"A retired GP who took part in animal cruelty and climate change protests has had the suspension of her medical licence extended by 12 months.
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) reviewed the fitness to practise of Dr #SarahBenn, whose current suspension was due to end on 20 June after an animal rights demonstration. She was previously suspended for #JustStopOil activism."
While it isn't 100% cut, direct action works!
"We pissed off a lot of people": Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests
Hey All - I know everything is terrible all at once, but I have a biggie for you to help us keep science not controlled by political state. Please help! https://www.science.org/content/article/white-house-seeks-tighten-political-oversight-grantmaking
TLDR; Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time. Political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded. We would no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. We cannot collaborate internationally. This effectively kills all science and technology in the United States. Everything. Medical research, environment work, weather, you name it, it's over.
⚠️ TAKE ACTION! 40 days left to comment, can do it through stand up for science (I have not found the direct link yet, if someone else does please drop in comments, but this group is good and there is additional info on the page to help you write). https://fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/163675/
Comments need to be unique to be counted, so do not copy and paste something you see pre-written.
Also contact your congressfolk / reps. You can use your same comment submitted to write them.
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Today in Labor History June 4, 1913: Emily Davison was trampled by the King of England’s horse, Anmer, during a women’s rights protest at the Epsom Derby. She died a few days later. While in the hospital, she received hate mail. The queen described Davison as a "horrid woman."
Davison was an English suffragette, feminist, and socialist, who fought for women’s right to vote in Britain. She was a militant member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), which had been formed in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst, mother of Sylvia Pankhurst, a labor activist and Council Communist (anti-authoritarian leftwing communist). Davison was arrested nine times, spent months in prison, went on 7 hunger strikes, and was force-fed forty-nine times. Over time, she learned to barricade herself in her prison cell to delay or prevent the torturous forced-feedings. She was arrested in 1909 for trying to throw a stone at a Cabinet Minister. In 1910, she participated in the vandalism of the Crown Office in Parliament. In 1911, she developed a newer tactic: setting fire to postboxes, including one right outside Parliament. In 1912, she threw herself over a prison balcony, a distance of 30-40 feet to the ground, in an attempt to stop the barbarous force feeding of her comrades who were hunger-striking. She cracked two vertebrae and severely injured her head, but was force-fed nonetheless.
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📰 Infinite Gratitude, Infinite Resilience: A Message From MADR
https://itsgoingdown.org/infinite-gratitude-infinite-resilience-a-message-from-madr/
📰 Zapatista Assemblies Denounce Threats and Intimidation in Recuperated Territories
https://itsgoingdown.org/zapatista-assemblies-denounce-threats-and-intimidation/
About a year ago, we announced a hiatus on this project. Due to an outpouring of support, we pushed ourselves to continue, and over the last year, we’re proud of the interviews and roundups we’ve been able to produce. But as events in the United States have continued to escalate and conditions have grown more...
For those of you too young to remember, Anita Bryant was the 1958 Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant winner, and a brand ambassador for the Florida Citrus Commission from 1969 to 1980, a pop singer with 3 hit songs, AND one of the most vocal and prominent anti-LGBTQ activists of the late 1970s. She ran a campaign to repeal a Miami-Dade County, Florida ordinance outlawing discrimination based on sexual orientation. LGBTQ activists and prominent figures in music, film, and television retaliated by boycotting orange juice she promoted, causing her to be blacklisted, contributing, ultimately, to her having to file for bankruptcy twice. On October 14, 1977, she repeatedly told a television audience that she "loves homosexuals, but hates their sin," resulting in her getting pied in the face by LGBTQ writer and activist, Thom L. Higgins.
In 1978, she promoted the Briggs Initiative in California, which would have gotten any public school teacher fired for making any pro-lgbtq statements. Interestingly, it was opposed not only by liberals, but by President Jimmy Carter, Governor Jerry Brown, former president Gerald Ford, as well as Ronald Reagan, resulting in its massive defeat at the polls.
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Today in Labor History June 2, 1975: 100 sex workers occupied that Saint-Nizier church in Lyon to protest against police repression. They demanded that all their convictions be reversed. The police evicted them after a week. However, soon after, a judge cancelled their upcoming prison sentences.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #occupation #sexworkers #sexpositive #catholic #church #lyon #sexworkerrights #sexworkiswork #solidarity #directaction
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