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This Week in People’s History, Jan 2 – 8

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Theater balcony heavily damaged by fire
Deadly Fire's Legacy (in 1904), Forgotten Respect for Radicals (1939), Big Money in Lies (1954), So Long, Subway Tokens (1994), Racism wins, then loses (1959), Innocent man freed after 22 years (1939), FBI Finds "Right Kind" of Black Leader (1964)

Gas, Gaza, and Western Imperialism

Tara Alami Mondoweiss
The theft of natural resources all rests on the larger backdrop of the Zionist settler-colonial project and its function as an imperialist proxy.

Lessons From One Unequal Society to Another

Liam Crisan Inequality.org
In the 2000s and 2010s Chileans began resolving the Crisis of Representation through protest, song, and dance. Recent political setbacks do not detract from this.