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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History October 27, 2006: U.S. anarchist activist and journalist, Brad Will, was murdered by a government-affiliated paramilitary while covering the teachers’ strike in Oaxaca, Mexico. He was affiliated with Indymedia. In the 1990s, he worked as a teaching assistant to Peter Lamborn Wilson (a.k.a. Hakim Bey). He later moved to a squat in New York’s Lower East Side. He once participated in a protest against a proposed amendment to the Colorado constitution that sought to curtail gay rights, by pretending to marry another man, dressed in drag, with a parade in front of a Promise Keepers event in Boulder, Colorado. He was also active in Earth First, pirate radio, and other causes.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #bradwill #oaxaca #union #teachers #strike #assassination #mexico #paramilitary #deathsquads #anarchism #pirateradio #earthfirst #lgbtq

Today in Labor History October 27, 2006: U.S. anarchist activist and journalist, Brad Will, was murdered by a government-affiliated paramilitary while covering the teachers’ strike in Oaxaca, Mexico. He was affiliated with Indymedia. In the 1990s, he worked as a teaching assistant to Peter Lamborn Wilson (a.k.a. Hakim Bey). He later moved to a squat in New York’s Lower East Side. He once participated in a protest against a proposed amendment to the Colorado constitution that sought to curtail gay...

Poster of Will at the 2006 New York City Halloween Parade. Will is depicted in a white shirt, with his name across the front, glasses and scruffy beard. His arms are linked with symbolic Death, in a green shirt, with a skull instead of a face. Death’s shirt reads: Presente.  By Patrick Gruban - Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3178542
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Andy Mouse

@MikeDunnAuthor

Is it an alternative...? Was it ever? I'm not so certain.

Abyssal Rook

@MikeDunnAuthor Have 'em play Night in the Woods and do the sidequest where they explain that that's literally exactly what they did to a mine owner and the "union" founders of the time kept his teeth as trophies signifying their unity.

MikeDunnAuthor

Proof that cats don't need intact boxes. A piece of one will do just fine.

#caturday #catsofmastadon

Tuxedo cat sitting in the fragments of an old box
Idris 💙

@MikeDunnAuthor
I'm lying here in bed waiting to go get a covid test. I'm supposed to have a procedure on Monday that is 5 hours away and I don't want to drive 5 hours only to find out I have covid. For the first time in my life. I'm kind of hoping it's my rheumatoid arthritis instead of covid.

And then you go and make me laugh until it fucking hurts!

MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History May 13, 1985: The city of Philadelphia bombed the house of the radical black activist group MOVE. The police dropped a bomb made with C-4 explosives from a helicopter over the African American residential neighborhood. When survivors tried to flee, the cops shot at them. As a result, eleven MOVE members died, including five children. Furthermore, the bomb and fires destroyed sixty-two others homes in the neighborhood. Consequently, 250 Philadelphians became homeless. Adding insult to injury, the bones of some of the victims were transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where professors used them to teach courses on forensic evidence.

MOVE was a black liberation environmental movement. Many surviving MOVE members were still in prison as late as 2020. Mumia Abu Jamal, who was an associate of MOVE, is still in prison on trumped up charges of killing a cop. He is currently severely ill with diabetes and heart disease. The government has bombed civilians from the air several other times in history. The first was during the Tulsa anti-black pogrom of 1921. They also aerially bombed striking Appalachian miners that same year.

#LaborHistory #workingclass #move #mumiaabujamal #terrorism #bombing #philadelphia #racism #homeless #policebrutality #police #massacre #prison #BlackMastadon

Today in Labor History May 13, 1985: The city of Philadelphia bombed the house of the radical black activist group MOVE. The police dropped a bomb made with C-4 explosives from a helicopter over the African American residential neighborhood. When survivors tried to flee, the cops shot at them. As a result, eleven MOVE members died, including five children. Furthermore, the bomb and fires destroyed sixty-two others homes in the neighborhood. Consequently, 250 Philadelphians became homeless. Adding...

A crowd seeing their neighborhood on fire after the police dropped a bomb. By Unknown - Original publication: May 12, 2020Immediate source: https://web.archive.org/web/20221108213825/https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/philadelphia-police-bombing-move-compound-africa-osage-ave-racism-20200512.html, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72841122
MikeDunnAuthor

Zilla doing her best Terminator impression.

Happy #caturday

Cute black cat with glowing green eye
MikeDunnAuthor

Don't just teach your children to read...Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.

#GeorgeCarlin #reading #books #fiction #novels #authors #writers #CriticalThinking @bookstadon

Image of George Carlin with the quote: Don't just teach your children to read...Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.
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@MikeDunnAuthor @bookstadon we don't want them to question established scientific facts though

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Really gorgeous!

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