#Camp Rockefeller

[alan-woodyard]

February 27, 2024 - 00119

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It takes a special kind of disgusting to purposely cause poverty and homelessness and then turn around and weaponize the power they ABUSED THEIR WAY INTO to control people

Governors and big city mayors across the western United States are demanding the “right” to drive the homeless from view and have pushed for the Supreme Court to remove the Martin v. Boise restrictions on criminalizing the unhoused.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/homeless/as-homeless-crisis-worsens-multiple-states-move-to-criminalize-homelessness

#TheFreeThoughtProject #TFTP

[girlactionfigure]

They loved each other, and they loved their country, Germany. On September 7, 1942, Arvid Harnack and Mildred Fish-Harnack would be arrested while on a weekend outing in Germany.

Arvid was sentenced to death on December 19, 1942, and he would be put to death three days later. Mildred would be executed two months later, beheaded, on the orders of Adolf Hitler.

Mildred Fish-Harnack was the only American woman executed on the orders of Hitler. 

Mildred Fish-Harnack, a 40-year-old American teacher, was a Wisconsin-born teacher, who was working as a lecturer on German literature at the Milwaukee State Normal School (now the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee), where she would meet the love of her life, a German immigrant, Arvid Harnack, a Rockefeller Fellow from Germany. They would wed on her brother's farm in Wisconsin.

In 1929, she and her husband moved to Germany, where she worked on her doctorate and worked as an assistant lecturer (English and American literature and language) and a translator. 

They were still teaching in Germany when Hitler was granted dictatorial powers by a subservient legislature. After the concentration camps opened, the two decided to stay in Germany, to assist immigrants fearful for their lives.

The Harnacks were saddened at what was happening to their beloved country, to see a dictator use racism to divide the people and use his propaganda machine to reinforce his power and control the people, destroying the country from within.

They would eventually become Resistance fighters, secretly forming an underground group that helped imperiled Jews, assisted forced laborers, and documented the atrocities of the Nazis in Germany. The Gestapo named the group the “Red Orchestra.” Her husband would regularly meet with the first secretary of the American embassy to keep Washington informed on the state of the Third Reich’s economy, its trade agreements, rearmament and war plans.

After Arvid Harnack was arrested and sentenced to death, he had petitioned to see his wife before his execution but was denied. During his final hour, Arvid asked if the chaplain could recite “Prologue in Heaven” from Faust. He would then sing the chorale, “I Pray to the Power of Love.”

Mildred Fish-Harnack would initially be given six years in prison, but Hitler refused to endorse the sentence and ordered a new trial, which ended with a sentence of death.

Before she died, she got to read her husband's last letter to her, telling her how much he loved her and “despite everything,” he looked back on a life in which “the darkness was outweighed by the light” largely because of their marriage.

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[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 20 April 1914, the Ludlow massacre took place when US troops opened fire with machine guns on a camp of striking miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado. 12,000 miners had gone out on strike the previous September against the Rockefeller family-owned Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation (CF&I) following the killing of an activist of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). They then demanded better safety at work, and to be paid in money, instead of company scrip (tokens which could only be redeemed in the company store). The Rockefellers evicted the striking miners and their families from their homes, and so they set up "tent cities" to live in collectively, which miners' wives helped run. Company thugs harassed strikers, and occasionally drove by camps riddling them with machine-gun fire, killing and injuring workers and their children. Eventually the national guard was ordered to evict all the strike encampments, and the morning of April 20 they attacked the largest camp in Ludlow. They opened fire with machine guns on the tents of the workers and their families, who then returned fire. The main organiser of the camp, Louis Tikas, went to visit the officer in charge of the national guard to arrange a truce. But he was beaten to the ground then shot repeatedly in the back, killing him. That night, troops entered the camp and set fire to it, killing 11 children and two women, in addition to 13 other people who were killed in the fighting. The youngest victim was Elvira Valdez, aged just 3 months. Protests against the massacre broke out across the country, but the workers at CF&I were defeated, and many of them were subsequently sacked and replaced with non-union miners. Over the course of the strike 66 people were killed, but no guardsmen or company thugs were prosecuted. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9243/ludlow-massacre Pictured: a striker's family in front of their tent https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=612124227627463&set=a.602588028581083&type=3

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

By Isabel Vincent

The cash from Soros and his acolytes has been critical to the Columbia protests that set off the national copycat demonstrations.

Three groups set up the tent city on Columbia’s lawn last Wednesday: Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and Within Our Lifetime.

At the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” students sleep in tents apparently ordered from Amazon and enjoy delivery pizza, coffee from Dunkin’, free sandwiches worth $12.50 from Pret a Manger, organic tortilla chips and $10 rotisserie chickens.

An analysis by The Post shows that all three got cash from groups linked to Soros. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund also gave cash to JVP.

The fund is chaired by Joseph Pierson, and includes David Rockefeller Jr, a fourth-generation member of the oil dynasty, on its board of directors. The non-profit gives money to “sustainable development” and “peace-building.”

And a former Wall Street banker, Felice Gelman, a retired investment banker who has dedicated her Wall Street fortune to pro-Palestinian causes, funded all three groups.

