• medium_adult_son [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The Haymarket Affair. It can be part of his Liberalization of the Leftist History of Chicago trilogy, along with the Trial of the Chicago 7 he already shit on the history of.

    The last in the trilogy will be Blues Brothers 3000, unless anyone has any better ideas.

      • medium_adult_son [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I don't think Sorkin would be allowed to make a film about MLK or Malcolm X. I hope not, anyway.

        If you've never seen the sequel to Blues Brothers, it is very bad. Although it managed to show even more Chicago cops crash their cars than the original.

        I mostly can't think of another Chicago-based moment in labor history. It looks like there are plenty, though.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unrest_in_Chicago

      • medium_adult_son [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        There was also the Pullman Strike, which started in Chicago and ended with Eugene Debs getting arrested.

        And the 1968 Democratic Convention was there, the trial afterwards was covered by a recent Sorkin film.

      • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        It's where also CPUSA got its start. Of course those early years were spent doing what leftists do best - factional bickering. Not that the later years have been better

      • medium_adult_son [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        The Haymarket Affair/Riot was the instigation for labor movements around the world to have May 1st, May day, to be commemorated for worker solidarity. They were demonstrating for an 8 hour work day.

        In America, though, there is some non-holiday called Patriots Day due to anticommunism :deeper-sadness: