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The Counter-Revolution of 1776:Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America.

As the United States of America, celebrate its independence anniversary declared on 4th July, 1776, we take a look at the history of America, the events that led to declaration of independence, and most importantly why declaration of independence was not a cause for celebration among all Americans, particularly for the native Americans and the enslaved African Americans. “For Native Americans, it may be a bitter reminder of colonialism, which brought fatal diseases, cultural hegemony and genocide. Neither did the new republic’s promise of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” extend to African Americans. The colonists who declared their freedom from England did not share their newly founded liberation with the millions of Africans they had captured and forced into slavery.”

The so-called Revolution was according to Professor Gerald Horne, was a ‘Counter-Revolution’ a conservative effort by American colonists to protect their system of slavery. Contrary to anonymous role often assign to African Americans in the American Revolution (which Prof. Gerald Horne refer to as Counter-Revolution) the prof. lucidly outline their roles and their major impact. The book is a great shift in paradgim.

Professor Gerald Horne, is the author of the book “The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origin of the United States of America.”

https://kritisansar.noblogs.org/files/2017/12/The-Counter-Revolution-of-1776.pdf

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  • LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    15 days ago

    I’m officially a teamster!

    I technically was already a member but since I made it 30 working days without getting fired I have seniority and the full protection of our contract.

    I really had to work for it, my manager at UPS is a dick. He gives every new person insane workloads to see if you’ll put up with it. I get that they want to make sure you can do the job before they’re stuck with you, but he could ease people into it instead of having you load 1000 packages in 4 hours on day 2. Since I started 2 other new people quit and 1 got fired for telling him off.

    It’ll be a lot easier now. My body has adapted to the workload and I can’t get fired for working slower.

    • isame [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      15 days ago

      This is something I’m curious about. I live in central Florida, US. Otherwise known as hell. There’s not much union activity here, as they’ve worked really hard to keep them out. It looks like the Teamsters do have a bit of a presence at the ports.

      Does anyone with knowledge on the subject know if there’s any point to looking into it? I’m a grocery merchandiser. I drive around and put beer on shelves.

      To be honest I don’t think there would be much point. It’d just paint a target on my back to be the only union person. I’m trying to get promoted so I can stop breaking my back every day, so I’m not trying to get that kind of attention right now. But maybe once I’m established and made myself a little more irreplaceable.

      I’d love some info either way. I’ve never been in a union and don’t know much about them Just that it’s, on the whole, a good idea to be part of a union. I think us here in Florida are just fucked. Here you have the “right to work” yourself to death and your employer has the right to tell you to fuck yourself “at-will”.

      • LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        5·
        15 days ago

        The only way I know of to join teamsters is to get hired at a business that is unionized with the teamsters or start your own union and choose the teamsters to represent you.

        UPS is the biggest employer within teamsters and the easiest to get hired at, but it definitely isn’t for everyone. You have to do hard part time work until you have enough seniority to win a full time bid. How long that is varies greatly from local to local. Part timers got a big raise in the last contract, but in high cost of living areas it’s still pretty low pay. Great benefits for part time work, though. You pay nothing for health, vision and dental insurance, very low copays and a pension. And once you win a full time bid you can make really good money for unskilled labor.