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Winter Salmon Run

Lucille Lang Day
Poet Lucille Lang Day confronts the losses suffered by people and animals resulting from the colonization of California by Europeans.

This Week in People’s History, Oct 22–28, 2025

Portside
Magazine advertisement for DDT spray DuPont Has DDT to Sell, So Watch Out! (1945), Women Want the Vote, Men Say No Way (1915), Icelandic Women Go on Strike Against Gender Discrimination (1975), Big Tobacco Kills, and Keeps on Killing (1940), Happy Birthday, Mike Doonesbury! (1970)

Terracide and the Terrarists, Destroying the Planet for Record Profits

Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch
"Terracide." A new word - it's meant to encompass the almost unimaginable -- what the big energy companies are doing on and to our planet right now. Their execs are consciously destroying/melting it for profit and if that doesn't make them terrorists -- or terrarists - what does? And if that doesn't also make the companies themselves the biggest criminal enterprise in history, then how would you define that term?
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