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This Week in People’s History, Mar 26 – Apr 1

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Newspaper headline reporting on a teach-in a Columbia University
A Brand-New Protest Format Catches on in a Very Big Way (1965), Wasn’t That a Time? Yes, It Sure Was (1995), A Catchy Name for a Rotten Program (1950), Texas Racists Throw the Book at Student Protesters (1960)

Why Gavin Newsom’s Podcast Is a Political Disaster

Gil Duran FrameLab
Gavin Newsom's effort to go upside-down has harmed his public standing. The upside of his venture is that provides, in hard numbers and immediate practical implications, a lesson for Democrats.

Cheesy Terroir-Ism: The ABCs of AOCs

Matthew Wills Jstor.org
Whether it supports the production of wine or cheese, terroir is a “particularly French conception of cultural territory” says historian Tamara L. Whited.

The Momentous Class Struggle of the German Peasants’ War

Daniel Colligan Jacobin
This year marks the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War, the largest European uprising before the French Revolution, in which peasants seized upon the radical implications of Martin Luther’s theology to challenge a hierarchical social order

The Anti-Constitutional Attack on Birthright Citizenship

Evan D. Bernick Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project
Looking back at our constitutional history to capture Trump's order’s viciousness. Doing so reveals that the order is not merely unconstitutional, but anti-constitutional.

Resistance Is Alive and Well in the United States

Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman, Soha Hammam Waging Nonviolence
Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches of 2017, but research shows they are far more numerous and frequent — while also shifting to more powerful forms of resistance.