Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones-"Among the comrades we extol, Thy name shall blazon on the scroll."
Submitted by JayRaye on Wed, 12/23/2015 - 12:30pmShe hated that which was wrong;
She never gave up fighting
Until her breath was gone.
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Saturday December 23, 1905
From the Appeal to Reason: A Poem for Mother Jones by Ellis B. Harris

From the Appeal of December 16, 1905:
MOTHER JONES
-----Here's to you, Mother, Mother Jones.
Foe of the sabre,
When Justice, reigning, Wrong dethrones,
Helped by Love's labor,
Among the comrades we extol
Thy name shall blazon on the scroll,
In memory of one great soul,
Dear, kindly neighbor.
Christs Crucified
Submitted by hecate on Tue, 12/22/2015 - 6:38pm"I would like to go to the Lion’s Gate," Raziel told him.
The Romanian volubly refused. When Raziel realized that his driver's mind was not about to be changed, he got out of the taxi and set out on foot for the Old City.
The Evening Blues - 12-22-15
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 12/22/2015 - 2:26pmHey! Good Evening!
This evening's music features jazz guitarist Charlie Christian. Enjoy!
Charlie Christian - Stompin' at the Savoy
Anti-trans ballot initiative fails to make ballot in California
Submitted by Robyn on Tue, 12/22/2015 - 1:25pmA group called Privacy for All announced yesterday that it had failed in its attempt to qualify the so-called Personal Privacy Protection Act for the November 2016 ballot.
The PPPA would have forced transgender and gender nonconforming people to use public facilities reserved for our birth sex.
Anti-trans activists needed to get 365800 signatures to place the initiative on the ballot but fell short. They are not saying by how much.
Hellraisers Journal: "This is the Story of the Success of the Agricultural Workers' Organization."
Submitted by JayRaye on Tue, 12/22/2015 - 12:56pmrobbed from the agricultural workers.
Perhaps never in the history of the world was there a war more unequal,
or a success more unexpected.
-ISR on the AWO, December 1915
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Wednesday December 22, 1915
From the International Socialist Review: No Budget, No Problem for the Agricultural Workers' Organization
From the Review of December 1915:
A NEW CHAPTER IN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
By J. A. MacdonaldTHIS is the story of the success of the Agricultural Workers' organization. This story is not finished, it cannot be till the doomed industrial system of today has also been damned and over thrown. It is the story of the moving of the propaganda of revolutionary industrial unionism from the open forum and the street corner, to the primary theater of the industrial revolution—the job.
The wise men of the labor movement—generally too wise to work—the philosophers of the easy chair and the big salary, said the migratory worker could not be organized. They said the work was too casual. A union for them would have to be too migratory. It would have to have its office in a box car.
Making me feel old
Submitted by Robyn on Mon, 12/21/2015 - 2:53pmEsquire magazine has an article about a time long ago: 5 Transgender Americans on the Hardships of Transitioning, Then and Now.
Transgender men and women have lived openly for decades in America. Most of them transitioned before it was remotely acceptable to the wider culture—and so made possible the social transformation in gender identity that we are seeing today. The three women and two men on these pages lived much of their lives as one sex and then, along with thousands of others, have lived long, accomplished (and dangerous) lives as another. They are a comment on the abiding nature of the human impulse to change sexual identity (at a moment when it's almost regarded as a fad) and also emblematic of those who did so when it was so much harder.
Full disclosure: The author of this diary began transition 23 years ago.
The Evening Blues - 12-21-15
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 12/21/2015 - 1:28pmHey! Good Evening!
This evening's music features jazz and blues banjo player Ikey Robinson. Enjoy!
Ikey Robinson - My Four Reasons
Hellraisers Journal: Nils Hanson on the Organizing Drive of the AWO in the Mid-Western Wheat Fields
Submitted by JayRaye on Mon, 12/21/2015 - 12:55pmThe red card is cherished as much and its objects understood as well
by a black man as by a white one.
-Solidarity, Fall 1915
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Tuesday December 21, 1915
From the International Socialist Review: Nils Hanson on Organizing in the Wheat Fields
In the latest edition of the Review, Nils Hanson discusses working conditions, living conditions, and the great organizing drive, launched by the Agricultural Workers Organization, this past fall in the harvest fields of the mid-western states. He tells of following the wheat harvest from Kansas on up to North Dakota.
The A. W. O. of the Industrial Workers of the World, has become such a menace that the North Dakota farmers claim they will import Negroes as harvest hands next year. In response to that threat, the I. W. W. newspaper, Solidarity, recently gave "John Farmer" this warning:
The I. W. W. has some good Negro organizers, just itching for a chance of this kind. Thirty thousand Negroes will come and 30,000 I. W. W.'s will go bak. The red card is cherished as much and its objects understood as well by a black man as by a white one.
No, Hillary. We are not "where we need to be" in this war
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sun, 12/20/2015 - 10:48pmThere was no better example of Hillary's clueless hawkishness than this moment in the recent debate.
After the 'Christmas Debate Dump,' there's only one question left?
Submitted by divineorder on Sun, 12/20/2015 - 8:31pm/snark
Heads up, troops !
Today's full page ad in the New York Times announcing the opening of #WhereToInvadeNext this Wednesday... pic.twitter.com/wuPjw24nSe