On this day, 22 December 2011 in Athens, the workers at Elefterotypia, Greece’s second-biggest daily paper, walked out on an indefinite strike in protest against not having been paid since August. After several weeks, the 870 men and women working at the firm, including cleaners, journalists, print workers and more, decided collectively to launch their own, self-managed newspaper, The Workers of Elefterotypia. With the new paper, the strikers hoped to raise funds to finance their strike, and also give a voice to all workers fighting against austerity. When the owners of Elefterotypia got wind of the plan they cut off heat at their office, shut down their electronic publishing system and locked out the strikers to prevent them from using any of their facilities. But in spite of this the workers still managed to get out their first issue and outsell every other paper in Greece. To coordinate their struggle, the workers organised regular mass assemblies with 150-550 people in attendance, where they not only decided what to do, but also discussed politics and their hopes for the future. When asked what she had learned from participating in the self-managed newspaper, one worker told an interviewer: “We are capable of making all of our decisions ourselves. We proved that we can run the newspaper without our bosses, in a democratic way. This entire experience is a new process in Greece. Before, we would vote for a trade union leadership every two years and leave all the decisions up to them. Now we know we can take our lives into our own hands.”
Pictured: a workers’ assembly during the strike. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1881534658698342/?type=3
Wolfdogs aren’t cute.
We don’t need to cross a wild animal with one that’s already been domesticated from it.
Even if its amount of wolf content is low, it still has genes from a wild animal and still has potential to pose danger to humans.
Wolfdogs aren’t legal everywhere. In many places where wolfdogs do happen to be legal, if a wolfdog bites someone—even if she’s just playing—she may be required to be euthanized.
We already have dog breeds that resemble wolves without being crossed with them.
Wolfdogs aren’t ethical.
I have personally owned several wolfdogs (low, mid and HIGH 75%) as a licenced rehabber, and I’m here to tell you
It Fucking Sucked.
Wolves and Wolfdogs are highly dangerous, skittish, aggressive, and territorial animals that are insanely hard to manage let alone train.
They can almost never be house broken, require speciality veterinary and nutritional care, and are illegal in most of the united states!
They pose a danger to anyone who steps foot on your property because to them that is Home and they will protect Home with their lives.
Over 90% of all wolf deaths in the wild are caused by territorial fights between other packs.
They are highly highly dangerous and have no business being in captivity.
The only reason I had the ones that I did was that I was their last resort. We had no zoos or refuges that were willing to take in such highly strung aggressive animals, and I was the only one with the land, permits, and expertise that was willing to take them.
It was expensive, dangerous, and mostly heartbreaking.
Each one lived half of its natural life span because they were bred by backyard breeders who didn’t give a rats ass about the genetics of the breeding stock and they had to be put down due to hereditary ailments.
Breeding wolfdogs is incredibly unethical and continuing to support them is lowering the genetic diversity if wild wolves. Where do you think the wolf blood comes from? From wolves poached from the wild.
Stop breeding and supporting the breeding of wolfdogs.
THANK YOU!!!
Years ago we got a puppy from some people who bred malamutes locally. This particular litter was a ‘surprise’ due to the fact that a black lab jumped an impressively high fence to access the female malamute when she was in heat. So, chubby little black and tan puppy, very cute, we have a farm with lots of space for a high energy dog . . ok? Not ok. At the age of 6 he went almost overnight from a very typical-labrador friendly personality to outbursts of bizarre, senseless aggression. We worked with our vet to try to save him, but he rapidly because a danger even to us. When my husband contacted the breeder (because they had asked to get him back if we ever couldn’t keep him) they admitted that they had bred actual wolves into their malamute line. And also that they had had to euthanize his mother at the age of six for massive health problems. It was incredibly shady both that they did that and that they didn’t disclose it when we adopted. I was a whisker away from getting my face torn off (literally) by this dog at one point. He was well-socialized, neutered, and friendly as anything - up until the moment that he wasn’t anymore.
There’s a reason that our ancestors spent years dometicating dogs without the need for us to fuck with it by reintroducing the same fucking genes that where intentionally bred out. A wolf belongs with it’s pack, as does most any dog with appreciable wolf genetics, and you’re a complete dickwad if you’re trying to keep one fenced in a backyard. Get a Husky. They look the part and are already hard enough to deal with without the need for wolf social dynamics butting in. Or get a Samoyed if you want a small extra fuzzy polar bear without the whole danger of mauling thing.
I understand petting the big dangerous thing is fun and exciting, and if there’s anyone that enjoys petting the big dangerous animal, it’s me. But it is a bad idea to try and bring one home with you, like there’s a reason a tiger won’t use a fucking litter box.
