I know that I just did an essay about South Americans elections, but this is different and deserves it's own essay.
The consistently right-wing nation of Colombia (that I've heard referred to as "America's Israel in South America") is suffering from a worker's revolt that continues to spread and pick up intensity.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLwtr0ao-IU]
(With apologies to hard-working rectums everywhere!)
Ever since we've been forced to stand by and observe this farcical, jingoistic, RW extremist fear-mongering, red-meat-for-the-base, obvious temper tantrum stunt by the Dunce-In-Chief of a completely non-existent immigration problem, it's been the elephant in the room for anyone with Left proclivities to wonder aloud about this moment of a "government shutdown" (read: RW coup).
Today is International Women's Day, but how many know its origins that Socialists and Communists in NYC started it as a Labor Rights movement?(I didn't)/Conflagrant Teachers Strikes across the country are waking people up/"Strike!" - The Great Upheaval of 1877
Wednesday April 11, 1906
Wilshire's Magazine: Editorial Calls for General Strike
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Sunday February 11, 1906
Greensboro, North Carolina - Mother Jones Speaks on Child Labor
From the Greensboro Daily Industrial News of February 9th:
"MOTHER JONES" ON CHILD LABOR
-----Socialist Declares That Factories Are Responsible
for Mental Degenerates
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LABOR AND CAPITAL ARE DULY COMPARED
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Laboring Man's Champion Speaks to a Small Audience
in Labor Union Hall But Holds Her
Hearers' Interest to the End.
-----Mother Jones talked in Labor Union Hall last night to an audience made unfortunately small by the inclemency of the weather. But the few people who were there were profoundly interested and were besides very greatly taken with the "spunky" little woman who tried to stir up in them the revolutionary spirit and to implant in them a firm purpose to benefit their brothers and help them forward to a higher civilization.
Mother Jones related first the history of the tool, told how it had become a machine, and how its change, and its ownership by the few had brought about the present economic conditions. She told about how young men used to go West to escape the servitude of labor, but now, she said, the conditions were the same everywhere.
Cuba appealed for relief from Spain, said she, and could have had it without war, but in the interests of capital war was brought about. Then capital went on to the Philippines, to work up that country. In the Far East, before the gates of Pekin, Militarism and Capitalism for the first time in history, joined their interests and worked together. The whole thing means that we are face to face with a competition as the world has never known it before.
Calls Child Labor Murder.
This evening's music features r&b saxophone player and singer Big Jay McNeely. Enjoy!
Big Jay McNeely - Jay Walkin
"Never in the history of the world was such an exhibition, where with all the prejudices existing against the black man, when the white wage-earners of New Orleans would sacrifice their means of livelihood to defend and protect their colored fellow workers. With one fell swoop the economic barrier of color was broken down."
- AFL leader Samuel Gompers
