#OtD 11 Aug 2017 demonstrators gathered on the steps of Los Angeles’ city hall in protest at the city’s 2028 Olympics bid. They held signs calling for “homes not games”. Learn more in episode 93 of our podcast, available for our supporters on Patreon: patreon.com/posts/111544493
#OtD 11 Aug 1979 2000 riot police attacked 187 women workers in Seoul, South Korea, who had been occupying the HQ of the New Democratic Party in protest at closure of the factory they worked at. One woman was killed and union leaders were arrested workingclasshistory.com/2021/0…
Podcast episode about two extremely influential South Korean worker organisers, Jeon Tae-il and Lee So-sun, and the autonomous self-organisation of women textile and garment workers in the country …
#OtD 11 Aug 1958 young African Americans in Wichita, Kansas won a key early sit-in protest against segregated lunch counters at Dockums Drug Store. They confronted bosses, police and racists for 23 days until they won. More info in this short history: stories.workingclasshistory.co…
#OtD 11 Aug 1964 18-year-old Scottish anarchist Stuart Christie was arrested in Madrid, Spain with explosives to assassinate dictator Franco. He was wearing a kilt, which confused the Argentinian press, who described him as "a Scottish transvestite" stories.workingclasshistory.co…
I’ll ha’e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur Extremes meet – it’s the only way I ken To dodge the curst conceit o’ bein’ richt That damns the vast majority o’ men.
#OtD 11 Aug 1984 during the great miners' strike, 23,000 women marched in London against pit closures. Women Against Pit Closures played a crucial role in supporting the strike more info in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2018/1…
Double episode about the crucial role played by women in the great miners’ strike in Britain, 1984-5, in conversation with Heather Wood, chair of the Easington women’s strike support gr…
Enid Blyton’s book series The Famous Five turns eighty this year! Still much loved by children all over the world and translated into numerous languages, the series describes the holiday adventures…
#OtD 11 Aug 1965 after an altercation between a Black family and Los Angeles police officers, the Watts neighbourhood exploded into six days of rioting with mass looting and anti-police violence in a turning point in the civil rights movement stories.workingclasshistory.co…
#OtD 10 Aug 1956 André Achiary, a former French military intelligence officer, alongside the Union Française Nord-Africaine terrorist group, planted a bomb in the Casbah, Algiers, killing 73 people as part of a campaign against Algerian independence stories.workingclasshistory.co…
10 Aug 1460: the ten year old James III of #Scots is crowned #otd at Kelso following the sudden death of James II on 3 Aug 1460 James II had been killed by the explosion of one of his own cannons at the siege of Roxburgh.
#OtD 10 Aug 2005 the Gate Gourmet dispute began at Heathrow airport in London, where hundreds of outsourced workers, mostly Asian women, tried to fight changes to working conditions. Eventually their union, the TGWU, accepted the inferior conditions stories.workingclasshistory.co…
#OtD 10 Aug 1889 Polish WWII resistance activist Zofia Kossak-Szczucka was born. During Nazi occupation she founded a group to help save Jewish people. She was sent to Auschwitz but got out, joined the Warsaw uprising and survived the war stories.workingclasshistory.co…
Today, let’s remember Turing Award recipient Marvin Minsky, born #OTD in 1927. He received the award in 1969 for his central role in creating, shaping, promoting, and advancing the field of Artificial Intelligence.In 1951, he developed SNARC, one of the first neural network simulators, which used a network of electronic components to model how neurons might learn and make decisions.
#OtD 9 Aug 1945 the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing tens of thousands of civilians. General Dwight D. Eisenhower said it "was completely unnecessary… as a measure to save American lives." More info here: stories.workingclasshistory.co…
Take a closer look at "The Garden of Earthly Delights", the best known painting by the genius that was Hieronymus Bosch, who died #onthisday in 1516: publicdomainreview.org/collect… #otd
#OtD 9 Aug 1970 150 people, including the British Black Panthers, marched on London police stations to demand an end to raids on the Mangrove Caribbean restaurant. Nine were arrested and charged with conspiracy, but all were later acquitted stories.workingclasshistory.co…
German biologist, philosopher, and artist Ernst Haeckel died #onthisday in 1919. Mostly known today for his mesmerising artworks of the natural world, a dig into his ideas on race and eugenics reveal a more disturbing side. @BrunnerBernd explores: publicdomainreview.org/essay/h… #otd
An early promoter and populariser of Darwin's evolutionary theory, the German biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel was a hugely influential figure of the late 19th century.
#OtD 9 Aug 2014 Michael Brown, an unarmed Black teenager, was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, sparking mass protests across the US stories.workingclasshistory.co…
