Friendly reminder that Helen Keller was a socialist through most of her life #HelenKeller #Socialism #History #DisabilitlyRights #DisabilityHistory

Today in Labor History June 27, 1880: Helen Keller was born (1880-1968) in Tuscumbia, Alabama. In addition to being an early advocate for disability rights, she was also a radical socialist for women’s suffrage and birth control, the rights of workers and world peace. She supported the NAACP and was a founding member of the ACLU. She also joined the IWW and wrote for them from 1916-1918. In 1933, the Nazi Youth burned her book, “How I Became Socialist.” However, like many people of her era, from both the right and the left, she supported the eugenics movement and once claimed that the lives of infants with severe cognitive impairments were not worth saving. She published 12 books. Her most famous was her autobiography, “The Story of My Life,” (1903).

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Una deviazione in mezzo alla strada non è la fine della strada, a meno che tu non sappia girare.
– Helen Keller

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Una deviazione in mezzo alla strada non è la fine della strada, a meno che tu non sappia girare.
– Helen Keller

#quotes #HelenKeller #strada

Una deviazione in mezzo alla strada non è la fine della strada, a meno che tu non sappia girare.
– Helen Keller

#quotes #HelenKeller #strada

Today in Labor History January 19, 1914: IWW labor organizer and folk singer, Joe Hill, was arrested for killing two men during a grocery store robbery. He claimed innocence and the evidence against him was flimsy. However, because of his radical associations, they still framed and convicted him. President Wilson, Hellen Keller (also an IWW member) and the Swedish ambassador all asked for clemency. Hill’s final message from prison, before being shot by firing squad, was “Don’t mourn, Organize!” His ashes were sprinkled in every state of the union, except Utah because he didn’t want to be found dead in Utah. They were also sprinkled in Canada, Sweden, Australia and Canada. Some of his most famous songs were “The Preacher and the Slave,” “The Rebel Girl,” “There is Power in a Union,” “Casey Jones, the Union Scab,” and “Mr. Block.” In 1988, an envelope containing his remaining ashes was discovered. Abbie Hoffman suggested that folksinger Billy Bragg should consume them and he supposedly did, washed down, of course, with copious beer.

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I've watched a movie about Helen Keller - Her socialist smile. It's very inspiring and I highly recommend it. #film #HelenKeller :comm:

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=b6cIzgUakPc

The film is a rousing reminder that Keller’s undaunted activism for #laborRights, pacifism, and women’s suffrage was philosophically inseparable from her battles for the rights of the disabled.

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