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On this day, 9 August 1956, 20,000 women in Pretoria, South Africa marched against pass laws: apartheid laws curtailing freedom of movement for Black and Indian people. The Federation of South African Women-organised demonstration delivered a petition against the laws with 100,000 signatures and the participants sang "Wathint’Abafazi Wathint’imbokodo" meaning ‘Now you have touched the women, you have struck a rock’. The protest kickstarted a wave of civil disobedience across the country over two years in which thousands of women were arrested, until leaders of the African National Congress panicked and called it off. August 9 is commemorated today in South Africa as Women's Day.More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10880/south-africa-women's-day * If you enjoy our social media posts be sure to check out our podcasts. In our flagship longform podcast, Working Class History, we speak with participants in social movements about their experiences, and our daily mini podcast, On This Day in Working Class History, has one of our anniversaries each day. We also have a website and map containing thousands of our stories with full sources. All of our work is funded by you, our readers and listeners, on Patreon. To learn more and support us check out our links in our bio.
On this day, 9 August 1956, 20,000 women in Pretoria, South Africa marched against pass laws: apartheid laws curtailing freedom of movement for Black and Indian people. The Federation of South African Women-organised demonstration delivered a petition against the laws with 100,000 signatures and the participants sang "Wathint’Abafazi Wathint’imbokodo" meaning ‘Now you have touched the women, you have struck a rock’. The protest kickstarted a wave of civil disobedience across the country over two years in which thousands of women were arrested, until leaders of the African National Congress panicked and called it off. August 9 is commemorated today in South Africa as Women's Day.More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10880/south-africa-women's-day * If you enjoy our social media posts be sure to check out our podcasts. In our flagship longform podcast, Working Class History, we speak with participants in social movements about their experiences, and our daily mini podcast, On This Day in Working Class History, has one of our anniversaries each day. We also have a website and map containing thousands of our stories with full sources. All of our work is funded by you, our readers and listeners, on Patreon. To learn more and support us check out our links in our bio.
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Earth systems critical to all life are on the verge of total collapse
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Earth systems critical to all life are on the verge of total collapse - Earth.com
As global temps keep rising because of humans, Earth is getting closer to critical tipping points that will permanently disrupt its systems.
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Seventy per cent of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide comes from infrastructure: energy, transport, construction. Most of the rest is produced by industry. Meanwhile 37 per cent of British workers feel if their jobs are entirely unnecessary; if they were to vanish tomorrow, the world would not be any the worse off. Simply do the maths. If those workers are right, we could massively reduce climate change just by eliminating bullshit jobs.
So that’s proposal one.
— David Graeber, ibid
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Proposal three: planned obsolescence. One of the main reasons we have such high levels of industrial production is that we design everything to break, or to become outmoded and useless in a few years’ time. If you build an iPhone to break in three years you can sell five times as many than if you make it to last 15, but you also use five times the resources, and create five times the pollution. Manufacturers are perfectly capable of making phones (or stockings, or light bulbs) that wouldn’t break; in fact, they actually do – they’re called ‘military grade’. Force them to make military-grade products for everyone. We could cut down greenhouse gas production massively and improve our quality of life.
— David Graeber, ibid
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Ten years ago today, a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri murdered an unarmed teenager named Michael Brown. In response, for a week and a half, an ungovernable revolt raged as angry residents and their supporters used a variety of tactics including arson, property destruction, looting, and gunfire to keep police at a distance and impose consequences for the murder.
Most people outside Black and brown communities had no idea how frequently police murder people in the United States until these events forced the topic into public discussion. This set a precedent for subsequent rebellions around the country, culminating with a countrywide upheaval in response to the murder of George Floyd.
A timeline of the Ferguson revolt:
https://crimethinc.com/FergusonTimeline
A full account from one of the anarchists who participated:
https://crimethinc.com/LootingBack
Most people outside Black and brown communities had no idea how frequently police murder people in the United States until these events forced the topic into public discussion. This set a precedent for subsequent rebellions around the country, culminating with a countrywide upheaval in response to the murder of George Floyd.
A timeline of the Ferguson revolt:
https://crimethinc.com/FergusonTimeline
A full account from one of the anarchists who participated:
https://crimethinc.com/LootingBack
Ein Plädoyer für das Nichts-Tun
Sommer, das ist medial immer auch der Moment für steile Thesen. Zum Beispiel: dass niemand mehr arbeiten will und Tourismus ein Problem ist. Zeit für eine Abkühlung. https://www.woz.ch/!7CSH1BS012WP
Sommer, das ist medial immer auch der Moment für steile Thesen. Zum Beispiel: dass niemand mehr arbeiten will und Tourismus ein Problem ist. Zeit für eine Abkühlung. https://www.woz.ch/!7CSH1BS012WP
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Freie Zeit: Ach, wenn alle das täten!
Sommer, das ist medial immer auch der Moment für steile Thesen. Zum Beispiel: dass niemand mehr arbeiten will und Tourismus ein Problem ist. Zeit für eine Abkühlung.
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‘It’s torture’: brutal heat broils Texas prisons, killing dozens of inmates | US prisons
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‘It’s torture’: brutal heat broils Texas prisons, killing dozens of inmates
Legal action aims to force criminal justice department to air condition prisons, where 85,000 are at risk of heat illnesses
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Signal messenger blocked in Russia, says Roskomnadzor -Ifax
Russia's state communications watchdog Roskomnadzor said that Signal, an encrypted messaging app, had been blocked in the country for violating laws linked to anti-terrorist operations, Interfax news agency reported on Friday.
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On this day in 1961, the US started spraying Agent Orange in a campaign called “Operation Ranch Hand,” which would last 10 years. The program entailed the spraying of 19 million gallons of defoliants and herbicides over rural South Vietnam. Its alleged aim was to deny the Vietcong access to food and concealment provided by vegetation. In reality, it was to punish and deprive the Vietnamese people for their resistance.
Roughly 20% of South Vietnam's jungles were sprayed at one point, and areas in Cambodia and Laos were also affected. The US Air Force conducted over 20,000 sorties from 1961 to the program's conclusion in 1971.
The Vietnamese government estimates that approximately 4.8 million people were exposed to Agent Orange, leading to 400,000 deaths from cancers and other conditions. Three million Vietnamese experienced health complications due to the program and 150,000 children were born with serious birth defects.
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Roughly 20% of South Vietnam's jungles were sprayed at one point, and areas in Cambodia and Laos were also affected. The US Air Force conducted over 20,000 sorties from 1961 to the program's conclusion in 1971.
The Vietnamese government estimates that approximately 4.8 million people were exposed to Agent Orange, leading to 400,000 deaths from cancers and other conditions. Three million Vietnamese experienced health complications due to the program and 150,000 children were born with serious birth defects.
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Ten years ago today, a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri murdered an unarmed teenager named Michael Brown. In response, for a week and a half, an ungovernable revolt raged as angry residents and their supporters used a variety of tactics including arson…
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Memorial mural in St. Louis for Mike Brown, an 18-year-old african american who was shot dead by police while he stood with his hands in the air on August 9, 2014.
His death sparked the Ferguson uprising, and led to numerous anti-police demonstrations around…
His death sparked the Ferguson uprising, and led to numerous anti-police demonstrations around…