Today in Labor History October 10, 1912: The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) struck in Little Falls, New York. The strike lasted into January and involved primarily immigrant workers. It started at the Phoenix Knitting Mill, but spread to the Gilbert Knitting Mill, also in the Mohawk Valley. In November, the Little Falls Council voted to authorize a contingent of special police, which escalated tensions. Later that month, the AFL created United Textile Workers local #206 to compete with the Wobblies for members and press attention. But when the AFL announced it had reached a settlement between with mill owners, later that month, the workers refused it, siding with the Wobblies and demanding greater concessions.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #strike #union #textiles #immigrant #newyork #wobblies #immigrants
Donald Trump Says #project2025 Author 'Coming on Board' If Elected
New in PN: Kamala Harris doesn’t owe the mainstream press anything
"The media centering itself as the main story in a campaign where the fate of democracy is in the balance is self-parodic and self-indicting. It illustrates all the ways in which the press has failed in the Trump era." publicnotice.co/p/kamala-harri…
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The European Union says it has launched a "humanitarian air bridge" to fly aid to Lebanon as fighting rages between Israel and Hezbollah.
Three initial flights were scheduled to carry supplies from Italy and Dubai, with the first arriving in Beirut on Friday.
The needs in the conflict-wracked country continue to grow, as Israel intensifies its offensive, forcing more than a million to flee.
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Today in Labor History October 10, 1933: 18,000 cotton workers struck in Pixley, California. Four were killed in the struggle, which ultimately won them a raise. The Cannery and Agricultural Workers' Industrial Union (CAWIU) led the strike by Mexican pickers. The union was demanding a wage of $1.00 per hundred pounds of cotton picked, recognition of the union and abolition of contract labor. The union led 24 strikes, involving 37,500 union members, in the San Joaquin Valley in the 1930s. During the cotton strikes of 1933, striking workers were evicted from company housing. Growers and managerial staff were deputized by the police. The owners employed bankers, merchants, ministers and Boy Scouts to attacks the workers. A local sheriff said, "We protect our farmers here in Kern County. But the Mexicans are trash. They have no standard of living. We herd them like pigs."
#workingclass #LaborHistory #cotton #strike #california #mexican #union #police #policebrutality #racism
It’s #WorldMentalHealthDay
A day to talk about mental health. To show everyone that mental health matters. And let people know that it’s okay to ask for help.
Today, we are launching the EU Support Package on Stigma developed with input from EU countries, building on last year’s foundational initiatives.
Central to this package is our “In This Together” campaign to combat stigma and promote understanding across the EU.
Harris’s campaign is betting that sharing the stories of women who experienced miscarriages or other health emergencies at a later point in their pregnancy may help shift the perception of people who seek abortions as irresponsible.
Bcachefs Fixes Pull Once Again Frustrates Linus Torvalds - Two Choices Offered: (a) play better with others (b) take your toy and go home (i.e. remove bcachefs from mainline tree)
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The low U.S. unemployment rate means there are few surplus workers for recovery efforts. There isn't spare facility capacity to quickly ramp up production. There aren't surplus raw-material supplies. We don't have big stockpiles.
#climateChange #naturalDisasters #Helene #Milton #collapse
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Nintendo isn’t done quite yet.
The company just opened a museum, launched Echoes of Wisdom and an alarm clock, and a new Mario Party is out next week. So Nintendo wants to remind you it still has another release this holiday season: the next Mario & Luigi RPG in November. Here’s five minutes explaining what the brothers are up to this time.
Nederlands parlement wil dat kabinet in Europa stemt tegen voorstel chatcontrole. De motie kreeg de steun van veel oppositiepartijen, maar ook van de kabinetspartijen NSC, BBB en PVV.
De motie vraagt aan het kabinet 'om zich blijvend en ondubbelzinnig uit te spreken tégen toekomstige voorstellen die een detectiebevel mogelijk maken op de privécommunicatie van alle burgers en dit als ondergrens te hanteren".
Very respectful nod to anyone taking part in any 'tobers this year.
Hopefully I'll be back in the headspace soon, but here's a #throwbackthursday for some of my favourite inktobers from 2018/2019.
"David McCormick, the Republican candidate for US Senate in Pennsylvania, led the largest hedge fund in the world while it managed and advised funds holding hundreds of millions of dollars in Russian debt"
Pennsylvanians, is this really someone you trust to be your #Senator? Vote Bob Casey for #Pennsylvania #Senate and send McCormick packing!
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#PA #VoteBlue #VoteFromAbroad #Election2024
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in reply to Jonathan Kamens 86 47 • • •Rebuilding after each disaster will take years. A lot won't ever be rebuilt.
As Michael Mann said, the choice we have faced is between limiting, adapting to, or suffering from climate change. The more we do of each means less of the others. Our society has essentially decided to punt on limiting and we're just barely getting started on adapting, so we've got a whole lot of suffering to look forward to that is too late to avoid.
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