Michael Dunn

Video as we drive past the tailings of the old Lavender Pit Copper Mine, in operation from 1950-1974. Owned by Phelps Dodge, located between Lowell and Bisbee, Arizona, site of the infamous 1917 kidnapping and deportation of striking IWW copper miners, on the orders of the Phelps Dodge management.

Photo of me in Lowell, Arizona, outside a hat shop, with antique cars on the side of the road, and an old Indian Motorcycles shop.

Now aghost town, Lowell was incorporated into Bisbee, AZ, in 2908. It was settled by Copper miners from Serbia, Finland Montenegro.

1959 Edsel Corsair, powder blue

Me, with a1940s yellow Chrysler, reflected in a window that reads: politicians scrape shit from boots before entering

Better yet, don't come in at all!

Skeleton eating a sardine, graffiti in Porto.

Bird fountain

Klansman in white robe and hood saying to a masked ICE agent, "i totally get wanting to cover your face. "

Labor On zthe Line poster reads: LA bus drivers block ICE cutting union protections. Bus drivers across the city are standing up for their immigrant neighbors, as more workers join the fight to end ICE's terror ando deportations. "I'm not going to open my doors, regardless if there's retaliation or not. I'm going to do what's right." Jaime a bus driver who barred ICE from invading his bus.

So your telling me there was a thriving black community called Seneca Village where Freed black slaves finally acquired land and built churches & schools and then it was bulldozed to make Central Park? And that I never heard a peep of this I'm any high school or college history class?

Seneca Village was established in 1825.

And there were dozens of freedom towns throughout the U.S., including the deep south. Hobson City, Alabama. Abila and Victorville, CA. New Monrovia and Newtown, FL. Mossville, Louisiana. Lincoln Park, MD. Parting Ways, MA. Timbuctoo, NJ. Blackdom,

A Texas centipede, escaping the rain

Black Buck Antelope foraging in Texas Hill Country

Thunderhead, Texas Hill Country.

Church sign that says no rules just Jesus

Hey y'all,
no rules!
Just you and Jesus
Anything goes!

Thanks

immaculate, not rape, even though it was non-consensual, or at least involved the epitome of unequal power dynamics. Not to mention, it’s monotheistic religion with 3 different gods who are all somehow the same god? Nah, it’s not at all confusing.

This is happening in every country.

You will never have a home while the billionaires are allowed to own millions of them and keep them empty.

We need to get rid of the billionaires they are too expensive.

Every penny that is going to them is one that isn't going on Public Services and that you have to pay in tax instead.

The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of the working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.

MC Squared @mcsquared34 writes: Just so we’re clear, anything the ruling class doesn’t like is now terrorism. Speaking out against genocide is terrorism, resisting tyranny terrorism, exercising your constitutional rights terrorism, boycotts terrorism, vandalizing Swasticars terrorism, & strikes more terrorism.

Woodblock poster (which I purchased in Hilo, in 2005), depicting local labor organizer, Harry Kamoku. Other images in the poster include a close-up of a cop pointing a gun at viewers, and scenes from the strike. At the bottom it reads, An Injury to One is an Injury to All.

Today in #LaborHistory 8/1/1938: #Police opened fire on 200 unarmed #ILWU #union longshoremen on #strike in Hilo, #Hawaii demanding equal pay to US west coast longshoremen. Harry Kamoku (depicted in this poster) was leader of the strike

Two union coal miners, in white shirts, with suspenders, and broad-brimmed hats, sitting in a sniper's nest with a machine gun, during the Battle of Blair Mountain. By Kinograms - https://libcom.org/gallery/battle-blair-mountain-1921-photo-galleryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBAKGvOV6_k, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75210487

Today in #LaborHistory 8/1/1921: Sheriff Sid Hatfield murdered by Felts private cops for his role in #Matewan mining #strike, 1920. Led to Battle of Blair Mountain: 20,000 miners fought 3,000 police & natl guards. Largest labor #uprising in US history
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#Author Dashiell Hammett worked for #Pinkertons in Butte at during #mining #strike. Offered him $5,000 to murder #IWW #union organizer #FrankLittle. Refused. Wrote about it in his #novel Red Harvest.

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#books

Portrait of Frank Little, in a suit and tie, and wearing a fedora. By http://www.kued.org/productions/fire/photos_stories/gibraltar.html / http://www.kued.org/productions/fire/images/gibraltar/frank_little.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1897765

Today in #LaborHistory 8/1/1917: #Indigenous #IWW organizer #FrankLittle lynched in #Montana during #miner #strike. Tied to car, dragged through town, hanged from train trestle.

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#FreeSpeech #racism #union

MaskedI CE agent chafing Dora the explorer Reads: Dora the deported

MaskedI CE agent chafing Dora the explorer Reads: Dora the deported

Lalo Alcarez cagents. WANTED poster of mashed ICE agent. reads Ilosers, thugs, bad lovers,,? No morals? Violent j6 veteran? I want you

Album cover from the Pogues “Rum, Sodomy & the Lash.” Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15895211

Today in #LaborHistory 7/31/1970: British sailors were given their officially sanctioned ration of rum. Black Tot Day took away one of the very few remaining benefits of the job. The lash has never been formally abolished. And sodomy was never officially permitted.

Students in a burned bus. By Marcel·lí Perelló - my personal archive, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2471104

Today in #LaborHistory 7/31/1968: #Students protested #Olympics #MexicoCity. Occupied schools, #GeneralStrike. #Police violence culminated in #Tlatelolco #massacre, Oct 2, when they slaughtered 350-400 people, using snipers. They arrested & tortured over 1,300.

From left to right: Italo Balbo, Benito Mussolini, Cesare Maria de Vecchi and Michele Bianchi, during the fascist march on Rome, in October, 1922. By Unknown author - Illustrazione Italiana, 1922, n. 45, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48015630

Today in #LaborHistory 7/31.1922: #GeneralStrike against #Fascism in Italy. In Oct, the fascists led a march through Rome, which led to a coup and their ascension to power.