@ssgurgs9 don't forget the government that created these evils. also don't forget the World Bank and the IMF and the governments that created THOSE evils
What the OWS people need to do is simply stand in one long line, hold hands, everyone, men, women, their children, the workers, everyone...and simply begin in unison to sing this song over and over.
Oh, yeah - the USSR and other socialist countries treated their workers so well. So well, that independent trade unions were illegal, wages were usually frozen, and due to shortages, basic goods were barely available for common people. Actually, independent, underground trade unions were one of the major forces that brought this monstrosity down. Any "support" would be no more than a foreign empire using workers to fulfill its evil agenda.
@TapOnX You poor soul, ruined by western propaganda. The USSR was what is known as Authortarian Socialism, as in strong totalitarian government with a Socialist economy, worked wonders for the Russians because they are used to historically being oppressed by an over-powerful government/leader. Solidarity Forever and modern Socialists are "Liberal Socialists" as in they want the government to be 100% civilian controlled and worker's rights to be through the roof.
What exactly do you mean? If you are saying that western democratic socialists are nothing like soviets, well - I never said otherwise (especially if you mean worker rights' activists in general). My point was that accepting support from Soviet Union would be at best hypocritical if not destructive for the whole idea. I don't need western propaganda to know that Warsaw Pact socialism was generally about oppression and mismanagement - I kind of come from the area.
Saturday night at Hyde park before the police succeeded in making us leave and arresting 6 of us we huddled and linked arms to keep the cops from picking us off, and a man standing near me started singing this song. Within seconds we all had joined in. We stood there in union, singing and watching them stare. It was one of the most inspirational moments of my life. I've never had more hope. We can change things, we can overthrow the broken system. We just have to keep fighting.
As the urine of the rich, it trickles down upon our heads, We endure the Right Wing's curses and the losing of our beds. But remember friends, our country's might, in our own hands was bred! Our union makes us strong!
when unions first organized in Canada, the government thought it was a communist uprising to be crushed beneath its boot. now the tea party accuses the occupy wall street protestors of the same thing, and we will roll over them as well. Canadian unions stand with all seeking social justice.
Technically we are strong already, the union tells us we are. The 1% don't want to have to do the work thyat the 99% do. Withdraw consent....total resistance now!
Solidarity from #occupywallstreet. I've been there since day 1, and when a number of comrades and I had to hide out on a roof to avoid the arrests on the way back from Union Square, we sang this to keep morale up.
We need to make these songs and ideas relevant to our generation. God knows the workers of today have a helluva fight ahead of us. So whose trynna a hip-hop version of this track?
The norm here is becoming legislation back to work during a strike,and appointing arbitrators friendly to the employer. Now more than ever it's important who we vote into office. They must be labor friendly and be held accountable for the actions. Solidarity from a Postie in Canada
@0bdivis0 Unfortunately and ironically, greedy asshats realised they could profit from running unions. They make a profit from them, and don't give a damn about workers. Only the IWW hasn't sold out.
@SAOS451316 Sadly, while the IWW have the moral high-ground, most branches are basically anarchist historical societies rather than fightin' unions. It's more than a little frustrating, especially as a person who wants to be a part of a genuine anti-capitalist union.
@SAOS451316 Sadly, while the IWW have the moral high-ground, most branches are basically anarchist historical societies rather than fightin' unions. It's more than a little frustrating, especially as a person who wants to be a part of a genuine anti-capitalist union
The only reason my grandfather, a petroleum engineer, survived an oil fire at a Shell OIl plant in WWII was because the unionized members of the construction crew working alongside him rushed him to safety and raised funds for to pay for his hospital bills. He wasn't even a member. True solidarity knows no boundaries; at their very best, unions lift all workers.
In Febuary they laughed at the Union people freezing outside while they tried to kill them ..... lets see how hard they laugh tomorrow ... when the votes are counted ...
Atlas SHIRKIED is RealProblem cause the DOMINANT entity is usually responsible. RightNow TheWorld suffers from Sins of Cap'ism. World HAS suffered from Sins of Unionism/Com'ism ALSO,but NOT relevant NOW because inow 2 far from HealthyBalance. Capitol has HISTORICALLY shit there pants over SpreadOfCommunism back 2 & beyond BolsheRevlution & has made heinous deals with Devil in panic to hold on to *WEALTH* -- *WEALTH*WEALTH*WEALTH*- power is MEANS ONLY. [PS=Stalin Mao ETC where FACISTS not Comm's
Read Emma Goldman's words on her experience. She went over ready to support the bolshevik and saw what was going on. She left Russia as a big critic of them and pretty much stood alone on that assesment.
@NerdReporter I'm an Anarchist, and I agree with what you said. Seeing the death, sickness, and utter despair in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution really shook up Goldman. Not to mention her meeting with Lenin. This was definitely a case of Anarchy and Marxism gone wrong, and we who believe in these ideals should take note so we do not repeat history.
@moonshiny74 Good points Moonshiny and NerdReporter. People love to use Russia as the "socialism can never work" example. Now today Russia claims to be a democracy, with elections and all. How many people would think democracy works by looking at that model today? Point is, Russia is a bad model to use for just about any economic or political system.
Greece is in the crap, and these riots could well spread through Europe. Greece now owes a fortune to other nations in Europe. In a way Greece is now "owned" by them, indebted to them for decades to come
Was is the present US debt? 15 trillion? How's Greece going these days? The entire western system of repression and exploitation is creating it's own massive debt issues, it is, in effect, self-destructing-and it is glorious to watch indeed
count the causualties and the death toll from every single capitalist/ imperialist war, what do you think the figures would be?
Also, a major distinguishing feature is that capitalist systems have been in existence far longer than any socialist states have been.
Still, the low down cappies will lie to you, they want you repressed as an exploitatble human commodity-this is their true goal. You and your family exist to serve the requirements of the rich -this is how they view it.
@rorybowskill Dumbest thing ever said. Unions have underperformed, over charged, and distorted markets for their own selfish gains. Learn to fucking teach a kid and maybe we wouldnt be the worst educated first world nation in the world. Union teachers stick together at the expense of the children they are supposed to teach.
@12345678tube I'm actually from the largest production of Oil Sand in North America. Operating Engineers, Iron Workers, Boilermakers are the unions I belong to. Although I think to a point the goal of Unions created by necessities has been accomplished, Unions have again and again had the safest work environment records and haven't under preformed. Boilermakers and Ironworkers, Labourers a lot of the time in the winter go around the clock 24 hours a day on shifts in -40 - -50 Weather
@IronColumnAnarchism That's great, and Im sure those men and women are very hard workers. This wasnt my point. Safety is not the exclusive domain of labor unions.
When I refer to the under-performance of teachers unions, do you deny that American students are overall poorly educated? Do you deny that those members are working for themselves and not for the students? If they werent, why do they need TENURE? If they suck, shouldnt they get fired?
