On this day in 1857, garment workers in New York City protested against inhumane working conditions, low wages, and for equal rights for women, an event that is commemorated annually as International Women's Day. Their protest was attacked and broken up by police, but the labor action led to the creation of the first women's labor union.
On the same day in 1908, 15,000 women marched in NYC for shorter work hours, better pay, voting rights, and an end to child labor. The slogan "Bread and Roses" emerged from the protest, with bread symbolizing economic security and roses for better living standards.
International Women's Day in 1917 was also the date of the Russian February Revolution, in which workers celebrating International Women's Day joined protests and riots against food rationing, with more than 50,000 people in the streets. The protests grew quickly and developed revolutionary fervor, eventually overthrowing the monarchy.
International Women's Day (then International Working Women's Day) was introduced during the 1910 International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen, Denmark. Clara Zetkin, a German socialist, suggested a holiday honoring the strike of garment workers in the U.S. The proposal received unanimous approval from the 100 women from 17 countries.
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FUCK YES, i didnt get charged by the fucking pigs, shoutout to everyone who sent me good vibes really got me through
I got the promotion! $17 dollars an hour :sicko-charging:
That's four Big Macs an hour I'm fuckin rich haha! Bye-bye commies and hello PMC :hillary:
Jamie Peck (the token commie on MR) is leaving MR apparently. Allegedly it's because she found out that Sam was 1/16th Italian and she couldn't stomach working with a person of cannoli.
Transphobic concern trolls with brand new accounts keep replying to a comment I left about tc69 because I used hir neopronouns
I'm utterly shocked :surprised-pika:
Why won't people just shut the fuck up? Seriously, even if you were enough of an asshole to ignore the moral imperative to recognize people as their correct gender, even if you didn't give a shit about that, why, why, why why why would you keep on posting on some stupid armpit of the internet that clearly is not going to ruin your fragile big man hard dick meaty penis ego? Why bother? Why why why why why????
Just be quiet! It's so easy!
do you know if tc prefers the neopronouns to she/her? I know they're both listed in the flair. I'd like to do whatever tc prefers, if I can, but I assumed any of the listed pronouns would be ok.
tbh not expecting anything to happen when he inevitably walks free
Last year I kept thinking that every new abuse or killing that the police inflicted would be the last straw, but now I feel too jaded to expect anything to happen after Chauvin's trial
Also I keep seeing the trial being referred to as the "George Floyd" trial, as if the victim is the one on trial. I mean, I know he's being judged and they'll trash his name every way possible to make the pigs seem sympathetic, but christ.
hopefully not tbh, it'd be really fucking brutal with all the hardware and troops I heard they shipped in for it
History is not one event on an island but a chain of them, if people see that after all the work they did they got nothing they will be furious. Sure they might not succeed but they will move forward in struggle.
In honor of women's day I will sleep through my alarm instead of getting ready and come to work looking like absolute garbage.
so the first thing I noticed about America after living abroad for a year (fuck visas) is how freaking sexy everyone is yet no one is horny
such a weird mixture of sexual liberation and oppression
America is the blue balls of the world
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I always believed that the time inevitably must come when woman will be judged by the same moral standards applied to man. For it is not her specific feminine virtue that gives her a place of honor in human society, but the worth of the useful mission accomplished by her, the worth of her personality as human being, as citizen, as thinker, as fighter.
-- Alexandra Kollontai
is the megathread pinned ? for some reason i cant see featured posts in main
edit: i logged off and then entered again and that fixed the issue i had
