Mastodawn

Photos from 1912 in Wichita Kansas on my blog at https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2025/10/early-1900s-call-album-page-45.html

#FriendsUniversity #Genealogy #Photography #Basketball #MayDay #Wichita #Kansas

Early 1900s Call Album - page 45

Sometime in about 1904, someone in my grandmother Evelyn Clara Call's (1895-1962) family started taking photographs and placing them in an a...

Peter Riley 4d ago

Worker’s Guide to Direct Action (audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQbItl6hQ8g

The Wobblies (film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE9muDAiBxU

#directaction #iww #MayDay #solidarity #wobblies #workingclasshistory

A Worker's Guide to Direct Action - IWW - 1974

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DionyZack 🍉✊🏽♀️🌿Oct 10

↕️ Renverse.co ↕️ Peindre à bout de souffle // MAYDAY // A la réécoute: Ces deux dernières semaines Mayday est allé à la rencontre de peintres, de joggers et de cyclistes. Deux émissions que l'on vous propose à la réécoute. #Peinture #Mayday #Art #Jogging #Cyclisme

Peindre à bout de souffle // M...

Peindre à bout de souffle // MAYDAY // A la réécoute

Ces deux dernières semaines Mayday est allé à la rencontre de peintres, de joggers et de cyclistes. Deux émissions que l'on vous propose à la réécoute.

Renversé

Indivisible ReSisters Contra Costa ❌👑Oct 9

History has its eyes on you...will you help us make at No Kings Day on October 18th? Sign up at nokings.org or the link on our website. . #nokings #stopthecuts #indivisible #mayday

Indivisible ReSisters Contra Costa ❌👑Oct 8

History is knocking at the door--will you answer? No thrones, no crowns, no kings! October 18th. Mobilize.us Signup link for our Walnut Creek protest on our website. #nokings #handsoff #indivisible #stopthecuts #mayday #trumpshutdown #yeson50 @indivisible.org @leahgreenberg.bsky.social

Peter Riley Oct 8

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/08/america-is-overdue-for-a-general-strike/

#GeneralStrike #LabourMovement #MayDay #Organize #Solidarity #unions

America is Overdue for a General Strike

“May Day 2028 will be the defining moment of our generation,” United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain declared in a recent Jacobin essay. That date —

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Indivisible ReSisters Contra Costa ❌👑Oct 7

"When we stand up, we don't stand alone." -Senator Cory Booker. Stand up with millions on October 18th to say enough is enough. Find your closest event at nokings.org. Sign up for Walnut Creek at the link on our website. #nokings #indivisible #stopthecuts #mayday #trumpshutdown #yeson50

MikeDunnAuthor Oct 6

Today in Labor History October 6, 1969: Shortly before the Days of Rage, the Weather Underground blew up a statue in Haymarket Square, Chicago commemorating the policemen who died in the Haymarket affair of 1886. It was rebuilt in 1970, only to be blown up again by the Weather Underground. After being rebuilt again, Mayor Daley posted a 24-hour armed police guard, at a cost of over $67,000 per year. But it was eventually moved to an enclosed area of Police Headquarters. The statue was erected in 1889. In 1927, on the 41st anniversary of the Haymarket affair, a streetcar jumped its tracks and crashed into the monument because the driver was "sick of seeing that policeman with his arm raised." In 1968, on the 82nd anniversary of the Haymarket affair, activists vandalized it with black paint in protest of police brutality against the antiwar movement.

On May 1, 1886, 350,000 workers went on strike across the U.S. to demand the eight-hour workday. In Chicago, anarchists Albert and Lucy Parsons 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 went on a witch hunt, rounding up most of the city’s leading anarchists and radical labor leaders, including Albert Parsons and August Spies. The courts ultimately convicted seven anarchists of killing the cops, even though none of them were present at Haymarket Square when the bomb was thrown. They executed four of them in 1887, including Albert Parsons. After her husband’s execution, Lucy continued her radical organizing, writing, and speeches. In 1905, she cofounded the IWW, along with Mother Jones, Big Bill Haywood, Eugene Debs, James Conolly and others.

You can read my more about the Haymarket anarchists, Lucy Parsons, and the fight for the 8-hour day here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/24/lucy-parsons/

Read more about the Pinkertons here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/04/union-busting-by-the-pinkertons/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #haymarket #anarchism #police #policebrutality #chicago #weatherunderground #eighthourday #lucyparsons #IWW #mayday #internationalworkersday

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Hamilcar 🚲Oct 5

Vu que je suis le casse-noix originel, je n’y suis pas allé par 4 chemins : comme 1ère action, j’ai proposé de trouver des outils pour remplacer tout ça par des équivalents #opensource ou bien #europeanalternatives. Je m’y connais très bien pour un usage personnel… mais pas du tout pour un usage associatif/collaboratif, d’où mon #mayday pour avoir des retours d’expérience.

J’ai bien sûr pensé à #Frameteam #Mattermost mais un camarade d’une autre assoc m’avait tellement mal parlé de cet outil…