@12345678tube That's a good point. American Education system is the shits. Many schools are caught in a cycle of Federal funding, which is allocated to under-achieving schools, in programs which were designed to HELP those schools improve. I don't think all the blame lays with the Teachers Union. But I do think the American Education system needs an entire revamp. Maybe on based on the German model.
@IronColumnAnarchism As you stated, the Federal, top-down, centrally planned system is a failure. They wanted to "help" but it didnt work (but they managed to buy enough votes spending other peoples' money to "help" the children). Now you propose another system that the Federal Govt will implement, and you hope for no corruption, no screw ups, and a big success? I'll tell you right now, it wont be implemented because of UNIONS. And if it is implemented, it will be primarily a vote buying scheme.
@12345678tube Hey, that's what American democracy has become. The Economy is shit, the Education System is shit. The kids have to walk through metal detectors, put up with stupid things like teaching Evolution and Creationism. America has turned their students into something of a quota.
Although Education in Nordic Model Social programs like the Nordic Countries have seems to be quite effective. Finland has the best education system in the world. I wonder what they are doing right.
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@ProgresivLibertarian Top educated? Well, Europe has a ton of bullshit degree-holders - literature, cultural studies, etc. GROWING economies, like China, have tons of engineers and scientists, and this union thug crap doesnt fly over there. Im fine w unions, as long as they dont commit crimes, shut down factories, destroy equipment, attack and kill replacement workers, and kill competitiveness. Unfortunately, they do. Teachers unions destroyed education in the US. Watch "Waiting for Superman"
@COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY Capitalism pulled hundreds of millions out of poverty and into the middle class - more than any other single force the world has ever seen! Communism has killed/starved/imprisoned hundreds of millions of people.
It's funny that you bash capitalism online, since capitalism is responsible for the computer and it made the internet available outside of military use.
@12345678tube Actually, the Capitalist Policy in India 1947 - 1990 has a death toll of 120,000,000 million. Great Depression (America alone) 12,000,000. Despite that, there has never been a Communist government on earth. Communism was the goal that was never achieved by "Socialist" countries like USSR, China, Cuba.
Socialism doesn't exactly coincide with Totalitarian Government.
@IronColumnAnarchism Great depression was caused by government intervention. 3% to 8.7% unemp. in 1929 (the crash). 8.7% to 20%+ when the government halted imports, and began 'stimulating' the economy. Look it up, I aint lyin'.
@12345678tube Explanations include numerous factors, especially high consumer debt, ill-regulated markets that permitted overoptimistic loans by banks and investors, the lack of high-growth new industries. and growing wealth inequality, all interacting to create a downward economic spiral of reduced spending, falling confidence, and lowered production
@12345678tube Up to 40% of the available money supply normally used for purchases and bank payments was destroyed by all these bank failures. Furthermore, the debt became heavier, because prices and incomes fell 20–50%, but the debts remained at the same dollar amount. After the panic of 1929, and during the first 10 months of 1930, 744 banks failed.
@12345678tube In all, 9,000 banks failed during the decade of the 30s. By 1933, depositors saw $140 billion of their deposits disappear due to uninsured bank failures. Bank failures snowballed as desperate bankers tried calling in loans which the borrowers did not have time or money to repay.
@12345678tube Bank failures snowballed as desperate bankers tried calling in loans which the borrowers did not have time or money to repay. With future profits looking poor, capital investment and construction slowed or completely ceased. In the face of bad loans and worsening future prospects, the surviving banks became even more conservative in their lending.
@IronColumnAnarchism Dude, fannie and freddie took away any downside risk. Therefore, banks tried to maximize profits without fear of losing money. Government created the moral hazzard. Simple. You dont need 4 comments to point out the real problem. You just spewed a bunch of nonsense - results of the problem, not causes. p.s. you cant juts "call in" a loan, a loan has a term of repayment and you cant just say gimme my money back.
@12345678tube yes it did, by enslaving billions and exploiting them at the same time. Have you studied the industrial revolution? Have you read Dicken's "Hard Times"?
''Communism has killed/starved/imprisoned hundreds of millions of people.'
This is a prime example of the lies people spread on YT. Look at this bold assertion, unsupported by a shred of evidence. It is written as a fact, but it is NOT a fact at all, it's written for shock value.
@COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY Mao gave the farmers land, then took it back once in power. He had communes compete for max rice production - so they fudged the numbers and planted too closely to increase yields. 1959 to 1961 had 20 millions deaths alone - and that is their OWN numbers. The reality is surely much worse. It IS a fact, you stupid commie faggot. You can shut your throat with a big fat capitalist dick.
@COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY communism is a philosophy of poverty. It is intelectually empty, just like it's adherents. Uneducated, violent, stupid - no way to live, so just end it communistphilosophy.
@12345678tube it (capitalism) pulls millions out of poverty while concentrating masses of wealth at the top of society. It resovles poverty by creating enslavment to"the wage"system. It thus merely creates the "image" of luxury and consurmerism. An image you believe is real lol. You must be delluded.
This computer was made by workers in a factory. The USSR also had many inventions, but you are too narrow minded to even study them
@COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY Yeah, the USSR invented goulags, bread lines, and closed cities. They were worried about steel and concrete production quotas (they were out producing EVERYONE), while the decentralized market in the US was producing computers, vaccines, and corvettes.
This image of luxury keeps people with a refrigerator stocked with food, two cars per family, excellent medical care (compare that to USSR, ha!), TV's, computers, a wardrobe full of nice clothes , etc.
@12345678tube man, thats so impressive: homeless on the streets of the U$A, unemployed, over 15 trillion US debt, Guantanamo bays human rights violations, Abu Ghraib, prison violations ...........(fills a whole book case of US atrocities).
Did you by a dildo to ram up your own ass as well, that's the essential household appliance for someone like you living in the west lol
@COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY Good one buddy. Seems like ur obsessed with buttsex with dudes. Whatever, I dont judge your sexuality, just your stupid ass communist ideology. I mean it has never worked, ever, not fucking once. But hey, you're so smart that Im sure you finally figured it out! Good luck with that.
@12345678tube hope you and your family are collectively killed eg. in a fatal car crash BUT that you do not all die immediately and instead undergo incredible suffering for months even years before you all ultimately die. Heres wishing that becomes your actual reality , you dirty scum bag
@COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY Hahahah I guess I won! Im not dirty, I can buy soap at the store. Maybe the annual bar of soap you are allotted under communism is enough for you, but probably not and therefore you are a dirty piece of shit. You're a floater - a piece of shit that just wont go away no matter how many times you try to flush it ( or present it with cold hard facts). I beat you. I beat you at the facts. I beat your logic ( or lack there of). I beat you at talking smack. Now you know what to do
@12345678tube And how many times has Capitalism worked? It's claim, after all, is that we reach the greatest common good by everyone pursuing their own personal good. Did allowing Wall St. to follow it's self interest provide for the greater good?
