The Great Pueblo Revolt - New General Megathread for the 10th of August 2023
The Great Pueblo Revolt, or Pueblo Revolt (1680–1696), was a 16-year period in the history of the American southwest when the Pueblo people overthrew the Spanish conquistadors and began to rebuild their communities. The events of that period have been viewed over the years as a failed attempt to permanently expel Europeans from the pueblos, a temporary setback to Spanish colonization, a glorious moment of independence for the Pueblo people of the American southwest, or part of a larger movement to purge the Pueblo world of foreign influence and return to traditional ways of life. It was no doubt a bit of all four.
The Spanish first entered the northern Rio Grande region in 1539 and its control was cemented in place by the 1599 siege of Acoma pueblo by Don Vicente de Zaldivar and a few score of soldier colonists from the expedition of Don Juan de Oñate. At Acoma's Sky City, Oñate's forces killed 800 people and captured 500 women and children and 80 men. After a "trial," everyone over the age of 12 was enslaved; all men over 25 had a foot amputated. Roughly 80 years later, a combination of religious persecution and economic oppression led to a violent uprising in Santa Fe and other communities of what is today northern New Mexico. It was one of the few successful—if temporary—forceful stoppages of the Spanish colonial juggernaut in the New World.
Life Under the Spanish
As they had done in other parts of the Americas, the Spanish installed a combination of military and ecclesiastical leadership in New Mexico. The Spanish established missions of Franciscan friars in several pueblos to specifically break up the Indigenous religious and secular communities, stamp out religious practices and replace them with Christianity. Active efforts to convert the Pueblo people to Christianity involved destroying kivas and other structures, burning ceremonial paraphernalia in public plazas, and using accusations of witchcraft to imprison and execute traditional ceremonial leaders.
The government also established an encomienda system, allowing up to 35 leading Spanish colonists to collect tribute from the households of a particular pueblo. Hopi oral histories report that the reality of the Spanish rule included forced labor, the seduction of Hopi women, raiding of kivas and sacred ceremonies, harsh punishment for failing to attend mass, and several rounds of drought and famine.
Growing Unrest
While the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was the event that (temporarily) removed the Spanish from the southwest, it was not the first attempt. The Pueblo people had offered resistance throughout the 80-year period following the conquest. Public conversions didn't (always) lead to people giving up their traditions but rather drove the ceremonies underground. The Jemez (1623), Zuni (1639) and Taos (1639) communities each separately (and unsuccessfully) revolted. There also were multi-village revolts that took place in the 1650s and 1660s, but in each case, the planned revolts were discovered and the leaders executed.
The Pueblos were independent societies before Spanish rule, and fiercely so. What led to the successful revolt was the ability to overcome that independence and coalesce. Some scholars think it was a millenarian movement, and have pointed to a population collapse in the 1670s resulting from a devastating epidemic that killed off an estimated 80% of the Indigenous population, and it became clear that the Spanish were unable to explain or prevent epidemic diseases or calamitous droughts. In some respects, the battle was one of whose god was on whose side: both Pueblo and Spanish sides identified the mythical character of certain events, and both sides believed the events involved supernatural intervention.
Nonetheless, the suppression of Indigenous practices became particularly intense between 1660 and 1680, and one of the main reasons for the successful revolt appears to have occurred in 1675 when then-governor Juan Francisco de Trevino arrested 47 "sorcerers," one of whom was Po'pay of San Juan Pueblo.
Leadership
Po'Pay (or Popé) was a Tewa religious leader, and he was to become a key leader and perhaps primary organizer of the rebellion. Po'Pay may have been key, but there were plenty of other leaders in the rebellion. Domingo Naranjo, a man of African and Indigeneous heritage, is often cited, and so are El Saca and El Chato of Taos, El Taque of San Juan, Francisco Tanjete of San Ildefonso, and Alonzo Catiti of Santo Domingo.
Under the rule of colonial New Mexico, the Spanish deployed ethnic categories ascribing "Pueblo" to lump linguistically and culturally diverse people into a single group, establishing dual and asymmetric social and economic relationships between the Spanish and Pueblo people. Po'pay and the other leaders appropriated this to mobilize the disparate and decimated villages against their colonizers.
