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MEMORIAL DAY MASSACRE: Workers Die, Film Buried

Film explores the tragic, but largely forgotten, 1937 incident in Chicago when police shot 40 steel workers and supporters (mainly in the back) and killed ten of them. Commentary by Studs Terkel, Howard Zinn, and Gore Vidal.

The House of the Rising Sun | Wuaquikuna

Brothers Luis and Fabian have devoted their lives to music producing inspired by folklore music. Sixteen years ago they established the group named Wuauquikuna.

Friday Nite Videos | May 12, 2023

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Tuberville on White Nationalists in the Military: ‘I Call Them Americans.’ The House of the Rising Sun | Wuaquikuna. MEMORIAL DAY MASSACRE: Workers Die, Film Buried. Native Americans Demand Accountability. Where Are All the Denisovans?

Government Employees Union Sues Yellen, Biden Over ‘Unconstitutional’ Debt Limit Law

Zach Schonfeld The Hill
“Unless and until the Debt Limit Statute is amended or revised to allow Congress to determine the priority of payments among specific programs once the limit is reached, members of Plaintiff NAGE will suffer irreparable injury from layoffs, furloughs, and loss of employment that are taken without any legitimate authority by the President"

Tidbits – May 11, 2023 – Reader Comments: GOP Defends Sex Offender; Debt Crisis; Child Labor Laws, Population Decline; Yes, I Am Latina. And No, I Am Not Mexican -an Exchange; Vietnam 50 Years Later; Charlene Mitchell Memorial Livestream Link; More

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Reader Comments: GOP Defends Sex Offender; Debt Crisis; Child Labor Laws, Population Decline; Yes, I Am Latina. And No, I Am Not Mexican -An Exchange; Vietnam 50 Years Later; Charlene Mitchell Memorial Livestream Link; Yuri Kochiyama; more

Deepening Mother’s Day

H Patricia Hynes Portside
The 19th century origins of Mother’s Day differ vastly in spirit and purpose from celebrations of it in the 20th and 21st centuries. The first public “Mother’s Day for Peace” rally was in New York City on June 2, 1872, and has only grown more urgent.