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International Women’s Day 2026: Did You Notice?

Jeanette Winterson Mind Over Matter
The earliest reported Women’s Day seems to have been in New York in 1909. In 1975 the United Nations officially recognised March 8th as International Women's Day. Did you see much coverage this weekend? Me neither. So here’s some!

This Week in People’s History, Nov 20–26

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Image of a newsreel title: "Gen. Butler bares 'plot' by Fascists" Did Wall Street Want FDR’s Ouster? (1934), A first for Song’s First Lady (1934), Tamir Rice Would Be 22 (2014), Women Workers Stand Up (1909), AFL Jump-Starts the Cold War (1944), Standing Up for Press Freedom (1929), The Gap Just Gets Bigger (2019

Photographs of Portsmouth Square

David Bacon The Stansbury Forum
In presenting these images of Portsmouth Square, in San Francisco’s Chinatown, I’ve tried to keep in mind some of the ideas of Paul Strand, the great modernist and realist photographer.
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