Lucy E. Parsons was a leading figure in American anarchism and the radical labor movement. Born a slave near Waco, Texas, she married Albert R. Parsons who had become a white radical Republican after serving first as a Confederate soldier. In 1873 Albert and Lucy to move to Chicago in 1873 where they became involved in radical labor organizing. Thirteen years later she rose to national fame when she embarked on a speaking tour to raise money for her husband who was one of nine men tried and sentenced to be executed for “speaking in such a way as to inspire the bomber to violence” following the Haymarket Square Bombing which killed a Chicago policeman.
Lucy Parsons remained an activist after the execution of Albert and in 1892 founded the newspaper Freedom which addressed such issues as labor organizing, lynching and black peonage in the South.
She participated in the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and began editing the Liberator, an anarchist newspaper that supported the IWW in Chicago. Lucy's focus shifted somewhat to class struggles around poverty and unemployment, and she organized the Chicago Hunger Demonstrations in January 1915, which pushed the American Federation of Labor, the Socialist Party, and Jane Addams' Hull House to participate in a huge demonstration on February 12.
Parsons was also quoted as saying: "My conception of the strike of the future is not to strike and go out and starve, but to strike and remain in, and take possession of the necessary property of production.". In the early 1930s Parsons joined in the defense of the Scottsboro Boys and Angelo Herndon. Parsons died accidentally in a house fire in 1942.
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why not just change it unannounced then? not sure what the difference is. we're gonna relive this drama for a year
This is my POV. If I trusted the mods, I'd be okay with the site being renamed to "pig poop balls". I've just lost all my trust in the mods and the name change is indicative of their poor decision-making. Censorship and central control can be good. But they've shown they're allergic to all criticism, however mild or well-meaning. It's sad.
We didn’t want for the argument to extend past the announcement thread in the first place and once we saw it was starting to take up the front page we hopped on it.
Have y'all ever modded any other communities before? That's a recipe to make the drama worse, not better.
There are going to be tons of new posts about it regardless. Locking the announcement thread will just make it worse.
And then just delete the posts of anyone who is mildly critical of the process?
Why is it good for the admins to tell us to go fuck ourselves if we disagree with what they're doing?
The whole point is that this is a collective, open to democratic feedback.
Literally the only thing keeping this place alive.
Oh, so it's not going to do anything to throw off wreckers. Almost thought it may actually be useful.
this tbh, we should've had some sort of impute on it, not the discord. "Content Commune" is a name that pretty much ticks all the boxes of what message we're trying to get across with the rebrand
So one of these days the lizard poster is gonna actually do it and we’re never gonna hear from them again
Had a sad day today. While it's ok to be sad I feel like the sad days are piling up recently. I really need to stop thinking about the future. :desolate:
Thinking about the future has consistently ruined my weekends ever since I started working lol. Capitalist alienation is kinda lame ngl.
God damn does work suck. If I quit my life is ruined and if I don't quit my life isn't worth living anyways, what a great fucking situation we find ourselves in. Is it asking too much to be financially stable AND have a good work/life balance? I think my willingness to live would skyrocket dramatically if I could just know I'm secure while working only 4 days a week. Instead I just have to constantly dread every moment of my waking life.
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When you think about it, Biden was pretty explicit in telling americans he wasn't going to help during the election. Blue MAGA projected their feelings onto him, same shit red MAGA does with Trump.
