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Canada’s Nunavut: A vast territory with few people — and no coronavirus
With a limited medical system, Canada’s largest and least populated territory has imposed a strict lockdown. It’s the only state-level jurisdiction on the continent to be spared infection.
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Come Join The Knights of Labor, or, The Railway Strike. Song & Chorus
https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/057/069
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Words and Music By Mrs. Ella Lodge.
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I’m uncertain whether the interest in label pins and their history belongs to phaleristics or not. Perhaps phaleristics proper only study symbolic items granted to someone by someone, and not to label pins that you purchase? Until somebody enlightens me on this scholarly obscurity, I will place socialist pins under the label “socialist phaleristics”.
This blog post is decorated with medallions/charms from the Knights of Labor as displayed in F. Irons & Charles A. Russell, Illustrated Catalogue of Solid Gold. Society Emblems, Pins, Buttons and Charms, Providence, Irons & Russell (1895) and a marvellous pin from CNT-FAI that I happend to find on e-bay.
Socialist Phaleristics
I’m uncertain whether the interest in label pins and their history belongs to phaleristics or not. Perhaps phaleristics proper only study symbolic items granted to someone by someone, and not to label pins that you purchase? Until somebody enlightens me on this scholarly obscurity, I will place socialist pins under the label “socialist phaleristics”.
Anyhow, the cause for this post is to draw attention to a very neat site about pins form the history of the German Social Democrats that I just stumbled into. Have I look at “Pins zu 150 Jahren SPD-Geschichte”!
This blog post is decorated with medallions/charms from the Knights of Labor as displayed in F. Irons & Charles A. Russell, Illustrated Catalogue of Solid Gold. Society Emblems, Pins, Buttons and Charms, Providence, Irons & Russell (1895) and a marvellous pin from CNT-FAI that I happend to find on e-bay.
WE ARE ALL AGITATORS!
THE MYTH OF THE OUTSIDE AGITATOR
THE MYTH OF THE COPS AND THE STATE IS THAT WE ARE NOT SELF ORGANIZED
THAT WE ARE INCAPABLE OF ORGANIZING OURSELVES TO OPPOSE THE STATE AND ITS COPS
WE ARE THE COMMUNITY!
NONE OF US ARE OUTSIDE AGITATORS,
WE ARE ALL HOMEGROWN AGITATORS
DEMANDING FOR JUSTICE FOR ALL!
THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR MOTTO;
THAT IS THE MOST PERFECT GOVERNMENT IN WHICH AND INJURY TO ONE IS AND INJURY TO ALL
WHICH WAS ADOPTED BY REVOLUTIONARY LABOR AND SYNDICALIST UNIONS AS THEIR POLITICAL AGENDA
From Terence V. Powderly. Constitution of the General Assembly, District Assemblies, and Local Assemblies of the order of the Knights of Labor in America. Marblehead, Mass.: Statesman Publishing Co., 1883. Adapted from www.wadsworth.com/history
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Famed DC monuments defaced after night of protests
Tyler Olson
As protests swept the nation following the death of George Floyd in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department last week, some of the most iconic monuments in Washington, D.C. were vandalized Saturday night.
The affected monuments, photos of which were posted in a tweet by the National Mall National Park Service (NPS), included the Lincoln Memorial, the World War II Memorial and the statue of General Casimir Pulaski. It is not clear to what extent any other monuments might have been vandalized.
NOT A SINGLE PHOTO PROVIDED BY FOX NO VISUAL EVIDENCE TO PROVE ITS TRUE
"In the wake of last night's demonstrations, there are numerous instances of vandalism to sites around the National Mall," The National Mall NPS tweeted. "For generations the Mall has been our nation’s premier civic gathering space for non-violent demonstrations, and we ask individuals to carry on that tradition."
Floyd, who is black, died, according to officials, after an officer used his knee to pin Floyd to the ground by his neck as Floyd gasped for air and was not visibly resisting arrest in several minutes of the incident caught on video. The officer who pinned Floyd to the ground, Derek Chauvin, was charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter.
SECRET SERVICE TOOK TRUMP TO UNDERGROUND WHITE HOUSE BUNKER AMID GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS, OFFICIAL SAYS
Saturday night's demonstrations were reprised on Sunday night as Washington, D.C. Mayor Murial Bowser ordered a curfew for city residents beginning at 11 p.m. A tweet from Bowser's account said that "[s]he has also activated the DC National Guard to support the Metropolitan Police Department."
