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Roy<p>Should you need a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/truck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>truck</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/driver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>driver</span></a> in North <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> -- <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dallas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dallas</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Denton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Denton</span></a>, Fort Worth, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Waco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Waco</span></a> -- I passed my CDL-A exam today. Now I just need to get an appointment with DPS to pick up the license. (I used a third-party tester.)</p>
Dining & Cooking<p>New Texas law will save food truck owners hundreds in permit fees <a href="https://www.diningandcooking.com/2179256/new-texas-law-will-save-food-truck-owners-hundreds-in-permit-fees/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">diningandcooking.com/2179256/n</span><span class="invisible">ew-texas-law-will-save-food-truck-owners-hundreds-in-permit-fees/</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/FoodTruck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FoodTruck</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/GovernorAbbott" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GovernorAbbott</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/HouseBill2844" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HouseBill2844</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/MobileFoodUnits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MobileFoodUnits</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Permits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Permits</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/SmallBusiness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmallBusiness</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/TexasRestaurantAssociation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TexasRestaurantAssociation</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Waco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Waco</span></a></p>
Dining & Cooking<p>Moroso Italian Ristorante owner says he is opening first authentic Italian café in Waco <a href="https://www.diningandcooking.com/2151049/moroso-italian-ristorante-owner-says-he-is-opening-first-authentic-italian-cafe-in-waco/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">diningandcooking.com/2151049/m</span><span class="invisible">oroso-italian-ristorante-owner-says-he-is-opening-first-authentic-italian-cafe-in-waco/</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Azzurro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Azzurro</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/CafeFood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CafeFood</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/DanMoroso" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DanMoroso</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Italia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Italia</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Italian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Italian</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/ItalianCafeFood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ItalianCafeFood</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/italiano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>italiano</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/italy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>italy</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/MorosoItalianRistorante" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MorosoItalianRistorante</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Waco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Waco</span></a></p>
Flipboard Culture Desk<p>The name "Waco" may be familiar to most folks because of the tragic Branch Davidian siege in 1993. But according to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@fodors" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fodors</span></a></span>, it's now rebranded itself as a "trad wife-meets-Evangelical-Disneyland-mecca with the help of HGTV’s Chip and Joanna Gaines." Here's a look at the Texas town's history, and why it seems to cultivate cults.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/c388nt" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/c388nt</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Travel</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Cults" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cults</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Waco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Waco</span></a></p>
Chantal Coolsma<p>Tja dat zeiden ze na dat gedoog gedoe ook. Ongeloofwaardig.</p><p><a href="https://social.coolsma.com/tags/vvd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vvd</span></a> <a href="https://social.coolsma.com/tags/fckpvv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fckpvv</span></a> <a href="https://social.coolsma.com/tags/waco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>waco</span></a><br><a href="https://bnr.nl/nieuws/nieuws-politiek/10575733/vvd-sluit-nieuwe-samenwerking-met-pvv-in-volgend-kabinet-alsnog-uit" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bnr.nl/nieuws/nieuws-politiek/</span><span class="invisible">10575733/vvd-sluit-nieuwe-samenwerking-met-pvv-in-volgend-kabinet-alsnog-uit</span></a></p>
JdeB [216.91 ppm]<p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/DutchPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DutchPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/WACO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WACO</span></a></p><p>In the good tradition of <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Lubach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lubach</span></a>:</p><p>America first, the Netherlands second....</p><p>US has TACO Trump Always Chickens Out<br>the Netherlands<br>WACO Wilders Always Chickens Out</p>
Bezmania<p>Is <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/waco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>waco</span></a> al trending? <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/wildersalwayschickensout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildersalwayschickensout</span></a></p>
Quantum<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WACO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WACO</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wilders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wilders</span></a> Always Chickens Out.<br><a href="https://nos.nl/artikel/2569649-vvd-nsc-en-bbb-tegen-dreigende-wilders-werk-extra-asielmaatregelen-uit" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nos.nl/artikel/2569649-vvd-nsc</span><span class="invisible">-en-bbb-tegen-dreigende-wilders-werk-extra-asielmaatregelen-uit</span></a></p>
Rolf Blijleven<p>Kunnen we <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WACO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WACO</span></a> trending krijgen? </p><p>Wilders Always Chickens Out.</p><p>Want dat gaat ook nu weer gebeuren.</p>