All systems are "good on paper, but not in reality." That's because in reality, they're run by the emotional, erratic, and ultimately flawed animal known as homo sapiens.
So drop the empty rhetoric, Capitalism's track record = shit too.
@12345678tube Really, that luxury had nothing with being protected from the devastation of two world wars by our oceans, and emerging from the second the only industrial nation standing. Free land from genocide, and several century's of slavery helped build a nice base as well. After 30 years of resurgent foreign competition (now no longer isolated to only Europe), our luxury has only been sustained on debt for decades now and the bills are coming do.
@12345678tube hope you and you family are killed in some accident, but not immediately, no, instead, you all suffer for years, bofore your death-which you then would welcome
This is what is important in the United States. Not being a world power, but ensuring a life of freedom and fairness for it's people. People argue that the United States has to give up some of its Unions and worker's must accept a lesser payment or their duties in order to keep America on top, but keeping America on top isn't what the country was founded on. I say we stop building democracy in other countries and let their people come here if they want the freedoms we offer. >.>
unions are the only voice that workers have,for years the rich and powerful have tried to silence that voice.to the teachers everywhere,united you will never be defeated
The back-up group is this song is not the Weavers, I don't think. I believe the back up group is "The Song Swappers" which recorded with Pete Seeger on a few albums in the mid 1950's including Talking Union (Folkways) which includes this cut.
The back-up group is this song is not the Weavers, I don't think. I believe the back up group is "The Song Swappers" which recorded with Pete Seeger on a few albums in the mid 1950's including Talking Union (Folkways) which includes this cut.
I've never crossed a pickett line and I never will! Thanks to NAFTA and GATT I guess a real pickett line will have to be in asia or mexico! Put a tariff on all incoming goods, as the origional government (oops!, founding fathers) designed. Idiots who scream "no taxaction without " should check history. It was an anti smuggling device implaced by the British to control the tea trade.Tea was not taxed, the tax was removed, creating a situation smugglers couldn,t abide
Communists pretend to support labor unions...until they come to power. The Bolshevik army opened fire on striking factory workers in leningrad. and the Communists in Poland were overthrown by Solidarity trade union. Workers of the world, unite against Communism!
@Reyludd exactly, the early church were communists, as were the diggers & levellers, and Rosa Luxemberg said "all power to the FREE soviets". In fact by their comunal structure the pilgrim fathers were communists but NOT Stallinists or Lenninists.
@TheTollundWoman It all comes down to what kind of communists you are talking about. Anarchists are communists. If you go by Marx's on definition of communism, Anarchism is communism. In the case of the Spanish Anarchosyndicalist union, the CNT, the communists are the labor union. One of the few real world examples of communism in action was done by Anarchists during the Spanish civil war. The CNT didn't need a vanguard party or dictatorship of the proletariat to achieve communism!
Bust the unions and put the heavy boot of the Military/industrial complex's tyranny on the average American. They are selling us down the river and trying to take down as many as possible beforehand.
your struggle is not lost on the young, my father once partook in a wildcat strike, my italian immigrant grandparents fought for construction unions, this union raised lass fights on for my family's legacy and for the rights of workers everywhere, FUCK NEOLIBERALISM!
@shruberz ditto for my Romanian great grandparents. The sad reality is we have been watching their victories worn away for longer than most of us have been alive. Our generation must now fight to win these battles against the new, globalized, neo-liberal economy, or our children and grandchildren will again be slaving in the mines, factories and warehouses as our ancestors. That likely mean organizing new, global unions, and a new political party to go with them. SOLIDARITY FOREVER!
When the Triangle Shirtwaist disaster happened my grandmother worked 2 blocks away stitching book bindings. She knew some of the women who perished, as they would all ride the same ferry from Brooklyn. This event made grandma Union. I'm Union and proud of it. Stand with our Wisconsin Sisters and Brothers! General Strike or whatever we have to do to protect our rights!Solidarity Forever!
Recall is the current strategy. The current WI Dem senators have shown their commitment to organized labor, and any new Dems better know who gave them their victories. That should at least slow the bleeding. Recalling Walker should stop it. A general strike was contemplated, but rejected as too damaging to working families in Wisconsin.
In remembrance of the The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire 3-25-1911. Where 146 people died due to safety hazards in the factory, like locked exits. Which bought about the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers. Unions brought us safety into our working environments. Let us not forget what the union has done for us the working people.
Pete Seeger faced down Joe McCarthy in 1950 - now the Republicans attempt to take down Bill Cronon, a history professor from Wisconsin who reminds us of the values Seeger stood for.
Pete Seeger faced down Joe McCarthy in 1950 - now the Republican's attempt to take down Bill Cronon, a history professor from Wisconsin who reminds us of the values Seeger stood for.
solidarity........such an antique term now. umm......jeeeez....I do not what to say.......other than antique.....no one cares about you! get that straight! we work for poor as# salaries and love it. You Union people are out of touch. Just go work minimum wage somewhere already, and give us a break.
Solidarity is fine, and unions have done much to help this country. They have also done a lot of harm and committed many acts of violence, as this wonderful video documents.
The right of people to assemble and to join a union should be unquestioned,
However, the right of an individual NOT to join is equally as unquestionable.
Pete Seeger is a Saint and should get a Nobel Prize.
@karenmyersforever It is also unquestionable that unionists have been the victim of violence far more often than the perpetrators. You only have to look over the border to Mexico to see a perfect example. The situation in Columbia is even more appalling.
I have no problem with people not joining a union - as long as they don't expect the benefits that others have fought hard for to be automatically be bestowed up on them.
Solidarity is fine, and unions have done much to help this country. They have also done a lot of harm and committed many acts of violence, as this wonderful video documents.
The right of people to assemble and to join a union should be unquestioned, However, the right of an individual NOT to join is equally as unquestionable.
Pete Seeger is a Saint and should get a Nobel Prize.
The Solidarity Movement is gaining strength over the Koch Bros CARTEL. These billionaires & their thugs want to kill the goose that laid their golden eggs-public servants who build roads to transport goods, educate kids for future work, respond to every crisis, risk lives in dangerous places to protect Americans, deliver mail so businesses have income, protect air so we can breathe and a MILLION other jobs that helped make them pro$perous. The Koch Bros & their Lieutenants don't OWN America!!!!!
SOLIDARITY FOREVER FROM NEW YORK, THIS COULD BE THE BEGINNING OF A MOVEMENT THAT WILL SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD AND BRING THE FASCIST BANKERS AND CORPORATE THIEVES TO THEIR KNEES
SOLIDARITY FOREVER FROM NEW YORK, THIS COULD BE THE BEGINNING OF A MOVEMENT THAT WILL SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD AND BRING THE FASCIST BANKERS AND CORPORATE THIEVES TO THEIR KNEES
Solidarity Wisconsin Unions from someone who has proudly never crossed a picket line even though it cost me a job to refuse to scab once. If workers do not stand together we will drown in the muck dropping from above onto our unprotected heads.
