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This Week in People’s History, Feb 6–12

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Cartoon showing Uncle Sam, John Bull, and the Kaiser riding heavily on the shoulders of servants of colorof A Sad Day for Liberty (in 1899), Strikers Kill a Wage Cut (1894), If Men Were Angels (1788), Women Close in on the Right to Vote (1919), The Times They Are a-Changing' (1964), Strikers Shut Seattle Down (1919), Nixon in Crisis (1974)

Friday Nite Videos | August 4, 2023

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One Company Controls America’s Entire Health Care System. Bob Dylan | A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall. Reservation Dogs | Season 3. Oppenheimer’s Secret City, Explained. How Humans Change Their Own DNA.

Friday Nite Videos | May 19, 2023

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Jim Jordan Shut Down at 'Whistleblower' Hearing. Masters Of War | Bob Dylan (The RoJ LiGht Cover). Malcolm X at 98 | Angela Davis. We Talked to The Wire’s David Simon About the Writers' Strike. Pussy Riot's Powerful Message to Vladimir Putin.

Masters Of War | Bob Dylan (The RoJ LiGht Cover)

Dylan's second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, debuted 60 years ago, in May 1963. It marked the beginning of the period of Dylan's intense political engagement, including the songs Masters of War, Blowin' in the Wind  and A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall.

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Books Bob Dylan’s the Philosophy of Modern Song

Raymond Foye The Brooklyn Rail
Dylan, writes reviewer Foye of this new coffee table-size book, "is sweeping out the ashes from the cave of a long career. He is casting a light on the Jungian shadows of popular song, examining both mechanics and metaphysics."

Friday Nite Videos | February 17, 2023

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Jordan Klepper Hits Nikki Haley's Rally. I Shall Be Released. How These Buildings Made Turkey-Syria’s Earthquake So Deadly. Revealed: the Hacking and Disinformation Team Meddling in Elections. Inside Disney World's Worker Uprising.
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