On this day, 10 June 1907, the first edition of Tianyi (天義 – Natural Justice), a Chinese anarchist feminist magazine, was published in exile in Tokyo. It had been founded by He Zhen (何震 – He “thunderclap”, pictured left), a leading member of the Women’s Rights Recovery Association (女子妇权会).
The Association advocated forceful resistance against oppression by men, as well as that by capitalists and the ruling class. It also forbade its own members from being subservient to men or becoming a concubine or second wife, while offering to come to the assistance of any member who was being abused by their husband, or under some other form of male dominance.
Zhen urged: “You women, do not hate the man: hate that you don’t have food to eat. Why don’t you have food to eat? Because you can’t buy food without money. Why don’t you have money? Because the rich have stolen our property and walk all over the majority of the people.”
Tianyi argued for a sexual revolution and the abolition of the family, which it believed gave rise to selfishness, patriarchy and private property.
Zhen also argued that women forming part of a government would be inadequate for the liberation of women, believing that while a few women might be able to join the ruling class, they would only join men in oppressing everyone else. And so liberation would only come with the overthrowing of both patriarchy and the state: “What we mean by equality between the sexes is not just that men will no longer oppress women. We also want men no longer to be oppressed by other men and women no longer to be oppressed by other women.”
In total, 19 issues of the journal published over the next couple of years.
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Spider plants are among the best natural air filters you can put in a flowerpot. They don’t just produce oxygen, they clean out other gases and toxins and whatever else is floating around the room.
Also they’re easy as fuck to grow more of because they reproduce by putting little mini plants out on stalks. Clip one off, stick it in a pot and you’re good!
Friendly reminder that corporations are not your friends, no matter how many rainbows they splatter all over during pride month
I get this is likely to point out their hypocrisy, but I feel that’s not only being lost on many people who reblog this, but it’s actually burying the most sinister thing going on, here.
Most of these companies donate to both sides.
The point of doing such is so that no matter who is elected, the politician is indebted to them, so said politician will put their needs (regulatory rollbacks, tax breaks, anti-union laws, minimum wage suppression, anti-healthcare policies, supporting monopolies, and anything else that benefits then) over yours.
And that’s why they’re not your friends.
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It’s amazing this even works though. Because it seems like if the politicians had brains things would work out like this
Rep: You know I know that you’re donating to me and my opponent.
Corp: So?
Rep: So if you’re not loyal to me, why should I be loyal to you?
Corp: We could stop donating to you, and just go with your opponent
Rep: If you did that then I would have no reason to even consider supporting you. And I currently have the one thing in American politics that’s as effective as money. I’m an incumbent
On this day, 11 June 1981, the first of two violent raids by Québec police took place on the Restigouche reserve of the Mi’kmaq First Nations people. Officers in full riot gear attacked the reserve, while 35 boatloads of game wardens came ashore to shut down fishing by Mi’kmaq people.
During the first raid police seized 100 fishing nets, arrested nine people and was accused of brutally beating others, like fisherman Randy Morrison, who reportedly stated: “I was trying to get out of the way of a group of policemen. A group of them grabbed, handcuffed, and then beat me with their sticks.”
On June 20, police returned, blockading the area and firing rubber bullets and tear gas.
While the government claimed to be acting for conservation reasons, at the same time as shutting down salmon fishing by First Nations people, increasing oil exploration on Indigenous land was continuing apace. At the time there was speculation that the raids were to assert Québec’s control of salmon fishing as a precursor to potential independence.
Clashes continued in the aftermath of the raids, with two Native Americans shot by police and another reserve raided by a mob of white Canadians who destroyed a Native salmon net.
The second raids were filmed in a landmark documentary by Indigenous director Alanis Obomsawin in her film, Incident at Restigouche.
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