August 10–19, 1680
After eight decades of living under foreign rule, Pueblo leaders fashioned a military alliance that transcended longstanding rivalries. For nine days, together they besieged the capital of Santa Fe and other pueblos. In this initial battle, over 400 Spanish military personnel and colonists and 21 Franciscan missionaries lost their lives: the number of Pueblo people who died is unknown. Governor Antonio de Otermin and his remaining colonists retreated in ignominy to El Paso del Norte (what is today Cuidad Juarez in Mexico).
Witnesses said that during the revolt and afterward, Po'Pay toured the pueblos, preaching a message of nativism and revivalism. He ordered the Pueblo people to break up and burn the images of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and other saints, to burn the temples, smash the bells, and separate from the wives the Christian church had given them.
Revitalization and Reconstruction
Between 1680 and 1692, despite the efforts of the Spanish to recapture the region, the Pueblo people rebuilt their kivas, revived their ceremonies and reconsecrated their shrines. People left their mission pueblos at Cochiti, Santo Domingo and Jemez and built new villages, such as Patokwa (established in 1860 and made up of Jemez, Apache/Navajos and Santo Domingo pueblo people), Kotyiti (1681, Cochiti, San Felipe and San Marcos pueblos), Boletsakwa (1680–1683, Jemez and Santo Domingo), Cerro Colorado (1689, Zia, Santa Ana, Santo Domingo) There were many others.
The architecture and settlement planning at these new villages was a new compact, dual-plaza form, a departure from the scattered layouts of mission villages. Liebmann and Pruecel have argued that this new format is what the builders considered a "traditional" village, based on clan moieties. Some potters worked on reviving traditional motifs on their glaze-ware ceramics, such as the doubled-headed key motif, which originated fro, 1400–1450.
New social identities were created, blurring the traditional linguistic-ethnic boundaries that defined Pueblo villages during the first eight decades of colonization. Inter-Pueblo trade and other ties between Pueblo people were established, such as new trade relationships between Jemez and Tewa people which became stronger during the revolt era than they had been in the 300 years before 1680.
Reconquest Attempts by the Spanish to reconquer the Rio Grande region began as early as 1681 when the former governor Otermin attempted to take back Santa Fe. Others included Pedro Romeros de Posada in 1688 and Domingo Jironza Petris de Cruzate in 1689—Cruzate's reconquest was particularly bloody, his group destroyed Zia pueblo, killing hundreds of residents. But the uneasy coalition of independent pueblos wasn't perfect: without a common enemy, the confederation broke into two factions: the Keres, Jemez, Taos and Pecos against the Tewa, Tanos, and Picuris.
The Spanish capitalized on the discord to make several reconquest attempts, and in August of 1692, the new governor of New Mexico Diego de Vargas, initiated his own reconquest, and this time was able to reach Santa Fe and on August 14 proclaimed the "Bloodless Reconquest of New Mexico." A second abortive revolt occurred in 1696, but after it failed, the Spanish remained in power until 1821 when Mexico declared independence from Spain.
Ysleta del Sur Pueblo
The Tribal community known as "Tigua" established Ysleta del Sur in 1682. After leaving the homelands of Quarai Pueblo due to drought, the Tigua sought refuge at Isleta Pueblo and were later captured by the Spanish during the 1680 Pueblo Revolt and forced to walk south for over 400 miles. The Tigua settled and built the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and, soon after, the acequia (canal) system that sustained a thriving agricultural-based community.
Remember nerds just like in the old site, no current struggle session discussion here on the new general megathread, i will ban you from the comm and remove your comment, have a good day/night :meow-coffee:
managed to get the deposit down on an apartment with some friends
the rent is kind of bullshit and the landlord company is making us fill out a a bunch of awkward forms on on a really shittily designed website, but we managed it. theres meant to be a big lgbt community there and leftist organisations and people my own age. the only issue now is getting a job. its not usually in my nature, but i'm actually feeling pretty hopeful about life rn
Hi everyone. I used to be on this site about a year ago. I deleted my old account because the name could be linked back to me personally. And then I was just off social media for a while.
But now I'm back and reporting for shitposting duty
Does anyone ever notice how capitalism in games is far too easy? Like you can be 30 minutes into playing, and already you got some sorta passive income going on. I'm playing Mount & Blade 2. For just a little bit of money, you can buy businesses. There's never a risk of bring priced out, having your shop burn, the lord stealing your business, or whatever real world shit that would happen with a business owner. I feel that this is a big reason why a lot of people think that capitalism is fair, because people make it happen virtually all the time.
