WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/lincoln-abraham/48957/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Lincoln</b></a></p><blockquote>In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently, he who moulds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.</blockquote><p><b>Abraham Lincoln</b> (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)<br>Speech (1858-08-21), Lincoln-Douglas Debate No. 1, Ottawa, Illinois</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/lincoln-abraham/48957/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/lincoln-abraham/4895…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=lincoln" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lincoln</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=abrahamlincoln" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abrahamlincoln</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=consensus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consensus</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=enactment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enactment</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=enforcement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enforcement</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>execution</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=influence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>influence</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=majority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>majority</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=publicopinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publicopinion</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=sentiment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sentiment</span></a></p>
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William Lindsey :toad:<p>Jon Henley notes that an Amnesty International report documented at least 1,518 executions globally in 2024, the highest since 2015. Iraq executed 63 people, Saudi Arabia 345, Iran, 972, and the US 25. The real figure is likely much higher, with housands of suspected cases in countries including China, North Korea and Vietnam.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/CapitalPunishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CapitalPunishment</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/DeathPenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeathPenalty</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>execution</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AmnestyInternational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmnestyInternational</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/08/executions-decade-high-2024-huge-increases-iran-iraq-saudi-arabia-amnesty-international" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2025/apr</span><span class="invisible">/08/executions-decade-high-2024-huge-increases-iran-iraq-saudi-arabia-amnesty-international</span></a></p>
Amnesty in Salisbury & South Wiltshire<p><strong>Amnesty publishes Death Penalty report</strong></p> <p></p><p><strong><strong>Report for 2024 available</strong></strong></p><p>April 2025</p><p>The report highlights a sharp increase in numbers executed – the highest level since 2015 – but the number of countries holds steady. Amnesty has recorded 1,518 executions in 2024 a 32% increase over the previous year. A problem with producing statistics of this nature is that countries who are major users of the penalty, keep their figures a secret. <strong>China </strong>for example, believed to be the world’s largest executioner with thousands of its citizens executed each year – does not publish figures regarding them as a state secret. Another secretive nation is <strong>Vietnam</strong> where, similarly, the numbers are a state secret, and <strong>Belarus</strong> and <strong>Laos</strong> who release limited information. The figures are accordingly a<em> minimum</em> estimate of the actual numbers executed. The full report can be accessed here (pdf).</p> <a href="https://salisburyai.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/image.png" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <p>The penalty is not solely used to put to death people who have committed serious crime, but is used as a repressive tool. <strong>Saudi Arabia</strong> (image), and <strong>Iran</strong>, for example use the penalty to stifle dissent, targeting human rights defenders, protestors, dissidents and political opponents. There is also a disproportionate use of the penalty against minorities particularly religious minorities. <strong>Iran</strong>, which <strong>executed no less than 972</strong> individuals last year, uses the penalty to execute those who challenge, or who are perceived to challenge, the Islamic Republic. It is also noted that these regimes have poor levels of justice. Defendants are often tortured to secure confessions and are denied access to lawyers. It is highly likely, not to say probable, that many wholly innocent people lose their lives.</p><p>Another trend is the use of the penalty as part of drugs programmes against dealers and users. </p><p>There is little sign, and very little evidence, that the penalty is some kind of deterrent, an argument frequently put forward for its retention or return. The leader of UK’s Reform party for example <a href="https://salisburyai.com/2025/01/25/calls-for-return-of-the-death-penalty/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">recently called for its reintroduction</a> following the dreadful murder of three little girls which took place in Southport*. <a href="https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/41640-britons-dont-tend-support-death-penalty-until-you-" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">YouGov surveys</a> show mixed views among Britons about the penalty. Generally, people are opposed but there is more support for its use among Conservative voters. The strongest support comes from the 65+ age group. Attitudes do change however, following a particularly unpleasant murder of a child, a policeman or as a result of terrorist activity. It was last used in 1964, suspended in 1965, abolished in 1969 and completely abolished in 1998 when treason was removed (different dates in Northern Ireland).</p><p>The group publishes a report on its use each month and <a href="https://salisburyai.com/2025/03/13/death-penalty-report-61/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">last month’s report is available here</a>.</p><p>*Town in northern England</p> <a href="https://salisburyai.com/2025/04/06/70th-vigil/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Previous</a> <p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://salisburyai.com/tag/amnesty/" target="_blank">#Amnesty</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://salisburyai.com/tag/belarus/" target="_blank">#Belarus</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://salisburyai.com/tag/china/" target="_blank">#China</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://salisburyai.com/tag/death-penalty/" target="_blank">#DeathPenalty</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://salisburyai.com/tag/execution/" target="_blank">#execution</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://salisburyai.com/tag/iran/" target="_blank">#Iran</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://salisburyai.com/tag/vietnam/" target="_blank">#Vietnam</a></p>
