Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was born in 1890 in Concord, New Hampshire, to a radical, activist working-class family. When she was 10, the family moved to the South Bronx, where she attended public school. By the time she was 15, Flynn was active in socialist groups. At 15, she gave her first public speech, and the next year she was expelled from high school. She became a full-time organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
In the years leading up to World War I, Flynn was active on women's rights, free speech for IWW speakers and organizing textile strikes in places like Lawrence, Massachusetts, and Paterson, New Jersey. She also worked to organize garment workers in Pennsylvania, silk weavers in New Jersey, restaurant workers in New York City and miners in Minnesota.
Flynn opposed the war when it broke out, and like many war opponents, she was charged with espionage. The charges were dropped and Flynn began working to defend immigrants threatened with deportation for their opposition to the war.
In 1920, Flynn helped found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and was elected to the national board. From 1927-1930, she chaired International Labor Defense. During that time she was active in trying to free jailed labor organizers Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings. For the first half of the 1930s, she withdrew from public life because of bad health, but she returned to public life in 1939 and was re-elected to the ACLU board. When Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin signed a nonagression pact, the ACLU expelled all Communist Party members from its ranks, including Flynn.
Flynn ran for the Communist Party of America's Central Committee successfully, and ran for a seat in Congress unsuccessfully. During World War II, Flynn fought for women's economic equality. After the war, as communism grew more unpopular in the United States, Flynn shifted back to defending free speech rights for radicals. In 1951, she was arrested for conspiracy to overthrow the government based on the Smith Act of 1940. She spent more than two years in prison.
She returned to political action once she was out of prison, and in 1961, she became the first woman elected national chair of the Communist Pary. A critic of the Soviet Union, Flynn traveled behind the Iron Curtain and was stricken ill. She died in the USSR and was given a state funeral in Red Square.
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Kitchen Nightmares reminds me of my time in Osaka
I like kitchen nightmares cause he yells at people who are basically the same as shitty bosses I've had.
Yes it has to be said that it's funny to laugh at the small business tyrants who aren't living in reality
When Gordon has an aside with a line cook who is fully aware the place is bullshit and offers the poor guy some sympathy warms the cockles of my cook heart. I'm in a pretty good spot now where im a pretty big wheel at a place that's very collaborative. We have super high retention, especially for a kitchen. Our newest person has been there for over 2 years and we make really fucking good food. Until pretty recently there were 4 of us there with red seals including the actual chef who's job it is to chef, one had a kid and went for the big cooking for the coast guard money, so now it's 3 unless she is off a boat and wants to come by and make some extra cash.
It's not all fantastic of course, the chef is fantastic at being a cook and food stuff but is bad at the management part where he's pretty scatterbrained and neurotic in a way that I've only seen in this one guy. What he worries about and doesn't worry about seem flip flopped a lot and he'll often make a choice and then be riddled with self doubt and then end out doing something stupid. He has no criticism filter and will make adjustments based on one complaint by someone who was an unpleasant prick about everything. There's quite a lot of other bullshit as well, but at the very least you get to speak up and be heard and if youre so inclined, contribute. Some changes I made or new shit I made up while fucking around made it to the menu even.
fascinated that a coast guard chef would actually make more than a terrestrial commercial one
How so? She has to live on a boat and its a military contact union gig
oh as a contractor, I assumed enlisted lol
That wouldn't be an option since she isn't a citizen. Could be but japan doesnr do dual citizenship. Recently having had a baby she went to Japan to visit her mom while pregnant and found out as a citizen she could get baby bonuses from Japan while there as well and kinda cleaned up
lol reaping the shinzo abe bag without actually increasing japan's population hell yeah