17Free sandwiches from upscale takeout joint Pret a Manger are on offer at the encampment, worth up to $12, and $10 rotisserie chickens. Cash for the encampment has come from billionaire investor George Soros.NYPJ

Both SJP and JVP were expelled from Columbia University in November for “threatening rhetoric and intimidation.” JVP blamed Israel for the Oct 7 Hamas terrorist attack that left 1,200 Israelis dead.

“Israeli apartheid and occupation — and United States complicity in that oppression — are the source of all this violence,” JVP said in a statement on its website.  

SJP called the terrorist strike on Israel “a historic win.”

17Also on offer for the thirsty anti-Israeli protesters camped out at Columbia is free coffee from Dunkin’. Behind the scenes, the groups organizing the encampment have received cash from Soros and another former Wall Street banker.NYPJ

An analysis by The Post shows how Soros and Gelman’s cash made its way to the students through a network of nonprofits that help obscure their contributions.

Soros has given billions to the Open Society Foundations which his son Alexander — whose partner is Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s top aide and the estranged wife of pervert Anthony Weiner — now controls.

In turn, Open Society has given more than $20 million to the Tides Foundation, a progressive nonprofit “fiscal sponsor” that then sends the cash to smaller groups.

Those groups include A Jewish Voice for Peace, which between 2017 and 2022 has received $650,000 from Soros’ Open Society. Its advisers include the academic Noam Chomsky and the left-wing feminist author Naomi Klein.

JVP has been a prominent part of the protests at Columbia and one of its student members was among a group expelled from the university for inviting the leader of a proscribed terrorist group, Khaled, to the “Resistance 101” Zoom meeting.

Soros has also donated $132,000 to WESPAC, called in full the Westchester People’s Action Coalition Foundation.

[jacksoldsideblog]

On the loss of the worker class and the lack of hypocrisy in Project Mayhem

"What," he says, "what will you wish you'd done before you died?"

...

My job, I say. I wish I'd quit my job.

...

The mechanic starts talking, and it's pure Tyler Durden. 

"I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived," he says, his face outlined against the stars in the driver's window, "and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables." 

The drop of his forehead, his brow, the slope of his nose, his eyelashes and the curve of his eyes, the plastic profile of his mouth, talking, these are all outlined in black against the stars. 

"If we could put these men in training camps and finish raising them. 

"All a gun does is focus an explosion in one direction. 

"You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. 

"We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression. 

"We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them. 

"Napoleon bragged that he could train men to sacrifice their lives for a scrap of ribbon. 

"Imagine, when we call a strike and everyone refuses to work until we redistribute the wealth of the world. 

"Imagine hunting elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center.

"What you said about your job," the mechanic says, "did you really mean it?"

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Chapters 18-19, Fight Club.

Well known, probably, for the facetious nature of stating there’s no war in the generation in the 90s as having no war when the Gulf war ‘ended’ in ‘91, and in ‘03 we’d be back in Iraq. Also known well for its inclusion in the movie. 

But like, what’s actually being said there, when you get past that?

You have: The working class of America was emaciated as jobs flew overseas and were rerouted to prison ‘labor’, rapidly deindustrializing the country and leaving those left behind to be shoved into bullshit jobs to create a consumer managerial class, a fangless servile underclass without real power to affect the day to day of society, and a very, very small remaining working class. People who once would have been integral to the function of society are now further alienated and reduced to consumers in a deindustrialized feedlot. All that’s left is the hopelessness, which everyone can see is a cataclysmic disease. A problem that has to be solved. You have such a severe loss of power, such strong alienation that fight club develops as a way to grasp even a sense of control and purpose.

You have: Men especially have been promised war and hard times as the catalyst for their own purpose, but now this generation has seen war, has seen hard times, and none of those promises are stacking up. The poisoning and bombing of civilians in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, doesn’t quite match with the image of righteously dying to end nazism. There is no sudden government program buying up the labor of the beleaguered man down on his luck, to create massive publics works projects and revitalize the surrounding world and economy, a la the New Deal. The propagandized images of the past have been tarnished. There is an acute sense of lack of purpose, lack of value. There is an acute sense of something needing to shift, something massive.

You have: a manufactured rejection of the working class, a debridement of labor, a world in which salary has no relation to the importance or effort of the work you do; there is no value.

He says, imagine; the American people revitalized to the power and importance of before. Strong and undistracted, no longer pacified by petty admittance to jobs with no purpose, no longer accepting of their devaluation, no longer allowing their importance in the world the predicted value of their ad-influenceable leanings. 

Imagine; you’re afraid of history, you cannot imagine crafting a better world, anyone with a concrete plan has been gunned down and removed from power and all you’re left with is limpdicked fools who sit around waiting for a miracle to happen. Imagine you can only see destroying this one and hoping what rises from the ashes will be better as the answer. 

He's an accelerationist; make everything worse, so bad, hit bottom so all you can do is rise. 

