97th Anniversary of the Ludlow Colorado Massacre

[Lars77]

Run time: 02:01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw0D0yG3QmA   Posted on YouTube: April 20, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheRealNews Views on YouTube: 302   Posted on DU: April 21, 2011 By DU Member: Lars77 Views on DU: 1239

 

[2banon]

1. An excellent reminder of this country's history of Class Warfare

The next time someone says they feel a bit queezy using the term, remind them of our history. Actually this is one story that I had forgotten about. Cudos for posting this, and Cudos to RealNews.com for featuring this story. Wish I had the money to support them.

[abq e streeter]

2. Thanks for posting. The war on workers in this country has obviously turned lethal before

and I keep wondering if and when the oligarchy will feel the need to resort to violence again if we get too militant in demanding an end to their abuses.

[bertman]

3. Anybody remember this from your American History classes in high school?

I sure as hell don't.

Thanks for posting this, Lars77.

REC.

[hourglass1]

4. ?

what american history classes?

[bertman]

5. Seriously? Did your high school not teach American history? nt

[liberation]

6. I was in Honors History and they touched on this briefly

... the book actually painted Rockefeller Jr. as the victim, how the event had such and "impact" that changed his perspective and shit like that. Totally ignoring the fact that he ordered the nat. guard to go medieval on the protesters.

[Boudica the Lyoness]

7. Churchill used troops against miners.

1910 in Tonypandy, Wales. The strike marked one of the few occasions in British history that troops have been deployed against striking workers. But it was no where near the bloodbath Ludlow was. What happened in Ludlow should ever be forgotten.

BTW; My granpa was born and raised in Tonypandy and was a miner. He also fought for four years in WW1. He was fighting the Turks in Gallipoli and hated Churchill because of his actions in the Rhonnda Valley and WW1. I was 21 when my granpa died, I knew my him well and admired him.

[Hubert Flottz]

8. K&R

[amyrose2712]

9. Thanks. I just read about this in "On War" by Howard Zinn.