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"The 45-year-old ICE official told reporters he had “hit the jackpot” when he realized that because his wife of over a decade had been born in Guatemala and crossed the border with her parents as a 3-year-old child, he could just wake up, meet his arrest quota first thing in the morning, and then have the remainder of the day to slack off.
“I knew about Maria’s immigration status when we got married—the crazy thing is that I hadn’t thought of deporting her until now,” said Hammond, adding that the whole process, which included kicking down his house’s front door, drawing a gun on his terrified spouse, and zip-tying his two young children, was completed in “record time.” “It was awesome. I was able to do the raid without leaving my home and ship my family off to an immigrant detention center all before 9 a.m.”
“Now I have the whole rest of my day to terrorize other immigrants,” Hammond added from behind his mask. “Of course, the best part is I’ll actually be able to fucking relax when I get home.”
https://theonion.com/ice-agent-scores-easy-win-by-deporting-own-family/
"The 45-year-old ICE official told reporters he had “hit the jackpot” when he realized that because his wife of over a decade had been born in Guatemala and crossed the border with her parents as a 3-year-old child, he could just wake up, meet his arrest quota first thing in the morning, and then have the remainder of the day to slack off.
“I knew about Maria’s immigration status when we got married—the crazy thing is that I hadn’t thought of deporting her until now,” said Hammond, adding that the whole process, which included kicking down his house’s front door, drawing a gun on his terrified spouse, and zip-tying his two young children, was completed in “record time.” “It was awesome. I was able to do the raid without leaving my home and ship my family off to an immigrant detention center all before 9 a.m.”
“Now I have the whole rest of my day to terrorize other immigrants,” Hammond added from behind his mask. “Of course, the best part is I’ll actually be able to fucking relax when I get home.”
https://theonion.com/ice-agent-scores-easy-win-by-deporting-own-family/
Xi’s directive establishes a socialist financial architecture where capital serves production rather than speculation. Rejecting Western financialization that concentrates wealth during crises the CPC uses the Eight Upholds to subordinate finance to national goals. China’s ascent to global industrial dominance proves that a socialist command economy is a superior alternative to neoliberal capitalism.
https://dialecticaldispatches.substack.com/p/financial-development-with-chinese
Just Noam Chomsky and Jeffrey Epstein casually exchanging emails about Venezuela’s socialism not being real socialism.
![On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Noam Chomsky <______> wrote:
Noam Chomsky:
It’s a major disaster. They never moved to diversify the economy. Oil was exported, food imported. When the price dropped... Compounded by corruption and incompetence.
From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2016 10:01 AM
To: Noam Chomsky
Subject:
Jeffrey E.:
Im quite surprised that the mess in Venezuela, oil assets but no food. is not front page.](https://cdn.masto.host/socialmarxistnetwork/media_attachments/files/115/998/720/615/146/843/original/d4835728e4810349.jpg)
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Today in Labor History February 1, 1912: The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) started the San Diego Free Speech Fight in response to a city ordinance preventing public speaking in and around the Stingaree neighborhood (now known as the Gaslamp Quarter). The authorities were trying to squelch labor and radical organizing in the multi-ethnic, working-class neighborhood, infamous for its houses of prostitution, gambling dens, opium dens and Chinese ghetto. Even as late as the 1980s, it still had a skid row feel, with its multitude of tattoo parlors, bars, sailors, junkies and fascination parlors. As a kid, I remember watching the con artists running games of 3-Card Monte on the sidewalks there.
The IWW had been active in San Diego since 1906. They organized timber workers and cigar makers, as well as workers at San Diego Consolidated Gas and Electric Company. Their strike at the power company led to the formation of a public service union, which disbanded in 1911, when many Wobblies flocked to Tijuana to join the anarchist Magonista revolution there. For more on this, read “The Desert Revolution,” by Lowell Blaisdell.
