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A time-honored way to resist and protest
When I was a kid, the greatest impact newspapers and TV news had on me was during the civil rights protests in the South. Those photos: young, well-dressed African-Americans sitting at a diner counter, quietly waiting for the service they … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Fascism, Government, Human rights, Journalism, police violence, Politics, Racism, Revolution, The Facts of Life, The War On Workers, Trumpism, voting and voting rights
Tagged 1960s civil rights movement, British Empire and India, civil rights movement, civil rights protests, Elon Musk, Evendale Ohio neo-Nazis, Haitian immigrants, India, Indivisible, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, neo-Nazis, passive resistance, protest marches, Springfield Ohio lawsuit v Nazis, Trump
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Turning factoids into facts: Mars, Hitler and history
Let’s All Go to Mars! So many MAGAts, including the MAGAt King, have been heralding our imminent landing and community-building on Mars, presumably via one of Elon Musk’s rockets. Another presumption: it is one which isn’t prone to shattering mid-air … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Fascism, Government, Human rights, Immigration, The Facts of Life
Tagged "History of the Modern World", Adolph Hitler, Elon Musk, Galactic Cosmic Radiation, George Santayana, German Chancellor, German Communist Party, German elections 1932, German President, history repeating itself, JJ Palmer, Joel Colton, kidney failure, Mars trip, Nazi Party, Paul von Hindenburg, Poland, Reichstag, SpaceX, tesseract, Weimar Republic, World War II
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We need a marching song. The Chicks provide.
It’s “March, March,” from the Chicks’ 2020 album, “Gaslighter.” Written and performed by an impressive musical collective,* it’s fierce and female, a percussive, insinuating, syncopated chant in the minor key we all need now. It’s a new civil war, and … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, Culture, Fascism, Guns in the U.S. of A., Human rights, police violence, Politics, Pro choice, Racism, Revolution, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, voting and voting rights, War on women
Tagged "Gaslighter", Daniel Wilson, Emily Robison, Ian Kirkpatrick, Jack Antonoff, Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Ross Jacob Golan, The Chicks
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