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Frankie ✅Amazon Uses Arsenal of AI Weapons Against WorkersA study of a union election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, shows that the company weaponizes its algorithmic surveillance tools to prevent organizing. <a href="https://prospect.org/labor/2025-03-13-amazon-uses-arsenal-of-ai-weapons-against-workers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://prospect.org/labor/2025-03-13-amazon-uses-arsenal-of-ai-weapons-against-workers/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#news</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#business</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#amazon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#economy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/workersrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workersrights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#union</a>

Weltschmerz à GogoAt the Tesla “gigafactory” in Grünheide outside Berlin, a number of workers who have gotten sick and provided doctors’ notes explaining their absence from work have received letters telling they have to name exactly what is ailing them and waive doctor-patient confidentiality or they won’t get paid at all. Some of them have been paid “by accident” and told they have to give the money back.The union IG-Metall says Tesla workers require legal representation 21x more often than average throughout the union nationwide. <a href="https://www.heise.de/news/Tesla-will-kranken-Beschaeftigten-in-Gruenheide-das-Geld-streichen-10316290.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.heise.de/news/Tesla-will-kranken-Beschaeftigten-in-Gruenheide-das-Geld-streichen-10316290.html</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Tesla</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#labor</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FuckThatGuy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FuckThatGuy</a>

MikeDunnAuthor<a href="https://uaw.org/in-shocking-move-columbia-university-fires-union-president-one-day-before-contract-negotiations-begin-in-further-crackdown-on-free-speech/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://uaw.org/in-shocking-move-columbia-university-fires-union-president-one-day-before-contract-negotiations-begin-in-further-crackdown-on-free-speech/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/freespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freespeech</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/student" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#student</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#activism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/university" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#university</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#columbia</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#repression</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#solidarity</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/freepalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freepalestine</a>

O SlovenskuŽalobu podala Union ZP vo februári 2023.Tón: mierne negatívny <a href="https://rockosbasilisk.com/tags/slovakia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#slovakia</a> <a href="https://rockosbasilisk.com/tags/gdelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gdelt</a> <a href="https://rockosbasilisk.com/tags/s%C3%BAdy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#súdy</a> <a href="https://rockosbasilisk.com/tags/%C5%BEaloba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#žaloba</a> <a href="https://rockosbasilisk.com/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://l.rockosbasilisk.com/ONwgQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://l.rockosbasilisk.com/ONwgQ</a>

Luca da FirenzeSeriously. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> is psychologically unstable He look at his 'boss' <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#putin</a> and think ... if he did it wit <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a>... I can do it with Canada (I'm a 'Great Leader' like him) Trump will find some excuse to invade <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Canada</a> Then he will make the victim (like Putin) saying that >Canadians forced him to do so.Canada... get ready militarily with <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mexico</a> with the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/European" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#European</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Union</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/NATO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NATO</a>. Don't wait! <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Americans</a> will do shit to stop trump They have not even been able to protect their democracy.

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History March 12, 1912: The IWW won their Bread and Roses textile strike in Lawrence, MA. This was the first strike to use the moving picket line, implemented to avoid arrest for loitering. The workers came from 51 different nationalities and spoke 22 different languages. The mainstream unions, including the American Federation of Labor, all believed it was impossible to organize such a diverse workforce. However, the IWW organized workers by linguistic group and trained organizers who could speak each of the languages. Each language group got a delegate on the strike committee and had complete autonomy. Big Bill Haywood and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn masterminded the strategy of sending hundreds of the strikers' hungry children to sympathetic families in New York, New Jersey, and Vermont, drawing widespread sympathy, especially after police violently stopped a further exodus. 3 workers were killed by police during the strike. Nearly 300 were arrested.The 1911 verse, by Poet James Oppenheim, has been associated with the strike, particularly after Upton Sinclair made the connection in his 1915 labor anthology, “The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest”As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men, For they are women's children, and we mother them again. Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes; Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IWW</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/breadandroses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#breadandroses</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/policebrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#policebrutality</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/elizabethgurleyflynn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#elizabethgurleyflynn</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bigbillhaywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bigbillhaywood</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/picket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#picket</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#immigrants</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#novel</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uptonsinclair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uptonsinclair</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstadon</a>