Video showed gatherings of protesters near the White House setting fires Sunday night.
On Saturday night President Trump went to the bunker underneath the White House as the U.S. Secret Service worried about the president's safety while demonstrators approached White House grounds.
"It wasn't long," a senior administration official said of the action taken to protect the president, "but he went."
The Secret Service said that "demonstrators repeatedly attempted to knock over security barriers, and vandalized six Secret Service vehicles" on Saturday, leading to one arrest.
© Provided by FOX News Dr. Marc Siegel says he's very concerned about the spread of COVID-19 amid the nationwide protests.
On Sunday, as protests again ramped up in D.C. and around the country, the Secret Service asked people to stay away from the White House.
"In an effort to ensure public safety, pedestrians and motorists are encouraged to avoid streets and parks near the White House complex," the Secret Service tweeted.
Fox News' Bret Baier contributed to this report.
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CNN- Popular landmarks across Washington, DC, were defaced with graffiti during the second consecutive night of protests in the nation's capital over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in Minneapolis who was pinned down by police.
Graffiti from Saturday night protests on Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
"In the wake of last night's demonstrations, there are numerous instances of vandalism to sites around the National Mall," the National Park Service for the National Mall said in a tweet with photos of defaced monuments.
"For generations the Mall has been our nation's premier civic gathering space for non-violent demonstrations, and we ask individuals to carry on that tradition."
The vandalism appeared after skirmishes between groups of protesters and law enforcement flared across the city Saturday night.
Some protesters gathered in downtown Washington, DC, at Lafayette Square, which is across from the White House, into the evening, but additional protesters were not allowed in by police. At times there were attempts by some protesters to enter the park. They were met with pepper spray or other mechanisms pushing them back.
Separately, a group marched and then rallied at the Lincoln Memorial where the words "Yall not tired yet?" were spray-painted.
The question "Do black Vets count?" also appeared to be spray-painted across part of the National Mall World War II Memorial.
DC Chief of Police Peter Newsham said Sunday that the Metropolitan Police Department had arrested 17 people Saturday night and that 11 MPD officers were injured during the protests.
None of the officers sustained life-threatening injuries, though one officer is undergoing surgery for multiple compound fractures to his leg after a protester threw a rock at him.
Newsham said that of the 17 people arrested, eight either live in DC or have some ties to the area.
He said police expect to make more arrests, as the department is asking private businesses to review their security footage, and will ask the DC community to help identify those who were damaging property or hurting people.
CNN's Nicky Robertson contributed to this report.
VANDALISM IS NOT VIOLENCE, POLICE BRUTALITY IS!
On Sunday, as protests again ramped up in D.C. and around the country, the Secret Service asked people to stay away from the White House.
"In an effort to ensure public safety, pedestrians and motorists are encouraged to avoid streets and parks near the White House complex," the Secret Service tweeted.
Fox News' Bret Baier contributed to this report.
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COVERAGE FROM CNN YOU KNOW THE FAKE MEDIA
THEY HAVE PICTURES
CNN- Popular landmarks across Washington, DC, were defaced with graffiti during the second consecutive night of protests in the nation's capital over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in Minneapolis who was pinned down by police.
Graffiti from Saturday night protests on Lincoln Memorial in Washington.
"In the wake of last night's demonstrations, there are numerous instances of vandalism to sites around the National Mall," the National Park Service for the National Mall said in a tweet with photos of defaced monuments.
"For generations the Mall has been our nation's premier civic gathering space for non-violent demonstrations, and we ask individuals to carry on that tradition."
The vandalism appeared after skirmishes between groups of protesters and law enforcement flared across the city Saturday night.
Some protesters gathered in downtown Washington, DC, at Lafayette Square, which is across from the White House, into the evening, but additional protesters were not allowed in by police. At times there were attempts by some protesters to enter the park. They were met with pepper spray or other mechanisms pushing them back.
Separately, a group marched and then rallied at the Lincoln Memorial where the words "Yall not tired yet?" were spray-painted.
The question "Do black Vets count?" also appeared to be spray-painted across part of the National Mall World War II Memorial.
