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Deej Amago

Japan Artist

Pictures , unfortunately censored and cropped for tumblr

Visit his  Instagram  that  is MORE tolerant if it is a drawing or a painting than the strict and ignorant policy of TUMBLR in  concern of art

https://www.instagram.com/djamago/

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On this day, 23 November 1909, more than 20,000 mostly female Jewish garment workers in New York walked out on a general strike: the biggest stoppage of women workers in America to date. Facing severe repression, they held out for 11 weeks and won big concessions. This is a short history of the dispute: https://ift.tt/2QeVKPd https://ift.tt/2DG5wn1

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On this day, 16 November 1989 six Jesuit scholars/priests, their housekeeper and her daughter were murdered by the US-backed military in El Salvador. The priests were considered “subversive”. After the soldiers killed them, they tried to make the murders look like the work of left-wing guerrillas. This is Noam Chomsky’s short account of war of counterinsurgency against workers and peasants in the country: https://ift.tt/2txNJYA And this is our podcast episode with Chomsky about the Vietnam war: https://ift.tt/2DIXQkS https://ift.tt/2RWklWw

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On this day, 14 November 1990, six weeks after the unification of Berlin the Social Democratic city government evicted a large anarchist squat using 1000s of police on Mainzer Strasse, Friedrichshain. After many hours of fighting on barricaded streets, the police were successful in evicting the occupiers. https://ift.tt/2qNW1ul

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On this day, 14 November 1917, the “Night of Terror” occurred at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia, in which 33 suffragist prisoners were brutally tortured and beaten by guards. The women, mostly members of the National Women’s Party had been picketing the White House in support of voting rights for women. https://ift.tt/2QHUxx2

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On this day, 15 November 2012, the South African union federation COSATU ordered striking farmworkers to return to work. However workers, who had organised themselves, refused and kept up the stoppage. This is an article about the dispute from the time: https://ift.tt/2QF9hwI Pictured: fires set by the strikers https://ift.tt/2qPpKmF

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On this day, 24 October 1975, 90% of women in Iceland went on general strike for equality with men. Working women stayed home, and house workers refused to cook, clean and look after children. Today Iceland has the lowest gender inequality in the world: although women still earn only 80% of men’s wages, so discrimination and the struggle against it continues. This is a short account of the protest: https://ift.tt/2dCJkON For more of our updates, follow us on Instagram: https://ift.tt/2sg2rmj https://ift.tt/2Aq2Bg7

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On this day, 22 October 1905, 30,000 workers in Chile rose up against poor conditions and the rising cost of living. Butchers, shoemakers, cigar makers, tapestry makers, telegraphers and others took part in the revolt, as rail workers blew up railways. The police were overwhelmed, so the rich formed a “white guard” to begin massacring the workers. After 250 dead, the rebellion subsided but the working class movement continued to grow in strength. More info in this short history of anarchism in Chile: https://ift.tt/2HUaUVX https://ift.tt/2AneeVh

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On this day, 22 October 1972, feminists in Vancouver, Canada founded SORWUC – the Service, Office and Retail Workers’ Union of Canada. They sought to represent workers in marginalised, low-paying, largely female-dominated sectors that weren’t high priorities for the big business unions. Being dedicated to grassroots organising (e.g., no staff was paid more than the highest wage in a SORWUC contract), rank and file control (e.g., workers directly decided what they wanted in their collective agreements), as well as women’s rights (e.g., defending abortion, sex workers, Indigenous women, daycare, single mothers, etc.), they were targeted by both the bosses and the bureaucrats of the labour movement, and eventually disbanded in 1986. Here is a short article on SORWUC: https://ift.tt/2R9AfMS And here is a more thorough academic article: https://ift.tt/2q3SyqW https://ift.tt/2R9AgjU

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On this day, 6 October 1900, radical British novelist Ethel Mannin was born in London. This is a short article about revolutionary influences in her work: https://ift.tt/2RtAaEx https://ift.tt/2yk5j4J

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On this day, 6 October 1976, the Thammasat University massacre (aka: “the 6 October event” in Thailand) occured when state forces and far-right royalist mobs attacked student protesters after four to five thousand students from various universities had demonstrated for more than a week against the return of former military dictator Thanom Kittikachorn to Thailand from Singapore. After years of workers, peasants and students fighting for democracy, social justice, an end to long-held privileges and even in some cases an end to capitalism itself, the Thai ruling class responded with the utmost brutality and installed a new dictatorship over the mutilated bodies of those struggling for freedom. Dozens of demonstrators were killed, many of them hanged from trees and then beaten with sticks and chairs. This is a very brief people’s history of Thailand: https://ift.tt/2NrPRJ8 https://ift.tt/2y5DhdN

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On this day, 6 October 1971, inmates at the New Mexico state penitentiary began a work and hunger strike in protest at increased restrictions in the prison. The next day a riot began and was quickly repressed. Several guards would be indicted over use of force and brutalisation of prisoners. An account of the strike is here: https://ift.tt/2ILt7TS Pictured: the prison around this time https://ift.tt/2CulX61

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On this day, 3rd October 1932, Protestant and Catholic unemployed workers took collective action to improve their impoverished conditions. In Belfast, unemployment payments lasted for only 15 weeks, after which people became dependent on “indoor relief,” which meant the workhouse, or “outdoor relief,” which meant receiving meagre remuneration for enforced public work projects. By the autumn of 1932, more than 10,000 workers and their families were dependent on outdoor relief. In October 1932, those men undertaking public work went on strike, demanding that those put to work be paid at trade union rates, and that those not put to work be granted higher relief payments. On this day, 5th October, police prevented protesters from marching to the relief system’s administrational HQ at the Lisburn Road Workhouse. Rioting and looting commenced on Sandy Row and protesters hijacked a tram on Great Victoria Street. Soon crowds were looting shops in working class Protestant and Catholic neighbourhoods across the city. But when these crowds converged, their sectarian resentments temporarily put to one side, they discovered they had a problem: while both communities had a tradition of marching bands, they didn’t share any songs. As historian Paul Bew put it, “the musical heritage on both sides reflected the traditional Orange and Green divisions. And so it was that ‘Yes! We Have No Bananas’ – the only neutral tune available – became Belfast’s anthem of progress.” The Belfast relief riots of 1932 resulted in the deaths of one Protestant and one Catholic, both of whom were shot by police during intense fighting on the Falls Road. But the unemployed revolt was partially successful: the government made limited but significant concessions, with the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Finance, Sir William Spender, later recording that Prime Minister James Craig believed that had they not offered concessions, “they might have found themselves confronted with wilful damage which would be out of all proportion to the £300,000 paid away on Relief Schemes.” This is our archive of content on claimant and unpaid struggles: https://ift.tt/2QrdWl7 https://ift.tt/2zMHeoQ