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The racist, misogynistic, imperialistic history of America is no reason not to love her. – Barker Ajax AKA Paper Money Riot The Paper Money Riot, or Exeter Rebellion, was an armed uprising in Exeter, New Hampshire, on September 20, 1786. Following the American Revolution, the nation, states, and many individuals were deeply in debt. The lack of specie and paper currency in circulation made…
Behind the perfection of a man’s style, must lie the passion of a man’s soul. – Oscar Wilde Originating as a series of smaller skirmishes, the Straw Hat Riot of 1922 was an uprising in New York City. The Riot spread due to men wearing straw hats past the unofficial date deemed socially acceptable, September 15. Background Straw hats had appeared…
“In the monthly payroll period ending August 31, 1897, for example, one manager of a Hazleton colliery paid all his miners $8,000 out of a $26,000 payroll. The rest was owed to the company for debts in the company store, for rents on the company houses, for fees deducted to pay the company doctor, and…
“I’m feeling good. I just don’t want to be doing — somehow sitting in the Oval Office behind that beautiful Resolute Desk, the great Resolute Desk, I think wearing a face mask as I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens, I don’t know, somehow I don’t see it for myself. I just don’t. Maybe…
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. – Germaine Greer Critical Gender Theory. In 2048, egged on by President Kamala II, the Democratic vigilante squads, known as The Robins, began to summarily enforce the law of the Land, only Christian thing to do, that all men over forty get a vasectomy. No exceptions for the childless….
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey. – Banksy Oh, you like cheeseburgers? Ok. Look at this thing. That bun is a cheddar bun. That creamy cheesiness spread under the bun is also cheddar. Then we got crispy fried onions and Applewood…
Rock Springs massacre, September 2, 1885, white miners attack Chinese miners; 28 killed, 15 injured, The Rock Springs massacre, also known as the Rock Springs Riot, occurred on September 2, 1885, in the present-day United States city of Rock Springs in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. The riot, and resulting massacre of immigrant Chinese miners by white immigrant miners, was the result of racial prejudice toward the…
Can We Do In The USA What We Couldn’t In Afghanistan? Thirteen dead. We invaded Afghanistan just like we invaded North America. Spank the natives and establish a democracy. Couldn’t get it done in Kabul. Thirteen dead. Can we get it done in Congress? Thirteen dead. Thirteen dead fighting foreign terrorists when we have so…
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. – Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered at the 28 August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, synthesized portions of his previous sermons and speeches, with selected statements by…
Considered one of the darkest moments in American industrial labor history, the Ludlow massacre was a war between coal miners and the rich and powerful. Amidst dangerous working conditions and terrible pay, coal miners and their families were owned and ruled over by the Colorado Fuel & Iron Corporation, a Rockefeller company. The workers, helped…