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
I'll be okay, I'm just sore, but I just got hit by a car on my bike because an idiot didn't know what a stop sign is or something... idk I would have asked but they just kept going as if they didn't even know they hit me and knocked me down into the road. Police were fucking useless as usual when they did absolutely nothing about it. This is an #acab moment if I ever seen one.
@billzismyname oh felt great until he started to get serious with me about being aggressively angry... hmm go figure.. I wonder why? I know when to walk.
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.
No matter how many rainbows, raised fists or whatever else 'woke' they put on their cars this week.
They are the state sanctioned arm of violence. And will support that state's desires to the 'death' (yours for protesting them).
They're there solely to keep the ruling class comfortably isolated from their wealth and power ever being able to be challenged by the masses (the 'poors').
This is a wild case, https://ij.org/case/king-v-brownback/ Without identifying themselves as police, the men began asking James questions and ultimately pinned him against their vehicle. When one of the men took James’ wallet, James believed he was being mugged, so he did what any rational person would do: He tried to escape. But when he did so, the men tackled James, choked him unconscious, and severely beat him. What the synopsis misses here too is it was soo strange that the locals called 911, the police afterward forced bystanders to delete video off their devices, and after James bit the officer that choked him unconscious in a effort to get out of the chokehold the officer in his own words "punched him as hard and as fast as I could" Incase the cops ever wonder why people dislike them, its not because nobody likes authority, that just doesn't help. Its because you don't hold yourselves accountable and yeet fuck wads like this out of the police force and into a jail cell. If I pinned someone against a car, grabbed their wallet, then beat the ever loving fuck out of them I'd be in jail for long enough for that person to forget who I was. #FuckThePolice#ACAB
@TheDarkHorse Ive worked both willingly and unwillingly with police, was in the military. I can whole heartedly say Fuck the police, and in this case the federal government too. Apparently listening to one of the lawyers on this case if this was just a local police officer, the case would more or less be a slam dunk and his client would be a millionaire. But apparently there is a bunch of grey area and case law that says basically you as a citizen are not allowed to sue the government. He's fighting this trying to say the FBI doesn't get special immunity.