“Without Warning”
In this episode of The Common Good, Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich discusses the Senate coronavirus stimulus bill that passed late last night, the $500 billion slush fund for corporations, the public officials and industries exploiting this crisis for personal gain, and the dangerous prospect of sending people back to work to boost corporate executive’s stock portfolios.
On this day, 26 March 1915, police in Sioux City arrested 14 members of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union for holding Street meetings in an attempt to stop the union growing. IWW members started flooding the town and holding street meetings. When they were arrested they refused to cooperate in court and jail, and when set to work on a rock pile they went on strike and set fires in their cells, and more militants kept arriving. By late April the police caved in and agreed free speech for the IWW.
Learn more about the IWW in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/05/23/wch-e6-the-industrial-workers-of-the-world-in-the-us-1905-1918/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1384904151694731/?type=3
Cryptid of the Day: Enfield Horror
Description: At around 9:30 pm, on April 25th, 1973, Henry McDaniel heard scratching at his door. When he opened it, he saw an other worldy thing standing behind two rosebushes. Then two weeks later, McDaniel saw the thing again, this time near a railroad track. A search party was formed, but found nothing.
‘The Stuff’, dir. by Larry Cohen, New World Pictures, 1985
I have a soft spot for terrible B-movies.
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