Solidarity with our fellow workers is why we labor activists continue on in the labor movement fighting to establish democratic industrial unionism because without organization and representation, we workers have no chance to defend wages and hours and safe working conditions.
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Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
The unions, indeed the entire American labor movement, were beaten by the parasites and their bought and paid for politicians at the turn of the last century.
Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and even FDR, ensured that America would not remain, and never again, be a force for justice for the working class in the world.
The gross injustices visited on the auto workers a few decades later were the direct result of this criminal gang's defeat of the national political system.
I was basically born into this subject and I can't even recall all the things I've learned reading this series, that I didn't know.
Do yourself a favor, spend the next week reading Hellraiser's Journal from the beginning.
I am tip-toeing around these diaries since months and months since I became aware of them. I want to read them all one day like I would read a book, I will download them and print them all. That's the only way I can stick with them. I am just amazed what they represent. There are so outstanding people here. Can't be said often enough. Thank you.
Greyhounds are one of our favorite breeds. Haven't had the privilege of having one (yet), but we've had one as a neighbor--what a sweetheart she was! We also really like Whippets and Italian Greyhounds.
Mollie
"Every time I lose a dog, he takes a piece of my heart. Every new dog gifts me with a piece of his. Someday, my heart will be total dog, and maybe then I will be just as generous, loving, and forgiving."--Author Unknown
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Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
Back before the world was crashed, I fostered them for the adoption agency and two had me permanently, Cyryll & Elizabeth. More victim's of the Fascists.
He's been gone for three years now and I'm just now able to put this pic up and not feel too bad. These dogs are just the best people I've ever known in my life (no offence to all you people, but I've never been betrayed by a dog and they love without reservation). No longer having a place to give them a good, safe place eats at me.
"My goal in life is to become the person my dogs think I am."
'Murphee' four years ago in January, and we're still not over losing her. She's my blog 'logo' on a WP blog of mine, and my universal avatar in that community. There was something about her that was almost healing, or calming--which probably sounds nutty. But it was true. For some reason, if I was upset about something, if I sat with her for a bit, my anxiety seemed to melt away.
Anyway, I'm sorry for your loss, and hope that you'll be able to adopt another deserving little fellow, soon. (Or, a big one!)
Would love to hear about Cyryll and Elizabeth. I was really surprised to find out that Greyhounds are really 'couch potatoes.' Not that they don't need exercise, but that they can be great apartment/house dwellers. They are really beautiful dogs. And, so graceful.
Of course, hounds normally have very sweet and mellow dispositions. Never met one, that I didn't like.
Hey, glad that you've joined our Community. (Nice signature line, too.)
Mollie
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."--Japanese Proverb
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I finally watched it all (and not only the first three minutes I saw, when I commented on it before).
It fills huge gaps I have in my knowledge of the US history of the workers and union movements here. Basically it floored me, knocked me out. The brutality of the images and the calm, matter of factly way to tell the story, worked its way into my mind quite intensely.
This is a documentary, which should be seen in all schools in the US and overseas in Europe, even in Africa. I found myself asking, while watching, how the United States managed to convince basically the people worldwide that it had been and still is a heaven and beacon of democracy, freedom, justice and equality. It really is amazing considering all the propaganda and subtle brainwashing going on.
I couldn't help constantly finding analogies to today's situational conditions, equally brutal just packaged nicely in much cleaner technologies, similar like the development of torture methods has beomce more "humane" in these days than in the former centuries.
Excellent movie. I will watch this several times again to make it stick. I asked myself what the equivalent worker conditions had been in Germany at those times. Our mining industry and workers movements. It started out in England, France and Germany, right? I have totally "forgotten" about it. It is such a shame ... I also learned now how and why the word Socialist became such a hated and fought against dirty word in the American psyche.
And I was very shocked to hear how the racial division with blacks in the US and ethnic tensions of incoming European immigrants from different states had been consciously used to divide the workers in labor movements of the US. Oh my, it rings so many bells ... Couldn't have thought about it in my wildest dreams. What a gut wrenching history.
I guess I won't sleep at all anymore tonight. Will watch it again and try to read more.
Thanks Joe. Please post other documentaries you find along the way. I trust your selection and it's vitally interesting and needed that I learn more about US history. But I don't like too much some of the "historical, colorful reenactment documentaries of the "patriotic" kind.
I am happy to find my way back to reading and a bit of learning more after thirty plus lost years living and idiotic life in the US.
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Unions today with their sucking up to the
mine owners and company store are pathetic. It is hard to feel any solidarity for them whatsoever. Sorry JayRaye.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
dk, Solidarity is for our fellow workers not for
union bureaucrats.
Solidarity with our fellow workers is why we labor activists continue on in the labor movement fighting to establish democratic industrial unionism because without organization and representation, we workers have no chance to defend wages and hours and safe working conditions.
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.-Lucy Parsons
DK, you've got to go read through Hellraiser's on Kos
You're from MI, for god's sake!
