January 2012
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War goes on as contractors stay behind →
By LINDSAY WISE, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Updated 11:53 a.m., Tuesday, December 27, 2011
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Occupation of Iraq is over? Don't Think So... →
http://leftwingnutjob.net/2011/12/today-is-the-day-no-not-that-day-the-iraq-war-officially-ends-day/
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Making Somalia's nightmare worse →
Lee Wengraf remembers the lessons of the “humanitarian” war on Somalia.
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foreverliberal replied to your post: red-roman replied to your post: thysfunktional…
Obama isn’t a liberal. He’s extremely centrist.
Even still, liberal politicians are working within a system that is oppressive and always will be oppressive. Democrats have a huge history of stabbing the working class in the back. We need a new system if we want a real end to oppression. Foreign policy...
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US occupation of Iraq is not over says Jeremy... →
“Jeremy Corbyn, UK member of parliament and national chair of Stop the War Coalition, says the chaos and violence in Iraq after eight years of war and occupation are a direct result of the illegal invasion in 2003 by the US and Britain and the subsequent occupation. And despite the withdrawal of US troops in December 2011, the occupation continues a huge level of private security forces and...
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red-roman replied to your post: thysfunktional replied to your post: thanks for…
you’re really brave to just go out and say that you’re a revolutionary marxist/leninist. imo, not that many people want to admit that they are, so they just say they’re liberal or something softer. hats off to you, man
Thanks. I am very open about who I am. If you want to make a change you cant beat around the...
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thysfunktional replied to your post: thanks for following me! is yours a personal blog or more of an activist one?
lol well i like what i’ve seen so far. do you follow any certain party?
I am part of the International Socialist Organization, but that isn’t technically a party yet. I am a revolutionary marxist/leninist. Glad you like what you see. :]
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lenxo replied to your post: thanks for following me! is yours a personal blog or more of an activist one?
but wouldnt that make it a personal blog if youre stating your personal beliefs?
I mix personal beliefs with proven facts. I guess you could call it a personal activism blog. Activism is a huge part of my life.
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The Year Dissent Came Back →
thysfunktional asked: thanks for following me! is yours a personal blog or more of an activist one?
December 2011
383 posts
imanactor asked: Thanks for the follow! :]
Today we remember the Lakota men, women, and...
RIP
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Women and Unions →
Late 19th Century Labor Organizing by and for Women
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Women and Unions - Early Efforts Lowell Mill Girls... →
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Women didn't just strike in Dagenham →
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Who made the New Deal? →
The political changes of the 1930s didn’t come about because American political leaders suddenly decided to give working people new rights.
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– Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”, also sung as “Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?”, was one of the best-known American songs of the Great Depression. Written in 1931 by lyricist E.Y. “Yip” Harburg and composer Jay Gorney, “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” was part...
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History Matters: Flint Sit-Down Strike →
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Striking Flint →
Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike … as told to Susan Rosenthal
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The 1930s: Turning Point for U.S. Labor - Sharon... →
International Socialist Review Issue 25, September–October 2002
A great read about the labor movements in the 1930s
Dorothea Dix (From what I can tell, she was pretty... →
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Important and Famous Women in America →
Sung and unsung, more women have contributed significantly to American history than can be contained within a single table. The following is a representative survey of some of the most important women in American history. The definition of a “famous woman” will vary between individuals, but there is no doubt that these women contributed importantly to the advancement of our society as...
“Each time a girl opens a book and reads a womanless history,
she learns she is...”
– Myra Pollack Sadker
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Lowell Mill Women Create First Union of Working... →
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So what did the Lowell mill girls really win? In the short term, not much. That’s how it often is with the first pioneers in social justice movements. Both of their strikes were crushed. And the only victory they won in their 10-hour workday campaign was pretty hollow. In 1847, New Hampshire became the first state to pass a 10-hour workday law—but it wasn’t enforceable.
That...
taywerisblonde asked: oh gosh i hope you are okay. you're such a... i guess an inspiration or something like that. You are so involved and sincere about it. i wish you the best.
Anonymous asked: what's your opinion on Ron Paul? I haven't read any of his work, I don't know too much about his campaign, I know that he's a Republican, and I have this feeling that he is a lot more supportive of the American people ( and the rest of the world ) but I think he's misunderstood, and either blacked-out by the media or made to look like a weirdo, stranger than Gingrich.
Cannot Be A Slave: Voices of the Lowell Mill... →
The following article appeared in the National Laborer newspaper of Philadelphia and included a resolution that was released by the striking mill girls of Lowell after they formed the “Factory Girls’ Association.” The association was created by the mill girls to coordinate their protest activities and to both promote and to facilitate unity among the women, who worked in many different mills...
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"Characteristics of the Early Factory Girls"... →
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One of the first strikes of the cotton-factory operatives that ever took place in this country was that in Lowell, in October, 1836. When it was announced that wages were to be cut down, great indignation was felt, and it was decided to strike, en masse. This was done. The mills were shut down, and the girls went in procession from their several corporations to the “grove” on...
Anonymous asked: how old r u?
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Remembering lives taken and lives damaged by Cast... →
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Operation Cast Lead massacre in Gaza remembered in... →
Posted on 28 December 2011 by London BDS
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London Commemorates GAZA, 3 years after Operation... →
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Operation Cast Lead : 3 Years On →
“3 Years have gone since the death and destruction of Operation Cast Lead, when Israel once again showed its true colours and massacred the people of Gaza for 22 days, between 27th December 2008 to January 18th 2009.
3 years on, the Israelis continue with their shameless lies, that the operation was all about stopping home made rockets being fired from Gaza. Yet, they don’t tell you, that...
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3 Years After Operation Cast Lead Justice has... →
May those who lost their lives in this atrocity rest in peace. We will never forget!
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Watch“Today and Tomorrow” by Ryan Harvey
I am so pumped about the new album coming out! :]
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Remembering Cast Lead
3 years ago this week, Israel launched an attack on Gaza killing 1,400 Palestinians; 13 Israelis were killed, most were soldiers, 4 from friendly fire. Zionists call it a war, antiracists call it a massacre. And the Siege of Gaza continues to this day.
taywerisblonde asked: Did you go to Occupy New York?
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red-roman replied to your post: Loving “A People’s History of the United States” I…
didn’t get anything for xmas, will try to get it for new year’s :) thanks!
You totally should!
Loving “A People’s History of the United States” I recommend it to everyone. :]
seguicuore asked: You are AWESOME! hmm question: What career do you want in life? Whst is your ultimate goal?
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“you got a woman beaten down everywhere that you look
in the courts, in the...”
– Ryan Harvey
“There are many reasons that jokes can be considered offensive, but one of the...”
– http://zaewen.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/its-just-a-joke/ (via pigblog)