workingclasshistory:

On this day, 20 July 1943, two Jewish members of the Waldkommando work unit at the Sobibor concentration camp attacked their Ukrainian guard and encouraged other members of the unit to escape. The Waldkommando was composed of 20 Polish and 20 Dutch Jews, and it supplied wood for the crematorium by cutting down trees and digging out the stumps. Szlomo Podchlebnik and Josef Kopf initiated the breakout with a knife Podchlebnik had in his boot. Several Polish prisoners – Podchlebnik, Kopf, Zyndel Honigman, Chaim Korenfeld, Abram Wang, and Aron – were able to successfully escape. Kopf and Licht were murdered by Polish anti-Semites in separate incidents after their escape. The others survived the duration of the war. After the breakout, only Dutch Jews who were unable to speak Polish and did not know the countryside were allocated to the Waldkommando at the camp. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1479472868904525/?type=3

blackbackedjackal:

errorcritical:

fuckyeahjackals:

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@blackbackedjackal 

you and the VC community

fuckyeahjackals:

Black-backed jackals (Canis mesomelas) and side-striped jackals (Canis audustus) are a much older species of canines (fossil records dating back to the Ice Age). Both species are smaller than coyotes, and are exclusively African animals. Side-striped are also much more timid than coyotes or bbjs, and eat more insects than any other canid species. Functionally, they’re not much different from one another. Both are opportunistic scavengers with occasional hunting of smaller prey species, live in mater pairs/small family groups…screaming…

BONUS: colloquialisms have taken the name of jackal and adopted it to three separate canid species that are significantly different than the true jackals: the American jackal (coyote), the Simien jackal (Ethopian wolf), and the golden jackal. It leaves a lot of confusion and a lack of meaning behind the term, which is why the scientific community is proposing the generic name for black-backs and side-stripes to be changed from Canis to Lupullela.

molothoo:

bryannagraham:

molothoo:

kingsandqueensunited:

She dropped pure FACTS!! 💯

Bro nobody ever talks about how anti-American that flag actually is for people who are so called patriotic…so props to her for bringing that up.

It is contradiction to wave both the confederate and American flag because one of those flags is treasonous to the other…

I literally told some dude who had it in his apartment in college and he cursed me out. Then my white friend Jeremy explained it to him and he took it down. They just dont believe the people who tell them if they arent white bc being white is being American to them.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew! 🥵

cool-critters:

Deathwatch beetle (Xestobium rufovillosum)

The deathwatch beetle is a species of woodboring beetle that sometimes infests the structural timbers of old buildings. The adult beetle is brown and measures on average 7 mm long. Eggs are laid in dark crevices in old wood inside buildings, trees, and inside tunnels left behind by previous larvae. The larvae bore into the timber, feeding for up to ten years before pupating, and later emerging from the wood as adult beetles. The larvae of deathwatch beetles weaken the structural timbers of a building by tunneling through them. To attract mates, the adult insects create a tapping or ticking sound that can sometimes be heard in the rafters of old buildings on summer nights; therefore, the deathwatch beetle is associated with quiet, sleepless nights and is named for the vigil (watch) being kept beside the dying or dead. By extension, a superstition has grown up that these sounds are an omen of impending death.

photo credits: Sarefo, Gilles San Martin

cool-critters:

Shingle urchin (Colobocentrotus atratus)

The shingle urchin is a species of sea urchin in the family Echinometridae. It is found on wave-swept intertidal shores in the Indo-West Pacific, particularly on the shores of Hawaii. This urchin is a deep maroon colour and shaped like a domed limpet. It can grow as big as a soft ball but is usually much smaller. The upper surface is a mosaic of tiny polygonal plates formed from modified spines to form a smooth mosaic. This is fringed by a ring of large, flattened modified spines. On the underside there is another ring of smaller flattened spines and a large number of tube feet. This urchin is usually found on substrates fully exposed to waves and their associated abrasive effect, often in groups. It feeds on periwinkles, other urchins and coralline algae.

photo credits: wiki, Ken-ichi, tumblr

poblacht-na-n-oibrithe:

🅱️ocialist 🅱️lternative is the North American section of International Socialist Alternative, a socialist organization with close to ten thousand active members on 6 continents.   CWI comrades have been instrumental in the fight for affordable housing and a higher minimum wage here in the US, the abortion rights movement in Ireland, the struggle against transphobia in the UK, underground labor organizing in China and Nigeria, and the fight against climate change and capitalist hegemony all over the world.

You might have heard of the Kshama Sawant election campaigns in Seattle– that was us!  In 2013 and again in 2019 we ran a candidate for Seattle city council on a platform of living wages and affordable housing, and we busted Bezos’s balls.

SAlt’s goal is to build a movement for social justice and workers’ rights in the United States independent from the two major parties and from corporate control.

From the website:

Socialist Alternative  is the organization that spearheaded the campaign to elect Kshama Sawant to Seattle City Council in 2013, the first independent socialist elected in a major U.S. city in decades. We then led the successful campaign to raise Seattle’s minimum wage to the highest in the country, providing a massive boost to the $15 Now campaign that is spreading around the country.

