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Seattle APPRegister for the Seattle APP Virtual Teach-In on Saturday, April 26 at 3pm. Learn more about the Seattle APP and our goal to create an office dedicated to providing direct resources to victims of police violence and their families. Zoom Registration: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/seattleappteach-in" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://tinyurl.com/seattleappteach-in</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/affectedpersonsprogram" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#affectedpersonsprogram</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spd" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#spd</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/policeaccountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#policeaccountability</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/policebrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#policebrutality</a>

Der militante Frutarier<a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/WeaponWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WeaponWednesday</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Schallkanone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Schallkanone</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/SonicWeapon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SonicWeapon</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Serbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Serbia</a>From the comment section:"A friend was in this crowd and told me he thinks that if the whatever it is they unleashed lasted a few seconds more many would likely have a heart attack. He felt a strange sensation in his heart and had a headache the whole day after the event. dont forget this was done from the back of a completely peaceful group of people in a middle of 15 minutes of silence they performed to honor the 15 people who died from shabby newly redone railway station many times over budget"<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l38zlf9qI00&t=85" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l38zlf9qI00&t=85</a><a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/SonicCannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SonicCannon</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/SoundCannon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoundCannon</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/LRAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LRAD</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Vortex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vortex</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Police</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/PoliceBrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoliceBrutality</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/PoliceViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoliceViolence</a>

Voice4JusticeAyalon Highway, Tel Aviv <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23BenGvirMilitia" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BenGvirMilitia</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23JewishTerrorists" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JewishTerrorists</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23CompromisedIsraeliPolice" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CompromisedIsraeliPolice</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23PoliceBrutality" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoliceBrutality</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23TraitorsAmongUs" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TraitorsAmongUs</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23SaveIsraelFromNetanyahu" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SaveIsraelFromNetanyahu</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23SaveIsraelDemocracy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SaveIsraelDemocracy</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23StoptheWar" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StoptheWar</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23BringThemALLHomeNow%F0%9F%8E%97%EF%B8%8F" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BringThemALLHomeNow🎗️</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23NoJusticeNoPeace" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoJusticeNoPeace</a> ✊

RainSMediaRadioNigerian High Court Adjourns Case of 22 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EndSARS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#EndSARS</a> Victims to May 28 <a href="https://www.rainsmediaradio.com/2025/03/nigerian-high-court-adjourns-case-of-22.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://www.rainsmediaradio.com/2025/03/nigerian-high-court-adjourns-case-of-22.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon</a> Follow, Like & Share <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EndSARS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#EndSARS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PoliceBrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PoliceBrutality</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JusticeForVictims" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#JusticeForVictims</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#HumanRights</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NigerianJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NigerianJustice</a>

Shine My Crown‘This Is Police Brutality!’: Woman Demands Justice After Officer Allegedly Hits Cousin With Patrol Car <a href="https://shinemycrown.com/this-is-police-brutality-woman-demands-justice-after-officer-allegedly-hits-cousin-with-patrol-car/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://shinemycrown.com/this-is-police-brutality-woman-demands-justice-after-officer-allegedly-hits-cousin-with-patrol-car/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/PoliceBrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoliceBrutality</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/JusticeForVictims" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JusticeForVictims</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/BlackLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlackLivesMatter</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/EndPoliceViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EndPoliceViolence</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/AccountabilityMatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AccountabilityMatters</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History March 21, 1965: 3,200 people began the third march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to protest racial violence. Earlier efforts to hold the march had failed when police attacked demonstrators and a minister was fatally beaten by a group of Selma whites. The five-day walk ended March 26, when 20,000 people joined the marchers in front of the Alabama state Capitol in Montgomery. This time they were defended by national guards and FBI agents. Soon after, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingClass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/civilrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#civilrights</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MartinLutherKing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MartinLutherKing</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JimCrow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JimCrow</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fbi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fbi</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/votingrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#votingrights</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/selma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selma</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/montgomery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#montgomery</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#alabama</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/policebrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#policebrutality</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#police</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMastadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlackMastadon</a>

Stuff I foundStay safe, stay healthy, destroy dangerous police equipment. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/acab?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#acab</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/allcopsarebastards?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#allcopsarebastards</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/police?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#police</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/healthrisk?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#healthrisk</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/staysafe?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#staysafe</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/protest?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#protest</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/activist?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#activist</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/activism?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#activism</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/riotpolice?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#riotpolice</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/lrad?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lrad</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/sabotage?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sabotage</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/policebrutality?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#policebrutality</a>

Seattle APPIf anyone knows the family, please reach out to us so that we can support them however they need during this difficult time. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/resourcesforvictimsandfamilies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#resourcesforvictimsandfamilies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/affectedpersonsprogram" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#affectedpersonsprogram</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spd" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#spd</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/seattlepolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#seattlepolice</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/policeaccountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#policeaccountability</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/policebrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#policebrutality</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History March 20, 1937: Detroit police evicted strikers from the Newton Packing Company. Three hours later, 150 police attacked sit-down strikers at a tobacco plant. By April 1, there were over 120,000 striking auto workers in Michigan. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SitDownStrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SitDownStrike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceBrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoliceBrutality</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/detroit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#detroit</a>

