#lucy parsons

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Milestone Monday

On this day, November 11 in 1887, four convicted anarchists, German-American businessman George Engel (b. 1836), German-American printer Adolph Fischer (b. 1858), and American journalists and activists Albert Parsons (b. 1848) and August Spies (b. 1855), were executed as a result of the Haymarket Affair, the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago. A fifth conspirator, Louis Lingg (b. 1864) committed suicide in his cell the day before his execution.

The bombing had left one person dead and several workers injured, and ensuing retaliatory gunfire by the police caused the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians, with dozens of others wounded. The incident was the climax of the social unrest among the working class in America known as the Great Upheaval.

Among supporters of the labor movement, the trial was widely believed to have been unfair, and even a serious miscarriage of justice. The progressive governor of Illinois John Peter Altgeld noted that the state "never discovered who it was that threw the bomb which killed the policeman, and the evidence does not show any connection whatsoever between the defendants and the man who threw it." Albert Parsons and Adolph Fischer were not even present during the bombing. They along with Parson's wife and fellow activist Lucy Parsons (c. 1851–1942) and their two children were at Zepf's Hall nearby and heard the blast. Lucy urged Parsons to flee the city, which he did, eventually laying low in Waukesha, Wisconsin where he worked as a laborer and stayed with the family of Daniel Hoan, the future Socialist mayor of Milwaukee. There he remained until June 21, but afterward turned himself in to stand in solidarity with his comrades who had been arrested.

Lingg, Spies, Fischer, Engel, and Parsons were buried at the German Waldheim Cemetery by what is now the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument. In 1889, a commemorative nine-foot bronze statue of a Chicago policeman by sculptor Johannes Gelert was erected in the middle of Haymarket Square.

The images shown here are from:

The Rise and Fall of Anarchy in America by George N. McLean, published in Chicago & Philadelphia by R. G. Badoux & Co. in 1888.

Anarchy and Anarchists by Michael J. Schaack, published in Chicago by F. J. Schulte & Company in 1889.

Twenty-fifth Anniversary, Eleventh of November, Memorial Edition: Souvenir Edition of the Famous Speeches of Our Martyrs published in Chicago by Lucy Parsons in 1912.

View more Milestone Monday posts.

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since it's black history month, i wanted to share the works of lucy parsons! she was a black woman, an activist, and an anarchist and i think everyone should take a look at her essays. anarchism is often overtaken by white voices so i think it's important to remember people like lucy who contributed so much.

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It's time to explore the origins, history, and diversity of Black Anarchism.

The list of artists used is in the outro.

Introduction - 0:00 Pre-Colonial African "Anarchism" - 0:58 What is Anarchism? - 4:09 The Rise of Black Power - 6:53 The Rise of Black Anarchisms - 11:05 Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin - 11:08 Martin Sostre - 14:03 Kuwasi Balagoon - 17:06 Ojore Lutalo - 19:47 Ashanti Alston - 22:15 Anarchist People of Colour - 25:08 Anarkata - 28:48 African Anarchism - 30:49 Conclusion - 34:40

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I went to see the haymarket martyrs' memorial

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The Red May Day and the Green May Day

The Red May Day and the Green May Day: the politics of the environment and the politics of labour. New post.

As May Day approached this year I finally got round to a small project I’d been meaning to do for a few years now. This was to read Peter Linebaugh’s book The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day, which is a collection of pieces he has written over the years—some pamphlets, some articles—for and about May Day. Peter Linebaugh is a radical American historian, probably…

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Will you deny that your jails are filled with the children of the poor, not the children of the rich? Will you deny that men steal because their bellies are empty?… this is your society, judge altgeld; you helped create it, and it is this society that makes the criminal… and if the workers unite to fight for food, you jail them too.. no. So long as you preserve this system and its ethics, your jails will be full of men and women who choose life to death, and who take life as your force them to take it. Through crime. -Lucy Parsons

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Could they ever understand the dreams of another world that didn't trouble the distinction between state, law, settler, and master ? Or recount the struggle against servitude, captivity, property, and enclosure that began in the barracoon and continued on the ship, where some fought, some jumped, some refused to eat. Others set the plantation on fire, poisoned the master. They had never listened to Lucy Parsons; they had never read Ida B. Wells. Or envisioned the riot as a rally cry and refusal of fungible life. Only a misreading of the key texts of anarchism could ever imagine a place for wayward colored girls.

from Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman

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“How many of the wage class, as a class, are there who can avoid obeying the commands of the master (employing) class, as a class? Not many, are there?

