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This Week in People’s History, Aug 5–11, 2026

Striking air-traffic controllers demonstrating in 1981 Reagan Shows the Union Who’s Boss (1981), On Vacation and Asleep at the Switch in Texas (2001), The Sniper Known as ‘Lady Death’ (1941), Police Brutality Gets an Official Work-Over (1931}, Taking a Baby Step Down the Slippery Slope (1961)

This Week in People’s History, Jul 8-14, 2026

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New York City garment workers picketing in 1910 Garment Workers Stand Up to Police Repression (1910), Taking the Declaration of Independence Seriously (1776), The System Was Blinking Red (2001), Surf and Sand Aren’t Private Property! (1896), Hunger Marchers Demand Action (1936)

books

Grave New World

David Klion Bookforum
This book starts by saying that the 9/11 attacks "occurred at a moment when “the United States found itself at the head of a global economic order that had been founded on a growth surge that was slowly but surely running out of steam."
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