Or a Tamaskan. They look the part even more than huskies but still are 0% wolf :)
I got home at 1am on the 18th and a blog called usmilitarymedic whose first post was on the 18th. All one hour of it. The sent me a string of messages asking to be my friend. They complimented me on my blog and then asked me where the next Antifa meeting was in Charlotte NC. How scared should I be?
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The two attorneys that prosecuted a trucker, who they deemed responsible for a fatal interstate pileup sentencing him to 110 years in prison, exchanged a trophy-like memento of the trial featuring the brake shoe from a semi-truck. The original post has since been deleted. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live Sign the petition HERE: https://www.change.org/p/jared-polis-grant-clemency-or-gove-commutation-with-time-served-to-rogel-lazaro-aguilera-mederos Read more HERE: https://www.denverpost.com/2021/12/20/i-70-truck-crash-memento-rogel-aguilera-mederos/ “The two deputy district attorneys who prosecuted the trucker sentenced last week to 110 years in prison for causing a fatal pileup on Interstate 70 exchanged a trophy-like gift featuring a truck’s brake shoe after the guilty verdict, according to a screenshot of a Facebook post by Deputy District Attorney Kayla Wildeman. In the undated post, which appears to have since been deleted or made private, Wildeman wrote that Senior Deputy District Attorney Trevor Moritzky, who worked the trial with her, turned a “brake shoe from a semi-truck into a memento.”” *** The largest online progressive news show in the world. Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian. LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. Help support our mission and get perks. Membership protects TYT’s independence from corporate ownership and allows us to provide free live shows that speak truth to power for people around the world. See Perks: ▶ https://www.youtube.com/TheYoungTurks/join SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theyoungturks FACEBOOK: ☞ http://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks TWITTER: ☞ http://www.twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM: ☞ http://www.instagram.com/TheYoungTurks TWITCH: ☞ http://www.twitch.com/tyt 👕 Merch: http://shoptyt.com ❤ Donate: http://www.tyt.com/go 🔗 Website: https://www.tyt.com 📱App: http://www.tyt.com/app 📬 Newsletters: https://www.tyt.com/newsletters/ If you want to watch more videos from TYT, consider subscribing to other channels in our network: The Damage Report ▶ https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport TYT Sports ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytsports The Conversation ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytconversation Rebel HQ ▶ https://www.youtube.com/rebelhq TYT Investigates ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNJt9PYyN1uyw2XhNIQMMA #TYT #TheYoungTurks #BreakingNews 211221__TA04_Attorneys_Got_Trophy by The Young Turks
Longtime Fox News host Jesse Watters advised the crowd at the Turning Point USA event America Fest to ambush and press Dr. Fauci on his guidance and suggestions regarding the coronavirus pandemic. Specifically, Watters called for activists to get Fauci with a “kill shot”, which would be accusing Fauci of funding the Chinese lab that ’started’ the pandemic. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live Read more HERE: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/586717-fauci-on-foxs-jesse-watters-he-should-be-fired-on-the-spot “Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease doctor, is calling for the firing of a prominent host on Fox News following comments the host made suggesting activists ambush Fauci and go for a rhetorical “kill shot” to his credibility. At an event for the conservative grassroots organization Turning Point USA this week, Jesse Watters, a longtime Fox News personality and current co-host of “The Five,” said critics of Fauci should approach him in public and go for “the kill shot” by pressing him about his the veracity of the statements and guidance he has given on coronavirus during the pandemic.“ *** The largest online progressive news show in the world. Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian. LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. Help support our mission and get perks. Membership protects TYT’s independence from corporate ownership and allows us to provide free live shows that speak truth to power for people around the world. See Perks: ▶ https://www.youtube.com/TheYoungTurks/join SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theyoungturks FACEBOOK: ☞ http://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks TWITTER: ☞ http://www.twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM: ☞ http://www.instagram.com/TheYoungTurks TWITCH: ☞ http://www.twitch.com/tyt 👕 Merch: http://shoptyt.com ❤ Donate: http://www.tyt.com/go 🔗 Website: https://www.tyt.com 📱App: http://www.tyt.com/app 📬 Newsletters: https://www.tyt.com/newsletters/ If you want to watch more videos from TYT, consider subscribing to other channels in our network: The Damage Report ▶ https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport TYT Sports ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytsports The Conversation ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytconversation Rebel HQ ▶ https://www.youtube.com/rebelhq TYT Investigates ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNJt9PYyN1uyw2XhNIQMMA #TYT #TheYoungTurks #BreakingNews 211221__TA05_Fox_Host_Asks_Crowd by The Young Turks
