The really wholesome, joyous life of the individual or group is not built up with the aid of power and programs that seek to enclose it within artificial constructs and written laws.
-- Nestor Makhno

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Recently we had a wide ranging conversation with political theorist Martin Jacobson about #geoism, #anarchism, #LVT, #effectivealtruism, #animalrights, #StarTrek, and more. 🏴

Check it out! 👇

🔗 https://pod.link/1499036871/episode/dGFnOnNvdW5kY2xvdWQsMjAxMDp0cmFja3MvMjMxNTk5OTExNA

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[Discussion] I think traditional housing is overrated

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/69971780

Do you like learning about, &/or sharing, your knowledge of history? How about the history of anarchism? Or maybe you simply enjoy seeing others jumping up & down with excitement because they know the answer?

This June 22, come on down to Sladden Park (325 Cheshire Ave) in Eugene, Oregon, for the Anarchist History Quiz with special guest Quizmeister Hank!

6pm – 9pm

Free Admission

All Ages

Prizes

Fun Facts

Snacks

#Eugene #Anarchism

While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.
-- Johann Most

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Today in Labor History June 3, 1910: U.S. anarchists formed the Francisco Ferrer Association in Harlem, one year after the wrongful execution of anarchist educator Francisco Ferrer in Spain. The organization founded libertarian socialist schools throughout the U.S. based on the principles of Ferrer’s Modern Schools. The American Modern Schools were designed to counter the discipline, formality and regimentation of traditional American schools. Regular working-class people ran the schools for the children of workers. They sought to abolish all forms of authority, including educational, with the goal of creating a society based on free association and free thought. They emphasized learning by doing, as well as crafts and reading. They avoided rigid curricula, rote memorization and regimentation, as well as rewards and punishments. They also believed that learning was a life-long process that never ended. Therefore, parents and other adults were encouraged to participate in the operation of the schools and to attend evening and weekend lectures. Some of the speakers at these lectures included Clarence Darrow, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Jack London, Upton Sinclair, and Man Ray. The schools also served as cultural centers for the promotion of revolutionary unionism, free speech, sexual liberation, and anti-militarism.

Read my full article on the anarchist roots of the Modern School Movement: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/the-modern-school-movement/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #modernschool #franciscoferrer #Revolution #union #school #education #children #liberation #freespeech

Today in Labor History June 3, 1900: The International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) was founded. In 1909, they led the Uprising of 20,000, a 14-wk strike of mostly immigrant women, sparked by a walkout at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. It led to a General Strike. Management used thugs to brutally beat the women, while police looked the other way. The women’s success surprised many of the labor leaders of the era, who had believed that neither women, nor immigrants, could be effectively organized. Meetings were often translated into Yiddish and Italian. Clara Lemlich, 23 years old, was one of the main organizers. Her family had immigrated to the U.S. in 1903 to escape antisemitic pogroms in their hometown of Kishinev, Ukraine. During the Uprising of 20,000, she returned to the picket line, even after thugs hired by the bosses had beaten her up and broken several of her ribs. As an organizer, she repeatedly challenged the male leadership of the mostly female union. The strike lasted until February, 1910, with increased wages, better working conditions, and shorter hours, but without universal union recognition. A number of companies, including Triangle, refused to sign the agreement.
Lemlich was blacklisted from the industry for her leadership of the strike. So, she turned her attention to organizing for women’s suffrage, and later organizing with the Communist Party.

In 1910, the ILGWU led an even bigger strike, The Great Revolt, of 60,000 cloak-makers. The Triangle Shirtwaist fire, in 1911, prompted many more women to join the union. In 1919, many members left to join the Communist Party. Many of those who remained were anarchists with dual membership in the radical IWW. They challenged the autocratic leadership of the ILGWU. The 1920s was marred by sectarian battles between left- and right-wing factions, and by violence from hired gangsters. Ironically, it was Arnold Rothstein (the Jewish gangster behind the Chicago Black Sox scandal, and who mentored mobsters Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano) who got the gangsters to withdraw from the union. Over the years, the ILGWU merged with other unions and is currently part of UNITE-HERE.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #union #strike #ilgwu #IWW #TriangleShirtwaist #mafia #LuckyLuciano #GeneralStrike #communism #anarchism #arnoldrothstein #meyerlansky