Nathaniel GregoryWith <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> seeking to crash the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#economy</a> & decimate <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialsecurity</a>, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GOP</a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Congress</a> shouts <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a> while the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Democrats</a> pray for mid-term <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/elections" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#elections</a>. Trump received less than 50% of the votes for his "mandate".<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-musk-intentionally-crashing-economy" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-musk-intentionally-crashing-economy</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreenSocialist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreenSocialist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreenParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreenParty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EcoSocialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EcoSocialism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Revolution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Peace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Peace</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ecology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialJustice</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Democracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Education</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DualPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DualPower</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Election</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Organize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Organize</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Reading</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Discussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Discussion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Learning</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Workers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WorkersRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Union</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LaborRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborRights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UnionsRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnionsRights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HumanRights</a>

Chema Hernández GilThe SF Labor Council and the California Federation of Labor Unions are organizing a march for immigrant workers in Delano with the United Farm Workers this upcoming César Chávez Day, Monday, March 31. Bus leaves at 5:30 AM from the Bill Graham Auditorium (corner of Grove and Larkin Streets). Sign up using the link below if you're interested. <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.sanfranciscan.org/tag/labor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#labor</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.sanfranciscan.org/tag/union" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#union</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.sanfranciscan.org/tag/cesarchavezday" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CesarChavezDay</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.sanfranciscan.org/tag/california" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#California</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.sanfranciscan.org/tag/sanfrancisco" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SanFrancisco</a> <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeplv2iEFbbDKCZx_3y89VSINba2onDjaJNYFQOyj0pE1vRNA/viewform" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeplv2iEFbbDKCZx_3y89VSINba2onDjaJNYFQOyj0pE1vRNA/viewform</a>

tagesschauLiveblog zur Regierungsbildung: ++ Esken warnt vor Alleingang bei Zurückweisungen ++SPD-Chefin Esken hat Überlegungen der Union kritisiert, Asylsuchende notfalls auch ohne Billigung der Nachbarländer an den deutschen Grenzen abzuweisen. Bundestagspräsidentin Bas hält an den Sondersitzungen des alten Bundestags fest.➡️ <a href="https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-regierungsbildung-montag-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-regierungsbildung-montag-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de</a><a href="https://ard.social/tags/Liveblog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Liveblog</a> <a href="https://ard.social/tags/Regierungsbildung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Regierungsbildung</a> <a href="https://ard.social/tags/Union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Union</a> <a href="https://ard.social/tags/SPD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SPD</a> <a href="https://ard.social/tags/Gr%C3%BCne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Grüne</a>

Guido KühnDer Fusionsreaktorfetisch der Union Im Sondierungspapier steht tatsächlich „Der erste Fusionsreaktor der Welt soll in Deutschland stehen“. Wie groß der Verblendugsdruck, wie verzweifelt in Zeiten sich liberalisierender Energiemärkte […] … Zum Weiterlesen den Link benutzen. <a href="https://cartoons.guido-kuehn.de/der-fusionsreaktorfetisch-der-union/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cartoons.guido-kuehn.de/der-fusionsreaktorfetisch-der-union/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deutschland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#deutschland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/energie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#energie</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kernfusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kernfusion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sondierung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sondierung</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#union</a>

