On this day in 1897, the Lattimer Massacre occurred near Hazelton, Pennsylvania when a Sheriff’s posse fired into a crowd of unarmed, striking miners, killing 19. Miners, mostly Eastern European immigrants, had been protesting for better pay and union recognition.
A week prior, over 3,000 miners had gone on strike, demanding better pay and an end to the forced use of the company store. On the morning of September 10th, approximately 400 miners peacefully marched to a newly opened coal mine in Lattimer to support a new United Mine Workers (UMW) union there.
After refusing an order to disperse by a Luzerne County sheriff’s posse, the posse fired into the crowd. Nineteen miners were killed and several dozen were wounded.
Despite the fact that sheriffs had been overhead joking about how many strikers they would kill that morning, as well as medical evidence that demonstrated miners were mostly shot in the back, the sheriff and seventy-three deputies were acquitted at trial, insisting that they were charged by the crowd.
The massacre was a turning point in the history of the United Mine Workers (UMW), who received more than 10,000 new members in the aftermath of the massacre.
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CW sexual harassment
How the fuck are you supposed to respond when guy catcalls you. Ignore it? Have a comeback ready? Cuss him out?
I remember my aunt getting catcalled when I was 14. We were walking to the store and someone had the audacity to call her a “big t*tty momma”. My aunt pulled me closer to her, looked straight ahead, and kept walking.
Years later and they’re still doing the same thing. Fuck every one of those entitled pigs that think it’s socially acceptable to publicly comment on a woman’s body.
There’s no good way to respond if you’re a lone woman. If you respond you risk them getting aggressive, if you ignore it you’re a bitch.
It seems like they’re also getting bolder with what they’re saying nowadays. Shit like this is why I carry pepper spray with me every time I go outside alone.
I honestly recommend everyone carry pepper spray when walking alone, especially women.
I don’t carry anything like that (though I should), but I have heard that there is a pepper spray gel which can be a lot safer to use since you don’t have the risk of stepping into the cloud or anything like that.
cw: sexual harassment of minors
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Honestly with the catcalling stories I usually hear from people I’m surprise it was your mom that got catcalled and not you, since catcallers love to harass minors.