On September 24, 1918, the Canadian government made membership in the Industrial Workers of the World illegal. The maximum sentence for membership in the IWW was five years to be served in one of 24 internment camps.
War brings out the worst in people and part of the propaganda of government in war time is to play on fear; fear of the “other”, fear of the “unknown”. During the First World War it was radical groups and publications, many whose membership came from Eastern Europe, that were targeted.
Within weeks of the start of the war in August 1914, Canada’s parliament passed the War Measures Act. In 1916, the press censorship was introduced by an Order-In-Council. In total of the 253 publications banned during the war, 164 were in a language other than French or English. But it was the 1917 Russian Revolution, and its withdrawal from the war, that caused the Canadian government to crack down harder on any social dissent.
By Order-in-Council PC2384, the federal government outlawed political and labour groups, focusing on German, Russian, Ukrainian and Polish speakers. It banned freedom of association, assembly, and speech for many Canadians.
One of the labour groups banned was the radical Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), or as they were known “Wobblies”. This industrial union organization had been founded in 1905 in Chicago and quickly spread across North America. By 1906, the first Canadian chapters had been formed in B.C.
The IWW espoused the idea that workers should all be in one union as opposed to the tradition of Trades. It organized all workers including women and workers of colour. It organized unskilled laborers, the poor, and recent immigrants, all who were often on the margins of society. The IWW believed in “revolutionary syndicalism” where, once organized, workers would initiate a general strike and replace capitalism with a society run by workers. The Wobblies also opposed the First World War and the price paid by working people and, as a result, became an enemy of Prime Minister Robert Borden and the Canadian government.
On September 24, 1918, Borden’s government made membership in the Industrial Workers of the World and thirteen other (primarily ethnic radical political organizations) illegal. The maximum sentence for membership in the IWW, or affiliation with the banned organizations, was five years to be served in one of 24 internment camps.
The ideas of the Wobblies were harder to stop, however. When western Canadian workers formed an organization called the One Big Union (OBU) in 1919, its ideas were closely aligned with those of the IWW. Today every time “Solidarity Forever” is sung on a picket line or at a union convention the IWW spirit lives on because that was their song!
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Covid vaccine costs $180 without insurance. The covid response was better back when the president suggested drinking bleach. Death to America
I have health insurance via my antivax adoptive parents but tell the pharmacists I'm uninsured because ill get kicked out if they find out I got the shot. This is a really cool development that doesn't fuck me over
i just got a covid vaccine the other day for $0 completely uninsured. i was expecting to pay something. idk what the deal is
this was at a walgreens. they asked me whether i had insurance like 4 times, so maybe they were supposed to charge me something and just decided not to
Covid taught me that the most unrealistic thing about the classic videogame Deus Ex was not the genetic engineering, it was not the cybernetic augmentation, it was not even the existence of aliens. The most unrealistic thing about Deus Ex is that Americans would form terrorist cadres to steal vaccines to give to a grateful public.
Places around me have started to remove the clear plexiglass barriers for cashiers. Nature is healing /s
Places around here still have them but I assume only because that'd be too much effort.
"uhhh, there's no way that literally everyone was kung fu fighting"
- Bing-Bong Shapingdong
It's not possible for cats to be as fast as lightning actually
However, if they were it'd likely be at least a little bit frightening
I saw the show. Did the manga ever do anything cool or did it fall off?
the show was mediocre
the manga is Pretty Good, and the light novels are even better. Sorawo is very weird and autistic, and the weirdness comes across a lot better in the light novels, and it's really good slow burn romance with some weird horror sci fi stuff going on too. Can't recommend it enough, really.
Cats apparently have a 20-50ms reaction time, compared to ~250ms for humans. Which, frankly, i am incredibly envious of. I could pull odd so much bullshit if i could react 5-10x faster than other people.
They likely did. KKklanada was an important NATO reserve for Nazis throughout the col war in to the present. It's one of the key places the currect leadership of Ukraine's fascist Banderites was sheltered and nurtured.
https://banderalobby.substack.com/p/expose-the-bandera-complex?r=6jle2
The banderalobby blog is about Banderite activities around the world. Many of them operate out of Canada and the US.
The guy who introduced him said he was a ww2 veteran who fought against Russia, in ww2. Our political class is so hapless and gormless (imagine having neither hap nor gorm) and couldn't wait to be seen clapping for something - they didn't even once think, "wait... fought against Russia who was an ally in ww2... wouldn't that mean...?" They just clapped like seals
Some of you guys are alright. Don't go to reddit tomorrow.
Just saw an ad for "a new type of Chromebook" that is a "cloud gaming powerhouse"
uh huh streaming 3 mobile games will really hit the spot.
We talking crass? We talking Leftover Crack? Who're we talking about?
Listen to The Mob if you haven't, they rule and are the best. Zounds, Hagar the Womb, Lost Cherees, DIRT, The Apostles, early Civilized Society (they're later stuff is also good but less crass more thrash), Riot//Clone, Flowers in the Dustbin, Omega Tribe, Rudimentary Peni came from that scene but are their own thing...I'm an encyclopedia of punk music but especially 80s anarcho punk and crust
big day for dunking on klanada. there was that other post about them dragging out an SS Galicia zombie and give him a standing ovation
man i feel so dumb for not making the connection to the soviet union falling and democrats becoming mask off neoliberals in the 90s
Thread posted one minute ago. It's like witnessing birth
You see, honey, when two posters hate each other very much, but they still want to wait until killing all the capitalist pigdogs to be really at each other's throats...
Am struggling with a baby leftist in my family who has had a major liberalism rebound. They started out
-y, and then started showed real promise with a lot of cultivation on my part; but we stopped talking for a while and it seems they rebounded way back to wind up more of a lib than they started. My patience with their propaganda brain wears thin.
TW: screaming
Eventually devolved into "FUCK IT, FINE, YOU WANT TO KEEP SHITTING ON COMMUNISM, NO MORE CRASHING ON THE COUCH FOR FREE. You FUCKING CONVINCED ME. I'M A CAPITALIST NOW. PAY ME RENT. YOU WANT CAPITALISM SO FUCKING BADLY? YOU CAN FUCKING PAY RENT."
They appear to have been swayed back to the immortal science for the time being.
Its so annoying when you have to pretend abandon your principles to make your point