On, Wisconsin. I'll see you guys this week. And next week. We aren't letting this happen to ourselves or our country. Regressive aggression against the regular American citizen met the line that they will not cross.
In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,
Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold. We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old For the union makes us strong.
respect from the uk!
ibidydo 2 days ago
Man Utd?
kimothemo 1 week ago
The Struggle Continues!
anniephanie1 3 weeks ago
Occupy Wall Street ... Take note! We need the union.
shadowMason 3 weeks ago
RECALL WALKER
CIRMCPIM 1 month ago
First order of business...end the fed.
Second order...outlaw fractional reserve banking
These are the two chief causes of unequal distribution of wealth.
ssgurgs9 1 month ago 2
@ssgurgs9 don't forget the government that created these evils. also don't forget the World Bank and the IMF and the governments that created THOSE evils
allwittynamestaken 1 month ago in playlist Songs of Struggle
iww.org
Join the One Big Union!
theredandblackflags 1 month ago
Solidarity against the NDAA, Patriot Act, SOPA, "Citizens United" and solitary with Bradley Manning!
ABdadaSURD 1 month ago 4
What the OWS people need to do is simply stand in one long line, hold hands, everyone, men, women, their children, the workers, everyone...and simply begin in unison to sing this song over and over.
Canadees7 1 month ago
@Canadees7 until they're peppersprayed and beaten with clubs.
0106chip 1 month ago in playlist protest
@0106chip That'll be the time and moment to retaliate, fight back...too bad the USSR doesn't exist...if they did we'd have a good amount of support.
Canadees7 1 month ago
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Oh, yeah - the USSR and other socialist countries treated their workers so well. So well, that independent trade unions were illegal, wages were usually frozen, and due to shortages, basic goods were barely available for common people. Actually, independent, underground trade unions were one of the major forces that brought this monstrosity down. Any "support" would be no more than a foreign empire using workers to fulfill its evil agenda.
TapOnX 2 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
@TapOnX You poor soul, ruined by western propaganda. The USSR was what is known as Authortarian Socialism, as in strong totalitarian government with a Socialist economy, worked wonders for the Russians because they are used to historically being oppressed by an over-powerful government/leader. Solidarity Forever and modern Socialists are "Liberal Socialists" as in they want the government to be 100% civilian controlled and worker's rights to be through the roof.
Canadees7 2 weeks ago
@Canadees7
What exactly do you mean? If you are saying that western democratic socialists are nothing like soviets, well - I never said otherwise (especially if you mean worker rights' activists in general). My point was that accepting support from Soviet Union would be at best hypocritical if not destructive for the whole idea. I don't need western propaganda to know that Warsaw Pact socialism was generally about oppression and mismanagement - I kind of come from the area.
TapOnX 2 weeks ago
@TapOnX Ah ok, I misunderstood your post's context then. Yes Bolshevik Communism was more or less fascism per se...meh it sucked...
Canadees7 2 weeks ago
GENERAL STRIKE!
demonkm 1 month ago
And to think that 70% of white working class males vote Republican! Go figure!!!!
johneamer 1 month ago in playlist songs 3
Solidarity from Occupy Glasgow and the N30 strike action here in the UK!
XariusAirsoft 2 months ago 2
RECALL WALKER
CIRMCPIM 2 months ago
THE UNION MAKES US STRONG! nationwide public sector strike November 30th across Britain, solidarity forever!
DomSCOTLANDD 2 months ago
RECALL WALKER
CIRMCPIM 2 months ago
OCCUPY!!!!! This whole country!!!! *peace*
MsHappygirl23 2 months ago 3
Sang it at an Occupy Boston march. Wonderful memories.
nocturnezero 2 months ago 5
Occupy, Occupy and don't STOP Occupyin' till we are listened to!
Things are finally happening in the world!
Solidarity Forever!
myraxg 2 months ago 3
ANARCHY
RoyIL 2 months ago in playlist Anarchist Songs
Saturday night at Hyde park before the police succeeded in making us leave and arresting 6 of us we huddled and linked arms to keep the cops from picking us off, and a man standing near me started singing this song. Within seconds we all had joined in. We stood there in union, singing and watching them stare. It was one of the most inspirational moments of my life. I've never had more hope. We can change things, we can overthrow the broken system. We just have to keep fighting.
Occupy Sydney!
xXWillowRyXx 2 months ago 3
Democracy Now :)
napalm5 2 months ago
NOTHING HAS CHANGED, IT'S BEEN DONE, WE KNOW IT CAN BE DONE.
Fuck'em up.
OneRadRudeboy 2 months ago
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New Verse for the Occupiers to sing:
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As the urine of the rich, it trickles down upon our heads, We endure the Right Wing's curses and the losing of our beds. But remember friends, our country's might, in our own hands was bred! Our union makes us strong!
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OCCUPY NOW!
Otaku155 2 months ago in playlist Otaku155's favorites
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Otaku155 2 months ago in playlist Otaku155's favorites
IT WORKED THEN, IT WILL WORK NOW! OCCUPY NOW!
Otaku155 3 months ago in playlist Otaku155's favorites 4
great video and photo compilation
crayonplane 3 months ago in playlist Labour/early film footage/union origins/other
Untold millions then = untold BILLIONS now.
themanclaw2 3 months ago 3
when unions first organized in Canada, the government thought it was a communist uprising to be crushed beneath its boot. now the tea party accuses the occupy wall street protestors of the same thing, and we will roll over them as well. Canadian unions stand with all seeking social justice.
Tiyrful 3 months ago 2
occupy boston!!!! R.I.P. Camp Rose
ieatcommies 3 months ago
Technically we are strong already, the union tells us we are. The 1% don't want to have to do the work thyat the 99% do. Withdraw consent....total resistance now!
rorybowskill 3 months ago
via twitter: #OccupyBoston arrested protesters are singing Solidarity Forever between cells loudly
OccupyBerkeley stands with you!
yakottayoungblood 3 months ago 5
Solidarity with those at OccupyBoston, OccupySeattle, OccupyDallas and OccupySTL. Stand strong! from OccupySanFrancisco
immehgen 3 months ago 4
Solidarity! Occupy Everything!
roxximusprime 3 months ago 7
Occupy Wall Street!
Norseman870 3 months ago 97
Solidarity from #occupywallstreet. I've been there since day 1, and when a number of comrades and I had to hide out on a roof to avoid the arrests on the way back from Union Square, we sang this to keep morale up.
Marcownz747 4 months ago 12
We need to make these songs and ideas relevant to our generation. God knows the workers of today have a helluva fight ahead of us. So whose trynna a hip-hop version of this track?
