Don’t you be ridin’ the fence now. Pick a side: justice or genocide
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recently learned about the word Misogynoir..
source: https://glitchcharity.co.uk/blog/digital-misogynoir-report
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recently learned about the word Misogynoir..
source: https://glitchcharity.co.uk/blog/digital-misogynoir-report
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felt like doing something with this quote.. 🙂
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felt like doing something with this quote.. 🙂
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Good morning. I'm still trying to get $150 by the 8th to cover a payday loan. 😖😭
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Today in Labor History, February 4, 1913: Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. In 1943, she joined the NAACP, eventually becoming the branch secretary, where she investigated cases and organized protest campaigns around cases of racial and sexual violence. In spite of local policies to disenfranchise African American voters, she still registered to vote and did vote from 1943 on. In 1955, she refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in a planned direct action against Jim Crow, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Later in her life, she became a supporter of the Black Power Movement and an anti-Apartheid activist.
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In honor of Black History Month, a short biography of Ben Fletcher (April 13, 1890 – 1949), Wobbly and revolutionary. Fletcher joined the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 1912 and became secretary of the IWW District Council in 1913. He also co-founded the interracial Local 8 in 1913. Also in 1913, he led a successful strike of over 10,000 dockers. At that time, roughly one-third of the dockers on the Philadelphia waterfront were black. Another 33% were Irish. And about 33% were Polish and Lithuanian. Prior to the IWW organizing drive, the employers routinely pitted black workers against white, and Polish against Irish. The IWW was one of the only unions of the era that organized workers into the same locals, regardless of race or ethnicity. And its main leader in Philadelphia was an African American, Ben Fletcher.
By 1916, thanks in large part to Fletcher’s organizing skill, all but two of Philadelphia’s docks were controlled by the IWW. And the IWW maintained control of the Philly waterfront for about a decade. After the 1913 strike, Fletcher travelled up and down the east coast organizing dockers. However, he was nearly lynched in Norfolk, Virginia in 1917. At that time, roughly 10% of the IWW’s 1 million members were African American. Most had been rejected from other unions because of their skin color. In 1918, the state arrested him for treason, sentencing him to ten years, for the crime of organizing workers during wartime. He served three years. Fletcher supposedly said to Big Bill Haywood after the trial that the judge had been using “very ungrammatical language. . . His sentences are much too long.”
#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #benfletcher #union #strike #philadelphia #longshore #docker #waterfront #worldwarone #prison #antiwar #freespeech #racism #blackhistorymonth #BlackMastodon
Today in Labor History, February 4, 1913: Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. In 1943, she joined the NAACP, eventually becoming the branch secretary, where she investigated cases and organized protest campaigns around cases of racial and sexual violence. In spite of local policies to disenfranchise African American voters, she still registered to vote and did vote from 1943 on. In 1955, she refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in a planned direct action against Jim Crow, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Later in her life, she became a supporter of the Black Power Movement and an anti-Apartheid activist.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #blackhistorymonth #civilrights #rosaparks #directaction #jimcrow #racism #BlackMastodon
In honor of Black History Month, a short biography of Ben Fletcher (April 13, 1890 – 1949), Wobbly and revolutionary. Fletcher joined the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 1912 and became secretary of the IWW District Council in 1913. He also co-founded the interracial Local 8 in 1913. Also in 1913, he led a successful strike of over 10,000 dockers. At that time, roughly one-third of the dockers on the Philadelphia waterfront were black. Another 33% were Irish. And about 33% were Polish and Lithuanian. Prior to the IWW organizing drive, the employers routinely pitted black workers against white, and Polish against Irish. The IWW was one of the only unions of the era that organized workers into the same locals, regardless of race or ethnicity. And its main leader in Philadelphia was an African American, Ben Fletcher.
By 1916, thanks in large part to Fletcher’s organizing skill, all but two of Philadelphia’s docks were controlled by the IWW. And the IWW maintained control of the Philly waterfront for about a decade. After the 1913 strike, Fletcher travelled up and down the east coast organizing dockers. However, he was nearly lynched in Norfolk, Virginia in 1917. At that time, roughly 10% of the IWW’s 1 million members were African American. Most had been rejected from other unions because of their skin color. In 1918, the state arrested him for treason, sentencing him to ten years, for the crime of organizing workers during wartime. He served three years. Fletcher supposedly said to Big Bill Haywood after the trial that the judge had been using “very ungrammatical language. . . His sentences are much too long.”
