Today in Writing History July 21, 1899: Ernest Hemingway was born. Hemingway was a journalist, novelist and short story writer. He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1954. Hemingway was famous for his “square, tight” prose, which was influenced by his experience as a journalist and as a soldier. He was an ambulance driver during World War I and he volunteered on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. Of his stories, my two personal favorites are “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” and “Old Man and the Sea.” I recently watched the documentary “Spanish Earth,” made in 1937, filmed during and about the Spanish Civil War. Hemingway narrated it, along with Orson Welles. He also cowrote the script, along with another favorite writer of mine, John Dos Passos.

https://youtu.be/MT8q6VAyTi8?t=608

#workingclass #LaborHistory #hemingway #dospassos #orsonwelles #spain #civilwar #antifascism #antifa #anarchism #NobelPrize #writing #writer #books #author #fiction #novel @bookstadon

Today in 1866, #Tennessee ratified the #14thAmendment and a week later became the first state of the Confederacy to be readmitted to the #UnitedStates of #America. https://www.politico.com/story/2008/07/tenn-is-readmitted-to-the-union-july-24-1866-011990

Today in Labor History July 19, 2012: The People's Protection Units (YPG) captured the city of Kobanî without resistance, starting the Rojava conflict in Northeast Syria. In 2014, The Kobani Canton declared autonomy from Syria. Supporters claim they have implemented a form of libertarian socialism, influenced by American anarchist Murray Bookchin, with decentralization, gender equality and local governance through direct democracy; created worker cooperatives and govern the through local councils, each with one male and one female co-president. The councils have gender quotas requiring at least 40% female participation. They have banned child marriages and honor killings. They are attempting to replace punitive justice with a system of restorative justice. And women play a prominent role on the battlefield, as well as within the political system. Yet private property remains a part of their system, which is inconsistent with Bookchinite anarchism. And according to Andrea Glioti, remnants of the PKK’s Stalinist past remain in Rojava. He cites the ubiquitous portraits of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, often accompanied by the slogan “There’s no life without a leader.”

Today in Labor History July 19, 1979: Sandinista rebels overthrew the Somoza government in Nicaragua, ending the authoritarian 43-year Somoza family dynasty and replacing it with a revolutionary government. They instituted a program of mass literacy, gender equality and access to medical care. However, they also committed many human rights abuses, including the oppression and mass execution of indigenous people. The Sandinistas are named after Augusto Sandino, who led the rebellion against the U.S. occupation of Nicaragua in the 1930s. He was murdered by Somoza senior in 1934, launching the decades-long dictatorship. In the 1920s, Sandino lived in exile, in Mexico, where he was influenced by anti-imperialist, anarchist and communist revolutionaries, including the IWW. The original and modern Sandinista flags were influenced by the IWW’s anarcho-syndicalist red and black colors.

The CIA orchestrated a Civil War between the Sandinistas and the right-wing Contras from 1984-1989. The Contras blew up rural schools and hospitals and routinely carried out rape and torture. In 1983, U.S. Congress passed the Boland Amendment, banning further aid to the Contrals. And in 1984, the International Court of Justice ruled that the U.S. prior support had been in violation of International law. However, even after the Boland Amendment, the Reagan administration continued to back the Contras by raising money from allies and covertly selling arms to Iran (then engaged in a war with Iraq), and funneling the proceeds to the Contras. In later Congressional hearings, when questioned for 8 hours, Reagan responded that he couldn’t remember at least 124 times, which was sufficient for Congress to absolve him of violating their own law, while National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Oliver North took much of the blame.

Today in Labor History July 18, 1936: Beginning of Spanish coup and rise of fascist leader, Francisco Franco, and Catalonian uprising against the coup, marking the beginning of the Spanish war against fascism. The anarchosyndicalist union, CNT, went to the democratically-elected Republican Catalan government to request arms, but were denied. So, activists raided the armories and gun shops, as well as arms being stored on ships in harbor. They also seized cars and plated them with armor and built homemade explosives. Rebels in Madrid were defeated early, but anarchists seized control of most of Catalunya and Aragon. And within days, Republican forces had control of nearly all of Catalunya, Aragon, Valencia, Castille-La Mancha, Murcia, Andalucia, Asturias and Cantabria, as well as much of Basque Country. The war lasted over two and a half years, and ended in defeat for the Republicans, with hundreds of thousands of deaths on both sides (including roughly 300,000 civilians), as well as hundreds of thousands of refugees. It also led to a fascist dictatorship, with hundreds of thousands more imprisoned, tortured, exiled, and/or murdered, lasting until Franco’s death in 1975.

Building the momentum for the next phase of the greater #Israel

"The Druze are being massacred. Videos coming out of Syria make that clear. The scenes look very similar to what Hamas did to southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

The enemy is the same. And it can’t be trusted," - Israel Today

Druz in Syria seems to be turning into SLA of southern Lebanon in the 80s

History repeating itself.
#Syria #GolanHeights #CivilWar #ManufacturingConsent #Politics #Occupation #WestAsia
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New Israeli airstrikes against the Presidential Palace, #Damascus

#Israel is bombing it's previous puppets , now that they have new puppets. using the civil water they created to expand their territorial ambitions.

#Syria #AlQaeda #Druze #CivilWar #Occupation #Lebanon
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3TEETH Release Cover Of GUNS N’ ROSES’ “Civil War”; Visualizer

https://bravewords.com/news/3teeth-release-cover-of-guns-n-roses-civil-war-visualizer/

#3Teeth #GunsNRoses #CivilWar #IndustrialMetal #CoverSong #Visualizer #1991 #HardRock #AlexisMincolla #BraveWords

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3TEETH Reimagines GUNS N' ROSES' 'Civil War' As A Cinematic, Industrial Banger

https://metalinjection.net/new-music/3teeth-reimagines-guns-n-roses-civil-war-as-a-cinematic-industrial-banger

When leaders refuse to inspect documentation of child rape by the rich and powerful, I guarantee you that those leaders and/or family members have been lustily raping children.

A reminder that our civil war was ignited by the Republican party of pedophilia and deceit, in part to hide their pedophilia and deceit.

Why was a grinning Trump's hand on a child's inner thigh?

Rapist.

The Republican war on America has just begun. ICE has more money than the Marines, zero supervision, and they despise Democrats as much as they do hard-working immigrants.

They have brought back guilt by association and decided for themselves that it's the law.

"Is the head dead yet?" - Don Henley

https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/114852051399883052

#california #civilwar #finesthour
A declaration of war from the defenders of California

At the end of a somewhat long post

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/could-this-be-california-finest-hour/

"Could This Be California’s ‘Finest Hour’?
With Apologies to Churchill, a Speech for a State at War "

filled with what I hope are lawyer-driven excuses about nonviolence is the beautiful paraphrase of Churchill's famous "we shall fight in the streets" speech ending:

"We shall not flag or fail. We shall defend our California, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the freeways and the surface streets. We shall fight in the car washes and the Home Depot parking lots. We shall fight at food trucks and on farms, and in bars, restaurants, and dispensaries. We shall fight in our homes, businesses, and churches. We shall never surrender.

This may be the most dangerous time in our state’s history. Let us brace ourselves to our duty to stop this American tyranny.

And let us bear ourselves so that, if our Golden State lasts another thousand years, future Californians will look back and say, “That was our finest hour.”

Today in Labor History July 13, 1863: America's bloodiest riot began when 50,000 mostly Irish working-class men protested the Civil War draft by burning buildings (including an orphan asylum), stores and draft offices in New York City. One of their grievances was that the wealthy could buy their way out of service. The $300 commutation fee would be over $7,000 in today’s dollars and the typical laborer only made a dollar or two per day. The unrest lasted several days and turned into race riots, with many participants blaming blacks for the war. This racist tendency was exacerbated by the participation of nativist gangs, including the Dead Rabbits (from the 5 Points neighborhood of New York), Schuylkill Rangers (from Philadelphia) and the Plug Uglies (from Baltimore). The official death toll was 120. However, some believe that up to 2,000 may have died in the riots.

The riots have been portrayed numerous time in fiction and film, including Martin Scorsese’s “Gangs of New York.” Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich cowrote a novel that also depicts the riots: “Grant Comes East: A Novel of the Civil War “ (2004). The various gangs have also been described in works of nonfiction, like in Herbert Asbury’s gang books: “Gangs of New York,” (1928) “The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld (1933); and “The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld”
(1936).

#workingclass #LaborHistory #racism #Riot #newyork #civilwar #irish #gangs #immigration #books #film #fiction #novel #nonfiction #author #writer @bookstadon

“Breaking Point: How Israel Will Drag Lebanon to Civil War over Normalization”

By Robert Inlakesh in The Palestine Chronicle on Substack

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@israel

“Israel’s goal is to collapse Lebanon through triggering civil war and any move to normalize ties with Tel Aviv would inevitably trigger chaos”

https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinechronicle/p/breaking-point-how-israel-will-drag

So a lesbian doesn't like you.. she's a "threat to humanity"? Do you remember when you were a kid and you assumed grown-ups were running things.. and everything was fine?

"What kind of #Murrican are you?"
#CivilWar #UnitedMyAss #FuckTrump #FuckedCountry