Erik L. Midtsveen 🏴🏳️‍🌈<a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Work" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Work</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Labor</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/LaborUnions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborUnions</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/LaborUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborUnion</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Unions</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Union</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/WageSlaveryNormalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WageSlaveryNormalization</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Wages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wages</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/WageSlavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WageSlavery</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/WageSlave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WageSlave</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Slavery</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Hierarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hierarchy</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/CNT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CNT</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/IAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IAA</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/NSFIAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NSFIAA</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anarchism</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Syndicalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Syndicalism</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Socialism</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/AntiCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AntiCapitalism</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/AnarchoSyndicalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AnarchoSyndicalism</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Memes</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Funny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Funny</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Humor</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/Clown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Clown</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History March 9, 1879: Anarchist militant and IWW organizer, Carlo Tresca, was born. Tresca was an outspoken opponent of fascism in Germany and Italy, and of Soviet Communism. He was one of the main organizers of the Patterson Silk Strike. He was assassinated in 1943 by an unknown assailant, presumably a fascist or the Mafia. Some believe the Soviets killed him in retaliation for his criticism of Stalin. The most recent research suggests it was the Bonanno crime family, in response to his criticism of the mafia and Mussolini.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IWW</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#anarchism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#communism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/paterson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#paterson</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mafia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mafia</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/stalin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stalin</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#soviet</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mussolini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mussolini</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History March 9, 1911: Frank Little and other free-speech fighters were released from jail in Fresno, California, where they had been fighting for the right to speak to and organize workers on public streets. Little was a Cherokee miner and IWW union organizer. He helped organize oil workers, timber workers and migrant farm workers in California. He participated in free speech fights in Missoula, Spokane and Fresno, and helped pioneer many of the passive resistance techniques later used by the Civil Rights movement. He was also an anti-war activist, calling U.S. soldiers “Uncle Sam’s scabs in uniforms.” 1917, he helped organize the Speculator Mine strike in Butte, Montana. Vigilantes broke into his boarding house, dragged him through the streets while tied to the back of a car, and then lynched him from a railroad trestle. Prior to Little’s assassination, Author Dashiell Hammett had been asked by the Pinkerton Detective Agency to murder him. Hammett declined.Read my full bio of Frank Little here: <a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/05/frank-little/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/05/frank-little/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IWW</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/freespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freespeech</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indigenous</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nativeamerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nativeamerican</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cherokee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cherokee</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/franklittle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#franklittle</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/civilrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#civilrights</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nonviolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nonviolence</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vigilantes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vigilantes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lynching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lynching</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstadon</a>

Quantium 40Habe gerade auf LinkedIn folgenden Vorschlag an die <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/SPD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SPD</a> gelesen: 1. Mit der <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/Union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Union</a> die Sondervermögen im alten Bundestag auf den Weg bringen 2. Koalition platzen lassen und mit <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/Gr%C3%BCne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Grüne</a> und <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/Linke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linke</a> eine Minderheitsregierung eingehen.Nicht ganz realistisch, aber ich glaube ich habe schon schlechtere Vorschläge gehört! 😂

ritchiepage2001<a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Project2025</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/TechBros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TechBros</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/CorpMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CorpMedia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Oligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Oligarchs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/MegaBanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MegaBanks</a> vs <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Union</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Occupy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Occupy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoDAPL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/BLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BLM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/SDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SDF</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/DACA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DACA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/MeToo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MeToo</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/Humanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Humanity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/FeelTheBern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FeelTheBern</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/JinJiyanAzadi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JinJiyanAzadi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/tags/BijiRojava" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BijiRojava</a> Ukrainian lawmaker tells BI that Trump has taken away one of the 'most important things' Kyiv got from the US and left it at risk<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cutting-satellite-imagery-weakens-ukraines-defenses-lawmaker-2025-3" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.businessinsider.com/cutting-satellite-imagery-weakens-ukraines-defenses-lawmaker-2025-3</a>Trump latest: Satellite firm pulls Ukrainian access following pressure from US; Trump says Russia has 'all the cards'<a href="https://news.sky.com/story/us-election-donald-trump-kamala-harris-democrat-republican-polls-skynews-live-latest-13209921" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://news.sky.com/story/us-election-donald-trump-kamala-harris-democrat-republican-polls-skynews-live-latest-13209921</a>

Luca da FirenzeA person told me:" <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> is <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Putin</a>'s revenge for the collapse of the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Soviet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Union</a> "I absolutely agree

