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UniversityofGroningenLibraryToday, <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#library</a> staff at the <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/University" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#University</a> of <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/Groningen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Groningen</a> joined the <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strike</a> against the proposed budget cuts to <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEducation</a> in the <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/Netherlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Netherlands</a>. We also asked <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#students</a> to share their thoughts on a whiteboard: Imagine the university without a library. What would that mean to you?Here's what some of them wrote: (Photo credits staff: Manuel Reyes <a href="https://social.edu.nl/@manu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@manu</a>)

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History March 18, 1968: The staff of San Francisco's "progressive" rock station KMPX-FM walked out on strike citing a lack of control over programming & "hassles over the whole long-hair riff." Performers like the Rolling Stones, Joan Baez, the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead requested the station not play their music as long as the station was run by strikebreakers. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rollingstones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rollingstones</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JoanBaez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JoanBaez</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/gratefuldead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gratefuldead</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JeffersonAirplane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JeffersonAirplane</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sanfrancisco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sanfrancisco</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/kmpx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kmpx</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radio</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History March 18, 1970: The first mass work stoppage in the 195-year history of the U.S. Postal Service began on this date in New York City. The walkout was illegal, giving President Richard Nixon the excuse to send in federal troops to sort the mail. But the strike succeeded in forcing Congress to raise wages and reorganize the postal system and marked a new militancy among postal employees. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/postal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postal</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nixon</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#congress</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wages</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/newyork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#newyork</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wages</a>

CBC Kitchener-WaterlooIn 3rd week of strike, union says Region of Waterloo 'continues to move the goalposts' on negotiations Outside workers represented by CUPE remain on strike for a third week and they say they've offered a "fair" proposal to the Region of Waterloo but it was rejected. The region says on its website that it remains... <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/negotiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#negotiation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/RegionofWaterloo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RegionofWaterloo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/week-three-region-waterloo-cupe-outside-workers-strike-1.7485868?cmp=rss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/week-three-region-waterloo-cupe-outside-workers-strike-1.7485868?cmp=rss</a>

Babette Knauer🟥Today, staff at the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/University" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#University</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Groningen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Groningen</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strike</a> against the proposed budget cuts to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HigherEducation</a> in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Netherlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Netherlands</a>. This is part of a national relay strike supported by the labour unions AOb and FNV. The cut-backs also affect academic libraries, like 'my' University of Groningen <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Library</a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/@Bibliothecaris" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Bibliothecaris</a>. That is why I, together with other library colleagues, join the strike.More about the strike activities in Groningen: <a href="https://organizetherug.wordpress.com/strikes/#eng-version" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://organizetherug.wordpress.com/strikes/#eng-version</a>

Todd AlströmAs <a href="https://mementomori.social/@mjsaarin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mjsaarin</a> reminded me on Bluesky, if the strike includes logistics, smaller Finnish breweries could also be impacted as many rely on these larger breweries to help distribute their beers.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Suomi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Suomi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Finland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Finland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#beer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/olut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#olut</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strike</a>

Todd AlströmLooming strikes could limit supplies of beer in Finland.“A strike targeting the largest breweries, Hartwall, Olvi and Sinebrychoff, will begin on Sunday if no agreement is reached before then.”"Nearly 1,000 employees would take part in the walkout from Sunday evening until Friday evening.”<a href="https://yle.fi/a/74-20150013" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://yle.fi/a/74-20150013</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Suomi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Suomi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Finland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Finland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#beer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/olut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#olut</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#news</a>

AppleCorProtest in Sacramento <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/protest?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#protest</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/resist?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resist</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/boycott?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#boycott</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/strike?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strike</a> #50501 <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/sacramento?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sacramento</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/california?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#california</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/removereversereclaim?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#removereversereclaim</a>