Patrick Sudlow<p>'After Video Exposes Aid Workers’ Execution, Israeli Army Issues New Dubious Story. However, the report did not explain how some bodies were found handcuffed, one beheaded, and others executed at close range with bullets to the head. Nor did it address why ambulances were deliberately buried to hide the evidence.' <br><a href="https://countercurrents.org/2025/04/after-video-exposes-aid-workers-execution-israeli-army-issues-new-dubious-story/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">countercurrents.org/2025/04/af</span><span class="invisible">ter-video-exposes-aid-workers-execution-israeli-army-issues-new-dubious-story/</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gaza</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>palestine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zionist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zionist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>execution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beheaded" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>beheaded</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/warcrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>warcrimes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ethniccleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethniccleansing</span></a></p>
Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)<p>BDG news: Louisiana Executes Buddhist Death Row Inmate Amid Controversy Over Nitrogen Hypoxia </p><p>🔗 Read here: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/c4ytbs9y" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyurl.com/c4ytbs9y</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Buddhism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Buddhism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Louisiana</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CapitalPunishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CapitalPunishment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Execution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeathRow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeathRow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Compassion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Compassion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Suffering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Suffering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SotoZen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SotoZen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Zen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zen</span></a></p>
Sabine Hiller<p>Israel killed 15 Palestinian <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/paramedics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paramedics</span></a> and rescue workers one by one, says <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/UN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UN</span></a>. Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/massgrave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>massgrave</span></a> in southern <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a></p><p>How on earth is this ok? When will <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a>, esp. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Deutschland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deutschland</span></a> wake up and stop excusing and stop arming <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> ?? 😭😡🤮😭</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Execution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/IDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IDF</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/StopIsraelWarCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopIsraelWarCrimes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/StopArmingIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopArmingIsrael</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ICRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICRC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/HumanitarianCrisisInGaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanitarianCrisisInGaza</span></a> </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>EUCommission</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/31/israel-killed-15-palestinian-paramedics-and-rescue-workers-one-by-one-says-un" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2025/mar</span><span class="invisible">/31/israel-killed-15-palestinian-paramedics-and-rescue-workers-one-by-one-says-un</span></a></p>
InternetDev-Anti-Communicant🍉<p>Ils sont où les putains de faussaires racistes de <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JeSuisCharlie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JeSuisCharlie</span></a> ?</p><p>Et je n'y inclus pas ceux qui sont réellement pour la liberté d'expression et contre l'assassinat de quiconque</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr_kCZCqZuM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=Mr_kCZCqZuM</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Press</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Execution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ForbiddenStories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForbiddenStories</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GazaProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GazaProject</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Journalisme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journalisme</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/investigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>investigation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WarCrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarCrime</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Genocide</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History March 29, 1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. They were executed at Sing Sing in 1953. The Rosenberg’s sons, Michael and Robert Meeropol were adopted by Abel Meeropol, the composer of “Strange Fruit,” (made famous by Billie Holiday). The sons maintained their parents’ innocence. However, after the fall of the Soviet Union, decoded Soviet cables showed that their father had, in fact, collaborated, but that their mother was innocent. They continued to fight for the mother’s pardon, but Obama refused to grant it. The Rosenberg’s sons were among the last students to attend the anarchist Modern School, in Lakewood, New Jersey, before it finally shut its doors in 1958. </p><p>The Modern School movement began in 1901, in Barcelona, Spain, when Francisco Ferrer opened his Escuela Moderna. It was one of the very first Spanish schools to be fully secular, co-educational, and open to all students, regardless of class. His ideas were so popular that 40 more Modern Schools opened in Barcelona in just a few years, while 80 other schools adopted his textbooks. In 1909, there were mass protests and a General Strike against Spanish intervention in Morocco. The state responded with a week of terror and repression, during which they slaughtered over 600 workers and