Don Trueten :antifa:Die Ära der <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Aufr%C3%BCstung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Aufrüstung</a>: Brüssel und Berlin planen gigantische Rüstungsschulden Mit einem fast zeitgleich verkündeten Doppelwumms präsentierten die wahrscheinliche künftige Schwarz-Rote #Bundesregierung und auch Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen am 4. März 2025 ihre Vorschläge, wie massive Erhöhungen der #Militärausgaben finanziert werden sollen: über Schulden. Es folgen die wichtigsten Details soweit bislang bekannt. Berlin: Rüstung geht immer I Laut <a href="https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2024/6/pdf/240617-def-exp-2024-en.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Schätzungen der NATO</a> beliefen sich die deutschen Militärausgaben im Jahr 2024 auf 90,58 Mrd. Euro (2,12 Prozent des <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Bruttoinlandsproduktes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bruttoinlandsproduktes</a>, BIP). Der Betrag setzt sich zusammen aus dem offiziellen <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Verteidigungshaushalt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Verteidigungshaushalt</a> von 51,95 Mrd. Euro, hinzu sollten 19,8 Mrd. aus dem <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Sonderverm%C3%B6gen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sondervermögen</a> und 18,83 Mrd. <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Euro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Euro</a> nach <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/NATO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NATO</a>-Kriterien (militärrelevante Ausgaben aus anderen Haushalten, v.a. für <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Waffenlieferungen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Waffenlieferungen</a> an die <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a>) kommen (weil ein zeitiger Mittelabruf teils nicht gelang, waren es real wohl rund <a href="https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2025-01/verteidigungshaushalt-boris-pistorius-ausgaben-niedrig-gaedechenshttps:/www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2025-01/verteidigungshaushalt-boris-pistorius-ausgaben-niedrig-gaedechens" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">4,6 Mrd. Euro weniger</a>). Obwohl die Ausgaben damit zwischen 2014 (34,75 Mrd. Euro) und 2024 (90,58 Mrd. Euro) bereits drastisch gestiegen sind (wieder laut <a href="https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_226465.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">NATO</a>), soll damit das Ende der Fahnenstange noch lange nicht erreicht sein. Schon im <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Wahlkampf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wahlkampf</a> lieferten sich die <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Kandidaten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kandidaten</a> einen regelrechten <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/%C3%9Cberbietungswettbewerb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Überbietungswettbewerb</a> in Sachen <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Milit%C3%A4rausgaben" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Militärausgaben</a>. Den Anfang machte Grünen-Spitzenkandidat Robert <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Habeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Habeck</a>, der Militärausgaben von 3,5% des BIP <a href="https://www.stern.de/politik/verteidigungshaushalt--wo-das-geld-fuer-die-bundeswehr-herkommen-koennte--35366096.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">forderte</a>. Auch CSU-Chef Markus <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/S%C3%B6der" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Söder</a> <a href="https://www.br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/heftige-kritik-an-trumps-forderung-fuer-hoehere-nato-beitraege,UZIzcpy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">gab zum Besten</a>, die <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Verteidigungsausgaben" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Verteidigungsausgaben</a> müssten künftig „deutlich über drei Prozent“ des BIP liegen. Und Unions-Spitzenkandidat Friedrich <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Merz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Merz</a> <a href="https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/20-35-oder-5-prozent-merz-bezeichnet-debatte-uber-prozente-bei-verteidigung-als-zweitrangig-12990709.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">äußerte</a> sich: „Ob es nun zwei 2,5 oder 5 Prozent sind, ehrlich gesagt, das hat für mich nur eine zweitrangige Bedeutung.