Vermicomposting saves a lot of time and space compared to conventional composting, as well as being a lot less smelly and messy and accepting a larger diversity of scraps. That makes it perfect for apartments or dorms
New! Our latest podcast episode is out now, about the workers at the Lusty Lady strip club in San Francisco who in 1997 were the first women who managed to unionise a strip joint in the United States, and who later took it over and ran it as a workers’ co-operative. Right now it’s available exclusively for listening for our patreon supporters here: https://ift.tt/2E7hAdA
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You’re telling me there has been a Gay Island this ENTIRE TIME and I’m only just finding out about it????
WHAT
okay, but not enough people know the details on this. people at pride were upset about gay rights in australia. so they decided to sail 200 miles into the coral sea just ‘cause and put a rainbow flag on a fucking empty island out of spite. and i’m talking empty. no inhabitants. zero. it was a flat piece of land with a bit of dry grass. now it has a camp site and a post office.
they have a declaration of independence that talks a bit about gay rights and then just flat out copies the “life liberty and the pursuit of happiness” part from the american declaration of independence. and here’s the best part: the founding group actually elected their emperor. he was originally going to be called the “administrator” of a republic. their website, however, says that “upon legal advice, his title was changed to that of Sovereign on the grounds that under Australian law a defacto prince trying to claim his crown cannot be charged with treason”. so they made it a kingdom and he now claims to be a descendent of edward ii.
everything about this is glorious and everyone should know about it.
On this day, 6 March 1922, a wave of rent strikes in Veracruz, Mexico, was triggered when sex workers barricaded a street with their rented mattresses, chairs and other furniture, planning to start a giant bonfire. Police quelled the action at the last minute, but news of the action spread and sparked tenant protests across the city.
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Pictured: radical tenants in Veracruz, 1922 https://ift.tt/2SIRBAt
On this day, 4 September 1895, Xiang Jingyu, communist and one of the pioneers of the Chinese women’s movement was born. She was an advocate for women’s rights, as part of the liberation of the working class, and criticised sexist practices in the Communist Party. She led a strike of thousands of female silk factory workers in 1924. She was involved in organising women’s support for the Canton-Hong Kong workers’ strike the following year. Unfortunately she was betrayed and arrested in 1928 by French police. The French handed her over to the Kuomintang, who then executed her, but before her death she refused to give up any names of her comrades.
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