Today in Labor History November 11, 1919: Armed "patriots" from the American Legion attacked and destroyed the IWW labor hall in Centralia, Washington, killing five. They then kidnapped, tortured, castrated and lynched Wesley Everest, a WWI veteran and an IWW organizer. No one was ever prosecuted for Everest’s murder, but 6 Wobblies (IWW members) were convicted of killing an American Legion and spent the next 15 years in prison, as a result. #workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #wwi #antiwar #lynching #murder #prison #washington

Trump's War on Labor The Trump administration has eliminated union rights for a million federal workers with the stroke of a pen. That's 100 times the anti-union tsunami that Ronald Reagan unleashed when he locked out 11,000 striking air traffic controllers in 1981, often cited as a key moment in labor’s decline. If people want to defeat fascism in America and replace it with something better than the lousy status quo that preceded it, we need to all recognize that it's not just immigrants and trans people they're going after. They're coming for everyone who doesnt embrace their white straight Christian nationalist and corporatist agenda. No one is free until we ALL are free. Solidarity!

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To Stop Trump, Unions Need Joint Campaigns and a Shared Vision

[This article is part of a Labor Notes roundtable series: How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Against Trump 2.0? We will be publishing more contribu...

No surprise to anyone who has a brain AND pays attention to credible reporting, Trump's lies about rampant crime rates apply far more to red states than blue ones .

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Trump’s claims about murder rates, illegal immigration fit red states more than blue ones

As federal immigration agents carry out the president's “Operation Midway Blitz” in Democrat-led Illinois — a "blue state" — a WBEZ and Sun...

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No worse than the flu? Nearly 97% of elephant seal pups at a rookery in Argentina have died from H5N1 bird flu, making it the largest mortality event ever recorded for the species. Additionally, in Peru and Chile together, more than 30,000 sea lions died between 2022 and 2023. In Argentina, about 1,300 sea lions and fur seals were killed. Researchers estimate it has affected around one-third of the world's pinniped species so far. However, they say it is possible the flu has been affecting a greater number of individuals and a wider range of species than has been documented.

'It was a horrible scene to witness': How bird flu has decimated elephant seal populations

The sudden decimation by bird flu of the world's largest seal species has sent shockwaves through the scientific community, and the ecosystems shap...

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Today in Labor History November 10, 1995: The Nigerian government executed playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight other members of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop). Saro-Wiwa led a nonviolent movement protesting the despoiling of Ogoniland by Royal Dutch Shell. Beverly Naidoo’s 2000 novel, “The Other Side of Truth,” is based on Saro-Wiwa’s execution, as is Richard North Patterson’s 2009 novel, “Eclipse.” His execution sparked international outrage. And the Commonwealth of Nations briefly expelled Nigeria (for 3 years). The Ogoniland flood plain, home to 20 million people and 40 different ethnic groups, is Africa's largest wetland, with one of the highest concentrations of biodiversity on the planet. Some have called the environmental destruction of this region ecocide. In the last 10 years, Nigeria has had 9,343 oil spills, and spends $758 million per year for the cleanup. 75% of these costs are borne by local communities, not the government. By comparison, the European Union has had only 10 oil spills in the past 40 years. Some estimate that over 100 million barrels’ worth of oil have been spilled in the Niger Delta between 1960 and 1997. #workingclass #LaborHistory #KenSaroWiwa #ogoni #shell #bigoil #nigeria #repression #ecology #nonviolence #activism #environmentalism #protest #playwright #novel #books #writer #author #BlackMastodon [@bookstadon](

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Today in Labor History November 10, 1975: United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism was a form of racism. The vote came soon after the UN resolved that Palestinians had the right to self-determination (Resolution 3236). Mexico’s support for the resolution led to a boycott of that nation by American Jews. In 1991, Israel forced the UN to remove the declaration as a prerequisite to their participation in the Madrid peace talks. George H. W. Bush called Resolution 3379 a mockery of the principles upon which the UN was created. He, of course, was an expert in making a mockery of the UN’s principles. The UN declaration focused on the ways in which Zionism is racist toward Palestinian Arabs. Counterintuitively, however, it can also be antisemitic or racist towards Jews, such as when Zionists proclaim that Israel represents all Jews; or that all “real” or “legitimate” Jews necessarily support Israel; or that Jews who criticize Israeli government policy or who support Palestinians’ right to self-determination are self-hating, or antisemitic. #workingclass #LaborHistory #zionism #racism #israel #unitednations #boycott #judaism #freepalestine #EndTheOccupation #censorship

Today in Labor History November 10, 1898: White supremacists launched a coup d’etat in Wilmington, North Carolina. The Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 is the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in U.S. history. The local white press declared it a race riot, caused by blacks, but it was actually a coup by members of the state's Democratic party, who conspired and led a mob of 2,000 white men to overthrow the legitimately elected biracial government. They deported opposition black and white political leaders from the city and may have killed over 300 people. They destroyed black property and businesses, including the only black newspaper in the city. And they got away with it, too. Charles Aycock, one of the main organizers, went on to become governor of North Carolina. Rebecca Felton, a feminist who supported equal pay for women and the lynching of black residents, went on to become the nation’s first female senator. Numerous other coup leaders and supporters went on to hold state and federal offices. #workingclass #LaborHistory #whitesupremacy #racism #insurrection #massacre #NorthCarolina #coup #journalism #freespeech #BlackMastodon