DC Chief of Police Peter Newsham said Sunday that the Metropolitan Police Department had arrested 17 people Saturday night and that 11 MPD officers were injured during the protests.
None of the officers sustained life-threatening injuries, though one officer is undergoing surgery for multiple compound fractures to his leg after a protester threw a rock at him.
Newsham said that of the 17 people arrested, eight either live in DC or have some ties to the area.
He said police expect to make more arrests, as the department is asking private businesses to review their security footage, and will ask the DC community to help identify those who were damaging property or hurting people.
CNN's Nicky Robertson contributed to this report.
VANDALISM IS NOT VIOLENCE, POLICE BRUTALITY IS!
One dead in Louisville after police and national guard 'return fire' on protesters
A man was shot dead in the Louisville protests after police officers and the Kentucky National Guard "returned fire" while clearing a large crowd during a protest early Monday.
A man was shot dead in the Louisville protests after police officers and the Kentucky National Guard "returned fire" while clearing a large crowd during a protest early Monday.
THAT MAKES EIGHT DEAD IN LOUISVILLE THIS WEEK
© Max Gersh Image: Police and Kentucky National Guard troops chase protesters as they flee toward a fence Sunday, May 31, 2020, in a parking lot at the corner of East Broadway and South Brook Street in downtown Louisville, Kentucky.
Louisville Metro Police Chief Steve Conrad said in a statement that at around 12:15 a.m. his officers and the national guard were sent to a parking lot to break up a crowd.
"Officers and soldiers began to clear the lot and at some point were shot at," Conrad said in a statement. "Both LMPD and national guard members returned fire, we have one man dead at scene"
Conrad did not specify who fired the fatal shot, and authorities have not released information about the victim. Louisville police say they are interviewing "several persons of interests" and collecting video.
Louisville has seen a weekend of protests, as the city mourns Breonna Taylor, 26, a black woman killed in her home in March by Louisville police who were executing a "no-knock" warrant targeting her former boyfriend.
Last Thursday, seven people were shot in the city during protests that turned violent.
Louisville Metro Police Chief Steve Conrad said in a statement that at around 12:15 a.m. his officers and the national guard were sent to a parking lot to break up a crowd.
"Officers and soldiers began to clear the lot and at some point were shot at," Conrad said in a statement. "Both LMPD and national guard members returned fire, we have one man dead at scene"
Conrad did not specify who fired the fatal shot, and authorities have not released information about the victim. Louisville police say they are interviewing "several persons of interests" and collecting video.
Louisville has seen a weekend of protests, as the city mourns Breonna Taylor, 26, a black woman killed in her home in March by Louisville police who were executing a "no-knock" warrant targeting her former boyfriend.
Last Thursday, seven people were shot in the city during protests that turned violent.
NYC Mayor de Blasio's daughter arrested during Saturday night protests
AFTER DE BLASIO BLASTED PROTESTERS AS ANARCHISTS
AFTER DE BLASIO BLASTED PROTESTERS AS ANARCHISTS
HIS DAUGHTER IS ONE
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's daughter, Chiara de Blasio, was arrested Saturday night during the citywide protests over the death of George Floyd, a senior NYPD law enforcement official told NBC News.
Adam Edelman and Tom Winter
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's daughter, Chiara de Blasio, was arrested Saturday night during the citywide protests over the death of George Floyd, a senior NYPD law enforcement official told NBC News.
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Chiara de Blasio was arrested Saturday night at East 12th Street and Broadway in Manhattan for "unlawful assembly."
The official said Chiara de Blasio was taken into custody at 10:30 p.m. She has been released.
The news was first reported by the New York Post. The Post reported that de Blasio had been blocking traffic and was arrested after she refused to move.
Her arrest came roughly one hour before the mayor held a late night news conference Saturday, telling protesters that "it's time to go home."
NBC New York reported that the NYPD made at least 345 arrests during Saturday's protests and that 33 officers were injured over the course of the day.
The protests also saw two incidents of NYPD vehicles driving directly into crowds of protesters.
De Blasio defended the department after a pair of the force's SUVs drove into a crowd during Saturday's protest against George Floyd's death.De Blasio reacted after videos were posted to social media, which showed protestors moving a yellow barrier in front a police vehicle in Brooklyn. Protestors threw traffic cones and other items at the SUV as a second vehicle arrived and slowly drove through the crowd forming around it.