ProgresivLibertarian 4 months ago
Unions improve the quality of life for everyone...
samsarahmail 4 months ago 6
Workers produce. Wall Street bankers steal and politicians collaborate with them.
joesubscriber 4 months ago 6
Solidaridad desde España
getplaning 4 months ago
The norm here is becoming legislation back to work during a strike,and appointing arbitrators friendly to the employer. Now more than ever it's important who we vote into office. They must be labor friendly and be held accountable for the actions. Solidarity from a Postie in Canada
dukeboy426 4 months ago in playlist Liked 3
Support unions!!!!
expatted 4 months ago 5
@0bdivis0 Unfortunately and ironically, greedy asshats realised they could profit from running unions. They make a profit from them, and don't give a damn about workers. Only the IWW hasn't sold out.
SAOS451316 5 months ago
@SAOS451316 Sadly, while the IWW have the moral high-ground, most branches are basically anarchist historical societies rather than fightin' unions. It's more than a little frustrating, especially as a person who wants to be a part of a genuine anti-capitalist union.
ASmith1917 4 months ago
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@SAOS451316 Sadly, while the IWW have the moral high-ground, most branches are basically anarchist historical societies rather than fightin' unions. It's more than a little frustrating, especially as a person who wants to be a part of a genuine anti-capitalist union
ASmith1917 4 months ago
R.I.P Jack Layton
TheBloodyScotsman 5 months ago 5
Solidarity with the Verizon workers!
Let's hope Blackwater doesn't repeat what happened at the Homestead Strike.
SAOS451316 5 months ago 46
Solidarity from Wisconsin!
GenuineVanillaFace 5 months ago 13
You're lucky that your father was only fired and not....well ... you know :) Unions only work if all are united i.e. the UNITED States of America
EricDavidFloyd 5 months ago
@0bdivis0 So your dad cost your dad his job.
yellowkrux 5 months ago
long live the working class
mercuryrulz 5 months ago
The only reason my grandfather, a petroleum engineer, survived an oil fire at a Shell OIl plant in WWII was because the unionized members of the construction crew working alongside him rushed him to safety and raised funds for to pay for his hospital bills. He wasn't even a member. True solidarity knows no boundaries; at their very best, unions lift all workers.
Dragmack 5 months ago 2
In Febuary they laughed at the Union people freezing outside while they tried to kill them ..... lets see how hard they laugh tomorrow ... when the votes are counted ...
TheZazose 5 months ago
Go Badgers ...... America is watching ....
TheZazose 5 months ago
@TheZazose Amen
GenuineVanillaFace 5 months ago
YES YES YES ...WE CAN ...
TheJS49 6 months ago
Atlas SHIRKIED is RealProblem cause the DOMINANT entity is usually responsible. RightNow TheWorld suffers from Sins of Cap'ism. World HAS suffered from Sins of Unionism/Com'ism ALSO,but NOT relevant NOW because inow 2 far from HealthyBalance. Capitol has HISTORICALLY shit there pants over SpreadOfCommunism back 2 & beyond BolsheRevlution & has made heinous deals with Devil in panic to hold on to *WEALTH* -- *WEALTH*WEALTH*WEALTH*- power is MEANS ONLY. [PS=Stalin Mao ETC where FACISTS not Comm's
isaysee 6 months ago
@isaysee What in the fuck?
thespookydanger 6 months ago
IWW forever.
rorybowskill 6 months ago 3
the Czech's need another Prague 68
COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY 6 months ago
The USSR set the struggle back years..
Read Emma Goldman's words on her experience. She went over ready to support the bolshevik and saw what was going on. She left Russia as a big critic of them and pretty much stood alone on that assesment.
NerdReporter 7 months ago
@NerdReporter I'm an Anarchist, and I agree with what you said. Seeing the death, sickness, and utter despair in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution really shook up Goldman. Not to mention her meeting with Lenin. This was definitely a case of Anarchy and Marxism gone wrong, and we who believe in these ideals should take note so we do not repeat history.
moonshiny74 6 months ago
@moonshiny74 Good points Moonshiny and NerdReporter. People love to use Russia as the "socialism can never work" example. Now today Russia claims to be a democracy, with elections and all. How many people would think democracy works by looking at that model today? Point is, Russia is a bad model to use for just about any economic or political system.
ProgresivLibertarian 4 months ago 2
The 33 dislikes are scabs.
UMASSnumber1 7 months ago 3
"Lies Concerning the History of the Soviet Union"
by Mario Sousa (on the net)
Read this before you make weak and pathetic anti-USSR and anti-Stalinist comments. Your assertions are utterly false.
COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY 7 months ago
Greece is in the crap, and these riots could well spread through Europe. Greece now owes a fortune to other nations in Europe. In a way Greece is now "owned" by them, indebted to them for decades to come
COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY 7 months ago
capitalism creates debt and poverty.
Was is the present US debt? 15 trillion? How's Greece going these days? The entire western system of repression and exploitation is creating it's own massive debt issues, it is, in effect, self-destructing-and it is glorious to watch indeed
COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY 7 months ago
count the causualties and the death toll from every single capitalist/ imperialist war, what do you think the figures would be?
Also, a major distinguishing feature is that capitalist systems have been in existence far longer than any socialist states have been.
Still, the low down cappies will lie to you, they want you repressed as an exploitatble human commodity-this is their true goal. You and your family exist to serve the requirements of the rich -this is how they view it.
COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY 7 months ago
To all you idiots bashing Unions: Listen to the lyrics of this song. That is all.
mp3piratesavvy 7 months ago
capitalism itself relies on the cooperation of billions all over this planet. Collectivism dead? No, actually its the exact opposite
COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY 7 months ago
Solidarity to the people of Wisconsin, Egypt, Tunisia, Spain, Greece and Great Britain.
NosdrahcirBocaj 7 months ago
These union thugs need to get out of my state of New Jersey. They have ruined our state and they need to go!
johnsmithvideo 7 months ago
This is what I think of when I hear Socialism! For the people!
Corporations need restrictions like a Dog needs a collar!!
williammoller9 7 months ago 3
The govenor of winsconsin is an ally of Gaddafi, like him he opposes the will of the people....I call it treason
rorybowskill 7 months ago
@rorybowskill Dumbest thing ever said. Unions have underperformed, over charged, and distorted markets for their own selfish gains. Learn to fucking teach a kid and maybe we wouldnt be the worst educated first world nation in the world. Union teachers stick together at the expense of the children they are supposed to teach.
12345678tube 7 months ago
@12345678tube I'm actually from the largest production of Oil Sand in North America. Operating Engineers, Iron Workers, Boilermakers are the unions I belong to. Although I think to a point the goal of Unions created by necessities has been accomplished, Unions have again and again had the safest work environment records and haven't under preformed. Boilermakers and Ironworkers, Labourers a lot of the time in the winter go around the clock 24 hours a day on shifts in -40 - -50 Weather
IronColumnAnarchism 7 months ago
@IronColumnAnarchism That's great, and Im sure those men and women are very hard workers. This wasnt my point. Safety is not the exclusive domain of labor unions.
