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Shrove Tuesday (also known as Pancake Tuesday or Pancake Day) is the final day of Shrovetide, which marks the end of the pre-Lenten season. Lent begins the following day with Ash Wednesday. Shrove Tuesday is observed in many Christian countries through participating in confession, the ritual burning of the previous year's Holy Week palms, finalizing one's Lenten sacrifice, as well as eating pancakes and other sweets

Well-mean­ing peo­ple often use the terms ​“equi­ty” and ​“equal­i­ty” inter­change­ably when dis­cussing mat­ters relat­ed to race and social jus­tice. While both terms have to do with ​“fair­ness,” there are key dif­fer­ences as the appli­ca­tion of one over the oth­er may lead to dras­ti­cal­ly dif­fer­ent out­comes. Equal­i­ty requires that every­one receives the same resources and oppor­tu­ni­ties, regard­less of cir­cum­stances and despite any inher­ent advan­tages or dis­ad­van­tages that apply to cer­tain groups. Equi­ty, on the oth­er hand, con­sid­ers the spe­cif­ic needs or cir­cum­stances of a per­son or group and pro­vides the types of resources need­ed to be successful.

Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin argued that when, and only when, the working class has conquered political power, can workers expropriate the landlords and billet the homeless in their mansions

Both a journal and a novel published in the United States during the first World War. Jack London called The Jungle "The Uncle Tom's Cabin of Wage Slavery."

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I suck at weaving. My personal goal is to weave one this this month that looks maybe okay.

Share your weaving projects and suggestions for the next monthly challenge here!

Why are we striking? we’ve voted, we’ve protested, and STILL, they ignore us. Our government refuses to meet our basic needs while the billionaire class hoards wealth and power. We can’t afford to wait any longer. Our labor is our greatest STRENGTH and if we strike together we can make real change.

The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) will host an online meeting on the way forward for the 15,000 striking New York nurses and the 31,000 striking healthcare workers in California and Hawaii at 7:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday, February 10.

For history buffs, Mr. Mamdani has done the service of rekindling an interest in a largely forgotten American tradition, the “sewer socialists” who ran a significant list of cities in the last century. The most durable among them was Daniel Hoan, the socialist mayor of Milwaukee from 1916 to 1940. You don’t get reelected that often by being a failure.

Many socialist mayors did not mind being associated with repairing the grubbiest of urban amenities because doing so underscored their aim of running corruption-free governments that did whatever they could to improve the lives of working-class people in their jurisdictions. When lousy (or nonexistent) sewer systems led to illness and death in low-income and immigrant neighborhoods, said Michael Kazin, a historian at Georgetown University, building and fixing sewers became a powerful example of what “common good” governance could accomplish.

The buy nothing project promotes sharing anything within communities, with the one condition that everything must be completely free.

It's been the source of some controversy surrounding the aggressive enforcement of their trademark preceding the release of a (suggested) paid app. The side effect of community divisions enforcing socioeconomic boundaries was an unforeseen side effect as well.

However, this project and the many it inspired continue to bolster the sharing economy and reduce waste.