First, I am so full of rage right now. Just absolute seething fucking anger that you could run a geothermal plant off of.
Did you know most people don't think leaders are personally responsible for the misdeeds of their underlings? I've never understood that. Taking on a leadership position means, first and foremost, that everyone under you is your responsibility. They don't fuck up - You fucked up by not giving them the training, tools, mentorship, or leadership that they needed to accomplish their objectives. That's it. That's how leadership works. It's all your responsibility, and when it goes wrong it's all your fault.
And there's also no such thing as an accident. When the airline loses your luggage? That's not a fucking accident. Some very well paid people did a cost benefit analyses and agreed on the acceptable amount of luggage that could be lost without hurting profits. Your luggage wasn't lost. The airline decided they could ignore it, that it was acceptable to do so, that it was not in their (the shareholders) interest to give a shit. Someone made a decision not to make the luggage handling system better, more reliable, more consistent, easier on the employees. Someone made a decision not to hire more luggage handlers, have more on hand, have shorter shifts so they weren't tired, give them more time off and pay and benefits so they'd be fresh and healthy and motivated to do their jobs. Decisions were made by rich men in suits who hold you in contempt and you are suffering for those decisions.
And you have the right to extract justice from them at the point of a sword.
Second-to-last day at current job. IT guy is on an extended vacation. Corporate rolled out a bunch of tech changes that made everything shit the bed. Lots of co-workers without internet access all this week, no ETA on a fix. And oh look, my backup wifi connection "mysteriously" stopped working too! Oh well, guess I can't do much except some light filing! How mysterious!
All of the talk about introducing the new libs to hexbear and the thing I’m most excited for is the return of BMF posting. Holy fuck if that crossover won’t be iconic
A friend of mine has cancer and is receiving immunotherapy. As of this month their hospital no longer requires masks and the nurses are all going around maskless. I don't think there are even air purifiers there.
This fucking country. Death to America, but not like this.
Massive protests have broken out against the Volcel Police after a report surfaced noting incredible acts of torture towards prisoners with breeding kinks by forcing them to watch Children of Men (2006) on repeat
I'm really warming up to the federation, a lot of people from lemmy.ml seem cool and like someone said a few days ago watching libs wander in and get complete culture shock is indeed extremely funny
My friend has pretty severe anxiety and texts me about it a lot when she's feeling anxious and I never know what I'm supposed to say. I used to have really bad anxiety but now I'm a lot better but she kinda ignores any advice I give her. It's a bit frustrating to deal with because I want to help her when she texts me, but she never listens to anything I tell her and she expects me to make her calm down even though she ignores all my advice.
Why does this description leave out the 317 puebloans taken by the Spanish when they fled to El Paso del Norte in 1680? In 1682 the Spaniards brought 384 more. Those people were given 37 sq miles of land by the king. They’ve since lost the majority of it to manifest destiny and now live on 27 acres in the El Paso area.
Today was a good day, took my dog to the farmer's market and we had a great time
The lady who makes the dog treats he likes was back for the first time in a month so that was nice
I might accuse the old Korean lady who runs the kim chi stall of trying to make me fat with all the free food she gives me but most of that is fermented vegetables so this is usually the healthiest I eat all week, she's really the best
Plus I picked up some fresh thai basil and 2 kinds of eggplant from my favorite farm there so I'm gonna make some curry
Love how desperately Saudi-Arabia is trying to diversify but they keep failing because MBS is such a fucking failson dullard who has never been told "no" in his life
You're in an abandoned house. Words from the internet are pressing their way through the walls and creaking through the air. You can feel your very being being reported to an omnipresent yet invisible greater moderator. You are not welcome here.And you stumble up and down the floors.
"downbear"
"downbear"
"this is racist: reported"
You see the back half of a pig phasing through one of the upper corners of the 5th floor stairwell. It's screaming and it has shit all over itself. You lift tour hands as you run under it.
The worst happens. You can feel the eyes of the greater mod upon you. Your body is pulled downward as if tethers are ripping you down. Your face is slammed against the stairs. Your torso and limbs are slammed against and eventually pilled through the stairs too. It hurts so much. If tou could move your hands and feel your face you're sure you'd find your mouth has disappeared.
You're dragged through a high number of floors you couldn't possibly number because of the pain. Floor after floor of being reverse-dredged into a blacker and blacker, mold-ridden hell.
