#PercivalEverett" “My writing ‘James’ is not in any way an indictment of #Twain at all,” #Everett told NPR. “I’m writing the novel that Twain was not ill-equipped, but unequipped to write. That being the story of Jim. So I consider this more as being in discourse with Twain.”
#PercivalEverett" “My writing ‘James’ is not in any way an indictment of #Twain at all,” #Everett told NPR. “I’m writing the novel that Twain was not ill-equipped, but unequipped to write. That being the story of Jim. So I consider this more as being in discourse with Twain.”
Today in Labor History March 5, 1917: Members of the IWW went on trial in Everett, Washington for the Everett Massacre, which occurred on November 5, 1916. In reality, they were the victims of an assault by a mob of drunken, vigilantes, led by Sheriff McRae. The IWW members had come to support the 5-month long strike by shingle workers. When their boat, the Verona, arrived, the Sheriff asked who their leader was. They replied, “We are all leaders.” Then the vigilantes began firing at their boat. They killed 12 IWW members and 2 of their own, who they accidentally shot in the back. Before the killings, 40 IWW street speakers had been taken by deputies to Beverly Park, where they were brutally beaten and run out of town. In his “USA” trilogy, John Dos Passos mentions Everett as “no place for the working man.” And Jack Kerouac references the Everett Massacre in his novel, “Dharma Bums.”
Today in Labor History November 5, 1916: The Everett Massacre occurred in Everett, Washington. 300 IWW members arrived by boat in Everett to help support the shingle workers’ strike that had been going on for the past 5 months. Prior attempts to support the strikers were met with vigilante beatings with axe handles. As the boat pulled in, Sheriff McRae called out, “Who’s your leader?” The Wobblies answered, “We’re all leaders!” The sheriff pulled his gun and said, “You can’t land.” A Wobbly yelled back, “Like hell we can’t.” Gunfire erupted, most of it from the 200 vigilantes on the dock. When the smoke cleared, two of the sheriff’s deputies were dead, shot in the back by their own men, along with 5-12 Wobblies on the boat. Dozens more were wounded. The authorities arrested 74 Wobblies. After a trial, all charges were dropped against the IWW members. The event was mentioned in John Dos Passos’s “USA Trilogy.”
A #PAC supporting a city council candidate here in #Everett sent this mailer.
I really hate scare-mongering ads like this. He has plausible deniability, since it was sent by a PAC and not his campaign, but an ad like this still immediately disqualifies him in my opinion.
> The Sound Transit board is poised to vote on alternatives to be studied in the Everett Link Extension’s first round of environmental review. But the alternatives set to be incorporated into that review process evoke more the horrors of the 1950s and 1960s highway building era than a modern rapid rail transit system that belongs in urban communities.
> By and large, these displacement impacts are avoidable, not inevitable. That’s because Sound Transit could locate its elevated guideway and stations into existing streets. The alignment alternatives that county officials have settled upon are almost universally parallel to streets and stroads that exceed 60 feet in width. That’s more than enough to accommodate guideway, pylons, and stations while maintaining sufficient lanes for car traffic.
I wrote Suzan DelBene’s office (WA-1) about the RESTRICT Act a few weeks ago. I’ve heard nothing from her office. She did auto-dial me to invite me to a telephone open bourse.