1st C99 Meetup Photo Essay.
Submitted by detroitmechworks on Sun, 05/01/2016 - 7:18pmWas a beautiful day in Portland today. (Apologies for the small photo size. My camera takes HUGE pictures, and the compression tool I have kinda sucks...)
Are we getting close to scheduling natural world essays
Submitted by riverlover on Sun, 05/01/2016 - 7:00pmat certain times? There are plenty of photographs showing up now, but for those of us house-bound, or city-bound, or grey-day depressed, would it be nice to try to set up a cooperative schedule? I am not an organizer, but I put this idea out, knowing it's been discussed here re: some people who we enjoyed elsewhere.
The Now or Never Moment
Submitted by thrownstone on Sun, 05/01/2016 - 6:34pmJoining the Green Party (GP) en masse may be seen as similar to coming here from TOP. The main difference, of course, is that the GP is a political party that has tried to directly influence national policy rather than indirectly reporting, commenting on, and discussing it. It has a larger membership that has held true to their beliefs through 16 years of mockery, approbation, guilt tripping, and shunning.
Anti-Capitalist Meetup: May 1, 2017--mass intersectional direct action after "the 1st 100 days"
Submitted by Galtisalie on Sun, 05/01/2016 - 6:06pm
When the oppressed are divided and ruled, a dialectic of united versus divided response emerges (February 6, 1869 illustration from Harper's Weekly: The National Colored Convention in Session at Washington, D.C.--Sketched by Theo. R. Davis in 1869.)
What if Hillary was President in 1992?
Submitted by Ravensword on Sun, 05/01/2016 - 5:43pmTry to imagine if Hillary and Bill Clinton’s lives were switched. Hillary manages to get elected president in 1992 and Bill becomes First Gentleman.
Eight years later, Bill carpetbags it to New York to run for the Senate there and wins.
Financial Considerations
Submitted by PriceRip on Sun, 05/01/2016 - 5:26pm As one to always step on toes . . . here I go again: This is not from the site owners or operators. It is just me poking my nose in the tent . . . yet again, so I will begin:
In response to a couple of comments JtC stated:
hopefully as we grow we can survive on donations alone, especially if we get to 10,000 members. I absolutely hate advertising and would love to keep this site as clean as it is now. Thanks again.
Bernie takes the gloves off and brings down the hammer
Submitted by vl baker on Sun, 05/01/2016 - 4:14pmWhoa! Did you have any doubt that Bernie is in it to win it? You won't after watching his press conference today on C-Span. Bernie is on fire (literally berning) You have to hear the press conference for yourself. Bernie is trying to dispel the media narrative that has been pushed since the losses in the Acela primaries.
I believe his supporters should also not buy into that defeatist narrative as it kills activism.
Carving space for herself
Submitted by Robyn on Sun, 05/01/2016 - 2:41pm
When Summer Luk was a student at Biola University , she was forced to sign a contract promising not to drink, party, or have sex...and of course, definitely not to be transgender. The Hong Kong native has now transferred to NYU, has been able to come out to her professors as who she is, has interned for GLAAD, and the music major has written and recorded an original song, now made into a video directed by Laura Camarena and featuring a diverse group of transgender people.
The lyric video explores the performative nature of gender, the difficulties of navigating the legal system and finding a place where transgender people are protected as citizens against prejudice, discrimination and hate-motivated violence. By including transgender people who are of different races, ages, faiths, and stages in their transition this video showcases the huge spectrum that exists within the community.
--Summer Luk
Videos: May Day Demonstrations: France, Italy, Germany, Turkey, Seattle
Submitted by JayRaye on Sun, 05/01/2016 - 2:15pmArise ye prisoner of starvation,
Arise ye wretched of the earth!
Internationale
-translated by Charles Kerr
Arise ye wretched of the earth!
Internationale
-translated by Charles Kerr
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FRANCE
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79FzKvzb93E width:500 height:315]
Hellraisers Journal: New York May Day Parade to Be Led by Locked Out Garment Workers
Submitted by JayRaye on Sun, 05/01/2016 - 12:56pmPut on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Monday May 1, 1916
New York City - Locked Out Garment Workers to March up Fifth Avenue
Garment Workers of New York City
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