The best Argento movies also seemed to coincide with the best Argento movie posters.
Note: Numerous comparisons to Psycho, alternate spelling of Tenebrae, Phenomena retitled to Creepers for its US release, and the Bird… tagline ripping off that of Last House on the Left.
On this day, 6 May 1937, 400 Black women tobacco stemmers went on strike at the IN Vaughan Company in Richmond, Virginia amidst a wave of unrest in the industry. With assistance from the Southern Negro Youth Congress the women walked out fighting for better pay and conditions, and were joined on picket lines by white women textile workers. After 48 hours, they won better pay, a maximum 8-hour day, 5 day week and union recognition.
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May 1 2020 - On May 1st a group of outraged neighbors, abolitionists and other rabble-rousers came together to storm the gates and occupy a child detention center run by Heartland Alliance in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood. [video]/[video]
We are occupying this building in solidarity with all of
the rebellious children who have been detained here in the past, those
who are still being detained elsewhere, incarcerated people everywhere,
and all who continue to experience violence at the hands of the state.
With each passing day of this pandemic, we realize, as some have long
known, that coronavirus is not the only thing killing us – it’s effects
are weaponized by systems we are told to trust and rely on but which are
actively harming and disposing of us.
Heartland Alliance, a non-profit organization masquerading it’s
sinister program of social control as altruistic endeavor, jails migrant
children in all corners of this city, including right here at 1627 W
Morse. This detention center is currently empty, not because Heartland
has started releasing kids to their families but because the brick and
mortar cage is being renovated and re-secured to continue detaining and
traumatizing children or to transform it into another type of carceral
facility to hold our houseless neighbors while thousands of CHA units
remain vacant. Regardless, this building’s purpose will be to surveil,
control, and criminalize.
There are currently 42 cases of COVID-19 at Heartland’s
facilities. Even before these numbers were confirmed, solidarity demos
have been denouncing what in cages is inevitable. As a result Heartland
has claimed that singing to the children, demanding their freedom and
expressing love, both frightens and endangers them. Meanwhile, those on
the outside witness smiles, waves, hands forming the shapes of hearts,
signs reading ‘thank you’ and ‘i love you’. At a recent demo a written
plea for HELP was launched towards the crowd standing below after which
Heartland had covered their windows with tarps to stop children from
interacting with us. Their flustered responses reflect the intensity of
our connection and reveals an important truth: solidarity is powerful
and our collective action is starting to create some cracks across the
prison walls.
We are destroying the illusion that Heartland’s baby jail business is
anything but an insidious overlap between the non-profit and prison
industrial complexes. The pandemic has laid bare this tortured interplay
exposing an avalanche of contradictions. It is within these cracks that
we begin to grow new worlds. Worlds without incarceration, without
domination, in which we no longer rely on systems that seek to
extinguish and exterminate our autonomy and joy, and which reject
separation from our greater power: each other.
did you guys see the mercenaries that trump hires for security at his rallies attempting an invasion of venezuela and immediately getting captured and humiliated by the venezuelan military?
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they literally just read the tweet the Silvercorp account sent out and just sat there waiting to arrest them before they even got into the country.
The Arizona Department of Health Services sent an email ordering an Arizona State University and University of Arizona team to “pause” the work they were doing compiling data on COVID-19 cases in the state. The schools were sent this order to stand down just hours after Republican Gov. Doug Ducey announced his grand reopening plans for Arizona, beginning May 8.
At the time, Gov. Ducey told the press that “We’re making decisions with the confidence that we are going in the right direction.” The data that Ducey seems to be working off of is FEMA’s secret modeling—which must clearly conflict with the universities’ data. The very robust modeling done by the university team argues that the only potentially safe time to begin reopening the state is at the end of May.
ABC15 reports that the email sent by ADHS bureau chief Steven Bailey came a few hours after Ducey’s announcement. The modeling team had been providing data to Arizona Department of Health Services up until this announcement. At the end of April their research showed that Arizona might see peaks in the pandemic between May and June. ADHS told ABC15 that “The reason that ADHS is pausing the internal modeling is, as we have said before, we are looking at several national models and have determined that FEMA is the most accurate to help us develop and implement public health interventions to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak.”
AZ Central reports that a mathematical epidemiologist at ASU, Tim Land, explained that the findings in April show that the only scenario that kept the trajectory of the virus’ spread in the state from surging was based on the state reopening at the end of May. “I can say, scientifically, no, it’s not safe to reopen unless you’re planning on, you know, shutting down again after a couple of weeks, and we can help figure out what the appropriate amount of time is to stay open before we shut down.”
The need to control what scientific data is available to the public in order to help pervert the public’s perception of the risks involved in the bad decisions being made by conservative leadership across the country is not simply an Arizona Republican Party invention. Florida’s Republican leadership has been very shady in hiding the list of people who have died in their state over the past few weeks. …
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