WE SHALL BE ALL!

https://linktr.ee/DMV_EWOC

Illustration by J.A. Mitchell, 1906

#education #classwar #eattherich #socialism #anarchism #communism #union #iww #wobblies #solidarity #politics

When my employer sat a younger apprentice recently, I advised him to call the hall to get re-assigned. Nobody had told him he could.

Fellow #unionworkers, we need to be better about explaining how our unions work. Of the 3 I've been involved with, only 1 did a decent job of this: the #IWW. We all need to emulate the #wobblies a little better.
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Movie Night! Join us (or don't, you can sit separately)

Sat, Sept 2
Movie Night: The #Wobblies
7 pm
Lake Worth Playhouse
713 Lake Ave
#LakeWorthBeach , #Florida 33460

"Filmmakers ... weave history, archival film footage, interviews with former workers (now in their 80s and 90s), cartoons, original art, and classic Wobbly songs... to pay tribute to the legacy of these rebels who ... risked their lives for the many of the rights that we still have today.

tix: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6125559

#IWW

Today in Labor History August 19, 1909: The first edition of the IWW’s The Little Red Songbook was published in Spokane, WA. The book’s subtitle is “Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent.” Between 1909 and 1995, the Wobblies printed 36 editions. The songbook always includes songs by Joe Hill, Ralph Chaplin, T-Bone Slim, and Haywire Mac. Most editions contained many of the best-known labor songs, like "The Internationale," "The Preacher and the Slave," and "Solidarity Forever."

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #IWW #LittleRedSongbook #FolkMusic #union #HaywireMac #JoeHill #internationale #wobblies #solidarity

Getting Wobbly In There...
#IWW #labormovement #wobblies #anniversary #syndicalism

#IWW #wobblies #wobbs #IndustrialWorkersoftheWorld #onebigunion

"Workers at three Peet’s Coffee locations in Berkeley and Oakland have started a union drive.

The workers, who are hoping to join the Industrial Workers of the World IU 460, filed three petitions for union elections with the National Labor Relations Board on Friday."

#IWW #Wobblies #Union #LaborMovement #IndustrialWorkersoftheWorld

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2023/06/12/peets-coffee-union-efforts-oakland-berkeley

Today in Labor History June 3, 1913: IWW Marine Transport Workers Union in New Orleans continued their strike against United Fruit Company (now known as Chiquita) after wages were cut by five dollars per month. The strike, which started on June 2, turned deadly on June 13, when police opened fire on strikers trying to stop scabs from loading a ship, killing two of them. The IWW lost this strike. However, they were highly successful in other longshore strikes up and down the Eastern Seaboard. At this time, the IWW controlled all but 2 of the Philadelphia docks. Their multiracial union was led by Ben Fletcher, an African-American docker. Fletcher was also instrumental in organizing the Baltimore dockers.

You can read my longer article about Ben Fletcher here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2021/05/13/ben-fletcher-and-the-iww-dockers/

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #IWW #wobblies #union #strike #racism #NewOrleans #philadelphia #police #PoliceBrutality #acab #PoliceMurder #scab #antiracism #solidarity #BlackMastadon

Today in Labor History June 2, 1917: IWW Fifty IWW teamsters won a strike for higher wages and better conditions in Atkins, Iowa. On that same day, IWW macaroni workers called off their strike in Chicago due to interference by the AFL. And in Pittsburgh, also on this same day, Fifteen Wobblies were arrested on charges of conspiracy against the US and released.

#LaborHistory #WorkingClass #IWW #union #strike #wobblies #teamsters #conspiracy

Read more of her history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gurley_Flynn
#ACLU #IWW #Wobblies #CPUSA #TheRebelGirl

Sound: on :3

#IWW #Wobblies #MayDay

This one's a song composed by a Finnish-American artist by the name of T-Bone Slim.

I think a huge chunk of Finnish history is kinda lost to us, as over here we're not always aware of how Finnish migrants fared overseas after each emigration push.

Especially the one after our civil war.

