#Lucy McCormick

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Straight Shooting

COWBOIS The Swan, Royal Shakespeare Company, Friday 3rd November 2023 This exuberant new piece by Charlie Josephine (who co-directs with Sean Holmes) is a Wild West yarn about a backwater town where the menfolk have all buggered off because of the Gold Rush and haven’t been heard from since, leaving the women and children to fend for themselves.  The women adapt to survive, performing…

[dugdale100]

Always excellent. Lucy McCormick for Lucy and Friends at The Yard. Hackney Wick

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Falling for the Competition (2023)

Love games Jahr: 2023 Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romantik Regie: Brittany Goodwin Hauptrollen: Francesca Barker McCormick, Michael Joseph Nelson, Lucy Capri, Layla Cushman, Stephanie Hong, Joe Komara, Holden Smith, Vdor Dorsey Vernard, Iroko Anyogu, Phoebe French, Laura Doman … Filmbeschreibung: Molly führt eine örtliche Müttergruppe an und nimmt dieses Jahr an einem angesehenen Wettbewerb für…

[1americanconservative]

@elonmusk

These awful people all need to be voted out, either in the primaries or the general election. They sully the Capitol Building with their presence.

THESE ARE THE 158 DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED AGAINST DEPORTING SEX OFFENDERS Alabama: -Terri Sewell California: -Pete Aguilar -Ami Bera -Julia Brownley -Salud Carbajal -Tony Cárdenas -Judy Chu -Jim Costa -Mark DeSaulnier -John Garamendi -Robert Garcia -Sylvia Garcia -Jimmy Gomez -Jared Huffman -Ro Khanna -Sydney Kamlager-Dove -Barbara Lee -Ted Lieu -Zoe Lofgren -Doris Matsui -Kevin Mullin -Grace Napolitano -Nancy Pelosi -Katie Porter -Linda Sánchez -Adam Schiff -Brad Sherman -Norma Torres -Mike Thompson -Maxine Waters Colorado: -Jason Crow -Diana DeGette -Brittany Pettersen -Joe Neguse Connecticut: -Rosa DeLauro -John Larson -James Himes Delaware: -Lisa Blunt Rochester Florida: -Kathy Castor -Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick -Lois Frankel -Maxwell Frost -Darren Soto -Frederica Wilson -Debbie Wasserman Schultz Georgia: -Sanford D. Bishop Jr. -Lucy McBath -Henry “Hank” Johnson -Nikema Williams -David Scott Hawaii: -Ed Case -Jill Tokuda Illinois: -Sean Casten -Danny Davis -Jesús “Chuy” Garcia -Jonathan Jackson -Raja Krishnamoorthi -Robin Kelly -Delia Ramirez -Janice Schakowsky -Mike Quigley -Bill Foster -Brad Schneider -Lauren Underwood Indiana: -André Carson Kentucky: -Morgan McGarvey Louisiana: -Troy Carter Maine: -Chellie Pingree Maryland: -Steny Hoyer -Glenn Ivey -Kweisi Mfume -Jamie Raskin C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger -John Sarbanes -David Trone Massachusetts: -Jake Auchincloss -Katherine Clark -Bill Keating -Seth Moulton -Ayanna Pressley -Richard Neal -Lori Trahan -James McGovern Michigan: -Dan Kildee -Debbie Dingell -Rashida Tlaib -Shri Thanedar -Haley Stevens Minnesota: -Betty McCollum -Ilhan Omar -Dean Phillips Mississippi: -Bennie Thompson Missouri: -Cori Bush -Emanuel Cleaver New Hampshire: -Ann Kuster New Jersey: -Andy Kim -Rob Menendez -Donald Norcross -Bonnie Watson Coleman -Frank Pallone New Mexico: -Melanie Stansbury -Teresa Leger Fernandez New York: -Jamaal Bowman -Adriano Espaillat -Hakeem Jeffries -Yvette Clarke -Gregory Meeks -Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -Jerrold Nadler -Nydia Velázquez -Paul Tonko -Dan Goldman -Ritchie Torres -Grace Meng -Joseph Morelle North Carolina: -Alma Adams -Valerie Foushee -Deborah Ross Ohio: -Shontel Brown -Joyce Beatty -Greg Landsman Oregon: -Earl Blumenauer -Suzanne Bonamici -Valerie Hoyle Pennsylvania: -Madeleine Dean -Mary Scanlon -Summer Lee Rhode Island: -Gabe Amo South Carolina: -James Clyburn Tennessee: -Steve Cohen Texas: -Greg Casar -Veronica Escobar -Joaquin Castro -Sylvia Garcia -Lloyd Doggett -Lizzie Fletcher -Al Green -Jasmine Crockett -Marc Veasey Vermont: -Becca Balint Virginia: -Donald Beyer -Gerald Connolly -Jennifer McClellan -Bobby Scott Washington: -Suzan DelBene -Derek Kilmer -Rick Larsen -Marilyn Strickland -Pramila Jayapal Wisconsin: -Gwen Moore -Mark Pocan Source: Newsweek

[cometomecosette]

Actors who have done both "Les Misérables" and "Wicked"

I remember that once, a long time ago, someone on an old Les Mis message board posted a list of all the actors they knew who had played leading roles in both Les Mis and The Phantom of the Opera, which was the other biggest hit musical on Broadway and in London at the time. I enjoyed seeing that compilation.

