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Very interesting historical flashback from Mahmoud Khalil now to the deportation of Emma Goldman in 1919, by a then young Justice Department official, J. Edgar Hoover
#emmagoldman #mahmoudkhalil #deportation
The Forward- Larry Cohler-Esses - Is Mahmoud Khalil the new Emma Goldman?
A WWI-era attorney general exploited Goldman’s notoriety to target thousands of legal immigrants. Trump seems to be doing the same with Khalil.
forward.com/opinion/704392/mah

The Forward · Is Mahmoud Khalil the new Emma Goldman?Trump is targeting Khalil in the same way the US once targeted Emma Goldman to deport thousands of legal immigrants.

From time immemorial the wise and practical have denounced every heroic spirit. Yet it has not been they who have influenced our lives. The idealists and visionaries, foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardour and faith in some supreme deed, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

#EmmaGoldman

’La Voz de la Mujer was a paper written by women for women, it was an independent expression of an explicitly #feminist current within South #America’s #labour #movement and was one of the first recorded instances of the fusion of feminist ideas with a #revolutionary and working-class orientation.

As with #EmmaGoldman, #LouiseMichel and #VoltairinedeCleyre, it differed from the mainstream #feminism by being a #workingclass movement which placed the #struggle...'

libcom.org/article/no-god-no-b

La Voz de la Mujer
libcom.orgNo God, no boss, no husband: The world’s first anarcha-feminist groupAn account of the first anarchist-feminist group in Argentina during the 1890s.

Emma Goldman : L’émancipation comme véritable mesure du progrès

🗽📚 Emma Goldman approfondit sa critique du progrès technocratique. Pour elle, le vrai progrès se mesure à l'émancipation individuelle et collective. Son approche holistique résonne avec les débats actuels sur l'innovation responsable. Une pensée toujours pertinente à (re)découvrir ! #EmmaGoldman #ProgrèsSocial #AnarchismeFéministe Emma Goldman : L'émancipation comme véritable mesure du progrès Dans notre…

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Homo Hortus · Emma Goldman : L’émancipation comme véritable mesure du progrès🗽📚 Emma Goldman approfondit sa critique du progrès technocratique. Pour elle, le vrai progrès se mesure à l’émancipation individuelle et collective. Son approche holistique résonne avec les d…

Today in Labor History March 3, 1903: U.S. Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1903, also called the Anarchist Exclusion Act, which bolstered previous immigration law, while adding four new classes of banned people: anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of prostitutes. Congress first discussed banning anarchists from entering the U.S. in 1889, in the wake of the Haymarket affair, when 8 innocent anarchists were framed for a bombing at a public demonstration in support of the eight-hour workday. Then, in 1901, Leon F. Czolgosz, a self-proclaimed anarchist, assassinated President William McKinley. The police responded by arresting numerous anarchists who had no connection whatsoever to the assassination, including Emma Goldman. The new immigration law had minimal effect. Over the next 11 years, only 11 anarchists were denied entry into the U.S., and four were expelled, under the law, including British anarchist John Turner.

🔬🚫 Emma Goldman : Progrès ≠ Innovations

Emma Goldman critique l'équation progrès = innovations. Pour elle, le vrai progrès est social, pas juste technique. Elle prône une vision holistique du progrès centrée sur l'émancipation et l'autonomie des individus, remettant en question l'approche technocratique. Une réflexion toujours d'actualité. #EmmaGoldman #CritiqueDuProgrès #ÉthiqueTechnologique Emma Goldman, figure majeure de l'anarchisme et du féminisme, offre une…

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Homo Hortus · 🔬🚫 Emma Goldman : Progrès ≠ InnovationsEmma Goldman critique l’équation progrès = innovations. Pour elle, le vrai progrès est social, pas juste technique. Elle prône une vision holistique du progrès centrée sur l’émancipatio…

𝗜 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝘁 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲, 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝘁. 𝗦𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗴𝗼 𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗲𝗹𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝘁, 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗹.

#EmmaGoldman

February 11, 1916 - Emma Goldman was arrested for lecturing on birth control, presumed a violation of the 1873 Comstock Law which prohibited distribution of literature on birth control, considered obscene under the act.