“ Es müsse sichergestellt sein, „dass wir das notwendige Geld haben, um die <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Bundeswehr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bundeswehr</a> wieder in die Lage zu versetzen, ihren Auftrag zu erfüllen“, wovon sie aktuell „ziemlich weit entfernt“ sei. Noch vor der <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Wahl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wahl</a> wurde dann auch in der <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/nato-ringt-um-hoehere-verteidigungsausgaben-110241619.html&ved=2ahUKEwijyZz2mfOLAxXJgP0HHWjyPCwQFnoECB4QAQ&usg=AOvVaw1U-X08-sLX1vlnwxCwnXRr" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Presse berichtet</a>, die NATO beabsichtige auf ihrem <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Gipfeltreffen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gipfeltreffen</a> im Juni 2025 eine Erhöhung des Mindestausgabenziels von bislang 2 Prozent des BIP auf 3 bis 3,5 Prozent des BIP zu beschließen. Um an diese Werte konkretere Preisschilder zu kleben: 2024 belief sich das deutsche BIP auf 4305 Mrd. Euro, der Haushalt umfasste 476,81 Mrd. Euro. 3,5% des BIP hätten Militärausgaben von ziemlich genau 150 Mrd. Euro bedeutet – rund 32% des gesamten Haushaltes. Würden europaweit mindestens 3,5 Prozent des BIP ausgegeben, würden die Militärausgaben auf knapp 600 Mrd. Euro explodieren – <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Russland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Russland</a> kam laut <a href="https://www.iiss.org/online-analysis/military-balance/2025/02/global-defence-spending-soars-to-new-high/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Military Balance</a> 2024 auf Militärausgaben von 145,9 Mrd. Dollar. Obwohl sich hier völlig zurecht die Frage aufdrängt, ob die hier durch die Gegend geisternden Zahlen noch in irgendeinem auch nur entfernt plausiblen Verhältnis zur potentiellen Bedrohung stehen, war die massive Erhöhung der Militärausgaben bei fast allen Parteien völlig unstrittig – uneins war man sich lediglich lange wie dies finanziert werden soll. Zur Auswahl standen haushaltsinterne Umschichtungen, die aber in diesen Größenordnungen schlicht nicht zu machen sind, wie auch die Union irgendwann einsehen musste. Zwischenzeitlich schien es, als werde ein neues Bundeswehr-<a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Sonderverm%C3%B6gen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sondervermögen</a> ausgelobt, die Rede war zunächst von 200 Mrd. Euro., dann von 400 Mrd. Euro. Nun scheinen sich <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Union</a> und <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/SPD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SPD</a> auf eine dritte Variante verständigt zu haben: Militärausgaben oberhalb von 1 Prozent des BIP sollen künftig von der <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Schuldenbremse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Schuldenbremse</a> ausgenommen werden, wobei es dabei wohl weder eine zeitliche noch eine finanzielle Grenze zu geben scheint. Das Fachportal Europäische Sicherheit & Technik <a href="https://esut.de/2025/03/fachbeitraege/featured-fachbeitraege/57882/einigung-ueber-die-finanzierung-der-bundeswehr/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">schreibt</a> dazu: „Die Höhe der zusätzlich verfügbaren Finanzmittel ist, soweit bekannt, nicht begrenzt. Beobachter schätzen, dass bis zu 400 Milliarden Euro bereitgestellt werden könnten.“ Bei diesem demokratisch überaus fragwürdigen Hauruckverfahren war deshalb so große Eile geboten, weil <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Linke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linke</a> und <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/AfD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AfD</a> im nächsten <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Bundestag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bundestag</a> angesichts der für diese Änderung erforderlichen 2/3 Mehrheit eine <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Sperrminorit%C3%A4t" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sperrminorität</a> hätten. Angepeilt wird deshalb eine Abstimmung im Bundestag in der Kalenderwoche 11 ab dem 10. März 2025. Der voraussichtliche Fahrplan ist bei den griephan-Briefen (Nr. 10/2025) zu finden: 13.03.25: 1. Lesung Plenum; 14.03.25: Abschluss im Ausschuss; 18.03.25: 2./3. Lesung Plenum; 21.03.25: Bundesrat; Spätestens 25.03.25: Konstituierung des 21. Bundestages. Brüssel: <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/R%C3%BCstung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rüstung</a> geht immer II Nahezu parallel dazu verkündete EU-<a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Kommissionspr%C3%A4sidentin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kommissionspräsidentin</a> Ursula von der Leyen am 4. März 2025 ein aus fünf Punkten bestehendes Maßnahmenpaket zur „Wiederaufrüstung Europas“ („ReArm Europe“). Details finden sich in der entsprechenden <a href="https://europa.eu/newsroom/ecpc-failover/pdf/statement-25-673_de.