“With the greatest interest and with never slackening attention I read John Reed’s book, Ten Days that Shook the World. Unreservedly do I recommend it to the workers of the world. Here is a book which I should like to see published in millions of copies and translated into all languages. It gives a truthful and most vivid exposition of the events so significant to the comprehension of what really is the Proletarian Revolution and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. These problems are widely discussed, but before one can accept or reject these ideas, he must understand the full significance of his decision. John Reed’s book will undoubtedly help to clear this question, which is the fundamental problem of the international labor movement.”
On this day, 7 November 1949, revolutionary carpenter, postal worker and environmental activist martyr Judi Bari was born. A member of both the radical Industrial Workers of the World union and eco-direct action group Earth First! she was key in building links between activists protecting ancient redwood trees and logging workers whose livelihoods were under threat from unsustainable logging. After receiving death threats and being rammed by a logging truck, she was blown up by a car bomb. The FBI then tried to claim she had bombed herself. The attack left her disabled and in constant pain until her early death from cancer a few years later, although she continued the struggle until her final days.
Learn more about women in the early IWW in episode 16 of our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e16-women-in-the-early-iww/https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2129088903942915/?type=3
A different sort of monster story
of unrequited love by Ray Bradbury with illustrations by James R. Bingham. Originally published in The Saturday Evening Post (June 23, 1951)
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The story was later collected in anthologies under the new title The Fog Horn to distance it from the 1953 monster movie. The film producers bought the rights from Bradbury and used the Post illustration by Bingham as a basis for the creature.
The comic book industry also adapted a slightly changed story in a 1953 issue of Tales of Horror without crediting Bradbury.
The Beast from the Deep! Published in Tales of Horror #7 (October 1953). Popularly credited to Ray Bradbury (An unknown author scripted the comic) with art by Howard Rosenberger.
We LOVE The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms. To this day This is Jim’s Favorite shot that we ever took!
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