So: accelerate. Take the average wage slave, already stripped of true individuality in favor of corporate signage, already stripped of power, and push them farther. Imagine, you think, only will everyone be strong if they finally accept that they are weak. Become the opposite of free. Join a cult. Become nothing and no one. Manifest the death cult already intrinsic in society. Become the nexus of all of society’s ills. Push people into such inhumanity that they will inevitably revolt against you and learn the true value of themselves in the world. 

And try to collapse society. Accelerate the fall of finance. Hasten the destruction of society so it can blossom again.

So yeah, it’s like… I think Project Mayhem’s hypocrisies are on purpose, really. Self improvement is masturbation if you’re never going to actually make a difference. Self destruction is the only thing that will allow you to reach even a moment of perfection. Destroy what you were, let go, fucking take action for once, unfreeze, DO something. Project Mayhem is an advanced version of fight club; it promises actualization through destruction. It isn’t like, some happenstance thing that results in Tyler making the space monkeys what they are. 

I think it’s moreso simply the manifestation of the accelerationist aspect of Tyler’s anarchist, nihilist ideals. And like those two, it’s also a criticism. The monkeys do not drag themselves free. They still await orders. It is a failed, ill planned philosophy of a rabid dog.

[outta-my-tree]

On July 4, 1914 - An explosion demolished the upper stories of an apartment building in East Harlem, killing anarchist Arthur Caron and several colleagues. Caron had been among those who protested the involvement of the Rockefeller family in April's "Ludlow Massacre." It appeared that Caron and his associates were building the bomb meant to kill John D. Rockefeller Jr., when it exploded.

(The Ludlow Massacre occurred April 20, 1914, when Colorado state troops and a private force hired by a Rockefeller-owned coal mining company attacked and destroyed a tent camp of striking miners and their families.)

An official report stated that at least twenty-five people - including fourteen children and two women - perished in the massacre. Earlier reporting put the death toll at a minimum of forty-five people, with women and children accounting for thirty of those deaths.

Left: Photograph shows French Canadian anarchist Arthur Caron, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), who was killed in the Lexington Avenue bombing of July 4, 1914 in New York City.

Right: Photograph shows members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), who were involved in the Lexington Avenue bombing of July 4, 1914, New York City. Group includes Arthur Caron and Charles Plunkett.

Photograph shows the destruction caused by a bomb at 1626 Lexington Avenue, New York City, which killed four people and injured many others. Anarchist conspirators were making the bomb which they intended to put at John D. Rockefeller's home in Tarrytown, New York.

Above: Baptism record of Joseph Arthur Caron, Beauport, Quebec, Canada, 1883. His father is recorded as a day laborer.

Below: Fall River, Massachusetts marriage record for Arthur Caron and Elmina Reeves, 3July, 1905.

Indexed New York death record information.

Funeral procession for French Canadian anarchist Arthur Caron, a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), who was killed in the Lexington Avenue bombing of July 4, 1914 in New York City.

More information:

[mixtapemag]

WALLOWS AT THE TODAY SHOW.

Photos by Christopher Hall

Wallows packed Rockefeller Center Friday morning for The Today Show in celebration of their new album, Model.

Running through four songs - "Are You Bored Yet?" "Bad Dream," "Calling After Me," and "Your Apartment" - the band was electric as the sun rose on New York City. A sea of fans stretched a whole city block, many in the crowd camping out over night after leaving the Bowery Ballroom show the band put on Thursday evening.

Wallows kicks off its Model Tour on August 6th in Portland before playing a sold out Madison Square Garden on August 23rd. Check out Model and everything else about Wallows over here.

Christopher Hall posts over here. Going.

[wiiildflowerrr]

5 Seconds of Summer Performs on 'She Looks So Perfect' on The Today Show

Billboard: 'It’s a rite of passage for modern-day teen idols: Make your “Today” show summer concert series debut; have hundreds of fans (mostly teenage girls) camp out in Rockefeller Center to get a glimpse of your performance.

'Australian pop-punk band 5 Seconds of Summer — that’s Ashton Irwin, Luke Hemmings, Michael Clifford and Calum Hood — had their big moment Tuesday morning when they performed a few songs, including their summer hit 'She Looks So Perfect' in the plaza. The group also performed the track “Amnesia” off their self-titled debut album, which is out today.

'The 'Today' team reported that some young women had fainted, and quite a few more couldn’t stop crying both before and during the performance. Luckily, the band has some experience dealing with large crowds of enthusiastic teens — they’re currently the opening act for One Direction’s worldwide tour.'

[fatehbaz]

[A]s [...] Nelson explains: The creation of transportation infrastructure such as canals and railroads, the deployment of armies, and the clearing of ground to plant tropical products all had to confront [...] microbial resistance. The French, British, and US raced to find a cure for malaria [...]. One French colonial official complained in 1908: “fever and dysentery are the ‘generals’ that defend hot countries against our incursions and prevent us from replacing the aborigines that we have to make use of.” [...] [T]ropical medicine was assigned the role of a “counterinsurgent field.” [...] In 1897 in [British-administered] Calcutta, this transimperial medical-military network [...] finally succeeded in scientifically proving the “mosquito theory”: mosquitoes were identified as carriers of the malaria pathogen [...]. Once [...] [the] theory was recognized, the idea of ‘environment’ became internalized and miniaturized in the form of invading entities [...].