So here's a similar list involving another show: a list of actors who have been in both Les Mis and Wicked.

Now I'm sure it's an incomplete list, and it only features the leads, not ensemble, although it does include understudies. But I looked on the Wicked fandom wiki for complete multi-year cast lists of every replica production of that musical, so I think this list is a fairly comprehensive one.

Fantine and Elphaba

Carmen Cusack

Kerry Ellis

Lucie Jones

Caissie Levy

Alison Luff

Lindsay Heather Pearce

Patrice Tipoki

Teal Wicks

Éponine and Elphaba

Alexia Khadime

Cosette and Elphaba

Alice Fearn

Lucie Jones

Young Cosette and Elphaba (many years apart, of course)

Emma Hunton

Donna Vivino

Cosette and Glinda

Gina Beck

Annalene Beechy

Jillian Butler

Madison Claire Parks

Dianne Pilkington

Christeena Michelle Riggs

Lisa-Anne Wood

Éponine and Glinda

Christina DeCicco

Brittney Johnson

Dianne Pilkington

Christeena Michelle Riggs

Fantine and Glinda

Brittney Johnson

Dianne Pilkington

Marius and Fiyero

Alistair Brammer

Charles Hagerty

Clifton Hall

Kevin Kern

Enjolras and Fiyero

Bradley Jaden

Matt Schingledecker

Aaron Tveit

Javert and Fiyero (!)

Bradley Jaden

Marius and Boq

Andy Mientus

Éponine and Nessarose

Cassandra Compton

Cosette and Nessarose

Jillian Butler

Jean Valjean and the Wizard

Rob Guest

Javert and the Wizard

Clive Carter

Thénardier and the Wizard

Michael McCormick

Martin Ball

Marius and the Wizard (many years apart)

Simon Burke

Grantaire and the Wizard (many years apart)

Clive Carter

Madame Thénardier and Madame Morrible

Gina Ferrall

Aymee Garcia

Lisa Howard

Kathy Santen

Tregoney Shepherd

If anyone knows of other performers who have played leading roles in both shows, then please share!

[sensitiveuser]

Chicago, May 1886

Haymarket Square Massacre.

At the origins of International Workers' Day.

In November 1884, in Chicago, during the fourth Congress of the American Federation of Labor, for the first time in the history of the labor movement, the idea of organizing a demonstration on May 1st was launched, with the goal of achieving an eight-hour workday. On May 1, 1886, under the influence of anarchists and trade unionists, a general strike was proclaimed, bringing together approximately 340,000 workers. I would like to clarify that May 1st is usually the day when American companies would start their fiscal year, and therefore the day when employment contracts were renewed or not (moving day). It was not uncommon for workers to be forced to move in order to find a new job.

The strike was extended on May 3rd at the McCormick factories in Chicago, whose boss had just laid off 1,200 workers. Clashes broke out with the 'yellows'.

August Spies, who belonged to the Chicago section of the International Working People's Association, and was the chief editor of the Arbeiter-Zeitung (Chicago Workers' Newspaper), a brilliant orator, was the last (after Albert Parsons and Samuel Fielden) to speak in Haymarket Square May 3rd . A mob of 200 cops (or 200 pigs – "Wache" in German) charged at the workers. There was one death and about ten injuries. In response, August Spies wrote in Arbeiter-Zeitung a call for a demonstration of revenge against the police for the following day :

"Revenge! Workers, to arms !! Your masters have sent their bloodthirsty dogs – the police; they killed six of your brothers at McCormicks this afternoon. They murdered the poor, miserable men because, like you, they had the courage to disobey the supreme will of your bosses. They killed them because they dared to ask for a shorter workday. They killed them to show you, "free citizens of America," that you must resign yourselves and accept what the bosses condescend to give you, or you will be killed !

For years, you have endured the most abject humiliations; for years, you have suffered the most unimaginable injustices; you have worked until you were exhausted; you have endured the spasms of need and hunger; your children, you have sacrificed them to the factory lords – in short: you have been miserable obedient slaves all these years. Why? To satisfy the insatiable greed and fill the coffers of your lazy, thieving masters? Now, when you ask them to lighten your burden, they send their bloodthirsty dogs to shoot at you, to kill you!