MineEyesDazzle<p>There are now 50 --FIFTY towns and cities in <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> participating in the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/nationwide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nationwide</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/NoKings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoKings</span></a> protests! This is amazing. I'm so glad El Paso has joined in.</p><p>Now... we're looking at you Waco, Nacogdoches, and College Station. Come on party people. Let's do this thang!</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Waco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Waco</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Nacogdoches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nacogdoches</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/CollegeStation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CollegeStation</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/50501Movement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>50501Movement</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Protests</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Mass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mass</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Organizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Organizing</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Call" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Call</span></a></p>
Erik Jonker<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wilders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wilders</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WACO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WACO</span></a><br>Hij bouwt al een voorbehoud in, wat is "merendeel" en overnemen is niet hetzelfde als uitvoeren.</p>
Sean Murthy<p>A nice fasting 7.3km walk around Brazos <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/river" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>river</span></a>. (I think Hour 22 of fasting.)</p><p>Could shoulda walked longer. Always disappointing to walk shorter than 12kms, especially when the setting is so good.</p><p>Some pictures from the walk:<br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@smurthys/114525179295537030" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hachyderm.io/@smurthys/1145251</span><span class="invisible">79295537030</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/walking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>walking</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Waco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Waco</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a></p>
Sean Murthy<p>To live, eat, and play by the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/river" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>river</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/amateur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amateur</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Waco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Waco</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/restaurant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>restaurant</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/recreation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>recreation</span></a></p>
Sean Murthy<p>Can't get enough of the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/magnificent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>magnificent</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Waco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Waco</span></a> Suspension <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Bridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bridge</span></a> and the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/cattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cattle</span></a> sculptures. And the trail around the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/river" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>river</span></a> is fantastic. Some of it was closed due to flooding from recent rains.</p><p>Pic 4 is a view from 3. Love how the sunlight breaks through in both pics.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/amateur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amateur</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a></p>
Sean Murthy<p>Happy to stop at <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Waco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Waco</span></a> Cameron Park along the Brazos <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/River" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>River</span></a>. Sunny weather provided better view of the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/sculpture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sculpture</span></a> zoo this time. Photographed a few things I didn't on the last visit. 🐢 🥚 🦩</p><p>Pictures from last visit:<br><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@smurthys/111977118202802978" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hachyderm.io/@smurthys/1119771</span><span class="invisible">18202802978</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/amateur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amateur</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/geese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geese</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/flamingo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flamingo</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/turtle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>turtle</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>Baylor University and MCC to offer new cyber security courses to fill technology skills gap <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/925637/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/925637/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/baylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>baylor</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/bu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bu</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/career" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>career</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CrisCordova" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrisCordova</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CyberRange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CyberRange</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CyberSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CyberSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/JOB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JOB</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jobs</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/mcc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mcc</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MclennanCounty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MclennanCounty</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MclennanCountyCommunityCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MclennanCountyCommunityCollege</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Waco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Waco</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>“What I want is for every dirty, lousy tramp to arm himself with a revolver or knife on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot their owners as they come out.” </p><p>This was what Lucy Parsons, then in her 80’s, told a crowd at a May Day rally in Chicago, at the height of the Great Depression. The way folk singer Utah Phillips tells the story, she was the image of everybody’s grandmother, prim and proper, face creased with age, tiny voice, hair tied back in a bun. She died in Chicago, Illinois, on this date in Labor History, March 7, 1942.