#Earthquake (#sismo) confirmed by seismic data.Preliminary info: M4.7 || 27 km SW of #Castro (#Chile) || 12 min ago (local time 22:34:59). Follow the thread for the updates

Today in Labor History May 21, 1979: The White Night Riot occurred in San Francisco, California, the day before Harvey Milk’s birthday. On November 10, 1978, ex-cop and former city supervisor, Dan White, murdered Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in California, and the popular progressive mayor, George Moscone. His murder trial concluded on May 21. The jury found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter. However, the prosecutor had asked for a finding of first-degree murder. It was, after all, premeditated. This verdict was likely influenced by the absurd Twinkie Defense, in which his lawyer argued that it could not have been premeditated due to his diminished capacity and depression, a symptom of which was his recent shift from a healthy diet to a junk food diet. A similar defense had failed repeatedly to get students excused from exams and school detentions.

Needless to say, the public was outraged. However, there had been decades of police harassment and physical abuse of San Francisco’s LGBTQ community lead up to this miscarriage of justice. Tensions were already high. And this ruling, which virtually absolved White of his homophobic crime, was the torch to the powder keg. Things began with a peaceful march through the Castro district. But when the crowd arrived at City Hall, violence began. People attacked the windows of City Hall. When the cops tried to protect the building, people hurled rocks and bottles at them, forcing them to run inside. Where ever the cops showed up, people threw rocks at them. At least a dozen cop cars were torched. They busted windows in the financial district and in government buildings.

Many people were injured. The riot caused hundreds of thousands of dollars-worth of property damage to City Hall. And when the riot was finally subdued, the cops made a retaliatory raid on the Elephant Bar, in the Castro District. Cops in riot gear beat patrons. They arrested 24 people.

Furthermore, the double assassination of Moscone and Milk dramatically altered the political landscape of San Francisco. Under Moscone and Milk, the city was moving in a progressive, pro-neighborhood direction. With the new mayor, Diane Feinstein, city politics returned to the traditional, conservative, pro-Chamber of Commerce, law and order framework that had preceded Moscone and Milk, and the followed after them to this day.

Today in Labor History April 13, 1953: CIA Director Allen Dulles launched the MKUltra mind control program. The program ran from 1953 to 1973. It involved giving human subjects LSD and other drugs, often without their knowledge. Then, researchers would try to “weaken” their minds and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. Over 7,000 U.S. war veterans were unwitting test subjects, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians. The program was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the CIA, recruited many of these Nazi torturers in the wake of World War II to exploit their knowledge and research. MKUltra was headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who later devised plans to kill Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar, and saturating his shoes with radioactive thallium to make his beard fall out. He also tried to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, with poison. Several well-known liberals and radicals knowingly participated in MKUltra and its OSS predecessors, either as test subjects (e.g., Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hunter), or as researchers (e.g., anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson). Others who have been alleged to have been victims or volunteers include Sirhan Sirhan, Ted Kaczyinski, Charles Manson, and Whitey Bulger.

For a really fascinating look at Margaret Mead's and Gregory Bateson’s exploration with hallucinogens and their connection to MKUltra, check out the recent book, Tripping on Utopia, by Benjamin Breen. And for a truly amazing documentary on the 1961 CIA-supported coup in Congo, check out the 2024 documentary, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” But the film is really about so much more than the coup. It covers Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations in the early 1960s; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte.

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Not Orphan Andy's!

#sanfrancisco #castro #lgbtqia https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/sf-24-hour-diner-for-sale-20202300.php

Today in Labor History January 1, 1959: Fidel Castro’s forces overthrew Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba. The revolutionary movement began on July 26, 1953. The movement later reformed along Marxist-Leninist lines and formally became the Communist Party of Cuba in 1965.

I am so in love with this app and it’s new owners. Regular updates, A LOT of communication, even about an outage I didn’t even notice.
#Castro is still the best podcast player if you’re on iOS and don’t need sync (yet ). Well designed, opinionated, and tons of features. https://mastodon.social/@castropodcasts/113708171006030649

Na última excavação no Castro de Pereiras (Mos), da segunda Idade do Ferro, apareceu um grande prédio, possivelmente da época romana, cheio de incógnitas.

Esta campanha está financiada pola Comunidade de montes de Pereiras depois de outra financiada pola Conselharia de Cultura.

A maioria dos restos são de cerámica galaica e só um par de ánforas romanas.

https://culturagalega.gal/noticia.php?id=36911

Ⓒ Mario Pereiro
Ⓒ Rafa Guinart Pérez

One thing I really with the #Castro podcast app had was player stats.

It would be cool to see your end of year listening stats for your podcasts.

Dieses Foto von Fidel Castro mit zwei Rolex-Uhren am Arm habe ich in der Lifetime 01.2024 gefunden und überlege, es für ein Buch zu nutzen (und zu bezahlen, klar). Leider finde ich als Fotoangabe aber nur Picture Alliance / Ullstein Bild / Claude Jacoby und keinerlei weitere Angaben etwa zum Datum oder Ort dieser Aufnahme. Hat irgendjemand eine Ahnung, ob und wie sich dazu mehr herausfinden lässt? #Foto #Castro #Geschichte #Zeit #Rolex #Fragen

@castropodcasts I saw the blog post on HackerNews yesterday and it reignited my curiosity. I’m a long time #overcast subscriber but the last 3-4 months have been painful, waiting and hoping that bugs would be fixed and numerous features reinstated. No more! I just became a #castro subscriber - I think you guys are doing a great job with the frequent updates and your community engagement is fantastic and very reassuring. I’m onboard! Keep it up!

Es ist jetzt zum wiederholten Male vorgekommen, dass zig angehörte Folgen in #PocketCasts wieder in der Warteliste aufgetaucht sind. Somit mal wieder zu #Castro gewechselt.

Segnali di fine settembre

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