Tribute to the pavers of Lisbon.

Just how unpopular is Trump's gestapo? They're now bribing people to join ICE with student loan forgiveness, while taking it away from everyone else. Plus a $50,000 signing bonus. Who is losing the possibility of student loan forgiveness, supposedly available since 2007? People who take jobs in nonprofits serving the needs of immigrants & transgender youth because these are "activist organizations that not only fail to serve the public interest, but actually harm our national security and American values, sometimes through criminal means.”

The Intercept

Guess Who’s Eligible for Student Loan Forgiveness: New ICE Agents

Thanks to the Supreme Court and the Trump administration, student loan forgiveness is out of reach for many — unless you work for ICE.

#immigration #studentloans #ice #Trump #fascism #gestapo #lgbtq #transrightsarehumanrights

Seneca Village was established in 1825. And there were dozens of freedom towns throughout the U.S., including the deep south. Hobson City, Alabama. Abila and Victorville, CA. New Monrovia and Newtown, FL. Mossville, Louisiana. Lincoln Park, MD. Parting Ways, MA. Timbuctoo, NJ. Blackdom, NM. Hayti and Soulville, North Carolina. There were 13 different Freedom Towns just in Oklahoma. 18 in Texas.

Just think, there are enough vacant homes in the U.S. that every homeless person could have multiple vacation homes, just like the billionaires do... except for the fact that those vacant homes are owned by those billionaires and deliberately kept vacant.

Today in Labor History July 31, 1968: Students protested the Olympics in Mexico City. They occupied schools and began a General Strike. Cops violently attacked them. The violence culminated with the Tlatelolco massacre, October 2, during which the cops slaughtered 350-400 people, using snipers. They arrested and tortured over 1,300. Alejandro Jodorowsky dramatized the massacre in his surreal film, “The Holy Mountain” (1973). In it, he showed birds, fruits, vegetables and other things falling and being ripped out of the wounds of the dying students. The late author, Roberto Bolaño, recounted the massacre in his novel “Amulet” (1999). He also retells the story in his novel, “The Savage Detectives.” #workingclass #LaborHistory #students #olympics #mexico #protest #massacre #tlatelolco #generalstrike #police #policebrutality #policemurder #robertobolaño #film #author #books #fiction #novel #writer @npub1wceq...lzu8

Today in History July 31, 1703: The authorities placed write Daniel Defoe in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel. They did it because he published a politically satirical pamphlet. Instead of stones, people pelted him with flowers. Defoe’s most famous book, “Robinson Crusoe,” (1719) has been translated more than any other book in history, other than the Bible. He also wrote “Moll Flanders,” and “A Journal of a Plague Year.” In 1702, William III died. His successor, Queen Anne, immediately went on the offensive against nonconformists. Defoe was a natural target because of his pamphlets and political writings. She arrested him principally for his 1702 pamphlet, “The Shortest-Way with the Dissenters. Or, Proposals for the Establishment of the Church.” In this tract, he argued, satirically, for their extermination. He also ruthlessly satirized both high church Tories and those Dissenters who hypocritically practiced "occasional conformity." #satire #writer #books #fiction #FreeSpeech #novel #author #religion #defoe #censorship @bookstadon

Today in Labor History July 31, 1922: A General Strike against Fascism began in Italy, running from July 31 to August 2. Socialists led the strike, which the fascists defeated. Rudolph Rocker, an Anarcho-Syndicalist of the period, said: "… the democratic government armed the Fascist hordes and throttled this last attempt at the defense of freedom and right. But Italian democracy had dug its own grave. It thought it could use Mussolini as a tool against the workers, but thus it became its own grave-digger." In October, 1922, the fascists led a march through Rome, which ultimately led to a coup and their ascension to power. During the march, Mussolini was in Milan, supposedly with a ticket for an ocean liner to flee the country should the fascists fail in the coup. #workingclass #LaborHistory #fascism #mussolini #italy #anarchism #generalstrike #socialism #antifascism