Here's my fantasy for the World Cup: DOUBLE FORFEIT by Egypt and Iran, who have both petitioned FIFA to change their match so as to avoid Seattle's Pride celebration, choose to boycott the game and not show up, forcing FIFA to end the match in a forfeit for both teams.

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World Cup: Egypt and Iran fight FIFA over LGBTQ+ Pride match

Iran and Egypt’s football federations have asked FIFA to change their match schedule to avoid clashing with the LGBTQ+ Pride celebrations in the ...

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U.S. residents in the country's lowest income decile spend 35% of their pre-tax incomes on health care. U.S. residents with the lowest incomes who are enrolled in employer-sponsored health plans spend an average of about 13% of income on premiums and out-of-pocket costs if everyone on the plan is healthy. However, the number rises to nearly 20% if everyone on their plan is not healthy.

How much of Americans' paychecks go to health care, charted

U.S. residents with the lowest incomes spend a greater share of their incomes on health care than those with higher incomes, according to data from...

Today in Labor History December 13, 1896, Lucia Sanchez Saornil was born in Madrid, Spain. Anarcha-feminist, poet and member of the militant union, CNT, she also cofounded Mujeres Libres, in response to the sexism within the anarchist movement. Its goal was to fight for women's liberation from their "triple enslavement" by ignorance, sexism and exploitation. Mujeres Libres ultimately grew into a movement of over 30,000 people. After the fascists defeated the Republicans in the Civil War, she briefly went into exile in France, but later returned and lived clandestinely within Francoist Spain until her death in 1970, barely escaping capture by the Nazis, when they overtook France. During the war, she wrote articles about anarchism and feminism in the FAI's magazine Tierra y Libertad and the CNT's newspaper Solidaridad Obrera. She also corresponded with Emma Goldman, inspiring her to organizing international support for the anti-fascist cause. You can see her with Goldman and another woman in this 1938 photograph of her. #workingclass #LaborHistory #luciasanchezsaornil #spain #anarchism #cnt #fai #fascism #antifascism #sexism #feminism #civilwar #poetry #books [@bookstadon](

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Today in Labor History December 13, 2001: Beginning of Argentine General Strike & the period of workers' self-management known as the Horizontalidad. President Fernando de la Rúa declared a state of siege. State violence killed 39 civilians, 25% of whom were miners. #workingclass #LaborHistory #GeneralStrike #argentina #horizontalidad

Today in Labor History December 13, 1867: Fenians (Irish Republican Brotherhood) set off a bomb in London to free one of their members from Clerkenwell Prison. 12 people died. The bombing outraged the public, undermining Fenian efforts to establish independence or home rule. The Fenians had over 100,000 members at the time, including a large support network in the U.S. #workingclass #LaborHistory #fenian #ireland #independance #prison #london

Today in Labor History December 13, 1636: The U.S. National Guard was created. The military force was originally created as a militia, by the Massachusetts Bay Colony, to protect its economic interests by killing local indigenous people, especially members of the Pequot tribe. In 1877, they were used to protect the interests of capital during the Great Train Strike, the wave of wildcat strikes that had broken out across the country. During that wave, National Guards and Police killed at least 100 workers. They also protected the interests of capital by providing the majority of soldiers for 19th century imperialistic wars, like the Mexican-American War and the Spanish-American War. Governors used them to suppress the Watts Riot in Los Angeles (1965), the Detroit Race Riots (1967), the Rochester Race Riot (1964), antiwar protests at Kent State (1970), and Rodney King riots in Los Angeles (1992). In each of these deployments, they shot and killed unarmed civilians. They were also deployed during the George Floyd riots (2020), in the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, and in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). Read my article on the Great Train Strike here:

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The Great Upheaval - Michael Dunn

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Today in Labor History December 13, 1986: Kuwasi Balagoon died of AIDS while in prison, while serving time for a Brinks robbery. Balagoon had been a member of the Black Panther Party. While in prison, he became disillusioned with the Panthers, became an anarchist and joined the more militant Black Liberation Army. He escaped from prison twice. In 1979, while on the lam from his second prison escape, he helped to free political prisoner Assata Shakur, who fled to Cuba and who recently died there (2025). In 1986, he died in prison from AIDS. In 2019, PM Press released a collection of writings by and about Balagoon called, “Kuwasi Balagoon: A Soldier's Story.” And the prison abolitionist group, Black and Pink, which supports LGBTQ and HIV-positive prisoners, has, since 2020, run a "Kuwasi Balagoon award" for those living with HIV/AIDS. During his trial, he represented himself, admitted his guilt, but argued that his actions were justified in the war against the colonial, genocidal state. He was also open about his bisexuality. Yet many obituaries omitted this fact in what some activists have decried as the erasure of "internal struggle against homophobia and patriarchy." #workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #blackpanthers #BlackLiberationArmy #racism #newafrika #assatashakur #prison #lgbtq #aids #hiv #politicalprisoner #author #writer #books #BlackMastodon [@bookstadon](

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