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Members and supporters of the Communist Workers Party picket the home of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms chief R. G. Dickerson at 2015 Lorraine Ave in McLean, Va. August 4, 1980 protesting the role ATF had in the Ku Klux Klan killings of five people at an anti-Klan rally in Greensboro, N.C.
The CWP filed for permits and gave police a copy of the march route for the November 3, 1979 “Death to the Klan” rally and march.
On that day the anti-Klan rally was just getting started when about 10 cars with about 40 Klansmen and American Nazi Party members began driving back and forth in front of the rally site in front of the Morningside Homes project at the corner of Carver and Everitt streets. There were no police present.
Several marchers beat the cars with picket sticks or threw rocks at them. In response, the KKK and ANP members got out of their cars, took shotguns, rifles and pistols from the trunks, and fired into the crowd of protesters.
Cesar Cauce, Dr. James Waller, and Bill Sampson were killed at the scene almost immediately. Sandi Smith was shot between the eyes when she looked out from a place where she had taken shelter, and eleven others were wounded. Dr. Michael Nathan died of his wounds at the hospital.
Two of the five were open members of the CWP, two were very close to the organization and one—Michael Nathan was attending the anti-Klan rally.
A few pistol shots were fired at the Klansmen and Nazis during the shooting, but none apparently hit their target.
ATF had an agent, Bernard Butkovich, among the Klanmen and he made raised no alarm about the Klan’s intentions.
At the 1980 criminal trial, the neo-Nazis claimed that Butkovich encouraged them to carry firearms to the demonstration. At the 1985 civil trial, Butkovich testified that he was aware that the Klansmen and the ANP members intended to confront the demonstrators; he did not tell the police or any other law enforcement agency.
Edward Dawson, a Klansman-turned police informant, was riding in the lead car of the Klan caravan. He had been an FBI informant beginning in 1969 as part of the agency's COINTELPRO program. By 1979 he was working as an informant for the Greensboro Police Department. He was given a copy of the march route by the police. He claims he informed them of the potential for violence.
The state tried six Klansmen with murder and one for a lesser charge. An all-white jury acquired the seven in November 1980.
Six other men were charged with “conspiracy to violate the civil rights” of the demonstrators. One of those indicted was yet another police informer. In 1984 they were all acquitted.
A civil suit filed was filed against the city, the Klan, the Nazis and federal agents.
A Federal jury in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, found two Klansmen, three Nazis, two Greensboro police officers, and a police informant liable for the wrongful death of Dr. Michael Nathan, the non-CWP demonstrator, and for injuries to survivors Paul Bermanzohn and Tom Clark, who had been wounded.
It awarded two survivors with a $350,000 judgment against the city, the Ku Klux Klan, and the American Nazi Party for violating the civil rights of the demonstrators. The widow Dr. Martha "Marty" Nathan, was paid by the City in order to cover damages caused by the KKK and ANP as well. She chose to donate some money to grassroots efforts for social justice and education.
The CWP was battered internally by the aftermath of the “Greensboro Massacre” with both soul searching and finger pointing.
Subsequently the group gave up its Leninist structure and moved towards a social democratic formation that would work for peaceful transition to socialism; it dissolved the Communist Workers Party and formed the New Democratic Movement in 1985. The New Democratic Movement lasted only a few years.
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Photo by Bernie Boston. The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.
A health worker, who has received training under the MCHIP programme, carries out consulations with new and expectant mothers and weighs newborn babies in Marere Hospital in Nampula, Mozambique Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. (Kate Holt/MCSP and Jhpiego)
Artists Clare Herron and Chris Beck created this artwork in partnership with Groundswell Community Mural Project’s TEMA (Teen Empowerment Mural Apprenticeship) and fifteen youth. The mural uses paint, printed parachute cloth, and mosaics to depict the process of pollination and show its significance on a larger scale in a visual narrative 200 feet in length.
NYCDOT Urban Art Program, pARTners
Worker Bees by Clare Herron and Chris Beck
Presented with Groundswell Community Mural Project and Downtown Brooklyn Partnership
Tillary Street and Adams Street, Brooklyn
Starting in 1918, long before Modernism or the International Style were thought of, the Crittall Manufacturing Co. constructed a small estate of houses for its workers. They were of concrete block, with flat roofs and exposed lintels. Sand for the concrete was excavated on site. I inspected the interior of one of them. The stairs were of concrete (some, I was informed, are of steel), and so was the floor of the upstairs rooms. Downstairs, on the ceiling, could be traced the impression of the wood grain, bitten into the concrete when it was laid down wet on planks. The rooflines, as built, were raised at the corners and at the centre of each semi-detached pair. All, of course, had Crittall metal-framed windows. Today, not one house has its raised roofline and, except for a couple of listed examples, there is not a Crittall window to be seen.
This is the second time in the last week that I've seen something which reminded me of a piece of public art by Tak Bui (see comment photo) that I photographed almost a month ago.
When an artist's vision resonates over and over it's an indication that their work had meaning and impact.
Caught this guy working on dismantling Jian Min Cun, a slum between the railway and the elevated highway, right off Zhongtan Lu. When the job is done he and his fresh-faced colleagues with their young wives will go back to Anhui.
