The Southern Coordinating Committee is a voluntary coordinating and decision-making body that unites branches and locals of the IWW, General Defense Committee, and Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee in the Southeastern United States. Founded in 2017, the SCC helps to coordinate work and fosters local initiatives to organize workplaces, incarcerated workers, and our communities.
The following IWW General Membership Branches and GDC Locals are affiliated with the SCC:
Atlanta GDC
Atlanta GMB
Baltimore GMB
Central Florida GDC
Gainesville GMB [that’s me!!!]
Mid-Atlantic GDC
Raleigh-Durham GMB
Richmond GMB
Tampa Bay GMB
Tar River GDC
Washington, D.C. GMB
West Virginia GMB
Just point your Netscape Navigator or whatever it is the teens are using nowadays over to http://wobsouth.info/contact/ and you can get involved, too!
I really love that the SCC emblem is Scream At Own Ass Possum, that’s so good
working full time is terrible why do we just accept that having 8 days off a month is normal and okay…….. being alive could be cool but we waste it at our JOBS…. sorry i’m just heated about capitalism again i’ll be fine
8 days….never thought about it like that 😓
This seems really whiny to me. Like, I agree with you, work sucks, but our ancestors didn’t get to browse tumblr at their desks or have the option to gleefully spend their ENTIRE WEEKENDS horizontal on the couch stuffing their faces/watching tv/playing video games/wacking off. They didn’t have weekends. They just slaved away as fucking peasants from dawn to dusk until they died in childbirth or got the consumption.
I am perfectly happy working 8 hrs a day because I don’t have to:
grow my own food
find my own clean water
heat my house
shit in the woods
Hi, I study social and cultural anthropology. Humans working 40+ hours a week is 100% an industrial revolution thing and was not normal in the early stages of our existence. In fact, hunter and gatherer societies that still exist to this day spend about 15-20 hours a week TOPS working. The rest is dedicated to sitting around and telling stories and jokes, dancing, singing, eating, sleeping, fucking and so forth. Read a damn book.
When the medieval peasant - the iconic, screwed over, worst off person of pop culture - had more days and time off than you, something’s gone wrong. And apparently something has been wrong for a while now…
On this day, 9 September 1934, over 100,000 Londoners flooded Hyde Park to protest against a rally by fascist leader Oswald Mosley. Despite there being two police officers to guard each fascist, Mosley’s words could not be heard as they were drowned out by the anti-fascists, who then chased the Nazis out of the park. Some of the right-wing press in the UK, like the Daily Mail, supported Mosley and his fascist blackshirts, while the rest of the press and the BBC supported his right to “free speech”, inviting him to speak and advertise his rally but failing to mention the planned counter-demonstration or allow opponents a platform. So workers took publicising their protest into their own hands. Rail workers painted “March against fascism on September 9” on the front of one of their trains, while delivery workers pasted advertisements for the protest on the side of crates transporting goods to factories and others seized microphones at big cinemas, announcing the protest to the audiences. Thousands of leaflets calling on Londoners to march were thrown from the roof of Selfridge’s department store, as well as shops, buses and government offices, while Nelson’s column was painted and banners promoting the demonstration were hung from the Law Courts and the BBC HQ. The publicity effort was so extensive, newspapers were forced to report on it, and the liberal Observer lamented that “it looks as though the counter-demonstration will be nothing like as small as might be desirable in the circumstances”.
Learn more about the fight against Mosley in the 1940s in our podcast series: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e35-37-the-43-group/https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1523931361125342/?type=3
