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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PSA: Sucralose consumption fucks up your gut micro-biome, depleting your arginine and making immunotherapy less effective
my dad sent me this asking if my mom should take citrulline while she gets chemotherapy and i'm pretty sure the answer is yeah why not
I think it's a little tricky. The abstract (I couldn't get the PDF to cooperate) implies that it's a mouse study. I'm told there's a large body of evidence espousing a benign nature to artificial sweetener. It depends on the severity of the battle your mother is about to engage in for my 2c. If you need every marginal advantage you can get, go for it. Even the idea that you're going in with every advantage you can find is in itself an advantage.
However, that's a double edged sword. If you feel deprived and anxious because you go diet soda = draw and you cave and have one, that's a disadvantage. I don't think that study is going to hold up folk knowledge like "diet soda makes you draw against cancer" by itself. The absence of diet soda is likely not the deciding factor. A doctor's opinion about a supplement not regulated by the FDA would be a really good idea regarding citrulline.
I figure taking citrulline supplements can't hurt since you need arginine anyway, as long as she isn't taking too much. I'd rather she be taking stuff like that than fucking ivermectin at least
She does apparently drink sucralose (diet cranberry juice or some shit) but idk why she does, as far as I know she's never been at any risk for diabetes.
I think she'll be okay not drinking it. Not that they've said this to me but my parents are both obviously more terrified of her dying than her need for diet cranberry juice is.
It is a mouse study but I assume even if sucralose doesn't have necessarily the same effect on human gut microbiota it's likely enough that it has some effect, and probably not in a positive way.
The mechanism of action seems to be they eat sucralose, it encourages different species of microbes to flourish, they eat up all the arginine and the resultant arginine deficiency stops your T cells from working properly.
I believe it. And, it pains me to say, but my knowledge of diet and the gut microbiome is likely dated. When I was studying torture at Mossad university, I took nutrition and microbiology. The idea was anything that you consumed made a mark on your gut micro. Therefore fried foods gave you fried food microbiome and made your cravings that much more strong. I heard it's a bundle of nerves second only to the brain itself. But when I was reading it was poorly understood. This is to say that as much as +/- diet soda would affect you, you could make the same case with the same mechanism (flux of the microbiome) for a lot of different foods. Then that's coupled with diet soda being generally over-hated which makes me skeptical
I bet the gut is more understood now - that's an interesting conversation and I want to know more. Let me ping you later if I get some time to look into it.