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This Week in People’s History, Jul 30-Aug 5, 2025

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Former President Harry Truman grins at President Lyndon Johnson during the Medicare/Medicaid bill signing ceremony
It’s Your Birthday Medicaid, Chin Up! (1965), A Night at the Opera in the Infield (1925), Who Won the Civil War, Anyway? (1900), Candidate Reagan Shows His True Colors (1980), Robert Purvis, Fighter for Justice (1810), The Jury Knew Right from Wrong

Rethink Sanctions. They’re Killing As Many People As War Does

Mark Weisbrot Center for Economic and Policy Research
Sanctions are becoming the preferred weapon of the United States and some allies — not because they are less destructive than military action, but more likely because the toll is less visible.

Bringing Down a President

Timothy Braatz Z Network
How does an antifascism movement halt and reverse the expansion of Trumpism? Perhaps the U.S. antiwar movement of 1965-75 offers some clues. After all, it caused two elected presidents to give up the presidency.

Bloody Thursday

Nairobi Williese Barnes The Stansbury Forum
Pass the torch in remembrance, Brothers and Sisters, In memory, and In might! For every soul who dared say, no! So we could one day say yes to fair wages, Say yes to dignity!