I really fear what #Internet is becoming. #Cookies, accept, decline some nonsense shit that many do not understand; #laws, #restrictions, #vpns, #bans, policies, and other stupid rules that defending the world does not exist, etc. What has happened? How did we let it be? It is not the place where I wanna be. I come here to see what I wanna see, to talk to anyone I wanna talk, to post what I wanna post, to find knowledge and skills I was deprived. And what we have now? What do we do then?

#freedom #freedomofspeech #aftermath #mutualaid #community #help #standforeachother #newera #newage #science #knowledge #edu #education #revolution

"Sie [Länder des globalen Südens] vereint der Hunger nach Teilhabe, die Macht der Verweigerung, der Protest gegen die Eliten von früher, gegen den falschen Moralismus der alten Welt. Die alten Eliten haben ihre Autorität verspielt, die Ungehörten begehren auf. Das ist der Stoff, aus dem Revolutionen gemacht werden."

SZ über den G20 Gipfel, zitiert in der Presseschau des DLF, 2022-09-09.

#Postkolonialismus #indien #Revolution #g20

"#Britain is asset rich. National wealth – a mix of property, business, financial and state assets – stands at almost seven times the size of the #economy. That is double the level of the 1970s.

This has not come about as a result of investment and productivity growth. Instead, much of this private-wealth mountain is unearned – the product of windfall gains, resulting from state-driven asset #inflation, the mass sell-off of former public and commonly held assets (from land to industries) and the #exploitation of #corporate power. As philosopher and civil servant John Stuart Mill quipped during the #Industrial #Revolution, it’s “getting rich while asleep”.

This has widened the #wealth gap. The top tenth of Britons now holds nearly half of the #UK’s private wealth. The poorest half’s share, meanwhile, has never exceeded one-tenth.

As a former #US supreme court justice Louis Brandeis famously declared – a century ago – it was possible, in the US, to have either democracy or great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few – but not both.

Britain today badly fails Brandeis’s #democracy test. Yet, the Labour party’s leaders have no declared plans – at least, as yet – to close this gap."

https://theconversation.com/poverty-in-britain-is-firmly-linked-to-the-countrys-mountain-of-private-wealth-labour-must-address-this-growing-inequality-212741

Today in Labor History September 5, 1906: Followers of the Flores Magón brothers left Douglas, Arizona and attacked the town of Agua Prieta, in the Mexican state of Sonora. The 1906 attack was part of the Magonistas’ first attempted revolution. It came in the wake of the bloody Cananea Strike, 30 miles to the southwest of Agua Prieta, where 23 workers had recently been killed. The anarchist Magonistas had been active in that strike which, along with their failed 1906 revolution, helped pave the way for the more famous Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920. Two more battles were fought in Agua Prieta in 1911 and 1912.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #mexico #Revolution #Magonistas #Cananea #strike #mining #anarchism #RicardoFloresMagon

Today in Labor History September 5, 1794: Radical democrat priest Jacques Roux was arrested in France. He had preached for a classless society and became a leader of the revolutionary far-left during the French Revolution. He argued for full economic equality among all people. He demanded food for anyone who needed it and called on the wealthy to be executed if they hoarded it. His radicalism helped turned the sans-culottes against the more conservative Jacobins. Rather than allow the revolutionary court to execute him he stabbed himself to death in prison.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #french #Revolution #JacquesRoux #jacobin #prison

Geschichtstipp: Friedhof der Märzgefallenen in Berlin.
Lohnt sich, sich anzuschauen.
#revolution #berlin
Sehenswert.

Does anyone here use a #Revolution #white cane? If so, are they really more lightweight than the #Ambutech #graphite #canes? I have arthritis in my hands now, and it's hard to use the cane for any length of time? If they are more lightweight, can you purchase them with #roller #tips? I have extra #Ambutech #tips, but assume they won't fit other brands. I wanted to get some input before I called and talked with the sales people.

Today in Labor History September 3, 1920: Workers took over and occupied nearly all the factories in Spezia, Italy, in opposition to both the bosses and the union leadership. 600,000 workers participated in the occupations. They continued operations, but under their leadership and control, rather than the bosses’. Their goal was to build the movement into a revolutionary General Strike and to create a workers’ socialist republic in which the workers controlled all industry. Union leadership, in collaboration with the government and plant owners, eventually convinced most workers to accept a sell-out deal. And by February, 1921, the owners went on the offensive against the workers, aided by Fascist thugs.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #italy #fascism #GeneralStrike #union #occupation #Revolution #socialism

Today in Labor History August 31, 1798: Irish rebels, with French assistance, established the short-lived Republic of Connacht during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. On September 8, 1798, just weeks after its proclamation, the British army defeated the new Republic at the Battle of Ballinamuck. The British army then spread out into the rebel-held Province of Connacht, slaughtering people and burning villages. And they hunted down and hanged with many of the rebel leaders.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #ireland #Revolution #rebellion #colonialism #massacre

#SystemFail

#ArithmaticSociology

Of the global population:
1% (Oligarchs)
4% (Politician Minions)
90% (from Liberals to Fascists)
5% (Revolutionaries)