You've ben censored. You're in a dungeon deep underneath those floors and stairs you mounted prior. You can hear a voice that is not a voice, and a sight that is not a sight writhe along the ceiling. It says "reactionary." You try to counter it but you can't.
You're told to face the wall. You can't resist the forces that have complete control of your body. You're trapped. You look around to see an almost infinite fractal of repeating corners and in each corner is another censored being. All of them were told to face the wall and corner. You can hear them attempting to scream without control of their tongues and without the ability to turn their heads, the shrieks are muffled and vibrating into the cellar-like prison walls they're pressed against.
Just before you lose consciousness you hear someone shout your name from above. You think maybe someone will save you from this torture. But as the voices echoes downward. Down the crumbling stairs and into the horror-pit you're encased into like a bone pressed into its socket you hear it rebound. It says "ha owned. get banned butch."
The ultimate moderator is behind you. They let out a witch's cackle and you remember nothing and experience nothing agains after that.
The Diplomat is a competency porn show where the main character is an incompetent borderline narcissist and the first hint of the "antagonist" being the antagonist is that he called a US cabinet member a war criminal.
Should I start browsing by all instead of local now that we federated? Should I get a hit of that OG r/cth nostalgia? Should I sharpen my troll/dunking nails again?
I wish I could stop being anxious about shit. I asked to be trained as a cook at work so i'm going to be doing that but I already regret it because it feels like it's going to be a lot of fucking work for not much extra pay and like I just want my job to be easy if I'm slaving away to pay rent. But it'll probably be okay, I'm just stressed out at the thought of having to manage like 10 different dishes and make sure we don't run out of shit while also not making too much.
I also told my friend I'd try to work at the French restaurant she's been at because i really need extra money and that's stressing me out so fucking much. I don't want to look like an idiot and make my friend look like an idiot for vouching for me but I'm not going to know what I'm doing 😭😭😭 like it'll be okay but I feel so anxious
"Green capitalism cannot possibly exist. The capitalists are too entrenched in the drug-like profitability of oil, the short-sighted bastards. They will stubbornly continue to stuff their heads in the ever-diminishing sand, until at last their foolishness will be revealed, then passed off as a tragedy that could not have possibly been foreseen."---- Junko Enoshima
I've been growing a mustache and one side curls perfectly, just the way I want, while the other side sags and turns towards my mouth, much to my aggrievement
reading Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for the first time and y'all... so it turns out Frankenstein's dad married his best friend's daughter, and now Frankenstein wants to marry his adopted sister?? kinda sus...
What annoys me about the liberal parts of the Internet -- one thing at least -- is the idea that intellectual property benefits creative workers and piracy hurts them. It's just so simplistic and removed from actual money flow. People seem to imagine that when you go to the book store and pay your 20 € for a copy, 10 % of it goes directly to the author or something. In reality, at least as I understand it, royalties like these basically don't matter because they only come in after the advance has been covered by the sales. And whether one of the oligopolistic publishers buys a manuscript and for what amount is based on inscrutable calculations including how much prestige it will bring to the brand, separate from the profit it will make. So I don't think there's a direct economic incentive to publish truly literary work and therefore I don't think royalties matter for good writing. Coming back to the main point: Authors who decry piracy are just redirecting the righteous hatred of the artistry-destroying oligopoly toward the readers, who are comparatively powerless and unwilling participants in the publishers' money-making scheme. Besides, some of the best writers today publish their work for free and take money via Patreon or some such, which is a slightly more ethical corporation.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk, I'll be here all week.
Watching this isekai slop where this fat kid who is horribly mistreated by everyone just for being fat stumbles on a doorway to your standard isekai realm in his grandpa's house. In it he finds all kinds of overpowered shit, levels up, and his physical appearance changes with his stats and shit so now he's slim and strong and beautiful and in possession of phenomenal cosmic power
Anyway, I can't imagine having all that and being like 😔😔😔 gotta go back to SCHOOL😔😔😔 like come on my dude you can do literal magic what do you care about this fucking field trip for, lol
I woke up this morning secure in my new mentality that this is no longer a fun social adventure but now an extreme physical endurance test. Which is also good! Once I’d reframed things positively in this manner I stopped feeling bad about walking alone. In fact, I embraced it. I put my head down and blazed down the camino as hard as I could. At one point I slowed to talk with someone but then decided you know what? Fuck it. We ride.