CBC SportsHow the NHL killed Hamilton's hockey franchise 100 years ago, after players went on strike for $200 It was in March of 1925 — 100 years ago last week — that Hamilton’s National Hockey League team, the Hamilton Tigers, was shut down forever because players went on strike. <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/hockey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hockey</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/sports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sports</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#business</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Hamilton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hamilton</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamilton-hockey-franchise-1.7485593?cmp=rss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamilton-hockey-franchise-1.7485593?cmp=rss</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History March 17, 1966: 100 striking Mexican American and Filipino farmworkers marched from Delano, California to Sacramento to pressure the growers and the state government to answer their demands for better working conditions and higher wages, which were, at the time, below the federal minimum wage. By the time the marchers arrived, on Easter Sunday, April 11, the crowd had grown to 10,000 protesters and their supporters. A few months later, the two unions that represented them, the National Farm Workers Association, led by César Chávez, and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, joined to form the United Farm Workers. The strike was launched on September 8, 1965, by Filipino grape pickers. Mexicans were initially hired as scabs. So, Filipino strike leader Larry Itliong approached Cesar Chavez to get the support of the National Farm Workers Association, and on September 16, 1965, the Mexican farm workers joined the strike. During the strike, the growers and their vigilantes would physically assault the workers and drive their cars and trucks into the picket lines. They also sprayed strikers with pesticides. The strikers persevered nonviolently. They went to the Oakland docks and convinced the longshore workers to support them by refusing to load grapes. This resulted in the spoilage of 1,000 ten-ton cases of grapes. The success of this tactic led to the decision to launch a national grape boycott, which would ultimately help them win the struggle against the growers.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cesarchavez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cesarchavez</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ufw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ufw</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/delano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#delano</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/grapestrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grapestrike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mexican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mexican</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/filipino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#filipino</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/boycott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#boycott</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#protest</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/scab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scab</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/farmworkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#farmworkers</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vigilantes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vigilantes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/larryitliong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#larryitliong</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sacramento" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sacramento</a>

Miss Gayle<a href="https://mastodon.social/@RealJournalism" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@RealJournalism</a> The reality is that a long enough strike is not possible, because there is no strike fund to pay everyone at least enough to live on for however it takes. The answer to capitalism is to refuse to *spend* money, not expect the poor to go without income.Your plan is going to flop. Not nearly enough people can go without income or risk losing their jobs.Instead you need to expand efforts to boycott every company supporting the coup.<a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coup</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/BoycottUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoycottUSA</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/GeneralStrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeneralStrike</a>

Misha 🟥Today employees of the <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/UniversityofAmsterdam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UniversityofAmsterdam</a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/UvA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UvA</a> are on <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strike</a> to protest against the budget cuts for education that are pushed by our far right government.Universities are a place of wonder, curiosity and resistance. This world is in desperate need of all of these things.Update: there were 5000 of us today. And a student and I even made it to the main newspaper pic. 💅<a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/WOInActie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WOInActie</a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/HOInActie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HOInActie</a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/FNV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FNV</a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/AOB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AOB</a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/Onderwijsbezuinigingen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Onderwijsbezuinigingen</a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/BudgetCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BudgetCuts</a> <a href="https://sh.itjust.works/c/unions" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@unions@sh.itjust.works</a> <a href="https://lemmy.ml/u/unions" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@unions@lemmy.ml</a>

poritzjThe Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The Theory and Practice of Resistance, Episode 9: Music and Mobilization <a href="https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode9" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://therevolutionwillnotbetelevised.net/#episode9</a> is now live on our site, Peertube, & YT.What role does music play in mobilizing resistance? Do protest songs actually matter? Looking at the example of the role that radio played in facilitating the textile worker strikes of the 1930s, we can learn lessons for today.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Resist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Resistance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProtestMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProtestMusic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Unionization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unionization</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Strike</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TextileMills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TextileMills</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Radio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Radio</a>

DrALJONESA memorable talk on war, fascism, Israel & the USTalk "On the Precipice of Darkness: Normalizing genocide & the new world order""Shooting unarmed people is not bravery. It is not courage. It is not even war. It is a crime. It is murder."And Israel runs an open-air shooting gallery in Gaza & the West Bank as we did in Iraq & Afghanistan."Total impunity. Murder as sport."<a href="https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/chris-hedges-on-the-precipice-of" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/chris-hedges-on-the-precipice-of</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Racism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Genocide</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Resist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Strike</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BDS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BDS</a> .

