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Subversive Historian – 04/22/10

The First Earth Day Back in the day on April 22nd, 1970, the United States celebrated Earth Day for the very first time. The brainchild of Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, the observation held forty years ago was conceived as a ‘teach-in’ meant to inspire awareness and action on issues critical to the health of the environment. [...]

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Glenn Beck Distorts Uprising’s Interview with Van Jones

[Don't think too hard now Glenn, you may pop a vein in your forehead!] The brain-cell challenged television and radio host Glenn Beck recently distorted an Uprising interview with Van Jones as part of his final crusade against one-time White House green jobs adviser. I discovered this today as a random youtube video appeared on a [...]

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Subversive Historian – 12/05/08

The Great Smog of 1952 Fifty-six years ago on this day in people’s history, deadly smog descended upon London. On December 5th, 1952, a mass of cold fog hovered over the English capital causing many of its residents to burn coal to keep warm. The aftermath resulted in trapped plumes of smoke from households, [...]

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