[T]he discovery of mosquitoes as malaria and yellow fever carriers reawakened long-cherished plans such as the construction of the Panama Canal (1904–1914) [...]. In 1916, the director of the US Bureau of Entomology and longtime general secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science rejoiced at this success as “an object lesson for the sanitarians of the world” -- it demonstrated “that it is possible for the white race to live healthfully in the tropics.” 

As Timothy Mitchell writes: “In 1915, the year after the canal’s completion, the newly established Rockefeller Foundation took over the mosquito campaign from the U.S. Army and launched a worldwide program [...]. Thus the global movements of the mosquito gave shape to a transnational corporate philanthropy.” [...] The urgency and severity of measures to combat dangerous diseases always had the collateral benefit of social pacification. In 1918, George Vincent, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, candidly declared: 

“For purposes of placating primitive and suspicious peoples, medicine has some decided advantages over machine guns.”

The construction of the Panama Canal [...] advanced the military expansion of the United States in the Caribbean. The US occupation of the Canal Zone had already brought racist Jim Crow laws, [...] [and racial segregation from] the US, to the spatial structure [neighborhoods and work camps] around the canal. Yet, when the increasing presence of US troops and the flow of migrant laborers in the Canal Zone during the two world wars heightened fears of sexually transmitted diseases, “a medicalized state of war ... attacked environmental space [...]. The spatial imaginary established through control of malarial mosquitoes deeply influenced cartographies” of sexually transmitted diseases [...]. Besides the [...] establishment and expansion of [...] [policing] squads and prophylaxis stations, during the night women were picked up all over the city and forcibly tested for sexually transmitted diseases -- if the results were positive, they were detained in something between a prison and hospital for up to six months. [...] [W]omen in Panama were becoming objects of police surveillance by way of combatting malaria [...].

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All text above by: Fahim Amir. “Cloudy Swords.” e-flux Journal Issue #115. February 2021. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]

[thelastyetfabolousmidwestmadman]

Everything We Know About Deadwood's Fourth and Fifth Season

The first episode would be the original season 3 finale. Bullock would refuse to resign and lock himself in his office in defiance until Al would come up and make a speech about how George Washington when asked to become king by the continental congress "Sheathed his sword" in response saying that this new nation would become a government of laws instead of man and so that's what Bullock must do as well. Ultimately Bullock is convinced and respects the electoral process.

The Series would end with Bullock, Charlie, and Jane leaving Deadwood, with Bullock leaving to become a US Marshall.

Al Swearengin would slowly lose power and influence over the camp over the course of the season, growing sicker and weaker from alcoholism.

At some point mid season the entire camp would burst in flame due to some "Jackass with fireworks", finally following through with build up throughout the series.

A flood would happen at some point to further destroy the town.

Manning would slowly be corrupted by Hearst.

Doc Holliday would appear

Jack Langrishe would encourage Alma to become a novelist.

The Love triangle between Bullock, Alma, and Martha would end in "status quo ante bellum" and be depressing.

The Earp brothers would return.

William Levingston the father of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller and notorious bigamist psychopath would be the main antagonist of season 4. He'd be a conman selling medicine with a "Indian" (Actually a black man named Johnson) which would actually be booze, resulting in a conflict with Doc Cochran. Eventually Yellow Journalists would swarm the camp due to bounties offered by newspapers for evidence of his fathers wereabouts.

Aunt Lou would be explored and would open a restaurant

The Chinatown would be important and the following seasons would examine the ugliness of race relations in America during this period

Jane and Joanie would enter in a relationship that ends bittersweet.

General Fields taking care of Steve the Drunk would be a plotline

The town would be booming and growing larger, with Bullock struggling being fire chief.

Doc Cochran would die of tuberculosis

Langrishe and Al would form a rivalry

Johnny would go against Al, forcing Silas and Dan to take sides

The Theater Group and Jack Langrishe in general would be seen as Hearst's foil as they are trying to bring civilization in a humane way. The girl Claudia is Langrishe's daughter.

Hearst would return at some point and a lot of what happened in the movie would take a entire season long. Hearst would also buy out Merrick's newspapers, break a strike, rig elections, and bribe judges in an attempt to get his way while the town fights back against him.

Cy would have a complete mental breakdown and redemption arc.

Al would become more unstable and back to his season 1 personality due to alcohol abuse.

Martha would open up a school and become a leading member of society

90% of what happened in real life during this period would be replicated in the show, the rest being creative liberties.

Charlie would ask Joanie to marry him.

Sol being a mayor would be a major season 4 plot point, he and Trixie would get married and have a child

Al would be broke due to the banning of prostitution

Wild Bill's murder would be reenacted at some point, this becoming a town tradition.

Keep in mind that according to Milch some of these ideas may be reworked or cut had the season been greenlit, and Deadwood was a collaborative set, so the actors would add their own ideas as well.

