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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: A Mission of Unity

This group piece is cross-posted from a special group collective piece begun and posted by the wonderful UnaSpenser, an Anti-Capitalist Meetup administrator at TOP. The introduction and first contributor portion are by UnaSpenser. After her leading portion are the contributions of other Anti-Capitalist Meetup group administrators who were able to participate. We hope you will join us if this is your cup of tea every Sunday night at 6 pm Eastern Time.

Jim Crow

NC Gov. Pat McCrory was interviewed on NPR the other day and managed to express the idea that passage of Hate Bill 2 was the fault of transgender people.

If we had not pushed for equal rights and access to public accommodations, then conservative forces would not have been forced to take them away from us.

He and other conservatives were also vehemently upset over AG Loretta Lynch's comparison of the current state of affairs to Jim Crow.

Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones: "I try to go, wherever there is a chance for a good fight against high-class burglars."

I try to go, wherever there is a chance for a good fight
against high-class burglars, and I am kept
pretty busy most of the time.
-Mother Jones
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Monday May 15, 1916
Chanute, Kansas - Mother Jones Passing Through on Way to Kansas City

Mother Mary Harris Jones, Chanute KS, May 13, 1916.png

In this primary Stalin's quote is true, "Those who cast the votes decide nothing.Those who count the votes decide everything."

I did not not think they would lose their composure so quickly but they muist be willing to risk it. Nevada was the turning point I think.

The tactics used there foretell what is coming. Look for it to get much worse. They fear the massive turn out expected at the Philadelphia convention and will make it clear that you go there at your own risk.

Ploughshares into swords

If you were paying attention tonight ( and this morning, it was a loooong day) you had the terrifying privilege of watching democracy be stolen. Not gently. Not with the slow drain of disenfranchisement, nor the creeping hand in a ballot box.
It was public. It was on Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Periscope and god knows where else. It was blatent. It was shameless.
Nevada showed that are our fears are justified. Our anger is justified.

Chelsea Clinton got paid $600k by NBC.....for nearly nothing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/06/13/what-did-...

I'm not sure WaPo would let anyone run the story nowadays. It's too hard-hitting on someone other than Trump, who is beefing with Jeff Bezos/WaPo (New reality show? BATTLE OF THE BILLIONAIRES!)

Hellraisers Journal: Remembering James Connolly in 1910, the year he left America and returned to Ireland.


The great appear great to us, only because
we are on our knees:
LET US RISE.
-James Connolly
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Sunday May 14, 1916
Remembering James Connolly's Departure from New York City

In New York City on July 14, 1910, A Farewell Dinner was held for James Connolly:

James Connolly, NYC Farewell Dinner, July 14, 1910.png

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