When I refer to the under-performance of teachers unions, do you deny that American students are overall poorly educated? Do you deny that those members are working for themselves and not for the students? If they werent, why do they need TENURE? If they suck, shouldnt they get fired?
12345678tube 7 months ago
@12345678tube That's a good point. American Education system is the shits. Many schools are caught in a cycle of Federal funding, which is allocated to under-achieving schools, in programs which were designed to HELP those schools improve. I don't think all the blame lays with the Teachers Union. But I do think the American Education system needs an entire revamp. Maybe on based on the German model.
IronColumnAnarchism 7 months ago
@IronColumnAnarchism As you stated, the Federal, top-down, centrally planned system is a failure. They wanted to "help" but it didnt work (but they managed to buy enough votes spending other peoples' money to "help" the children). Now you propose another system that the Federal Govt will implement, and you hope for no corruption, no screw ups, and a big success? I'll tell you right now, it wont be implemented because of UNIONS. And if it is implemented, it will be primarily a vote buying scheme.
12345678tube 7 months ago
@12345678tube Hey, that's what American democracy has become. The Economy is shit, the Education System is shit. The kids have to walk through metal detectors, put up with stupid things like teaching Evolution and Creationism. America has turned their students into something of a quota.
Although Education in Nordic Model Social programs like the Nordic Countries have seems to be quite effective. Finland has the best education system in the world. I wonder what they are doing right.
IronColumnAnarchism 7 months ago
@12345678tube except that the top educated countries mostly have much stronger unions than the US
ProgresivLibertarian 4 months ago
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@ProgresivLibertarian Top educated? Well, Europe has a ton of bullshit degree-holders - literature, cultural studies, etc. GROWING economies, like China, have tons of engineers and scientists, and this union thug crap doesnt fly over there. Im fine w unions, as long as they dont commit crimes, shut down factories, destroy equipment, attack and kill replacement workers, and kill competitiveness. Unfortunately, they do. Teachers unions destroyed education in the US. Watch "Waiting for Superman"
12345678tube 4 months ago
@12345678tube That movie was blasphemous libel.
thirstforsalt 4 months ago
Death to capitalism, the filthy system of repression and exploitation
COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY 7 months ago
@COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY Capitalism pulled hundreds of millions out of poverty and into the middle class - more than any other single force the world has ever seen! Communism has killed/starved/imprisoned hundreds of millions of people.
It's funny that you bash capitalism online, since capitalism is responsible for the computer and it made the internet available outside of military use.
12345678tube 7 months ago
@12345678tube Actually, the Capitalist Policy in India 1947 - 1990 has a death toll of 120,000,000 million. Great Depression (America alone) 12,000,000. Despite that, there has never been a Communist government on earth. Communism was the goal that was never achieved by "Socialist" countries like USSR, China, Cuba.
Socialism doesn't exactly coincide with Totalitarian Government.
IronColumnAnarchism 7 months ago
@IronColumnAnarchism Great depression was caused by government intervention. 3% to 8.7% unemp. in 1929 (the crash). 8.7% to 20%+ when the government halted imports, and began 'stimulating' the economy. Look it up, I aint lyin'.
12345678tube 7 months ago
@12345678tube Explanations include numerous factors, especially high consumer debt, ill-regulated markets that permitted overoptimistic loans by banks and investors, the lack of high-growth new industries. and growing wealth inequality, all interacting to create a downward economic spiral of reduced spending, falling confidence, and lowered production
IronColumnAnarchism 7 months ago
@12345678tube Up to 40% of the available money supply normally used for purchases and bank payments was destroyed by all these bank failures. Furthermore, the debt became heavier, because prices and incomes fell 20–50%, but the debts remained at the same dollar amount. After the panic of 1929, and during the first 10 months of 1930, 744 banks failed.
IronColumnAnarchism 7 months ago
@12345678tube In all, 9,000 banks failed during the decade of the 30s. By 1933, depositors saw $140 billion of their deposits disappear due to uninsured bank failures. Bank failures snowballed as desperate bankers tried calling in loans which the borrowers did not have time or money to repay.
IronColumnAnarchism 7 months ago
@12345678tube Bank failures snowballed as desperate bankers tried calling in loans which the borrowers did not have time or money to repay. With future profits looking poor, capital investment and construction slowed or completely ceased. In the face of bad loans and worsening future prospects, the surviving banks became even more conservative in their lending.
IronColumnAnarchism 7 months ago
@IronColumnAnarchism Dude, fannie and freddie took away any downside risk. Therefore, banks tried to maximize profits without fear of losing money. Government created the moral hazzard. Simple. You dont need 4 comments to point out the real problem. You just spewed a bunch of nonsense - results of the problem, not causes. p.s. you cant juts "call in" a loan, a loan has a term of repayment and you cant just say gimme my money back.
12345678tube 7 months ago
@12345678tube yes it did, by enslaving billions and exploiting them at the same time. Have you studied the industrial revolution? Have you read Dicken's "Hard Times"?
''Communism has killed/starved/imprisoned hundreds of millions of people.'
This is a prime example of the lies people spread on YT. Look at this bold assertion, unsupported by a shred of evidence. It is written as a fact, but it is NOT a fact at all, it's written for shock value.
COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY 7 months ago
@COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY Mao gave the farmers land, then took it back once in power. He had communes compete for max rice production - so they fudged the numbers and planted too closely to increase yields. 1959 to 1961 had 20 millions deaths alone - and that is their OWN numbers. The reality is surely much worse. It IS a fact, you stupid commie faggot. You can shut your throat with a big fat capitalist dick.
12345678tube 7 months ago
@12345678tube
'Lies Concerning the History of the Soviet Union" Mario Sousa (on the net)
"Another View of Stalin" Ludo Martens (on the net)
and other articles on Chairman Mao can be cited as well.
Do you homework and shut your throat
COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY 7 months ago
@COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY communism is a philosophy of poverty. It is intelectually empty, just like it's adherents. Uneducated, violent, stupid - no way to live, so just end it communistphilosophy.
12345678tube 7 months ago
@12345678tube it (capitalism) pulls millions out of poverty while concentrating masses of wealth at the top of society. It resovles poverty by creating enslavment to"the wage"system. It thus merely creates the "image" of luxury and consurmerism. An image you believe is real lol. You must be delluded.
This computer was made by workers in a factory. The USSR also had many inventions, but you are too narrow minded to even study them
COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY 7 months ago
@COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY Yeah, the USSR invented goulags, bread lines, and closed cities. They were worried about steel and concrete production quotas (they were out producing EVERYONE), while the decentralized market in the US was producing computers, vaccines, and corvettes.