If you are men, if you are the children of your great ancestors who shed their blood to free you, then rise up by force, Hercules, and destroy the hideous monsters aiming at your destruction.

To arms we call you, to arms !!".

In The Alarm, workers were urged to come armed, in order to prevent similar massacres to those that had occurred during other strike movements. The Alarm was a newspaper founded in Chicago by Lucy and Albert Parsons in 1884; it was the official organ of the International Working People's Association.

On May 4th, August Spies, Albert Parsons, and Samuel Fielden spoke again. Carter Harrison, the mayor of Chicago, was also present at the rally. At the end of the demonstration, the mayor, convinced that nothing would happen, contacted Inspector John Bonfield (the police chief) to ask him to have the police officers nearby leave. That evening, at 10 p.m., the protesters began to disperse, leaving only a few hundred in Haymarket Square. Bonfield ordered Fielden to encourage the crowd to disperse peacefully; obviously, Fielden refused.

Suddenly, an individual had the courage to throw a bomb at the police patrol. Then, the police injured 200 strikers. Spies, Fielden, Fischer, Engel, Louis Lingg, Oscar Neebe, and Michael Schwab were arrested. Albert Parsons surrendered to the police. The trial opened on June 21 at the Cook County Criminal Court. August Spies declared to his judges: "The ground you stand on is on fire."

On August 19, the heroes of Chicago were sentenced to death, except for Oscar Neebe (15 years in prison). Later, the death sentences of Samuel Fielden and Michael Schwab were commuted to life imprisonment. Louis Lingg committed suicide in prison on November 10, 1887, the day before the execution of August Spies, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, and Albert Parsons (November 11, 1887 – the famous Black Friday).

"My philosophy has always been that the purpose of life is solely the fulfillment of the individual, and the rational application of this principle is true morality." (...) "Anarchism is the thread that runs through all eras of social and human evolution; it is the struggle for the sovereignty of the individual (...) "Then hang us! Here, we will walk on a spark, but there, and there, behind and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will ignite." - These are the last words spoken by August Spies before his execution.

More than 500,000 people attended their funerals. It is to ensure that this history is not forgotten that it is still agreed today to make May 1st a day of commemoration. Oscar Neebe, Michael Schwab, and Samuel Fielden were officially released on June 26, 1893, their innocence being acknowledged by Illinois Governor John Altgeld. Yes, their conviction was completely ARBITRARY! Yes, the hanging revealed the 'anti-anarchist' madness of the State and the employers! The intentions of those who condemned the martyrs of Chicago could not have been clearer: to crush the workers' movement and kill the anarchist movement in the United States. On the very day the death sentence for the martyrs was announced, workers at the Chicago slaughterhouses were informed that starting the following Monday, they would have to work ten hours a day again.

4 Martyrs of Chicago (don't forget them !):

August Spies (1855-1887)

"The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are choking today." ; "Then hang us! Here, we will walk on a spark, but there, and there, behind and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will ignite."

Albert Parsons (1848-1883)

George Engel (1836-1887)

Adolph Fischer (1858-1887)

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Tales of AVL Prison

Victor “Vector” Perkins: JASON SEGEL

Eduardo Perez/El Macho: BENJAMIN BRATT

Balthazar Bratt: TREY PARKER

Mr. Perkins: WILL ARNETT

Maxime Le Mal: WILL FERRELL

Valentina: SOFÍA VERGARA

Principal Übelschlecht: CHRIS RENAUD

Scarlet Overkill: SANDRA BULLOCK

Herb Overkill: JON HAMM

Belle Bottom: TARAJI P. HENSON

Jean Clawed: JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

Svengeance: DOLPH LUNDGREN

Stronghold: DANNY TREJO

Nun-Chuck: LUCY LAWLESS

Additional Voices:

FELECIA ANGELLE, YSSA BADIOLA

ROCCO BOTTE, MICA BURTON

LAURA BAILEY, MATT BRAGG

CLIFFORD CHAPIN, MATT CHAPMAN

PAULA DECANINI, ALFREDO DIAZ

DOROTHY FAHN, CHRISTOPHER GUERRERO

LINDSAY JONES, MERIT LEIGHTON

YURI LOWENTHAL, SHANNON McCORMICK

DEREK MEARS, DARAN NORRIS

ANTHONY SARDINHA, CHRISTOPHER WEHKAMP

NOËL WIGGINS, KENT WILLIAMS

[rvllybllply2014]

Here’s the list of democrats that need to go during their next race they voted to NOT impeach Trump. Maybe also call their offices and express how disappointed you are in them.

