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On August 7, 1980, a Polish shipworker named Anna Walentynowicz was fired from her job at the Gdansk shipyard five months before she was due to retire for engaging in illegal trade union activity. This firing led to the Polish Solidarity movement, the independent workers movement that helped bring down the Polish communist government and […]
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Generation Lockdown

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On August 6, 2019
This video does a nice job of capturing several forms of cultural insanity: I have a relative, a very bright and outgoing young girl, who for several years was afraid to use the bathroom at school, because when she was SIX YEARS OLD she was told that, if she was in the bathroom when an […]
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More of This, Less of That

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This is a good headline: This is a good text: Ordinarily, the far-right turns to terrorism when it feels powerless; the Oklahoma City bombing happened during Bill Clinton’s presidency, and all assassinations of abortion providers in the United States have taken place during Democratic administrations. During Republican presidencies, paranoid right-wing demagogy tends to recede, and […]

Toni Morrison

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On August 6, 2019

“When I began, there was just one thing that I wanted to write about, which was the true devastation of racism on the most vulnerable, the most helpless unit in the society – a black femal

Heat wave

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On August 5, 2019

July this year was the warmest month ever recorded worldwide, satellite data has confirmed. The assessment was carried out by researchers at the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). Sci

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