Wow. Bisbee! I live about fifteen miles away...it is the most blue town in the entire county, has a well attended Pride festival and very progressive ideas.
In 1901, President McKinley was assassinated at the peak of the Anarchist movement. Anarchists gained ground in the face of the unrelenting concentration of wealth during the Gilded Age and the worst of its malignant outgrowths, The Homestead Strike, The Johnstown Flood, The Haymarket Riot, and hundreds of other robber baron labor actions. In an era when the possible the first trillionaire, thousands of billionaires, and executive compensation thousands of times that of workers, does history rhyme? Remember that Morgan, Rockefeller, and Carnegie chose McKinley to thwart Bryan's populism. Now billionaires like Musk and hedgefunders are united against the same things, especially regulation and taxes. Bells are ringing.
Give Phoenix a miss. Tucson is nice. There's a pretty cool cave system not far from town that has been opened for tourists. Some very nice parks around if you like hiking and the Pima Air Museum is pretty good.
There's also Jerome AZ, a mining town with a similar history to Bisbee. In the spring of 1917 they had their own deportation, a sort of dress rehearsal for what would happen latter in Bisbee.
Forcibly boarding citizens onto freight trains or buses to compel their relocation elsewhere.
Every time history references such government sponsored relocation programs the final addresses for those citizens compelled to participate are DAMNED undesirable.
Ta, Erik. This is one I hadn't heard about. Solidarity forever!
Wow. Bisbee! I live about fifteen miles away...it is the most blue town in the entire county, has a well attended Pride festival and very progressive ideas.
It's a great little enclave in Southern AZ!
Bisbee!
What is it with fascists and train cars?
I love the Wobblies. They were truly international and were involved in a lot of anti-war anti-conscription activity around the world in WW1.
I also love the Little Red Songbook.
I've been to Globe, AZ. It was still a copper town in the early 80s and a pretty dismal place to live.
I've been to Bisbee. It's now a tourist town with a train ride. You can still see the slag heaps.
This is silly. CORPORATIONS are people. Not unions!
As people, can corporations enter into civil unions?
Depends on their genders.
Most identify as either “Fuck you, I’ve got mine” or “Work harder, peons!”
Bisbee '17, an interesting movie about the deportation featuring current Bisbee residents. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7520286/
Later, in 1919, was The Battle of Brewery Gulch. A race riot between Buffalo Soldiers from nearby Fort Huachuca and local police.
"If we workers take a notion
We can stop all speeding trains
Every ship upon the ocean
We can tie with mighty chains
Every wheel in the creation
Every mine and every mill
Fleets and armies of all nations
Will at our command stand still."
-IWW organizing song by Joe Hill, from the poster on my wall
In 1901, President McKinley was assassinated at the peak of the Anarchist movement. Anarchists gained ground in the face of the unrelenting concentration of wealth during the Gilded Age and the worst of its malignant outgrowths, The Homestead Strike, The Johnstown Flood, The Haymarket Riot, and hundreds of other robber baron labor actions. In an era when the possible the first trillionaire, thousands of billionaires, and executive compensation thousands of times that of workers, does history rhyme? Remember that Morgan, Rockefeller, and Carnegie chose McKinley to thwart Bryan's populism. Now billionaires like Musk and hedgefunders are united against the same things, especially regulation and taxes. Bells are ringing.
Now with an imperial presidency how far are we from revisiting those days?
History has a way of reminding us about these critical historical junctures.
If only we were learning.....
These days I'm turning into a critical historical junky.
Hoard history now before it's all rewritten and the truth disappears ...
I'm trying to achieve hoard immunity.
cattle cars were all the rage for human...err...transportation in the first half of the twentieth century, I see.
Rolling stock moving human capital
it's great that the obligatory dehumanization is part of the package.
Hence the term "Human Resources"
Human Resources/Soylent Green
po-tay-to/po-tuh-to.
This is the stuff they're referring to when they say they want to make America "great" again.
Their concept of "great" differs exponentially from what I would consider desirable.
Arizona is one of the five states I've never been to. Think I might need to check it out, if only for Bisbee!
Give Phoenix a miss. Tucson is nice. There's a pretty cool cave system not far from town that has been opened for tourists. Some very nice parks around if you like hiking and the Pima Air Museum is pretty good.
Saguaro National Park, Coronado National Forest, Tucson Mountain Park, Ironwood National Monument, and so many more fabulous places to hike.
There's also Jerome AZ, a mining town with a similar history to Bisbee. In the spring of 1917 they had their own deportation, a sort of dress rehearsal for what would happen latter in Bisbee.
Sedona is nice and the Grand Canyon is a must see.
(Apple wanted to autocorrect that to Bieber.)
Forcibly boarding citizens onto freight trains or buses to compel their relocation elsewhere.
Every time history references such government sponsored relocation programs the final addresses for those citizens compelled to participate are DAMNED undesirable.
"Siri, give me an example for a euphemism"
Why is it that progress for us regular people goes one step forward and two steps back but evil seems to just run loose whenever it wants?
Evil pays better.
By the time it stops paying, the evildoer is dead.....