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On this day, 30 July 1913, 20,000 textile workers in Barcelona, mostly women and children, went on strike against low wages and long hours. Female strikers cut the hair of scabs, marking them as traitors. The strike continued until 15 September, when the governor introduced a maximum 60 (!) hour week. More info in this great history of women’s struggles in Barcelona around that time: https://libcom.org/history/female-consciousness-collective-action-barcelona-temma-kaplan
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“She was the primeval ocean and she emerged as herself of herself and all has come forth through and from her. She is self existent, and her nature is secret, a mystery to all.” — Egyptian Book of the Dead (via winged-serpent)
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“If one lived forever the joys of life would inevitably in the end lose their savour. As it is, they remain perennially fresh.” — Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness (via philosophybits)
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On this day, 13 July 1976, a team of Uruguayan and Argentinian soldiers kidnapped Uruguayan anarchist Sara Méndez and her friend. She woke up in a torture camp run by the US-backed dictatorship, and was unable to track down her missing infant son. Her son had been taken from her and was put up for adoption, and they were not reunited until 2002.
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PLANET OF STORMS (1962)
the GIANT SPIDER INVASION (1975)