Pete Aguilar (California)

Gabe Amo (Rhode Island)

Jake Auchincloss (Massachusetts)

Wesley Bell (Missouri)

Ami Bera (California)

Don Beyer (Virginia)

Sanford Bishop (Georgia)

Julia Brownley (California)

Nikki Budzinski (Illinois)

Janelle Bynum (Oregon)

Salud Carbajal (California)

Andre Carson (Indiana)

Ed Case (Hawaii)

Sean Casten (Illinois)

Kathy Castor (Florida)

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (Florida)

Katherine Clark (Massachusetts)

Emanuel Cleaver (Missouri)

Jim Clyburn (South Carolina)

Herb Conaway (New Jersey)

Lou Correa (California)

Jim Costa (California)

Joe Courtney (Connecticut)

Angie Craig (Minnesota)

Jason Crow (Colorado)

Henry Cuellar (Texas)

Sharice Davids (Kansas)

Don Davis (North Carolina)

Madeleine Dean (Pennsylvania)

Rosa DeLauro (Connecticut)

Suzan DelBene (Washington)

Chris Deluzio (Pennsylvania)

Debbie Dingell (Michigan)

Sarah Elfreth (Maryland)

Cleo Fields (Louisiana)

Shomari Figures (Alabama)

Lizzie Fletcher (Texas)

Bill Foster (Illinois)

Lois Frankel (Florida)

Laura Gillen (New York)

Jared Golden (Maine)

Dan Goldman (New York)

Vicente Gonzalez (Texas)

Maggie Goodlander (New Hampshire)

Josh Gottheimer (New Jersey)

Adam Gray (California)

Josh Harder (California)

Jim Himes (Connecticut)

Steven Horsford (Nevada)

Chrissy Houlahan (Pennsylvania)

Steny Hoyer (Maryland)

Val Hoyle (Oregon)

Hakeem Jeffries (New York)

Julie Johnson (Texas)

Marcy Kaptur (Ohio)

Bill Keating (Massachusetts)

Timothy Kennedy (New York)

Ro Khanna (California)

Greg Landsman (Ohio)

Rick Larsen (Washington)

John Larson (Connecticut)

George Latimer (New York)

Susie Lee (Nevada)

Mike Levin (California)

Sam Liccardo (California)

Ted Lieu (California)

Zoe Lofgren (California)

Stephen Lynch (Massachusetts)

Seth Magaziner (Rhode Island)

John Mannion (New York)

Lucy McBath (Georgia)

Sarah McBride (Delaware)

April McClain Delaney (Maryland)

Jennifer McClellan (Virginia)

Betty McCollum (Minnesota)

Kristen McDonald Rivet (Michigan)

Morgan McGarvey (Kentucky)

Gregory Meeks (New York)

Grace Meng (New York)

Kweisi Mfume (Maryland)

Joe Morelle (New York)

Kelly Morrison (Minnesota)

Jared Moskowitz (Florida)

Seth Moulton (Massachusetts)

Frank Mrvan (Indiana)

Richard Neal (Massachusetts)

Joe Neguse (Colorado)

Johnny Olszewski (Maryland)

Frank Pallone (New Jersey)

Jimmy Panetta (California)

Chris Pappas (New Hampshire)

Nancy Pelosi (California)

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Washington)

Scott Peters (California)

Brittany Pettersen (Colorado)

Nellie Pou (New Jersey)

Mike Quigley (Illinois)

Jamie Raskin (Maryland)

Josh Riley (New York)

Deborah Ross (North Carolina)

Pat Ryan (New York)

Andrea Salinas (Oregon)

Mary Gay Scanlon (Pennsylvania)

Brad Schneider (Illinois)

Hillary Scholten (Michigan)

Kim Schrier (Washington)

Bobby Scott (Virginia)

Terri Sewell (Alabama)

Adam Smith (Washington)

Eric Sorensen (Illinois)

Darren Soto (Florida)

Greg Stanton (Arizona)

Haley Stevens (Michigan)

Marilyn Strickland (Washington)

Suhas Subramanyam (Virginia)

Tom Suozzi (New York)

Emilia Sykes (Ohio)

Paul Tonko (New York)

Ritchie Torres (New York)

Lori Trahan (Massachusetts)

Derek Tran (California)

Lauren Underwood (Illinois)

Juan Vargas (California)

Gabe Vasquez (New Mexico)

Marc Veasey (Texas)

Eugene Vindman (Virginia)

Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Florida)

George Whitesides (California)

[dear-indies]

Hey Cat! I hope you’re doing well! I was wondering if you had any alt ideas for Anya Taylor Joy, (preferably including some with red hair, please! I use her resources with red hair, but I know she’s also a very popular fc at the moment). Thank you for everything you do, I appreciate your help with fcs and your work on the zionist list so much <3

Have got or have had ginger hair:

Hari Nef (1992) Ashkenazi Jewish - is trans - has been rocking ginger hair for a while, also her role in The Idol and Barbie - has spoken up for Palestine!

