MikeDunnAuthor

@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social

Working Class Historical Fiction from the not so gilded age. Labor History. Social justice. An injury to one is an injury to all!

https://michaeldunnauthor.com
https://www.thehistoricalfictioncompany.com/michael-dunn

Pronouns: He/him

#Solidarity #Sabotage #GeneralStrike
#HistoricalFiction #WorkingClass #LaborHistory
#WomensRights #antifascism #AntiImperialism #LGBTQIA+ #EndAbleism #TransRightsAreHumanRights #SelfDetermination #ClimateChange

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ryanhoulihan, to random
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She sucks a lot but let’s talk about how Mark Zuckerberg and his products have killed and defrauded more people than Elizabeth Holmes.

MikeDunnAuthor,

@ryanhoulihan
Correct!
If she had not gotten caught, she be their hero!

MikeDunnAuthor, to bookstadon

Today in Writing History May 9, 1981: Nelson Algren, American novelist and short story writer died. His most famous book was “The Man With The Golden Arm,” which was made into a film in 1955. He was called the “bard of the down-and-outer” based on his numerous stories about the poor, beaten down and addicted. Algren was also called a “gut radical.” His heroes included Big Bill Haywood, Eugene Debs and Clarence Darrow. He claims he never joined the Communist Party, but he participated in the John Reed Club and was an honorary co-chair of the “Save Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Committee.” The FBI surveilled him and had a 500-page dossier on him.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #NelsonAlgren #fiction #novel #writer #author #fbi #communism @bookstadon

MikeDunnAuthor,

@MHowell @bookstadon

True that!

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Today in Labor History May 9, 1907: Big Bill Haywood went on trial for murder in the bombing death of former Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg. Clarence Darrow defended Haywood and got him acquitted. Steunenberg had brutally suppressed the state’s miners. Haywood had been framed by a Pinkerton agent provocateur named James McParland, the same man who infiltrated the Pennsylvania miners’ union in the 1870s and got 20 innocent men executed as Molly Maguires. You can read about that in my novel, “Anywhere But Schuylkill,” which I hope to have out by end of summer.

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MikeDunnAuthor,

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Today in Writing History May 8, 1937: Thomas Pynchon, American novelist was born.

#ThomasPynchon #fiction #novel #author #writing @bookstadon

MikeDunnAuthor,

@mtheriaultsf @bookstadon

Fantastic book

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Today in Labor History April 30, 1994: Richard Scarry died. Scarry wrote and illustrated humorous children’s books with elaborate scenes of anthropomorphized animals. Some of his recurring characters were Lowly Worm, Huckle Cat, Mistress Mouse the tow truck driver, and Dingo the reckless driver. His fictional world, Busy Town, is characterized by a strong sense of community and mutual aid. Over the years, he revised his stories in an attempt to eliminate racial and gender stereotypes.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #RichardScarry #fiction #MutualAid #ChildrensBooks @bookstadon

MikeDunnAuthor,

@mgmarkel @bookstadon

Right on!

MikeDunnAuthor,

@mgmarkel @bookstadon

I loved his books as a kid.

Loved revisiting them as a father and reading them to my son.

LutherBlissett13, to random

Introduction.

Hi. I'm a Luther Blissett. Anarchist. Disabled.
I like learning, writing ambient music, reading.

Mostly moved here to listen and learn.

I've self taught myself the history of eugenics in regard to disabled people, in the UK, US and Canada, and the history of post-viral illness, past and present.

I'm happy to be asked about Disability, models of it, ideas, etc. Happy to be asked to read anything you write about it, and give an opinion if that would be helpful. If I don't know, it's beyond my knowledge, I'll tell you.

I will never be able to get the difference between "its" and "it's", no matter how many times I relearn it. My punctuation "skills" are terrible, so if that is a pet peeve, I will make you grind your teeth.

I will like the heck out of your posts.

MikeDunnAuthor,

@LutherBlissett13 Hi Luther. Did you adopt the name of one of the greatest writing collectives ever? Or was it purely coincidental?

MikeDunnAuthor, to bookstadon

Today in labor history April 28, 1789: Fletcher Christian led a group of mutineers against the brutal Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. Christian began the voyage as the captain’s mate, but Bligh appointed him acting Lieutenant during the voyage. The story of the voyage and mutiny was later retold by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall’s “Mutiny on the Bounty.” After their successful mutiny, Christian, 9 other mutineers, 6 Tahitian men and 11 Tahitian women, started a colony on the South Pacific island of Pitcairn. However, the Tahitians rebelled when the mutineers tried to enslave them and killed most of them. But not until after many of the Tahitian women became pregnant. The decedents of the mutineers continue to live there today. Bligh had previously served on the Resolution, as Master, under Captain Cook, on his second and third voyages to Hawaii. And he was present when the native Hawaiians killed Cook.