Kshama Sawant was successfully re-elected to the Seattle City Council in 2015 as a Socialist Alternative member, without any corporate cash, despite half a million dollars being spent on the campaign to unseat her.

Socialist Alternative is a national organization fighting in our workplaces, communities, and campuses against the exploitation and injustices people face every day. We are community activists fighting against budget cuts in public services; we are activists campaigning for a $15 an hour minimum wage and fighting, democratic unions; we are people of all colors speaking out against racism and attacks on immigrants, students organizing against tuition hikes and war, women and men fighting sexism and homophobia.

We believe the Republicans and Democrats are both parties of big business, and we are campaigning to build an independent, alternative party of workers and young people to fight for the interests of the millions, not the millionaires.

WHAT WE STAND FOR

Fighting for the 99%

• Raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, as a step toward a living wage for all.
• Free, high quality public education for all from pre-school through college. Full funding for schools to dramatically lower student-teacher ratios. Stop the focus on high stakes testing and the drive to privatize public education.
• Free, high quality health care for all. Replace the failed for-profit insurance companies with a publicly funded single-payer system as a step towards fully socialized medicine.
• No budget cuts to education and social services! Full funding for all community needs. A major increase in taxes on the rich and big business, not working people.
• Create living-wage union jobs for all the unemployed through public works programs to develop mass transit, renewable energy, infrastructure, healthcare, education, and affordable housing.
• For rent control combined with massive public investment in affordable housing.
• A guaranteed decent pension for all. No cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid!
• A minimum guaranteed weekly income of $600/week for the unemployed, disabled, stay-at-home parents, the elderly, and others unable to work.
• Repeal all anti-union laws like Taft-Hartley. For democratic unions run by the rank-and-file to fight for better pay, working conditions, and social services. Full-time union officials should be regularly elected and receive the average wage of those they represent.
• No more layoffs! Take bankrupt and failing companies into public ownership.
• Break the power of Wall Street! For public ownership and democratic control of the major banks.
• Shorten the workweek with no loss in pay and benefits; share out the work with the unemployed and create new jobs.

Environmental Sustainability

• Fight climate change. Massive public investment in renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies to rapidly replace fossil fuels.
• A major expansion of public transportation to provide low fare, high-speed, and accessible transit.
• Democratic public ownership of the big energy companies, retooling them for socially necessary green production. A “Just Transition” for all workers in polluting industries with guaranteed re-training and new living-wage jobs.

Equal Rights for All

• Fight discrimination based on race, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, age, and all other forms of prejudice. Equal pay for equal work.
• Black Lives Matter! Build a mass movement against police brutality and the institutional racism of the criminal justice system. Invest in rehabilitation, job-training, and living-wage jobs, not prisons! Abolish the death penalty.
• Defend immigrant rights! Immediate, unconditional legalization and equal rights for all undocumented immigrants.
• Fight sexual harassment, violence against women, and all forms of sexism.
• Defend a woman’s right to choose whether and when to have children. For a publicly funded, single-payer health care system with free reproductive services, including all forms of birth control and safe, accessible abortions. Comprehensive sex education. At least 12 weeks of paid family leave for all. For universal, high quality, affordable and publicly run child care.
• Fight discrimination and violence against the LGBTQ community, and all forms of homophobia and transphobia.

Money for Jobs and Education, Not War

• End the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. Bring all the troops home now!
• Slash the military budget. No drones. Shut down Guantanamo.
• Repeal the Patriot Act, NDAA, and all other attacks on democratic rights.

Break with the Two Parties of Big Business

• For a mass workers party drawing together workers, young people and activists from environmental, civil rights, and women’s campaigns, to provide a fighting, political alternative to the corporate parties.
• Unions and other social movement organizations should stop funding and supporting the Democratic and Republican Parties and instead organize independent left-wing, anti-corporate candidates and coalitions as a first step toward building a workers’ party.

Socialism and Internationalism

• Capitalism produces poverty, inequality, environmental destruction, and war. We need an international struggle against this failed system. No to corporate “free trade” agreements, which mean job losses and a race to the bottom for workers and the environment.
• Solidarity with the struggles of workers and oppressed peoples internationally: An injury to one is an injury to all.
• Take into public ownership the top 500 corporations and banks that dominate the U.S. economy. Run them under the democratic management of elected representatives of the workers and the broader public. Compensation to be paid on the basis of proven need to small investors, not millionaires.
• A democratic socialist plan for the economy based on the interests of the overwhelming majority of people and the environment. For a socialist United States and a socialist world.

“But conrad,” you say, “how am I get involved with this very good and nice organization??”  Well, that’s easy!

SAlt has active branches in Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Washington state, California, Oregon, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Texas, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, AND accepts at-large / nomad members.

You need only follow this link and fill out the form and somebody will get back to you real quick.