Daisy Waterstone (1994)

Ahsen Eroglu (1994) Turkish - has spoken up for Palestine!

Lily Newmark (1994)

Melis Sezen (1997) Turkish - has ginger hair in Sevgili Geçmiş - has spoken up for Palestine!

Sierra McCormick (1997)

Chloé Hayden (1997) - is autistic, has ADHD, and is chronically ill.

Toto Bruin (1997)

Joanna Arida (1998) Jordanian - has spoken up for Palestine!

Other hair colours:

Jessica Plummer (1992) Afro Jamaican / White.

Ellise Chappell (1992)

Francesca Reale (1994)

Lucy Boynton (1994)

Valeriia Karaman (1994)

Aimee Lou Wood (1995) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Hannah Dodd (1995)

Matilda De Angelis (1995)

Ella Purnell (1996)

Sydney Chandler (1996)

Emma Mackey (1996)

Annalisa Cochrane (1996)

Tavi Gevinson (1996) Ashkenazi Jewish - has spoken up for Palestine!

Ruby O. Fee (1996)

Emilia McCarthy (1997) Mexican and Irish.

Ivanna Sakhno (1997)

Taylor Hickson (1997)

May Elghety (1998) Egyptian - has spoken up for Palestine!

Hey! She has a very specific face but I think these people share some features with her or the overall vibe and could totally work for alts. Thank you for being so kind! <3

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The Young Avengers

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/052IF3D by isabellaspm Sam Wilson finally agrees to reform the Avengers on President Ross' accord, but on one condition, a condition that brings about controversy throughout the entire world: Not only will Sam be the one to decide who is part of this team, he decides to make them new, improved, and mostly mutant. The Young Avengers have a lot to prove, but its all in good time to Mr. America. Words: 1342, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America (Anthony Mackie Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Categories: M/M Characters: Sam Wilson (Marvel), Bucky Barnes, Joaquín Torres (Marvel), Isaiah Bradley, Lucy Novak- OC, Jamie McCormick- OC, Ken West- OC, Eli Bradley Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Sam Wilson Additional Tags: sambucky cannon, isaiah bradley deserves better, Found Family, Sibling Bonding, president ross sucks read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/052IF3D

[1americanconservative]

@elonmusk

These awful people all need to be voted out, either in the primaries or the general election. They sully the Capitol Building with their presence.

THESE ARE THE 158 DEMOCRATS WHO VOTED AGAINST DEPORTING SEX OFFENDERS Alabama: -Terri Sewell California: -Pete Aguilar -Ami Bera -Julia Brownley -Salud Carbajal -Tony Cárdenas -Judy Chu -Jim Costa -Mark DeSaulnier -John Garamendi -Robert Garcia -Sylvia Garcia -Jimmy Gomez -Jared Huffman -Ro Khanna -Sydney Kamlager-Dove -Barbara Lee -Ted Lieu -Zoe Lofgren -Doris Matsui -Kevin Mullin -Grace Napolitano -Nancy Pelosi -Katie Porter -Linda Sánchez -Adam Schiff -Brad Sherman -Norma Torres -Mike Thompson -Maxine Waters Colorado: -Jason Crow -Diana DeGette -Brittany Pettersen -Joe Neguse Connecticut: -Rosa DeLauro -John Larson -James Himes Delaware: -Lisa Blunt Rochester Florida: -Kathy Castor -Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick -Lois Frankel -Maxwell Frost -Darren Soto -Frederica Wilson -Debbie Wasserman Schultz Georgia: -Sanford D. Bishop Jr. -Lucy McBath -Henry “Hank” Johnson -Nikema Williams -David Scott Hawaii: -Ed Case -Jill Tokuda Illinois: -Sean Casten -Danny Davis -Jesús “Chuy” Garcia -Jonathan Jackson -Raja Krishnamoorthi -Robin Kelly -Delia Ramirez -Janice Schakowsky -Mike Quigley -Bill Foster -Brad Schneider -Lauren Underwood Indiana: -André Carson Kentucky: -Morgan McGarvey Louisiana: -Troy Carter Maine: -Chellie Pingree Maryland: -Steny Hoyer -Glenn Ivey -Kweisi Mfume -Jamie Raskin C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger -John Sarbanes -David Trone Massachusetts: -Jake Auchincloss -Katherine Clark -Bill Keating -Seth Moulton -Ayanna Pressley -Richard Neal -Lori Trahan -James McGovern Michigan: -Dan Kildee -Debbie Dingell -Rashida Tlaib -Shri Thanedar -Haley Stevens Minnesota: -Betty McCollum -Ilhan Omar -Dean Phillips Mississippi: -Bennie Thompson Missouri: -Cori Bush -Emanuel Cleaver New Hampshire: -Ann Kuster New Jersey: -Andy Kim -Rob Menendez -Donald Norcross -Bonnie Watson Coleman -Frank Pallone New Mexico: -Melanie Stansbury -Teresa Leger Fernandez New York: -Jamaal Bowman -Adriano Espaillat -Hakeem Jeffries -Yvette Clarke -Gregory Meeks -Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -Jerrold Nadler -Nydia Velázquez -Paul Tonko -Dan Goldman -Ritchie Torres -Grace Meng -Joseph Morelle North Carolina: -Alma Adams -Valerie Foushee -Deborah Ross Ohio: -Shontel Brown -Joyce Beatty -Greg Landsman Oregon: -Earl Blumenauer -Suzanne Bonamici -Valerie Hoyle Pennsylvania: -Madeleine Dean -Mary Scanlon -Summer Lee Rhode Island: -Gabe Amo South Carolina: -James Clyburn Tennessee: -Steve Cohen Texas: -Greg Casar -Veronica Escobar -Joaquin Castro -Sylvia Garcia -Lloyd Doggett -Lizzie Fletcher -Al Green -Jasmine Crockett -Marc Veasey Vermont: -Becca Balint Virginia: -Donald Beyer -Gerald Connolly -Jennifer McClellan -Bobby Scott Washington: -Suzan DelBene -Derek Kilmer -Rick Larsen -Marilyn Strickland -Pramila Jayapal Wisconsin: -Gwen Moore -Mark Pocan Source: Newsweek

