Clearcut 1991 1:37:56 
Resist! Sad to lose you Grahame Greene. Peace now, for you; condolences to your loved ones.
@pizzadecordero:
What a god-damned masterpiece
@BrndnStrssng:
Man, so sad to hear about Graham Greene. His performance in Clearcut is seismic. RIP to a giant
@JakeTropila:
R.I.P. Graham Greene. A genuine force of nature in Clearcut – seek that out if you’ve never seen it and prepare to be knocked out of your chair.
@cougsta.bsky.social:
Dammit. Love this man.
@LouDPhillips:
Heartbroken. Terribly saddened to hear of the passing of Graham Greene at only 73.
From Wolf Lake to Longmire, we had a beautiful friendship.
An Actor’s Actor. One of the wittiest, wiliest, warmest people I’ve ever known. Iconic and Legendary. RIP, My Brother.
@HarshaWalia:
For a labour movement that understands the power of a strike
For a labour movement that stands with Indigenous blockades
For a labour movement that stops weapons flow & the whole world for Palestine
For a labour movement with migrant workers, and against policing & borders
@laurahelmuth.bsky.social:
This is a rousing appreciation of Studs Terkel for Labor Day. His book Working, as he wrote, is “above all (or beneath all), about daily humiliations. To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us”
Working (and working) is “about a search, too, for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
@mikepod.bsky.social:
This is literally the largest act of union busting in American history.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u…
It’s no wonder Trump is doing this, since unions are our best and most proven defense against oligarchy and authoritarianism.
www.weekendreading.net/p/oligarchs-…
The story of Florence Reece’s “Which Side Are You On” 5:42 Min. by Kentucky PBS, 2018
Made famous by: Pete Seeger “Which Side Are You On?” 2:49 Min
Billy Bragg – Which Side Are You On? 2:34 Min Feb 8, 2020
It’s Labor Day. Pick a side by Judith Levine, Sep 1, 2025
Florence Reece
Florence Reece wrote “Which Side Are You On?” during the miners’ strike that began on February 16, 1931, in Harlan County, Kentucky, when the Harlan County Coal Operators’ Association cut miners’ wages by 10 percent, further immiserating the already impoverished miners and their families and the company refused to recognize their chosen union, the United Mine Workers. The strike lasted until 1939, with great hardship and many casualties along the way. In the end, the workers won. The UMW negotiated for the Harlan County miners.
Reece remembered:
Sheriff J. H. Blair and his men came to our house in search of Sam – that's my husband – he was one of the union leaders. I was home alone with our seven children. They ransacked the whole house and then kept watch outside, waiting to shoot Sam down when he came back. But he didn't come home that night. Afterward I tore a sheet from a calendar on the wall and wrote the words to 'Which Side Are You On?' to an old Baptist hymn, 'Lay the Lily Low'. My songs always goes to the underdog – to the worker. I'm one of them and I feel like I've got to be with them. There's no such thing as neutral. You have to be on one side or the other. Some people say, 'I don't take sides – I'm neutral.' There's no such thing. In your mind you're on one side or the other. In Harlan County there wasn't no neutral. If you wasn't a gun thug, you was a union man. You had to be.Here she is, in a scene from Barbara Kopple’s great documentary “Harlan County USA,” speaking and singing to UMW members during their 1976-1979 Blue Diamond/Stearns Coal Mining strike over safe conditions and representation.
Pete Seeger popularized the song in the 1960s.
Ani DiFranco wrote her own version during a hopeful time. This performance took place in June 2010, during Barack Obama’s first term.
One of my favorite versions is Billy Bragg’s, from his 1987 EP, “Between the Wars.”
And I just discovered this one, a particularly moving by the Kentucky folk and country singer-songwriter S.G. Goodman.
The UMW lost its two-year struggle in 1979. Then in 1981, 13,000 members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) walked out over numerous unresolved contract issues with the Federal Aviation Administration. As his first act in office, President Ronald Reagan gave them an ultimatum: Return to work or be fired. They would not go back to work without a contract. Reagan fired every striker, banned them from federal employment for life, and decertied their union.
It was the beginning of a long slide for organized labor in the U.S. But the last few years have seen an exciting resurgence, with the support of Joe Biden, leading to victories at Starbucks, REI, Amazon, Trader Joe’s and many other places. Resistance from management has been fierce, with companies refusing to recognize legitimate new shops or bargain in good faith with unions many years in place. Needless to say, workers can expect no help from the Trump regime. One of DOGE’s chief “accomplishments” was to bust the federal workers’ unions, some of the strongest in the country.
