http://bit.ly/2RQnXbU “Untouched 1800’s Cemetery preserved in the basement of a tall building built over it.”
these guys were onto something i think
uh anyway the fucking news is lying to you with statistics and tumblr ate my actually good post talking about it but:
^^^ News talking about a violent crime spike while carefully avoiding giving you any numbers.
^^^ News talking about fire danger while giving you extremely specific numbers.
Same station reporting (reposting, at least) on the same day.
Basically if anyone tells you that there has been a 31% increase in crime insist that they tell you actual numbers. Fox news is saying that the LA Sheriff has reported a 95% increase in the homicide rate in LA from January to June, a RIDICULOUS percentage that I can’t find documented anywhere but on Fox news. This is ESPECIALLY curious because the LASD transparency report is generally pretty fucking clear about the number of cases they handle.
Citations Needed ran a News Brief about the complete insanity that is “crime wave” reporting in cali
Hmm I wonder if there’s anything that could be driving completely fucking bonkers reporting of violent crime in Los Angeles.
Yeah, that’s probably it.
Also check out that fox screencap: murder is up by 95% but also up by 186% but also up by (almost) 200%.
On this day, 27 June 1905, the revolutionary union the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was founded in the United States. One of the first multiracial unions in the country, the IWW advocated all workers uniting into one big union and taking control of society. It organised large swathes of previously unorganised workers in the US, and won big improvements for hundreds of thousands of workers, facing savage repression from employers, with many organisers beaten, jailed and murdered. It also spread to other countries including Chile and South Africa. It still exists today, although much smaller than it was, and its members are active in many organising projects.
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“Now, what do we mean when we say revolutionary Socialist? We mean that the land shall belong to the landless, the tools to the toiler, and the products to the producers.
[..] First, the land belongs to the landless. Is there a single land owner in this country who owns his land by the constitutional rights given by the constitution of the United States who will allow you to vote it away from him? am not such a fool as to believe it.
We say, ‘The tools belong to the toiler.’ They are owned by the capitalist class. Do you believe they will allow you to go into the halls of the legislature and simply say, ‘Be it enacted that on and after a certain day the capitalist shall no longer own the tools and the factories and the places of industry, the ships that plow the ocean, and our lakes?’ Do you believe that they will submit? do not.
We say, ‘The products belong to the producers.’ It belongs to the capitalist class as their legal property. Do you think that they will allow you to vote them away from them by passing a law and saying, ‘Be it enacted that on and after a certain day Mr. Capitalist shall be dispossessed?’ You may, but I do not believe it.
Hence, when you roll under your tongue the expression that you are revolutionists, remember what that word means. It means a revolution that shall turn all these things over where they belong to the wealth producers.”
–Lucy Parsons, “Speech to the Founding Convention of the IWW” (1905)
Income and tree canopies: In US cities, access to clean air, cooler air, shade, and greenery segregated by income.
