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people laughing and not trying to understand why sheâs so upset⌠it must be nice, being so unaffected by sexual assault. the rest of us can feel her hurt and anger because every one of us has been there or has loved someone whoâs been there and this is serious for us
This is at UT Austin
Also the same place where that afirmitive action bake sale happened, and also got shut down.
Youâre also forgetting about their âCatch an Illegalâ scavenger hunt they tried to do but was promptly cancelled.
I wasnât expecting to see this on mainstream TV!
Holy shit you guys
This deserves to be read, so Iâm copying the article into my reblog.
Kendall explains that she was born to be a
sex slave, as her parents intentionally had her for the trafficker she
calls her âowner.â Kendall says that her parents sold her at birth to an
elite pedophile ring that serviced some of the worldâs power elite,
describing her first memories as being passed around groups of rich and
prominent men and women for them to âtake turnsâ with her for sadistic
sexual pleasure.
Making her first public appearance
after escaping from the man she calls her âowner,â Kendall describes
being forced to participate in actions that shock the conscience. She
explains that she was forced to rape children as young as 5- years-old,
and even admits to having been forced to kill a baby by the human
trafficker she describes as her âowner.âKendall says that she can tell the difference between kids born into
sexual slavery and ones that have been kidnapped, as the ones born into
it are more docile and less upset as it is the only reality they have
ever known. When Dr. Phil asks how old she thinks she was when she was
first raped, Kendall explains that it was âbefore I could talk â I was used to it by the time I was 2.â
She says she doesnât even know her actual age, as she has been a sex slave her entire life, being trafficked around the globe to be molested and raped by the societal elites â including high ranking law enforcement official, major sports franchise owners and even high level U.S. politicians.
She describes having birthed 3 children while in captivity, all of which have been taken from her by her owner/trafficker, and are believed by Kendall to now be child sex slaves themselves.
âI was allowed to get pregnant, because men paid for that,â Kendall said.
Kendall notes that the pedophiles she
came into contact with over the years were extremely wealthy â often
âpillars of the communityâ â with some even owning private islands or
large pieces of land.
âThey would buy us just to hunt us,â she said.
She recalls one of her most fearful
memories was that of the pedophiles hosting a âhunting partyâ on one of
their large private plots of lands, making numerous children run and
hide in fear, as they were the âpreyâ to be hunted. The pedophiles would
then hunt the children as they ran and hid in fear â raping and
torturing them when they were captured.
The activities described by this woman
are so profoundly disturbing they can be almost hard to believe, but Dr.
Phil confirms that his team not only investigated Kendallâs case for
four months, but also consulted with law enforcement experts who
confirmed her story. Dr. Phil said he â100% believesâ that she is
telling the truth.
In a damning indictment of the power-elite, Kendall described how the
pedophile politicians would adorn her in designer clothes, well groomed
hair and makeup to give the appearance of class and sophistication. She
explains that she and other children were often hung from cages
suspended from the ceiling, and that they were often drugged before
being transported in the darkness of night.
She claims that she was trafficked to pedophile politicians, and
taken to political parties attended by high-level politicians who used
her for their personal pleasure. The politicians always took great care
to hide what they were doing, according to Kendall, who confirmed that there are many elite U.S. politicians that have been engaged in
raping children for many years â a reality that has consistently been
covered up and completely hidden from voters.
Perhaps the reason these crimes have been so steadfastly hidden from
public view, is that high-level law enforcement officials have also been
implicated as being part of the elite pedophile network.
This is just the latest case to emerge in what is now being called
#PedoGate. #PedoGate refers to an international pedophile ring composed
of politicians and other high profile societal elites.
After President Trump held a press conference last month, in which he
detailed his plans to go after the victims of the âhuman trafficking
epidemic,â former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney weighed in on the subject,
noting that going after child predators will lead to the downfall of
both Republicans and Democrats in the United States â as this problem
goes all the way to the top.
As the Free Thought Project has consistently pointed out, pedophilia among the global elite is rampant.
In December, we reported on the massive child sex ring that was exposed in Norway. That investigation quickly led to arrests
of â51 people, all men, (who) are so far involved in the case. 24 of
them come from Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane. Twenty-six come from
other areas of Norway, from Southeast to Finnmark in the north. Among
the accused offenders, there is also one Swedish national. Two
politicians, one Labor politician from Oslo and a former national
Progress Party (FrP) politician from Eastern Norway are involved in the
case.â One is also a kindergarten teacher, and four of the 51 arrested
were perpetrators in the video evidence collected.
