and, as has been shown by the many unprovoked attacks against totally non-violent actions during the past six months, the safety of our children in that future depends on people taking a definitive stand against the injustice and inequality that such blatant brutality lurks behind.
Minorities and the poor and disenfranchised parents of this nation put their children in harm's way every single time they open a door to allow their kids to go outside to play or take a walk to the store, unaccompanied, because of repressive, out-of-control police departments.
The common everyday streets are volatile for them, due to the oppressive system of the 1% that is propped up by its armed enforcers.
Educating a child to the truth, making sure that they become aware of where the actual danger lies, is hardly inappropriate, as our country rushes headlong into overwhelming poverty for the majority ... such truth has been the reality for minorities for generations.
On Jan. 12, 1912, some 25,000 workers at the mills of the American Woolen Company in Lawrence walked off the job when the company cut their pay—already a mere $8 a week for the men, and less for the women and children—after the state legislature passed a law shortening the length of their workweek from 56 hours to 54 hours. Workers stayed off the job for months, enduring beatings from police and the Massachusetts militia, who spared not even women and children.
Some see in the conditions that led to the Bread and Roses strike parallels to today’s growing income disparity between the wealthy and the rest of us, as well as the exploitation of America’s workers by financial interests. Robert Forrant, a history professor at the University of Massachusetts, calls it “the first Occupy movement.”
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