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Today in Labor History March 5 1968: The first Chicano student walkout in East Lost Angeles occurred on this date. The Walkouts, or Chicano Blowouts, occurred throughout 1968 in protest of unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools. Chicanos were often in classes of 40 students. Teachers often treated them with contempt. Drop-out rates were high. At Garfield High School, 58% of Chicano students dropped out each year. Thousands of students participated in the Blowouts. On March 4, 1968, J. Edgar Hoover sent out a memo to law enforcement, nationwide, warning them to be extra vigilant against “nationalist” movements in “minority” communities. Harry Gamboa Jr., one of the organizers of the first walkout, was placed on the list of 100 Most Dangerous & Violent Subversives, by the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, along with Angela Davis & Eldridge Cleaver.

Today in Labor History November 15, 1919: The main headquarters of the New York City Wobblies (IWW) was ransacked and destroyed by agents acting under the US Attorney General Palmer. The Palmer raids were part of the first U.S. communist witch hunt, starting well before the more well-known McCarthy purges. It was also where J. Edgar Hoover cut his baby teeth. Between 1917 and 1919, the IWW membership had plummeted from 300,000 in the U.S. to around 30,000, due in large part to the mass arrests, murders and deportations of IWW members, anarchists, and other radicals during the Palmer raids.

We could soon see a resurgence of this by the state, or by MAGA vigilantes, with a Trump presidency. However, their targets could be mainstream organizations like Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, LGBTQ organizations, immigrants’ rights organizations, and even Democratic Party offices, all of whom have been vilified by the right as “communists.” Not to mention concentration camps to house immigrants pending deportation, and raids of workplaces and schools to round up immigrant workers and children. What are you doing to prepare?

Kristen Stewart – „Jean Seberg – Against All Enemies“ (2019)

Sie können mir erzählen, was Sie wollen. Ich halte Kristen Stewart für die derzeitig aufregendste Frau im (amerikanischen) Filmgeschäft. Vielleicht weil sie mir das erste Mal an der Seite von Jodie Foster aufgefallen ist – und da war sie eigentlich noch ein Kind. Ich sehe in ihr jedenfalls eine würdige Nachfolgerin eben jener meiner persönlichen Filmgöttinen. (ARD)

NexxtPress · Mediathekperlen | Kristen Stewart - „Jean Seberg“ (2019)Sie können mir erzählen, was Sie wollen. Ich halte Kristen Stewart für die derzeitig aufregendste Frau im (amerikanischen) Filmgeschäft. Vielleicht weil sie mir das erste Mal an der Seite von Jodie…

Today in Labor History March 5 1968: The first Chicano student walkout in East Lost Angeles occurred on this date. The Walkouts, or Chicano Blowouts, occurred throughout 1968 in protest of unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools. Chicanos were often in classes of 40 students. Teachers often treated them with contempt. Drop-out rates were high. At Garfield High School, 58% of Chicano students dropped out each year. Thousands of students participated in the Blowouts. On March 4, 1968, J. Edgar Hoover sent out a memo to law enforcement, nationwide, warning them to be extra vigilant against “nationalist” movements in “minority” communities. Harry Gamboa Jr., one of the organizers of the first walkout, was placed on the list of 100 Most Dangerous & Violent Subversives, by the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, along with Angela Davis & Eldridge Cleaver.

Today in Labor History November 15, 1919: The main headquarters of the New York City Wobblies (IWW) was ransacked and destroyed by agents acting under the US Attorney General Palmer. The Palmer raids were part of the first U.S. communist witch hunt, starting well before the more well-known McCarthy purges. It was also where J. Edgar Hoover cut his baby teeth. Between 1917 and 1919, the IWW membership had plummeted from 300,000 in the U.S. to around 30,000, due in large part to the mass arrests, murders and deportations of IWW members, anarchists, and other radicals during the Palmer raids.

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Today in Labor History June 15, 1950: As part of their Cold War hysteria, the Senate opened an investigation of 3,500 alleged "sex perverts" (i.e., homosexuals) in the federal government. The “lavender” scare paralleled McCarthy’s witch hunt against anarchists, communists, socialists and labor leaders. McCarthy hired attorney Roy Cohn as chief counsel for the lavender committee. Together with J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, they got scores of LGTBQ people fired from their government jobs because of the fear that their sexuality had already, or would in the future, make them easy targets for blackmail by the Soviet Union. Both Cohn and Hoover were believed to be gay.

This video clip is the trailer for the 2017 documentary “Lavender Scare.”

youtu.be/ZuIYssjmlv0?t=67