Today in Labor History March 6, 1925: Miners in Cape Breton, Canada, struck against the British Empire Steel Corporation (BESCO). They’d been striking against BESCO regularly for the past 5 years over wage cuts. The 1925 strike lasted 5 months. Company police killed one miner, William Davis. BESCO eventually went bankrupt. These strikes were part of the Canadian Labour Revolt (1918-1925) led by the One Big Union. The Vancouver General Strike (1918) and the Winnipeg General Strike (1919) inspired the OBU and subsequent strikes of the Labor Revolt. The OBU was also influenced by the IWW, the Spartacist Uprising in Germany, and the Communist Revolution in Russia. The OBU was a syndicalist labor union that sought to overthrow capitalism and replace it with a socialist system based on worker control of the workplace. #workingclass #LaborHistory #capebreton #steel #strike #union #GeneralStrike #winnipeg #vancouver #canada #spartacist #IWW #communism #onebigunion #socialism #syndicalism #Revolution #communism #russia

Today in Labor History March 6, 1978: President Jimmy Carter invoked the Taft-Hartley law to quash the 1977-78 national contract strike by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). The UMWA had been on strike since December 1977, but rejected a tentative contract agreement in early March, 1978. Carter invoked the national emergency provision of Taft-Hartley and ordered strikers back to work. They ignored the order and the government did little to enforce it. By late March, they reached a settlement. Taft-Hartley was enacted in the wake of the strike wave of 1945-1946 and was designed to prevent solidarity strikes and General Strikes. The last General Strike in U.S. history (Lancaster, PA; Stamford, CT; Rochester, NY; and Oakland, CA) occurred just prior to Taft-Hartley. #workingclass #LaborHistory #strike #GeneralStrike #union #solidarity #TaftHartley #oakland #UMWA #POTUS #UnitedMineWorkers

US women's soccer star Megan Rapinoe speaking up in support of US women's swimming star Lia Thomas: “Lia Thomas is a woman just like me. She deserves the same opportunities and respect as any other female athlete.” #lgbtq #womenshistorymonth #transrightsarehumanrights #sports

"It's easy to bully a child... these are grown ass adults picking on children,"-- Jocelyn Into-Campbell, at TransFamily Support Services, in San Diego. California is officially a sanctuary state for transgender health care. But that's under threat by the Trump executive orders. While the state's protections may hold, in general, the terror of the threats is real. The Trevor Project found that state's with laws targeting trans youth saw suicide attempts rise by up to 72%. And children's hospital, in L.A., temporarily halted gender affirming care for youths, in compliance with Trump's mandates, until California's Department of Justice threatened them. State senator Scott Wiener introduced new legislation last month to strengthen the state's sanctuary laws.

CalMatters

'Will I be safe'? Transgender California youth feel threatened by Trump's executive orders

President Trump's executive orders on transgender care are alarming California's LGBTQ community, heightening fears about safety in a vul...

CA is protecting transgender youth in new Trump era&utm_campaign=WhatMatters #lgbtq #transphobia #transrightsarehumanrights #children #california #protecttransyouth #trump

Think things are shitty? They're gonna get a lot shittier soon, literally, thanks to a lawsuit by liberal San Francisco and the right wing SCOTUS, making it harder to regulate and limit the pollution and raw sewage dumped into our bays and oceans.

AP News

Supreme Court makes it harder for EPA to police sewage discharges

The Supreme Court has made it harder for environmental regulators to limit water pollution, ruling for San Francisco in a case about the discharge ...

#SCOTUS #sanfrancisco #epa #cleanwater

Today in Labor History March 5, 1940: Six high-ranking members of the Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, signed an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, cops and military officers. 14,700 of them were prisoners of war. This extrajudicial mass execution was known as the Katyn massacre. Afterwards, the Soviets tried to cover their tracks by blaming the Nazis for the massacre. They continued to deny responsibility until 1990, when the government finally acknowledged and condemned the killings and cover-up. #workingclass #LaborHistory #stalin #communism #ussr #soviet #massacre #racism #prisoners #nazis

Yesterday, at the New Farm, Jimmy, Tommy and i got into a conversation with one of the old Farm's original bouncers and that classic 1986 Butthole Surfers Halloween show. I couldn't find any footage from that show, but here's the trailer for the Farmcore documentary, with footage of Fright Wig, DOA, MDC, Social Distortion and others. #punkrock #thefarm