#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #benfletcher #union #strike #philadelphia #longshore #docker #waterfront #worldwarone #prison #antiwar #freespeech #racism #blackhistorymonth #BlackMastodon
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Many Black people think the immigration problem and ICE have nothing to do with us. But, that couldn’t be further from the truth. We all have neighbors or friends who are Jamaican, Trinidadian, Haitian, Senegalese or Malian. I mean that’s all of NYC right? Some are from Bermuda, Panama or the Bahamas. Like my brother-in-law...who is now in ICE custody, in a facility near the NY border, waiting to be deported. 6/9
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I envy people who can pull their thoughts together as soon as something happens. I have never been able to do that. I have to sit with the words swirling around me till I can pick the right ones. I want to talk to the Black and Brown family on Mastodon about privilege and how privilege is contextual. Sometimes you have it, sometimes you don’t. This is a thread about my brother-in-law being turned over to ICE. 1/9
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Since 2016 I’ve been telling my family how important it was for everyone to have their papers in order. Repeatedly, I heard “We’re not Latino, we don’t have to worry about that.” I told them...but….you are BLACK. I heard the same thing when I was talking to some Black folks in Texas on a layover recently. A brother told me he was coming to DC. I said have your ID ready. He says “I’m not Hispanic.” I said “But you are BLACK.” 5/9
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Many Black people think the immigration problem and ICE have nothing to do with us. But, that couldn’t be further from the truth. We all have neighbors or friends who are Jamaican, Trinidadian, Haitian, Senegalese or Malian. I mean that’s all of NYC right? Some are from Bermuda, Panama or the Bahamas. Like my brother-in-law...who is now in ICE custody, in a facility near the NY border, waiting to be deported. 6/9
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In my family, all of my siblings with the exception of one who has mental health issues, are educated, some with multiple degrees. We all were professionals or are still working as professionals. We are still BLACK, but we’ve done well for Black folks here. We are originally from NYC and have always lived among, married, and hung out with black and brown folks from everywhere, the islands, Africa, and Central America. 4/9
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Since 2016 I’ve been telling my family how important it was for everyone to have their papers in order. Repeatedly, I heard “We’re not Latino, we don’t have to worry about that.” I told them...but….you are BLACK. I heard the same thing when I was talking to some Black folks in Texas on a layover recently. A brother told me he was coming to DC. I said have your ID ready. He says “I’m not Hispanic.” I said “But you are BLACK.” 5/9
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The example he often uses is the privilege of not being handicapped. I’ve heard him mention the privilege of being male, etc. And even though we as Black people don’t often have many privileges, we do have some. In the United States, for example, many of us can at least code switch and speak American English. This is a thread about my brother-in-law being turned over to ICE. 3/9
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In my family, all of my siblings with the exception of one who has mental health issues, are educated, some with multiple degrees. We all were professionals or are still working as professionals. We are still BLACK, but we’ve done well for Black folks here. We are originally from NYC and have always lived among, married, and hung out with black and brown folks from everywhere, the islands, Africa, and Central America. 4/9
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There’s a former Black NBA player, from the UK named John Amaechi. He’s a psychologist and a consultant on management stuff. He also has those letters OBE, which means something to British people. Its OK...I really do know what the letters mean. He used to have a 3 minute clip on BBC Bites that explained privilege. He defines it as the absence of impediment and says we all have some privilege some of the time. 2/9
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The example he often uses is the privilege of not being handicapped. I’ve heard him mention the privilege of being male, etc. And even though we as Black people don’t often have many privileges, we do have some. In the United States, for example, many of us can at least code switch and speak American English. This is a thread about my brother-in-law being turned over to ICE. 3/9
#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackTwitter #Privilege #ICE
I envy people who can pull their thoughts together as soon as something happens. I have never been able to do that. I have to sit with the words swirling around me till I can pick the right ones. I want to talk to the Black and Brown family on Mastodon about privilege and how privilege is contextual. Sometimes you have it, sometimes you don’t. This is a thread about my brother-in-law being turned over to ICE. 1/9
#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackTwitter #Privilege #ICE
There’s a former Black NBA player, from the UK named John Amaechi. He’s a psychologist and a consultant on management stuff. He also has those letters OBE, which means something to British people. Its OK...I really do know what the letters mean. He used to have a 3 minute clip on BBC Bites that explained privilege. He defines it as the absence of impediment and says we all have some privilege some of the time. 2/9
#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackTwitter #Privilege #ICE
I envy people who can pull their thoughts together as soon as something happens. I have never been able to do that. I have to sit with the words swirling around me till I can pick the right ones. I want to talk to the Black and Brown family on Mastodon about privilege and how privilege is contextual. Sometimes you have it, sometimes you don’t. This is a thread about my brother-in-law being turned over to ICE. 1/9
