Good Morning, 99%'ers! Today's Open Thread is a short vignette (thank you, Smiley). Because this is an Open Thread, please feel free to post whatever you wish.
Maya's Facebook page said that she was originally from Vineland, NJ and attended Buena Regional High School in Atlantic County. But by 2012 the 25-year-old was living in Philadelphia.
Close friends describe her as a 'truly a funny girl who was mad REAL and LOYAL.
This evening's music features boogie and blues piano player, Memphis Slim. Enjoy!
Memphis Slim - Born With The Blues
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Friday February 23, 1906
From the Appeal to Reason: Report on Mine Owners' Hired Gunthugs
The Appeal of February 17th offers this account of the results of the "law and order" campaign made by the Mine Owners' Association and the prominent gentlemen who supported that organization in its endeavors to make criminals of the metal miners of Colorado during the recent strikes in that state:
NO COLORADO MINERS CONVICTED.
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Readers of the APPEAL will remember that this paper repeatedly called attention to the fact that the mine owners of Colorado during the labor war is that state in 1904 employed thugs and criminals to carry out their nefarious ends. Since that time five prominent "law and order" gentlemen who fought under the flag of the Mine Owners' association and who were paid by the mine operators and railroads, have been sentenced to the penitentiary and are now serving behind the bars for various crimes. Three more of the delectable gang are in the toils of the law with chances good for their being sent to join their companions.
It is also a significant fact that with all the charges that have been made against the members of the Western Federation of Miners, not a single conviction has been made. And, mind you, the law is in the hands of the mine operators and they have been moving heaven and earth to convict some member of the miners' organization. These are facts which show on which side of the fence the real criminals operated and who were in reality the law-abiding citizens of Colorado. Gradually the inside history of that momentous struggle is being written, and when all the truth is known there will be disclosed the mangled reputations of a number of highly respected politicians.
Have you ever noticed that economic charts and graphs resemble webs spun by spiders who are drug victims?
Something else one cannot help but notice: men do not know how to dress themselves.
The global energy bust has largely gone unnoticed by the American public, but it means more than just low gas prices.
In energy producing states it means recession.
A new report from the Human Rights Campaign reveals that 44 bills targeting transgender people have been brought forward across 16 states. Twenty-three of those bills target transgender children.
The onslaught compares to the twenty-one anti-transgender bills which were filed last year.
This evening's music features soul singer Joe Simon. Enjoy!
Joe Simon - The Chokin' Kind
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Thursday February 22, 1906
From The Minneapolis Journal: Moyer, Haywood, and Pettibone Will Die!
Charles Moyer and Big Bill Haywood, President and Secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, along with the Denver business man who is an ex-miner and now friend of the organization, George Pettibone, have been tried, convicted, and declared "doomed to die" in the pages of The Minneapolis Journal of February 20th:
WESTERN DYNAMITERS RIVAL MOLLY MAGUIRES
OF THE EAST
-----COLORADO JUDGES MARKED FOR DEATH
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Orchard's Confession Reveals Plots to
Kill Supreme Court Justices.
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SIX MEN DOOMED, SAYS A DETECTIVE
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Man Who Broke Up Molly Maguires Says
Labor Leaders Will Die.
-----Journal Special Service.
The Day of the Rope, Black Thursday, June 21, 1877.
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