Goldman considered such knowledge essential to women's reproductive and economic freedom; she had worked as a nurse and midwife among poor immigrant workers on New York’s Lower East Side in the 1890s. She also organized for women's suffrage, later opposed U.S. involvement in World War I, and was imprisoned for allegedly obstructing military conscription.

“. . . those like myself who are disseminating knowledge [of birth control] are not doing so because of personal gain or because we consider it obscene or lewd. We do it because we know the desperate condition among the masses of workers and even professional people, when they cannot meet the demands of numerous children.” ~ Goldman letter to the press following her arrest

Lautstark forderte Emma Goldman (1869–1940) die Gleichberechtigung der Frau und ihr Recht auf Abtreibung, das selbst im 21. Jh. nach wie vor kriminalisiert wird #218mussweg. 1916 hielt sie in New York vor 3.000 Leuten einen Vortrag zu Geburtenkontrolle + verteilte Schriften zur Verhütung. Am 11. Feb. 1916 wurde sie dafür verhaftet und zu zwei Wochen Gefängnis verurteilt. Eine der wichtigsten Anarchistinnen kennenlernen: dietzberlin.de/produkt/emma-go

Today in Labor History February 7, 1917: A court wrongly convicted labor organizer Tom Mooney for the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing in July 1916. The governor finally granted him an unconditional pardon after 22.5 years of incarceration. 10 people died in the bombing and 40 were injured. A jury convicted two labor leaders, Thomas Mooney and Warren Billings, based on false testimony. Both were pardoned in 1939. Not surprisingly, only anarchists were suspected in the bombing. A few days after the bombing, they searched and seized materials from the offices of “The Blast,” Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman’s local paper. They also threatened to arrest Berkman.
In 1931, while they were still in prison, I. J. Golden persuaded the Provincetown Theater to produce his play, “Precedent,” about the Mooney and Billings case. Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times wrote, “By sparing the heroics and confining himself chiefly to a temperate exposition of his case [Golden] has made “Precedent” the most engrossing political drama since the Sacco-Vanzetti play entitled Gods of the Lightening… Friends of Tom Mooney will rejoice to have his case told so crisply and vividly.”

You can read my full bio of Tom Mooney here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/05/

#LaborHistory #workingclass #bombing #sanfrancisco #TomMooney #anarchism #prison #wrongfulconviction #EmmaGoldman #play #playwright #books @bookstadon

Today in Labor History February 1, 1912: The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) started the San Diego Free Speech Fight in response to a city ordinance preventing public speaking in and around the Stingaree neighborhood (now known as the Gaslamp Quarter). The authorities were trying to squelch labor and radical organizing in the multi-ethnic, working-class neighborhood, infamous for its houses of prostitution, gambling dens, opium dens and Chinese ghetto. Even as late as the 1980s, it still had a skid row feel, with its multitude of tattoo parlors, bars, sailors, junkies and fascination parlors. As a kid, I remember watching the con artists running games of 3-Card Monte on the sidewalks there.

The IWW had been active in San Diego since 1906. They organized timber workers and cigar makers, as well as workers at San Diego Consolidated Gas and Electric Company. Their strike at the power company led to the formation of a public service union, which disbanded in 1911, when many Wobblies flocked to Tijuana to join the anarchist Magonista revolution there. For more on this, read “The Desert Revolution,” by Lowell Blaisdell.

As the Free Speech fight progressed, anarchists, socialists and liberals joined the struggle, deliberately speaking in the restricted zone so that the jails would overflow. And they all demanded individual trials in order to clog up the legal system. Jail conditions were horrendous. Prisoners were crowded into the drunk tanks and forced to sleep on vermin-infested floors. Beatings were routine. 63-year-old Michael Hoy died from a police beating in jail. The IWW called on members from across the country to ride the rails to San Diego to join the fight. At least 5,000 heeded the call.

