October 8, is the anniversary of the strike at Standard Oil’s Bayonne, N.J., refineries. In the course of the ten-day strike, 4 people were killed and 86 wounded. The free press demonstrated collusion between the corporation and the city authorities in what John Reed described as a police riot. Yet, not a word of this is mentioned in the Rockefeller biographies.
The Bayonne Refinery Strikes of 1915-1916 were labor actions of refinery workers in Bayonne, New Jersey, mostly Polish-Americans, who struck against Rockefeller-owned Standard Oil and Tidewater Petroleum plants.
On October 8th, 1916, thousands of Standard Oil workers went on strike, demanding higher wages. The strikers faced fierce opposition from law enforcement, and the labor action became violent. In the course of the ten-day strike, 4 people were killed and 86 were wounded.
According to communist journalist John Reed (an eyewitness to the strike action), this was the first time in an industrial dispute where police announced that their explicit objective was to break the strike.
Multiple journalists in Bayonne criticized mainstream press as portraying the strikers and protesters as more violent than they actually were; according to Reed and others, the violence was initiated by police themselves.
Bloodshed in Bayonne libcom :red-fist:
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Honestly Biden's Marijuana action is a master stroke. People have no idea what it did. I've seen people who think he freed 6,000 people, people who think he descheduled Marijuana, people who think he freed all non-violent drug offenders.
He did nothing but the Libs are praising him for parting the Red Sea and bringing manna raining down from Heaven. It's incredible. This is how you do bread and circuses.
Everyone thinks they are informed now, no matter how little that is true.
Pardoned those with federal charges for simple marijuana possession. This lets no one out of jail because they all are charged with "intend to distribute" for having more than 1 joint or something. This removes? it from the record of like 6500 people. Most of people locked up are on state charges
WTF
Moreover, separate data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission show that only 92 people were sentenced for marijuana possession in the federal system in 2017, out of a total of nearly 20,000 drug convictions.
The states seem to be the problem, though federal decriminalization would help. Unlikely to happen as it enforces racism.
https://www.aclu.org/gallery/marijuana-arrests-numbers
Imagine if he only moves pot to like schedule two, holy shit that would be hilarious
Today I caught my sister watching Hasan streams. I asked why out of curiosity and she said, "he's cute and informative."
Hasan might not lead the revolution but he's going to be on all the posters.
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It really is amazing how so many of these events led to even bigger movements.
I guess this could be about literally anything, but did you see the video of that cop shooting at a guy who was just eating a burger in his car?
It's been all over twitter all day but I've seen like four or five other horrible acts of police violence. I can't believe we put up with this. It's incredible.
Hi! I love you all! Am gonna be brief on this one since I've had a few. That said, I've been doing great with making new IRL friends! Thats all for now, have a good one!
Even filmography aside Scorsese is GOATed for applauding Michael Moore when his anti-war speech got booed, and helping preserve and popularize Soy Cuba.
Michael Moore has done more praxis than any leftist in this country and yet he gets made fun of by brooklyn chapo podcasters for being ‘lib’ because, like, he’s not cool enough or something.
I love how no one, anywhere, likes Lena Dunham. It's nice that there are still rich cringe failchildren who can bring us all together in mockery.
Did you see her tweet about wanting new york pride to carry her around for her funeral? Christ, she's just absolutely the most insufferable person on earth.
Yeah. Brad Takei, George's husband, just posted "Lena..."
Like damn man you didn't have to go for the throat like that!
Did she think she’d be doing them a favor letting her down for a change?
Apparently there's a conspiracy that Bill Hicks and Alex Jones are the same person. Turns out even :lmayo:s cant tell their :cracker:s apart.
Tbf their respective goblin/satan impressions sound fairly similar
We do all look the same though. Hair and beard are the only way to differentiate
Tfw you want to talk about a problematic band's music, but probably better not to. Odd thing where you still like the music, but don't want to praise a band with (at least) 1 shitty person
This is why I deliberately don't learn things about bands. I just want to listen to my music and grill. If they're terrible people I'll worry about it in the next life.
That's very understandable lol. Tbh it doesn't affect how I enjoy their music, I'm just mindful of the baggage their name has now
I really like red hot chili peppers and went to one of their concerts and it was amazing, and then one of my friends told me that half of them are alleged sex offenders or something so that sucks
Now I want to know what band you are thinking of. I still listen to Ryan Adams. I love his music and Neal Casal played with him for a while. He's an asshole but honestly, I think the media did him dirty.
Well this comment is pretty buried now, so I just wanted to say Science Fiction was an incredible album for Brand New to go out on. I've listened to it in full twice this week and it reminded me how good it is
That's such a good song. My favorite on that album is Luca. The last minute goes so hard, I love it
CW: animal death
Ran into a couple who was searching for their dog while out walking my own, found her about 30 mins later on the side of the highway :deeper-sadness:
feel like shit, fuck cars.
CW: animal death
spoiler
I've seen so many dead cats ran over on the side of the road. It makes me so sad,
If you were a ghost what kind of ghost would you be?
a. pervert ghost
b. gay literature ghost
c. wise ghost
d. demonic ghost
I would be a demonic gay literature ghost that dispensed wisdom.
So basically Lord Byron but more translucent.
Where is funny ghost if I was a ghost I would just fuck with people all day long
Gonna be honest, D would be a ton of fun. Maybe I've been playing too much Phasmophobia
These past few days have been some of the hardest I've had in a long time. My poor baby has such a fever and the adults are sicker than we've been in years.
Mask up and get boosted comrades
