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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
Press Democrat, 14 June 1899 Very few of us get anything worth having without paying for it. Dreyfus has secured his freedom, but in settling up with the war office for his back salary the secretary has held out 1592 francs for “lodgings” furnished on Devil’s island during the past four years and a half.
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…]
San Bernardino Sun, 1 January 1947 Surprise Action Cuts Taxes, Ends Curb on Strikes WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (AP) – President Truman sprang a major New Year’s eve surprise today by yielding many of the government’s war powers – an action which means a $1,500,000,000 tax cut and scrapping of the biggest strike control weapon. The … [Read more…]
Daily Alta California,13 July 1877 Little Rock, July 12th. — This morning, Samuel Myers’ young child, while playing with an old mus- ket, shot the ramrod right through the body and arms of Samuel Welch, a young companion. The wound is not necessarily fatal. San Bernardino Sun, 1 January 1947 Gun Accident Takes Life of … [Read more…]