The local papers, of course, ran countless editorials attacking the radicals and glorifying the police. This encouraged vigilantes, who’d patrol the rail yards looking for incoming Wobblies. They deported many across county lines where they forced them to kiss the flag and run through gauntlets of men who beat them with pick axe handles. On May 7, the cops killed another Wobbly, Joseph Mikolash. And on May 15, vigilantes kidnapped Emma Goldman and her companion Ben Reitman, who had come to show their support. However, before deporting them, the vigilantes tarred and feathered Reitman and raped him with a cane. Ben Reitman was a physician who focused his practice on providing treatment for tramps, hobos, prostitutes and the most marginalized members of society. He also wrote the book “Boxcar Bertha.” The July 11, 1912 edition of the IWW’s “Little Red Songbook” included the song: “We’re Bound for San Diego:”

In that town called San Diego, when the workers try to talk,
The cops will smash them with a sap and tell them “take a walk.”
They throw them in a bull pen and they feed them rotten beans.
And they call that “law and order” in the city, so it seems.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #sandiego #freespeech #policebrutality #prison #IWW #anarchism #Revolution #socialism #strike #magonista #Tijuana #vigilantes #EmmaGoldman #policebrutality #policeabuse #acab #mexico #books #author #writer #fiction #nonfiction @bookstadon

Today in Labor History January 11, 1911: Leonard Abbott, Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman opened the first American Modern School in New York City. They modeled it after the Modern Schools that anarchist Francisco Ferrer had created in Spain. 1909, Ferrer was wrongfully convicted of fomenting an insurrection. He was executed in 1909, leading to worldwide protest. The creators of the American Modern Schools designed them to counter the discipline, formality and regimentation of traditional American schools. Regular working people ran the schools for the children of workers. They sought to abolish all forms of authority, including educational, with the goal of creating a society based on free association and free thought. By the time of the World War I in 1914, Modern Schools were operating in Philadelphia, Detroit, New York, Seattle, Portland, Chicago and Salt Lake City, with more soon to follow in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and Paterson. They taught classes in English, Yiddish, Czech, Italian and Spanish. Some of the students at the original New York Modern School were visual artist Man Ray and early birth control advocate Margaret Sanger’s son. Organizers of the Modern Schools believed that learning was a life-long process that never ended. Therefore, parents were encouraged to participate in the operation of the schools and to attend evening and weekend lectures. Some of the speakers at these lectures included Clarence Darrow, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Jack London, Upton Sinclair, and Man Ray. The schools also served as cultural centers for the promotion of unionism, free speech, sexual liberation, and anti-militarism. The last Modern School in America was in Lakewood, New Jersey. It operated from 1933 to 1958. Two of its last students were the sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who were accused of giving secrets of the atomic bomb to the Soviets.

You can read my article on the U.S. Modern School movement here: The Modern School Movement (Fifth Estate, #411, Spring, 2022): fifthestate.org/archive/411-sp

Today in Labor History January 3, 1917: The trial of labor organizer Tom Mooney began in San Francisco on this date. Mooney was framed for the Preparedness Day bombing (1916), along with Warren Billings, by Martin Swanson, a detective with a long history of interfering in San Francisco strikes. Swanson maintained constant surveillance and harassment of Mooney and Billings, as well as anarchists Alexander Berkman & Emma Goldman. Despite the lack of evidence and perjured testimony of Swanson, the authorities still convicted and imprisoned Billings and Mooney for the bombing. Mooney and Billings were both anarchists, and members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Mooney served over 22 years for this crime he did not commit. Upon his release, he marched in a huge parade down Market Street. Cops and leaders of the mainstream unions were all forbidden from participating. An honor guard of longshoremen accompanied him carrying their hooks. His case helped establish that convictions based on false evidence violate people’s right to due process.

You can read my complete article on Mooney and Billings here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/05/

Today in Labor History January 1, 1879: Ben Reitman was born on this day. Reitman was a comrade and one-time lover of Emma Goldman, a doctor to hobos and prostitutes, and an anarchist organizer. He wrote the novel, “Boxcar Bertha.” Scorsese later made a film based on this book. Reitman became a hobo at the age of ten, but returned to Chicago and got a job in a lab. In 1900, he started medical school. His first daughter founded the nudist Out-of-Door Club at Highland, New York. As a physician, Reitman performed many abortions when they were still illegal. In 1907 he founded the Hobo College for migrant education, political organizing and social services. The during San Diego Free Speech Fight in 1912-1913, vigilantes tarred and feathered him, burned “IWW” into his skin and raped him with a broom. In 1916, he served six-month in prison for breaking the Comstock Law by disseminating information on birth control.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #benreitman #emmagoldman #IWW #freespeech #prostitution #sexwork #abortion #immigration #birthcontrol #prison #writer #author #books #novels #fiction @bookstadon