#Mother Jones

[mysharona1987]

Now this is a question when we consider Biden’s empathy.

Sorry, it is.

13,000 child are dead, Joe.

That two year old girl you lost? That toddler girl in Palestine was her.

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[smashing-yng-man]

In released body cam footage from the Owasso Police Department, Nex—dressed in a black t-shirt and cargo pants, their dark hair cut short—tells the officer “I got jumped” and that they didn’t know the three freshman girls who hurt them until that week. “They just decided to up and start messing with you?” the officer asks.

“Yeah, because of the way that we dress,” Nex replied. 

According to Nex, the girls had made fun of the way Nex and their friends were laughing. In response, Nex threw water on the girls from a plastic water bottle, Nex told the officer. Then, they say, the girls “came at me.” Nex continues: “They grabbed onto my hair, I grabbed onto them. I threw one them into a paper towel dispenser. Then they got my legs out from under me, got me on the ground, and started beating the shit out of me. And then my friends tried to jump in and help, and I’m not sure, I blacked out.”

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[padawan-historian]

Mourn for the dead. FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE LIVING.

~ Mother Jones

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[nando161mando]

Today in Labor History November 30, 1930: Mother Jones died, age 100, in Silver Spring, Maryland. She was an organizer or "walking delegate" for the United Mine Workers (UMW), famous for her bravado. When she and 3,000 women were released by a militia after being held all night in McAdoo, Pennsylvania, they marched straight to the hotel housing the soldiers and ate their breakfast. Even well into her 90s, she still roamed through the hills of West Virginia, encouraging miners to organize.

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[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

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[makingdonalddrumpfagain]

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[thoughtportal]

The Christian Groups Fighting Against the Indian Child Welfare Act https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/the-christian-groups-fighting-against-the-indian-child-welfare-act/ 

https://lakotalaw.org/news/2021-09-17/icwa-sovereignty

https://abovethelaw.com/2022/11/supreme-court-indian-child-welfare-act-gibson-dunn/

https://www.gibsondunn.com/former-exxonmobil-counsel-david-woodcock-joins-gibson-dunn-in-dallas/

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[popculturelib]

Uppity Women: A Legacy of Liberation (1974) by the Lilith's Rib Collective at Hunter College

From the introduction:

We are a group of women students at Hunter College who are working for the implementation of a Women's Studies Department at Hunter. Given an enrollment that is 73% women and a long background as a women's college, we feel that it is time for us to learn about our HERitage and with this goal in mind we are working both politically and educationally. We have chosen to name ourselves after Lilith. She was first mentioned in Assyrian myths as a wind spirit and later played a major part in early Hebraic lore. She is mentioned in the Alphabet Ben Sira as the first woman, created simultaneously with Adam. Being thus created, Lilith refused to accept Adam's claim of supremacy and left him, after refusing to lie beneath him during intercourse. She went to live by the Red Sea. We have chosen her as a symbolic starting point to our heritage. Our motivation to write this book comes out of our own experiences as women. It is an effort to connect with a rich past that has been denied us. Our purpose is to briefly introduce you to some of these women whose lives have been lost to us and who were the Foremothers of our Woman's Culture. We hope that this will encourage you to rediscover Women's history and to participate in the struggle that lies ahead. In Sisterhood, The Lilith's Rib Collective

It includes biographies of Susan B. Anthony, Mary McLeod Bethune, Marie Sklodowska Curie, Isadora Duncan, Amelia Earhart, Emma Goldman, the Grimké Sisters, Anne Hutchinson, Mother Jones, Maria Mitchell, Esther Hubart Morris, Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst, Sacajewa, Margaret Higgins Sanger, Gertrude Stein, Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Ross Tubman, Mercy Otis Warren, and Victoria Woodhill.

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

#bgsu #libraries on tumblr #women's history month #uppity women #lilith's rib collective #hunter college #Susan B. Anthony #Mary McLeod Bethune #Marie Sklodowska Curie #Isadora Duncan #Amelia Earhart #Emma Goldman #the Grimké Sisters #Anne Hutchinson #Mother Jones #Maria Mitchell #Esther Hubart Morris #Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst #Sacajewa #Margaret Higgins Sanger #Gertrude Stein #Lucy Stone #Sojourner Truth #Harriet Tubman #Mercy Otis Warren #and Victoria Woodhill #marie curie

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Earlier this month, a train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, triggering a massive fire and forcing everyone within a 1-mile radius of the crash to evacuate. To avoid a potential explosion, officials conducted a controlled detonation of five tankers three days later, sending carcinogenic vinyl chloride into the air. Two days later, residents of the 4,500-person village were told they could safely return home. Many questioned the safety of the air and water supply.

Since then, reporting has made clear that this environmental disaster was less a freak accident than a predictable outcome of lax safety measures and capitalist greed. Here’s what you need to know about the Norfolk Southern rail company.

NORFOLK SOUTHERN CHOSE NOT TO UPGRADE ITS TRAINS’ “CIVIL WAR-ERA” BRAKES.

A report in The Lever notes that the train that crashed in East Palestine was not equipped with Electronically Controlled Pneumatic brakes—fully electric brakes that experts say could have reduced the severity of the crash. Although Norfolk Southern once touted its use of ECP brakes, it lobbied against requiring them on trains carrying hazardous materials. An Obama-era rule required that HHFTs have ECP brakes, but the Trump administration overturned this rule.

