Luisa Capetillo, born on this day in 1879, was a Puerto Rican labor organizer, feminist, and Christian anarchist. Capetillo advocated for women's suffrage, was arrested for wearing pants in public, and helped raise the minimum wage.
As a labor activist, Capetillo organized workers throughout the United States, worked as a reporter for the FLT (Federacion Libre de Trabajadores), and traveled throughout Puerto Rico, educating and organizing women. Her hometown, Arecibo, became the most unionized area of the country.
Capetillo is considered to be one of Puerto Rico's first suffragists. In 1908, during the FLT convention, Capetillo asked the union to approve a policy for women's suffrage, insisting that all women should have the same right to vote as men. Along with other labor activists, she also helped pass a minimum wage law in the Puerto Rican Legislature.
Today, Capetillo is perhaps best known for being arrested for wearing pants in public, although the charges against her were later dropped.
In 2014, the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico honored Capetillo, along with eleven other women, with plaques in the "La Plaza en Honor a la Mujer Puertorriqueña" (Plaza in Honor of Puerto Rican Women).
Capetillo, Luisa - a biography
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my stupid fucking neighbors have been cutting away at a few bushes for two hours. i thought the whole point of chainsaws is that they're quick
Honestly chainsaws are a 8/10 invention in my book but I can understand that the noise is annoying.
If it's not fast it's because they're incompetent, dumbass probably doesn't realize they have a dull blade, or they got the tension wrong
There is a someone in my very small lot residential neighborhood who runs a chainsaw several hours per week all winter every winter. I cannot figure out what they're doing. They aren't bucking big logs into smaller logs because nobody has a lot big enough to get deliveries of full logs. My guess is they're splitting firewood for a small wood stove, but I can't imagine thats very efficient, or even less physical effort than using an axe
On bushes? lol. Bushes are faster with hand tools like pull saws but should also not be slow with a chainsaw. I could destroy a big bush in like 1-2 minutes with a chainsaw.