This image of luxury keeps people with a refrigerator stocked with food, two cars per family, excellent medical care (compare that to USSR, ha!), TV's, computers, a wardrobe full of nice clothes , etc.
12345678tube 7 months ago
@12345678tube man, thats so impressive: homeless on the streets of the U$A, unemployed, over 15 trillion US debt, Guantanamo bays human rights violations, Abu Ghraib, prison violations ...........(fills a whole book case of US atrocities).
Did you by a dildo to ram up your own ass as well, that's the essential household appliance for someone like you living in the west lol
COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY 7 months ago
@COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY Good one buddy. Seems like ur obsessed with buttsex with dudes. Whatever, I dont judge your sexuality, just your stupid ass communist ideology. I mean it has never worked, ever, not fucking once. But hey, you're so smart that Im sure you finally figured it out! Good luck with that.
12345678tube 6 months ago
@12345678tube hope you and your family are collectively killed eg. in a fatal car crash BUT that you do not all die immediately and instead undergo incredible suffering for months even years before you all ultimately die. Heres wishing that becomes your actual reality , you dirty scum bag
COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY 6 months ago
@COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY Hahahah I guess I won! Im not dirty, I can buy soap at the store. Maybe the annual bar of soap you are allotted under communism is enough for you, but probably not and therefore you are a dirty piece of shit. You're a floater - a piece of shit that just wont go away no matter how many times you try to flush it ( or present it with cold hard facts). I beat you. I beat you at the facts. I beat your logic ( or lack there of). I beat you at talking smack. Now you know what to do
12345678tube 6 months ago
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csagreengiraffe 5 months ago
@12345678tube And how many times has Capitalism worked? It's claim, after all, is that we reach the greatest common good by everyone pursuing their own personal good. Did allowing Wall St. to follow it's self interest provide for the greater good?
All systems are "good on paper, but not in reality." That's because in reality, they're run by the emotional, erratic, and ultimately flawed animal known as homo sapiens.
So drop the empty rhetoric, Capitalism's track record = shit too.
ProgresivLibertarian 4 months ago
@12345678tube Really, that luxury had nothing with being protected from the devastation of two world wars by our oceans, and emerging from the second the only industrial nation standing. Free land from genocide, and several century's of slavery helped build a nice base as well. After 30 years of resurgent foreign competition (now no longer isolated to only Europe), our luxury has only been sustained on debt for decades now and the bills are coming do.
ProgresivLibertarian 4 months ago
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@COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY "it (capitalism) pulls millions out of poverty while concentrating masses of wealth at the top of society. "
Jealous? The poor are richer, the rich are richer, and you are one sad bastard. Stop coveting others' possessions and work for something.
12345678tube 7 months ago
@12345678tube hope you and you family are killed in some accident, but not immediately, no, instead, you all suffer for years, bofore your death-which you then would welcome
COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY 6 months ago
This is what is important in the United States. Not being a world power, but ensuring a life of freedom and fairness for it's people. People argue that the United States has to give up some of its Unions and worker's must accept a lesser payment or their duties in order to keep America on top, but keeping America on top isn't what the country was founded on. I say we stop building democracy in other countries and let their people come here if they want the freedoms we offer. >.>
verbalbenji0607 8 months ago
unions are the only voice that workers have,for years the rich and powerful have tried to silence that voice.to the teachers everywhere,united you will never be defeated
rpbyros 8 months ago
YELL BOOOOOOOOOOYZ!!!!!!
lightsoflove 8 months ago
Also listened to "Which Side Are You On" because I knew that Pete made that sound much better than I could alone and the people know it's true.
snarlacarla 8 months ago
solidarity forever!!
Union makes us strong.
I'm in local 113 thanks.
trevorm1 9 months ago 2
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The back-up group is this song is not the Weavers, I don't think. I believe the back up group is "The Song Swappers" which recorded with Pete Seeger on a few albums in the mid 1950's including Talking Union (Folkways) which includes this cut.
DanielMillstone 9 months ago
The back-up group is this song is not the Weavers, I don't think. I believe the back up group is "The Song Swappers" which recorded with Pete Seeger on a few albums in the mid 1950's including Talking Union (Folkways) which includes this cut.
DanielMillstone 9 months ago 2
Death to Capitalism!
Death to Capitalism!
COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY 9 months ago 2
32 people are scabs and company goons.
Sure, big business cares about you.
Just as long as your fund their severance package gained from your sweat.
Solidarity forever from a member of UFCW 653!
flanz45 9 months ago 5
I've never crossed a pickett line and I never will! Thanks to NAFTA and GATT I guess a real pickett line will have to be in asia or mexico! Put a tariff on all incoming goods, as the origional government (oops!, founding fathers) designed. Idiots who scream "no taxaction without " should check history. It was an anti smuggling device implaced by the British to control the tea trade.Tea was not taxed, the tax was removed, creating a situation smugglers couldn,t abide
clearacres 9 months ago 2
Communists pretend to support labor unions...until they come to power. The Bolshevik army opened fire on striking factory workers in leningrad. and the Communists in Poland were overthrown by Solidarity trade union. Workers of the world, unite against Communism!
TheTollundWoman 9 months ago 2
@TheTollundWoman it depends what kinds of communists......
Reyludd 8 months ago
@Reyludd exactly, the early church were communists, as were the diggers & levellers, and Rosa Luxemberg said "all power to the FREE soviets". In fact by their comunal structure the pilgrim fathers were communists but NOT Stallinists or Lenninists.
rorybowskill 8 months ago
@TheTollundWoman It all comes down to what kind of communists you are talking about. Anarchists are communists. If you go by Marx's on definition of communism, Anarchism is communism. In the case of the Spanish Anarchosyndicalist union, the CNT, the communists are the labor union. One of the few real world examples of communism in action was done by Anarchists during the Spanish civil war. The CNT didn't need a vanguard party or dictatorship of the proletariat to achieve communism!
purplemutantas 8 months ago 5
for the win
inkblackRose 9 months ago
Bust the unions and put the heavy boot of the Military/industrial complex's tyranny on the average American. They are selling us down the river and trying to take down as many as possible beforehand.
jnsii54 9 months ago
your struggle is not lost on the young, my father once partook in a wildcat strike, my italian immigrant grandparents fought for construction unions, this union raised lass fights on for my family's legacy and for the rights of workers everywhere, FUCK NEOLIBERALISM!
shruberz 9 months ago 42
@shruberz ditto for my Romanian great grandparents. The sad reality is we have been watching their victories worn away for longer than most of us have been alive. Our generation must now fight to win these battles against the new, globalized, neo-liberal economy, or our children and grandchildren will again be slaving in the mines, factories and warehouses as our ancestors. That likely mean organizing new, global unions, and a new political party to go with them. SOLIDARITY FOREVER!
ProgresivLibertarian 4 months ago
Solidarity forever. Never cross the picket line.