We previously reported on the high-profile elite pedophilia scandal that gripped the U.K.
â with its thousands of victims â being unceremoniously swept under the
rug, which is indicative of the scope and breadth of the actual
problem. In fact, the problem is so rampant in England that officials
issued an order last month to stop naming streets and landmarks after
local heroes and politicians because they could later be exposed as
pedophiles.
This was almost the exact same scenario as what took place in the United States in what became known as the Franklin child sex ring coverup
â which involved high level Republicans during the George H.W. Bush
administration. Once the FBI took over the investigation from state
authorities, it turned into a witch hunt to persecute the child victims â
going so far as to charge them with perjury in a successful attempt to
scare the other 70+ victims to recant their testimony regarding the
child sex ring.
While the story received a small
measure of newspaper coverage, there was a complete blackout of the
scandal by the mass media, thus most Americans have never heard about
this scandal that reached all the way to the White House.
Domestically, there are relatively few high-level arrests, as anytime
âthe eliteâ are mentioned alongside the term âpedophile,â the
Praetorian guard, aka the corporate media, shout down all those who dare
pose any questions about those in power abusing the most vulnerable
among us.
For example former U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert, a known serial child rapist, was never charged for his numerous crimes against children, which the FBI knew about, and had evidence of, for over a decade.
Since 1996 the FBI has had tons of information on Hastert
which was gathered in Chicago by the FBIâs Chicago Field Office. The
incriminating criminal evidence in those files range from bribery,
extortion, fraud, money laundering and embezzlement, to sexual crimes
against minors and participation in foreign-operated drug operations.
Since 1997 the FBI has had much hard evidence on Hastert gathered by
the FBIâs Washington Field Office. The documented deeds range from
espionage to foreign bribery.
But thatâs not all. The FBI also has had hard data on Hastertâs
sexual violations outside the United States. The involved countries
include Vietnam, Thailand, Turkey and Morocco, among others. This also
included sexual favors as means of foreign bribery. Interestingly, the
CIA had been documenting those sexual activities for many years, and not
only on Hastert but on many others; elected and appointed.
So, when corporate media tells you #PizzaGate is fake news and that
investigating whether Denny Hastertâs good friend, John Podesta, is
involved in some way with pedophilia â given his close friendship with
Hastert, proclivity for strange art featuring nude children and strange
code words found in his leaked emails â it shouldnât be shouted down as
âfake news,â but investigated instead.
It seems that American politicians and their political cronies are
virtually untouchable in the ivory towers of government. Since January
of 2017 over 1,500 pedophiles and human traffickers have been arrested.
However, the power-elite operating these child sexual slavery rings have
not been among them⌠yet.
Here are the YouTube videos embedded in the article:
i am shaking a lot right now and my heart is in my mouth and iâve been crying on and off and on and off for the past two weeks, and i know that none of you give a fuck about brazil, and that none of you care about politics outside of the ones that directly affect you, but i am terrified. as a bissexual, socialist, umbandista, brazilian woman, i am terrified. and i am begging you to care.Â
in this year, we hold presidential elections. these elections are the most important in the history of brazil, for a very simple reason: now, that we are on the second round, we either elect a far-right candidate with authoritarian tendencies who flirts with fascism, or we elect a center-left candidate who belongs to the party that was in power for from 2002-2016, before a coup occurred mid 2016.Â
one of the candidates is fernando haddad, the man seen on this gif:Â Â
he was the mayor of sĂŁo paulo, has been called by the new york times a âvisionaryâ, was considered the greatest mayor of latin america, as his time as minister of education made over 100 federal, free institutes, ensured that the history of africa was taught in schools. he has a bacharel degree in law, a masters in economy and a phd in philosophy. he is currently a professor at an university. he gave free buses to children in public education, who could not afford it otherwise, lowered the corruption in the state of sĂŁo paulo, created a better system for women to denounce harrassment and assault, and overall did a lot of good. iâm not going to spend 3 hours finding different sources for this, because you all donât actually care.Â
the other candidate, is jair bolsonaro, and he is not the âtropical trumpâ, he is not our version of berlusconi. he is worse.