[alan-woodyard]

February 12, 2024 - 00104

[haggishlyhagging]

Mollie Steimer (1897-1980) … emigrated with her family from the Ukraine in 1912. One of six children, she described her life in a New York ghetto as typical of "most poor Jewish immigrants." Her father was a laborer, her mother took in boarders, and she worked in various factories. Her formal schooling having been limited by her poverty, Steimer, like Ganz and numerous others, received her education in the radical youth groups where literature and philosophy received almost as much attention as ideas for the creation of the new world. Inspired by Kropotkin's Conquest of Bread, she joined the anarchist group Freedom in 1917.

She could not have chosen a more unpropitious time to become an anarchist. The United States, having recently entered World War I, was increasingly intolerant of radicals. In August 1918, when Steimer and six of her comrades distributed leaflets supporting the Bolshevik Revolution and denouncing the Allied intervention in Russia, they were arrested for violation of the espionage act. While Marie Ganz had been sentenced to sixty days for brandishing a pistol in the offices of John D. Rockefeller, Mollie Steimer was sentenced to fifteen years for proclaiming: "The tyrants of the world fight each other until they see a common enemy—WORKING CLASS ENLIGHTENMENT. As soon as they find a common enemy they combine to crush it." One of her indicted comrades, who had not engaged in the leaflet distribution, was acquitted; one turned state's evidence and received a light sentence; a third died in prison as a result of injuries inflicted by interrogating officers; and the remaining three were given twenty-year sentences.

After the Supreme Court refused to overturn the decision of the lower courts, Steimer began her prison sentence. Refusing to participate in a pardon campaign that was initiated on behalf of her and the others, she explained to her lawyer that "aside from the fact that I am against petitioning a government official, I consider it against my principles to ask for the release of four individuals while thousands of other political prisoners are languishing in the U.S. jails." Despite her disapproval of the attempts to gain her release, Steimer and the others were removed from prison and deported to the Soviet Union in late 1921. At first welcomed by Soviet officials, Steimer soon earned the enmity of the Russian government. As an anarchist she had few illusions about her status among the Communists. Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman had already fled Russia at the time of her arrival, and Steimer understood that dissenters paid stiff penalties. Nevertheless, animated by her principles and by the support of the Russian dissidents who had managed to stay out of prison, she continued her anarchist activities. While in Russia she had met and grown to love Senya Fleshin, an anarcho-syndicalist active in the movement to free Russian political prisoners, many of whom were anarchists. She and Fleshin were jailed, beaten, and tortured; whenever out of prison they remained under constant police surveillance. In 1923 the Soviet Union deported both of them.

For the next two decades Steimer and Fleshin endured ill health, privation, and government persecution. During the twenties they lived in France and Germany. Having the misfortune to be German residents when Hitler came to power, they fled to France again in the 1930s. While living this rootless existence, they witnessed the crumbling of what had remained of the international anarchist movement, and the devastation of their remaining hopes for the vindication of anarchist principles when Franco triumphed in the Spanish Civil War. On the heels of that defeat came World War II and the German occupation of France. Steimer was arrested in May 1940 and sent to a concentration camp at Gurs; Fleshin had escaped detention. Steimer remained in the camp for six months, after which she escaped to the unoccupied part of France. From there she and Fleshin fled to Mexico, where she lived until her death.

It is difficult not to be overwhelmed by Mollie Steimer's fidelity to principle throughout decades of persecution. Whether such constancy is a virtue or a flaw may be argued; nevertheless, despite an almost identical sociocultural background to Marie Ganz, Steimer was inspired by intellectual, social, and psychological forces that profoundly distinguished her from the more changeable Ganz. Steimer's conversion to anarchism derived less from an emotional response to a crisis situation than from her acceptance of the basic tenets of anarchist ideology. As a disciple of Kropotkin, Steimer possessed an intellectual and moral vision of the future. Ganz, on the other hand, consistently disclaimed a constructive image, insisting that destruction of the old order was her only object. Further, Steimer's prison experiences hardened her against democratic society. Although Justice Holmes, in his dissent against the conviction of Steimer and the others, argued that "the defendants were deprived of their rights under the United States Constitution," the majority of the Supreme Court thought otherwise, and Steimer remained convinced that constitutional safeguards of freedom were a sham. Finally—and this is a much more elusive argument—having endured imprisonment, torture, and exile for a cause, not once but three times, Steimer may have chosen simply not to question anarchist ideology in her later years. Whatever her reasons, she did not abandon her faith in anarchism. In her eighth decade she wrote: "I hold fast to my convictions, being certain that only in a society where no human being will rule over another, can there be true freedom. "

-Margaret S. Marsh, Anarchist Women, 1870-1920

[di-daynamic]

@fluffbruary Day 2

Annabeth had been at Camp Half-Blood since she was seven, and never had it felt so incredibly quiet.

She could even pick out the sound of the falling lava from her demigodly enhanced senses. Harpies weren’t scuttling. No swords were clashing in the arena. Nobody was laughing. Nobody was scolding the Hermes Cabin for pulling another stupid stunt or prank.  

It was so quiet it gave rise to too many memories.

