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Michael Dunn
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Working Class Historical Fiction from the not so gilded age. Labor History. Social justice. An injury to one is an injury to all!

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Image shows pinup Hilda sitting at a grindstone sharpening her axe in a polka dot bikini top and denim shorts. Text says “still my body still my choice”
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/10/1995: #Nigeria executed #playwright & environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with 8 others for protesting Shell's destruction of Ogoniland, Africa's largest wetland, home to 20 million people & 40 different ethnic groups.
Kenule Beeson Saro Wiwa (October 10, 1941 – November 10, 1995), Nigerian author and environmental activist. By http://www.06live.it/ricordando-ken-saro-wiwa-al-brancaleone-il-10-novembre-2010-14210, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33748575
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/10/1975: #UN General Assembly passed Resolution 3379, calling #Zionism a form of #racism. 1991, #Israel forced UN to remove the declaration as prerequisite to participation in Madrid #peace talks.
Image: Demonstrators outside the 2001 “World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance” in Durban, South Africa. Slogans on protest signs say, "Zionism is Racism," "Israel is an Apartheid State," "Israeli Zionism is Ethnic Cleansing & Racism."
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/10/1898: Racist mob of 2000 whites overthrew biracial government in Wilmington, North Carolina. Deported black & white politicians; killed >300. #Insurrection participant Rebecca Felton, feminist & racist, later became nation’s 1st female senator. #racism #whitesupremacy
Mob posing by the ruins of The Daily Record. By Unknownderivative work: MagentaGreen - This file was derived from: Wilmington vigilantes.tif:, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43151021
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/10/1887: Louis Lingg avoided execution by committing suicide in #prison. Wrote: Hurrah for #anarchism in his own blood. Convicted of #Haymarket bombing even tho he wasn't present during fight for #8hourday. Led to #MayDay

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Louis Lingg (1864-1887), radical German-American political activist. He has bushy hair, a short, thick goatee, and curled mustache. By Image from a contemporary cabinet card, photographer unknown, produced before 1923, public domain; Additional digital editing by Tim Davenport ("Carrite") for Wikipedia, no copyright claimed, released to the public domain without restriction., Public Domain, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36040610
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Musk's new $1 trillion pay package (over the next 10 years) means he'll be getting the equivalent of $48 million per hour.

