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Neolithic People Made Fake Islands More Than 5,600 Years Ago -
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On this day, 19 June 1937, after employers failed to agree to oil workers’ pay demands, workers at one of Trinidad’s oilfields went on strike. British colonial authorities attempted to arrest Uriah Butler, a former oil worker-turned preacher, who was helping to lead the dispute. But he was defended by a crowd of workers, who killed two policemen – soaking one of them with paraffin and burning them. Butler (pictured) then went into hiding. The strike quickly spread across all oilfields, then to the rest of the economy. A state of emergency was declared and two British warships rushed to the island, arriving on 22 and 23 June, bringing marines and additional police from England and Ireland. Two local military units were also mobilised against the workers, and after numerous arrests and imprisonments the rebellion was quashed. Butler was captured in September and jailed for 2 years for sedition. More information in this account of struggles in the British Caribbean at this time: https://libcom.org/library/labour-rebellions-1930s-british-caribbean-region-colonies-richard-hart https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1149530518565430/?type=3
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Poet, writer and musician Joy Harjo — a member of the Muskogee Creek Nation — often draws on Native American stories, languages and myths. But she says that she’s not self-consciously trying to bring that material into her work. If anything, it’s the other way around.
“I think the culture is bringing me into it with poetry — that it’s part of me,” Harjo says in an interview with NPR’s Lynn Neary. “I don’t think about it … And so it doesn’t necessarily become a self-conscious thing — it’s just there … when you grow up as a person in your culture: You have your culture and you’re in it, but you’re also in this American culture, and that’s another layer.”
Harjo, 68, will represent both her Indigenous culture and those of the United States of America when she succeeds Tracy K. Smith as the country’s 23rd Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (that’s the official title) this fall. Her term, announced today by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, will make her the first Native American poet to serve in the position.
“It’s such an honoring for Native people in this country, when we’ve been so disappeared and disregarded,” Harjo says. “And yet we’re the root cultures, over 500-something tribes and I don’t know how many at first contact. But it’s quite an honor … I bear that honor on behalf of the people and my ancestors. So that’s really exciting for me.”
Joy Harjo Becomes The First Native American U.S. Poet Laureate
Photo: Shawn Miller/Library of Congress
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Satan’s Slave is available now on Blu-ray/DVD combo pack via Vinegar Syndrome. Orders placed directly from Vinegar Syndrome ($22.99) will receive an embossed slipcover designed by Earl Kessler Jr., limited to 2,000.
Also known as Evil Heritage, the 1976 British horror film is directed by Norman J. Warren (Terror, Bloody New Year) and written by David McGillivray (Frightmare). Michael Gough, Martin Potter, Candace Glendenning, and Barbara Kellerman star.
Satan’s Slave has been newly restored in 4K from 35mm negative elements. It features reversible artwork. Special features are listed below.
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