The memory of screaming, of hitting Luke over and over, begging to go back and save Thalia gave her nightmares even now, even knowing that Thalia was brimming with life, running and hunting and leading, practically immortal.

She considered her knife. She’d long since washed the blood off it but it still dripped red in her mind. Despite there being no trace of it physically, the knowledge that this weapon had been the one to kill Luke, the one who had promised her a family, the one who had given her the gods damned knife in the first place haunted her.

She shuddered and held onto her knees.

Here she was, sixteen years old, feeling like she had the weight of the world on her shoulders (she ought to know, she’d carried it once).

“Hey, Wise Girl,” She heard from behind her, and turned, smiling suddenly, to the only person who called her that.

“Hey Seaweed Brain,” she greeted, as he came to stand in front of her. The grey streak in his hair was brushed to the forefront. “Bored without me already?”

“Hardly,” Percy smirked. “Tyson’s way too excited, and I love him, but his hyperactivity is worse than mine and is going to kill me.”

Annabeth blinked in surprise. “Excited? For what?”

Percy shrugged, not answering. “What were you doing out here?”

She hesitated. “Thinking,” she answered finally.

He nodded knowingly. “Memories?”

She smiled slightly. Percy Jackson �� the person who knew her better than anyone. Her twelve-year-self would’ve shrieked with horror. “Memories,” she agreed softly.

Percy hummed slightly, coming to stand beside her and wrapping an arm around her waist. He’d always been a tactile person – something she attributed to his being raised by his mother – but was also wary of anyone within six feet distance – something she attributed to his asshole of an ex-stepfather – but since they’d begun dating, it had reached a whole new level. He was always standing beside her, near enough to feel body heart, holding her waist, hugging her, cupping her cheeks when they kissed.

Annabeth had to admit she loved it.

“When I was six,” he began. She turned a surprised gaze on him. He was staring out at the sound, face wistful. “My mom and I went to see the Rockefeller Christmas tree. She took me on a boat ride and to see fireworks and all the cool toys in the shops, and then after the lighting we ate tons of blue candy and she sang me to sleep.”

A warmth spread through her, replacing the sting of her previous thoughts. She imagined six year old Percy in a food coma – drooling, obviously – lying on a bed with Sally, smiling and having happy dreams. She was fiercely glad Gabe Ugliano had not ruined her boyfriend’s entire childhood.

“When I was nine,” She replied in kind, nudging his shoulder slightly. “I went to Mal’s home for Christmas vacation. His dads took us on a tour of City Beautiful and all the art museums. Then we had a cake for his sister’s birthday and we slept under the stars.” Of course, Wright’s architecture had become less and less something she modelled hers on after the segregation and the decimations and all the stats Jude - her history and mathematics focused brother - had collected, but it remained one of her fondest memories.

“Remember that time we tried to team up for the arts and crafts project? The statue making one? We ended up nearly destroying the pavilion?”

“That was mostly your fault,” Annabeth decided, grinning.

“Me! We tried marble carving because you’re the most ridiculously ambitious person on earth!”

“You had a simple job! We were only working on the mould—”

“The laurel was your idea and that’s what started the whole mess—" Percy argued.

“Yeah, well, it’s better than how the baking fiasco went and that was your fault,” Annabeth changed the subject, because she knew the arts thing had been because she was too much of a perfectionist.

“I never said that we had to do it while you were hungover,” he grumbled. “Nor that you had to invite Thalia and Parindra and the Stolls. The Stolls, Annabeth!”

“Oi, Chosen One!” She heard Connor Stoll howl. “We sent you there to get her! Not join her to flirt and badmouth us!”

“We’re not flirting, Stoll!” Percy called back annoyedly. “No wonder you can’t get a date if that’s how you think it works.”

Several Greek curse words were his answer.

Annabeth hid an amused smile. Percy was closest to her and Grover, but he was also friendly with pretty much everyone (though mostly the Stolls, Katie, Lou Ellen, and …. Silena and Beckendorf). His friendship with the Stolls was admittedly entertaining to witness. She’d grown up with them and hence was used to how irritating and yet loving they could be. Watching Katie and Travis insult one another was a camp pastime - along with watching her and Percy, as she’d learned later. She promised herself once more she’d skewer whoever had suggested that.

“Why did they want you to get me?” She asked curiously.

Percy grinned crookedly. “Same reason Tyson’s so excited.” He held out his hand. “C’mon. Let’s go meet our annoying, eavesdropping friends.”

Annabeth snorted. “Unfortunately, that’s the only kind of friends we have.”

Before he started, she tugged on his hand and leaned up to kiss him. She felt the same pleasurable thrill she always did. He laughed, sounding surprised, his thumb tracing her cheekbone, and tilting his forehead to press against hers.

“We should probably get going if we don’t want our idiot friends not to tease us.” Percy sighed.

“Toooo late,” Rachel Dare said in a sing-song voice. She grinned, her green eyes twinkling as she turned around the wall. “Come on, lovebirds.” She made a gesture practically commanding them over, and Annabeth considered not obeying just to irritate her, before remembering her phase of irrational hatred against the other girl was over.

“Coming, Rach,” Percy rolled his eyes, sounding amused.