falsely executed Ferrer as an instigator of the protests. His execution led to worldwide protests. Modern Schools started to pop up outside of Spain, inspired by his original Escuela Moderna, including 20 in the U.S. </p><p>For more on the Modern School movement, read my article: <a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/the-modern-school-movement/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/</span><span class="invisible">30/the-modern-school-movement/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deathpenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deathpenalty</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>execution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rosenbergs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rosenbergs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/espionage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>espionage</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ussr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ussr</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>soviet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SingSing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SingSing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/obama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>obama</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strangefruit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>strangefruit</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/modernschool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>modernschool</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/abelmeerepol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abelmeerepol</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History March 23, 1931: The authorities hanged Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar for killing a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian Independence movement. Singh was a anti-colonial revolutionary, from Punjab, who was inspired by both Bolshevism and anarchism.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/india" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>india</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>execution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BhagatSingh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BhagatSingh</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/revolutionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>revolutionary</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/independence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>independence</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anticolonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anticolonial</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/independence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>independence</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a></p>
eicker.news ᳇ tech news<p>»<a href="https://eicker.news/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>innovation</span></a> and <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>execution</span></a>: It matters that Apple’s new <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/Siri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Siri</span></a> will be late, and it matters more that Apple didn’t realise. Is it more than that?« <a href="https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2025/3/13/apple-innovation-and-execution?eicker.news" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ben-evans.com/benedictevans/20</span><span class="invisible">25/3/13/apple-innovation-and-execution?eicker.news</span></a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History March 18, 1871: The Paris Commune began on this date. It started with resistance to occupying German troops and the power of the bourgeoisie. They governed from a feminist and anarcho-communist perspective, abolishing rent and child labor, and giving workers the right to take over workplaces abandoned by the owners. The revolutionaries took control of Paris and held on to it for two months, until it was brutally suppressed. During Semaine Sanglante, the nationalist forces slaughtered 15,000-20,000 Communards. Hundreds more were tried and executed or deported. Many of the more radical communards were followers of Aguste Blanqui. Élisée Reclus was another leader in the commune. Many women participated, like Louise Michel and Joséphine Marchais, including in the armed insurrection. Nathalie Lemel, a socialist bookbinder, and Élisabeth Dmitrieff, a young Russian exile, created the Women's Union for the Defence of Paris and Care of the Wounded, demanding gender and wage equality.</p><p>Read my complete biograph of Louise Michel here: <a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/20/louise-michel/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/</span><span class="invisible">20/louise-michel/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/paris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paris</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/commune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commune</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>execution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/massacre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>massacre</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feminism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChildLabor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChildLabor</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Revolution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wageequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wageequality</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/agusteblanqui" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>agusteblanqui</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/%C3%89lis%C3%A9eReclus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ÉliséeReclus</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/womenshistorymonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenshistorymonth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/louisemichel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>louisemichel</span></a></p>
Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>⬆️ <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>knittingknots2</span></a></span> </p><p>>> "In Texas, they are mad that an unelected billionaire seems to be exercising … executive powers, unchecked. In Georgia, they are upset about the WH position on Ukraine and about its ham-fisted federal funding and staffing cuts. And they are angry that their representatives don’t appear interested in doing much about any of these things. Their message [for] the elected official: “Do your job!”"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElectedRepresentatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectedRepresentatives</span></a> are daring us to explain what <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>execution</span></a> really means.</p>
