Latest posts tagged with #WORKINGCLASS on Bluesky
Barbara Ehrenreich: Nickel and Dimed — On (Not) Getting By in America
January 31, 2005 | John Adams Institute, Netherlands
youtu.be/fvntoeZeaOE?...
#Work #WorkingClass #Capitalism #BarbaraEhrenreich #Poverty #Classism #Sexism
This image features a vintage photo background with individuals using audio equipment. Overlaid text reads: "GFTU Educational Trust," and "Part-Time Work in the Post-War Years." A banner announces the event on "Thursday 28 May 7pm." Logos for the Working Class Movement Library and Marx Memorial Library & Workers’ School are displayed, with a note on Trade Union & Working Class History.
Explore the movements, moments & people that shaped our rights and the lessons we can use to win in the present.
🚩 Part-Time Work in Post-War Years | 28 May, 7pm
👉 Sign up today: gftuet.org.uk/courses/trade-union-and-...
#GFTUET #WorkingClass #TradeUnion #History
Florida can do whatever, #Democrats need to focus on what really concerns the American #WorkingClass about AI which is the economic "repercussions" of giving Kapital too much power.
USS Leviathan Steaming out of New York Harbor, circa the mid-1920s. This photo is in the public domain via Wikicommons.
Today In #LaborHistory 4/9/1930: #IWW organized 1700 crewmembers of Leviathan, world’s largest ship. US seized the ship from #Germany, 1917, & used it to transport troops to Europe. In 1918, it left the US, filled with men dying from #Influenza. #workingclass #pandemic #flu #union #mutiny #strike
Maria Nikiforova, looking directly at the camera, not smiling, with short hair and wearing a sweater. Its origin unclear, this photo is believed to have been taken in Yelysavethrad (c. 1918). By Unknown author - Photo of the investigation file, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9800753
Today In #LaborHistory 4/9/1918: Anarchist Black Guards confiscated car of US American ambassador to #Russia, demanding release of prisoners in US. #BlackGuards created in #Ukraine by #MariaNikiforova. Also helped organize free state of Makhnovia with #NestorMakhno. #workingclass #anarchism
The Doritos crisis is not about chips. It is a precise measurement of exactly how much has been extracted from working people — the moment a $7 bag became the visible threshold of an invisible breaking point 🌽📊⚖️ #DemandDestruction #PepsiCo #Doritos #CorporateGreed #Shrinkflation #WorkingClass
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With TMNT 2 and closing with California Games. Ending with Channel Surfing Wednesday.
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#retro #xennial #twitch #streamer #smallstreamer #channel4 #workingclass
One of the Hampels' postcards; in the middle is a postage stamp bearing Hitler's face, scrawled with the words "worker murderer" By http://www.zeit.de/kultur/literatur/2011-04/hans-fallada-widerstand/seite-2, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35007345
Today In #LaborHistory 4/8/1943: #Nazis executed Otto & Elise Hampel for distributing anti-Nazi postcards. Hans Fallada wrote about them in 1947 #novel, Every Man Dies Alone. #workingclass #berlin #antifa #antifascist #fascism #resistance #hampel #fiction #film #books #author #writer
Cover of the 1st edition of Revolt of the Cockroach People, yellow, with close-up of an insect face. By http://www.peterharringtonbooks.com/stock_39604.asp, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19336616
Today In #LaborHistory 4/8/1935: #OscarZetaAcosta was born. #Chicano lawyer, writer, #activist 1960s & 1970s. Friends with #HunterSThompson, his lawyer in #FearAndLoathing. #workingclass #mexico #literature #fiction #writer #books #author #writer
Workers standing at the opening of the Banner Mine. Source: Birmingham Public Library Archives
Today In #LaborHistory 4/8/1864: 13th amendment ratified, banning chattel #slavery. Allowed slave labor of convicts. On this date in 1911, 128 convict miners, mostly #AfricanAmericans died in explosion at Banner coalmine, Alabama. #workingclass #prison #racism #coal #prisoner #slavelabor
If all middle class and working class Americans voted for their interests, there would not be a single Republican in Congress. There are too many brainwashed ignorant fools in this country. #middleclass #workingclass #votedemocrat
MAGA’s “Big Beautiful Bill” was only beautiful for the Epstein Class. The working class suffered budget cuts while billionaires got richer. #EpsteinClass #Billionaires #Democracy #Democrats #workingclass
Today In Labor History April 7, 2020: Folk music legend, John Prine, died of Covid. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNTE...
#workingclass #LaborHistory #johnprine #covid #CovidIsNotOver #folkmusic #marijuana #pandemic #COVID19 #publichealth
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Image of Oscar Wilde with the quote: "Work is the curse of the drinking classes"
Today In Labor History April 7, 1933: Prohibition ended for beer. Once again, unions could freely organize workers in the bars and workers could drink freely.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #organizing #prohibition #OscarWilde #union
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Today In #LaborHistory 4/7/1915: #BillieHoliday was born. 1 of 1st to sing Abel Meeropol’s #StrangeFruit. Soon after performing it, 1939, Fed Bureau of Narcotics agent Harry Anslinger, racist, prohibition zealot, set her up for #drug bust.
youtu.be/-DGY9HvChXk
#workingclass #jazz #racism #prison
What happens when a sector run by a managerial elite that is distant from working-class concerns shapes how the public perceives a major party?