“What is going on in here?” She asked, half horrified, half amused as they entered the Big House’s movie room. “Does Chiron know?”

“What Chiron doesn’t know won’t hurt him,” Miranda Gardiner flipped her hair, as well dressed and groomed as she always was. Lou Ellen stared at her with heart eyes as always. Will Solace was chatting with his friend Cecil. Nico was sulking and trying to pretend he wasn’t listening in on that conversation. Thalia was with several girls from the Aphrodite, Hephaestus and Hermes-turned-minor-god cabins. The Stolls held court. The Apollo kids – Kayla Knowles and Gracelyn Johnson in particular – were using the things around them as instruments, though all of them were unusually subdued. Not surprising – they’d lost four members to the battle.

Annabeth herself had lost one, and she wasn’t surprise to see her remaining siblings either fiddling with something, reading a book, or in Mal’s case, dribbling a ball.

“They’re here!” Tyson cried out, noticing them.

“Finally!” Malcolm rolled his eyes. “Percy, we sent you ages ago!”

“Oh, don’t bother them, Mal.” Valentina Diaz chirped from beside Miranda and Thalia. Aphrodite’s daughter batted her eyelashes at them. “It’s so romantic!”

“I think they need another dip in the lake.” Connor declared.

“So they can spend another hour kissing in there while we wait for them to make a scene?” Clarisse snorted. “I think not.” Chris laughed and kissed his girlfriend’s temple.

“Well, it was your fault for tossing them in there,” Grover said logically.

“What G-Man said,” Percy nodded, falling in the couch next to Nico. No surprise there. He was ridiculously protective of the younger boy. “Besides, aren’t you wasting even more time?”

“Wasting time for what?” Annabeth demanded, temper beginning to flare. Her boyfriend rubbed circles on her back, which made her ease back. Nico was watching them with an odd expression.

“Well, Chiron’s only locked out for a little while,” Travis said. Annabeth raised her eyes to the heavens and decided not to question it.

“So we decided to watch a movie!” Mirabelle Fleamont, daughter of Tyche chirped.

“A movie,” Annabeth said flatly.

“Yep,” Everyone chorused, even her traitor of a boyfriend. Percy grinned at her.

“Shove up, squirt,” Thalia said, coming to squeeze herself next to the three of them. Nico sighed and grumbled audibly. When Will offered to let him sit on his couch though, he shut his mouth and leaned against Percy, cheeks pink.

“What are we watching?” Gracie demanded, bouncing on her feet.

Immediately, a chorus of variegated answers greeted her, the answerers turning on one another in scorn and rejection and in some cases joy and agreement instantly.

“This is ridiculous,” Annabeth heard Clarisse mutter.

She had to agree. They’d just fought a war five days ago. They were all tired, grieving, traumatized messes. They were child soldiers.

And yet.

Nico was arguing passionately for his very old movie. Nyssa had spirit back in her eye Annabeth hadn’t seen since Beckendorf. Sherman was challenging someone to a duel in a way he hadn’t since the Ares-Apollo feud. Drew made an incredibly catty comment that a couple people giggled over in a sense of fun and camaraderie unfelt since the Labyrinth. Malcolm was bossing everyone around, unseen since he’d had to take on the mantle of Assistant Strategist. Thalia, Percy, Katie and Jude were in agreement over which movie to watch but still felt the need to argue edition.

They were happier than she had seen in a long time.

Wasn’t it in the end what they had fought for? Their right to love one another, to be messes, to argue and be passionate and run and be free and fight and live?

Who was Annabeth to stop them?

Annabeth leaned back into her seat, and called loudly for Roman Holiday. There was a moment of silence, then Percy and Thalia shook their heads in disbelief and lectured her about taste and pandemonium broke out again.

So many people she loved, happy, with her, surviving.

What more could she ask for?

[silberfell]

Whumpcember 2022 Day 1: Hypothermia

Fandom: Daredevil (TV), Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)

Rating: T

Spidey made his way from the Rockefeller Christmas tree west to Hells Kitchen. He wasn't naive and knew perfectly well that it was the teritory of Daredevil but he hoped the fairy lights and pre-holiday cheer made him more lenient towards intruding vigilantes.

Once there he camped out on a shipping container at the Docks. The cold wind from the water blew in his face and more than once pushed his sewn mask into his mouth.

Peter wished he could still use his Stark tech, especialy the build-in heater, but Karen didn't recognize him anymore. A sad reminder that the world forgot about Peter Parker.

He mused what Tony would have thought about him and the decicions he made, about his brothers in the vast multiversum. Are there other Tonys out there? Peter 2 and 3 didn't know the Avengers but maybe Tony didn't get kidnapped and never needed to build the Iron Man armour. Hopefully the other Tonys out there had a comfortable life and weren't facing the same nightmares his Tony did.

The harsh wind were howling around the containers and it started to snow again. If he didn't want to catch a cold than he needed to find shelter. Peter spotted a water tower on a roof nearby and swung there.

Apperently the bad guys decided to put crime on stop for the holidays because even after an hour of waiting there was still nothing to happen. Around Peter a field of snow had formed and he became sleepy the later it got.