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Presseerklärung</a> von der Leyens: Punkt 1: Militärausgaben sollen von den Schuldenregeln des Stabilitäts- und <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Wachstumspakts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wachstumspakts</a> (<a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Maastricht" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Maastricht</a>-Kriterien) ausgenommen werden. Ob dies vollständig oder nur zum Teil der Fall sein soll, geht aus den bisherigen Informationen nicht hervor. Die Kommission spekuliert, dadurch könnten Erhöhungen der Militärausgaben um 1,5 Prozent des BIP befördert und allein hierdurch innerhalb der nächsten vier Jahre zusätzliche 650 Mrd. Euro mobilisiert werden. Punkt 2: Es soll ein europäisches Finanzierungsinstrument im Umfang von 150 Mrd. Euro eingerichtet werden. Darüber sollen den Mitgliedsstaaten „Darlehen“ für „Investitionen im Verteidigungsbereich“ gegeben werden, was auch <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/R%C3%BCstungsg%C3%BCter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rüstungsgüter</a> für die Ukraine einschließt. Punkt 3: Hier soll an die Mittel der <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Koh%C3%A4sionsfonds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kohäsionsfonds</a> gegangen werden, die eigentlich über die Finanzierung von <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Umwelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Umwelt</a> und <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Infrastrukturma%C3%9Fnahmen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Infrastrukturmaßnahmen</a> in den ärmeren Mitgliedsländern eine schrittweise Angleichung der <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Lebensverh%C3%A4ltnisse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lebensverhältnisse</a> befördern sollen. Nun heißt es aber in der Pressemitteilung der Kommission: „Diesbezüglich können wir kurzfristig viel tun, um mehr Mittel für <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Investitionen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Investitionen</a> im <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Verteidigungsbereich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Verteidigungsbereich</a> bereitzustellen. An dieser Stelle möchte ich verkünden, dass wir den Mitgliedstaaten zusätzliche Möglichkeiten und Anreize vorschlagen werden, damit sie entscheiden können, ob sie die kohäsionspolitischen Programme nutzen wollen, um die Verteidigungsausgaben zu erhöhen.“ Hier geht es für die ärmeren Mitgliedsländer um beträchtliche Mittel: Im aktuellen EU-Haushalt 2021 bis 2027 sind für die Kohäsionsfonds 42,6 Mrd. Euro <a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/factsheets/de/sheet/96/kohasionsfonds" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">eingestellt</a>. Punkt 4: Es soll verstärkt privates Investitionskapitel gewonnen werden. Punkt 5: Die Europäische Investitionsbank (EIB) soll vor den Rüstungskarren gespannt werden. Lange war dies gänzlich tabu, dann erfolgte eine Öffnung für Güter mit doppeltem Verwendungszweck. Ohne dass dies aus der Pressemitteilung direkt hervorginge, ist davon auszugehen, dass nun EIB-Gelder für die gesamte Rüstungsklaviatur verwendet werden können sollen. (...) Weiterlesen in der Analyse von Jürgen Wagner via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@imi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@imi</a> , die wir <a href="https://www.trueten.de/archives/13595-Die-AEra-der-Aufruestung-Bruessel-und-Berlin-planen-gigantische-Ruestungsschulden.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">hier</a> gebloggt haben. Wie immer der Aufruf: Werdet Mitglied bei der IMI - Spendet für die IMI!: Einfach auf <a href="https://www.imi-online.de/mitglied-werden/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">imi-online.de</a> eintragen und die Printversion unseres Ausdrucks dazu bekommen. <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Antimilitarismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Antimilitarismus</a> <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Bundeswehr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bundeswehr</a> <a href="https://mastodon.trueten.de/tags/Militarisierung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Militarisierung</a>

