Labor Competition and the New York Draft Riots of 1863
By ALBON P. MAN, JR.
Journal of Negro History, Vol. XXXVI, No. 4, October 1951
The New York draft riots of July, 1863, had their origin largely in a
fear of black labor competition which possessed the city's, Irish
unskilled workers. Upon
The Church and the New York Draft Riots of 1863
By ALBON P. MAN, JR.
JULY 1863 was a momentous month in the War between the States. At
Gettysburg Union forces repulsed Lee's thrust into Pennsylvania,
while Vicksburg, Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi, finally
fell to Grant's long
protestors after a protest against the
police shooting a black man a few days ago who had an imitation gun on him
as a cigarette lighter. Windows were smashed.
The jacquerie at the time of the French revolution, going back to the
peasant uprisings in mediaeval France. The Gordon riots in 18th century
. Gang assaults
on police in broad daylight, with media
coverage, are more interesting than oh,
100,000 people marching peacefully.
I don't know enough about the riots in Genoa, but I wonder how much of
the black block anarchist behavior reflects the macho belief that being
tough and/or violent
of power.
Nathan Newman
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http://www.nathannewman.org
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From: Max Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 11:11 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:15459] RE: the significance of global riots
If 'everybody' is rioting
At 11:42 AM 7/23/01 -0400, you wrote:
the nonviolent wing of the protest movement will
have to, out of self-defense, isolate the non-violent wing.
I know that the above is a typo, but it's true that the left has been very
good at isolating itself.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nathan writes:
Also note the way the bloody violent assault on the Genoa Social Forum gets
mushed into the story. Without the countervailing pictures of the
protester assaulting the cop, the pictures of the attack and blood at the
non-violent Social Forum would incite far more massive
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From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This may be unfair and illegal, but we aren't living in a fair and legal
world on those terms, so the nonviolent wing of the protest movement will
have to, out of self-defense, isolate the non-violent wing.
-How do you plan on
what about also politically isolating the violent ones, by criticizing
their tactics, strategies, and goals in a principled way?
At 12:24 PM 7/23/01 -0400, you wrote:
-How do you plan on doing the isolating?
Nathan writes:
That depends on the collective decision of a movement organizing a
- Original Message -
From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
what about also politically isolating the violent ones, by criticizing
their tactics, strategies, and goals in a principled way?
That would have to precede any physical isolation- the responsibility on the
broader movement is to
-How do you plan on doing the isolating?
That depends on the collective decision of a movement organizing a protest.
Simply separating away from the most violent protesters denies them
protection in the mass of non-violent protesters. They can then try to take
on the cops by themselves, but
At 01:43 PM 7/23/01 -0400, you wrote:
At 9:59 AM -0700 7/23/01, Jim Devine wrote:
what about also politically isolating the violent ones, by criticizing
their tactics, strategies, and goals in a principled way?
Yoshie writes:
We can certainly criticize them, though there isn't much to say
Max, does the EPI include this 'betrayal' in its criticism of NAFTA or is this
side letter exactly the kind of fair trade for which EPI, Sweeney and you
are fighting?
___
From today's NYT:
Rodolfo Perdomo Bueno, who operates a mill company called Grupo Perno, said
that despite their
Why not read it and find out for yourself
instead of demolishing the straw men of
your imagination.
mbs
Max, does the EPI include this 'betrayal' in its criticism of NAFTA or is
this side letter exactly the kind of fair trade for which EPI, Sweeney
and you are fighting?
___
From
Max Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Why not read it and find out for yourself
instead of demolishing the straw men of
your imagination.
Yes, yes Max, my damn imagination: I hallucinate (as you put it) that Lind
is a nativist and a right winger (by the way, there are interesting things
to
: Mr. Rakesh Narpat Bhandari [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 1:50 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:15446] the significance of global riots
Max, does the EPI include this 'betrayal' in its criticism of NAFTA or is
this
side letter exactly the kind of fair trade for which EPI
Max Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Why not read it and find out for yourself
instead of demolishing the straw men of
your imagination.
Yes, yes Max, my damn imagination: I hallucinate (as you put it) that Lind
is a nativist and a right winger . . .
See? There you go. Hardly one
lighter. Windows were smashed.
The jacquerie at the time of the French revolution, going back to the
peasant uprisings in mediaeval France. The Gordon riots in 18th century
London.
VViolent crowd behaviour may be stereotyped as mindless but it plays a
social role. It challenges the existing
. The bottom line? The credibility of the suits in the suites is
determined in large part by the activity or passivity of the working class
in the streets.
Seth Sandronsky
the significance of global riots
by Chris Burford
21 July 2001 07:59 UTC
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The protestors are of course much
I tried to unsubscribe; perhaps Michael P will help me.
Erased all the messages. Just checked through the archive.
As to whether Lind's view of the job displacing and welfare using effects of
the immigration of poor, uneducated Mexicans can be accurately characterized
as demagogic racist
The cost is being factored in:
Senior European Union ministers are meeting to discuss ways to curb riots
that have disrupted international conferences recently.
Friday's special session of interior ministers from the 15 member states
was called in the wake of last month's rioting at the EU
of
China's farmers, their heavy tax burden and the fact that rural incomes in
China - after years of increases - have fallen for four years in a row.
Uprisings and riots are now common in China's cities and countryside alike
as workers and farmers come face to face with a slowing economy
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Doug Henwood wrote:
CNBC just ran a rather fevered but short report about May Day worker
"riots" in Europe and elsewhere. What's going on?
Doug
According to the BBC report I heard at 8:00 this morning there were
riots in Liepzig when 6000 "leftists&q
I was referring to what you euphemistically refer to as the civil
disorders which followed the acquital of the the police officers who, in
my view, unjustifiably and unlawfully beat Rodney King. Spontaneous
expressions of racism, while by no means to be condoned, are, again in
my view, less
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