As the Free Speech fight progressed, anarchists, socialists and liberals joined the struggle, deliberately speaking in the restricted zone so that the jails would overflow. And they all demanded individual trials in order to clog up the legal system. Jail conditions were horrendous. Prisoners were crowded into the drunk tanks and forced to sleep on vermin-infested floors. Beatings were routine. 63-year-old Michael Hoy died from a police beating in jail. The IWW called on members from across the country to ride the rails to San Diego to join the fight. At least 5,000 heeded the call.
The local papers, of course, ran countless editorials attacking the radicals and glorifying the police. This encouraged vigilantes, who’d patrol the rail yards looking for incoming Wobblies. They deported many across county lines where they forced them to kiss the flag and run through gauntlets of men who beat them with pick axe handles. On May 7, the cops killed another Wobbly, Joseph Mikolash. And on May 15, vigilantes kidnapped Emma Goldman and her companion Ben Reitman, who had come to show their support. However, before deporting them, the vigilantes tarred and feathered Reitman and raped him with a cane. Ben Reitman was a physician who focused his practice on providing treatment for tramps, hobos, prostitutes and the most marginalized members of society. He also wrote the book “Boxcar Bertha.” The July 11, 1912 edition of the IWW’s “Little Red Songbook” included the song: “We’re Bound for San Diego:”
In that town called San Diego, when the workers try to talk,
The cops will smash them with a sap and tell them “take a walk.”
They throw them in a bull pen and they feed them rotten beans.
And they call that “law and order” in the city, so it seems.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #sandiego #freespeech #policebrutality #prison #IWW #anarchism #Revolution #socialism #strike #magonista #Tijuana #vigilantes #EmmaGoldman #acab #mexico #books #author #writer #fiction #nonfiction @bookstadon
Today in Labor History February 1, 1912: The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) started the San Diego Free Speech Fight in response to a city ordinance preventing public speaking in and around the Stingaree neighborhood (now known as the Gaslamp Quarter). The authorities were trying to squelch labor and radical organizing in the multi-ethnic, working-class neighborhood, infamous for its houses of prostitution, gambling dens, opium dens and Chinese ghetto. Even as late as the 1980s, it still had a skid row feel, with its multitude of tattoo parlors, bars, sailors, junkies and fascination parlors. As a kid, I remember watching the con artists running games of 3-Card Monte on the sidewalks there.
The IWW had been active in San Diego since 1906. They organized timber workers and cigar makers, as well as workers at San Diego Consolidated Gas and Electric Company. Their strike at the power company led to the formation of a public service union, which disbanded in 1911, when many Wobblies flocked to Tijuana to join the anarchist Magonista revolution there. For more on this, read “The Desert Revolution,” by Lowell Blaisdell.
As the Free Speech fight progressed, anarchists, socialists and liberals joined the struggle, deliberately speaking in the restricted zone so that the jails would overflow. And they all demanded individual trials in order to clog up the legal system. Jail conditions were horrendous. Prisoners were crowded into the drunk tanks and forced to sleep on vermin-infested floors. Beatings were routine. 63-year-old Michael Hoy died from a police beating in jail. The IWW called on members from across the country to ride the rails to San Diego to join the fight. At least 5,000 heeded the call.
The local papers, of course, ran countless editorials attacking the radicals and glorifying the police. This encouraged vigilantes, who’d patrol the rail yards looking for incoming Wobblies. They deported many across county lines where they forced them to kiss the flag and run through gauntlets of men who beat them with pick axe handles. On May 7, the cops killed another Wobbly, Joseph Mikolash. And on May 15, vigilantes kidnapped Emma Goldman and her companion Ben Reitman, who had come to show their support. However, before deporting them, the vigilantes tarred and feathered Reitman and raped him with a cane. Ben Reitman was a physician who focused his practice on providing treatment for tramps, hobos, prostitutes and the most marginalized members of society. He also wrote the book “Boxcar Bertha.” The July 11, 1912 edition of the IWW’s “Little Red Songbook” included the song: “We’re Bound for San Diego:”
In that town called San Diego, when the workers try to talk,
The cops will smash them with a sap and tell them “take a walk.”
