On this day in 1919, in Catalonia, Spain a general strike broke out when thousands of workers across multiple industries went out on strike, causing widespread power outages and the government to declare a state of war. The strike was initiated after an energy company, La Canadenca, reduced wages and fired over one hundred striking workers who were protesting the pay cuts. This and the curbing of labor rights prompted the rest of the workers at La Canadenca to go on strike and demand the readmission of those sacked and wage increases.
The strike soon spread to other companies in the sector via the CNT's union for water, gas and electricity workers. The lack of electricity in the city affected transport, hampering the provision of supplies and paralyzing 70% of factories in the province of Barcelona.
A state of war was declared by the government and over 3,000 workers were detained. Despite this, the strike ended after two days on the conditions of no repercussions for participating workers, a wage increase, and an 8 hour work day.
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La Canadiense and Barcelona general strike, 1919 - Sam Lowry :AC-AnarKitty:
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Barcelona marks the centenary of the ‘Canadenca’ strike :ancom-heart:
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you have to train your toung to make it stronger like any other muscle
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...wait wait, i was thinking youd be like a komodo dragon sized lizard. iguana maybe. even if you looked like a species that was smaller, i guess...
how smol of a lizard is the goal ??
hmm fair. make plans for the possibility, hope it unnecessary 🦎
It’s easy. You get a touchpad and then change the clicker to look like a fly and then you’ll attack the clicker where you want and click the spot with the touchpad with your lizard tongue. Problem solved bro.
This poem has been on my mind lately:
What happens to a dream deferred?
By: Langston Hughes
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?Can't understate how good Langston Hughes is. Just the title itself is poetry.
what happens to a dream deferred?
by langston hughes
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does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
or fester like a sore-
and then run?
does it stink like rotten meat?
or crust and sugar over-
like a syrupy sweat?
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maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
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or does it explode?
where were u before chapo.chat blew up on the news and made 150k new subs in a day
to da moon
And where were you when CTH sub die ?
I was at home petting cat when phone ring
"CTH is kill"
no
My manager got covid and my work isn't paying for tests. I have to go to work in 30 minutes. We should go on strike again.
edit: I am going to make my coworkers wildcat. send me your energy. I need to get on the bus now.
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Every time I buy a pillow I think to myself 'what values does this company hold' and 'I sure do wish there was LGBTQ+ education included'.
I just imagined a rich guy who might get an extra $1000, and it made me so mad that I made a giant expensive bureaucracy to bully poor people out of receiving welfare benefits.
do you own a kettle? my mom was telling me that Americans microwave their water...
see that's what was crazy to me. when i was in a dorm with no kitchen i still had my kettle!
Look at this fancy guy over here, heating up his water on the stove like some five star Cordon Bleu chef
I have an electric kettle for my tea/boiling water needs.
yes, i used to have a stove one, but now i have an electric one, i have seen US cooking videos and they use the microwave to heat their water
Depends on what I am trying to do. Sometimes if I am just making a cup of tea I will throw it in the microwave. That way both the cup and the water are hot and it will cool slower. I will also use that technique to heat up a mug when I am making tea or coffee or something hot and then just dump out the water.
I uuuuuuh... just put tap water in my old keurig machine and then make sure there are no k-cups in it...
One less thing to wash.
I radicalized my sister over the summer, and my proudest moment today was watching her gag at her college professor's lib take on politics. ❤️
Are we really gonna show up on basic cable?
Thanks a lot, now I'm gonna have to put on actual clothes tomorrow morning! :hahaha:
I hope the front page on Sunday morning is nothing but pigpoopballs.jpg titled "TERFs aren't real feminists".
Every day that passes without a $2k check my oubliette becomes one foot deeper. Joe, send out the checks before my pit to the underworld is complete. If you fail to heed this warning the workers of the underworld will rise up from the mud and usher in the age of necro-communism.
I wonder if there's a zombie film where in the end it turns out the "zombies" weren't mindless monsters after all. They only appeared to be monsters because you've been watching the events unfold from the perspective of the "survivors" who just happen to be apart of the bourgeoisie and as a result view the lower classes as subhuman. There's no way this is an original idea so there's gotta be an example of it out there somewhere.
