CIRCLE WITH A DOT

#OtD 27 Mar 1881 rioting took place in Basingstoke, UK, in protest of the daily vociferous promotion of teetotalism by the @salvationarmyuk. 3000 people blocked a Salvation Army march before fighting broke out and the mayor read the riot act https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9926/basingstoke-riots

#OtD 27 Mar 1943 gay anti-fascist Willem Arondeus led a group in bombing the Amsterdam Public Records Office that Nazis used to identify Dutch Jews. Arrested, before his execution, Arondeus wanted it to be known that "homosexuals are not cowards." https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9931/amsterdam-population-registry-destroyed

#OtD 26 Mar 1915 police in Sioux City arrested 14 members of the @iww for holding street meetings to stop the union growing. IWW members came to the town to be arrested and filled the jails until eventually the police caved and allowed meetings https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/05/23/wch-e6-the-industrial-workers-of-the-world-in-the-us-1905-1918/

#OtD 26 Mar 1953 Mau Mau guerrillas fighting British colonialism in Kenya attacked the Naivasha police station. They inflicted a humiliating defeat on the police and released 173 prisoners, many of them Mau Mau, from an adjoining detention camp https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9847/naivasha-police-station-attack

#OtD 26 Mar 1969 the famous reclusive anarchist and working-class novelist, B. Traven, died. Famous for writing "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," he also wrote "The Death Ship," arguably one of the best books about workers in the shipping industry https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9848/b-traven-dies

#OtD 26 Mar 1923 in Yambol, Bulgaria, during an anarchist protest against the government decision to disarm the people, the army shot into the crowd, killing 30 and wounding and arresting many others. Others were executed the following day and in April https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9846/yambol-massacre

#OtD 26 Mar 1889 Ukranian Jewish anarchist and Makhnovist, Jacques Doubinsky, was born. Escaping to Bulgaria after Makhno's defeat, he was active in the movement until the 1923 coup where he was arrested, tortured and forced to flee again to Paris https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9844/jacques-doubinsky-born

Live Long and Prosper! On this day, March 26 in 1931 Leonard Nimoy was born and so today is designated Live Long and Prosper Day after Spock's Vulcan Salute.These free knitting patterns from my Star Trek post help pay tribute to Nimoy and his iconic characterhttps://intheloopknitting.com/trek-inspired-knitting-patterns/#knitting #StarTrek #otd

#OtD 26 Mar 1871 227,000 electors elected 81 representatives to the Paris Commune, in what was then the first instance of a working-class seizure of power. Learn more in these first-hand accounts from those who participated in the Commune: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/voices-of-the-paris-commune

#OtD 26 Mar 1978 protestors used Molotov cocktails to destroy the control tower at Japan's Narita International Airport - four days before it was due to open. This delayed the opening by two months https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9850/narita-airport-sabotage

#OnThisDay, 26 Mar 1974, Gaura Devi and 27 village women prevent the logging of trees in the village of Rini in the Himalayas. They confront armed men from the lumber company and hug the trees to stop them being felled.https://carvehername.org.uk/women-fighting-deforestation-gaura-devi/#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory#Histodons

#OtD 26 Mar 1879 French tapestry maker, anarchist and tenant organiser, Georges Cochon, was born. Targeted for his activism by landlords, he responded to his own eviction by nailing beams across his door in what turned into a five-day siege at his home https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9843/georges-cochon-born

@gazeshift Mother and infant mortality! Disease! In our modern world, first-world countries, we have no concept of what our ancestors dealt with.

#OtD 25 Mar 1926 20 police with clubs attacked 1500 striking textile workers in Passaic, NJ. They were fighting against pay cuts, for a shorter working week and unionising the industry. Five strikers and three truck driver supporters were arrested https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9763/police-attack-textile-strikers

#OtD 25 Mar 1969 Pakistan's dictator Ayub Khan resigned after mass protests that began in October. Repression of student protests had led to more unrest, with peasants killing land owners and police. The next year, Pakistan's first elections took place https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9766/pakistan's-dictator-resigns

#OtD 25 Mar 1872 thousands of print workers in Toronto went on strike for a maximum 9-hour day. The strike didn't achieve its goals but led to some improvements. This was one of Canada's earliest large-scale industrial disputes https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9759/toronto-printers-strike

#OtD 25 Mar 1911 a fire took place in the New York Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, killing 147 workers, with most of the victims being women and young girls. The owners were charged with seven counts of manslaughter but weren't found guilty https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9761/Triangle-Shirtwaist-Factory-fire

#OtD 25 Mar 1939 the Nazis brought in a new law forcing all 10-18y olds into the Hitler Youth. Despite Nazi efforts, thousands of working class teens formed the Edelweiss Pirates, who fought the Hitler Youth and helped Jews and POWs. More in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-edelweiss-pirates-swing-kids/

#OtD 24 Mar 1987 250 members of ACT UP demonstrated in Wall Street. They demanded greater access to treatments and national action to fight AIDS. 17 were arrested https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9675/act-up-wall-st-protest

#OTD March 24 1989, oil tanker Exxon Valdez hits a reef and releases 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska, killing 250,000 seabirds, 2,800 sea otters, 300 harbor seals, 250 bald eagles and 22 killer whaleshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill