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Five Bands That Should be Recruited for the Sound Strike

{ZDLR: I want YOU to join the Sound Strike campaign!} Arizona’s notorious SB 1070 anti-immigrant law is just around the corner. The attack on the undocumented and the codification of racial profiling is set to go into effect on Thursday. Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine has responded, in part, by organizing a [...]

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Subversive Historian – 04/26/10

The Terror Bombing of Guernica Back in the day on April 26th, 1937, the civilians of Guernica were terror bombed from above during the Spanish Civil War. German and Italian bomber planes, at the behest of Fascist General Francisco Franco, attacked the cultural capital of the Basque people for more than three hours. The onslaught wrought [...]

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Subversive Historian – 10/15/09

David Miller Burns His Draft Card Back in the day on October 15th, 1965 Roman Catholic Pacifist David J. Miller publicly burned his draft card at a rally against the Vietnam War. The move was an act of civil disobedience as President Lyndon Johnson had recently signed a bill into law that prohibited anyone from carrying [...]

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Subversive Historian – 08/27/09

The Kellogg-Briand Pact Back in the day on August 27th, 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed in the city of Paris by fifteen nations pledging to halt wars of aggression. In the wake of the ravages of the First World War, the United States and France had originally approached the notion of the pact through a [...]

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Subversive Historian – 08/14/09

{Osceola: before the college football appropriation} The End of the Second Seminole War Back in the day on August 14th, 1842, the second Seminole War in Florida came to an official end. Prior to the onset of renewed conflict, President Andrew Jackson, who in the first war led army attacks on Seminole villages burning them down to [...]

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