On this day in 1891, armed Tennessee Coal Miners freed hundreds of prisoners who were being used as strikebreaking convict labor. The raid took place in the context of the "Coal Creek War", a militant labor uprising in the early 1890s.
The Coal Creek War took place primarily, but not exclusively, in Anderson County, Tennessee. This labor conflict ignited in 1891 when coal mine owners in the Coal Creek watershed began to remove and replace their company-employed, private coal miners then on the payroll with convict laborers leased out by the Tennessee state prison system, used in this case as strikebreakers.
Coal workers at the Tennessee Coal Mining Company (TCMC) went on strike on April 1st, 1891, demanding to be paid in cash, not scrip (currency only usable at company stores) and to be allowed to check the weight of their haul (they were paid by weight, but not allowed to check the company's measurement).
Workers initiated a series of raids against the TCMC - on July 14th, armed miners surrounded the stockades where leased convicts were held and sent them by train out of the city. On October 31st, 1891, the miners burned company stockades to the ground and freed hundreds of convicts being held there. On Nov. 2nd, another band attacked stockades in a different location and freed those prisoners as well. From those two events alone, at least 453 convicts were set free.
The strike was forcibly put down by state militia, ending with the arrest of hundreds of miners. All but one were either acquitted or merely fined. Tennessee ended its policy of leasing convict labor, using convicts to work in state-owned mines instead.
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Look at this
ShowShowIf you were to look at these two pictures, youd think they were a before and after shot of a restoration project right?
Well youd be wrong. This is the Błędów Desert in Poland, a desert artifically created by forest clearing in the middle ages, which then naturally went away as the plant life returned (shown in pic 2). THEN the poles deliberately destroyed all the plant life in an effort to conserve the artifically created desert (thats pic 1).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C5%82%C4%99d%C3%B3w_Desert
one time I was traveling in Portugal and I met some Polish guys in a park and no joke, within 10 minutes of meeting me, one of them goes, "we are polish, we hate Muslims!" and I've hated Poland and polish people ever since. so this doesn't really surprise me at all, fuck Poland
Death to America
because of feminism, men are no longer manly and boys are no longer buoyant
because of feminism, men are no longer manly
Another win for feminism
Tennessee ended its policy of leasing convict labor, using convicts to work in state-owned mines instead.
✨ progress ✨
In other news the sheriff of the largest county in Tennessee has come out with his own branded line of products
everyday feminine tones in body language and interaction
is what my trans-clinic doctor wrote in his report!
i wasnt even trying to appear as such, my true-self is finally allowed to be freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
now i just need them to start coughing up my HRT
Going to start seeing a new therapist fpr anxiety but she wants me to call first
Me for literal years: “You know I’m not actually a lesbian despite having a giant lesbian pride flag on my wall and always picking it in any game that has pride customization options, I just think it’s the prettiest pride flag is all.”
Me this morning:
internalized bigotry
I think I’ve subconsciously bought into TERF bullshit in the past and felt like I couldn’t be a lesbian because I’m trans and that I had to “”settle”” for being bi instead, which is absolute horse shit and isn’t fair to trans people or bi people. I’ve always wanted to be a lesbian but I’ve felt like I couldn’t be accepted or identity like that. I’m always so terrified that I’ll be off putting or come off as creepy to cis women and by instead being into men I’d somehow be easier to accept. But that’s bullshit, bigoted people like that are never going to accept me no matter how hard I try to get them to. I need to live my life for me and not give a shit if that makes bigots mad.
Fighting against the bigotry and oppression of an entire culture and coming out intact and victorious is a worthy and impressive deed.
I will never say that progress is being made. If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven’t even begun to pull the knife out, much less heal the wound. They won’t even admit the knife is there.
I have got to read more
He's got some absolute bangers, maybe the best English rhetorician of the century?
There is nobody around right now that can hold court like he could
read his autobiography its a well-deserved classic and really really easy read
Be careful out there, I heard some sickos are removing the razor blades and drugs that normally come in halloween candy.
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This is why I fucking hate you!
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Is it a thing to be opposed to Halloween because you despise the idea of free handouts?
Feel like this guy exists somewhere
Lol no fr. I guarantee I could find a pic of a guy in a f150 with nascar shades on, use it as the avi for a Twitter account, tweet this shit into right wing Twitter and see a prageru video about “Halloween indoctrinates our children into expecting hand outs from big government” within a couple weeks
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I HAVE TO FIGHT MYSELF?
TANK BOI?
I feel like my fingers are composing music with how fast you need to move in this game