You..ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones

Wednesday June 10, 1903
Oxnard (Ventura County), California - AFL refuses charter on basis of race.
A strike took place here in April which led to the forming of the Sugar Beet and Farm Laborers Union of Oxnard. The strike was fought with a great deal of unity between Mexican and Japanese workers, and they desired to be united together in the same union organization. But when they applied for a charter from the American Federation of Labor, J.M. Larraras, the Mexican secretary of the union, received this reply from Samual Gompers, "Your union must guarantee that it will under no circumstances accept membership of any Chinese or Japanese."

I try not to go around picking fights or calling people names but sometimes you just have to call a war criminal a war criminal, a repressive regime a repressive regime or a fucking idiot a fucking idiot.

If you think massive, intrusive government surveillance is not a big fucking deal here in the 'land of the free,' you are a major bonehead. It flies in the face of everything we have stood for as a people for over two-hundred years.

I've seen all the mindless ones running around saying, "why so shocked, we've known this for a long time?" or, even more in the way of lacking awareness, "if you have nothing to hide, why should you care?"

You..ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones

Monday June 8, 1903
Chicago, Illinois - More waitresses join the strike.
About a week ago, the girls at the Fair restaurant filed their demands with Manager Strikland giving him one week to reply. When they returned at the appointed time, they were told that their demands would not be considered. "Then we can have this agreement back," said a member of the committee. "I believe you can," replied Strikland, "it is of no further use to me."

The next day the girls returned just as the dinning room was beginning to fill up. They called out the other waitresses who stopped their work immediately. Altogether, the strikers marched down the street to the union headquarters at 122 La Salle Street.

Ruby Corado was 16 when her parents sent her to the United States to escape the civil war in El Salvador. When she arrived in Washington DC, she found very few resources for Latinos and none for LGBT Latinos.

When she was 20, she was working in real estate management and also entered into the world of social justice by volunteering at a hospice.

I saw that the nuns that were there didn’t have any shoes and they were looking to help these people. They would hug them and they would kiss them and would give them so much love. And this was a point in my life when I’m trying to make it in society, I’m trying to pretty much achieve the American dream, and here I am very young, 20 years old, and I see that these women were really giving.

--Corado

When she moved to DuPont Circle, she began welcoming LGBT Latinos into her home. Many of them were immigrants like her.

I kept seeing some of these kids– they were rejected by their family, they were having a hard time in school. I was like a big sister to them. I just didn’t understand why people would be so mean. I didn’t understand why they would reject their kids. I realized that I could be there for them.

--Corado