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Faience depiction of the Ancient Egyptian Goddess Sekhmet, 1295-1070 BC
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On this day, 7 May 1912, the first general strike for waiters and hotel workers in New York City began when 150 workers at the Belmont Hotel walked out on strike. Organised by the Industrial Workers of the World union, at its peak over 6000 workers were out, demanding one day off per week, higher wages and no discrimination against union members. The employers tried to stoke racial hatred by hiring African-Americans strikebreakers, so the workers allied with the Coloured Waiters’ Association and called on black workers to join the strike. Various individual hotels agreed to some of the strikers’ demands. Combined with police violence, media harassment, an increasing number of scabs who included local college students, the strike ended by late June, and some key organisers were blacklisted. However hotel workers continued to strike in the coming years, and today hotel workers in New York City remain among the best paid in the world. This is our podcast episode about the IWW at that time: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/05/23/wch-e6-the-industrial-workers-of-the-world-in-the-us-1905-1918/
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‘No Visible Bruises’ Upends Stereotypes Of Abuse, Sheds Light On Domestic Violence
Many women have a hard time admitting — even to themselves — that they’re being abused by their husband or partner. Suzanne Dubus’ first husband hit her, but still, she didn’t initially identify herself as a victim of abuse.
“I attributed it to alcohol,” Dubus says. “I knew that his father abused his mother. And I thought, ‘Well, this is just poor learning, and I can help him with this.’ ”
But after Dubus’ husband beat her so severely he broke her eardrum, her thinking began to shift. She eventually left him. Years later, after the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, Dubus felt compelled to volunteer for victims of domestic abuse.
Now Dubus is the CEO the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center, a domestic violence crisis center in Massachusetts. She and her colleagues have created a program designed to identify women who are are in high-risk situations and to provide them with resources to build new lives.
She joined Rachel Louise Snyder, author of the book No Visible Bruises, in a conversation about the often hidden psychological effects of abuse, and how they keep women trapped.
Snyder notes that it’s more important than ever to take the threat of domestic violence seriously.
“For years we said that three women a day were killed by their partners in America, and since 2017 that statistic is now four,” Snyder says.
Snyder and Dubus agree on the need to focus resources on women during the time when they are most at risk.
“The first 90 days after a victim leaves [her partner] is the most dangerous time for them of any kind of violence,” Snyder says. “Some of these protections … that they established at the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center [are] not a sort of permanent state of being, but a way to build systemic protections around a victim for a period of time to kind of ride [that] out.”
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