DrALJONESReport: Zeteo's rundown on fascism in the Trump second term: Week 8* ICE detained a Palestinian green card holder;* Trump took first step towards shutting down the Education Dept;* DHS employees are being polygraphed;* Trump made new plans to expel Palestinians from Gaza.Here’s the full Zeteo accounting for the week:<a href="https://zeteo.com/p/this-week-in-democracy-week-8-trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://zeteo.com/p/this-week-in-democracy-week-8-trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Strike</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Resist</a> .

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History March 15, 1877: Ben Fletcher, African-American IWW organizer was born on this date. Fletcher organized longshoremen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He joined the Wobblies (IWW) in 1912, became secretary of the IWW District Council in 1913. He also co-founded the interracial Local 8 in 1913. 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 union maintained control of the Philly waterfront for about a decade. After the 1913 strike, Fletcher traveled 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, sentencing him to ten years for the crime of organizing workers during wartime. He served three years.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IWW</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BenFletcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BenFletcher</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AfricanAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AfricanAmerican</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lynching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lynching</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prison</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wobblies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wobblies</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/longshore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#longshore</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/philadelphia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#philadelphia</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMastadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackMastadon</a>

John<a href="https://union.place/tags/Argentina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Argentina</a>: <a href="https://union.place/tags/GeneralStrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeneralStrike</a> called against repression of protests, economic policies like wage suppression, and increased <a href="https://union.place/tags/IMF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IMF</a> debt<a href="https://en.mercopress.com/2025/03/14/argentina-s-cgt-announces-24-hour-general-strike" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.mercopress.com/2025/03/14/argentina-s-cgt-announces-24-hour-general-strike</a><a href="https://union.place/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/strikes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strikes</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unions</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/CGT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CGT</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/JavierMilei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JavierMilei</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/UTEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UTEP</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HumanRights</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/libertarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#libertarian</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/PopeFrancis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PopeFrancis</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/hunger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hunger</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/SocialJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialJustice</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/AdolfoPerezEsquivel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AdolfoPerezEsquivel</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#austerity</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neoliberalism</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corruption</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#exploitation</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/ClassWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClassWar</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History March 14, 1954: Salt of the Earth premiered. The film depicted the 1951 strike of Mexican-American workers at the Empire Zinc mine, in New Mexico. The film was one of the first to portray a feminist political point of view, particularly through Actress Rosaura Revueltas’s role as Esperanza Quintero. When the Company uses the new Taft-Hartley Act (which also bans General Strikes) to impose an injunction preventing the men from picketing, their wives go walk the picket line in their places. LGBTQ and labor activist Will Geer also played in the film. Writer Michael Wilson, director Herbert Biberman and producer Paul Jarrico had all been blacklisted for their alleged communist ties. Only 13 of the 13,000 theaters in the U.S. showed the film. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaltOfTheEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SaltOfTheEarth</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/generalstrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#generalstrike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lgbtq</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TaftHartley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TaftHartley</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#communism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#feminism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MexicanAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MexicanAmerican</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/chicano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chicano</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#film</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/blacklist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blacklist</a>

WordofTheHour<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strike</a> : to touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument- French: frapper- German: der Streik- Italian: sciopero- Portuguese: atacar- Spanish: huelga------------Join our new subreddit for language learners @ <a href="https://reddit.com/r/LearnANewLanguage" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://reddit.com/r/LearnANewLanguage</a>

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