[video]
(via swampthingy)
As Made-To-Order DNA Gets Cheaper, Keeping It Out Of The Wrong Hands Gets Harder -
.
Photo by @ratbud Brown bears in Kurile Lake, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. #wild #nature #wildlife #animals #kurilelake #wildeyesa #russia #BrownBear #Kamchatka
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2zVuJLg-NG/?igshid=pnj2fhncf70b
On this day, 24 September 1883, during his Address to the National Convention of Colored Men in Louisville, Kentucky, Frederick Douglass criticised trade unions that refused to organise Black workers. However, unfortunately most unions in US would ignore him and maintain whites-only memberships, which weakened them and enabled employers to play off different groups of workers against each other in various disputes. Even after unions were eventually desegregated, nearly a century later many unions even with significant levels of Black membership maintained predominately white leaderships, and ignored the concerns of Black workers. This state of affairs was challenged and eventually largely overturned by self-organised Black workers. One example of this was the case of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit in the 1960s and 70s, who we learn about in this podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/28/e12-the-league-of-revolutionary-black-workers-in-detroit/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1218384475013367/?type=3
“I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all encumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.” — Henry David Thoreau, The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau (via philosophybits)
(via philosophybits)
[video]
