2/ The asylum staff had already shown militancy during a 1918 strike when they chased away visiting staff who attempted to cross the picket line. By 1919, attendants and nurses were working a 93-hour week and earning just £60-£70 per annum.
3/ They invited Peadar O'Donnell, a leading militant in the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, to negotiate on their behalf. And when negotiations failed to resolve their grievances, they hoisted the red flag and ran the asylum in cooperation with the patients.
4/ O’Donnell implemented a 48-hour working week and locked one attendant in a padded cell for “defeatism.” The staff and patients showed extraordinary resolve to maintain the occupation even when surrounded by 125 armed police.
5/ Unusually, no great animosity seems to have existed between police and strikers, and during the occupation they co-organised dances and football matches.
6/ Nevertheless, when a rumour circulated that military police were about to force entry, the occupiers sealed windows, barricaded corridors, swapped clothes with patients (to confuse the attackers), and attempted to arm themselves with shovels, spades, and pitchforks.
7/ When authorities offered to meet wage demands for male workers only, the occupiers refused to concede, insisting on parity for women workers, In the end, the standoff was resolved peacefully, with the total capitulation of the Asylum Committee.
8/ The occupiers held a victory dance in one of the dining halls, which was attended by many local townspeople as well as some of the police force. The following morning, February 4th, they returned to work.
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Parsing the data dump from Parler will take some time.
But just to give you an idea of its use.
This is a global shot of videos uploaded over a defined time period.
Fair to say Parler was mostly US users.
From this data set, UK (England?) was the second biggest user set
The data set lets you drill down a fair bit. Each of those dots on the map is a geo-located video upload.
During the upload Parler -unlike say Twitter - retained location metadata. Sloppy operation.
Privacy probably not a big concern if your profiting off hate merchants...
As the US impeaches its President for a second time and the FBI has issued warnings about potentially armed paramilitaries at each of all 50 capitol buildings over the next few weeks, its probably a good a time as any for anti-fascists (thats most of us yeah) to get this data
While people are out volunteering to help with vaccines, and wages have been effectively stagnant for most of the population, this TD is happy to bump up their own wages on the Monday to Friday......
It's quite stunning how unnuanced any conversation about "the troubles" in the north remains.
Its almost always through the prism of the desired intended impact the conversation will have on specific parties today & very little about set of circumstances of the time.
As someone who grew up in that hyper-violence, the cold clinical political calculations in the conversation today seem to want to avoid engaging with the reality that a civil rights movement was brutally suppressed by a sectarian state carved out post partial independence.
Its entirely possible to not have supported the PIRA campaign, but also understand the set of circumstances of why some people resorted to up arms in the context of the time. The air of authoritarianism existed both north and south. The culture of violence did too.
Heres Hermann Kelly @hermannkelly on SF's 'immigration policy'
"The party of touts and louts in Sinn Fein, you gotta laugh, they present themselves as a nationalist party. Their immigration policy is basically Brits out, Chinese in"
This guy is a racist organiser full stop.
Hermann Kelly @hermannkelly moves on to the antisemitic conspiracy theory 'cultural marxism'
Says SF's 'cultural marxism' is stolen from the Workers Party andhe's neither were really republican.
Without a hint of irony hes saying all this to an ex squaddie.
Racism writ large
Hermann Kelly @hermannkelly then making a direct connection between abortion and immigration. A very public stance in the American far-right, and Christian fundamentalism generally.
Both underpinned by a founding concept of white supremacy and fear of 'white genocide'
He's mates with another American migrant Brendan Keane, who was involved in pushing hate against - you guessed it - other migrants who they deem 'not Irish'