Like her, or not, but at least be honest about her wealth: it still comes through exploitation.

Or, instead of wasting them, we could just start a war with Venezuela, and sell the surplus to Israel and Ukraine.

Today in Labor History November 16, 1989: Six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter were assassinated in El Salvador. They were among thousands killed by the military and right-wing death squads for speaking out for economic and social justice. The Jesuits were advocates of a negotiated settlement between the government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). The murders attracted international attention and increased international pressure for a cease-fire. It was also a turning point that led toward a negotiated settlement to the war. Nine members of the Salvadoran military were tried. Only Colonel Guillermo Benavides and Lieutenant Yusshy René Mendoza were convicted. Everyone else was absolved or found guilty on lesser charges. Benavides and Mendoza were sentenced to thirty years in prison, but were released in 1993 by a legislature dominated by anti-guerilla and pro-military politicians. #workingclass #LaborHistory #deathsquads #assassination #elsalvador #fmln #communism #Revolution #prison #imperialism

In 1947, four years after Albert Hofmann's famous bike ride on acid, and 9 years after his discovery of LSD, Sandoz began providing the drug to researchers under the trade name Delysid. The book Tripping on Utopia, by Benjamin Breen, tells the history of psychedelic science the influence of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson and their desire to reshape humanity in the wake of World War II.

Today in Labor History November 16, 1938: LSD was first synthesized by Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel. The original intention of the lab was to create a new drug that stimulated the respiratory and circulatory system. It was not until April 19, 1943, that he would first sample the new drug, when he accidentally absorbed some, leading to his famous bike ride home. After an initial period of anxiety and terror, he began to settle in with the experience, which he described as such: “In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors.” April 19 is now celebrated as Bicycle Day. In 1947, Sandoz began providing the drug to researchers under the trade name Delysid. Throughout the 1950s, researchers began using the drug to treat mental illness. Humphry Osmond gave LSD to alcoholics who had failed to recover through other methods. After 1 year, 50% were still sober, a success rate that was significantly higher than any other then known method of treatment. Early experimenters and proponents of the drug included the writer Aldous Huxley, the anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, and actor Cary Grant. The CIA gave it to many unwitting victims as part of their infamous MKULTRA program researching mind control. There were also willing MKULTRA volunteers, like Ken Kesey and Allen Ginsberg. And, for a short time, the working class had legal access to inexpensive trips. #workingclass #LaborHistory #lsd #psychedelic #alberthofmann #drugs #mkultra #cia

Today in Labor History November 16, 1938: José Saramago was born. He was a Portuguese libertarian communist, novelist, and winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an illusory reality." He criticized the Catholic Church, the European Union, the IMF, and other oppressive institutions. He joined the Portuguese Communist Party in 1969, when the country was still under a fascist dictatorship, and remained a member throughout his life. In 2002, during the 2nd Intifada, he visited Ramallah and wrote critically of the Israeli government, saying that "what is happening in Palestine is a crime we can put on the same plane as what happened at Auschwitz.” Not surprisingly, he was pilloried by Zionists as being antisemitic. #workingclass #LaborHistory #communism #libertariancommunism #anarchism #portugal #fascism #holoaust #zionism #palestine #literature #fiction #books #author #writer [@bookstadon](

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Today in Labor History November 16, 1932: Betsabé Espinal Espinal died. She was a Colombian labor rights activist and leader of the 1920 workers' strike against a fabric factory in Bello, Colombia, the first Colombian strike led by women. That strike was considered to have made a significant impact on the rights of female workers. The strike lasted for nearly a month and ended when the owner agreed to a 40% raise, a 9-hour work day, and to fire any male foremen accused of sexually harassing the women. Prior to the strike, girls as young as eight toiled in the factory for up to 12 hours each day. Betsabé Espinal was fired for her efforts. She died at the age of 36 from an accidental electrocution. #workingclass #LaborHistory #colombia #women #sweatshops #union #strike