On this day, 11 May 1923, after months of agitation 150 mostly female rent strikers who had been jailed in the Mexican town of Veracruz the previous year were freed by the governor. The women had organised strikes in detention, and fought with prison guards, while workers outside threatened a general strike for their freedom. The tenants left the jail in groups of 10, the women wearing cream dresses and straw hats with red ribbons, while their supporters sang songs, shouted slogans and set off firecrackers. The group then paraded through the main streets of the city to the office of the renters’ union, where they declared their commitment to continue their direct action against landlords. More info in this history of the movement: https://libcom.org/history/postrevolutionary-pioneer-anarchist-mar%C3%AD-luisa-mar%C3%ADn-veracruz-renters%E2%80%99-movement-1 https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1122117037973445/?type=3
Rudolf Höss the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, is hanged next to the crematorium at the camp on 16 April, 1947
Belka, a Soviet dog who went to space in the Sputnik 5, August 1960. Belka was accompanied by another dog, named Strelka, a grey rabbit, 42 mice, two rats and several plants and fungi. All passengers survived and returned to earth safely.
Animals are not lesser humans; they are other worlds.
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