SFP JEOPARDY

Day 5,049, 15:17 • Published in USA USA • by Socialist Freedom Party
SFP JEOPARDY
eRep Day 5050

To our...
Friends!
Allied Soldiers!
Fellow Citizens!
International Comrades!
To All Those Who Love Freedom, Solidarity and Free Prizes!


It's time for.... Socialist-Freedom Jeopardy!!
The game show where the working class is always the winner!

Today's theme is "RED, white and blue" -- the Workers' History of the (RL) USA!!


Get ready to win some great prizes!!

It's easy. All you do is respond to the ANSWERS in the form of a QUESTION.




A panel of stoners musical enthusiasts from the SFP's Legendary Revolutionary Farm Bureau Committee will judge responses for hilarity, accuracy, good intentions, bad grammar and stuff. Based on their assessment, an array of amazing prizes will rapidly be shipped out to winners via the SFP's earth-friendly, worker-owned-and-operated Red Zeppelin Airways!


AND. This entire process is overseen by...

...the Ghost of Civil Anarchy!


So you KNOW it's legit!



OK. Let's get warmed up with a couple of examples.




Example #1

ANSWER

A celebration that started in the good ol' US of A, following the Haymarket Square Massacre in Chicago, to commemorate the struggle for an 8-hour work day.


A correct QUESTION in response to this answer would be:

What is May Day? or What is International Workers Day?



Example #2

ANSWER

The national celebration of a Memorial Day holiday was initiated by this 19th-century anti-racist general, 2nd Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic (a veterans organization) and later Congressman in order to "reverently thank the Abolitionists" and to rouse peoples' spirits to carry on the fight against the KKK and its allies in the face of post-war governments in D.C. and across the South who had abandoned the effort to root out the legacy of slavery. His support for a Memorial Day holiday built upon the unofficial celebration of Decoration Day, a solemn commemoration started in 1875 that was celebrated mainly by African-Americans, to remember 275 Union fighters who'd died in the Confederate prison camp in Charleston, South Carolina.

QUESTION:

Who was John A. "Black Jack" Logan?










OK, bears and girls, let's get started!



Let the Quiz Begin!

Please post your response-questions in the comments, and indicate for which ANSWER or ANSWERS you've provided the QUESTION.



ANSWER # 1

Founded in 1901 and led by Eugene V. Debs, who eventually ran for President from a jail cell, this left-wing party won almost a million votes in the Presidential elections of 1912 and 1920. had hundreds of affiliated newspaper and elected mayors, council members and other officials in over 300 U.S. cities.



ANSWER # 2

Founded in 1905, this anarcho-syndicalist organization captured the imagination of a generation with its fiery rhetoric, daring tactics, and program of revolutionary industrial unionism. Pledging to replace the narrow craft unionism of the American Federal of Labor with massive industrial unions, its revolutionary goals and commitment to anarcho-syndicalism positioned it to the left of the Socialist Party as well as the AFL.



ANSWER # 3

Founded in 1919, this leftist party, inspired by the Russian Revolution, split from the Socialists and also drew in many members from the IWW. At first, only 5% of its members were native English speakers. Starting in 1928, they organized the Alabama Sharecroppers Union, which led a successful strike for higher wages in 1935 which laid the basis for the Civil Rights Movement.



ANSWER # 4

Raised by her grandfather to keep a shotgun ready in case the Klan attacked, married to a leftist organizer who defended the Scottboro Boys, she was a tireless leading organizer for the NAACP, particularly in defense of Black women who'd been assaulted, before her arrest during the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 triggered a wave of Civil Rights protests that reverberated throughout the nation. She was the first woman and one of very few private citizens ever granted the honor of lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda upon her death in 2005.



ANSWER # 5

A former Marine and President of the Monroe, North Carolina chapter of the NAACP in the 1950s and early 1960s, he set up the first all-Black chapter of the National Rifle Association, the Black Armed Guard. He and his wife Mabel encouraged Black folks to practice armed self-defense against racist terror, often arguing over this point with Civil Rights leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr. He is credited with inspiring generations of leftist and revolutionary nationalist Black activists. Rosa Parks, a close ally in the NAACP, delivered the eulogy at his funeral in 1996.



ANSWER # 6

One of the principal representations of the New Left, this student activist organization with its roots in a socialist educational society founded by Upton Sinclair grew rapidly throughout the 1960s, reaching nearly 300 chapters by 1969. Rejecting the orthodoxy of older leftist movements, it allied with both the labor movement and the Black Liberation movement and was a major force behind "Stop the War" protests opposing the US intervention in Vietnam. In the 1970s, a series of leftist organizations emerged from it.



ANSWER # 7

A classical pianist with two albums to her credit -- "Until We're Free" and "Seize the Time" -- she is now CEO of a non-profit organization dedicated to launching and sustaining cooperative businesses for formerly incarcerated persons. Founder of their Free Breakfast Program and Free Legal Aid programs, she was the Information Minister from 1971-1974 and then the Chair of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense from 1974 to 1977.



ANSWER # 8

Founded in 1982, now with about 240 chapters and almost 100,00 members, , it is the largest socialist organization in the United States. Having a median membership age of 33, it is widely credited with re-energizing socialist ideas amongst the "millenial" generation. Its roots are in off-shoots of both the "Old Left" Socialist Party and one of the many New Left groupings that emerged from the 1960s. With 4 members of Congress, one Senator, local municipal council seats in about 20 cities adhering to its principles, and having won a majority in at least one state party organization (Nevada), it is now considered to be the left wing socialist faction of the Democratic Party. Its members and supporters have been active in anti-racist and anti-fascist organizating as well as in electoral politics.






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