Headlines AfricaHaiti police fire tear gas at protesters demanding protection from gangs <a href="http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJdhx5" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJdhx5</a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Haiti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Haiti</a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/PortauPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PortauPrince</a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Protests</a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/PoliceBrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoliceBrutality</a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/GangViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GangViolence</a>

reazonozaerOn March 1, correctional officers from Mid-State Correctional Facility located in Marcy, New York, brutalized 22-year-old Messiah Nantwi, beating him to death. Just weeks earlier at Marcy Correctional Facility, correctional officers beat to death a handcuffed, bedridden 43-year-old Robert Brooks.<a href="https://www.workers.org/2025/03/84456/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.workers.org/2025/03/84456/</a><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PoliceBrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoliceBrutality</a>

Voice4Justice🚨 <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23PoliceBrutality" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PoliceBrutality</a> under the influence of <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Fascism" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> Happening now, Jerusalem

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History March 19, 1935: Harlem Uprising occurred, during the Great Depression, after rumors circulated that a black Puerto Rican teenage shoplifter was beaten by employees at an S. H. Kress "five and dime" store, and then killed by the police. Protests were quickly organized by the Young Liberators and the Young Communist League, which were promptly declared illegal by the police. Participants smashed windows of the store and began looting. The protest and looting spread, causing $200 million in damages. Police arrested 125 people and killed 3. Mayor LaGuardia set up a multi-racial Commission to investigate the causes of the riot, headed by African-American sociologist E. Franklin Frazier and with members including labor leader A. Philip Randolph. The identified "injustices of discrimination in employment, the aggressions of the police, and the racial segregation" as conditions which led to the outbreak of rioting, and congratulated the Communist organizations as deserving "more credit than any other element in Harlem for preventing a physical conflict between whites and blacks". <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/harlem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#harlem</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Riot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Riot</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/greatdepression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#greatdepression</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#police</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/policebrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#policebrutality</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poverty</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/segregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#segregation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMastadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BlackMastadon</a>

Anarkiss666La bonne nouvelle du jour.. "L’État belge, la zone de police Bruxelles-Ixelles et le bourgmestre Philippe Close viennent tous les trois d’être condamnés par le tribunal de première instance de Bruxelles, dans le cadre du procès en responsabilité civile pour les violences policières commises il y a 4 ans à l’issue d’une manifestation au Mont des Arts."Mais bon je doute quand même que.. "c'est un jugement qui va quelque part modifier concrètement le travail de la police sur le terrain à l’avenir. On espère que la police va se conformer à ce jugement et respecter les directives qui sont données pour le respect des droits fondamentaux"."Ai fais 10 ans de manifs sauvages à Bxl et ça a été 10 ans à se faire nasser et puis humilier par des pauvres crétins sadiques. Et aussi 10 ans à les faire courir et à bien se foutre de leur gueules !Ça m'étonnerait qu'ils arrêtent de nasser mais ça fait quand même plaisir que même Close soit condamné !!<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/acab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#acab</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bruxelles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bruxelles</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/justicebourgeoise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#justicebourgeoise</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/violencespolicieres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#violencespolicieres</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pigz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pigz</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/porcs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#porcs</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uniformes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uniformes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vds</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/policebrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#policebrutality</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/%C3%A9tatpolicier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#étatpolicier</a><a href="https://www.rtbf.be/article/violences-policieres-du-24-janvier-2021-l-etat-belge-la-zone-de-police-bruxelles-ixelles-et-le-bourgmestre-philippe-close-condamnes-11518952" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.rtbf.be/article/violences-policieres-du-24-janvier-2021-l-etat-belge-la-zone-de-police-bruxelles-ixelles-et-le-bourgmestre-philippe-close-condamnes-11518952</a>

Seattle APPJoin our movement to ensure that the Affected Persons Program Initiative is placed on the Seattle November 2026 ballot. Let’s create a better future for victims and families. www.seattleapp.org <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/affectedpersonsprogram" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#affectedpersonsprogram</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/seattlepolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#seattlepolice</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/policebrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#policebrutality</a>

Κάποιος Ταδόπουλος<a href="https://todon.nl/tags/antireport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#antireport</a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/%CE%B5%CE%BE%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#εξαρχεια</a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/policebrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#policebrutality</a> 15/3/2025, πλατεία Εξαρχείων

babakofi‘Cops Aren’t Workers’: The Truth About the <a href="https://union.place/tags/NY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NY</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/Prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Prison</a> Guards’ <a href="https://union.place/tags/Walkout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Walkout</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/breakthroughnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#breakthroughnews</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/policebrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#policebrutality</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#unions</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/acab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#acab</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/guards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#guards</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/worker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#worker</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/haltact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#haltact</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/budgetcuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#budgetcuts</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/nationalguard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nationalguard</a> <a href="https://union.place/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/Voi5KxdwshQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/Voi5KxdwshQ</a>

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PerspectiveApparently Edmonton police are above the law - even cases of blatant police brutality. Defies comprehension ...<a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/11082360/pacey-dumas-court-of-kings-bench-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://globalnews.ca/news/11082360/pacey-dumas-court-of-kings-bench-review/</a><a href="https://c.im/tags/policebrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#policebrutality</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday 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: <a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/24/lucy-parsons/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/24/lucy-parsons/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#anarchism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EightHourDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EightHourDay</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/generalstrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#generalstrike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/haymarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#haymarket</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#police</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/policebrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#policebrutality</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mayday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mayday</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deathpenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#deathpenalty</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IWW</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#union</a>

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