“Today in Labor History July 6, 1892: Locked out workers at the Homestead Steel Works battled 300 Pinkerton detectives hired by Carnegie, who owned the Homestead mill.”
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#otd 2016 — two white police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana shot Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old Black civilian, to death while he was down on the ground and restrained. Viral videos showed that he made no effort to threaten cops.
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“Today in Labor History July 5, 1934: Two strikers were shot and killed and more than 100 were injured by San Francisco police in what came to be known as "Bloody Thursday," leading to one of the last General Strikes in U.S. history. Many non-unionized workers joined the strike”
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Getting blocked by a number of patriotic liberals is an annual July 4 event for me.
“Whites in Natchitoches initiated these ‘forced retirements’ beginning on the anniversary of American independence — July 4, 1874 — when they broke up a meeting of black Republicans gathered to celebrate the holiday”
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#otd 1917 — “From July 2 through July 5, 1917, at least 39—and by some estimate as many as 200—African Americans were shot, hanged, beaten to death, or burned alive after being driven into burning buildings.”
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Further proof that the raison d’être of fascism is to discipline and punish labor. It’s the killer K9 of capitalism.
“ICE is raiding the working class at government check-ins, traffic stops and morning commutes …. The White House set the arrest quota. Wall Street set the demand.”
10,000 ICE arrests in five day...
“The environmental consequences [of a data center] could be downright apocalyptic. Davies calculated it would spike local temperatures by five degrees Fahrenheit during the day, and 28 degrees at night.
‘That’s the difference between Utah’s semi-arid climate and the Sahara Desert’”
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This is kind of like when the Nashville’s water utility asks customers to limit water use at home, but hotels can water their grass and flowers as much as they need to keep the tourists impressed.
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“Today in Labor History July 2, 1822: The authorities hanged Denmark Vesey … others for plotting a slave uprising. An estimated 9,000 were involved in the plot, but only 67 were convicted of any offense.”
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“She was just two years old when she arrived in Mobile, Alabama, in July 1860, a captive aboard the infamous Clotilda, the last known slave ship to bring Africans to America”
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“The remains of young Palestinian woman Oreib Azmi Al-Rais have been recovered from beneath the rubble in Gaza.
She was killed by Israeli forces alongside her entire family”
“The suit says that ‘the DRAM oligopolists have simultaneously cut production, coordinated a pivot to HBM and exit from DDR3 and DDR4, and otherwise decreased and locked up conventional DRAM supply while prices charged up with mind-blowing scale and rapidity’”
A New Lawsuit Claims the Memor...
One unconfirmed report says that a young girl and her mother died in this blast.
Israeli strike kills two, sett...
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“The officer who was filmed punching the protester, identified as Zachary Stayton, was placed on paid administrative leave and later given a 30-day unpaid suspension.”
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