Not yet 17, I disobeyed my parents and drove to the police barricades at the far end of Osage Avenue after nightfall, as close as I could get to the bombing – I needed to see it with my own two eyes. The overwhelming memory I carried away with me, though, was olfactory, and not visual: I promise you that nobody within a five-mile radius of West Philadelphia that night will ever quite be able to get the smell of that murder out of their nostrils. It’s 38 years gone by and it feels like yesterday.
@OGjester@adamgreenfield
> By August 29 [1921] the battle was fully underway. [Sheriff] Chafin's men, though outnumbered, had the advantage of higher positions and better weaponry. Private planes were hired to drop homemade bombs on the miners. A combination of poison gas and explosive bombs left over from World War I were dropped in several locations...
Maxine LaQueen performing at Sine Die Bitch at Cheer Up Charlie's in #Austin. This event is a response to the record-breaking attacks on #LGBTQIA rights at the legislature. LaQueen has been targeted for far-right harassment. #drag#TXlege#Texas
Brigitte Bandit performing in #ACAB pasties, drops No Cops at #Pride banners during the performance at Sine Die Bitch at Cheer Up Charlie's in #Austin. #LGBTQIA#Texas#TXlege
@tofugolem@Chron
This is something I wish more americans understood. The "job" of policing is not to keep everyday people safe, it's to protect the property and interests of the capitalist class, with violence.
That's why they will let school children get gunned down during the day, then use every violent tool at their disposal against protesters at night. #ACAB
Today in Labor History May 20, 1938: 500 unemployed workers began a sit-down strike in the Hotel Georgia, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Unemployed men had been drifting to British Columbia during the Depression because of the milder climate and relatively better pay in the forestry camps. In early ’38, the government had cut grants to the provinces. As a result, many of the relief camps shut down and jobs dried up. In response, protesters occupied the Hotel George, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the main post office beginning on May 20. They were led by communist organizers. The owner of the hotel refused to call the cops, fearing major property damage in the melee that would ensue. So, he bribed the men to leave. However, those in the post office and art gallery remained for weeks.
The conflict culminated on Bloody Sunday (June 19), when undercover Mounties brutally beat strikers in their attempt to evict them. 42 people were hospitalized, five of whom were cops. One striker lost an eye. Those who evaded arrest, along with onlookers and supporters on the outside, then marched to the East End, smashing windows. They caused $35,000 damage.
I love the lyrics in Go Beast:
"Im like whirly wind
Disturbin them
While Observing the trends
Gurridyula circles again
I wedgtailed the rats is this rat race
And when im in da house I'm the cat
With the facts
Relax mate ayy!" https://gurridyula.bandcamp.com/track/go-beast
Za każdym razem dostaje potężnego dysonansu poznawczego, kiedy widzę maszerujące po uczelni klasy wojskowe i policyjne w pełnym umundurowaniu.
Na publicznej uczelni wyższej.
Pały i trepy.
Coś tam coś tam praca na rzecz nauki i dobrobytu ludzkości.
Mają przecież własne środki szkoleniowe i szkoły, po jakiego grzyba przychodzicie tutaj? Nie mówiąc już o tym jak to absurdalnie wygląda, kiedy na dniach otwartych uczelni z jednej strony holu prezentują się kierunki społeczne, psychologia, pedagogika, pomoc społeczna, a między nimi paraduje jakiś larpiarz w pełnym uzbrojeniu wojskowym i atrapą karabinu automatycznego (i to jeszcze w roku inwazji na Ukrainę). Nosz większej błazenady z szkolnictwa wyższego nie można zrobić.
A nie, przepraszam: moja uczelnia prowadzi w budynku nauk humanistycznych i społecznych strzelnicę 🤡
I've been around for a minute, and my #Mastodon account is @skroobler, but I migrated from my single-user #Akkoma instance to my new, single-user #Calckey instance. I'm a guy with a TOUCH of the #bipolar (cough), and I live in a travel trailer with my 3-legged tabby cat Waffles. Fairly left politics; if I had to define them let's say broadly by political content creators with large platforms, I am more #MajorityReport than #TYT (by quite a lot, actually). Here is a picture of Waffles to kick things off properly.
#Japan riot police pin #G7 protesters to ground in scuffle #PoliceBrutality#ACAB The demonstration was organised by the far-left extremist "Revolutionary Communist League National Committee", which denounces the G7 summit as a conference of "imperialism for nuclear war". https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-65663384