Owned by 2 #cats (and grew up with #dogs)
🇺🇸🗽 Resident of #NewJersey
🌹🍞 Bit of a #leftist and #antifascist who still votes #Democrat when necessary
⚔️🚀 #SFF fan
& much more! ✨
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lots of things about the past two a half years have been terrible, physically, emotionally, and esp. financially
but seeing people send photos back of our #SatanicAntifascism fundraising stickers or flags in places around #Seattle and other cities sometimes literally around the world has been really amazing
I'm an #anarchist who votes.
I'm a #socialist who invests money into good causes.
I'm an #antifascist who wouldn't punch a #nazi.
I'm an anti-#racist without "many of my best friends being black".
I'm a #feminist who is against a #HeadscarfBan.
I'm a #FreeSpeech advocate who is pro deplatforming of hate speakers.
I'm a #SocialJustice activist who has #SocialAnxiety.
I'm a #vegan who doesn't do it for the animals.
I'm an #activist who spends a lot of my time being passive.
I'm someone who wouldn't board a plane, but dreams of flying.
I'm a #ClimateJustice activist who loves the heat.
I'm a #FreeSoftware enthusiast who can't code.