The Neolithic Revolution began between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago at several widely dispersed locations across the world, when our ancestors first began planting and raising crops. Agricultural communities sprang up almost simultaneously in Mesopotamia, China, Southeast Asia, Africa, Mesoamerica, and South America replacing the hunter-gatherer mode of subsistence that had been utilized for hundreds of thousands of years by Homo.
Oh look it’s the same reason why US companies are closing their apps in China because China has a personal information protection law explicitly modeled off the EU’s GDPR but amazingly you never hear people freaking out about “European authoritarianism”
$1.6 trillion wealth added to billionaire class, divided by 900k dead (by saturday, probably), is about $1.8m profit per covid death
we shifted from 0.26% to 0.27% of the population yesterday or the day before, depending on whether you use a pre-pandemic population figure (like 331,002,651) or adjust for the dead (330,106,825)
On this day, 7 February 1919, construction union activists representing 75,000 members in Essex, New Jersey voted to strike in the event of alcohol prohibition coming into force on 1 July.
Two days later it was reported that 200,000 workers in New York City also voted to strike, with a further 150,000 due to vote in the following fortnight. New York unions received letters from union branches in LA, Cincinnati, Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Dayton, Ohio, St Louis, Kansas City, Milwaukee and elsewhere. Workers who supported the movement wore pins which declared “No beer, no work”.
However, union leaders called off the action the following month, stating it would have made them “look ridiculous”.
We have produced some merchandise commemorating the movement using their original artwork to help fund our work: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/no-beer-no-workhttps://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1916126365239171/?type=3
This isn’t WRONG, but I wish it had more of the books that are being banned currently - which are overwhelmingly either queer or discussing racism.
(Obviously not for teenagers, but because it has ZOMG GAY PENGUINS who get a baby, it’s been challenged SO MANY places. Maybe you can read it to a younger sibling)
(As noted, older editions were published as “George”.)
Anyway, you can find lists of the most frequently banned and challenged books at the American Library Associate’s site here!
This blog is mostly so I can vent my feelings and share my interests. Other than that, I am nothing special.
If you don't like Left Wing political thought and philosophy, all things related to horror, the supernatural, the grotesque, guns or the strange, then get the fuck out. I just warned you.