#NoWarButClassWar
#WokeIsMe
#Revolution

“Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"
-Otto von Bismarck

#SystemFail

#ArithmaticSociology

Of the global population:
1% (Oligarchs)
4% (Politician Minions)
90% (from Liberals to Fascists)
5% (Revolutionaries)

#WokeIsMe
#Revolution

“Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red unite!"
-Otto von Bismarck

#SystemFail

#ArithmaticSociology

Of the global population:
1% (Oligarchs)
4% (Politician Minions)
90% (Liberals and Fascists)
5% (Revolutionaries)

#WokeIsMe
#Revolution

Today in Labor History August 30, 1974: A powerful bomb exploded at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Tokyo. 8 died and 378 were injured. The East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front, a radical far-left organization carried out the attack because they were supplying the U.S. during the Vietnam War. The EAAJAF was an anarchist-inspired group that espoused revolution against the Japanese state, corporations, and symbols of Japanese imperialism. They committed a series of bombings during the early 1970s until the Japanese authorities arrested most of its membership in 1975. Several members were sentenced to death

The EAAJAF lacked centralized leadership. Members chose to work by day as normal corporate employees and prepare their operations by night, donating half their income to the cause. In contrast, other groups, like the Japanese Red Army, raised funds through illegal means including bank robberies. As they studied the history of aggression by Japan against Korea and the Ainu, the EAAJAF acquired its personal "anti-Japanese ideology." They considered not only those in power, but also Japanese corporations and laborers as "perpetrators of imperialist aggression" and believed that they were acceptable targets for attack.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #anarchism #terrorism #bombing #tokyo #imperialism #vietnam #antiwar #Revolution

Today in Labor History August 30, 1800: Gabriel Prosser postponed his planned slave rebellion in Richmond, Virginia. The authorities still arrested and executed him, along with 20 others. While the revolt never occurred, it was the one event that most directly confronted the founding fathers with the enormous gulf between their ideal of liberty and their sleazy accommodations to slavery. It led to a rash of new legislation curtailing the rights of free African Americans, as well as laws prohibiting the education and hiring out of enslaved black people. Richmond, at the time of the planned revolt, was a black-majority town, with 39% of its residents being enslaved. There was a community whipping post, where people were brutalized publicly. There was also a growing number of free black people in Richmond, due in part to the influence of abolitionist Quakers and Methodists, as well as numerous refugees from the Haitian Revolution, a few years prior. The goal of the uprising was to completely end slavery in Virginia by holding Virginia's Governor, James Monroe, hostage to negotiate for their freedom. In 2007, Governor Tim Kaine informally pardoned Gabriel.

Arna Bontemps, a member of the Harlem Rennaisance, wrote Black Thunder (1936), a historical novel based on Gabriel's Rebellion. Alex Haley mentions it in his book, Roots. Barbara Chase-Riboud writes about it in her 1979 novel, Sally Hemings. And "Gabriel, the Musical" was produced in Richmond Virginia in 2022, with libretto by Jerold Solomon, Foster Solomon and Ron Klipp, and Music & Lyrics by Ron Klipp.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #slavery #abolition #rebellion #uprising #GabrielProsser #richmond #virginia #Revolution #haiti #AfricanAmerican #BlackMastdaon #books #fiction #novel #author #writer @bookstadon

Just out in Behavioral and Brain Sciences: "Real systemic solutions to humanity's problems require a radical reshaping of the global political system." [paywall; ask me for a copy]

#capitalism #socialjustice #revolution #ClimateCrisis #behavioraleconomics

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23001061

“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”

― Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia"

#Revolution #UrsulaLeGuin

Today in Labor History August 27, 1918: The U.S. Army, including Buffalo Soldiers, fought Mexican Carrancistas in the Battle of Ambos Nogales, the only battle of World War I that was fought on American soil. It is alleged that German forces were supporting the Mexican Revolutionaries and that two German soldiers died in the battle. However, the battle was precipitated by cross border firing into the U.S. during a sectarian fight between in the armies of Venustiano Carranza and Pancho Villa, who were struggling for control of Nogales Sonora (Mexican Nogales), as well as by racist, anti-Mexican hysteria in the U.S. that was being whipped up by the media. In the aftermath, the U.S. constructed the first permanent wall on its southern border, and began building walls at many other border crossings, as well.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #ww1 #mexico #PanchoVilla #Revolution #BuffaloSoldier #BorderWall #immigration

Never forget that relaxing and recharging should be a part of your revolutionary practice.

Rest and self care are revolutionary acts.

#selfcare #relax #revolution

I'm also interested in material for teaching kids about the Mexican revolution.
#mexico #revolution #history

I'm looking for material for introducing kids to the Haitian revolution. Please let me know if you have any recommendations. Here's what I've found so far:
A resource list:
https://teachhungrymovement.com/haitian-revolution/
A teaching guide:
https://www.socialstudies.org/sites/default/files/view-article-2020-12/se8406355.pdf
An OER video -- also on Kahn Academy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IEZCJDwRgw
A book for kids:
"Open the door to liberty! : a biography of Toussaint L'Ouverture"
#Haiti #history #revolution #racism