Geriatric Gardener<p>“Video: ‘HTS’ terrorists beat captured Alawite Syrians as slain victims lie in road”</p><p>by Skwawkbox <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@skwawkbox" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>skwawkbox</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bbc/@BBC5Live" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BBC5Live</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bbc/@BBCRadio4" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BBCRadio4</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://press.coop/@guardian" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>guardian</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://press.coop/@Independent" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Independent</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://press.coop/@thetimes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>thetimes</span></a></span> </p><p>“Footage said to show ruling al Qaeda-linked regime torturing prisoners made to crawl along road. Turkish Alawites threaten Erdogan with revolt”</p><p><a href="https://skwawkbox.org/2025/03/10/video-hts-terrorists-beat-captured-alawite-syrians-as-slain-victims-lie-in-road/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">skwawkbox.org/2025/03/10/video</span><span class="invisible">-hts-terrorists-beat-captured-alawite-syrians-as-slain-victims-lie-in-road/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Press</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Syria</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HTS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTS</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Terrorists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Terrorists</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AlQaeda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlQaeda</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Alawites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alawites</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Torture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Torture</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Turkiye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Turkiye</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Erdogan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Erdogan</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Execution</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Beheading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Beheading</span></a></p>
Geriatric Gardener<p>“Video: BBC whitewashes HTS slaughter of minorites as its opponents ‘trying to destabilise’ Syria”</p><p>by Skwawkbox <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@skwawkbox" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>skwawkbox</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/@UKLabour" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>UKLabour</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bbc/@BBC5Live" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BBC5Live</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bbc/@BBCRadio4" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BBCRadio4</span></a></span></p><p>“Execution of hundreds of Alawites and Christians, and public torture of others, portrayed as minority groups trying to cause trouble for terrorist regime”</p><p><a href="https://skwawkbox.org/2025/03/10/video-bbc-whitewashes-hts-slaughter-of-minorites-as-its-opponents-trying-to-destabilise-syria/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">skwawkbox.org/2025/03/10/video</span><span class="invisible">-bbc-whitewashes-hts-slaughter-of-minorites-as-its-opponents-trying-to-destabilise-syria/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Press</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBC</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Syria</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HTS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTS</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Alawites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alawites</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Christians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christians</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Execution</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Torture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Torture</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Misinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Misinformation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Whitewash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Whitewash</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AlQaeda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlQaeda</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ISIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ISIS</span></a></p>
Flipboard News Desk<p>What is it like to witness an execution by firing squad? <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@AssociatedPress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AssociatedPress</span></a></span> reporter Jeffrey Collins describes South Carolina's capital punishment of Brad Sigmon.</p><p>"I might now be unique among U.S. reporters: I’ve witnessed three different methods — nine lethal injections and an electric chair execution," he writes.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/PhbmQb" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/PhbmQb</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/BradSigmon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BradSigmon</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/FiringSquad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FiringSquad</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/DeathPenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeathPenalty</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/SouthCarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthCarolina</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Execution</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crime</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>“What I want is for every dirty, lousy tramp to arm himself with a revolver or knife on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot their owners as they come out.” </p><p>This was what Lucy Parsons, then in her 80’s, told a crowd at a May Day rally in Chicago, at the height of the Great Depression. The way folk singer Utah Phillips tells the story, she was the image of everybody’s grandmother, prim and proper, face creased with age, tiny voice, hair tied back in a bun. She died in Chicago, Illinois, on this date in Labor History, March 7, 1942.</p><p>Little is known about Lucy Parson’s early life, but various records indicate that she was born to an enslaved African American woman, in Virginia, sometime around 1848-1851. She may also have had indigenous and Mexican ancestry. Some documents record her name as Lucia Gonzalez. In 1863, her family moved to Waco, Texas. There, as a teenager, she married a freedman named Oliver Benton. But she later married Albert Parsons, a former Confederate officer from Waco, who had become a radical Republican after the war. He worked for the Waco Spectator, which criticized the Klan and demanded sociopolitical equality for African Americans. Albert was shot in the leg and threatened with lynching for helping African Americans register to vote. It is unclear whether her initial marriage was ever dissolved, and likely that her second marriage was more of a common-law arrangement, considering the anti-miscegenation laws that existed then.