On Sunday morning, de Blasio clarified his comments about the video, saying he didn't like what he saw "one bit" and announced an independent review into the video.
De Blasio now says some 'anarchist' protesters are local amid continued defense of NYPD
By MICHELLE BOCANEGRA
05/31/2020
Chiara de Blasio was arrested Saturday night at East 12th Street and Broadway in Manhattan for "unlawful assembly."
The official said Chiara de Blasio was taken into custody at 10:30 p.m. She has been released.
The news was first reported by the New York Post. The Post reported that de Blasio had been blocking traffic and was arrested after she refused to move.
Her arrest came roughly one hour before the mayor held a late night news conference Saturday, telling protesters that "it's time to go home."
NBC New York reported that the NYPD made at least 345 arrests during Saturday's protests and that 33 officers were injured over the course of the day.
The protests also saw two incidents of NYPD vehicles driving directly into crowds of protesters.
De Blasio defended the department after a pair of the force's SUVs drove into a crowd during Saturday's protest against George Floyd's death.De Blasio reacted after videos were posted to social media, which showed protestors moving a yellow barrier in front a police vehicle in Brooklyn. Protestors threw traffic cones and other items at the SUV as a second vehicle arrived and slowly drove through the crowd forming around it.
On Sunday morning, de Blasio clarified his comments about the video, saying he didn't like what he saw "one bit" and announced an independent review into the video.
De Blasio now says some 'anarchist' protesters are local amid continued defense of NYPD
By MICHELLE BOCANEGRA
05/31/2020
NEW YORK — Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday blamed an organized group of anarchists for inciting violence and vandalism amid protests over the killing of George Floyd, but conceded some were from the city and the neighborhoods where demonstrations were happening — a shift from his message Saturday night.
“Some come from outside the city. Some are from inside the city,” he said. “Some are from the neighborhoods where the protests take place, some are not. But what we do know is there is an explicit agenda of violence and it does not conform with the history of this city in which we have always honored non-violent protests.”
Only hours before, on Saturday night, the mayor insisted the threat of violence was coming from “out of town” demonstrators, many of whom are “not from communities of color” and have a “warped ideology” that leads them to “harming working people who are police officers.”
De Blasio, who first came to office with a promise of police reform, has ardently defended the NYPD during the recent protests and insisted officers were exercising great restraint in the face of threats from demonstrators bent on attacking cops. He’s faced fierce backlash from criminal justice advocates and members of his own party.
“@NYCMayor your comments tonight were unacceptable,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted early Sunday morning. “Defending and making excuses for NYPD running SUVs into crowds was wrong. Make it right. De-escalate.”
Police officers drove through a barricade into throngs of protesters in Brooklyn Saturday evening. Video of the incident, which quickly went viral, shows demonstrators throwing cones, garbage bags and water bottles at the NYPD vehicles before they plowed into the crowds.
The mayor insisted again Sunday the officers were reacting to a dangerous situation caused by threats of violence.
“We’re going to fully investigate that incident,” the mayor said Sunday. “I don’t ever want to see a police officer do that. ... But I also know that it was an extremely dangerous situation and the one thing [police] couldn’t do was stay there.”
“There are protests, and there are mobs,” NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea added later in the conference. “A protest does not involve surrounding and ambushing a marked police car.”
New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, speaking in a separate press conference that morning, criticized the mayor’s earlier remarks to the incident as “a terrible response.”
“We can’t have police officers who haven’t been trained on how to handle a panicked situation and are handling it through plowing protesters,” he said. “That’s not something we can accept.”
The mayor announced he was appointing his corporation counsel, Jim Johnson, and Department of Investigation Commissioner Margaret Garnett to conduct a full investigation into the police response to protests which began late last week and will continue Sunday night.
Shea said multiple officers were injured in skirmishes over the weekend and close to 350 arrests were made — but aside from property damage, police said no serious injuries or fatalities have occurred.
De Blasio praised Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s remarks from Saturday morning, in which he said he would sign legislation updating New York’s 50-a law, criticized by criminal justice advocates who say it shields too much information relating to police disciplinary records.
