The Silent #Peavey Plant: How #America’s #WorkingClass #Amp Empire Was #Outsourced
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f9nxMf_HRU

What's your take? LLM generated?

At first, I thought it sounded like the host of another #history ch. I looked at the ch info. It's from 2015. Only one other video besides the current batch. One ~45min per day over the last 3wks. I know it's typical for netcasts to record several episodes & release before doing a big promotion so, it's possible these were all done within the last year & maybe the unseen host does not have a dayjob.

This video is a slide show. It sounds like a few lines were spliced in after a first take.

#ai? #musicEquipment

For the first time ever, A Pound of Ground Beef Now Costs More Than the Federal Minimum Wage....

Helps explain why 60% of U.S. households can no longer afford a "minimal quality of life."

Time for a General Strike?

Hell yeh.

But not just to remove the fascist from office. But to replace the whole damned system with one that generously supports the material, social and emotional needs of all its residents, not just the 0.1%.

https://money.com/federal-minimum-wage-vs-ground-beef-cost/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of-living-income-quality-of-life/

#workingclass #minimumwage #classwar #poverty #inflation #generalstrike

Today In Labor History April 4, 1968: James Earl Ray assassinated Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Hotel, Memphis, Tennessee. King was in Memphis to support the sanitation workers’ strike that had started in February, 1968, for better working conditions and higher pay. The strike began 2 weeks after 2 workers were crushed to death when their truck malfunctioned, intensifying the already high level of frustration and anger over working conditions and safety. King led a protest march on March 28. Over 20,000 kids cut class to join the demonstration. Some members of the march began smashing downtown windows and looting. The cops intervened with mace, tear gas, clubs and live gunfire, killing 16-year-old Larry Paine, who had his hands in the air when he was shot. On April 3, one day before his assassination, King gave his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #CivilRights #MartinLutherKing #racism #assassination #mlk #memphis #union #strike #police #policebrutality #policemurder #capitalism #students #kids #BlackMastodon

Today In Labor History April 4, 1928: Poet and Civil Rights activist, Maya Angelou, was born on this date. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjtuJvnZB9g

#workingclass #LaborHistory #MayaAngelou #poetry #CivilRights #literature #autobiography

Today In Labor History April 4, 1866: Russian revolutionary, Dmitry Karakozov attempted to assassinate Czar Alexander II. He failed and the government executed him. Some believe that Karakozov chose the year 1866, since that was the year in which a character in Chernyshevsky’s “What Is To Be Done?” planned to launch a revolution. In the book, the protagonist, Vera Pavlovna, escapes a controlling family, and an arranged marriage, to start a socialist cooperative and a truly egalitarian romantic partnership. She starts a seamstress commune, with shared living quarters, profit-sharing and an on-site school to further the women’s education. Chernyshevsky wrote the novel in response to Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons.” He wrote the book while imprisoned in the Peter and Paul fortress. The book inspired generations of Russian radicals, including the nihilists, anarchists and even many Marxists.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #nihilism #anarchism #communism #chernyshevsky #russia #novel #fiction #Revolutionary #commune #socialism #books #fiction #author #writer @bookstadon

Exposed: How Debt Became the Tool the Wealthy Use to Drain Workers’ Income

The economy isn’t broken—it’s engineered. Learn how debt became the oligarchy’s most powerful tool.

Пока левые не дадут ответ, что делать с #Woke - повесткой и миграцией, рабочий класс и дальше будет поддерживать правый лагерь. Поскольку в их глазах, правые сохраняют и приумножают социалку хоть и в рамках популизма.

Но уже понятно, что долгое отступление левых от традиций классовой борьбы, все равно заставит их вернуться к этому. Если они этого не сделают, то их место займут правые. Как это уже бывало в истории не один раз, правые и левые менялись местами.

#workingclass #left #right

Today in Labor History, January 12, 1904: Herero chief Samuel Maharero launched a surprise uprising against German colonial rule that would ultimately end in the first Genocide of the 20th century. The Herero Uprising, in what is now called Namibia, was initially a success. But Otto Von Bismark sent in reinforcements who subdued the Herero by August 1904. German commander Lothar von Trotha then ordered the execution of all Herero men. In reality they slaughtered everyone they could catch, men, women, and children. So, survivors fled into the desert, where a majority of them died from thirst, starvation, or massacres. Those who survived this were placed in concentration camps, where at least of half of them died from lack of shelter and food, and from slave labor. Overall, up to 80,000 Herero (80% of their pre-war population) and 10,000 Nama (50% of their pre-war population) died in the Genocide. Thomas Pynchon references the Herero genocide in several of his books, including “Gravity’s Rainbow,” and his first novel, “V.” In private letters, he referred to it as a dress rehearsal for the genocides against the Jewish and Roma people during the Nazi era.

German rule ended in Namibia with their defeat in World War I. In 1920, the League of Nations mandated administration of the colony to South Africa. In 1948, South Africa imposed Apartheid on the region. Uprisings and resistance were ongoing until the Southwest African People’s Organization (SWAPO) won independence by defeating South Africa in a war lasting from August 1966 until March 1990. SWAPO was aligned with rebels in Angola and Zambia, also fighting for independence from South Africa. The Soviet Union support the African independence movement. Cuba sent soldiers and doctors to support their cause.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #genocide #herero #nama #nazi #racism #concentrationcamps #colonialism #namibia #cuba #russia #ussr #communism #thomaspynchon #novel #fiction #books #author #writer #BlackMastadon @bookstadon