Sylvia Rivera, Stonewall Vet by. S. Tooley
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Stonewall Heroes
Outhistory.org has released NYC police reports from June 28, 1969, the beginning of the Stonewall Riots. The records reveal new, exciting information about the spark that spurned the "gay revolution". Such gems include:
Let's give our highest adoration to the mighty Stonewall rioters on the 40 anniversary of the rebellion that flaunted to the world that queers too will strike back with demands for respect, justice and equality.
- the vicious participation of women who "did shove and kick" police officers
- a police officer "being bitten on the right wrist by a Stonewall rebel"
- a resistor using a rolled up newspaper to strike a officer "in the left eye" causing the cop "to fall to ground sustaining a fractured left wrist”
- Straight ally, and folk singer David Van Ronk assaulted an officer and was arrested as well
Let's give our highest adoration to the mighty Stonewall rioters on the 40 anniversary of the rebellion that flaunted to the world that queers too will strike back with demands for respect, justice and equality.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Iran is Burning
On the election riots in Iran...
From Jewbonics: hundreds of thousands–perhaps millions–of Iranian Mousavi supporters are out in the street, agitating for reform. They are politicized. They think their votes weren’t counted. They know that they are banned from demonstrating. And they know that the Islamic Republic has authorized the use of live ammunition (there have already been civilian deaths, which may lead to further strengthening of the movement).
An energized populace in Iran, willing to defy illegitimate state edicts, can only lead to good, fraud or no fraud.
Iran isn't the only country rioting
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
James Baldwin
Monday, June 8, 2009
Water Riots
Water riots occurred in Hargeisa, Somaliland for the fourth time this week because ordinary citizens feel helpless and hopeless as a result of finding no means to achieve their legitimate demands.
With the authorities showing lack of perspective planning and failure to deal with the incessant water problems letting parts of Hargeisa, the capital city, reel under severe water crisis, residents have resorted to staging agitations as the only ultimate weapon to get a solution.
With the authorities showing lack of perspective planning and failure to deal with the incessant water problems letting parts of Hargeisa, the capital city, reel under severe water crisis, residents have resorted to staging agitations as the only ultimate weapon to get a solution.
Monday, June 1, 2009
The Fashionable Rioter
Please allow me a moment to give props to the riotous fashionistas. Good fashion is a privilege, and perhaps a shallow pursuit being that global capitalism is strangling millions to death. But, one of this blogs' aims is to promote the riot aesthetic. So today we celebrate those who, despite their desperate situations, took a moment to look good--damn good.
Soweto, South Africa (update)
Paris 68'
Weatherman/Days of Rage
Mexican Revolution
Lawyers in Pakistan
G20
Paris?
* Pardon the over representation of men here, I had a hard time scavenging the diversity of riot pics that I know exists somewhere...
Blog post on Fashion and the Black Block and the place I harvested a few of these images, The Boulevardier (thanks)
Soweto, South Africa (update)
Paris 68'
Weatherman/Days of Rage
Mexican Revolution
Lawyers in Pakistan
G20
Paris?
* Pardon the over representation of men here, I had a hard time scavenging the diversity of riot pics that I know exists somewhere...
Blog post on Fashion and the Black Block and the place I harvested a few of these images, The Boulevardier (thanks)
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Our Riot History: Streetcar War of San Francisco
In 1907, shortly after the disastrous S.F. earthquake, streetcar workers went on strike against United Railroad (URR) demanding a eight hour workday and a salary hike. URR immediately brought in strikebreakers along with armed guards rather than negotiate with the strikers.
When URR attempted to run the streetcars staffed by strikebreakers, strikers and sympathisers threw stones and blocked the road. In response, armed strikebreakers began shooting into the crowd. Pitched battles where fought throughout the city with riotous masses pelting the cars with stones and bricks and the strikebreakers shooting back. At one point strikers took over an abandoned streetcar and sent it crashing into the barracks where the strikebreakers slept. By the end of the first day three where dead and over a dozen where wounded, mostly strikers and their sympathisers.
The battles and sabotage continued for nearly four months with many more casualties. In the end URR broke the strike, but the savage tactics of the company left the city bitter. In 1912 a popular movement for a publicly-owned streetcar line pushed URR out of S.F.
Read more, and with graphics
When URR attempted to run the streetcars staffed by strikebreakers, strikers and sympathisers threw stones and blocked the road. In response, armed strikebreakers began shooting into the crowd. Pitched battles where fought throughout the city with riotous masses pelting the cars with stones and bricks and the strikebreakers shooting back. At one point strikers took over an abandoned streetcar and sent it crashing into the barracks where the strikebreakers slept. By the end of the first day three where dead and over a dozen where wounded, mostly strikers and their sympathisers.
The battles and sabotage continued for nearly four months with many more casualties. In the end URR broke the strike, but the savage tactics of the company left the city bitter. In 1912 a popular movement for a publicly-owned streetcar line pushed URR out of S.F.
Read more, and with graphics
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