Some of #Dugin’s most extreme fantasies – #wars, #occupations, and ethnic cleansings – are unfolding in #Ukraine and #Georgia. The final outcome is still uncertain, but his vision is being carried out in real-time.

5/17

"Numbers really matter for building #power in ways that can really pose a serious #challenge or #threat to entrenched #authorities or #occupations"

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

#USA #RESISTANCE

United Voices of the World #union started from below January 2014 by cleaners from Latin America, now over 10,000 workers from over 100 countries. Through #strikes, #occupations, #directaction #blockades and campaigns won tens of millions of pounds in improved pay and benefits for the UK’s invisible army of low-paid workers.

https://www.uvwunion.org.uk/en/about/

Women's #Occupations in #AncientRome

While a married #Roman woman was focused on the “functioning of complex Roman households” (Nagle, 103), women who had achieved independence could own and manage their own “property just like males” (Rawson, 84).

Women could also “apprentice” (Lefkowitz, 208) in certain occupations, become entertainers or prostitutes, or serve as priestesses – however, “lucrative trades (armaments, books, animals)” (Lefkowitz, 219) were dominated by men.

Notable Women of #AncientEgypt: #Nebet

Nebet (“Lady”), a Priestess of #Thoth (#Tehuti) was the “first recorded female #vizier in Ancient Egyptian history” during the late Old Kingdom of Egypt in the #SixthDynasty (#2300BC).

The vizier was appointed by the Pharaoh, and the vizier’s “paramount duty was to supervise the running of the country, such as a prime minister, at times even small details of it such as sampling the city's water supply.”

“All other lesser supervisors and officials, such as tax collectors and scribes, would report to the vizier.“

#WomensRights #Autonomy
#Occupations #Education
#Histodon #AncientHistory #FamousAncientWomen

Notable Women of #AncientEgypt: #Hatsheput

Hatsheput (1479-1457 BCE), claimed the throne because she was the daughter of the late king “Thutmose I by his Great Royal Wife” (Watterson, 101), and not “a concubine” (Watterson, 101). Hatsheput’s reign was known for “great achievements” (Watterson, 101) both “#architectural and commercial” (Watterson, 101). Her most successful commercial venture was “an expedition by sea to Punt, probably located in the east Sudan bordering on northern Eritrea/Ethiopia” (Watterson, 101).

#WomensRights #Autonomy
#Occupations #Education
#Histodon #AncientHistory #FamousAncientWomen #Hatsheput

Women's Occupations in #AncientEgypt

“In ancient Egypt, formal education was not usually given to girls” (Watterson, 17). However, there is evidence that girls were formally educated, since women were “scribes and also priests, usually of a cult of a feminine deity” (Mark, 4).

Women could work outside the home, and were “employed as weavers, bakers, brewers” (Mark, 6), and many other professions, including “estate owners” (Mark, 6). They could also be concubines, who were “accomplished in music, conversation, sewing, fashion, culture, religion, and the arts” (Mark, 6).

@ScientistSoph I am thrilled you are posting your Occupation of the Day over here as well! #genealogy #geneadons #history #occupations