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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1886 bombing in Chicago amid violent labour conflict.

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Haymarket Affair

> Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the bombing at a Chicago workers' rally in 1886 and the trial, execution and subsequent pardoning of anarchists blamed for inciting the attack. Show more

> Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the notorious attack of 4th of May 1886 at a workers rally in Chicago when somebody threw a bomb that killed a policeman, Mathias J. Degan. The chaotic shooting that followed left more people dead and sent shockwaves across America and Europe. This was in Haymarket Square at a protest for an eight hour working day following a call for a general strike and the police killing of striking workers the day before, at a time when labour relations in America were marked by violent conflict. The bomber was never identified but two of the speakers at the rally, both of then anarchists and six of their supporters were accused of inciting murder. Four of them, George Engel, Adolph Fischer, Albert Parsons, and August Spies were hanged on 11th November 1887 only to be pardoned in the following years while a fifth, Louis Ling, had killed himself after he was convicted. The May International Workers Day was created in their memory.

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  • Fossify Phone - one of the very few open-source dialer apps for Android
  • you probably heard of "simple dialer". Fossify apps are forks of simple (because simple is sold to an advertisement company)

    long story short 👆

  • 'I’m Walking Here!': Jaywalking Is Now Legal In New York City
  • word for word it's the same article on the guardian that's in the post just below this one

    associatedPress writes the article, Guardian or Huffington pays and posts

  • I’m walking here!’: jaywalking legalized in New York City | The Guardian
  • no, thank you. i'm fine here

    your condescension continues 👍

  • I’m walking here!’: jaywalking legalized in New York City | The Guardian
  • i'm not from the U.S.

    there's a well established network of rails here and we can say that rail transport is the backbone of this country.

    yet people in rural areas still think that cars are essential just to survive ☞ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_vests_protests

    i may think otherwise, i can live without a car, but it's condescending to tell them "there's no reason public transit can't work in rural areas"

    even those who commute by bike+train have cars because "public transit" isn't a solution to all their needs.

  • I’m walking here!’: jaywalking legalized in New York City | The Guardian
  • it's not like i don't hate cars, i do. But i really can't see how you're going to convince "rurals" with that argument

    good luck to you

  • X blocks access to more than 100 journalist, activist accounts in Turkey
  • when dark maga goths rule media, the world is a better place

    /s

  • I’m walking here!’: jaywalking legalized in New York City | The Guardian
  • and what do you use to get to the train station?

    how do you carry goods to that station? Does your train have a stop in every farm?

  • I’m walking here!’: jaywalking legalized in New York City | The Guardian
  • the term used here is "vulnerable". Vulnerability gives you priority

  • I’m walking here!’: jaywalking legalized in New York City | The Guardian
  • it's tiring to even think about the subjects to approach just to get you to see the ignorance in this comment

    start by reading these 2 articles ☞

  • I’m walking here!’: jaywalking legalized in New York City | The Guardian
  • do you really expect people in rural areas to ditch cars?

    will they go back to carts and horses?

  • Let's go for a walk
  • he starts by drawing himself and the dog is drawn after its commentary/intervention

  • I’m walking here!’: jaywalking legalized in New York City | The Guardian
    www.theguardian.com ‘I’m walking here!’: jaywalking legalized in New York City

    New law, letting people cross street outside of crosswalk, ends racial disparities in enforcement, council member says

    ‘I’m walking here!’: jaywalking legalized in New York City

    > The new law permits pedestrians to cross a roadway at any point, including outside of a crosswalk. It also allows for crossing against traffic signals and specifically states that doing so is no longer a violation of the city’s administrative code. But the new law also warns that pedestrians crossing outside of a crosswalk do not have the right of way and that they should yield to other traffic that has the right of way.

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    Free, France’s second largest ISP, confirms data breach after leak
  • Free victime d'une cyberattaque qui a fuit des données personnelles ☞ https://jlai.lu/post/11815109

  • Flippanarchy - The lighter side of anarchism
  • that link doesn't work on Jerboa or Voyager (works on Eternity)

    !flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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