@outer@mas.tohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth
Juneteenth is federal holiday in the U.S.
Here's a picture of six former slaves at an Emancipation Day Celebration on June 19, 1900. The photo is from the Austin History Center.
In 2021 the 117th U.S. Congress enacted and…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaThe workers' freedom must be the work of their own hands, the emancipation and liberation of the working class cannot be granted or imposed by external political parties or authorities, but must be achieved through autonomous, collective action and self-organization.
#Anarchism #Syndicalism
@outer@mas.toJuneteenth celebrates the end of most slavery in the United States. It is also known as Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Juneteenth Independence Day, Black Independence Day, and by U.S. statute, Juneteenth National Independence Day.
https://www.cong…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaRudolf Rocker argued that true social liberation requires the abolition of all forms of political, economic, and social oppression, he maintained that even complete economic equality is meaningless without freedom, and that any system enforcing authority or coercion undermines genuine emancipation.
When I think about it, I strongly agree with this view, because real freedom can only exist where no one is subject to outside control, where each person has the space to shape their own lif…
