Comrades in Minneapolis—this video from Chile shows how to extinguish tear gas canisters quickly, safely, and easily. To deal with tear gas canisters, take a water jug with a wide mouth, pick up the canister with protective gloves (it’s hot and can burn you!), drop it in the jug, and shake the jug while covering the top with your gloved hand just enough that the gas doesn’t get out. Don’t cover the top too tightly—you don’t want to make the jug explode. Don’t let the police or #COVID19 cut off your air supply. Fight back! #icantbreathe #GeorgeFloyd #Minneapolis

She didn’t have to flex this hard 😤😤

Vasili Arkhipov (30 January 1926 – 19 August 1998) was exposed to radiation in 1961 while aboard the nuclear submarine K-19, which had a cooling malfunction and the crew improvised a cooling system in order to avoid a nuclear meltdown.

A little more than a year later, on 27 October 1962, during the Cuban missile crisis, Arkipov was aboard a nuclear-armed submarine in international waters near Cuba when it was attacked with depth charges by a US carrier (the US says it was only dropping the charges in order to get the Soviet submarine to surface). Unable to communicate with Moscow, the captain of the submarine, Valentin Savitsky, thought they might be at war and decided to launch a nuclear torpedo.

Even though Arkhipov was only second-in-command of the submarine B-59, he was in fact commander of the entire submarine flotilla and equal in rank to Captain Savitsky. He refused to grant permission for a weapon launch, helping to avoid the start of a nuclear war.

The shadow of the upcoming solar eclipse.

🔥 Up close view of Saturn from Cassini 🔥

On this day, 4 August 1792, radical poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born near Horsham in Sussex. He was expelled from Oxford University in 1811 for contributing to an atheist pamphlet, and soon married Mary, author of Frankenstein. He had a tragic life and died young, but wrote some of the greatest English Romantic poetry, including The Masque of Anarchy, which he penned in the wake of the Peterloo massacre, which ends with this fiery appeal to the working class: “Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number— Shake your chains to earth like dew– Which in sleep had fallen on you— Ye are many—they are few.” We have made a podcast episode about the Peterloo massacre with film director Mike Leigh, which includes a clip of actor Maxine Peake reading Shelley’s poem: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/11/07/e15-the-peterloo-massacre-with-mike-leigh/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1180952492089899/?type=3

On this day, 28 July 1932, the US government sent in the army to attack World War I veterans and their families with tanks, fixed bayonets, teargas and sabres, killing three, when vets marched demanding wartime bonuses they were promised. The bonus payments were due to be paid in 1945 but when the great depression hit, leaving many veterans destitute, they decided to demand earlier payments. Up to 25,000 vets, black and white, formed a “Bonus Army” and set up camp in Washington DC. Major Patton, whose life had been saved by one of the protesters, advised his troops to stab protesters with bayonets, and kill a large number of veterans as “an object lesson”. General MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower were the other officers in charge of the operation which killed two veterans and an 11-week-old baby, partially blinded an 8-year-old boy and injured a thousand others. We have a load more anniversaries today. To see all of them, follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wrkclasshistory https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1176518625866619/?type=3

Apartment hacks masterpost

Kitchen

Cleaning

Looking for a flat/moving

Organisation, storage

Decluttering

Decorating

Season-specific tips

Green thumb 101

Living alone / Sharing a flat

And also how to turn a house into a home

Is this a call out post?

no, you dingus, it’s a reference post. also, stop putting your trash on the counter instead of in the bin.

In 44 BC, a Great Comet was visible from earth according to Roman and Chinese sources. It appeared during the funeral games in honor of Julius Caesar and it was interpreted as a sign of his deification. Here is a coin minted by Augustus representing the God Caesar as a star. [600x294]

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Apfelernte, 1919, Cuno Amiet

Chelsea Manning's statement on the occasion of her release

Transcript:

Good evening.

Two months ago, the federal government summoned me before a grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia.

As a general principle, I object to grand juries.

Prosecutors run grand juries behind closed doors and in secret, without a judge present.

Therefore, I declined to cooperate or answer any questions.

Based on my refusal to answer questions, District Court Judge Hilton ordered me held in contempt until the grand jury ended.

Yesterday, the grand jury expired, and I left the Alexandria Detention Center.

Throughout this ordeal, an incredible spring of solidarity and love boiled over. I received thousands of letters, including dozens to hundreds of them a day.

This means the world to me, and keeps me going.

Jail and prisons exist as a dark stain on our society, with more people confined in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world.

During my time, I spent 28 days in solitary confinement–a traumatic experience I already endured for a year in prison before.

Only a few months before reincarceration, I recieved gender confirmation surgery.

This left my body vulnerable to injury and infection, leading to possible complications that I am now seeking treatment for.

My absence severely hampers both my public and private life.

The law requires that civil contempt only be used to coerce witnesses to testify.

As I cannot be coerced, it instead exists as an additional punishment on top of the seven years I served.

Last week, I handwrote a statement outlining the fact I will never agree to testify before this or any other grand jury.

Several of my closest family, friends and colleagues supported this fact.

Our statements were filed in court.

The government knows I can’t be coerced.

When I arrive at the courthouse this coming Thursday, what happened last time will occur again.

I will not cooperate with this or any other grand jury.

Throughout the last decade, I accepted full responsibility for my actions.

Facing jail again, this week, does not change this fact.

The prosecutors deliberately place me in an impossible situation: I either go to jail, or turn my back on my prisons.

The truth is, the government can construct no prison worse than to betray my conscience or my principles.

Thank you, and good night.

https://boingboing.net/2019/05/10/jail-or-conscience.html