[m4zzystar]

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20 years old. usamerican. jill valentine's wife ♡

i usually post whatever but I really like horror video games, creepypasta/internet horror, any horror media actually, really depressing novels, cats, and kenny mccormick

some things i like but in list format ---

movies: portrait of a lady on fire, south park bigger longer and uncut, the descent, 28 days later, little women (2019), saw, bones and all, call me by your name, requiem for a dream, and the batman

tv: south park!!!!, hannibal, killing eve, twd succession, twin peaks, breaking bad, better call saul, oitnb, adventure time

games: silent hill 3, stardew valley, resident evil remake greatest game of all time!!!(4&8 close behind for me), dmc, mouthwashing, outlast, tlou 2 (1 has a special place in my heart tho), l4d 2, fran bow, fear and hunger, mario 64, mario odyssey, super paper mario.

(+ any ps2 era survival horror game i am too tired to type)

books: the haunting of hill house, the road, the postcard, a certain hunger, the vegetarian, tomie, and just kids

music: phoebe bridgers, pj harvey, patti smith, mazzy star, title fight, julien baker, bôa, hole, american football, fiona apple, lucy dacus, simon & garfunkel, the sundays, adrianne lenker, sufjan stevens, iron & wine, mitski, bob dylan, and imogen heap (i also listen to a lot of video game soundtracks)

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love you all ♡

[dailyanarchistposts]

A.5 What are some examples of “Anarchy in Action”?

A.5.2 The Haymarket Martyrs

May 1st is a day of special significance for the labour movement. While it has been hijacked in the past by the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union and elsewhere, the labour movement festival of May Day is a day of world-wide solidarity. A time to remember past struggles and demonstrate our hope for a better future. A day to remember that an injury to one is an injury to all.

The history of Mayday is closely linked with the anarchist movement and the struggles of working people for a better world. Indeed, it originated with the execution of four anarchists in Chicago in 1886 for organising workers in the fight for the eight-hour day. Thus May Day is a product of “anarchy in action” — of the struggle of working people using direct action in labour unions to change the world.

It began in the 1880s in the USA. In 1884, the Federation of Organised Trades and Labor Unions of the United States and Canada (created in 1881, it changed its name in 1886 to the American Federation of Labor) passed a resolution which asserted that “eight hours shall constitute a legal day’s work from and after May 1, 1886, and that we recommend to labour organisations throughout this district that they so direct their laws as to conform to this resolution.” A call for strikes on May 1st, 1886 was made in support of this demand.

In Chicago the anarchists were the main force in the union movement, and partially as a result of their presence, the unions translated this call into strikes on May 1st. The anarchists thought that the eight hour day could only be won through direct action and solidarity. They considered that struggles for reforms, like the eight hour day, were not enough in themselves. They viewed them as only one battle in an ongoing class war that would only end by social revolution and the creation of a free society. It was with these ideas that they organised and fought.

