Wanderthread Redux (Part 1)

Wanderfound · January 13, 2021, 10:48pm

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OTOH, you could quibble with “no quarrel”. Quite a lot of Afghans and Iraqis were rightfully pissed at the US’s installation and support for Saddam and the Mujahideen.

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The calendar I’m using this year came from the Oz Greens:

As well as the pretty wilderness photography, there are some other more subtle things that provide clues as to its origin:

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Thread.

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Regrettably not satire:

Wanderfound · January 15, 2021, 2:53am

(UC = Unemployed Council, socialist unions for the unemployed)

Through a combination of mass mobilization and local militancy, the UCs got results. In Chicago, a demonstration organized by Socialists and Communists tens of thousands strong was sufficiently fearsome to inspire city and state officials to borrow $6.3 million from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to meet the marchers’ demands. Justifying the concession, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak said, “I say to the men who object to this public relief because it will add to the tax burden on their property, they should be glad to pay for it, for it is the best way of ensuring that they keep their property.”

In many cities, the UCs also acted as case managers for individual families, pressing their grievances with local relief agencies. But the councils didn’t merely advocate for relief from government; they engaged in militant anti-eviction actions, physically preventing sheriffs from evicting tenants, fighting with cops, and moving tenants’ furniture back into their homes when the police gave up. “By 1932, in some cities evictions had all but ended,” writes Michael Goldfield in The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s . Eviction defense had become so ubiquitous in Detroit by March 1931, reported Edmund Wilson, that a landlady called upon the local UC to inquire whether she was allowed to evict her tenants yet. (The Communists said no.) In the early 1930s, when an eviction notice arrived at the home of a Black family in Chicago, wrote sociologists St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton Jr., “it was not unusual for a mother to shout to the children, ‘Run quick and find the Reds!’”

Wanderfound · January 15, 2021, 4:44am

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