#political murders

[scotianostra]

Leaders of the “Radical Rising”, John Baird and Andrew Hardie were put to death on September 8th 1820 at Stirling.

I last covered the Rising just over a week ago when I posted about the execution of James Purilie Wilson on Glasgow Green.

By 1820, living and working conditions for Scottish weavers, spinners, colliers and manual labourers were often brutal. Many had no work; the labour market flooded with demobbed soldiers from Wellington’s army.

Radicals wanted wide-sweeping change: reform of the corrupt Westminster parliament, universal adult suffrage (not necessarily excluding women), annually elected parliaments and the repeal of the hated Corn Laws, which kept the price of bread artificially high, protecting the interests of landowners and grain merchants at the expense of the poor.

A strike of some 60,000 workers was called in April 1820 and a so-called ‘provisional government’ was even called in Glasgow. A group of Scottish Radicals, mainly weavers armed with pikes, prepared to break into the Carron Ironworks to seize armaments. They were easily overcome by the Yeomanry at Bonnymuir and 47 were arrested on charges of treason. After their trial, three of the ringleaders, Andrew Hardie, James Wilson and John Baird, were executed and nineteen others sentenced to penal transportation to Australia.

What may have looked to the governing authorities of the time as dangerous insurrection, can with hindsight be regarded as part of the 19th century struggle for social justice and democratic human rights. The Scottish Radicals are now regarded as courageous campaigners for justice who fought for the democratisation of Scotland. One of them, John Baird, has a local primary school named after him.

Shortly before he died, standing on a scaffold erected in Broad Street, Andrew Hardie declared: ‘I die a martyr to the cause of truth and justice.’ John Baird said the same. The two men were buried in pauper’s graves in the graveyard of Stirling’s Church of the Holy Rude.

Decades later, their bodies were exhumed and brought to Glasgow, where they were re-interred at Sighthill Cemetery in the north of the city. The monument above their last resting place also honours James Wilson.

The pics include a Broadside reporting the trial, you can find a transcript of here

https://digital.nls.uk/broadsides/view/?id=14665...

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Gaston is such a funny choice for a disney villain. everyone else is a ruthless despot or a dark sorcerer being evil on purpose. and then there's just this guy, the village asshole

[defleftist]

Thrilled to see someone carrying on the tradition of protest folk music. Keep fighting the good fight!

[logorrhea5mip]

-quote by Friedrich Engels

[gojoest]

jealous satoru . . . not the kind who pouts playfully or makes a cute scene or acts silly to capture your attention, but the one whose jaw tightens just the slightest bit, a muscle in his face twitching as though responding to some invisible pressure in the air the moment his eyes fall on the man who’s attempting to chat you up. it’s one of those moments where you see him without even looking. everyone around too, they sense something has shifted. the effortless, carefree aura he usually carries gone, replaced with an unsettling silence. the tension in the air is so thick that it feels like it could be sliced with a knife. you don’t even need to say a word to push the stranger away — satoru’s gaze alone, as he strides toward you, does it for you . . .

[rejectingrepublicans]

[aestariiwilderness]

[angeljpg]

self proclaimed n*zis will write entire manifestos about how [insert marginalized groups here] are the scum of the earth and then kill them in a mass shooting in hopes of inspiring others to do the same but won’t even be charged with a hate crime, yet luigi killed one (1) man and he’s being charged with terrorism? it’s scary how blatantly the government protects the rich and puts their interests over all else jfc. they’re making the class divide look so much more obvious.

[a-multifandom-mess12]

Will Graham: *Sweating shaking and covered in dog hair* Fuck off, don’t talk to me, you can literally go die

Hannibal: You are the sexiest person I have ever laid eyes on.

[niewanyin]

personally, i think men need to grow a backbone like white women have done after being told by leftist spaces that they are evil and complaining about Anything is utilizing white women tears because god knows leftist men clung to the ability to be a misogynist and get away with it by putting the word "white" in front of "women" and they can act like they're the real victims of the patriarchy unlike nasty bitches who might feel unsafe around them. like if you're not secure in yourself as a person to continue doing what's right after a few mean words that you say don't apply to you, that's a problem you should figure out with a therapist.

[weirdlookindog]

Louis Raemaekers (1869–1956) - 'The harvest is ripe´, 1916

[a-mirror-of-memories]

The suitors weren't a full garbage truck but instead they were divided on smaller groups:

The dirtbag gang: canon assholes.

A guard’s honor group: Odysseus saved theirs/their relatives lives during the Troyan War and now are determined to protect the throne until his return to repay the favor. Secretly train Telemachus.

The Future Rulers School: Instead of marrying Penelope, they want to learn how to be a good king from the woman who singlehandedly guided her kingdom for almost 20 years. Once in a while tell her child to stop being a reckless idiot.

The Salted Fish Union: Don't want to inherite their own thrones and think that being a suitor’s a great excuse to stay far away while their sibling prove themselves/get rid of their fathers. Treat Telemachus as an annoying little brother.

Scapegoats Support Group: They're their families disappointments and were sent to die either by the competition or by the King's hand once he returns. Had humbly asked mother and  son if they can still stay in Ithaca as citizens once the competition is over. Penelope’s ready to sign the adoption papers.

Yes Homo Bro: Not so secret lovers who were forced by their families to become suitors and instead use their stay in the palace as a  free vacation. The servants ship them.

The Arts & Crafts Class: Got curious about how long it could actually take to weave a shroud and decided to learn themselves. After a few weeks fully understand why the Queen hasn't finished yet because do you know how frustrating it is to be proud of all the progress you made only to discover a tiny mistake right at the beginning and having to start ALL OVER AGAIN?! More and more skills were added to decrease these suitors blood pressure. Telemachus’s dragged into the class and much later Odysseus also joins as a mix of solidarity and wanting to learn a new skill as therapy.

Crossdressing for Family: Warrior girls whose brothers are too weak and would be killed in seconds or in love with their arranged partners so they exchanged places. Penelope immediately realize the truth and let them be. Athena’s proud of their cleverness and keeps the secret. Telemachus’s having a sexuality crisis.

Light, Camera, Bloodshed!: Are only here to drink the tea and see the chaos unfold.

Most of the suitors except the waste of space first mentioned are part of more than one group at the same time and would definitely cheer for the return of a very confused Odysseus who wonders who are these people, why are they hanging shrouds as banners from the windows and why Penelope was giving him adoption papers to sign (after a brief explanation this last question turned into “who dares to touch my new children's?!”)

[creatingblackcharacters]

In an environment saturated with images of black and trans death, it feels unnecessary to review the details of how Brandon Teena, Lisa Lambert, and Phillip DeVine were killed at the hands of John Lotter and Marvin Thomas Nissen in Lambert’s farmhouse in Humboldt, Nebraska, on New Year’s Eve 1993... Most readers are no doubt familiar with the killings through some encounter with their mediations... [Including] Kimberly Peirce’s full-length feature Boys Don’t Cry (1999).

...Put in filmic terms, as its cinematic iterations convey to supreme effect, the Brandon archive has been edited to produce Brandon Teena as a kind of secular martyr, his death consecrated by way of a particular iteration of queer and transgender politics.

Referring to the ethical and aesthetic implications of DeVine’s erasure from the feature film, Jennifer Devere Brody explains that “Boys Don’t Cry is emblematic of the way in which the radical erasure of blackness makes queer stories queerer.”

The absence of DeVine from Peirce’s feature is so complete that, as Shana Agid notes in the longer description of his screen-printed poster “The Disappearance of Phillip DeVine,” DeVine’s name is not even included in the memorial text at the end of Boys Don’t Cry, precipitating a question for the artist: “[W]hat sacrifices are made to construct lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender stories for mass consumption?”

Black On Both Sides- C Riley Snorton

[victusinveritas]

Nothing suspicious at all here.

[hussyknee]

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