They throw them in a bull pen and they feed them rotten beans.
And they call that “law and order” in the city, so it seems.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #sandiego #freespeech #policebrutality #prison #IWW #anarchism #Revolution #socialism #strike #magonista #Tijuana #vigilantes #EmmaGoldman #acab #mexico #books #author #writer #fiction #nonfiction @bookstadon
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Donald Trump’s authoritarian regime is now illegally targeting and threatening Cuba. Cuba, despite thousands of sanctions from Western powers, has persevered through those sanctions, and has top-notch healthcare and community programs. The United States will soon start targeting Communist and Socialist organizations inside the United States. This must be stopped. #USpol #Cuba #HandsOffCuba #Trump #Rubio #Communism #Socialism #USA
Donald Trump’s authoritarian regime is now illegally targeting and threatening Cuba. Cuba, despite thousands of sanctions from Western powers, has persevered through those sanctions, and has top-notch healthcare and community programs. The United States will soon start targeting Communist and Socialist organizations inside the United States. This must be stopped. #USpol #Cuba #HandsOffCuba #Trump #Rubio #Communism #Socialism #USA
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🚨Spain approves decree to regularise 500K undocumented immigrants! 🇪🇸🇪🇺👏
@sanchezcastejon "Throughout history, #migration has been one of the great drivers of the development of nations while hatred & #xenophobia have been – & continue to be – the greatest destroyer of nations!"
Olé, Pedro Sánchez!💃🏻👏
🚨Spain approves decree to regularise 500K undocumented immigrants! 🇪🇸🇪🇺👏
@sanchezcastejon "Throughout history, #migration has been one of the great drivers of the development of nations while hatred & #xenophobia have been – & continue to be – the greatest destroyer of nations!"
Olé, Pedro Sánchez!💃🏻👏
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New from Alex Birnel: Texas and the State of #Texas are not exactly one—this sprawling place we call home contains five of the 15 most-populous cities in the country. All lean to the left, all see their power currently suppressed. https://www.texasobserver.org/let-a-hundred-mamdanis-bloom/
New from Alex Birnel: Texas and the State of #Texas are not exactly one—this sprawling place we call home contains five of the 15 most-populous cities in the country. All lean to the left, all see their power currently suppressed. https://www.texasobserver.org/let-a-hundred-mamdanis-bloom/
Michael Parenti, the renowned Marxist scholar, historian, and political scientist, passed today at age 92. With unmatched clarity, he made Marxism accessible and delivered an unflinching, impassioned critique of capitalism and imperialism. His lectures were not merely heard, they were felt, and they moved a generation. Rest in power, comrade. You will be deeply missed.
He went peacefully this morning, surrounded by his family.
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Aight so me and two other good folks are starting a tech workers' cooperative. We've got plenty of stuff against us.
None of us have worked in a workers' cooperative or other kind of democratic workplace before.
There are barely a handful workers' coops in Norway. The national umbrella org for coops in Norway is basically dead and doesn't care about workers' coops at all.
Our coop is geographically distributed evenly along Norway, which means our northernmost worker-member would have to drive 24 hours by car or 44 hours by public transport to reach our southernmost worker-member.
We've put in effort to reduce our weaknesses, and we've got things going for us too.
We've met and continue to meet with other workers' coops to learn from them and collaborate. We've got potential clients and pilot projects. We've got hardware. We've got tech and business know-how. We're working on the formal stuff, bylaws and agreements.
It's going great.
Just wanted to let y'all know it can be done.
If you want to do it too, I recommend joining https://matrix.to/#/%23techcoop:autonomic.zone
#cooperative #coop #workersCooperative #democracy #socialism #anarchism #anarchy #communism #work #workersmovement #freedom #solidarity #egalitarian