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Friday Nite Videos | March 15, 2024

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Elon, Trump and Putin | The Alpha Males' Struggle. The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire - Horror in Manhattan. How Bats Carry Deadly Diseases Without Dying. The Zone of Interest | Movie. God Made a Dictator.

The Radical History of International Women’s Day

Catherine Caruso Bucks County Beacon
As the holiday has become mainstream, University of Pennsylvania Professor Kristen R. Ghodsee says #IWD has grown further away from its “socialist roots” and has “lost any association with its radical past.”

It Was Never a Civil War

Michael Podhorzer Washington Monthly
The threat posed by Trump and the MAGA movement, like the Confederate States, is not “conservative” or even “extremist” but criminally anti-democratic.

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Why Some Are More Equal Than Others

Richard V Reeves Literary Review
This book, writes reviewer Reeves, "ought to be read by anyone interested in equality, and also anyone interested in people, history, God, politics, religion, nationalism, war or love."

Black History Is Also America’s History: A Reading List

AFL-CIO Staff AFL-CIO
And it’s America’s labor history, too. It’s coming together to fight for freedom and justice. Our Civil, Human and Women’s Rights Department has put together a list of recommended reading for the month.
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