Today in Labor History June 15, 1990: Los Angeles cops attacked 500 janitors who were peacefully demonstrating in the Battle of Century City. The event generated public outrage that resulted in recognition of the workers’ union and spurred the creation of an annual June 15 Justice for Janitors Day. Justice For Janitors includes over 200,000 janitors in cities across the U.S. and Canada. The movement is part of the SEIU. Ken Loach’s wonderful film “Bread and Roses” (2000), was based on the Justice For Janitors struggle. Loach turned down the Turin Film Festival award in 2012 because they had fired their custodial staff for opposing a wage cut. He also was part of the group of artists and writers who called on the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival "to honour calls for an international boycott of Israeli political and cultural institutions, by discontinuing Israeli consulate sponsorship of the LGBT film festival and not co-sponsoring events with the Israeli consulate."
The Palestine soda from the Swedish company is gaining popularity in places where Coke and Pepsi are boycotted.
The company is buiilt by 2 bothers and I think they just using the name Palestine to market their product and increase the visibility of the the name Palestine in Sweden where media and the government trying to use the silent treatment towards the anti genocide activists.
Today in Labor History May 11, 1894: The Pullman Railroad Strike began in Chicago, Illinois, when 4,000 workers walked off the job. It began as a wildcat strike and quickly escalated into the largest industrial strike to date in the U.S. Nearly 260,000 railroad workers participated. The strike and boycott halted nearly all rail traffic west of Detroit. The strike began during a severe depression. George Pullman lowered wages and began laying off workers, without reducing rent in his company town of Pullman, Illinois, where most of the workers lived. Eugene Debs rose to prominence as a labor leader during this strike. The American Federation of Labor refused solidarity because they thought Debs was stealing their members, as the American Railway Union was not an AFofL member. The government sent in federal troops to suppress the strike. 30 workers were killed in Chicago, alone. Over 40 more were killed in other parts of the country. Property damage exceeded $80 million. Debs would go on to run for president four times, as a socialist, running some of his campaigns from prison. He was also a founding member of the radical IWW, along with Lucy Parsons, Mother Jones, Big Bill Haywood, and Easter Rising martyr, James Connolly.
The last 48 hours, Russia has crossed the border to Ukraine at three different locations north of Kharkiv, and new Ukrainian land is now contested.
At its widest point, the advance is 7 kilometers.
30 settlements have been bombed by Russia, and Ukraine has evacuated 1775 citizens from the area.
As Russia moves closer to Kharkiv, they open the possibility of shelling the city using cheap, regular artillery, so Ukraine is forced to push The invaders back across the border, to keep Kharkiv safe.
@randahl We need to ratchet up real disinscentives on the axis of evil allies who are enabling #Putin and all his armed forces. Countries selling tech to Russia - People's Republic of China, in particular. Countries buying Russia's fossil fuels - PRC and India. Countries selling arms to Russia - North Korea and Iran.
The senate of the University of #Barcelona (UB) approves a motion calling for the university to break all institutional and academic ties with Israel, including centers, research institutes, companies, and other institutions in Israel
At university of South #Florida hunger strikers for #palestine are entering their third week.
The university has instructed medical staff on campus to deny medical care to these students, they don’t all have insurance. Some have been hospitalized.
Through all this, the university continues to say they have zero control over their own money, and won’t meet with strikers.
#BestBuy is caving to threats by #christofascist#Republican investors, and will stop contributing to #LGBTQ non-profit organizations — including blocking their employee resource groups from making donations to those groups.
Today in Labor History March 17, 1966: 100 striking Mexican American and Filipino farmworkers marched from Delano, California to Sacramento to pressure the growers and the state government to answer their demands for better working conditions and higher wages, which were, at the time, below the federal minimum wage. By the time the marchers arrived, on Easter Sunday, April 11, the crowd had grown to 10,000 protesters and their supporters. A few months later, the two unions that represented them, the National Farm Workers Association, led by César Chávez, and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, joined to form the United Farm Workers. The strike was launched on September 8, 1965, by Filipino grape pickers. Mexicans were initially hired as scabs. So, Filipino strike leader Larry Itliong approached Cesar Chavez to get the support of the National Farm Workers Association, and on September 16, 1965, the Mexican farm workers joined the strike. During the strike, the growers and their vigilantes would physically assault the workers and drive their cars and trucks into the picket lines. They also sprayed strikers with pesticides. The strikers persevered nonviolently. They went to the Oakland docks and convinced the longshore workers to support them by refusing to load grapes. This resulted in the spoilage of 1,000 ten-ton cases of grapes. The success of this tactic led to the decision to launch a national grape boycott, which would ultimately help them win the struggle against the growers.
It's great that the NAACP is urging this, but WHY ISN'T EVERY ORGANIZATION that works with LGBTQ folks, women, the disabled, the elderly, poor people, and PEOPLE WITH DECENCY doing the same exact thing? Why is ANYBODY giving Florida their money, at this point? Hasn't Ron DeSantis shown you exactly what he is? BOYCOTT FLORIDA. If you are Latine, if you are Black, if you are Asian, if you are Native - don't give them a single PENNY out of your pocket. De Santis is SCUM.
@thepoliticalcat@KatM DeSantis doesn't need tourist dollars. He gets his money from PACs, lobbyists, CEO's, GOP philanthropists, etc. The ones who need tourism are small business folks, restaurant servers, entertainment talent, hotel staff, et al. And many of them are LGBT, black, disabled, et al. #Florida#boycott
I just came across this TikTok "#boycott#Kelloggs for their #LetThemEatCereal for dinner" remark", and I love how clear the goal and mechanism to achieve it are: if enough people do this one fairly little thing for a full quarter, the powerful will notice, and can be forced to change their behavior.