In Chicago alone, 400 000 workers went out and the threat of strike action ensured that more than 45 000 were granted a shorter working day without striking. On May 3, 1886, police fired into a crowd of pickets at the McCormick Harvester Machine Company, killing at least one striker, seriously wounding five or six others, and injuring an undetermined number. Anarchists called for a mass meeting the next day in Haymarket Square to protest the brutality. According to the Mayor, “nothing had occurred yet, or looked likely to occur to require interference.” However, as the meeting was breaking up a column of 180 police arrived and ordered the meeting to end. At this moment a bomb was thrown into the police ranks, who opened fire on the crowd. How many civilians were wounded or killed by the police was never exactly ascertained, but 7 policemen eventually died (ironically, only one was the victim of the bomb, the rest were a result of the bullets fired by the police [Paul Avrich, The Haymarket Tragedy, p. 208]).

A “reign of terror” swept over Chicago, and the “organised banditti and conscienceless brigands of capital suspended the only papers which would give the side of those whom they crammed into prison cells. They have invaded the homes of everyone who has ever known to have raised a voice or sympathised with those who have aught to say against the present system of robbery and oppression … they have invaded their homes and subjected them and their families to indignities that must be seen to be believed.” [Lucy Parsons, Liberty, Equality & Solidarity, p. 53] Meeting halls, union offices, printing shops and private homes were raided (usually without warrants). Such raids into working-class areas allowed the police to round up all known anarchists and other socialists. Many suspects were beaten up and some bribed. “Make the raids first and look up the law afterwards” was the public statement of J. Grinnell, the States Attorney, when a question was raised about search warrants. [“Editor’s Introduction”, The Autobiographies of the Haymarket Martyrs, p. 7]

Eight anarchists were put on trial for accessory to murder. No pretence was made that any of the accused had carried out or even planned the bomb. The judge ruled that it was not necessary for the state to identify the actual perpetrator or prove that he had acted under the influence of the accused. The state did not try to establish that the defendants had in any way approved or abetted the act. In fact, only three were present at the meeting when the bomb exploded and one of those, Albert Parsons, was accompanied by his wife and fellow anarchist Lucy and their two small children to the event.

The reason why these eight were picked was because of their anarchism and union organising, as made clear by that State’s Attorney when he told the jury that “Law is on trial. Anarchy is on trial. These men have been selected, picked out by the Grand Jury, and indicted because they were leaders. They are no more guilty than the thousands who follow them. Gentlemen of the jury; convict these men, make examples of them, hang them and you save our institutions, our society.” The jury was selected by a special bailiff, nominated by the State’s Attorney and was explicitly chosen to compose of businessmen and a relative of one of the cops killed. The defence was not allowed to present evidence that the special bailiff had publicly claimed “I am managing this case and I know what I am about. These fellows are going to be hanged as certain as death.” [Op. Cit., p. 8] Not surprisingly, the accused were convicted. Seven were sentenced to death, one to 15 years’ imprisonment.

An international campaign resulted in two of the death sentences being commuted to life, but the world wide protest did not stop the US state. Of the remaining five, one (Louis Lingg) cheated the executioner and killed himself on the eve of the execution. The remaining four (Albert Parsons, August Spies, George Engel and Adolph Fischer) were hanged on November 11th 1887. They are known in Labour history as the Haymarket Martyrs. Between 150,000 and 500,000 lined the route taken by the funeral cortege and between 10,000 to 25,000 were estimated to have watched the burial.

In 1889, the American delegation attending the International Socialist congress in Paris proposed that May 1st be adopted as a workers’ holiday. This was to commemorate working class struggle and the “Martyrdom of the Chicago Eight”. Since then Mayday has became a day for international solidarity. In 1893, the new Governor of Illinois made official what the working class in Chicago and across the world knew all along and pardoned the Martyrs because of their obvious innocence and because “the trial was not fair.” To this day, no one knows who threw the bomb — the only definite fact is that it was not any of those who were tried for the act: “Our comrades were not murdered by the state because they had any connection with the bomb-throwing, but because they had been active in organising the wage-slaves of America.” [Lucy Parsons, Op. Cit., p. 142]

The authorities had believed at the time of the trial that such persecution would break the back of the labour movement. As Lucy Parsons, a participant of the events, noted 20 years later, the Haymarket trial “was a class trial — relentless, vindictive, savage and bloody. By that prosecution the capitalists sought to break the great strike for the eight-hour day which as being successfully inaugurated in Chicago, this city being the stormcentre of that great movement; and they also intended, by the savage manner in which they conducted the trial of these men, to frighten the working class back to their long hours of toil and low wages from which they were attempting to emerge. The capitalistic class imagined they could carry out their hellish plot by putting to an ignominious death the most progressive leaders among the working class of that day. In executing their bloody deed of judicial murder they succeeded, but in arresting the mighty onward movement of the class struggle they utterly failed.” [Lucy Parsons, Op. Cit., p. 128] In the words of August Spies when he addressed the court after he had been sentenced to die:

