DUANE JONES in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) dir. George A. Romero
On this day, 30 August 1979, screen icon and Black Panther supporter Jean Seberg died by suicide following a campaign of harassment by the FBI, which had resulted in the death of her premature baby nine years prior.
She had provided significant financial support to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Native American education groups, and the Black Panthers, including to their free breakfast for school children program.
As part of the FBI’s COINTELPRO operation directed against radical movements, they were already tapping Seberg’s phone. Upon learning that Seberg was pregnant, under the supervision of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the agency concocted a false story that the father of her baby was a prominent Black Panther not her husband. The story was first reported by gossip columnist Joyce Haber in the Los Angeles Times and syndicated in some one hundred other newspapers, before spreading even more widely. A few weeks after the story was published, Seberg overdosed on sleeping pills and subsequently delivered a premature baby that died two days later. At her daughter’s funeral, Seberg opened the casket to prove that the story was a lie, and that the baby was her husband’s.
According to those who knew her, the story caused a downward spiral for Seberg, culminating in her suicide. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1796791427172666/?type=3
By Scott Scheffer
Thousands of janitors across California have taken to the streets to fight for a fair union contract. United Service Workers West represents some 40,000 janitors, airport staff, security guards and workers in the entertainment industry. The Justice for Janitors division voted Aug. 20 to approve a strike if a fair contract is not wrested from management in September.
The president of USWW, David Huerta, spoke with Struggle-La Lucha about Justice for Janitors and the current negotiations.
Would bronze tools not be better in the long run? They still need to be sharpened but not as regularly as copper would be. Or was bronze too precious a material to use for just regular tools as opposed to like weapons and armour?
AnonymousThey also used bronze tools. Copper in Egypt contains natural arsenic, which makes it harder than copper elsewhere. Bronze, however, despite small objects being produced from the 2nd Dynasty onwards, did not come into common use as tools until the New Kingdom.