he has praised general carlos alberto brilhante ustra, who is known as the mastermind behind the tortures that occurred during the dictatorship. when he praised him, he did so when voting to impeach our former president dilma rouseff, who was tortured during the dictatorship, and fought for freedom. he has said that âif the crisis gets worse, weâll shut down the congressâ and install a dictatorship. he has said that the dictatorship should have killed more people, and tortured less. that it should have killed 30.000 people. that it should have killed our then president fernando henrique cardoso. he has said that his son would never marry a black woman because he gave him education. he has said that gay people are only gay because they were not beaten as children. he has said that indigenous people are lazy and greedy, that immigrants are the scum of the earth. he has said that women should earn less because they get pregnant. he has said that he would not rape a congresswoman, maria do rosĂĄrio, because she is not worthy of it. he has said that his daughter is a woman because he got weak and could not produce another man. are you horrified yet? do you understand the problem yet? do you care yet?Â
in the beginning of the year, marielle franco, a poor, black, bissexual politician was executed. a street was named after her. hereâs what people in his party did:Â
he is leading the polls currently, around 54-58% against 42-46%. ever since the first round of elections, last sunday (07/10), over 50 cases of assaults to people against bolsonaro have been reported.Â
here are some of them:
a black man was stabbed to death 12 times for saying he voted for haddad.Â
a woman had a swastika carved onto her belly for walking around with a shirt that said âele nĂŁoâ, not him, the name of a campaign against bolsonaro.Â
a swastika was painted in front of a university, alongside the saying âget out blacksâ
in different stadiums, football crowds sing âhey, fruit, beware, bolsonaro is going to kill f*gsâÂ
a trans woman was beaten up for ⌠well, existing.Â
to make things more worrying, the united states, who has knowingly backed up a military coup in 1964, has donated 96 BULLETPROOF MOBILS TO THE BRAZILIAN ARMY.Â
here are some cartoons on american newspapers:Â
if you want to get informed, if you care enough to do so, here are some sources in english:Â
Sadly Rosewood was not the only black town that was destroyed something similar happened in Tulsa
[CW: antiblack racism, antiblack violence, slurs and depictions of violence in linked articles]
I canât speak about Tulsa, but Rosewood is local to me, and I can share some information Iâve collected for those who want to know more about it.
(Disclaimer: Iâm not an expert; Iâm just a local hobbyist historian whoâs made a point to track down links and share them.)
Rosewood is almost nonexistent in the community memory. I learned about it in passing in school when I was younger because I had a teacher who cared, but most people have absolutely no clue. The town was completely forgotten for a long time, before the history was rediscovered a few decades ago and there came some interest in preserving what was left of the site. Local Black organizing has done quite a bit to get the history more recognized, but itâs still an uphill battle.
As the above tweets say, Rosewood was a predominately Black town that was destroyed over a weeklong period in January of 1923, after a white woman falsely accused a Black man of rape. Thereâs a fairly comprehensive article about the town and its history on Wikipedia here. Hereâs a link to the Rosewood page on BlackPast.org, as well.
The last remaining original building is for sale as of May 2018 for
$500,000. There have been threats made by locals against any Black people who may be interested in purchasing the site, though the current owner of the building, a Japanese woman who was unaware of the history when she first moved in, has been firm in saying she hopes to sell to someone who understands and values the history of the town.Â
Locals have also been known to threaten and harass school trips to the area, and the sole historical marker for the town has been repeatedly vandalized.
People are actively, to this day, trying to erase the history of what happened there. Fortunately, there are local archaeologists and historians working on uncovering and preserving more of the town. There has been discussion of purchasing the house to turn into a museum, though interested parties havenât been able to raise the money. Iâve had my ear to the ground in case any crowdfunding efforts crop up, but I havenât heard anything yetâIâll be sure to share if anything does go up.
If you can stomach reading more, here are some links from local news sources and historical orgs about the town, what happened, and the current status of the site. Iâve also included a link to the book mentioned in one of the articles:
Hello, I reblogged but I feel the need to make a post in and of itself. @truecrimeismydrug Is planning to shoot up their school. From what I can tell, this isnt satirical. It may be a matter of months, so I implore everyone to report this. I am sorry for tag whoring but itâs necessary.
