Posts Tagged ‘nypd’

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Summary: Illustration shows a game of chess between a hand labeled “Political Pull” showing a cufflink labeled “Brass Check” and a hand labeled “Reform”. The chess board is labeled “[Depar]Tment of Police” and some of the squares are labeled “Race Track, Suburbs, White Lights, Gambling District, Goatville, Financial District, Tenderloin, Red Light District, Lonely Beat, [and] Hell’s Kitchen”. The police officers, some in plainclothes, are labeled “Crooked Captain, Inspector, Sleuth, ‘Fixed’ Captain, Honest Captain, Grafting Captain, Honest Inspector, Plainclothes Man, [and] Sergeant”.


Image Source → http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2011645958/

Wiki-Info → http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_%28magazine%29

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Summary: Caricature of JP Morgan as a bull blowing bubbles “inflated values”, for which a group of people are reaching.

Image Source → Library of Congress – Library of Congress
Wiki-Info → Puck Magazine -  Puck Magazine

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Summary: Illustration shows a police officer labeled “Graft Tariff” preventing a working class family from having a picnic on the grass while a group of men labeled “Beef Trust, Coal Trust, Steel Trust, Lumber Trust, [and] Clothing Trust”, with two servants, one labeled “A.P.T.L.”, are having a picnic on the lawn labeled “Prosperity”.

Image Source → Library of Congress
Wiki-Info → Puck Magazine

1913 – Santa Claus in Wall Street

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Summary: Illustration shows an angry mob of bankers, brokers, and financiers threatening Santa Claus who is hanging off the statue of George Washington outside Federal Hall in Manhattan, New York City, New York.

Caption: Chorus of Bankers and Brokers Just say Christmas to us this year, that’s all! We dare you!

Image Source → Library of Congress

“Governments will never save the people. They exist to exploit and destroy the people. There is but one force that can save the people – and that is the people themselves.” –Ethel MacDonald

Documentary – An Anarchist’s Story → Watch on YouTube

Ethel MacDonald – An Anarchist Story → Film Website

Ethel MacDonald – Forgotten Comrades → Life Story

Spartacus Educational → Info Page

Ethel MacDonald Wiki → Wiki Page