Socialist Party Congresswoman Tiffany Caban celebrated Women’s History Month by honoring a number of extremists, including communist leaders who pushed for the overthrow of the United States and anarchists who inspired the assassination of President William McKinley.
Cavan’s newsletter sought to highlight ten labor organizers, journalists and artists. I got it..
“This Women’s History Month, we decided to highlight the lives and words of 10 groundbreaking New York City women, some of whom made history then and some of whom are making history now. Some continue to do so,” the far-left Queenspol wrote. “These women hope we can continue in their spirit as we strive to build safer and healthier cities for everyone.”
Heading the leftist list is Emma Goldman, a Russian immigrant and anarchist who advocates for “contraception and free love,” the newsletter reported.
But Goldman confessed in her. An autobiography in which she conspired with her loverAlexander Berkman planned a failed assassination attempt on steel magnate Henry Clay Frick in 1892 after the murder of striking workers in Homestead, Pennsylvania.
Nearly a decade later, Leon Czolgosz, who shot and killed McKinley in Buffalo in 1901, said he was inspired by one of Goldman’s speeches that declared, “All rulers should be exterminated.” . report.
The newsletter also featured Elizabeth Flynn Gurley, the chair of the Communist Party of the United States, who claimed to have been “imprisoned for her beliefs.”
Gurley was arrested in 1951 for violating the Smith Act (a federal law prohibiting the advocacy of violent overthrow of the government) and spent at least two years in prison.
After her death in 1964, the Soviet Union held a state funeral for her comrade in Moscow’s Red Square, attended by 25,000 people.
A passionate advocate for sex workers, Caban also spotlighted Cecilia Gentili, a trans activist and former prostitute whose funeral at St. Patrick’s Cathedral turned into a “blasphemous” incident, according to church leaders. I guessed it.
She was hailed as a “saint”. “Cecilia, mother of all whores,” another mourner sang “Ave Maria,” changing the lyrics to “Ave Cecilia.”
City Councilwoman Joanne Arriola (R-Queens) called Caban “reprehensible” for defending an individual who has vocally expressed a desire to “destroy this country.”
“A Communist Party chairman convicted of trying to overthrow the U.S. government should never be celebrated by those who claim to support American values,” Arriola told the Post.
City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov (R-Brooklyn) said the radical policies supporting anarchists and attempted murder plotters should surprise no one.
“It makes perfect sense for the Marxists in the council to support this,” Vernikov said. “After all, they are following in the radical footsteps of condoning and defending the criminal elements who wreaked as much havoc as possible and destroyed our city.”
Cavan did not respond to requests for comment.
