Monday, May 2, 2022
Sunday, May 1, 2022
Star Wars comic book collections are as low as 99 cents a volume right now
Including the new High Republic sories. There's also a sale on TMNT collections. I haven't enjoyed most of the ones I've tried with the exception of issues illustrated by Sophie Campbell. Reborn Vol. 1 was great.
May 1, 1886, the day of the general strike to demand an eight-hour work day
On Saturday, May 1, thousands of workers who went on strike and attended rallies that were held throughout the United States sang from the anthem, Eight Hour. The chorus of the song reflected the ideology of the Great Upheaval, "Eight Hours for work. Eight hours for rest. Eight hours for what we will." Estimates of the number of striking workers across the U.S. range from 300,000 to half a million.
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When the end-of-the-workday bell sounded, however, a group of workers surged to the gates to confront the strikebreakers. Despite calls for calm ... the police fired on the crowd.
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A New York Times article, with the dateline May 4, and headlined "Rioting and Bloodshed in the Streets of Chicago ... Twelve Policemen Dead or Dying", reported that Fielden spoke for 20 minutes, alleging that his words grew "wilder and more violent as he proceeded". Another New York Times article, headlined "Anarchy's Red Hand" and dated May 6, opens with: "The villainous teachings of the Anarchists bore bloody fruit in Chicago tonight and before daylight at least a dozen stalwart men will have laid down their lives as a tribute to the doctrine of Herr Johann Most." It referred to the strikers as a "mob" and used quotation marks around the term "workingmen"
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A harsh anti-union clampdown followed the Haymarket incident and the Great Upheaval subsided. Employers regained control of their workers and traditional workdays were restored to ten or more hours a day. There was a massive outpouring of community and business support for the police and many thousands of dollars were donated to funds for their medical care and to assist their efforts. The entire labor and immigrant community, particularly Germans and Bohemians, came under suspicion.
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The association of May Day with the Haymarket martyrs has remained strong in Mexico. Mary Harris "Mother" Jones was in Mexico on May 1, 1921, and wrote of the "day of 'fiestas'" that marked "the killing of the workers in Chicago for demanding the eight-hour day". In 1929, The New York Times referred to the May Day parade in Mexico City as "the annual demonstration glorifying the memory of those who were killed in Chicago in 1887". The New York Times described the 1936 demonstration as a commemoration of "the death of the martyrs in Chicago"
Golf, But It's the Most Anime Thing Ever
I implore you to give two minutes of your life to this video, you won't regret it: https://t.co/09TmjKU5S0
— The Capybara of Gamedev (@CheerfulGoth) May 1, 2022
"Sister Alphonsine Ciza spends most of her day in gum boots, white veil tucked under a builder's hat, manning the micro hydroelectric plant she built"
Reuters on the Congo:
She picked up skills as a young nun, repairing electrical faults around the convent, which convinced superiors to send her to study mechanical engineering.
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She works around the clock with a team of nuns and engineers, greasing machinery and checking the dials of a generator that is fed from a nearby reservoir and lights up a convent, church, two schools and a clinic free of charge.
Today's funny posts
$219, marked down from $298.Good to see that J.Crew has FINALLY released a jacket for 19th century colonial explorers who've stalked every beast in the Queen's domain but will not rest until they've brought back the head of the Easter Bunny. pic.twitter.com/rph6HjyJwB
— Jacob Brogan (@Jacob_Brogan) April 28, 2022
Remote cashiers working from Nicaragua; 3D-printed full-auto gun; Watch out for tribute balloons
whoa this is a dystopia I hadn’t even considered before. zoom cashiers who work in another country for less money than a local hire. https://t.co/ajEbT5WnIA pic.twitter.com/ncIlF1EvTC
— Frenzied Flame Heather Anne Campbell (@heathercampbell) April 28, 2022
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