MikeDunnAuthor“What I want is for every dirty, lousy tramp to arm himself with a revolver or knife on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot their owners as they come out.” This was what Lucy Parsons, then in her 80’s, told a crowd at a May Day rally in Chicago, at the height of the Great Depression. The way folk singer Utah Phillips tells the story, she was the image of everybody’s grandmother, prim and proper, face creased with age, tiny voice, hair tied back in a bun. She died in Chicago, Illinois, on this date in Labor History, March 7, 1942.Little is known about Lucy Parson’s early life, but various records indicate that she was born to an enslaved African American woman, in Virginia, sometime around 1848-1851. She may also have had indigenous and Mexican ancestry. Some documents record her name as Lucia Gonzalez. In 1863, her family moved to Waco, Texas. There, as a teenager, she married a freedman named Oliver Benton. But she later married Albert Parsons, a former Confederate officer from Waco, who had become a radical Republican after the war. He worked for the Waco Spectator, which criticized the Klan and demanded sociopolitical equality for African Americans. Albert was shot in the leg and threatened with lynching for helping African Americans register to vote. It is unclear whether her initial marriage was ever dissolved, and likely that her second marriage was more of a common-law arrangement, considering the anti-miscegenation laws that existed then.In 1873, Lucy and Albert moved to Chicago to get away from the racist violence and threats of the KKK. There, they became members of the socialist International Workingmen's Association, and the Knights of Labor, a radical labor union that organized all workers, regardless of race or gender. They had two children in the 1870s, one of whom died from illness at the age of eight. Lucy worked as a seamstress. Albert worked as a printer for the Chicago Times. These were incredibly difficult times for workers. The Long Depression had just begun, one of the worst, and longest, depressions in U.S. history. Jobs were scarce and wages were low. Additionally, bosses were exploiting the Contract Labor Law of 1864 to bring in immigrant workers who they could pay even less than native-born workers.In 1877, Lucy and Albert Parsons helped organize protests and strikes in Chicago during the Great Upheaval. The police violence against the workers there was intense. One journalist wrote, “The sound of clubs falling on skulls was sickening for the first minute, until one grew accustomed to it. A rioter dropped at every whack, it seemed, for the ground was covered with them.” During the Battle of the Viaduct (July 25, 1877), the police slaughtered thirty workers and injured over one hundred. Albert was fired from his job and blacklisted, because of his revolutionary street corner speeches.After the Great Upheaval, they both moved away from electoral politics and began to support more radical anarchist activism. Lucy condoned political violence, self-defense against racial violence, and class struggle against religion. Along with Lizzie Swank, and others, she helped found the Chicago Working Women's Union (WWU), which encouraged women workers to unionize and promoted the eight-hour workday. During the late 1870s and early 1880s, she wrote numerous articles, including "Our Civilization, Is it Worth Saving?" and "The Factory Child. Their Wrongs Portrayed and Their Rescue Demanded." In 1884, she helped edit the radical newspaper The Alarm. She wrote an article for that paper, "To Tramps, the Unemployed, the Disinherited and Miserable," which sold of over 100,000 copies. In that article, she advocated using violence against the bosses. In 1885, she published "Dynamite! The only voice the oppressors of the people can understand," in the Denver Labor Enquirer. During this period, Lucy gave numerous fiery speeches on the shores of Lake Michigan. Hundreds of people routinely attended. Mother Jones thought her speeches advocated too much violence. The Chicago Police Department called her “more dangerous than 1,000 rioters.”On May 1, 1886, 350,000 workers went on strike across the U.S. to demand the eight-hour workday. In Chicago, Albert and Lucy led a peaceful demonstration of 80,000 people down Michigan Avenue. It was the world’s first May Day/International Workers’ Day demonstration—an event that has been celebrated ever since, by nearly every country in the world, except for the U.S. Two days later, another anarchist, August Spies, addressed striking workers at the McCormick Reaper factory. Chicago Police and Pinkertons attacked the crowd, killing at least one person. On May 4, anarchists organized a demonstration at Haymarket Square to protest that police violence. The police ordered the protesters to disperse. Somebody threw a bomb, which killed at least one cop. The police opened fire, killing another seven workers. Six police also died, likely from “friendly fire” by other cops. The authorities, in their outrage, went on a witch hunt, rounding up most of the city’s leading anarchists and radical labor leaders, including Albert Parsons and August Spies. Lucy toured the country, giving speeches and distributing literature about the men’s innocence. Everywhere she went, she was greeted by police, often being barred entrance to the meeting halls where she was scheduled to speak. She was also arrested numerous times. Despite her efforts, and those of other activists fighting to free the Haymarket anarchists, seven were ultimately convicted of killing the cops, even though none of them were present at Haymarket Square when the bomb was thrown. Four were executed, in 1887, including Albert Parsons. On the morning of his execution, Lucy brought their children to see him for the last time, but she was arrested and taken to the Chicago Avenue police station, where they strip-searched her for explosives. Albert’s casket was later brought to Lucy’s sewing shop, where over 10,000 people came to pay their respects. 