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SUFFRAGIST LEADER UNDER ARREST

January 22, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Mariposa Gazette, 13 December 1913 Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst Is Seized on Her Arrival in England and Jailed Turbulent Seas Prevent “General” Drummond and Her Aids From Rescuing Their Chief Plymouth, England — Wind and sea helped the police to evade the posse of suffragettes who had planned to prevent the rearrest of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst … [Read more…]

Posted in: California Newspaper Archive, Faits Divers, Feminism, Politics Tagged: Cat and Mouse Act, England, militants, Mrs. Child Dorr, Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, Mrs. Flora Drummond, Mrs. Joan Wickham, suffragettes, suffragist, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU

SUPER – CALLOUS – FASCIST – RACIST – EXTRA – BRAGGA – DOCIOUS

January 21, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From a sign during the Women’s Marches on Jan. 21, 2017. SUPER – CALLOUS – FASCIST – RACIST – EXTRA – BRAGGA – DOCIOUS

Posted in: Politics, Racism, Thinking about, This Day in History, Trump Tagged: CALLOUS, FASCIST, RACIST, Some Bag Of Toxic Sludge, Some Clueless Numpty, Some Disgraced Racist, Some Mendacious Mango

Your Day-One Guide to President The Toupeed Fucktrumpet’s Conflicts of Interest

January 21, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Mother Jones (I use the Firefox add-on “Some Rich Asshole” which translates the word T R U M P into the “The Toupeed Fucktrumpet”, among a few other choice epithets. Below is what this add-on did to a Mother Jones article about his conflicts of interest. I’ve placed the transpositions in ITALICS. The Some Rich … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics, Racism, Thinking about, This Day in History Tagged: 45th president, Bloviating, Bloviator, Cheeto-dusted, Cheeto-faced, cockwomble, Combover, Ferret-wearing, Fleshbag, Fucknugget, Fucktrumpet, Hairpiece, Incoherent Creamsicle, Marmalade Manchild, Misogynist, president-elect, Shitgibbon, Some Man-sized Sebaceous Cyst, Tiny-fingered, Toupeed, TRUP, Weaselheaded

Anti-Some Weaselheaded Fucknugget protesters form human chain across Golden Gate Bridge

January 21, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Anti-Some Weaselheaded Fucknugget protesters form human chain across Golden Gate Bridge JOHN ROGERS AND JOCELYN GECKER ASSOCIATED PRESS | January 20, 2017, 9:53AM LOS ANGELES — Thousands of protesters formed a human chain across the Golden Gate Bridge on Friday while thousands more marched through a driving rainstorm in Los Angeles as a state that … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, Politics, Racism, Thinking about, This Day in History, Trump Tagged: 45th president, he Cheeto-dusted Bloviator, Love Trumps Hate, Some Bag Of Toxic Sludge, Some Bloviating Fleshbag, Some Clueless Numpty, Some Disgraced Racist, Some Robert Mugabe Of The Hudson, Weaselheaded Fucknugget

Wayne Barrett (1945-2017)

January 21, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Mother Jones Tribute to Wayne Barrett Remembering the legendary Village Voice reporter who launched an army of muckrakers. Wikipedia Selected Bibliography The New Yorker: Newsdesk 2016 New York Times Obituary Rolling Stone Obituary Washington Post Obituary Barrett, 71, uncovered the misdeeds of politicians, developers, crooked judges and “poverty pimps” during a four-decade career at the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Obituaries, Politics, Thinking about, This Day in History Tagged: Muckraker, Newspaper Reporter, Obituary, Village Voice, Wayne Barrett

Saddest Day

January 20, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Today was the inauspicious inauguration of the 45th president. Everyone I have spoken with, all that I have read, all that I have heard about and during today says this is a very sad day for all of us. There is nothing which can turn back the events of today but we can hold to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics, Thinking about, This Day in History Tagged: inauguration, inauspicious

IN THE WORLD OF LABOR

January 20, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Sacramento Union, 11 February 1912 By A. J. EISSING. The French government employes 120,000 women. Agriculture supports 250,000,000 persons in India. Kingston, Can., police want their pay raised from $50 to $60 a month. The Barbers’ association of Quebec asks the legislature to provide that all barbers be licensed. Hamilton, Ont., bricklayers want to increase … [Read more…]

Posted in: California Newspaper Archive, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Finanace, Future of Work, History, Politics, Thinking about Tagged: American death rate, bricklayers, cigar makers, cooks, employment, employment of women, England, foremen, labor, Labor party, linotype, Masons, Mexico, Pablo Iglesias, Plasterers', police, printers, seamen, Socialist, textile mills, Union, union men, workmen

The Worker’s Compensation Act

January 20, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Madera Mercury > 12 January 1917 The State Accident Commission will present recommendations for changes in the workmen’s compensation act. … One of the bitter fights probably will be in an attempt on the part of the anti-administration forces to cripple the Workmen’s Compensation Act. The insurance feature is the particular target against which most … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Politics, Thinking about Tagged: 1917, Accident, California, Compensation, industrial accident, insurance, labor, State Accident Commission, Worker's Compensation Act

Women Will Watch Legislative Action

January 17, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Sacramento Union, 17 January 1917 Mrs. H. A. Cable of Los Angeles, president of the women’s legislative council, has established a bureau in the Sacramento hotel for the remainder of the legislative session. The women of the state have been studying for the past two years on legislation important to women, and have decided to … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, California Newspaper Archive, Politics, Thinking about, This Day in History Tagged: Inheritance Tax, Jury Duty, legislature, Women, Women's Issues, Women’s Legislative Council

John Berger, art critic and author, dies aged 90

January 2, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Here is the Guardian’s announcement. Guardian’s John Berger obituary “The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied… … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Obituaries, Politics, Thinking about Tagged: art, Death, John Berger, marxist
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