</p><p>Little is known about Lucy Parson’s early life, but various records indicate that she was born to an enslaved African American woman, in Virginia, sometime around 1848-1851. She may also have had indigenous and Mexican ancestry. Some documents record her name as Lucia Gonzalez. In 1863, her family moved to Waco, Texas. There, as a teenager, she married a freedman named Oliver Benton. But she later married Albert Parsons, a former Confederate officer from Waco, who had become a radical Republican after the war. He worked for the Waco Spectator, which criticized the Klan and demanded sociopolitical equality for African Americans. Albert was shot in the leg and threatened with lynching for helping African Americans register to vote. It is unclear whether her initial marriage was ever dissolved, and likely that her second marriage was more of a common-law arrangement, considering the anti-miscegenation laws that existed then.</p><p>In 1873, Lucy and Albert moved to Chicago to get away from the racist violence and threats of the KKK. There, they became members of the socialist International Workingmen's Association, and the Knights of Labor, a radical labor union that organized all workers, regardless of race or gender. They had two children in the 1870s, one of whom died from illness at the age of eight. Lucy worked as a seamstress. Albert worked as a printer for the Chicago Times. These were incredibly difficult times for workers. The Long Depression had just begun, one of the worst, and longest, depressions in U.S. history. Jobs were scarce and wages were low. Additionally, bosses were exploiting the Contract Labor Law of 1864 to bring in immigrant workers who they could pay even less than native-born workers.</p><p>In 1877, Lucy and Albert Parsons helped organize protests and strikes in Chicago during the Great Upheaval. The police violence against the workers there was intense. One journalist wrote, “The sound of clubs falling on skulls was sickening for the first minute, until one grew accustomed to it. A rioter dropped at every whack, it seemed, for the ground was covered with them.” During the Battle of the Viaduct (July 25, 1877), the police slaughtered thirty workers and injured over one hundred. Albert was fired from his job and blacklisted, because of his revolutionary street corner speeches.</p><p>After the Great Upheaval, they both moved away from electoral politics and began to support more radical anarchist activism. Lucy condoned political violence, self-defense against racial violence, and class struggle against religion. Along with Lizzie Swank, and others, she helped found the Chicago Working Women's Union (WWU), which encouraged women workers to unionize and promoted the eight-hour workday. </p><p>During the late 1870s and early 1880s, she wrote numerous articles, including "Our Civilization, Is it Worth Saving?" and "The Factory Child. Their Wrongs Portrayed and Their Rescue Demanded." In 1884, she helped edit the radical newspaper The Alarm. She wrote an article for that paper, "To Tramps, the Unemployed, the Disinherited and Miserable," which sold of over 100,000 copies. In that article, she advocated using violence against the bosses. In 1885, she published "Dynamite! The only voice the oppressors of the people can understand," in the Denver Labor Enquirer. During this period, Lucy gave numerous fiery speeches on the shores of Lake Michigan. Hundreds of people routinely attended. Mother Jones thought her speeches advocated too much violence. The Chicago Police Department called her “more dangerous than 1,000 rioters.”</p><p>On May 1, 1886, 350,000 workers went on strike across the U.S. to demand the eight-hour workday. In Chicago, Albert and Lucy led a peaceful demonstration of 80,000 people down Michigan Avenue. It was the world’s first May Day/International Workers’ Day demonstration—an event that has been celebrated ever since, by nearly every country in the world, except for the U.S. Two days later, another anarchist, August Spies, addressed striking workers at the McCormick Reaper factory. Chicago Police and Pinkertons attacked the crowd, killing at least one person. On May 4, anarchists organized a demonstration at Haymarket Square to protest that police violence. The police ordered the protesters to disperse. Somebody threw a bomb, which killed at least one cop. The police opened fire, killing another seven workers. Six police also died, likely from “friendly fire” by other cops. </p><p>The authorities, in their outrage, went on a witch hunt, rounding up most of the city’s leading anarchists and radical labor leaders, including Albert Parsons and August Spies. Lucy toured the country, giving speeches and distributing literature about the men’s innocence. Everywhere she went, she was greeted by police, often being barred entrance to the meeting halls where she was scheduled to speak. She was also arrested numerous times. </p><p>Despite her efforts, and those of other activists fighting to free the Haymarket anarchists, seven were ultimately convicted of killing the cops, even though none of them were present at Haymarket Square when the bomb was thrown. Four were executed, in 1887, including Albert Parsons. On the morning of his execution, Lucy brought their children to see him for the last time, but she was arrested and taken to the Chicago Avenue police station, where they strip-searched her for explosives. Albert’s casket was later brought to Lucy’s sewing shop, where over 10,000 people came to pay their respects. 15,000 people attended his funeral. Several years later, the governor of Illinois pardoned all seven men, determining that neither the police, nor the Pinkertons, who testified against them, were reliable witnesses.</p><p>After her husband’s execution, Lucy continued her radical organizing, writing, and speeches. In October 1888, she visited London, where she met with the anarchists Peter Kropotkin and William Morris. In the 1890s, she edited and wrote for the newspaper Freedom, A Revolutionary Anarchist-Communist Monthly. In 1892, Alexander Berkman (an anarchist comrade and lover of Emma Goldman) attempted to assassinate the industrialist Henry Clay Frick, for his role in the slaughter of striking steel workers, during the Homestead Strike. Lucy published the following in Freedom: "For our part we have only the greatest admiration for a hero like Berkman." </p><p>In 1905, Lucy cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), along with Mother Jones, Big Bill Haywood, Eugene Debs, James Connolly, and others. The IWW was, and still is, a revolutionary union, seeking not only better working conditions in the here and now, but the complete abolition of capitalism. The preamble to their constitution states, “The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.” They advocate the General Strike and sabotage as two of many means to these ends. </p><p>At the founding meeting of the IWW, Lucy said that women were the slaves of slaves. “We are exploited more ruthlessly than men. Whenever wages are to be reduced the capitalist class use women to reduce them.” She called on the new union to fight for gender equality and to assess underpaid women lower union dues. She also started advocating for nonviolent protest, telling workers that instead of walking off the job, and starving, they should strike, but remain at their worksites, taking control of their bosses’ machinery and property. This was years before Gandhi started leading Indians in nonviolent protest.