On this day in 1932 during the administration of Herbert Hoover, Washington D.C. police and the U.S. Army battled with WWI veterans camped out at the capitol who were demanding early payment of their service bonus, killing three people and wounding fifty-five more.

Lucy Burns, born on this day in 1879, was an American suffragist and women's rights advocate who was arrested and force-fed multiple times as part of a campaign of direct action in the United Kingdom and United States.

Days of hope and despair:

This Day in History: NASA Is Created. July 29, 1958. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created as a means of keeping up with the space program of the former Soviet Union.

DmtDusty wrote:

Spot The Obvious:
https://i.redd.it/p6y97897fje91.jpg

I'm all for hoping it's true, but a really close look at the bottom border suggests it's 'shopped.

Something I think Bill would like...

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Back when: Living in London the late 70's, off and on up to the mid 80's. Worked at the Irish Music Centre (if I recall the name properly) in Camden and up in Cricklewood. Lots of old timers hinted in conversation of being in the IRA...

The wife was caught in the Selfridge Bombing before I met her. She missed serious injury, thank goodness. Having to evacuate trains, divert from areas, etc from bomb scares was a frequent occurrence.  We almost got caught in the middle of the El Al affair, we were walking when the bus was attacked a couple of blocks down the street from it, ran like hell...

This picture is an apt depiction of civil unrest in Northern Ireland.

A boy shot by the British Army with a rubber bullet (Belfast, Northern Ireland

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Mary "Mother" Jones, baptized on this day in 1837, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent and militant union organizer in American labor movement. "I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser."

I get where he's coming from, at this end of life it does seem like futility.  Can the kids coming up as voters really force the issue on continuing to elect people that actually do the right thing for everybody?

Somewhat related, my six-times great grandfather's headstone.  His grandfather, the original Robert Mc Farland arrived in North Carolina in 1711.

Flag of Makhno and the Free Territory:

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, born on this day in 1890, was a communist activst and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).

Flynn was a vigorous proponent of women's rights, birth control, and women's suffrage. She joined the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) in 1936 and late in life, in 1961, became its chairwoman.

Flynn was also a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), but was expelled in 1940 during an institution-wide purge of all communists from ACLU leadership. This decision was reversed twelve years after her death, in 1976.

In 1948, she was arrested, along with eleven other prominent members of the Communist Party, for violating the Smith Act. She served two years in prison, and continued her political activism after her release.

Flynn died during a visit to the Soviet Union, where she was accorded a state funeral with processions in the Red Square attended by over 25,000 people.

"I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love of country away from me! I felt then, as I do now, it's a rich, fertile, beautiful land, capable of satisfying all the needs of its people. It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class."

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Read more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gurley_Flynn

DmtDusty wrote:

https://i.redd.it/99orolp64jg91.jpg

This is fake, right?

...right?

BorderCount wrote:

DmtDusty wrote:

https://i.redd.it/99orolp64jg91.jpg

This is fake, right?

...right?

Nope.
It is real.

Tax Dollars paying for huge amounts of ammo for the IRS. Perhaps this is why:

You're better than that.  Who besides, maybe, Jet doesn't already know that?  I just think that a single child's life is worth more than all the guns in this country.  So, let's find some sensible middle-ground and get some new Washington assholes to go along with it.

BorderCount wrote:

Context matters, Dusty, and you know it. You drink too much and die? Your fault. You overdose on meth? Your fault. There's a significant difference between a classroom full of kids being gunned down in a matter of minutes and dying of a heart attack because you're a fat fuck.

LOL, yeah, that too!