Thank you for reading and perhaps spreading the word. A special thank you to anyone who reports this. Report to the FBI and if you know what school this is, report to them.
Please, donât report the account. That wonât do anything. If the account is gone then they canât trace it. @staff is beyond useless, and will not report this to law enforcement. Thank you @klubbhead for bringing this to my attention.
He says this is the school so you can contact them directly
I KNOW I HAVE FOLLOWERS WHO LIVE IN CANADA PLS CONTACT THE CANADIAN VERSION OF THE FBI OR WHATEVER IT IS YOU HAVE THERE
i wish there was more talk on tumblr about hypersexuality as a response to trauma, tbh. i see a lot of talk about asexuality and sex-repulsion due to trauma, but i rarely see people talk about the opposite. idk, its a difficult subject i suppose
Hypersexuality as a result of trauma can happen because you start believing youâre not good for anything else but sex. Because you believe you canât expect love without it. Because you believe sex is the only way anyone could possibly connect to others. Because sex is the only kind of intimacy youâre âany good atâ. Because you donât know how else to get attention. Because itâs easier to get sex than love. Because cuddling after sex is the only way you know how to get nonsexual physical touch. Because youâre high/drunk all the time. Because you have no libido/desire/attraction anymore and keep hoping that having sex will kickstart it. Because youâre good at sex and itâs the only way to get recognition and respect. Because you were told that youâre âbad at sexâ and you feel ashamed and are trying to âget better at it.â Because you have flashbacks if you abstain from sex. Because you feel wordlessly desperate/scared/anxious if you donât have sex for a certain period of time. Because you associate sex with danger and you donât believe youâre allowed to be safe. Because you feel so bad so much of the time that sex/orgasm is the only way to calm down or feel good anymore. Because youâve been re-targeted by other abusers/perpetrators who can tell you donât know how to say no. Because youâre still with your abuser/rapist/perpetrator and the only way to prevent âworseâ violence is to initiate sex. Because sex is physically or emotionally painful for you and youâre using sex to self-harm.Â
Hypersexuality after trauma is way more common than anyone wants to believe, and it can happen for so, so many different reasons. These are just a few.Â
âThe past year has seen a number of high-profile queer prison abuse cases in the U.S., particularly dealing with transgender women. In one of the extreme examples, the Colorado Department of Corrections has refused to house transgender inmate Lindsay Saunders-Velez with women even after she has been raped in custody twice. Her lawsuit is ongoing. In Illinois, 27-year-old Strawberry Hampton is also suing the Illinois Department of Corrections for the fourth time for a case that involves multiple sexual assault allegations, torment by guards and abuse so graphic and triggering it canât be detailed in a news report. Officials in the case deny any wrongdoing. In March, transgender inmate Passion Star settled her case with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice over the departmentâs years of failure to protect her from rape and harm. Among the central demands of Tuesdayâs national strike is an end to free and low-paid prison labor. But LGBTQ prison abolition organization Black & Pink Founder Jason Lydon says even low-paid jobs are often denied to queer and HIV-positive people on the inside because they face discrimination. âAll of the oppression that exists outside of prison, exists inside but is magnified ten hundred times,â said Lydon. Compounding that is the fact that many LGBTQ people are isolated in solitary confinement when they canât be safely placed with the general population. There, Lydon points out, queer people are denied the opportunity to seek jobs inside at all.â
Good info on the horrors faced by incarcerated trans women. Also watch out for Black & Pink who on the surface organize to protect black trans women but who in actuality use and abuse those very women they purport to prioritize:
Listen here, bub, Smilin Sid Hatfield did *not* get shot to death by company gun thugs on the steps of the Matawan courthouse just so your boot-lickin self could vote away the Social Security what that I pay good fuckin money into every fuckin week. Fuck your red hat and fuck your coal mine and fuck your flag and fuck your statues and most of all fuck you.
Well, I had my dates mixed up; Sidney Hatfield was actually murdered in McDowell County, not in Matewan.