</p><p> Read my entire biography of her here: <a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/24/lucy-parsons/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/</span><span class="invisible">24/lucy-parsons/</span></a></p><p>“When the prison, stake or scaffold can no longer silence the voice of the protesting minority, progress moves on a step, but not until then.” –Lucy Parsons</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lucyparsons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lucyparsons</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IWW</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/haymarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>haymarket</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/womenshistorymonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>womenshistorymonth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rebellion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rebellion</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/8HourDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>8HourDay</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/eighthourday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eighthourday</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/motherjones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>motherjones</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/eugenedebs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eugenedebs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>execution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bigbillhaywood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigbillhaywood</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/scottsboro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scottsboro</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chicago</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/waco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>waco</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>texas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/civilwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>civilwar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/africanamerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>africanamerican</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMastadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastadon</span></a></p>
datum (n=1)<p>This Texan mask ban <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1704ui-FIcCqF97SX5uVnjP-Xi4A6m4WUXjce2ZonKEI/mobilebasic" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">docs.google.com/document/u/0/d</span><span class="invisible">/1704ui-FIcCqF97SX5uVnjP-Xi4A6m4WUXjce2ZonKEI/mobilebasic</span></a> is proposed not enacted - that link from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zeroes.ca/@broadwaybabyto" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>broadwaybabyto</span></a></span> has to resources to block it. Do you know any Texans? They might want to know about this.</p><p>via <a href="https://zeroes.ca/@broadwaybabyto/114060962578015851" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">zeroes.ca/@broadwaybabyto/1140</span><span class="invisible">60962578015851</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/USAPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USAPol</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/UT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UT</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/UTexas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UTexas</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/TAMU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TAMU</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Austin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Austin</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Houston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Houston</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Dallas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dallas</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/SanAntonio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SanAntonio</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/FortWorth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FortWorth</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/elPaso" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elPaso</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Arlington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arlington</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Plano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plano</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Lubbock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lubbock</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Waco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Waco</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Montgomery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Montgomery</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/COVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COVID</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COVID19</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Masks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Masks</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/MaskBan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaskBan</span></a> <a href="https://zeroes.ca/tags/Measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Measles</span></a></p>
earthling<p>Waco A Survivor's Story by David Thibodeau &amp; Leon Whiteson &amp; Aviva Layton, 2018</p><p>For the first time ever, a survivor of the Waco massacre tells the inside story of Branch Davidians, David Koresh, and what really happened at the religious compound in Texas. </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cults" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cults</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Waco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Waco</span></a></p>
MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.cafe/@chartier" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>chartier</span></a></span> <br>I'd erase the "cop" reference. From <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Waco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Waco</span></a> (where T**** announced his candidacy in 2015) to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Jan6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jan6</span></a> riot, I think we've seen what <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MAGAts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGAts</span></a> REALLY think about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlueLives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlueLives</span></a>.</p>
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