Pittsburgh loves it’s fireworks. We have them for pretty much no reason. Even the Pirates, that overpaid little league team, break out the top-shelf fireworks a few times a month. So it’s heartening that the people of the region still get excited for the symbolic explosions, even if it’s on the anniversary of [...]
July 7, 2007
Categories: Battle of Homestead, Berkman, Carnegie, Civil Liberties, Emma Goldman, Frick, Insurrection, Labor, Pinkertons, Pittsburgh, Police State, Police Violence, Private Military Corporations, Riot . . Author: yinsurgent . Comments: No Comments
“Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism…. Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than [...]
June 27, 2007
Categories: Emma Goldman . . Author: yinsurgent . Comments: No Comments