NORFOLK SOUTHERN WORKERS DON’T GET PAID SICK TIME.

Remember when the Senate voted to avert a rail strike and deny workers sick leave? Norfolk Southern workers were among those affected. When investors encouraged Norfolk Southern to offer paid sick leave, the company said, OK, we won’t furlough people as often. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT.) has since demanded that rail companies offer workers at least seven days of paid sick leave.

RAIL COMPANIES REFUSE TO HIRE ENOUGH WORKERS.

Unions say that the rail industry’s use of furloughs to reduce the workforce stretches staff too thin. As Timothy Noah wrote in the New Republic, the 141-car train that crashed in East Palestine carried just two crew members and one trainee:

"On February 10, Anya Litvak of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that security camera footage 20 miles short of where the derailment occurred showed a rail car axle that appeared to be on fire. Why this information was not transmitted quickly to the train crew remains unknown, but it seems likely that the answer has something to do with the number of people who were in a position to sound the alarm."

NORFOLK SOUTHERN HAS SPENT BILLIONS ON STOCK BUYBACKS.

Norfolk Southern made $4.8 billion in operating profit in 2022, More Perfect Union reported, and paid shareholders $4.7 billion in stock buybacks and dividends.

As my colleague Hannah Levintova explained last year:

"A buyback is when companies purchase shares of their own company from investors, driving up the value of the remaining stock because there are fewer shares circulating. Buybacks are taxed at the lower capital gains rate, which maxes out at 20% for the wealthiest households. But for those investors who don’t sell their shares back to the company, there’s no tax—even though the value of their holdings has increased. Until that investor sells the asset, their wealth will grow tax-free. And thanks in part to a tax code loophole that enables the wealthy to pass shares on to their heirs, who can then skip paying capital gains taxes on them altogether, buybacks play a role in building untaxed generational wealth."

THE TRAIN THAT CAUSED THE CLOUD OF SMOKE OVER EAST PALESTINE WAS NOT CATEGORIZED AS A “HIGH-HAZARD FLAMMABLE TRAIN.”

Thanks to pressure from industry lobbyists, the “high-hazard flammable train” categorization applies only to trains carrying a narrow set of materials, like crude oil, The Lever also reported. That designation would have required that the train follow specific speed and braking restrictions.

DESPITE MAKING BILLIONS IN PROFIT, NORFOLK SOUTHERN INITIALLY OFFERED JUST $25,000 TO EAST PALESTINE.

Norfolk Southern managed to scrape together $25,000 for the town that’s been doused in toxic chemicals. People who fled their homes under fear of death can claim $1,000 per person per household. Since then, the company has announced increases in charity.

#us politics #news #mother jones #2023 #east palestine #ohio #norfolk southern #vinyl chloride #carcinogens #Electronically Controlled Pneumatic brakes #railway workers #railroads #railway unions #furloughs #paid sick leave #stock buybacks #high-hazard flammable train #charity #train derailment #hazardous chemical spill #corporate greed

[radiofreederry]

Happy birthday, Mother Jones! (August 1, 1837)

In a life that spanned nearly a century, Mary Harris Jones, better known as Mother Jones, made a name for herself as a slashing crusader for the rights of workers. Born in Cork, Ireland, Jones' family fled Ireland for the New World in the midst of the Great Famine. After a series of personal tragedies, including the loss of her husband and children to yellow fever, Jones began work with the nascent labor movement, helping to organize strikes with the Knights of Labor, then the preeminent militant labor organization in the United States. The outspoken and vociferous Jones quickly gained a reputation as a firebrand, she gained the nickname "the most dangerous woman in America" in her work with the United Mine Workers and the Socialist Party. Beloved by the workers she organized, she took to referring to them as "my boys." In 1903, to protest against the depraved conditions under which children were forced to work in the sweatshops and mills of the Northeast, she organized a children's crusade, the "march of the mill children" from Pennsylvania to Theodore Roosevelt's summer White House in Long Island. An accomplished agitator well into her 80s, she published her autobiography in 1925, dying five years later.

"Your organization is not a praying institution. It's a fighting institution. It's an educational institution along industrial lines. Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!"

#birthdays #mother jones

[reasonandempathy]

#mother jones #politics #union #worker rights #progressive #leftist #original content

[thegodwhocums]

pet peeve: people changing Mother Jones's expression, quoted in her autobiography, of "pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living" to "mourn the dead and fight like hell for the living"

I'm sorry prayer bothers you, how about fuck off and go find another saying

#fucking atheists #personal #pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living #mother jones

[oddwomen]

Mother Jones Magazine (December 1978)

#1978 #1970s #70s #text #Mother Jones #Mother Jones Magazine #black and white #vintage #wlw #lesbians #queer #queer history #LGBT history #LGBT #LGBTQ #safe spaces

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

🎙 NEW PODCAST ~ In our latest episode, Matt Agorist, Jason Bassler and guest Austin Petersen dissect a recent hit piece from MotherJones about the Libertarian Party and discuss the best direction for the future of the party.

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#the free thought project #tftp #libertarian #libertarian party #mother jones #Austin Petersen #the free thought project podcast

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Mother Jones :: No Labels

#dark money #Mother Jones #No Labels

[readingthearticle]

I've seen Maia Crimew's publication of these emails floating around. For those of you that don't want to parse through 2,600 pages of emails yourselves, here's the Mother Jones story that comes with them.

#good journalism #mother jones