Luisa Capetillo, born on this day in 1879, was a Puerto Rican labor organizer, feminist, and Christian anarchist. Capetillo advocated for women's suffrage, was arrested for wearing pants in public, and helped raise the minimum wage.
As a labor activist, Capetillo organized workers throughout the United States, worked as a reporter for the FLT (Federacion Libre de Trabajadores), and traveled throughout Puerto Rico, educating and organizing women. Her hometown, Arecibo, became the most unionized area of the country.
Capetillo is considered to be one of Puerto Rico's first suffragists. In 1908, during the FLT convention, Capetillo asked the union to approve a policy for women's suffrage, insisting that all women should have the same right to vote as men. Along with other labor activists, she also helped pass a minimum wage law in the Puerto Rican Legislature.
Today, Capetillo is perhaps best known for being arrested for wearing pants in public, although the charges against her were later dropped.
In 2014, the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico honored Capetillo, along with eleven other women, with plaques in the "La Plaza en Honor a la Mujer Puertorriqueña" (Plaza in Honor of Puerto Rican Women).
Capetillo, Luisa - a biography
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Everyday I wake up and think of another reason electoralism is a fuck
Everyone talks about how things will get marginally better once the boomers lose power, but enshitification of the internet would like a word lol
OK boomers are out, cool. Now all you have to deal with is a convoluted information pipeline exploited by US intelligence agencies and the ruling class on the same level as the cable that melted your parents brains. Honestly, you can already see this happening with astroturfed pro-Israel campaigns on Reddit, TikTok and YouTube
Probably getting ahead of myself, but I really hope there is a massive push away from doing everything online because it won’t end well. Even more of a reason to focus on building international support networks with the working class if possible
Subject Millennials to another 20/30 years of these Atlantic Council social media psyops and they'll be even more deranged than the Boomers are today. I guarantee it.
Nah they'll be trading ancient print copies of The New Yorker for thimbles of radioactive water and dried rat strips by then.
Turns out many Xers were secretly boomers all along. Back in the 90s I used to wonder why all the good music was called "alternative". Alternative to what, I wondered? Well now I know. Now I know.
There's like pockets of cool Xers and somehow they've been what defined the generation. And they're a tad better on some social issues than older gens. But I think they were generally always one of the most conservative generations.
yeah, I think some things will change, but most people are so brainwashed and the ruling class has so much power to shape what they think and say every fucking day that it's unreal, and that power won't just go away.