Today in Labor History March 28, 1977: AFSCME Local 1644 struck in Atlanta, Georgia, for a pay raise. This local of mostly African American sanitation workers saw labor and civil rights as part of the same struggle. They saw their fight as a continuation of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike. For several years, they organized to get black civil rights leaders elected to public office. They succeeded in getting their man, Maynard Jackson, elected mayor of Atlanta. After all, as vice mayor, Jackson had supported their 1970 strike. Yet, in his first three years as mayor, he refused to give them a single raise. Consequently, their wages dropped below the poverty line for a family of four. Jackson accused AFSCME of attacking Black Power by challenging his authority. He fired over 900 workers by April 1 and crushed the strike by the end of April. Many believe this set the precedent for Reagan’s mass firing of 11,000 air traffic controllers during the PATCO strike, in 1981.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #union #AFSCME #PATCO #strike #atlanta #CivilRights #sanitation #blackpower #wages #poverty #reagan

#reagan #presidency #conservatism

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Ah yes, the ghost of Ronald Reagan walks among us still. Ugh.

#uspoli #iran #energy #reagan

https://youtube.com/watch?v=GFrDccrrtPc&si=_ayICaV10awhs13C

#ChuckNorris era un facha de los chungos.

Norris respaldó numerosas candidaturas del Partido Republicano y expresó su admiración por figuras como Ronald #Reagan. Fue columnista habitual en el sitio web de extrema derecha #WorldNetDaily.​ Además, viajó en varias ocasiones a Israel y demostró su apoyo al primer ministro Benjamín #Netanyahu.

L'Huffington Post - News, inchieste e approfondimenti HuffPost: GENNARO ACQUAVIVA. “L’Italia di Craxi e Andreotti aveva una visione, e pesava”

Intervista con uno degli ultimi grandi dirigenti del Psi: storia di Sigonella, di quando si disse no all’America di Reagan, di quando il progetto di due Popoli e due Stati si fece dominante, di quando il nostro peso nel Mediterraneo era decisivo. Note sul referendum e Giorgia Meloni

Gennaro Acquaviva. “The Italy of Craxi and Andreotti had a vision, and it mattered.”

Interview with one of the last great leaders of the Psi: history of Sigonella, of when “no” was said to Reagan’s America, of when the project of Two Peoples and Two States became dominant, of when our weight in the Mediterranean was decisive. Notes on the referendum and Giorgia Meloni.

#GennaroAcquaviva #TheItalyofCraxi #Andreotti #Reagan #America #Mediterranean #GiorgiaMeloni

https://www.huffingtonpost.it/politica/2026/03/19/news/gennaro_acquaviva_litalia_di_craxi_e_andreotti_aveva_una_visione_e_pesava-21454080/

Corriere.it - Homepage: L'America sarebbe capace di «liberare» Hormuz? Reagan ci riuscì, 39 anni fa

Il calcolo iraniano: non possiamo sconfiggere gli Usa né sul piano militare né su quello energetico, però possiamo imporre a tutti i suoi alleati dei costi così elevati che saranno loro a convincere Trump alla ritirata

America would be capable of “liberating” Hormuz? Reagan managed it, 39 years ago.

The Iranian calculation: we cannot defeat the US on either the military or the energy front, but we can impose such high costs on all its allies that they will be the ones to convince Trump to withdraw.

#America #Hormuz #Reagan #Iranian

https://www.corriere.it/oriente-occidente-federico-rampini/26_marzo_16/america-liberare-hormuz-e6d51178-f9a4-49c6-8f7c-37f757e81xlk.shtml