The Evening Blues - 3-3-16
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 03/03/2016 - 2:14pm
Hey! Good Evening!
This evening's music features jump blues and r&b singer Roy Brown. Enjoy!
Roy Brown - Good Rockin' Tonight
Spirit murder
Submitted by Robyn on Thu, 03/03/2016 - 2:02pm
DeMarkis Stansberry was a 30-year-old black transgender man residing in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.
On Saturday, DeMarkis was fatally shot in the head by Nicholas Matthews, who just turned 24 on Monday.
Matthews was booked by sheriff's deputies for negligent homicide, illegal use of a weapon, and possession of a firearm by a felon.
Hellraisers Journal: IWW Issues Official Call to Action on Behalf of Charles Moyer & Bill Haywood
Submitted by JayRaye on Thu, 03/03/2016 - 12:57pmThere are no limits to which powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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Saturday March 3, 1906
From the Montana News: Official Call from Industrial Workers of the World
The February 28th edition of the official newspaper of the Socialist Party in Montana published the following appeal from the I. W. W. which calls for the working class men and women of America to rally to the defense of Charles Moyer and Bill Haywood:
Official Call To Action
-----Stirring Appeal Sent Out by Industrial Workers
as Result of Mine Owners' Conspiracy.
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Beginning at the Coeur d' Alene in 1897 a reign of lawless violence has been waged by the capitalist class in the western states, one phase of which was the unparalleled series of outrages perpetrated against the laborers of Colorado. Throughout this conspiracy there had been continuous attempts to crush the labor organizations of the miners by seeking to foist upon them the crimes committed by the capitalist conspirators themselves. Every one of these attempts has failed. In spite of suborned witnesses and terrorized and corrupt juries, every case has ended in complete acquittal. The failure of the conspirators' diabolical schemes has filled them with desperation.
The Veneer of Social Progressivism
Submitted by detroitmechworks on Thu, 03/03/2016 - 8:17amUpon the wretched diseased beams that is the Democratic party lies a thin slice of social issues. These of course will crumble upon any major political weight placed upon them but that's not really why they are there.
The beautiful little veneer exists only to be used as a weapon against those who would dare criticize the structural and philosophical problems with the party. It is a tool for silencing the opposition with the cries of the "oppressed".
That awful moment when you realize George Carlin was right
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 03/02/2016 - 11:42pm"Maybe, maybe it's not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here. Like the public."
- George Carlin
We can all point out how the political system is corrupt and rigged. Without a doubt the news media is complicit in this travesty.
The Evening Blues - 3-2-16
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 03/02/2016 - 3:20pm
Hey! Good Evening!
This evening's music features soul singer and songwriter Otis Redding. Enjoy!
Otis Redding - Sitting on the dock of the bay
Democratic turnout craters
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 03/02/2016 - 2:18pm
This is bordering on a crisis for the Democrats.
While you were busy
Submitted by Robyn on Wed, 03/02/2016 - 2:07pmYesterday I buried the lede in a comment in my diary offering because I knew that diary would be mostly ignored, what with it being Super Tuesday and all.
Maybe today this will actually draw some notice. South Dakota Republican Governor Dennis Daugaard yesterday vetoed the anti-transgender "bathroom bill" which targeted transgender students.
Proponents of House Bill 1008 say it protects students' privacy. Opponents say it's discrimination.
--Gov. Daugaard
We've been around
Submitted by Robyn on Wed, 03/02/2016 - 1:46pmI hear it all the time. We transgender people just have to wait for our time; We're just too new.
Hellraisers Journal: Socialists, IWW & UMWA Unite in Defense of Charles Moyer & Big Bill Haywood
Submitted by JayRaye on Wed, 03/02/2016 - 12:55pmThere are no limits to which powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
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Friday March 2, 1906
From the International Socialist Review: Defense Campaign Organized
An editorial in this month's Review describes the campaign being organized by Socialists and labor organizations to defend the officials of the Western Federation of Miners now held behind the bars of the Idaho state penitentiary:
Conspiracy to Murder.
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