VelEx Politics25 MAR 1807 | Slave Trade Act passed | United Kingdom
#OnThisDay #History #PoliticalHistory #UnitedKingdom #Abolition
The Rising Tide Fellowship@timagal The structural trajectory you are pointing out is highly accurate. The tactics of state violence and surveillance tested on marginalized populations globally frequently return home to be used by domestic police forces. Furthermore, the United States already utilizes mass incarceration as a formalized system to punish, criminalize, and extract labor from populations experiencing poverty.
While the systemic pressure is severe, the outcome is not inevitable. The most reliable defense against the criminalization of the working class is building a dense, interconnected foundation of local power.
In Buffalo, we are working alongside a strong network of allied organizations to block state violence at the neighborhood level. Groups like the Queen City Workers Center, PUSH Buffalo, and Neighborhood Legal Services are actively fighting to keep people housed, out of the carceral system, and in control of their own community resources.
When local movements link their struggles together, it builds a structural wall that the state struggles to break through. You can explore the full network of allied organizations we coordinate with in our digital headquarters.
Link: https://linktr.ee/rtfe
#Abolition #MutualAid #TenantPower #Solidarity #WorkingClass #AntiCapitalism #BuffaloNY #RisingTide
While the systemic pressure is severe, the outcome is not inevitable. The most reliable defense against the criminalization of the working class is building a dense, interconnected foundation of local power.
In Buffalo, we are working alongside a strong network of allied organizations to block state violence at the neighborhood level. Groups like the Queen City Workers Center, PUSH Buffalo, and Neighborhood Legal Services are actively fighting to keep people housed, out of the carceral system, and in control of their own community resources.
When local movements link their struggles together, it builds a structural wall that the state struggles to break through. You can explore the full network of allied organizations we coordinate with in our digital headquarters.
Link: https://linktr.ee/rtfe
#Abolition #MutualAid #TenantPower #Solidarity #WorkingClass #AntiCapitalism #BuffaloNY #RisingTide
brume ⏚ 🤔 ⛵ 🐧 ☮️ 🇵🇸 🍉- l'occupation par Israël est illégale et son gouvernement n'a pas l'autorité pour y appliquer ses lois
- le risque de peines de mort non conformes au droit international est très élevé au vu des violations dont l'administration militaire s'est rendue coupable vis-à-vis des Palestiniens depuis 1967
"Nous demandons instamment à #Israël de mettre fin à la peine de mort, conformément à la tendance mondiale vers son #abolition"
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MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History March 23, 1871: Far left workers proclaimed communes in Lyon and Marseilles. The Paris Commune began March 18. Workers, including Cluseret and Mikhail Bakunin and other anarchists and left socialists of the International Workingmen’s Association, had tried to create a commune in Lyon in 1870, as well. Prior to this, Cluseret fought the bourgeois moderates during the 1848 Paris uprising. And in 1860, he joined Garabaldi in his fight for Italian independence. In 1860, when William Sewell made a plea for European generals, he joined Union army with letters of support from Garibaldi, serving as a colonel, commanding troops in Shenandoah Valley. He eventually rose to the rank of general, but eventually quit when he was accused of insubordination for complaining about the abuse of civilians by Union troops. After that, he joined the Irish Republican cause, managing to escape a death sentence by the British. During the Paris Commune, Cluseret served as Minister of War. However, when he refused to arrest Monsignior Darboy, Archbishop of Paris, he was arrested for collusion with the enemy.
Cluseret once said, “the U.S. presents that strange anomaly of enslaved labor in a free nation. Politically free, the worker is socially the capitalists’ serf.”
Marx called him an opportunist and an overambitious babbler.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #civilwar #paris #lyon #Marseille #commune #bakunin #anarchism #cluseret #workers #marx #slavery #Abolition #independence
Today in Labor History March 22, 1794: President Washington signed the Slave Trade Act, which banned U.S. ships and citizens from engaging in the international slave trade. However, Americans continued to import and export slaves illegally, and other countries could still legally import slaves into the U.S. until 1807. A slave trader named John Brown, founder of Brown University, was the first person tried and acquitted under the Slave Trade Act. But the government still confiscated his ship. He was later elected to Congress.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #slavery #brownuniversity #racism #abolition #washington #congress #BlackMastodon
getmischGot it from the Blue-ski. It was credited as "street art", "Paris 11th" (district, where my sister used to live).
I love that because the Statue was given us by France, not for taking in immigrants but for finally joining the rest of the world and ending slavery. Her ankles are shown breaking free of locks and chains.
It was decades later that the immigration aspect was tacked on.
#StatueOfLiberty #France #USA #emancipation #slavery #abolition #NYC #immigrants #EllisIsland #immigration #policy
I love that because the Statue was given us by France, not for taking in immigrants but for finally joining the rest of the world and ending slavery. Her ankles are shown breaking free of locks and chains.
It was decades later that the immigration aspect was tacked on.
#StatueOfLiberty #France #USA #emancipation #slavery #abolition #NYC #immigrants #EllisIsland #immigration #policy
SarafinaI have been so excited to announce this!
You're invited to a Conflict circle facilitation workshop by @genopretkbh ❤️🔥
#Aarhus let's study and practice restorative and transformative justice 🌿
Event info: https://dukop.dk/9563/
#RestorativeJustice #Abolition #TransformativeJustice #GenoprettendeRetfærdighed #MellemfolkeligtSamvirkeAarhus
Today in Labor History March 21, 1937: Palm Sunday, cops killed 19 unarmed men, women and children marching in a protest in Ponce, Puerto Rico. They injured another 200 civilians. The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party organized the march to commemorate the abolition of slavery in 1873 and to protest the imprisonment of the party’s leaders by the U.S. The police used Thompson submachine guns, rifles and pistols, shooting marchers in the back, during the Ponce Massacre. A commission placed the blame for the massacre on the U.S. appointed governor of Puerto Rico, Blanton Winship. However, no one, including Winship, nor any of the shooters, were ever prosecuted or punished.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #ponce #massacre #PuertoRico #colonialism #slavery #abolition #prison
Today in Labor History March 20, 1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was published, leading to a wave of support for abolition, as well as the publication of 30 books defending slavery. Stowe’s work was the first novel to sell a million copies.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #HarrietBeecherStowe #uncletom #slavery #abolition #books #author #writer #fiction #novel @bookstadon
Non Serviam Media Collective“Building new, supposedly nicer cages is a reformist reform.
A non-reformist reform … [is] how do we start getting people out.”
- Victoria Law