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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.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #dada #TristanTzara #nazis #antifascist #poetry #literary #communism @bookstadon

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Today in Labor History May 19, 1989: Trinidadian Marxist historian and journalist C.L.R. James died. James was the author of The Black Jacobins (1938), Breaking a Boundary (1963), numerous articles and essays on class and race antagonism, West Indian self-determination, cricket, Marxism, & aesthetics. In 1933, he published the pamphlet The Case for West-Indian Self Government. He was a champion of Pan-Africanism and a member of the Friends of Ethiopia, an organization opposed to fascism and the Italian conquest of Ethiopia. He also wrote a play about the Haitian Revolution, Toussaint L’Ouverture, the Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History. Paul Robeson starred in the 1936 British production.

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Today in Labor History April 27, 1759: Mary Wollstonecraft, was born. She was an English philosopher, historian, and early feminist who advocated for women’s rights. In her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), she argued that women are not naturally inferior to men, but only appeared to be because they lacked education. She married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the first modern proponents of anarchism. She was also the mother of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, who wrote Frankenstein.

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Today in Writing History May 11, 1880: The Mussel Slough Tragedy occurred on this day in Hanford, California. It was a land between squatters and the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP), one of the nation’s most powerful corporations. Former California governor, Leland Stanford, was president of SP. The conflict began as a picnic of settlers and their supporters. However, when word spread that the railroad was actively evicting settlers, a group of twenty left the picnic to confront them. Seven died in the confrontation. A federal Grand Jury indicted seventeen people and five were found guilty of interfering with a federal marshal. The newspapers seized on the event as an example of corporate greed and the excesses of capitalism. Several great historical novels were based on this incident. Frank Norris wrote The Octopus: A Story of California (1901), about the incident. W.C. Morrow’s 1882 novel Blood-Money was also about this tragedy. And May Merrill Miller wrote about it, as well, in her novel, First the Blade (1938).

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #massacre #RobberBarrons #railroad #Stanford #fiction #novel #HistoricalFiction @bookstadon

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Today in Writing History May 13, 1944: Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin was born. Maupin wrote the novels over the course of nearly forty years, (1978-2014). He was one of the first writers to incorporate the AIDS epidemic into his novels.

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Today in Labor History May 15, 1917: The Library Employees’ Union was founded in New York City. It was the first union of public library workers in the United States. One of their main goals was to elevate the low status of women library workers and their miserable salaries. Maud Malone (1873-1951) was a founding member of the union. She was also a militant suffragist and an infamous heckler at presidential campaign speeches.

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Today in Labor History May 16, 1912: Studs Terkel was born, New York City. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for his book The Good War, a collection of oral histories from World War II. He was born to Russian-Jewish parents. He joined the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Writers’ Project. This provided him work in radio. He best known for his program, The Studs Terkel Program, which aired on WFMT, Chicago, from 1952-1997. Some of the people he interviewed on this show included: Bob Dylan, Big Bill Broonzy, Frank Zappa, Leonard Bernstein, Martin Luther King and Tennessee Williams.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #StudsTerkel #union #jewish #pulitzer #radio #books #writer @bookstadon

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Today in Writing History May 7, 1867: Polish author Wladyslaw Reymont was born. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi (The Peasants), which won him the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature. Also in 1924, he published his novel “Revolt,” about a rebellion of farm animals fighting for equality. However, the revolt quickly degenerates into bloody terror. It was a metaphor for the Bolshevik Revolution. Consequently, the Polish authorities banned it from 1945 to 1989. Reymont’s farm animal rebellion predated Orwell’s by 21 years.

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Today in labor history April 28, 1896: Na Hye-sok was born. She was a South Korean feminist, poet, writer, painter and journalist. She was the first female professional painter and the first feminist writer in Korea.

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Today In Labor History May 1, 1923: Novelist Joseph Heller was born on this day. He published his most famous book, the anti-war satire, Catch-22, in 1961.

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Today in Writing History May 9, 1946: Ayşe Nur Zarakolu, Turkish author and activist was born on this day. Along with her husband, she cofounded Belge publishing house. She published books on the Armenian Genocide and the human rights of Turkey’s Kurdish population. As a result, the government imprisoned her repeatedly. Amnesty International designated her a prison of conscience.

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Today in Writing History May 11, 1916: Spanish author, fascist and Nobel laureate, Camilo Jose Cela, was born. He was a staunch homophobe and a supporter of Franco, fascist leader of Spain. During the dictatorship, he worked as a censor for the fascist state and as an informer for the secret police.

#LaborHistory #WorkingClass #fascism #spain #dictatorship #franco #informer #spy #homophobia #lgbtq #author #literature #fiction #NobelPrize @bookstadon

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Today in Writing History May 21, 1703: The authorities imprisoned writer Daniel Defoe for seditious libel. Defoe was most famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, and Moll Flanders (1722). However, he also wrote political pamphlets, including The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, which satirized how Tories handled religious dissenters by proposing that they all be exterminated. As a result, the authorities arrested and imprisoned him for seditious libel.

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