Kiev-88, Volna lens, Kodak PPN160 expired in 2006. I started pasting a customized EV table at the back of the film cartridge - makes me faster with choosing the correct exposure settings.
baloon in the shape of a construction worker signalling a construction zone on one of the main streets of sapporo
Pen Chenda, 35, and wife Seng Sok Leang, 27, (at rear) are both garment workers. Sok Leang is on maternity leave caring for their 2-month infant. © ILO/ Livingston Armytage
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Not strictly a Finsec event, but here's a few photos of the Service and Food Workers' Union Nga Ringa Tota rally in Wellington on International Cleaners Day.
The 'Fair Deal for Cleaners' campaign that this rally is part of aims to provide a voice to the low-waged largely immigrant female workforce, in cities across Australia and New Zealand, who are calling on big property owners to support decency in their workplaces.
The title will be much funnier if you know the Parks and Recreation song in which your dream is some kind of wild animal that you need to chase. "It's not enough to simply catch that dream. You gotta grab that dream and catch your dream's dream!"
Anyway, this is preparation for a festival in Bilbao. That same festival caused our travel agent to cancel a hotel in the city centre because it would be "too noisy". The replacement hotel was super close to a bunch of glass recycling bins so it's not like that was a quiet oasis. Oh well. Doesn't matter.
It's a rare sight. Nowadays, Malaysia's construction work force consists mostly of foreigners. Malaysia government will be bringing in another 40,000 (legally) more foreigners on top of the 3.1 mil (legal and illegal) who are already residing in Malaysia. They were sitting under the shelter because it was raining.
this picture i was shot at Shah Alam, Malaysia.The movement of the sky make this picture look more interesting and dramatic.
by applying the element of art and photography, this picture have its own quality.
Bronze inlaid with ivory
Etruscan, Archaic
2nd quarter of the 6th century B.C.
Found near Monteleone di Spoleto in 1902
This extraordinary chariot depicts episodes from the life of Achilles, the Greek hero of the Trojan War. In the central scene, Achilles, on the right, receives from his mother, Thetis, on the left, a shield and helmet to replace the armor that Achilles had given his friend Patroklos, for combat against the Trojan Hektor. Patroklos was killed, allowing Hektor to take Achilles' armor. The subject was widely known thanks to the account in Homer's Iliad and many representations in Greek art. The panel on the left shows a combat between two warriors, usually identified as the Greek Achilles and the Trojan Memnon. In the panel on the right, the apotheosis of Achilles shows him ascending in a chariot drawn by winged horses. The subsidiary reliefs partly covered by the wheels are interpreted as showing Achilles as a youth in the care of the centaur Chiron and Achilles as a lion felling his foes, in this case a stag and a bull.
The three panels of the car represent the main artistic achievement. Scholarly opinion agrees that the style of the decoration is strongly influenced by Greek art, particularly that of Ionia and adjacent islands such as Rhodes. The choice of subjects, moreover, reflects close knowledge of the epics recounting the Trojan War. In the extent of Greek influence, the chariot resembles works of virtually all media from Archaic Etruria. The typically Etruscan features of the object begin with its function, for chariots were not significant in Greek life of the sixth century B.C. except in athletic contests. Furthermore, iconographical motifs such as the winged horses in Achilles' apotheosis and the plethora of birds of prey reflect Etruscan predilections. The repoussé panels may have been produced in one of the important metal-working centers such as Vulci by a local craftsman well familiar with Greek art or possibly by an immigrant bronze-worker. The chariot could well have been made for an important individual living in southern Etruria or Latium. Its burial in Monteleone may have to do with the fact that this town controlled a major route through the Appenine Mountains. The vehicle could have been a gift to win favor with a powerful local authority or to reward his services. Beyond discussion is the superlative skill of the artist. His control of the height of the relief, from very high to subtly shallow, is extraordinary. Equally remarkable are the richness and variety of the decoration lavished on all of the figures, especially those of the central panel. In its original state, with the gleaming bronze and painted ivory as well as all of the accessory paraphernalia, the chariot must have been dazzling.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
NYC
Expecting and nursing mothers require social protection but workers in the informal economy are often not covered. Maternity protection has been a primary concern of the ILO since its creation in 1919. Workplace support for mothers who are breastfeeding has been a basic provision of maternity protection.
The Philippines expanded maternity leave benefits in 2019 to align with international labour standards. The ILO also promoted exclusive breastfeeding in the workplace to advance women’s rights to maternity protection and to improve nutrition security for Filipino children. Know more: www.ilo.org/manila/projects/WCMS_379090/lang--en/index.htm
Photo ©ILO / E. Tuyay
November 2011
Manila, Philippines
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Workers of PT Jaya Asiatic Shipyard work on the build site. Tanjung Uncan, Batam, Indonesia.
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Mirza A.
December 2007
Photo © Mirza A. / ILO
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A wasp on a signpost at Leighland, harvesting wood for nest building.
I was pleased with this. when I saw it I had my 18-200 lens on, I took this as a banker shot, intending to switch to my macro, the wasp disappeared before I had the chance.
Not strictly a Finsec event, but here's a few photos of the Service and Food Workers' Union Nga Ringa Tota rally in Wellington on International Cleaners Day.
The 'Fair Deal for Cleaners' campaign that this rally is part of aims to provide a voice to the low-waged largely immigrant female workforce, in cities across Australia and New Zealand, who are calling on big property owners to support decency in their workplaces.