I also finally did some of that spiritual reflection pilgrimage business. I put on an audio recording of my favorite poem, Walt Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” and considered it while I walked. Whitman talks a lot about how scenes and experiences endure across time, connecting everyone around the world and throughout history without our realizing it. He describes vividly all the scenes of his day, just so we in the future will recognize the experiences of the past as real and evocative.
I thought about pilgrims back in Saint-Jean and Roncesvalles, just now beginning their travels. Or those days ahead of me at Santiago and Finisterre, just now ending theirs. All of us walk the same path yet have such wildly disparate experiences—and yet ultimately they’re just expressions of the same experience, aren’t they? You could say this about the medieval pilgrims as well, all those many centuries ago yet nevertheless following this trail as I do today. As will be the case for many hundreds of years into the future.
It took me back to the first thought I ever had on mushrooms lol. Life is the same A to B for everyone, and all of us ultimately live similar, interconnected lives. We must by necessity live together and are never, can never truly be alone. Yet also we must each individually learn and relearn the same lessons, think the same thoughts, feel the same feelings, as those before us and those yet to come. We’re on the same path, together, but we walk it for ourselves, alone. The interplay between this, between self and society, is what shapes life’s experiences.
“The simple, compact, well-join’d scheme. Myself disintegrated, everyone disintegrated, yet part of the scheme…”
Alright.
I had the WILDEST hostle tonight. I wound up at this strange little place in the middle of nowhere, run by a single weird guy who doesn’t speak any English. He serves dinner but not like actual pilgrim dinner. The dude fucking drives into town and buys takeout for us. He does this multiple times per day. Otherwise he sits in his garden and smokes for hours with his weird old man friend. He makes a lot of bizarre jokes and this whole place is just very off-kilter. I like it.
This is supposed to be one of the busiest parts of the whole Camino yet there’s only three of us here tonight: a German, an Austrian, and me. We’ve turned the bunk bed room into our own private hotel and made big plans to wake up together at 3am and watch shooting stars as we leave. These two are both fantastic. Austria is planning to be in Santiago the same day as me and we’ve agreed to go out for drinks to celebrate. So yay, I won’t be alone in the final city!
One last HUGE deal. I spent two hours doing mapping/research and plotted out my daily kilometers for the rest of the trip. I also booked the final seat on an August 16th bus to the Madrid airport. I put everything into place. It’s all sorted and the logistics have been resolved after weeks of uncertainty. I know exactly how I will complete the Camino and how I will get home.
Now the only thing left to do is walk it. FORTY-SEVEN KILOMETERS (almost 30 miles!) tomorrow beginning at 3:30am. Only 200km left between me and the Atlantic Ocean.
probably my own fault for browsing for hobby subs, but if i try to open any i.r*ddit.com image in new tab to make it bigger, it directs me to this dead /r/funny post(CW: possible transphobia[?]) from 11 years ago? no matter what image i click on. broken ass website
I recently thought that it's nice a few outlets from over a decade ago are still around thanks to Patreon or other forms of direct funding, as any sort of media that isn't CNN or NYT seems to be dying. But then I realized all the ones I could think of were either video games or tech stuff? Some are left wing political shows, but without the resources to do anything deeper than interviews. I guess you can't create a thriving media space based on donations from hardcore fans alone lol.
I wanna write a work of sci-fi that takes place in a multiplanetary society where characters say "what in the worlds" in the same manner that so many fantasy characters in stories with pantheons say "oh my gods"
So today I had a conversation with my co-worker, the pro-union one, about the Ukraine war and he's the first person IRL that I've been able to talk about it without them going "Putin is a maniac, heh". We talk about NATO and its role in pushing Russia towards war. I might actually be able to have reasonable political discussions with someone at work
Ugh I ffucking hate working late shifts, like I just sit around with my dick in hand not sure what to do with myself until it's time to go to work. Like i don't wanna get started or invested in something else and then have to go in. I just want to stay in bed until I have to get ready for work, but I'm not going in until 6
And I think this might be kind of stupid. I'm going to be driving 30 minutes both ways to work for 3 hours at some haute cuisine French restaurant. I'll make like $40. Idk.
I'm doing it just to like see how it is and build a relationship with these people because my friend is trying really hard to get me to come work there with her. But I'd also really like to not be doing this. But if it works out it sounds like they'll hire me straight up at $14/hr and try to give me a raise asap.