'Just a few minutes to close my eyes. I can still hear if something is happening. '

Peter tucked his hands under his armpits and closed his eyes. He knew it was dangerous because he couldn't thermoregulate but he didn't really care. Five minutes and he would head back to his cold and lonely appartment.

There was the sound of heavy boots walking through the snow but Spider-Man already lost his conciousness.

Peter Parker waked up to an ever changing light and a low voice muttering. Right when he looked around, the sliding door next to him opened and his former lawyer walked out what seems to be a bedroom.

"No, everything is okay, Foggy. You don't need to come over. Yes, I have it handled. I promise. Talk to you later", Mr. Murdock said into his phone.

Peter gaped at him like a fish out of water. How did he get here? The last he remembered, he was sitting on a rooftop. On a second thought he reached for his mask to check if it was still in place even if it was pointless because Mr. Murdock was blind.

Mr. Murdock walked towards what looked like a kitchen island and started to heat up water. Peter was mesmerized with the precision of his movement but than again it was Mr. Murdocks home apperently.

"You should keep laying down. Your body temperature is not back to normal and if your cold blood mixes with your warm blood you could get a heart attack" adviced Mr. Murdock.

The blind lawyer put a cup of tea on the coffee table in front of Peter and moved towards the bedroom again. Before he could enter though, he tilted his head and a few seconds later Peter could hear the jingle of keys at the front door. Mr. Murdock shook his head with a fond expression, while a blond man entered the living room.

"Okay, where is the Spidey-sicle? Oh, hey. I'm Foggy Nelson, big fan of yours. Can you give me an autograph? My niece and nephews are crazy about you."

"I thought you were a fan of Daredevil", muttered Mr. Murdock.

"Well, I have a big heart. I can be a fan for more than one vigilante. Besides Spider-Man is way more kid-friendly and I would be the best uncle."

Mr. Murdock scoffed and Peter started to feel a warmth, he thought he lost with Mays death.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 5.14

1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks. 1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade. 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the effective ruler of England. 1509 – Battle of Agnadello: In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Republic of Venice. 1607 – English colonists establish "James Fort," which would become Jamestown, Virginia, the earliest permanent English settlement in the Americas. 1608 – The Protestant Union, a coalition of Protestant German states, is founded to defend the rights, land and safety of each member against the Catholic Church and Catholic German states. 1610 – Henry IV of France is assassinated by Catholic zealot François Ravaillac, and Louis XIII ascends the throne. 1643 – Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII. 1747 – War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre. 1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation. 1800 – The 6th United States Congress recesses, and the process of moving the Federal government of the United States from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., begins the following day. 1804 – William Clark and 42 men depart from Camp Dubois to join Meriwether Lewis at St Charles, Missouri, marking the beginning of the Lewis and Clark Expedition's historic journey up the Missouri River. 1811 – Paraguay: Pedro Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the Spanish governor. 1836 – The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas. 1857 – Mindon Min was crowned as King of Burma in Mandalay, Burma. 1863 – American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place. 1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward. 1870 – The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club. 1878 – The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers. 1879 – The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas. 1900 – Opening of World Amateur championship at the Paris Exposition Universelle, also known as Olympic Games. 1913 – Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller. 1915 – The May 14 Revolt takes place in Lisbon, Portugal. 1918 – Cape Town Mayor, Sir Harry Hands, inaugurates the Two-minute silence. 1931 – Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers. 1935 – The Constitution of the Philippines is ratified by a popular vote. 1939 – Lina Medina becomes the youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five. 1940 – World War II: Rotterdam, Netherlands is bombed by the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany despite a ceasefire, killing about 900 people and destroying the historic city center. 1943 – World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast of Queensland. 1948 – Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. 1951 – Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be operated by volunteers. 1953 – Approximately 7,100 brewery workers in Milwaukee perform a walkout, marking the start of the 1953 Milwaukee brewery strike. 1955 – Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact. 1961 – Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bus and attacking the civil rights protesters who flee the burning vehicle. 1970 – Andreas Baader is freed from custody by Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and others, a pivotal moment in the formation of the Red Army Faction. 1973 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. 1977 – A Dan-Air Boeing 707 leased to IAS Cargo Airlines crashes on approach to Lusaka International Airport in Lusaka, Zambia, killing six people. 1980 – Salvadoran Civil War: the Sumpul River massacre occurs in Chalatenango, El Salvador. 1987 – Fijian Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka. 1988 – Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire. 2004 – The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun. 2004 – Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4815 crashes into the Amazon rainforest during approach to Eduardo Gomes International Airport in Manaus, Brazil, killing 33 people. 2008 – Battle of Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre between Zenit supporters and Rangers supporters and the Greater Manchester Police, 39 policemen injured, one police-dog injured and 39 arrested. 2010 – Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on the STS-132 mission to deliver the first shuttle-launched Russian ISS component — Rassvet. This was originally slated to be the final launch of Atlantis, before Congress approved STS-135. 2012 – Agni Air Flight CHT crashes in Nepal after a failed go-around, killing 15 people. 2022 – Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.