15,000 people attended his funeral. Several years later, the governor of Illinois pardoned all seven men, determining that neither the police, nor the Pinkertons, who testified against them, were reliable witnesses.After her husband’s execution, Lucy continued her radical organizing, writing, and speeches. In October 1888, she visited London, where she met with the anarchists Peter Kropotkin and William Morris. In the 1890s, she edited and wrote for the newspaper Freedom, A Revolutionary Anarchist-Communist Monthly. In 1892, Alexander Berkman (an anarchist comrade and lover of Emma Goldman) attempted to assassinate the industrialist Henry Clay Frick, for his role in the slaughter of striking steel workers, during the Homestead Strike. Lucy published the following in Freedom: "For our part we have only the greatest admiration for a hero like Berkman." In 1905, Lucy cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), along with Mother Jones, Big Bill Haywood, Eugene Debs, James Connolly, and others. The IWW was, and still is, a revolutionary union, seeking not only better working conditions in the here and now, but the complete abolition of capitalism. The preamble to their constitution states, “The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.” They advocate the General Strike and sabotage as two of many means to these ends. At the founding meeting of the IWW, Lucy said that women were the slaves of slaves. “We are exploited more ruthlessly than men. Whenever wages are to be reduced the capitalist class use women to reduce them.” She called on the new union to fight for gender equality and to assess underpaid women lower union dues. She also started advocating for nonviolent protest, telling workers that instead of walking off the job, and starving, they should strike, but remain at their worksites, taking control of their bosses’ machinery and property. This was years before Gandhi started leading Indians in nonviolent protest. Read my entire biography of her here: <a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/24/lucy-parsons/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/24/lucy-parsons/</a>“When the prison, stake or scaffold can no longer silence the voice of the protesting minority, progress moves on a step, but not until then.” –Lucy Parsons<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lucyparsons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lucyparsons</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IWW</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/haymarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#haymarket</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#anarchism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#communism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/womenshistorymonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#womenshistorymonth</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rebellion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rebellion</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/8HourDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#8HourDay</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/eighthourday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#eighthourday</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/motherjones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#motherjones</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/eugenedebs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#eugenedebs</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#execution</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bigbillhaywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bigbillhaywood</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/scottsboro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scottsboro</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chicago</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/waco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#waco</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#texas</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#slavery</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/civilwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#civilwar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/africanamerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#africanamerican</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMastadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlackMastadon</a>

Voting is Your POWER<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/unionstrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#unionstrong</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#unions</a> The American Federation of Teachers is pressuring some of Tesla's biggest shareholders and asset managers calling on them to review Tesla’s current valuation. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/business/dealbook/aft-teachers-union-musk-tusk.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/business/dealbook/aft-teachers-union-musk-tusk.html</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History March 6, 1978: President Jimmy Carter invoked the Taft-Hartley law to quash the 1977-78 national contract strike by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). The UMWA had been on strike since December 1977, but rejected a tentative contract agreement in early March, 1978. Carter invoked the national emergency provision of Taft-Hartley and ordered strikers back to work. They ignored the order and the government did little to enforce it. By late March, they reached a settlement. Taft-Hartley was enacted in the wake of the strike wave of 1945-1946 and was designed to prevent solidarity strikes and General Strikes. The last General Strike in U.S. history (Lancaster, PA; Stamford, CT; Rochester, NY; and Oakland, CA) occurred just prior to Taft-Hartley.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeneralStrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GeneralStrike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#solidarity</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TaftHartley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TaftHartley</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oakland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oakland</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UMWA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UMWA</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/POTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#POTUS</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedMineWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnitedMineWorkers</a>

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