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River
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Many people, including Americans, are unaware of the events known as "the Haymarket affair." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair
It's important that we do know about this, though, for it provides much contextual understanding about much which is happening in our world today.
Did you know, for example, that the Police in Chicago (like any police during that time in history) were not created to be in service to the people in general, but rather to serve the new capitalists during the new wage labor capitalism?
You can learn more about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFmD7dz4rgo
... and for more about the history of police:
The True History of the Origins of Police: Protecting and Serving the Masters of Society
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-po...police-protecting-and-serving-masters-society
We'd perhaps like to think that contemporary police in America are nothing like police in the olden days of policing, but one has only got to watch YouTube videos of how the cops treated protesters at Standing Rock or at various Occupy encampments, etc., to have doubts raised on that idea.
It's important that we do know about this, though, for it provides much contextual understanding about much which is happening in our world today.
Did you know, for example, that the Police in Chicago (like any police during that time in history) were not created to be in service to the people in general, but rather to serve the new capitalists during the new wage labor capitalism?
You can learn more about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFmD7dz4rgo
... and for more about the history of police:
The True History of the Origins of Police: Protecting and Serving the Masters of Society
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-po...police-protecting-and-serving-masters-society
We'd perhaps like to think that contemporary police in America are nothing like police in the olden days of policing, but one has only got to watch YouTube videos of how the cops treated protesters at Standing Rock or at various Occupy encampments, etc., to have doubts raised on that idea.