“If you think that by hanging us you can stamp out the labour movement … the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil in misery and want, expect salvation — if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread on a spark, but there and there, behind you — and in front of you, and everywhere, flames blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out.” [quoted by Paul Avrich, Op. Cit., p. 287]

At the time and in the years to come, this defiance of the state and capitalism was to win thousands to anarchism, particularly in the US itself. Since the Haymarket event, anarchists have celebrated May Day (on the 1st of May — the reformist unions and labour parties moved its marches to the first Sunday of the month). We do so to show our solidarity with other working class people across the world, to celebrate past and present struggles, to show our power and remind the ruling class of their vulnerability. As Nestor Makhno put it:

“That day those American workers attempted, by organising themselves, to give expression to their protest against the iniquitous order of the State and Capital of the propertied … “The workers of Chicago … had gathered to resolve, in common, the problems of their lives and their struggles… “Today too … the toilers … regard the first of May as the occasion of a get-together when they will concern themselves with their own affairs and consider the matter of their emancipation.” [The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays, pp. 59–60]

Anarchists stay true to the origins of May Day and celebrate its birth in the direct action of the oppressed. It is a classic example of anarchist principles of direct action and solidarity, “an historic event of great importance, inasmuch as it was, in the first place, the first time that workers themselves had attempted to get a shorter work day by united, simultaneous action … this strike was the first in the nature of Direct Action on a large scale, the first in America.” [Lucy Parsons, Op. Cit., pp. 139–40] Oppression and exploitation breed resistance and, for anarchists, May Day is an international symbol of that resistance and power — a power expressed in the last words of August Spies, chiselled in stone on the monument to the Haymarket martyrs in Waldheim Cemetery in Chicago:

“The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today.”

To understand why the state and business class were so determined to hang the Chicago Anarchists, it is necessary to realise they were considered the leaders of a massive radical union movement. In 1884, the Chicago Anarchists produced the world’s first daily anarchist newspaper, the Chicagoer Arbeiter-Zeiting. This was written, read, owned and published by the German immigrant working class movement. The combined circulation of this daily plus a weekly (Vorbote) and a Sunday edition (Fackel) more than doubled, from 13,000 per issues in 1880 to 26,980 in 1886. Anarchist weekly papers existed for other ethnic groups as well (one English, one Bohemian and one Scandinavian).

Anarchists were very active in the Central Labour Union (which included the eleven largest unions in the city) and aimed to make it, in the words of Albert Parsons (one of the Martyrs), “the embryonic group of the future ‘free society.’” The anarchists were also part of the International Working People’s Association (also called the “Black International”) which had representatives from 26 cities at its founding convention. The I.W.P.A. soon “made headway among trade unions, especially in the mid-west” and its ideas of “direct action of the rank and file” and of trade unions “serv[ing] as the instrument of the working class for the complete destruction of capitalism and the nucleus for the formation of a new society” became known as the “Chicago Idea” (an idea which later inspired the Industrial Workers of the World which was founded in Chicago in 1905). [“Editor’s Introduction,” The Autobiographies of the Haymarket Martyrs, p. 4]

This idea was expressed in the manifesto issued at the I.W.P.A.‘s Pittsburgh Congress of 1883:

“First — Destruction of the existing class rule, by all means, i.e. by energetic, relentless, revolutionary and international action. “Second — Establishment of a free society based upon co-operative organisation of production. “Third — Free exchange of equivalent products by and between the productive organisations without commerce and profit-mongery. “Fourth — Organisation of education on a secular, scientific and equal basis for both sexes. “Fifth — Equal rights for all without distinction to sex or race. “Sixth — Regulation of all public affairs by free contracts between autonomous (independent) communes and associations, resting on a federalistic basis.” [Op. Cit., p. 42]

In addition to their union organising, the Chicago anarchist movement also organised social societies, picnics, lectures, dances, libraries and a host of other activities. These all helped to forge a distinctly working-class revolutionary culture in the heart of the “American Dream.” The threat to the ruling class and their system was too great to allow it to continue (particularly with memories of the vast uprising of labour in 1877 still fresh. As in 1886, that revolt was also meet by state violence — see Strike! by J. Brecher for details of this strike movement as well as the Haymarket events). Hence the repression, kangaroo court, and the state murder of those the state and capitalist class considered “leaders” of the movement.

For more on the Haymarket Martyrs, their lives and their ideas, The Autobiographies of the Haymarket Martyrs is essential reading. Albert Parsons, the only American born Martyr, produced a book which explained what they stood for called Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Scientific Basis. Historian Paul Avrich’s The Haymarket Tragedy is a useful in depth account of the events.