I have another job making slightly more than that but it keeps shutting down when the school shuts down and like these random weeks of not getting paid are fucking my bank account and making me absolutely dependent on my partner to live
I'm also really anxious I'm going to fuck shit up and make myself and my friend look bad but i probably won't because I'm competent and good at things but. anxiety.
One of the funniest parts of being a mind reader would have to be how often you’d hear people think “man I hope no one’s a mind reader here” as they go back to thinking absolutely filthy and deranged thoughts
Playing Baldur's Gate and I feel like you were supposed to make your character hot. I'm surrounded by all these sexy party members and I'm a 3ft tall dwarf with a giant beard
I think since my friend quit as the vegan chef to go work at this other place that they might be planning on having me start doing the vegan stuff in her place since they're going to be training me as a cook anyway.
I guess that's one way to get me to eat vegan since my cooking is gonna be way better than the slop the other cooks make
Subscribed to the manga lemmy but I haven't posted yet. I want to get back into the hobby but I'm most likely going to get banned from the community for posting here lol
I spent four hours making a fancy French chicken dish last night, but I couldn't eat it. Thought the heat and exhaustion ruined my appetite. Nope, just food poisoning. Can't wait to eat that food tomorrow though.
new classic hyun jin kim trope: everytime a leader dies in battle, their side lost. this is used to certify Chalons was a hunnic victory (no sources assert this), and now a ostrogothic defeat at the hands of the huns in pannonia several years later. again, the sources explicitly say the opposite, but the goth king (who we spent the last 5 pages assuring ourselves was really a hun) died, so clearly the opposite interpretation of the source must be true
it's kind of mad to me to so boldly assert shit like this entirely from information in a source you are actively revising. "clearly Jordanes was wrong. from what he's asserting, here's what really happened (the opposite)" if the dude was so unreliable as to 180 the truth, how can we possibly reconstruct a factual telling from him? it's one thing if there's conflicting/confused accounts---at Chalons there are discrepancies in the sources---but even then, Kim has to rules-lawyer and lean heavily on implication for the case of the allies losing to Attila. they didn't drive attila from the field. a gothic leader died (we just dismiss the accounts of his son immediately picking up the command, the goths obviously broke up & abandoned the fight, because they're barbarians). the allies don't pursue Attila after the battle, so they must have been the losers. Attila is not subject to the same scrutiny for why he didn't press his advantage after winning the battle. him taking his toys and going home is 'normal steppe empire practice', they go home when they chose and the settled peoples declare victory. Attila's instinct for the annihilation of his enemies shown at the river Utus just mysteriously vanishes in this episode
do we not get notifications when someone from another instance replies to our comment? that seems to be the case for me
edit: actually I think it's only happening when my original comment was made in the thread of another instance, I still seem to get notifications when the post was on hexbear. idk if it's every time but it's happened a couple of times
i heard fd signifire point out that candace owens is doing some awful insane white-people-coded shit to her hair, and i haven't been able to stop thinking about it since.
Dear Mike Snead, you claim you want to solve global warming by beaming microwaves down from powersats, yet your solution entails putting more heat into the system. Curious!
I literally just worked 4 hours at a $50/plate French restaurant and ate nothing there because my stomach hurts and i have no appetite because i'm 2 days without weed and came home and got corn dogs when i could have eaten fancy shit all night
Sydney's Star Casino has been thrown a lifeline by the New South Wales government in the form of a "transitional" tax levy for the next seven years.
The Minns government today announced an overhaul of the previous government's tax arrangements for the casino arguing thousand of jobs were at risk if it did not act.
The state government said former treasurer Matt Kean had not consulted with The Star on the plan.
Treasurer Daniel Mookhey on Friday said a raised tax rate would have made Star Casino unviable.
"Jobs at The Star Sydney are good, stable, union jobs – which have a level of security, dignity and fair wage rates and conditions not seen in the wider hospitality industry."
ASIC accuses 11 past and present directors of the casino giant of breaching their duties regarding the company's risks of "money laundering and criminal associations".
Last year the company was declared unsuitable to hold a casino licence in Queensland and NSW.
The company was fined $100 million by both states after inquiries revealed its failure to comply with anti-money laundering obligations allowed organised crime to thrive at its casinos.
Billions of dollars were wiped off its value as its share price tanked, plummeting to $1.22 after trading at $4.07 in 2021.
The Star is also facing four class action lawsuits from investors and is being prosecuted by AUSTRAC, the Commonwealth's financial crime watchdog.