The unions, indeed the entire American labor movement, were beaten by the parasites and their bought and paid for politicians at the turn of the last century.
Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, and even FDR, ensured that America would not remain, and never again, be a force for justice for the working class in the world.
The gross injustices visited on the auto workers a few decades later were the direct result of this criminal gang's defeat of the national political system.
I was basically born into this subject and I can't even recall all the things I've learned reading this series, that I didn't know.
Do yourself a favor, spend the next week reading Hellraiser's Journal from the beginning.
there are 1396 Hellraiser diaries on dailykos
I am tip-toeing around these diaries since months and months since I became aware of them. I want to read them all one day like I would read a book, I will download them and print them all. That's the only way I can stick with them. I am just amazed what they represent. There are so outstanding people here. Can't be said often enough. Thank you.
Very interesting video, Joe. Time's run out on me for this
evening (I'm exhausted), but I look forward to watching the last third of it, tomorrow.
Thanks for posting!
Mollie
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."--Japanese Proverb
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
The first 5 minutes got me.
Got stuff to do tonight, but this gets my undivided attention tomorrow, and on the big screen, too, damnit.
Thank you.
Welcome, Greyhound! Gotta say, you've got an awful handsome
fellow/lassie as your avatar. (?)
Greyhounds are one of our favorite breeds. Haven't had the privilege of having one (yet), but we've had one as a neighbor--what a sweetheart she was! We also really like Whippets and Italian Greyhounds.
Mollie
"Every time I lose a dog, he takes a piece of my heart. Every new dog gifts me with a piece of his. Someday, my heart will be total dog, and maybe then I will be just as generous, loving, and forgiving."--Author Unknown
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
Thank you very much. That was my big boy Cyryll.
Back before the world was crashed, I fostered them for the adoption agency and two had me permanently, Cyryll & Elizabeth. More victim's of the Fascists.
He's been gone for three years now and I'm just now able to put this pic up and not feel too bad. These dogs are just the best people I've ever known in my life (no offence to all you people, but I've never been betrayed by a dog and they love without reservation). No longer having a place to give them a good, safe place eats at me.
"My goal in life is to become the person my dogs think I am."
Hey, I know how you feel. We lost
'Murphee' four years ago in January, and we're still not over losing her. She's my blog 'logo' on a WP blog of mine, and my universal avatar in that community. There was something about her that was almost healing, or calming--which probably sounds nutty. But it was true. For some reason, if I was upset about something, if I sat with her for a bit, my anxiety seemed to melt away.
Anyway, I'm sorry for your loss, and hope that you'll be able to adopt another deserving little fellow, soon. (Or, a big one!)
Would love to hear about Cyryll and Elizabeth. I was really surprised to find out that Greyhounds are really 'couch potatoes.' Not that they don't need exercise, but that they can be great apartment/house dwellers. They are really beautiful dogs. And, so graceful.
Of course, hounds normally have very sweet and mellow dispositions. Never met one, that I didn't like.
Hey, glad that you've joined our Community. (Nice signature line, too.)
Mollie
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare."--Japanese Proverb
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
the way it's made is just excellent /nt
I really thank Joe for offering this film here !
I finally watched it all (and not only the first three minutes I saw, when I commented on it before).
It fills huge gaps I have in my knowledge of the US history of the workers and union movements here. Basically it floored me, knocked me out. The brutality of the images and the calm, matter of factly way to tell the story, worked its way into my mind quite intensely.
This is a documentary, which should be seen in all schools in the US and overseas in Europe, even in Africa. I found myself asking, while watching, how the United States managed to convince basically the people worldwide that it had been and still is a heaven and beacon of democracy, freedom, justice and equality. It really is amazing considering all the propaganda and subtle brainwashing going on.
I couldn't help constantly finding analogies to today's situational conditions, equally brutal just packaged nicely in much cleaner technologies, similar like the development of torture methods has beomce more "humane" in these days than in the former centuries.
Excellent movie. I will watch this several times again to make it stick. I asked myself what the equivalent worker conditions had been in Germany at those times. Our mining industry and workers movements. It started out in England, France and Germany, right? I have totally "forgotten" about it. It is such a shame ... I also learned now how and why the word Socialist became such a hated and fought against dirty word in the American psyche.
And I was very shocked to hear how the racial division with blacks in the US and ethnic tensions of incoming European immigrants from different states had been consciously used to divide the workers in labor movements of the US. Oh my, it rings so many bells ... Couldn't have thought about it in my wildest dreams. What a gut wrenching history.
I guess I won't sleep at all anymore tonight. Will watch it again and try to read more.
Thanks Joe. Please post other documentaries you find along the way. I trust your selection and it's vitally interesting and needed that I learn more about US history. But I don't like too much some of the "historical, colorful reenactment documentaries of the "patriotic" kind.
I am happy to find my way back to reading and a bit of learning more after thirty plus lost years living and idiotic life in the US.
Thanks, good night or may be good early morning.