👎🏻😡“Workers at two Mercedes-Benz factories near Tuscaloosa, #Alabama, voted on Friday against joining the United Automobile Workers, a stunning blow to the union’s campaign to gain ground in the South, where it has traditionally been weak.” #UAW
#HannahDreier got a #Pulitzer for her MYT article revealing how child labor laws are being flouted in, among other states, Alabama.
In textile factories, meat plants & roofing companies, immigrant children work in clear violation of the law, & few folks seem that concerned, especially at the #Alabama Attorney General’s office.
Frozen embryos in test tubes remain babies in Alabama: on May 3, the Alabama Supremes denied a request to rehear its ruling about this..
Look at the test tube and its contents and you may be baffled at the judgment that it contains a baby, but the Alabama Supremes' ruling is not about science, what you can see or what you think: it's about what a minority of religionists believe and want to force you to believe.
The Communist Party ticket got more votes in one #Alabama county in 1932 than Hoover did. Communism has been taught by more farmers than college students.
“Communism is some white liberal shit you learned from college students.”
"With the understanding of how sacred Black land ownership is given the history of Black land loss, [Christopher Joe] set out to expand the uses of his family land while maintaining its function as a cattle farm.
After attending an ecotourism workshop and making a chance connection, the idea for offering up the land for birdwatching came about."
TIL that in the 1930s Communist organizers and local farmers #unions in rural #Alabama hid their weekly meetings from #police by calling them “Bible meetings” and recorded meeting minutes by underling relevant words and phrases in a Bible #history#labor
In 1959, there was an uproar in #Alabama and other segregationist circles about The Rabbits Wedding, about a black rabbit and a white rabbit who got married. Written by the same author who drew pictures for Charlotte's Web and Little House on the Prairie, it struck too close to home. Now, it has been turned into a play. Piss off a Republican -- place the book in your local library and attend the play. #Books#Theatrehttps://eugeneweekly.com/2024/04/11/very-little-theatre-offers-an-unusual-view-of-segregation/