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Teabagger Convention Time!
The teabaggers are holding their first national convention this weekend in Nashville, Tennessee with Sarah Palin scheduled as keynote speaker. Though the ‘movement’ likes to say it is not motivated by racism in any fashion, its convention got off to an embarrassing start when Congressman Tom Tancredo – mostly known as an anti-immigrant xenophobe – [...]
Continue reading...Mumia Abu-Jamal on Zinn
1. February 2010
In this prison radio commentary, death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal reflects on the death of Howard Zinn. The People’s Historian, informed by his scholastic mind, was a public supporter of the effort to grant Abu-Jamal a re-trial.
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Subversive Historian – 02/01/10
1. February 2010
{Surprisingly This Was Not a Denny’s Restaurant!}
The Greensboro Sit-ins
Back in the day on February 1st, 1960, four young black college students challenged a white-only lunch counter policy in Greensboro, North Carolina. Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair Jr., and David Richmond carried out their devised sit-in when they entered Woolworth’s Five-and-Dime shop. After purchasing items [...]
Subversive Historian – 01/29/10
29. January 2010
{Mill Workers Remembering One of Their Own}
The Death of Anna LoPizzo
Back in the day on January 29th, 1912, Anna LoPizzo, an immigrant mill worker, was shot and killed in a picket line of the Lawrence Textile Strike. The American Woolen Company in Massachusetts had pilfered out wage decreases to its mostly female workforce at its [...]
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6. February 2010
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