So the Battle of Matewan was an incident that happened on May 19th, 1920 in Matewan, West Virginia, considered to mark the beginning of the West Virginia Coal War. The United Mine Workers of America had been trying to organize in West Virginia but faced considerable resistance from the mining companies, who hired a private security firmâthe Baldwen-Felts Detective Agencyâto harass and threaten union miners. The miners hated the Baldwen-Felts agents, whom they called âcompany gun thugs,â and the sympathetic mayor of Matewan appointed a union miner named Sidney Hatfield as chief of police in an effort to control them. Sidney was called âSmilin Sidâ because he was also a blacksmith, and had repaired his own broken teeth with gold caps (!!!) which he was extremely proud of; the appointment came as a surprise to the more ârespectableâ citizens because, in addition to having literally no experience with law enforcement, Sid Hatfield also had a reputation for starting (and winning!) fights with anti-union miners. He looked like this:
So in the spring of 1920, the Stone Mountain Coal Corporation evicted all of the union miners from company housing, so the miners and their families moved into a shantytown on nearby abandoned land. In May, a gang of Baldwin-Felts enforcers armed with Thompson sub-machine guns came to drive the miners out of their tents as well, but were waylaid at the train station by Hatfield and a group of deputized miners. This led to an awkward situation where Sid Hatfield, as chief of police, served an arrest warrant on Albert Felts, and Albert Felts, whoâd been deputized by the constable of Magnolia, served an arrest warrant on Hatfield. The two belligerent parties moved to the porch of the Chambers Hardware Store to await word from a judge, with the mayor acting as mediator. When the judge declared that Sidâs warrant was legal while Albertâs was bogus, Albert responded by drawing a gun and shooting the mayor, which led to a gunfight that tragically cost the lives of three miners and wonderfully cost the lives of thirteen gun thugs including Albert and Lee Felts themselves. This has gone down in history as the Battle of Matewan, the beginning of the West Virginia Coal War.
Sid and his friend Edward Chambers were charged with murder for the incident, but were acquitted on grounds of self-defense and defense of others on August 1st, 1921. As the two men, unarmed and accompanied by their wives, walked down the courthouse steps following their acquittal, a group of Baldwin-Felts gun thugs rushed out of the crowd and opened fire on them, killing them.
Sidney Hatfield and Edward Chambers were seen as martyrs for minersâ rights against corporate greed and tyranny, and their legend helped to greatly speed up the UMWAâs organizing push.
I did not know this. I knew unionizing was tough, but being bombed by your own governmentâŚ
Oh man, the Coal War is just one story out of very, very many. The history of workersâ rights in this country is written in blood; itâs been the default position of the United States government and its autonomous wings to respond to labor organizing with violence, whether thatâs strike-breaking, police brutality, outright murder, or, yes, bombs. So when youâre taking your lunch break or enjoying a weekend, donât forget that people literally died for those things.Â
I was going to list some specific incidents, like the Ludlow Massacre, the Harlan County War, the Pullman strikes, the Brookside Strike, Joe Hill getting framed for murder and executed by the state of Utah ⌠but it made me sad so hereâs the Wikipedia article on on anti-union violence in North America
OH HEY LOOK MY FAVORITE HISTORY TOPIC
Incidentally, theres a little bit of misinformation on the Matewan Massacre, though the gist of it is overall right. No judge was involved in the review of the warrant; Mayor Testerman was the one who said âthis warrant is bogus!â and prompted the gunfight. No one knows who actually started shooting first, and only 7 Baldwin-Felts were killed (13 was the number they started with). They had actually offered both Sid and Mayor Testerman like, really huge bribes to allow them to install machine guns on the roofs of buildings throughout the town. Shady as fuck. Sid and Testerman both refused, which is kinda why the Baldwin-Felts guys disliked them to start with.Â
Sid (plus 17 others) charged for murder, but all were acquitted. This trial was really in the national spotlight, and Sid was a bit of a celebrity because he posed for pictures and answered questions with a lot of people. but of course the Baldwin-Felts hated him and had a very personal vendetta.Â
Edward Chambers wasnât involved in the Matewan Massacre; he and Sid were going to stand trial for an unrelated incident involving them allegedly exploding a coal tipple in Welch, WV. They didnât even make it inside the courthouse. They were shot to death on the steps. Sid was hit 3 or 4 times in his chest and died instantly, but his friend Ed was initially hit non-fatally. A Baldwin-Felts detective shot him in the head was his wife tried to defend him. And heres the real kicker: None of the Baldwin-Felts detectives was ever convicted of Hatfieldâs assassination. They claimed they were acting in âself-defenseâ.
