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This Week in People’s History, Apr 30–May 6

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Environmental justice activists celebrating success
Environmental Justice Wins (in 1997), School Integration Loses (1959), Wrist Slap for Torturers (2004), Pete Seeger’s Birthday (1919), No Place to Be Somebody Opens (1969), National Conference on Lynching (1919), ‘We Don’t Want to Radiate!’ (1979)

Abortion Rights After Dobbs: The State of the Struggle

Johanna Brenner Against the Current
The white, nationalist, evangelical conservative movement and the Republican Party targeted women's control over their reproductive life: they have reaped a political whirlwind.

We Need an Exodus From Zionism

Naomi Klein The Guardian
This Passover, we don’t need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name

The Particular Cruelty of Colonial Wars

Adam Hochschild The Atlantic
A new history of Indonesia’s fight for independence reveals the brutal means by which the Dutch tried to retain power.