The de Blasio administration had previously cited the law when groups and officials across New York City pushed for the records of former officer Daniel Pantaleo, who fatally placed Staten Islander Eric Garner into a chokehold in 2014.
“I have said we need to repeal and replace, I want to be abundantly clear,” de Blasio said Sunday. “There must be some provision in the law to protect the personal information, the home address, the type of information about an individual police officer that is about their safety and security.”
De Blasio said Sunday he hoped Cuomo would sign such legislation in June.
Footage from Minneapolis of Floyd’s death, whose final words were “I can’t breathe” as a police officer knelt on his neck, has drawn parallels to Garner’s death in Staten Island as he gasped the same words.
“I think that when you look at something as terrible as that incident, what could come out of it?” said Shea of footage of Floyd, who was apprehended while unarmed for allegedly using counterfeit money to buy cigarettes. “Hopefully something does come out of it.”
“Whether it’s law enforcement or not, there is universal condemnation ... to what we saw in that video,” he said.
“Some come from outside the city. Some are from inside the city,” he said. “Some are from the neighborhoods where the protests take place, some are not. But what we do know is there is an explicit agenda of violence and it does not conform with the history of this city in which we have always honored non-violent protests.”
Only hours before, on Saturday night, the mayor insisted the threat of violence was coming from “out of town” demonstrators, many of whom are “not from communities of color” and have a “warped ideology” that leads them to “harming working people who are police officers.”
De Blasio, who first came to office with a promise of police reform, has ardently defended the NYPD during the recent protests and insisted officers were exercising great restraint in the face of threats from demonstrators bent on attacking cops. He’s faced fierce backlash from criminal justice advocates and members of his own party.
“@NYCMayor your comments tonight were unacceptable,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted early Sunday morning. “Defending and making excuses for NYPD running SUVs into crowds was wrong. Make it right. De-escalate.”
Police officers drove through a barricade into throngs of protesters in Brooklyn Saturday evening. Video of the incident, which quickly went viral, shows demonstrators throwing cones, garbage bags and water bottles at the NYPD vehicles before they plowed into the crowds.
The mayor insisted again Sunday the officers were reacting to a dangerous situation caused by threats of violence.
“We’re going to fully investigate that incident,” the mayor said Sunday. “I don’t ever want to see a police officer do that. ... But I also know that it was an extremely dangerous situation and the one thing [police] couldn’t do was stay there.”
“There are protests, and there are mobs,” NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea added later in the conference. “A protest does not involve surrounding and ambushing a marked police car.”
New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, speaking in a separate press conference that morning, criticized the mayor’s earlier remarks to the incident as “a terrible response.”
“We can’t have police officers who haven’t been trained on how to handle a panicked situation and are handling it through plowing protesters,” he said. “That’s not something we can accept.”
The mayor announced he was appointing his corporation counsel, Jim Johnson, and Department of Investigation Commissioner Margaret Garnett to conduct a full investigation into the police response to protests which began late last week and will continue Sunday night.
Shea said multiple officers were injured in skirmishes over the weekend and close to 350 arrests were made — but aside from property damage, police said no serious injuries or fatalities have occurred.
De Blasio praised Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s remarks from Saturday morning, in which he said he would sign legislation updating New York’s 50-a law, criticized by criminal justice advocates who say it shields too much information relating to police disciplinary records.
The de Blasio administration had previously cited the law when groups and officials across New York City pushed for the records of former officer Daniel Pantaleo, who fatally placed Staten Islander Eric Garner into a chokehold in 2014.
“I have said we need to repeal and replace, I want to be abundantly clear,” de Blasio said Sunday. “There must be some provision in the law to protect the personal information, the home address, the type of information about an individual police officer that is about their safety and security.”
De Blasio said Sunday he hoped Cuomo would sign such legislation in June.
Footage from Minneapolis of Floyd’s death, whose final words were “I can’t breathe” as a police officer knelt on his neck, has drawn parallels to Garner’s death in Staten Island as he gasped the same words.
“I think that when you look at something as terrible as that incident, what could come out of it?” said Shea of footage of Floyd, who was apprehended while unarmed for allegedly using counterfeit money to buy cigarettes. “Hopefully something does come out of it.”
“Whether it’s law enforcement or not, there is universal condemnation ... to what we saw in that video,” he said.
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