Also, if youâve never heard of the Battle of Blair Mountain: 10,000-13,000 armed coal miners marched into Logan County, West Virginia, against 3,000 armed policemen, strikebreakers, and Baldwin-Felts detectives. The miners gathered for days beforehand, with a group from Northern West Virginia actually commandeering a freight train and renaming it the Blue Steel Special to get themselves to the group.Â
Hereâs the EXTRA fucked up part, which occurred about 2 days after the fighting had started and which im gonna copypaste from the wiki:Â â
After a long meeting in the town of Madison, the seat of Boone County, agreements were made convincing the miners to return home. However, the struggle was far from over. After spending days to assemble his private army, Chafin was not going to be denied his battle to end union attempts at organizing Logan County coal mines. Within hours of the Madison decision, rumors abounded that Sheriff Chafinâs men had shot union sympathizers in the town of Sharples, West Virginia, just north of Blair Mountainâand that families had been caught in crossfire during the skirmishes. Infuriated, the miners turned back towards Blair Mountain, many traveling in other stolen and commandeered trains.
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They were gonna quit. The miners were gonna say âokay, you win, donât kill any more of us.â and they fuckin killed em. So they turned their asses around and said âActually fuck youâ.
And hey the army wasnât the ones dropping the bombs, the miners surrendered and retreated when the federal troops got there because they realized that if they didnât that their own gov would slaughter them. Nah it was private planes that were hired to drop a combo of leftover gas and explosive bombs from WW1 plus a bunch of homemade bombs on the miners. Did those guys ever get arrested? no.
This went on for 8 FUCKIN DAYS MY DUDES before the army came in this was the LARGEST ARMED UPRISING IN US HISTORY OUTSIDE OF THE GOD DAMN CIVIL WAR AND ITS NOT EVEN A SHITTING FOOTNOTE IN 95% OF US HISTORY TEXTBOOKS
10,000 FUCKING COAL MINERS FOUGHT AN 8-DAY BATTLE AGAINST A 3,000-STRONG PRIVATE ARMED FORCE SUPPORTED FINANCIALLY BY THE OWNERS OF THE COAL MINES AND NO HISTORY BOOK YOUâLL FIND IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL WILL DEVOTE MORE THAN A SENTENCE TO IT WHAT THE FUCK
Also hereâs a list of some more fucked up shit from US Labor History that never gets taught to kids that i had saved
1914, The Ludlow Massacre, where the Colorado National Guard and the guards from the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company attacked a camp of 1,200 striking coal miners, resulting in âthe violent deaths of between 19 and 26 people; reported death tolls vary but include two women and eleven children, asphyxiated and burned to death under a single tent,â and sparking the Colorado Coal Field War
1917, Frank Little, a labor leader and member of the executive board of the Industrial Workers of the World, was beaten and abducted from his boardinghouse, dragged behind a car, and then hanged from the Milwaukee Bridge. No one was ever prosecuted for his murder.
1917, Bisbee Deportation, where 1,300 striking miners and union sympathizers in Bisbee, AZ were arrested, loaded into cattle cars, and âdeportedâ 200 miles away into New Mexico by a 2,000-member deputized posse. The town mining company had provided a list of all citizens who were to be arrested, and closed down any outside communications with the town for several days to keep the incident from being reported.
1919, Fannie Sellins, a union organizer, shot to death by deputies when she tried to stop their beating of a picketing miner, who was also killed. She was shot 4 times and her skull was fractured by a cudgel; her death was ruled a justifiable homicide, and she was blamed for starting the riot which led to her death.
the coal company disregarded their union agreement, so in retaliation, striking union miners shot and killed 19 strikebreakers and mine guards. 3 union miners weer also killed in the fight.
1929, Loray Mill Strike, 1,800 mill workers from the Loray Mill walked off their jobs to protest intolerable working conditions, and demanded a forty-hour work week, a minimum $20 weekly wage, and union recognition; in response, management evicted families from mill-owned homes. Later, nearly 100 masked men destroyed the National Textile Workerâs Unionâs headquarters, and the NTWU started a tent city on the outskirts of the town protected by armed strikers.