But quite a large number of them were wobblies, which makes me happy. :3

#IWW #Wobblies #Anarchosyndicalism #Unions #Finland #Finnish #MayDay #Strike #Socialism #Syndicalism

https://youtu.be/QNSq0dBmWuY

RT @IndustrialWrkr
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A new article written by members of #IWW Bruxelles that encourages workers to get back to the basics of workplace organizing. "It is the slow, long-term, collective work of ants..." #Strike #Wobblies #France #Belgium #Union https://industrialworker.org/the-problem-with-only-striking/

Ora e sempre Valerio Evangelisti. Tre giorni per parlare del Magister e proseguire le sue lotte https://www.carmillaonline.com/2023/04/09/ora-e-sempre-valerio-evangelisti-tre-giorni-per-parlare-del-magister-e-proseguire-le-sue-lotte/ #ArchivioStoricodeiMovimentidiviaAvesella #AssociazioneValerioEvangelisti #L'insurrezioneimmaginaria #ilsoledell'avvenire #NuovaCasadelPopolo #ValerioEvangelisti #CarmillaOnLine #ListaEymerich #Letteratura #Magister #Speciali #Wobblies #Lotte #Vag61

March 23, 1918

The trial of 101 #Wobblies (members of the Industrial Workers of the World or #IWW) began in Chicago, for opposition to World War I.

In September 1917, 165 IWW members were arrested for conspiring to hinder the draft, encourage desertion, and intimidate others in connection with labor disputes.

The trial lasted five months, the longest criminal trial in American history to date.

Member of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) speaks in solidarity at a rally in support of a #IWW union drive in #Berkeley last weekend. Workers are organizing to form a union and held a kick-off rally in support of the campaign.

#ILWU #IndustrialWorkersoftheWorld #Wobblies #BayArea #Oakland #SanFrancisco #California #Labor #LaborUnion #LaborMovement

It has been confirmed that Manuel Esteban Paez Teran, the #ForestDefender who was murdered by police, was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World. #Wobblies, get out there and fight like hell. An injury to one is an injury to all, especially the fatal.

Please consider contributing to the #GoFundMe set up for Teran's family and funeral expenses.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/for-family-of-manuel-tortuguita-paez-teran?qid=62a50339c549e60f1e289f9edf903754

#IWW #Wobbly #Tortuguita #DefendTheAtlantaForest #StopCopCity #ACAB #JusticeForTort

#StrikeForOurRights will be hosting an info meeting tomorrow at 4pm PDT / 7pm EDT. I'm not affiliated with them, yet, but If you are one of many, many people who have been clamoring for a #GeneralStrike, you should make it a point to attend this meeting. I've talked with, seen, and heard many people who are eager for a mass direct action, but that doesn't happen without building a web of support to help us all get through what might be a protracted period without reliable income and resources. If you haven't joined your local branch of the #IWW you should look into that as well. The #wobblies have been a force for good for over a century, and are building steam once more. If you really want change, you need to #organize

https://www.strikeforourrights.org/

#IndustrialWorkersOfTheWorld #Antiwork #collapse

#AnarchistReadingList
"A Wise Move" by Lucy Parsons
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-a-wise-move
Lucy Parsons must be regarded as one of the great titans of anarchist thought, almost beyond reproach. I disagree with nearly every word written in this short letter. I believe today, the technical term would be "shitlib anarkiddie with a truly hot take"?
She founded the IWW, she was known as "more dangerous than a thousand rioters" merely by her speeches, and she was intimately involved in the seminal moment of American anarchism, the Haymarket Affair. She's one of those writers I truly adore, and I strongly encourage reading anything and everything by her you can find.
#Anarchism #Anarchy #readinglist #theory #readtheory #IWW #LucyParsons #Wobblies #socialism #leftism #leftist #communism

According to the October GOB, the IWW had 6904 members in good standing as of last January. Today we learned there were 327 votes cast in the 2022 General Administration Election. This is 4.7% voter turnout. Does this tell us anything important, Fellow Workers? And for the record, no I didn't vote lol. #IWW #Wobblies #Voting