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taxloopholes:

taxloopholes:

“anti state” people who claim the fact that socialists and anarchists were the ones fighting against child labor and deadly working conditions is “historical revisionism” ironically are eating up actual revisionism embraced by state sanctioned education to erase anticapitalism as a factor in early worker’s rights and civil rights activism.

capitalists oligarchs didn’t give you rights, they did and do actively fight against them.

although, this is not at all surprising coming from people who draw a line between the state and ruling class that never existed.

Things “hard working” oligarchs didn’t gift you:

The 40 hour work week

Holiday pay

Overtime pay

Hazard Pay

Sick days

Holiday time

Disability insurance

Mandatory fire escapes on the job
and other basic safety standards like requiring handrails, notices for dangerous chemicals, safety equipment, asbestos abatement, etc

Mandatory lunch breaks

The Civil Rights Act and the EEOC

(via lesbian-moon-gf)

bengaliprincess:

if you’re in alaska, one of your senators is lisa murkowski. she criticized the first version of Trumpcare because it would defund planned parenthood. flood her office. visit her in person if you can. tell her to vote no on Trumpcare.

if you’re in maine, one of your senators is susan collins. she also criticized the first version of Trumpcare. call and visit her office if you can. tell her to vote no on trumpcare.

if you’re in nevada, one of your senators is dean heller. hillary clinton won nevada by a pretty healthy margin, and in 2016 nevada elected catherine cortez-masto. heller is up for reelection in 2018. visit his office. flood him with calls. tell him that you’ll have his job on a plate if he votes yes on Trumpcare.

the republicans are only in the majority in the senate by two seats. at least three senators have to vote against the bill to avoid a tiebreaker by the vice president. these three senators probably represent the best chance to flip.

do your thing

(via patrickdiomedes)

thecoggs:

So apparently last year the National Park Service in the US dropped an over 1200 page study of LGBTQ American History as part of their Who We Are program which includes studies on African-American history, Latino history, and Indigenous history. 

Like. This is awesome. But also it feels very surreal that maybe one of the most comprehensive examinations of LGBTQ history in America (it covers sports! art! race! historical sites! health! cities!) was just casually done by the parks service. 

(via aspiringpolymath)