Still, support for unions among Americans is at an all-time high, with approval at 70 percent. Among people under 30, almost nine in ten would join a union if they could.
Since the 1930s they lyrics of “Which Side Are You On?” has been rewritten to support struggles for justice throughout the world—from the U.S. Civil Rights Movement to the Arab Spring, Black Lives Matter Movement to the movement for a free Palestine.
Happy Labor Day.
@thebreakdownab.bsky.social:
Here’s a sentence you won’t be able to unread…
On “Alberta Day”, Danielle Smith stood beside the lawyer who repped the Coutts Fucker Truckerblockade and was also Artur Pawlowski’s lawyer in a suit against the government…
Who also heads up a synth pop group.
@magichummingbird.bsky.social:
Every. Single. Day. she shows Alberta, and the rest of Canada, how truly horrible she is. I loathe her!Me too, I loath Danielle Smith as much as I loath Herr Nazi Steve Harper! I loath Nazi Mark Carney more though than both combined, because they don’t hide their evil, Carney does.
@bradleybutts.bsky.social:
Weird that you never see her taking photo ops with the disabled, sick kids, even healthy kids for that matter. She only smiles like this around the worst people ever.
@recconrob.bsky.social:
Seems the 90’s have truly returned.
@northcountry1926.bsky.social:
And here’s Danielle beside an accused Pedophile … So yes, Her Judgement is Twisted
Billy Bragg – Never Cross A Picket Line 3:48 Min.
“Solidarity Forever” – American Trade Union Song 2:50 Min.
Billy Bragg – The Internationale (with lyrics) [1990] 3:47 Min Be like Palestinians, for longer than my lifetime already: RESIST! Do not be like Caving Carney!
@nigelb.bsky.social:
Since it’s Labour Day it’s time to post the lyrics of The Internationale – billy brag version (1990)
Stand up, all victims of oppression
For the tyrants fear your might
Don’t cling so hard to your possessions
For you have nothing, if you have no rights
Let racist ignorance be ended
For respect makes the empires fall
Freedom is merely privilege extended
Unless enjoyed by one and all
The last two lines have particular resonance every time a conservative politician talks about liberty/freedom.
Aurora alert! Incoming cannibal solar storm could spark Labor Day northern lights show by Daisy Dobrijevic, Aug 30, 2025, space.com
A pair of solar eruptions may combine into a powerful “cannibal CME,” boosting chances for dazzling auroras over Labor Day.
A pair of solar eruptions may combine into a powerful “cannibal CME,” boosting chances for dazzling auroras over Labor Day. (Image credit: brett biggers / 500px via Getty Images)
Heads up aurora chasers! A powerful solar storm is on its way and could supercharge the skies with northern lights just in time for the Labor Day holiday.
A long-duration M2.7 flare erupted from sunspot Active Region 4199 on Aug. 30, launching a fast-moving, Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME is expected to reach Earth late on Sept. 1 into early Sept. 2 (UTC), according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC).
NOAA modeling suggests G2 (moderate) geomagnetic storming is likely when the CME first arrives, with conditions intensifying to G3 (strong) as the bulk of the storm passes on Sept. 2. That means auroras could extend farther south than usual across the northern U.S.
Space weather physicist Tamitha Skov highlighted that there are actually two Earth-directed solar storms, with one possibly overtaking the other. “The NOAA model run includes the two Earth-directed #solarstorm launches. The larger one catches up with the smaller one just ahead of Earth so a precursor disturbance may indeed ramp up before the larger storm hits. Impact is expected by late September 1. G2+ conditions possible,” Skov wrote on X. When one CME sweeps up another in this way, scientists call it a “cannibal CME” — a scenario that may be unfolding now.
The U.K. Met Office echoed the alert, stating the auroral oval is expected to be “significantly enhanced” after the CME arrives, with displays possibly visible as far south as East Anglia, the Midlands, and Wales under clear skies. However, they caution that a waxing gibbous moon may hamper viewing.
NOAA classifies geomagnetic storms on a scale from G1 (minor) to G5 (extreme). G3 storms can bring auroras to mid-latitudes (around 50° geomagnetic latitude), which often translates to states like Oregon, Illinois, and New York in the U.S.
CMEs are massive bursts of plasma and magnetic field from the sun that can spark colorful auroras when they slam into Earth’s magnetic field. These storms can also disrupt satellites, radio communications, and even power grids during stronger events.
Aurora conditions are expected to remain elevated into Sept. 3, so even if clouds spoil the show one night, there could be more chances to catch the northern lights in the days ahead.
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