Ben Rosenzweig

Semiotics of Coburg.

And there is a long-ish history of socialists in Victoria, of course. Excerpt from the almost legendary historian Ian Turner's 'Socialist Political Tactics, 1900-1920' in the May 1962 issue of the Bulletin of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. doi.org/10.2307/2755...

Semiotics of Coburg.

When we say 'Victorian socialists', we mean socialists who are in the Australian state of Victoria, not, you know, George Bernard Shaw or other notable Victorian socialists like William Morris or Belfort Bax, Stuart Glennie or Henry Salt, or other broadly Shavian types. Socialists IN Victoria.

The ICL Group is active in Australia as ICL ANZ/Growing Solutions, part of the same parent corporation that has a history of supplying chemical weapons to Israel which have been used by the IDF, which is to say white phosphorus and military-related phosphate components.

Hostplus held investments in ICL Group and so far as I can tell still does. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07...

The ICL Group is active in Australia as ICL ANZ/Growing Solutions, part of the same parent corporation that has a history of supplying chemical weapons to Israel which have been used by the IDF, which is to say white phosphorus and military-related phosphate components.

The ICL Group is active in Australia as ICL ANZ/Growing Solutions, part of the same parent corporation that has a history of supplying chemical weapons to Israel which have been used by the IDF, which is to say white phosphorus and military-related phosphate components.

But they're also responsible for, you know, poisoning the world through microplastics. ICL Specialty Fertilizers is a subsidiary of ICL Group, an Israeli corporation that produces controlled-release fertilizers (CRFs) in the Netherlands, the US, and Brazil. Hundreds of thousands of tons.

Article on candidates for the San Francisco board of supervisors - Harvey Milk, Howard Wallace, and Jesus Christ Satan. From the 2 November 1973 issue of the Berkeley Barb.

Article on San Francisco gay pride parade in the 4 July 1975 issue of the Berkeley Barb. With such police donations, White successfully got the smallest sentence imaginable, arguing diminished capacity, being convicted of voluntary manslaughter, being sentenced to eight years, getting out in five.

Article on candidates for the San Francisco board of supervisors - Harvey Milk, Howard Wallace, and Jesus Christ Satan. From the 2 November 1973 issue of the Berkeley Barb.

Article on police anti-gay harassment, from the 6 September 1974 edition of the Berkeley Barb. After Harvey Milk was murdered, police raised and donated a hundred thousand dollars for the legal defence of the murderer.

Article on Southern Tenant Farmers Union struggles against exploitation and resulting efforts at repression. Including Ward Rodgers being condemned by a prosecutor because when referring to black people he used the word 'Mister'. From the 14 February 1935 edition of The Black Dispatch.

Oh and here's a Ward Rodgers talk, as reported in the 20 April 1935 issue of The Wheaton News, paper of Wheaton College in Massachusetts. This is who they were trying to make out to be the villain.

Article on Southern Tenant Farmers Union struggles against exploitation and resulting efforts at repression. Including Ward Rodgers being condemned by a prosecutor because when referring to black people he used the word 'Mister'. From the 14 February 1935 edition of The Black Dispatch.

Recent years have seen increasing discussion of and sometimes action in response to the particular imperial and colonial bases of museum, university and other institutional collections and archives, in some cases finally recognising the demands of those from whom ‘exhibits’ had been taken.

For a small amount of context, an excerpt from a May 2025 paper by Sydney Blum, ‘Who Owns the Dead: The Unequal Access to Repatriation in US Law’, on these consequences of these developing critical examination of university collections.

Recent years have seen increasing discussion of and sometimes action in response to the particular imperial and colonial bases of museum, university and other institutional collections and archives, in some cases finally recognising the demands of those from whom ‘exhibits’ had been taken.

In some cases repatriation and related forms of access for tribes or colonised communities began decades ago. Recent focus has increasingly also been on retention of actual, African or African American human remains. And, as has become clear especially since the BLM movements, not from long ago.

On laws against helping people who have escaped slavery. Excerpt from 'In Supreme Court of the United States, December, 1852. Writ of Error to the Supreme Court of Illinois. etc', in the February 1853 issue of The American Law Register. doi.org/10.2307/3302...

It's worth thinking about the note the editors attached to this article, and how they had implicitly understood the relation of peace to slavery and race prior to this point.

On laws against helping people who have escaped slavery. Excerpt from 'In Supreme Court of the United States, December, 1852. Writ of Error to the Supreme Court of Illinois. etc', in the February 1853 issue of The American Law Register. doi.org/10.2307/3302...

These powers and laws didn't prevent such patterns of migration; excerpt from Robert Everest's 'On the Distribution of the Emigrants from Europe Over the Surface of the United States', in the March 1856 issue of the Journal of the Statistical Society of London. doi.org/10.2307/2338...

While I'm here: chuffed.org/project/1866...

Being anti-slavery but pro-colonialism was definitely a mid-19th century British theme. Excerpt from the January 1855 pamphlet by the late surgeon superintendent of immigrants in Lucea, Jamaica, Henry Bentall Evans, 'Our West Indian colonies: Jamaica, a source of national wealth and honour'.