Then are you not slaves to the money power as much as were the black slaves to the Southern slaveholders? Then we ask you again: What are you going to do about it? You had the ballot then. Could you have voted away black slavery? You know you could not because the slaveholders would not hear of such a thing for the same reason you can’t vote yourselves out of wage-slavery.”

— Lucy Parsons,

Americans! Arouse Yourselves!

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Saw this quote and felt the need to share it.

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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAAAAY!

Here are some of the women on my diva shelf ✨

Melanie Chisholm, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Geri Hallaway, and Victoria Beckham

I was immediately enamored with the spice girls after hearing “wannabe.” These women were loud, bold, wore short dresses, platform heels, and screamed “GIRL POWER” from the rooftops. They stood for feminism and friendship. Also Spice World is still a hilarious movie.

Lucy Parsons

Lucy was an anarchist through and through. She blew a lot of shit up with dynamite. She was a founder of the Industrial Workers of the World, wrote in several socialist and anarchist newspapers, gave speeches, and took shit from absolutely no one. The Chicago PD once described her as “more dangerous than 1,000 rioters.”

“Never be deceived that the rich will permit you to vote away their wealth.”

“Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you earn, be content with nothing less."

“You are not absolutely defenseless. For the torch of the incendiary, which has been known with impunity, cannot be wrested from you."

“So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government. We cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.”

Harriet Tubman

She was born a slave, escaped slavery, then helped other enslaved people escape. She helped formerly enslaved people find work, and helped John Brown plan the raid on Harper’s Ferry. She was a nurse, cook, and a motherfucking SPY during the civil war. She was the first woman to lead an armed expedition in war.

“I grew up like a neglected weed, – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented.”

“I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land; and my home after all, was down in Maryland; because my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were there. But I was free, and they should be free.

“I have heard their groans and sighs, and seen their tears, and I would give every drop of blood in my veins to free them”

Glennon Doyle & Brené Brown

Both of these authors have been such a positive influence on my life. I would recommend that everyone read “Untamed” by Glennon Doyle, and “The Power of Vulnerability” by Brené Brown. IMO it’s required life reading.

Glennon Doyle, Untamed:

“This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been.”

“I will not stay, not ever again - in a room or conversation or relationship or institution that requires me to abandon myself.”

“I am here to keep becoming truer, more beautiful versions of myself again and again forever. To be alive is to be in a perpetual state of revolution. Whether I like it or not, pain is the fuel of revolution. Everything I need to become the woman I’m meant to be next is inside my feelings of now. Life is alchemy, and emotions are the fire that turns me to gold. I will continue to become only if I resist extinguishing myself a million times a day. If I can sit in the fire of my own feelings, I will keep becoming.”

“I did not know that I was supposed to feel everything. I thought I was supposed to feel happy. I thought that happy was for feeling and that pain was for fixing and numbing and deflecting and hiding and ignoring. I thought that when life got hard, it was because I had gone wrong somewhere. I thought that pain was weakness and that I was supposed to suck it up. But the thing was that the more I sucked it up, the more food and booze I had to suck down.”

Brené Brown:

“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”

“No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them.”

“Stop walking through the world looking for confirmation that you don’t belong. You will always find it because you’ve made that your mission. Stop scouring people’s faces for evidence that you’re not enough. You will always find it because you’ve made that your goal. True belonging and self-worth are not goods; we don’t negotiate their value with the world. The truth about who we are lives in our hearts. Our call to courage is to protect our wild heart against constant evaluation, especially our own. No one belongs here more than you.”

Courtney Love

I love Hole. So much. And Courtney is a fucking bad ass to the highest degree.

“I strap on that motherfucking guitar and you cannot fuck with me. That's my feeling."

“I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.”

“I'm not a woman. I'm a force of nature.”

Marsha “Pay It No Mind” Johnson

Marsha was an activist in New York City during the Stonewall Riots. She threw a lot of rocks and bricks at cops. It’s rumored that she threw the first brick that was a catalyst for the LGBT movement in the US. Marsha and her friend Sylvia Rivera founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR).

“STAR is a very revolutionary group. We believe in picking up the gun, starting a revolution if necessary. Our main goal is to see gay people liberated and free and have equal rights that other people have in America.”

“No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.”

“Darling, I want my gay rights now.”

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IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR THANK YOU FOR READING MY THOUGHTS ON THESE FUCKING AMAZING WOMEN!!!

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