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Plutocrats with white vests labeled with the dollar sign sitting on piles of cash on top of a litter being held up on the back of workers. The plutes are labeled Vanderbuilt, Gould, Fields. The piles of cash are surrounded by linen with the linen workers' wages at $11/week; timber, with the timber workers' wages at $6/week; and clothing, with the clothing workers' wages at $11/week.
November 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/9/1972: #Mutiny on the USS Constellation by African-American sailors over #racism. #Antiwar organizing also targeted this ship. In 1971, >82% of voters elected to keep the ship home, incl 73% of the military voters.
Poster used for the Constellation Vote. By JohnKent - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60128644
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/9/1938: #Kristallnacht began in Germany, marking beginning of #Holocaust. #Nazis #Hitler Youth & civilians participated. Killed hundreds of #Jews & deported 30,000 to #concentrationcamps & destroyed >7,000 Jewish businesses, 267 synagogues
Destroyed Fasanenstrasse Synagogue in Berlin. By Center for Jewish History, NYC - Flickr: Interior view of the destroyed Fasanenstrasse Synagogue, Berlin, burned during the November Pogroms, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24622435
November 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/9/1918: Striking workers stormed the City Palace & red fortress in Berlin, declaring a Socialist Republic. #Revolution had begun in Oct, with sailors’ #mutiny in Kiel. Within a week, workers' councils controlled govt & military throughout the country. #communism #socialism
November 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Wendy Puerto ARtist aks: Does anybody have a list of all the big corporations with Marxist views? I want to make sure I avoid them! Trevor drinkwater replies: they all do, sadly. it seems we have to choice but to abolish private corporations. it's the only way to defeat marxism. Wendy replies: I think you're right
November 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Top panel: boss says to staff "Anti homeless architecture. Give me ideas!" Middle panel: staff members suggest: Armrests on benches Spikes everywhere Houses? bottom panel: guy who suggested houses being tossed from upper story window.
November 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/8/1939: #GeorgElser attempted to assassinate #Hitler & other #Nazis. Was imprisoned 5 yrs & executed at #Dachau #concentrationcamp <1 month before the Nazis surrendered.
Photo in a personnel file of Georg Elser from the Düsseldorf State Police Headquarters, clean-shaven, smiling, in suit and tie. By Weißkunig - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gestapo-Akte_Georg_Elser_(Delikt).jpg, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=138453678
November 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/8/1972: Trail of Broken Treaties marchers occupied Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), #Washington, DC demanding legal recognition of all existing treaties, restoration of the treaty-making process, and the return of 110 million acres of stolen #Indigenous land.
Poster promoting the Trail of Broken Treaties protest, with image of Indigenous man wearing a hand band.
November 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/8/1923: #Hitler led a failed coup in Munich, the Beerhall Putsch. 2,000 #Nazis were repelled by #police, who killed 16 Nazis. In prison, Hitler composed “Mein Kampf.” 1 of his 1st acts after coming to power in 1933 was abolishing all labor #unions & arresting union leaders.
Nazis at the Marienplatz in Munich during the Putsch. By Bundesarchiv, Bild 119-1486 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5415949
November 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/8/1897: #DorothyDay was born. Cofounded #CatholicWorker, combining spiritual vision of social justice with trade unionism & other activism. #DirectAction & #CivilDisobedience, #journalism & #anarchism.
Day in 1916, with short hair, eye contact, and with early telephone on a table behind yer. By Unknown photographer - http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/BE064360/dorothy-day?popup=1, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=71647416
November 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/8/1892: 20,000 black & white workers united in #NewOrleans #GeneralStrike for overtime pay & 10-hr day. Bosses used #racism to divide the workers, but failed & finally agreed to 10-hr day & overtime pay, but not a universal closed #union shop. #solidarity
White and black dockworkers rest on cotton bales. The general strike was successful because of solidarity between black and white workers. By B. L. Singlay - https://timeline.com/white-and-black-workers-in-nola-joined-forced-to-strike-ea02c5fafb25https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/cotton-wharf-in-new-orleans-with-stevedores-lounging-on-news-photo/514901784https://www.loc.gov/item/2018649753/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75561639
November 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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The 10 richest Americans have seen their wealth collectively grow by $700 billion since President Trump’s return to office. Assets of the richest 0.1% of Americans reached its highest level on record at 12.6%.

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Picture of Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos with the following quote: The ten richest Americans have seen their wealth grow by $700 billion collectively since President Trump's return to office.
November 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today. — B. Traven German Revolutionary, and Author of The Death Ship, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Wobbly, The White Rose, The Rebellion of the Hanged, and many more
November 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Portrait of Fred Hampton with the following quote: We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism. We say you fight capitalism with socialism.
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The war on christmas cannot end until christmas ends its illegal occupation of november.
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/7/1918: Kurt Eisner led Bavarian #uprising during German #Revolution. Overthrew #SocialDemocrats. Created Bavarian Raterepublik led by Workers', Soldiers' & Farmers' Councils. Leaders incl Gustav Landauer, Ernst Toller & Ret Marut (#author B. Traven). #anarchism #communism
Image of B. Traven, with a cap and thin mustache, and his quote: “Can the skipper sail his bucket without sailors? Or can the engineer, no matter how clever he is, build a locomotive without workers? Nevertheless, the worker has to stand with his cap in hand and beg for a job. He has to stand there like a dog about to be beaten.”
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/7/1915: Emiliano #Zapata proposed a new labor law that included an #8hourday, prohibition of #childlabor for children under age 14, worker cooperatives to run factories abandoned by owners, and a fixed #minimumwage.
Image of Emiliano Zapata in a large sombrero and bushy mustache with his quote: If there is not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government.
November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/7/1912: Ernest Riebe's "Mr. Block," #IWW labor comic strip 1st appeared in print. #JoeHill wrote a song about "Mr. Block," who was a boss-loving, American Dream-believing, self-sabotaging knucklehead. Some call Riebe the first "underground" #comic book artist.

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Mr. Block gets news only from the bosses' paper. Reads: “This anarchist paper from Spokane is the limit. It says a workingman can’t get rich by saving his money. T’ain’t so.” He stuffs the paper into the wood burning stove. Then sits down with a corporate paper. “It says everyone can be successful if he puts his mind to it.” Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34919110
November 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM