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Thank you. Although I suspect that what got the boomers to protest was the draft. I don't know if Trump will be kind/stupid enough to reinstate it.
Today 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 (Pa Walton) 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.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #SaltOfTheEarth #strike #union #generalstrike #lgbtq #TaftHartley #communism #feminism #MexicanAmerican #chicano #film #blacklist
A nation with "secret laws" can never be a democracy.
Ours never was.
Don't buy into these chucklefucks explaining it away with "national security" - you think these perverts actually give a shit about YOUR security?
Toss the whole lot off the island.
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The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing Under Section 702Senator Ron Wyden says that when a secret interpretation of Section 702 is eventually declassified, the American public “will be stunned” to learn what the NSA has been doing. If you…
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and this one:
"if the boss doesn't show up for work, everything continues to operate just fine. If the workers all stay home, the business grinds to a halt"
which, incidentally also applies to societies as a whole.
