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earthworm , 6 days ago to random

Dear tourist, just stay home!

Today, in multiple cities in Spain (Barcelona, Girona, on Mallorca...) demonstrations against tourism took place.

The inhabitants of the destinations of mass-tourism are really angry about what they experiece as an extractivist neoliberal model of tourism with negative consequences for the climate and the environment, leads to gentrification and boring unliveable cities whilr the benefits rnd up in the pockets of a few.

Platforms for a #degrowth of tourism with many adhering collectives and associations have formed and the administrations are panicking (since these unsustainable models of tourism were promoted by all governments of the last decades).

Important: if you are there and see people spraying "Tourists go home!", don't take it too personal, but understand that you relaxing and living your privilege is making the life of the locals difficult, even if it is not your intention.

In capitalism, you can't even drink a coffee without harming someome.

#Barcelona #Girona #Mallorca #Spain #Tourism #Travelling #CycleTourism #TravelBlogs #Degrowth

MikeDunnAuthor , 4 months ago to random

Today in Labor History March 9, 1911: Frank Little and other free-speech fighters were released from jail in Fresno, California, where they had been fighting for the right to speak to and organize workers on public streets. Little was a Cherokee miner and IWW union organizer. He helped organize oil workers, timber workers and migrant farm workers in California. He participated in free speech fights in Missoula, Spokane and Fresno, and helped pioneer many of the passive resistance techniques later used by the Civil Rights movement. He was also an anti-war activist, calling U.S. soldiers “Uncle Sam’s scabs in uniforms.” 1917, he helped organize the Speculator Mine strike in Butte, Montana. Vigilantes broke into his boarding house, dragged him through the streets while tied to the back of a car, and then lynched him from a railroad trestle. Prior to Little’s assassination, Author Dashiell Hammett had been asked by the Pinkerton Detective Agency to murder him. Hammett declined.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #strike #FreeSpeech #indigenous #nativeamerican #franklittle #civilrights #nonviolence #racism #vigilantes #lynching #author #writer #fiction #books @bookstadon

MikeDunnAuthor , 4 months ago to random

Today in Labor History March 9, 1902: Actor Will Geer was born. Best known for his role as Grandpa Walton in the long-running series, “The Waltons,” Geer also appeared in the groundbreaking film, “Salt of the Earth,” which portrayed the struggle of Mexican American workers at the Empire Zinc Mine. Because of his activism on labor and political issues, he was blacklisted in Hollywood for many years. In 1934, he became a member of the Communist Party. He also met LGBTQ activist Harry Hay that year and they became lovers. Together, they supported the 1934 San Francisco General Strike and demonstrated against fascism and for workers’ rights. Hay was a co-founder of the Mattachine Society, the first major gay rights group in the United States, and the Radical Faeries, an anarcho-pagan queer spiritual-political movement.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #communism #lgbtq #sanfrancisco #generalstrike #antifascism #blacklist #radicalfaeries #anarchism #pagan #mattachine

StillIRise1963 , 4 months ago to random

I have to go workout. Covid is really scaring the shit out of me when it comes to my heart. I have issues and now, I'm afraid.☹️

MikeDunnAuthor , 4 months ago to random

Today in Labor History February 25, 1843: Lord George Paulet, naval captain, occupied the Kingdom of Hawaii in the name of Great Britain. Paulet and his men controlled the islands for five months, until the U.S. sent warships to expel them. Great Britain supposedly never authorized the invasion. The Hawaiian Kingdom was a sovereign state from 1795-1883. King Kamehameha, from the island of Hawaii, created the state by conquering four other Hawaiian islands and unifying them in 1795. The U.S. acted as its “protector” during these years, preventing the UK and Japan from asserting hegemony. However, in 1898, the U.S. annexed the islands, after U.S. businessmen participated in the overthrow of the monarchy in 1893.

The Hawaiian flag depicted is based on Kānāwai Māmalahoe, or Law of the Splintered Paddle, a precept in Hawaiian law, originating with King Kamehameha I in 1797. The law states "Let every elderly person, woman and child lie by the roadside in safety," (i.e., safely protected whenever there is a battle). The law is enshrined in the Hawaiian state constitution, Article 9, Section 10, and has become a model for modern human rights law regarding the treatment of civilians and other non-combatants during times of war. The law was came as a result of an incident when Kamehameha was on a military expedition in Puna and chased after a fisherman. However, Kamehameha's leg got caught in the reef. The fisherman hit him on the head with a paddle in defense, which broke into pieces, but the fisherman stopped after this and spared him his life. Kamehameha later brought the fisherman before him in judgement. Instead of ordering a death sentence on the fisherman, he ruled that the fisherman had only been protecting his land and family, and so the Law of the Splintered Paddle was declared.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #hawaii #imperialism #Kamehameha #civilians #annexation #humanrights