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Month: January 2010
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Just 12 years ago this coming May, Howard Zinn spent two memorable days participating in Wisconsin Labor History Society events: our annual conference held in 1998 in Oshkosh and the Bay View Tragedy event a day later in Milwaukee. This marvelous man, whose life was spent using history to spur ordinary folks to recognize their…
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If the weight of your years on earth begin to burden you, and you want to give up on the eternal fight for peace and justice, just think of Granny D, who turns 100 on Sunday, Jan. 24th. She is still blogging (yes, at 100 she blogs!), and she has some ideas of how to…
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Scott Brown, so full of glee that he joyously peddled his daughters as “available,” (though one apparently wasn’t), proclaimed his Massachusetts seat win was a “people’s victory.” Wrong! The winners were those who would do very little to really help ordinary folks, middle class working families and the struggling poor. The winners were: The health…
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How could it have happened? The tea-baggers! The angry white mobs at the town meetings! The Republicans! Are these today’s “populists?” The media loves to throw the noun “populist” on these folks, claiming they are the “common people,” or “ordinary folks.” And the reporters use the word “angry” to describe them. Yet, are these folks…
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