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MikeDunnAuthor
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Today in Labor History: March 28, 1968: Martin Luther King led a march of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. Police attacked the workers with mace and sticks. A 16-year old boy was shot. 280 workers were arrested. He was assassinated a few days later after speaking to the striking workers. The sanitation workers were mostly black. They worked for starvation wages under plantation like conditions, generally under racist white bosses. Workers could be fired for being one minute late or for talking back, and they got no breaks. Organizing escalated in the early 1960s and reached its peak in February, 1968, when two workers were crushed to death in the back of a garbage truck.

I Am a Man - Diorama of Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike, showing men carrying placards that say, “I am a Man.” - National Civil Rights Museum - Downtown Memphis - Tennessee – USA. By Adam Jones, Ph.D. - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22197466
#workingclass#LaborHistory#memphis
Nils Wilcke
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Soutien total à mon confrère Clement Lanot qui a été agressé par un policier hier lors de la manif du 22 mars alors qu'il faisait son métier. Le démenti du préfet de police Nunez est une honte et une violence institutionnel de plus. Quand je vous disais hier que la carte de presse n'empêche pas les violences. bfmtv.com/paris/paris-un-journ

#Politique#Journalisme#Medias
MikeDunnAuthor
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Today in Labor History March 22, 1943: The Nazi-affiliated Schutzmannschaft Battalion burnt alive everyone from the village of Khatyn, Belarus, near Minsk. They did it in retaliation for an attack on German troops by Soviet partisans. Himmler created Schutzmannschaft police units in 1941. By 1942, they had over 300,000 members. They slaughtered Jews throughout the Baltics, Ukraine and Belarus. They also served as guards at forced labor camps. In total, Nazis and Nazi collaborators slaughtered over 2 million people just in Belarus during the three years of Nazi occupation. This was nearly 25% of the entire population. Of these, 800,000 were Jews, or about 90% of the Jewish population.

Khatyn National Memorial Complex - Near Minsk – Belarus. By Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada - Khatyn National Memorial Complex - Near Minsk - Belarus - 05, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64114878
#workingclass#LaborHistory#nazis
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