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Today in Labor History May 13, 1960: San Francisco Police violently attacked university students who were nonviolently protesting HUAC (House Un-American Committee) hearings. After protesters were denied entrance to the meeting, police attacked and swept them out of City Hall's rotunda and down the stairs with fire hoses. 12 people hospitalized (including eight police, mostly from exhaustion). 64 were arrested. Charges were dropped against all but one, who was acquitted in a jury trial. The hearings were led by the infamous Joe McCarthy. They would come into union towns like Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle, and issue subpoenas to all the progressives and radicals in the town, especially union leaders, many of whom were communists, or had communist ties. The only defense was to take the Fifth Amendment. The consequence of that was that you would usually lose your job, your name would be plastered in the papers, and your kids would be mistreated in school. Alternatively, you could take the First, like the Hollywood Ten did. For that, you’d be held in contempt of court sent to prison.
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#RachelZegler also posted #FuckDonaldTrump and 'May trump supporters ...never know peace'
Wait! This is wild! The #film's producer and #Disney exec #MarcPlatt flew to #NewYork to personally tell Zegler to take the tweet down? SERIOUSLY?
So, '#Hollyweird' has no problem awarding #HUAC snitch #EliaKazan with a lifetime achievement award after he ruined peoples' lives during the #McCarthyEra; gave another one to paedo low-life #WoodyAllen (who #BlakeLively STILL defends, fyi); allows cult leader/paedo/violent nutter #JaredLeto to be cast in films, etc. but OH MY FUCK! Let's freak out about an actor who is a human being and stands up for #Palestine.
#FilmIndustry: R...U...JOKING!?
Today in Labor History March 6, 1930: 100,000 people demonstrated for jobs in New York City. Demonstrations by unemployed workers, demanding unemployment insurance, occurred in virtually every major U.S. city. In New York, police attacked a crowd of 35,000. In Cleveland, 10,000 people battled police. In Detroit, the Communist Party organized an underemployment demonstration. Over 50,000 people showed up. Thousands took to the streets in Toledo, Flint and Pontiac. These demonstrations led to the creation of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), sponsored by Republican congressman Hamilton Fish, with the support of the American Federation of Labor, to investigate and quash radical activities.
November 25, 1947 - Film industry executives, meeting in New York, announced that the “Hollywood Ten” directors, producers, and writers who had refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) would be fired or suspended, and not hired in the future, thus “blacklisted.”
#Hollywood10 #Blacklisted #HUAC
10/20/1947 - The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) opened public hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood. To counter what they claimed were reckless attacks by HUAC, a group of motion picture industry luminaries, led by actor Humphrey Bogart and his wife, Lauren Bacall, John Huston, William Wyler, Gene Kelly and others, established the Committee for the First Amendment (CFA).
#HUAC
Today in Labor History September 19, 1952: The United States barred Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England. In 1947, his black comedy, Monsieur Verdoux, was released. In the film, he criticized capitalism and its reliance on wars and weapons of mass destruction. The FBI launched a formal investigation of him 1947, after public accusations that he was a communist. Chaplin denied the charges, calling himself a “peace monger.” Nevertheless, he protested the HUAC hearings and the U.S. trials of Communist Party members. Representative John Rankin called Chaplin's presence in Hollywood “detrimental to the moral fabric of America.” Writer George Orwell prepared list of people he believed were communists, which he gave to British intelligence before he died in 1949. The list included Chaplin and Michael Redgrave, as well as Paul Robeson, Katherine Hepburn, John Steinbeck and Orson Welles.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #communism #hollywood #anticommunism #charliechaplin #orsonwelles #steinbeck #orwell #fbi #huac #actor #books #author #novels #writer #fiction @bookstadon
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hollywood soon wooed her with tidy sums for screenwriting (until, that is, she was blacklisted as a commie by the HUAC). she loathed it, but tinseltown kept her in tipple & she was ready with her dosh (in spite of her frequent need to self-medicate). in the years up to & during the second world war, dorothy wholeheartedly embraced the struggle for civil rights & served as chair of the joint anti-fascist refugee committee.
#huac #mccarthyism #dorothyParker #illustration
August 7, 1958 - The D.C. Court of Appeals reversed playwright Arthur Miller's conviction for contempt of Congress following a two-year legal battle. He had been charged for refusing to tell the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) the names of alleged Communist writers with whom he attended five or six meetings in New York in 1947.
#ArthurMiller #HUAC
June 9, 1954 - Special Counsel for the U.S. Army Joseph N. Welch confronted Senator Joseph P. McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) during hearings into alleged communist infiltration of the Army Signal Corps.
McCarthy had attacked a member of Welch's law firm, Frederick G. Fischer, among many others, as a communist. This was alleged due to Fischer’s prior membership in the National Lawyers Guild. The Guild was the nation’s first racially integrated bar association.
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The Founders intended for Congress to be the primary mover on national policy. And it often has been, to the detriment of our individual constitutional rights. My reflections on Congress at age 235.
#Congress #statesecrets #repression #surveillance #espionageact #HUAC #fourthamendment #firstamendment
#billofrights
https://www.republic-sentinel.com/p/congress-at-235?r=15o1vy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
10/20/1947 - The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) opened public hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood. To counter what they claimed were reckless attacks by HUAC, a group of motion picture industry luminaries, led by actor Humphrey Bogart and his wife, Lauren Bacall, John Huston, William Wyler, Gene Kelly and others, established the Committee for the First Amendment (CFA).
#HUAC
Today in Labor History September 19, 1952: The United States barred Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England. In 1947, his black comedy, Monsieur Verdoux, was released. In the film, he criticized capitalism and its reliance on wars and weapons of mass destruction. The FBI launched a formal investigation of him 1947, after public accusations that he was a communist. Chaplin denied the charges, calling himself a “peace monger.” Nevertheless, he protested the HUAC hearings and the U.S. trials of Communist Party members. Representative John Rankin called Chaplin's presence in Hollywood “detrimental to the moral fabric of America.” Writer George Orwell prepared list of people he believed were communists, which he gave to British intelligence before he died in 1949. The list included Chaplin and Michael Redgrave, as well as Paul Robeson, Katherine Hepburn, John Steinbeck and Orson Welles.
#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #communism #hollywood #anticommunism #CharlieChaplin #OrsonWelles #Steinbeck #orwell #fbi #huac #actor #writer #fiction @bookstadon
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