David Callahan Reports: tinyurl.com/yfxszxjt
#Democracy #PoliticalStrategy #Inequality #WorkingClass #PublicOpinion #SocialImpact #Policy #Nonprofits
They called it Liberation Day. We called it Tuesday.
New protest song out 14th April 🎵 "Not My Flag To Raise" — for the workers, not the winners.
youtu.be/N_Sz28AcqC4
#WorkingClass #ProtestSong #LibertaionDay #ProtestSong
stocks and the Citadel Hotel, causing damage estimated at up to £1 million. The scale of unrest led to naval and military forces being deployed to protect property and restore order, marking one of Hull’s most serious industrial disturbances. #HullDockStrike1893 #MaritimeHistory #WorkingClass
THIS is what #workingclass in MI USA calls ‘Leadership For The People. Thank you, Senator Elissa Slotkin.
#1u #DemsDeliver #VoteBlue
YT by @hawkpodcasts / @mdg650hawk.bsky.social
The 1% won’t let us #duet #onepercent #billionaires #wealthinequality #taxcode #taxes #workingclass
Hutton outside the Oakland Police Department Jail, in a fedora and glasses, carrying a gun. By http://www.eco-action.org/dod/no9/bobby_hutton.jpg, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29633174
Today in Labor History April 6, 1968: Oakland police attacked the Black Panthers headquarters and assassinated Bobby Hutton, an unarmed teenager.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #blackpanthers #bobbyhutton #oakland #policebrutality #assassination #racism #BlackMastodon
Still from the Youtube video, “Bavarian Soviet Republic - 1919 Economy and Reconstruction” showing a soldier, fist in the air, with a flame-filled sky in the background.
Today in #LaborHistory 4/6/1919: Bavarian #Soviet Republic declared. #Writer #BTraven (Death Ship, Treasure of Sierra Madre) was on Central Council of Workers. Quashed by Freikorps, incl Rudolf Hess & other future #Nazis. #workingclass #socialism #communism #germany #fiction #writer #author #books
"The Teamsters' strike in Chicago." May 1, 1905. New-York Tribune (New York, NY), Image 1. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.
Today in #LaborHistory 4/6/1905: #Teamsters strike in #solidarity with #Chicago clothing cutters after Montgomery Ward locked out workers 12/04. Bosses tried to ram through armed wagons with #scabs. By May, 21 workers had been killed. #workingclass #unions #GeneralStrike #policebrutality #massacre
💀 WHO REALLY PAID FOR LIBERATION DAY:
→ American families: $1,000/yr extra
→ Small businesses: supply chain chaos
→ Farmers: markets gone
→ Manufacturers: input costs up
→ Workers: uncertainty, layoffs
Not China. Not the EU.
Us.
#Tariffs #LiberationDay #WorkingClass #Economy
🛒 THE HOUSEHOLD TAX:
Yale Budget Lab: avg $700–$1,000 in extra costs per family.
Lower-income families hit hardest — they spend more of their income on goods.
No refund. No relief. No end in sight.
#Tariffs #Inflation #WorkingClass #LiberationDay
#Capitalism #corporations #corporategreed #classwarfare #livingwage #trickledowntheory #corporateamerica #minimumwage #poverty #workingpoor #taxtherich #plutocracy #workingclass
"Uptown Girl" is a song written and performed by American musician #BillyJoel from his ninth studio album, #AnInnocentMan (1983), released in September 1983 as the album's second single. The lyrics describe a #workingclass "#downtown man" attempting to woo a #wealthy "uptown girl".
Rat Fink, a giant green rat, with crazed, bloodshot eyes and a long, flailing tongue, flies buzzing around his body, with one hand on an oversized stick shift, as he drives a tricked out, undersized hot rod, with flames shoot out the tail pipes.
Today In #LaborHistory 4/4/2001: Ed #BigDaddyRoth died. Southern California #workingclass #KustomKulture. #RatFink cartoon. Beatnik Bandit, Surfite, Orbitron.
Banner at the 2012 Republican National Convention with an image of Martin Luther King Jr. and his quote: “Today capitalism has outlived its usefulness.” By Liz Mc - Flickr: 'Today capitalism has outlived its usefulness' MLK, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20987101
Today In #LaborHistory 4/4/1968: #MartinLutherKing assassinated in #Memphis, #Tennessee, while there to support sanitation workers #strike after #police killed 16-yr-old protester, who had his hands in the air when he was shot. #workingclass #CivilRights #racism #union #policebrutality #students
Today In Labor History April 4, 1928: Poet and Civil Rights activist, Maya Angelou, was born on this date. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjtu...
#workingclass #LaborHistory #MayaAngelou #poetry #CivilRights #literature #autobiography
