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E49: Anti-Racist Action in Minneapolis

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On this day, 19 September 1893, following two decades of struggle, women in Aotearoa/New Zealand won the right to vote in parliamentary elections. Māori and working class women had played an important role in the women's suffrage movement, and the right to vote was achieved by all, not just white women or property owners like in some countries.

On this day, 18 September 1974, Flora Sanhueza Rebolledo, Chilean teacher and revolutionary died as a result of the torture she suffered at the hands of the right-wing regime of general Augusto Pinochet. She was 63.

On this day, 18 September 2016, right-wing British tabloid the Daily Mail preposterously claimed that a terrorist attack in New York's Chelsea district which wounded 29 people, one of the city's most LGBT+ friendly areas, was carried out by a "gay Trump hater". They cited a clearly fake Tumblr page, which was immediately dismissed by the FBI, which also "decried 'all Republicans' as being 'cisgendered privileged white people.'" Even the comments on the Daily Mail website, which are known for being a hotbed of far right and conspiracy-minded views, mostly pointed out that the Tumblr was clearly a "sick joke" or "red herring". It was just one of many homophobic and transphobic articles published by the Mail that year: others included disparaging same-sex marriage, opposing HIV medication, denouncing male athletes as un-"manly" for hugging, attacking transgender children and even announcing their "disgust" at the National Trust for acknowledging the existence of LGBT+ people.

On this day, 18 September 1809, the old price riots began in the Covent Garden Theatre in London during the opening night of Macbeth in protest at increased prices at the newly reopened venue. The original theatre had burned down, and when it reopened standard ticket prices had increased from 3 shillings and sixpence to 4 shillings. After the play ended, the audience refused to leave so the owner, John Kemble, called police, however this escalated the situation and rioters did not disperse until 2 AM. Kemble later hired a famous boxer and some of his associates to quell the protests, but this also failed and resulted in increased violence. Protests and disorder, heavily imbued with humour and merriment, continued for 64 days until Kemble reverted his prices and issued an apology.

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