</p><p>In 1873, Lucy and Albert moved to Chicago to get away from the racist violence and threats of the KKK. There, they became members of the socialist International Workingmen's Association, and the Knights of Labor, a radical labor union that organized all workers, regardless of race or gender. They had two children in the 1870s, one of whom died from illness at the age of eight. Lucy worked as a seamstress. Albert worked as a printer for the Chicago Times. These were incredibly difficult times for workers. The Long Depression had just begun, one of the worst, and longest, depressions in U.S. history. Jobs were scarce and wages were low. Additionally, bosses were exploiting the Contract Labor Law of 1864 to bring in immigrant workers who they could pay even less than native-born workers.</p><p>In 1877, Lucy and Albert Parsons helped organize protests and strikes in Chicago during the Great Upheaval. The police violence against the workers there was intense. One journalist wrote, “The sound of clubs falling on skulls was sickening for the first minute, until one grew accustomed to it. A rioter dropped at every whack, it seemed, for the ground was covered with them.” During the Battle of the Viaduct (July 25, 1877), the police slaughtered thirty workers and injured over one hundred. Albert was fired from his job and blacklisted, because of his revolutionary street corner speeches.</p><p>After the Great Upheaval, they both moved away from electoral politics and began to support more radical anarchist activism. Lucy condoned political violence, self-defense against racial violence, and class struggle against religion. Along with Lizzie Swank, and others, she helped found the Chicago Working Women's Union (WWU), which encouraged women workers to unionize and promoted the eight-hour workday. </p><p>During the late 1870s and early 1880s, she wrote numerous articles, including "Our Civilization, Is it Worth Saving?" and "The Factory Child. Their Wrongs Portrayed and Their Rescue Demanded." In 1884, she helped edit the radical newspaper The Alarm. She wrote an article for that paper, "To Tramps, the Unemployed, the Disinherited and Miserable," which sold of over 100,000 copies. In that article, she advocated using violence against the bosses. In 1885, she published "Dynamite! The only voice the oppressors of the people can understand," in the Denver Labor Enquirer. During this period, Lucy gave numerous fiery speeches on the shores of Lake Michigan. Hundreds of people routinely attended. Mother Jones thought her speeches advocated too much violence. The Chicago Police Department called her “more dangerous than 1,000 rioters.”</p><p>On May 1, 1886, 350,000 workers went on strike across the U.S. to demand the eight-hour workday. In Chicago, Albert and Lucy led a peaceful demonstration of 80,000 people down Michigan Avenue. It was the world’s first May Day/International Workers’ Day demonstration—an event that has been celebrated ever since, by nearly every country in the world, except for the U.S. Two days later, another anarchist, August Spies, addressed striking workers at the McCormick Reaper factory. Chicago Police and Pinkertons attacked the crowd, killing at least one person. On May 4, anarchists organized a demonstration at Haymarket Square to protest that police violence. The police ordered the protesters to disperse. Somebody threw a bomb, which killed at least one cop. The police opened fire, killing another seven workers. Six police also died, likely from “friendly fire” by other cops. </p><p>The authorities, in their outrage, went on a witch hunt, rounding up most of the city’s leading anarchists and radical labor leaders, including Albert Parsons and August Spies. Lucy toured the country, giving speeches and distributing literature about the men’s innocence. Everywhere she went, she was greeted by police, often being barred entrance to the meeting halls where she was scheduled to speak. She was also arrested numerous times. </p><p>Despite her efforts, and those of other activists fighting to free the Haymarket anarchists, seven were ultimately convicted of killing the cops, even though none of them were present at Haymarket Square when the bomb was thrown. Four were executed, in 1887, including Albert Parsons. On the morning of his execution, Lucy brought their children to see him for the last time, but she was arrested and taken to the Chicago Avenue police station, where they strip-searched her for explosives. Albert’s casket was later brought to Lucy’s sewing shop, where over 10,000 people came to pay their respects. 15,000 people attended his funeral. Several years later, the governor of Illinois pardoned all seven men, determining that neither the police, nor the Pinkertons, who testified against them, were reliable witnesses.</p><p>After her husband’s execution, Lucy continued her radical organizing, writing, and speeches. In October 1888, she visited London, where she met with the anarchists Peter Kropotkin and William Morris. In the 1890s, she edited and wrote for the newspaper Freedom, A Revolutionary Anarchist-Communist Monthly. In 1892, Alexander Berkman (an anarchist comrade and lover of Emma Goldman) attempted to assassinate the industrialist Henry Clay Frick, for his role in the slaughter of striking steel workers, during the Homestead Strike. Lucy published the following in Freedom: "For our part we have only the greatest admiration for a hero like Berkman." </p><p>In 1905, Lucy cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), along with Mother Jones, Big Bill Haywood, Eugene Debs, James Connolly, and others. The IWW was, and still is, a revolutionary union, seeking not only better working conditions in the here and now, but the complete abolition of capitalism. The preamble to their constitution states, “The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.” They advocate the General Strike and sabotage as two of many means to these ends. </p><p>At the founding meeting of the IWW, Lucy said that women were the slaves of slaves. “We are exploited more ruthlessly than men. Whenever wages are to be reduced the capitalist class use women to reduce them.” She called on the new union to fight for gender equality and to assess underpaid women lower union dues. She also started advocating for nonviolent protest, telling workers that instead of walking off the job, and starving, they should strike, but remain at their worksites, taking control of their bosses’ machinery and property. This was years before Gandhi started leading Indians in nonviolent protest.