LulzAtYourFace 9 months ago 42
thats the almanacs im pretty sure with pete unless its a very very young ronnie i heard in the background
allenshepard 10 months ago
When the Triangle Shirtwaist disaster happened my grandmother worked 2 blocks away stitching book bindings. She knew some of the women who perished, as they would all ride the same ferry from Brooklyn. This event made grandma Union. I'm Union and proud of it. Stand with our Wisconsin Sisters and Brothers! General Strike or whatever we have to do to protect our rights!Solidarity Forever!
whizbang47 10 months ago
@whizbang47
Recall is the current strategy. The current WI Dem senators have shown their commitment to organized labor, and any new Dems better know who gave them their victories. That should at least slow the bleeding. Recalling Walker should stop it. A general strike was contemplated, but rejected as too damaging to working families in Wisconsin.
fearlessfred14 9 months ago
@whizbang47 that's fascinating. I hope you formally interviewed her, because that is a precious bit of history there.
Dragmack 5 months ago
In remembrance of the The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire 3-25-1911. Where 146 people died due to safety hazards in the factory, like locked exits. Which bought about the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, which fought for better working conditions for sweatshop workers. Unions brought us safety into our working environments. Let us not forget what the union has done for us the working people.
Great song Ralph!
texkit1 10 months ago 4
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Pete Seeger faced down Joe McCarthy in 1950 - now the Republicans attempt to take down Bill Cronon, a history professor from Wisconsin who reminds us of the values Seeger stood for.
weblevel1 10 months ago
Pete Seeger faced down Joe McCarthy in 1950 - now the Republican's attempt to take down Bill Cronon, a history professor from Wisconsin who reminds us of the values Seeger stood for.
weblevel1 10 months ago 5
solidarity........such an antique term now. umm......jeeeez....I do not what to say.......other than antique.....no one cares about you! get that straight! we work for poor as# salaries and love it. You Union people are out of touch. Just go work minimum wage somewhere already, and give us a break.
yrmanmccann 10 months ago
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karenmyersforever 10 months ago
Solidarity is fine, and unions have done much to help this country. They have also done a lot of harm and committed many acts of violence, as this wonderful video documents.
The right of people to assemble and to join a union should be unquestioned,
However, the right of an individual NOT to join is equally as unquestionable.
Pete Seeger is a Saint and should get a Nobel Prize.
karenmyersforever 10 months ago
@karenmyersforever It is also unquestionable that unionists have been the victim of violence far more often than the perpetrators. You only have to look over the border to Mexico to see a perfect example. The situation in Columbia is even more appalling.
I have no problem with people not joining a union - as long as they don't expect the benefits that others have fought hard for to be automatically be bestowed up on them.
aussieunionist 10 months ago
We need to remember that this union goes well beyond actual worker's unions, and promote this to our neighbors and friends, even those that oppose us.
If we don't stand together as a union of people we will be overrun by corporate interest and big government.
I am a non-union worker that knows what the worker's unions have done, and continue to do for every person in this country, and on this planet.
rotatingrecords 10 months ago 4
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Solidarity is fine, and unions have done much to help this country. They have also done a lot of harm and committed many acts of violence, as this wonderful video documents.
The right of people to assemble and to join a union should be unquestioned, However, the right of an individual NOT to join is equally as unquestionable.
Pete Seeger is a Saint and should get a Nobel Prize.
karenmyersforever 10 months ago
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karenmyersforever 10 months ago
Solidarity from Canada!
RobertIngersoll 10 months ago 2
Solidarity from Oregon!
I assure you that the Unions can count on their old allies in Academia for support.
Linkster2o 10 months ago 2
Solidarity from Wisconsin!
Walker, your pink slip is coming!
Thanks to everyone for the support(: It's much appreciated <3
emmasoldon 10 months ago 4
Proud Union worker from Wisconsin! We the people will never be defeated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
shopsnacks 10 months ago 4
The Solidarity Movement is gaining strength over the Koch Bros CARTEL. These billionaires & their thugs want to kill the goose that laid their golden eggs-public servants who build roads to transport goods, educate kids for future work, respond to every crisis, risk lives in dangerous places to protect Americans, deliver mail so businesses have income, protect air so we can breathe and a MILLION other jobs that helped make them pro$perous. The Koch Bros & their Lieutenants don't OWN America!!!!!
simnszz 10 months ago 6
SOLIDARITY FOREVER FROM NEW YORK, THIS COULD BE THE BEGINNING OF A MOVEMENT THAT WILL SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD AND BRING THE FASCIST BANKERS AND CORPORATE THIEVES TO THEIR KNEES
Roary218 10 months ago 5
SOLIDARITY FOREVER FROM NEW YORK, THIS COULD BE THE BEGINNING OF A MOVEMENT THAT WILL SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD AND BRING THE FASCIST BANKERS AND CORPORATE THIEVES TO THEIR KNEES
Roary218 10 months ago 4
solidarity from Minnesota! fuck the right-wing nazis
mikebane1 10 months ago 3
Solidarity forever from Ireland
ronanburtens 10 months ago 2
General Strike on March 31st throughout the US of A.
Which side are you on?
SexualAtrocity 10 months ago
Solidarity from Ireland. Recall Walker!
justdefacts 10 months ago 2
"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."
Zero4Mars 10 months ago 2
Keep Fighting Midwestern Brothers and Sisters!
dmpharmd01 10 months ago 2
Solidarity Wisconsin Unions from someone who has proudly never crossed a picket line even though it cost me a job to refuse to scab once. If workers do not stand together we will drown in the muck dropping from above onto our unprotected heads.
weblevel1 10 months ago 2
On, Wisconsin. I'll see you guys this week. And next week. We aren't letting this happen to ourselves or our country. Regressive aggression against the regular American citizen met the line that they will not cross.
azzgunther 10 months ago 2
Solidarity Wisconsin from Finland!
antti0000 10 months ago
From a Proud and Garetful member of Pile Drivers Local 34 in Oakland, Ca:
Hang in there my Badger Brothers and Sisters!
Labor Omnia Vincit
Rennpanzer 10 months ago
on wisconsin! solidarity from london uk
geraldkrasnerable 10 months ago
Solidarity With The Unions of Wisconsin, Solidarity with American Comrades from Scotland.
murray1234567891011 10 months ago 2
Solidarity Wisconsin!
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,
Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold. We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old For the union makes us strong.
dellbalboa 10 months ago 5
Solidarity with the workers of Wisconsin from Ireland.
DJSpinoza 10 months ago 5
Governor Walker: "We are all in this together: What's your's is mine."
peterpterodactyl 10 months ago
Wisconsin-- We are winning!
themanclaw2 10 months ago 3
NATIONWIDE GENERAL STRIKE NOW!!!!!!!
TheAndyinSeattle 10 months ago 6
Solidarity with Wisconsin!
LeonheartDelta 10 months ago 4