Today in Labor History May 10, 1887: UMW organizer Ginger Goodwin was born on this date. He was also a socialist and anti-war activist. In 1918, he was murdered by a private cop. His assassination, along with outrage over World War One conscription, inflation, low wages, and censorship of the socialist media, sparked Canada's first General Strike, in Vancouver. Goodwin said that workers of one country should not be employed to kill workers of another country because of capitalist conflict. “War is simply part of the process of Capitalism,” he said. “Big financial interests will reap the victory, no matter how the war ends.” The Ballad Of Ginger Goodwin Ginger Goodwin is a name you don't often hear or see. They don't say a word about him in our country's history. He was a labour leader and he wouldn't go to war. "While the army breaks our strikes at home, its strikers I'll fight for." In Trail back in the summer of 1917. Ginger fought against conscription even though he was class D. But when he led a miners' strike to spread the eight hour day Conscription checked him out again and found he was class A. Ginger hid from cops and soldiers in the hills near Cumberland. Miners brought him food and sheltered him, they knew he was their friend. So the bosses hired special cops when their power was at stake. Dan Campbell murdered Goodwin at the head of Comox Lake. The whole damn town of Cumberland turned out for the funeral hike. Vancouver's workers shut her down for a one day general strike. Soldiers back from foreign wars then attacked the labour hall. Both the bosses and the workers knew who caused the Czar's downfall. You can still see Ginger's grave along the road to Cumberland. He didn't win no medals and no one understands. Don't tell me that a hero has to die in foreign lands. We lost heroes here in labour's wars and they all had dirty hands. #workingclass #LaborHistory #generalstrike #union #umw #gingergoodwin #policebrutality #police #canada #censorship #freespeech #wages #inflation #GeneralStrike #vancouver #antiwar #classwar #solidarity #folkmusic #labormusic

• 394,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since Columbine • There have been 428 school shootings since 1999, according to Post data https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/school-shootings-database/ • Arrest rates at schools with police present were more than double that of schools without police on-site • GAO found that school-based arrest rates for Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, Black, and American Indian/Alaska native students were 2-3x higher than White students. • Students with disabilities had more than double the rate of arrests and referrals compared to their peers without disabilities. https://www.k12dive.com/news/school-police-arrest-rates-students-special-education/720819/ I couldn’t find data confirming the 1 million arrests. However, google’s AI generated assist did confirm the 1 million arrests, claiming Wikipedia & Arizona state university at its source. And, from the following Education Week Article, 70,000 students arrests just in the 2013-2014 school year, and these only included a small sampling of schools.

Policing America's Schools: An Education Week Analysis

#schools #education #publicschool #police #racism #schoolshootings

Today in Labor History May 8, 1945: French soldiers fired on Algerian civilians who were celebrating the Nazi surrender and protesting the French occupation of their country. French settlers and soldiers then attacked civilians in the countryside around Constantine, killing 6,000-20,000 people. These attacks are known as the Sétif massacre. #workingclass #LaborHistory #massacre #french #imperialism #algeria #nazis #fascism #occupation #Setif

Today in Labor History May 8, 1970: About 200 construction workers in New York City attacked a crowd of Vietnam war protesters. As a result, over 70 people were injured, including four police officers. Peter Brennan, head of the New York building trades, was honored at the Nixon White House two weeks later, eventually named Secretary of Labor. #workingclass #LaborHistory #hardhat #Riot #vietnam #antiwar #nixon #vigilantism #police #PoliceBrutality #newyork

Today in Labor History May 8, 1973: A 71-day standoff at the Pine Ridge Reservation, at Wounded Knee, ended today, after American Indian Movement (AIM) members surrendered. In 1890, U.S soldiers massacred nearly 300 Lakota people at Wounded Knee. Ever since, native peoples on the Pine Ridge Reservation, where Wounded Knee is located, have faced poverty, and racism by their neighbors. They also had a corrupt local government on the reservation. So, on February 27, 1973, 200 Lakota activists and members of AIM, seized control of Wounded Knee. They demanded the resignation of their corrupt tribal leader. They also demanded that the U.S. government start obeying its treaties with indigenous peoples. Within hours of the occupation, police surrounded the them, marking the beginning of the siege. The cops were joined by federal marshals and national guards, who traded fire with AIM activists on a daily basis. Two native activists died in the conflict and one federal agent was shot and paralyzed. AIM leaders Dennis Banks and Russell Means were arrested, but their case was dismissed by the federal court for prosecutorial misconduct. Two years later, there was another shootout at Pine Ridge. AIM leader Leonard Peltier was wrongfully arrested and imprisoned until 2025. #LaborHistory #workingclass #massacre #indigenous #WoundedKnee #genocide #AmericanIndianMovement #LeonardPeltier #fbi #racism #genocide #lakota #prison

Gender policing, attacks on trans folks, bathroom gender laws, do NOT protect cis women. They are sexist & fascistic, and they actually worsen the oppression of all women, including both cis and trans women, as seen by the recent harassment of a cis lesbian couple at a Boston hotel, the attacks on Algerian boxing gold medalist Imane Khelif, and the cis woman arrested for using a Walmart bathroom in Arizona. Nobody is free until we all are free! #transrightsarehumanrights

Woman says security guard at Liberty Hotel in Boston confronted her in bathroom, asked to prove gender

A couple said a security guard at the Liberty Hotel in Boston challenged their use of a bathroom and kicked them out.

#lgbtq #trans #transphobia #sexism #bathrooms