</p><p> Read my entire biography of her here: <a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/24/lucy-parsons/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/</span><span class="invisible">24/lucy-parsons/</span></a></p><p>“When the prison, stake or scaffold can no longer silence the voice of the protesting minority, progress moves on a step, but not until then.” –Lucy Parsons</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lucyparsons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lucyparsons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/haymarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>haymarket</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/womenshistorymonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>womenshistorymonth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rebellion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rebellion</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/8HourDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>8HourDay</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/eighthourday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eighthourday</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/motherjones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>motherjones</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/eugenedebs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eugenedebs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>execution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bigbillhaywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigbillhaywood</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/scottsboro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scottsboro</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chicago</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/waco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>waco</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>texas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/civilwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/africanamerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>africanamerican</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMastadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastadon</span></a></p>
Frankie ✅<p>South Carolina set to execute prisoner in state's first firing squad execution</p><p>Brad Sigmon, convicted in a 2002 double murder, has chosen a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last firing squad execution in 2010. </p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-carolina-set-execute-brad-sigmon-firing-squad-rcna194955" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south</span><span class="invisible">-carolina-set-execute-brad-sigmon-firing-squad-rcna194955</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/southcarolina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>southcarolina</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>execution</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History March 5, 1871: Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) was born in Zamosc, Poland. Together with Karl Liebknecht, she helped found the radical Spartacus League in 1916. The Spartacists and other leftwing Council Communists launched an uprising to replace the Social Democratic government with a communist one. Many of the workers obtained arms. They tried, but failed, to get the support of the Navy, which remained neutral in the conflict. However, the Social Democrats got the anti-Communist Freikorps paramilitary to fight for their side. Many of the ultranationalist Freikorps members were suffering from PTSD from WWI. Many went onto to become members of the Nazi Party and served in the SS. The Freikorps had weapons and military equipment leftover from WWI and were able to quash the uprising within a week. Up to 200 people died in the fighting, including 17 Freikorps soldiers. The Social Democrats captured, beat and executed Liebknecht and Luxemburg.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RosaLuxemburg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RosaLuxemburg</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/spartacist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spartacist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nazis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uprising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uprising</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ptsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ptsd</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>execution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialdemocrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialdemocrat</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>germany</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poland</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History March 2, 1974: Salvador Puig Antich was executed by garrote in Barcelona, Spain. He was a militant anarchist and Catalan independence fighter who fought against the Spanish state with the terrorist group Iberian Liberation Movement in the early 1970s. He was convicted of bank robbery and killing a police officer. His arrest and execution became a cause célèbre in Francoist Spain for Catalan autonomists, pro-independence supporters, and anarchists. He was also the last person executed by the fascist Franco regime. His execution inspired new artistic works by Catalan artists Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>execution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BankRobbery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BankRobbery</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/barcelona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>barcelona</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/franco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>franco</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/catalan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>catalan</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/independence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>independence</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/joanmiro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>joanmiro</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/surrealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surrealism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/salvadorpuigantich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>salvadorpuigantich</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/terrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terrorism</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History February 28, 1525: Hernan Cortes executed Cuauhtémoc , king of the Aztecs. Bernal Diaz del Castillo wrote in his journal that it was an unjust execution, that there was no evidence that Cuauhtémoc was plotting against Cortes. Cuauhtémoc said, through his interpreter, La Malinche, “Now I understand your false promises and the kind of death you have had in store for me. For you are killing me unjustly. May God demand justice from you, as it was taken from me when I entrusted myself to you in my city of Mexico!”</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/torture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>torture</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>execution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Malinche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Malinche</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cuauhtemoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cuauhtemoc</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mexico</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Aztec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aztec</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cortes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cortes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a></p>
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