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Today in Labor History March 15, 1917: The U.S. Supreme Court approved the 8-hour workday under the threat of a rail strike. Philadelphia carpenters struck for the 10-hour day in 1791 and by the 1830s, it had become a general demand of workers. In 1835, Philadelphia workers organized the first general strike in North America, led by Irish coal heavers, in the struggle for a 10-hour day. However, by 1836, labor movement publications were calling for an 8-hour day. In 1864, the 8-hour day became a central demand of the Chicago labor movement. In 1867, a citywide strike for the 8-hour day shut down the city's economy for a week before falling apart. During the 1870s, eight hours became a central demand of the U.S. labor movement, with a network of 8-Hour Leagues forming across the nation.

In 1872, 100,000 workers in New York City struck and won the eight-hour day. On May 1, 1886 Albert Parsons, head of the Chicago Knights of Labor, led 80,000 people down Michigan Avenue in the first modern May Day Parade, with workers chanting, "Eight-hour day with no cut in pay." Within days, 350,000 workers went on strike nationwide for the 8-hour day. On 3 May 1886, anarchist August Spies, editor of the Arbeiter-Zeitung (Workers Newspaper), spoke to 6,000 workers. Afterwards, they marched to the McCormick plant in Chicago to harass scab workers. The police arrived and opened fire, killing four and wounding many more. On May 4, workers protested this police violence at a meeting in Haymarket Square. An unknown assailant hurled a bomb at the police. The authorities rounded up hundreds of labor activists and anarchists. They convicted 8 in a kangaroo court and executed four of them, including Parsons and Spies.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average American currently works 8.8 hours every day. This, of course, does not include commute time which, for many Americans, can add another two or more hours a day to the time they give away for free to their bosses. Nor does it include work we take home. The scam of being a “salaried” employee is commonly exploited by bosses, who argue that we are paid based on the responsibilities completed, regardless of how long it takes to complete them.

Read my full article on Lucy Parsons, which goes deeper into the Haymarket affair and the struggle for the 8 hour day: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/

“This is the Trump administration desperate to meet the goals that it’s set to carry out its mass deportation agenda. But he’s having trouble reaching those numbers, because he doesn’t have the manpower and the infrastructure to actually rip away people who have years and years of life in our communities and are deeply entwined.” texasobserver.org/local-state-

The Texas Observer · Local and State Police Are Joining Trump's 'Deportation Force'Texas law enforcement agencies and others around the nation are reviving a long-dead "task force" program that led to racial profiling in the past.

🚨 The UK Crime and Policing Bill will create a vast facial recognition database of over 55 million driving licences and ban face coverings at protest 👁️

This would be the biggest biometric database ever created in the UK for policing.

With other rights groups, we're telling politicians to stop the expansion of police surveillance powers 🚫

Read the joint briefing ⬇️

#SafetyNotSurveillance

One Community Response Team officer swerved into a motorcyclist, killing him. Another needlessly stopped a pedestrian, then shoved him into a car window. A third hit a man and then kicked his head.
propublica.org/article/eric-ad

ProPublicaHow Eric Adams Has Backed a Secretive NYPD Unit Ridden With Abuses
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"Police work is like Jazz: it's as much about enforcing the non-existent laws you improvise on the spot as it is about not enforcing the actual laws you find personally inconvenient."

- Miles-I-DAV-3, Internal Security Commissioner.

#ttrpg#jazz#law
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RADIO GEGEN #REPRESSION: POLICING #EDUCATION (E01) (DE/EN) - Archive Player

#Police #violence in education, as on the streets is escalating here in Germany.
What do the experts have to say?
The laws?
The unlawful secret resolutions?
Tune in here mixcloud.com/StudioAnsage/radi
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Today in Labor History March 5 1968: The first Chicano student walkout in East Lost Angeles occurred on this date. The Walkouts, or Chicano Blowouts, occurred throughout 1968 in protest of unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools. Chicanos were often in classes of 40 students. Teachers often treated them with contempt. Drop-out rates were high. At Garfield High School, 58% of Chicano students dropped out each year. Thousands of students participated in the Blowouts. On March 4, 1968, J. Edgar Hoover sent out a memo to law enforcement, nationwide, warning them to be extra vigilant against “nationalist” movements in “minority” communities. Harry Gamboa Jr., one of the organizers of the first walkout, was placed on the list of 100 Most Dangerous & Violent Subversives, by the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, along with Angela Davis & Eldridge Cleaver.

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Do not trust police.

No matter what you think of the people who choose to become police or their reasons for doing so.

Their power attracts predators, their systems create a lack of empathy, and their culture leads them to treat others with disdain, negligence and violence, and to avoid all personal accountability.

If a system's purpose is understood by it's outcomes, then the purpose of policing is to intimidate the public, suppress protest, keep marginalised people down, and protect only big business and the white upper (occasionally middle) class.

Edited to add the "crime" tag, because I want it to be clear that police regularly commit crimes.

Congratulations to Deputy Myron Bennett III and Paramedic/Firefighter Victor Low, honored by Thousand Oaks Elks Lodge in its annual Law Enforcement and Firefighter Recognition ceremony. We live in one of the safest communities in the nation thanks to the dedication of first responders like these.

It was a privilege to join Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin and colleagues Al Adam and Tie Gutierrez, along with representatives from Congresswoman Julia Brownley, Senator Henry Stern, and Ventura County Supervisor Jeff Gorell, in presenting commendations for extraordinary public service.
#firstresponders #firefighters #paramedics #police #sheriff #publicsafety #VenturaCounty #ThousandOaks #tocc

“This is the #Trump administration desperate to meet the goals that it’s set to carry out its mass deportation agenda. But he’s having trouble reaching those numbers, because he doesn’t have the manpower and the infrastructure to actually rip away people who have years and years of life in our communities and are deeply entwined.”
texasobserver.org/local-state-

The Texas Observer · Local and State Police Are Joining Trump's 'Deportation Force'Texas law enforcement agencies and others around the nation are reviving a long-dead "task force" program that led to racial profiling in the past.

Missouri GOP’s Effort to Take Over St. Louis Police Hearkens Back to Civil War

City officials say the state’s plan to wrest back control of the police department is an attempt by white conservatives to weaken Black political influence. It’s part of a broader pattern of Missouri Republicans trying to override the will of voters.

propublica.org/article/st-loui

ProPublicaMissouri GOP’s Effort to Take Over St. Louis Police Hearkens Back to Civil War
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