Timeline of Anarchism in North America: Difference between revisions

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This is a timeline of various political, legal, military, social, economic and environmental events that have occurred in South America (a region encompassing the states of Canada, Greenland, USA and Mexico) that are relevant to libertarian socialism.

1100s

1100s: The first Hopi villages are established.
1142: The Haudenosaunee Confederacy is created following an anti-authoritarian, egalitarian and pacifist revolution.

1600s

1619: The Jamestown Craftsmen Strike occurs, as Polish immigrants go on strike for democratic rights which were built into the proto-racist policies of the colony.
1661: Indentured Servants Plot.
1680: Pueblo Revolt.
1683: Gove's Rebellion takes place as colonists revolt against the loss of democratic rights and an increase in taxes.

1700s

1775: The American Revolution begins, becoming the first large-scale successful anti-colonial revolt in modern history. Despite many potentialities for progressive change, the revolt fails to sufficiently change the culture as the United States of America becomes a society built on white supremacy, patriarchy and capitalism.
1786: Paper Money Riot.
1786: Farmers and veterans of the American Revolution in Massachusetts rise up against economic injustices and suspension of civil rights in Shay's Rebellion.

1800s

1826: First farmworkers strike in California.
1834: Lowell Mill girls strike.
1860: 20,000 shoemakers go on strike for better pay, which fails.
1864: 300 female collar laundry workers at 14 firms went on strike in Troy, NY demanding pay increases of 20-25%, and better health and safety.
1868: The South Carolina Commune is created, attempting to create a racially-equal, socialist society on a large scale.
1892: Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman try to kill Henry Clay Frick in retaliation for Frick's hiring of Pinkerton detectives to break up the Homestead Strike, resulting in the deaths of seven steelworkers. Although badly wounded, Frick survives, and Berkman is arrested and eventually sentenced to 22 years in prison.

1900s

1905: The IWW is founded at a conference of 200 anarchists, socialists and marxists in Chicago, USA.
1909: The New York Shirtwaist Strike occurs, as Jewish immigrant women workers go on strike against poor working conditions.

1910s

1910: Workers at the soon to be infamous Triangle Shirtwaist factory decided to end their five month long strike. They had won higher wages and reduced hours but failed to get union recognition.
1912: Bread and Roses Strike.
1913 10,000 clothing workers went on strike in Rochester, NY for the 8 hour day, a 10% wage increase, union recognition and better benefits. Ended in April after employers agreed not to discriminate against union members.
1913: thousands of women marched in Washington DC demanding the right to vote were attacked by a mob while police stood by. African-American women joined the parade despite the racism of organisers who tried to exclude them
1913: silk mill workers in Paterson, NJ went on strike demanding an 8-hour day and better conditions. It developed into a general strike of 25k mostly women & child workers organised by the IWW.
1917: The Camp Logan Mutiny occurs in Texas as black soldiers attempt to resist racism and the police.

1919: The Seattle Uprising occurs in Seattle, Washington, USA as an attempted anarcho-syndicalist revolution.
1919: inmates at Fort Leavenworth strike

1920s

1930s

1930: International Unemployment Day begins. 3000 unemployed workers demonstrated for jobs or relief payments in Los Angeles outside city hall during the great depression. The protest was broken up by police firing tear gas
1932: Ford Hunger Strike
1935: Tens of thousands of New Yorkers were stranded by a wildcat strike of elevator operators in the city.
1936: Akron Strike
1937: Woolworth's sitdown strike of women workers in Detroit began. 150 women occupied their workplace and won improved pay and conditions.

1940s

1950s

1954: a group of students at Indiana University started the Green Feather Movement to protest against a McCarthyist attempt to ban Robin Hood from school books for promoting communism.
1957: the 385 employees of the Pechter Baking Company in NYC walked out on solidarity strike when they were picketed by striking bagel bakers.

1960s

1962: Bagel bakers in NYC and Nassau country win a month-long strike for better conditions, winning more paid holidays and increased wages.

1963: The Birmingham Uprising occurs in Birmington, Alabama, USA.
1968: Chicane high school students in East Los Angeles ignited a week of walkouts across the city by 15,000 students from 7 or more high schools. They were demanding more Latine teachers, and teaching of Mexican-American history.
1969: Black Panthers held an armed protest at the Olympia, WA capitol in protest at state attempts to disarm them. Lawmakers rushed through a ban on carrying weapons, and the NRA didn't oppose it.

1970s

1972: Thousands of autoworkers in Lordstown GM plant walked out on strike. They held out for 22 days and whilst concessions were won, the UAW union declared victory despite management not conceding to main grievances.
1972: Protests occur all over the world to protect feminist communist Angela Davis.
1972: Quebec General Strike (Canada)
1973: Armed indigenous rebels occupy the town of Wounded Knee. Despite state violence and killings they held out for 71 days and galvanised huge support.
1976: 8000 Anheuser-Busch workers, who bottled beers like Budweiser, Busch and Michelob, at 9 breweries went on strike and picketed out other workers. After 14 weeks they won pay increases of $2.25 per hour plus $0.40 per hour in fringe benefits
1979: Citizens across Maine, USA begin a campaign to close the Yankee Nuclear Power Plant.

1980s

1981: BC Telephone Work-In (Canada)
1982: Direct Action bombings (Canada)
1986: the Hormel meat plant in Ottumwa, IA, was shut down by a mass picket of strikers from the Austin plant, who were fighting pay cuts. Mgmt fired most of the staff, with support of the UFCW union. Workers fought until June but were defeated

1990s

1990: Oka Uprising (Canada)
1990: miners won a 10-month strike and occupation of Pittston Coal plant in Virginia. Sit-ins, sabotage and the actions of thousands of strike supporters and women played a key role in its success.
1992: A massive riot breaks out in Los Angeles against racism and police brutality.
1993: Navajo and Hopi tribes campaign to remain on Black Mesa lands and protect it from coal mining
1994: Hotel workers in Bermuda launch an unsuccessful strike over wage theft.
1995: The Gustafsen Lake Standoff occurs in British Columbia, Canada
1995: The Ipperwash Uprising occurs in Ontario, Canada.
1999: Battle of Seattle (USA)

2000s

2010: Colleges across California go on strike against a tuition hike.
2014: Citizens in South Portland, Maine stop a port upgrade that could exploit tar sand oil.
2015: Students in universities across Maine, USA win a disinvestment campaign against the coal industry.
2015: 2000 prisoners at Willacy prison, Texas, rioted in protest at appalling conditions in the private facility, which included raw sewage, infestations of insects, maggots, inadequate medical care and sexual violence by guards.
2016: Redneck Revolt is founded in the US.
2017: Parkdale Rent Strike.
2018: The Red for Ed strike wave begins in schools across the US.
2018: The Marriott Hotels Strike occurs, leading to a big increase in wages and better working conditions.
2019: Flights into NYC's LaGuardia airport were halted by a sick-out of air-traffic controllers during a govt shutdown by Pres Donald Trump to try to get funding for a border wall. IRS and TSA workers had also called in sick. Just hours later, Trump caved.

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 === 1980s ===
 * 1981: [[BC Telephone Work-In]] (Canada)
-* 1982: [[Direct Action (Canada)|Direct Action]] carries out three bombings (Canada)
+* 1982: [[Direct Action (Canada)|Direct Action]] bombings (Canada)
 * 1986: the Hormel meat plant in Ottumwa, IA, was shut down by a mass picket of strikers from the Austin plant, who were fighting pay cuts. Mgmt fired most of the staff, with support of the UFCW union. Workers fought until June but were defeated