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Friday Nite Videos | July 4, 2025

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Zohran Mamdani Responds to Trump’s Threat of Arrest. 'The House I Live In' | Paul Robeson. Trump Dropping Bombs For Peace! | Trevor Noah. The Truth About Silicon Valley’s Radical Vision for AI. Gaza | Along the Green Line: Episode 3

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'The House I Live In' | Paul Robeson

These lyrics were written by Abel Meeropol (who later adopted the children of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg) under the pen name Lewis Allen (1943); the music was composed by Earl Robinson. This 1947 cover by Paul Robeson includes all the original verses.

Tidbits- July 3-Readers Comments: Bill of Death in House; Big Beautiful BS; Trump and Uber-Rich Usurp Country’s Independence and Constitution; Mamdani and Lander Combined Two Strands; NYC Labor Unites Behind Mamdani; Resource: How Bad Is It?; More

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Readers Comments: Bill of Death in House; Big Beautiful BS; Trump and Uber-Rich Usurp Country's Independence and Constitution; Mamdani and Lander Combined Two Strands; NYC Labor Unites Behind Mamdani; Resource: How Bad Is It?; Announcements; Cartoons

This Week in People’s History, Feb 26-Mar 4, 2025

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Newspaper headline reading ENDING OF ALL LIFE BY HYDROGEN BOMB HELD A POSSIBILITY Building a Doomsday Machine (1950), A Rogue Agency? (1975), Origins of International Women’s Day (1909), Gradual Emancipation Is Better than None (1780), Kicking Jim Crow off the Bus (1955), Robeson’s Best (1940), Happy Birthday, Vivaldi! (1725)

Inside the Labor Grammys: Joe Hill – Still Alive As You and Me

Craig Smith Power at Work
It is a song that turns the tragic tale it begins with into a veritable shout, for it concludes not as a somber dirge for one fallen fellow worker but as a soaring call for collective action and for all working people to stand up for their rights.

How Britain Made Paul Robeson a Socialist

Taylor Dorrell Tribune Magazine
Pioneering black singer Paul Robeson was born on this day (April 9) in 1898. One of America’s great radical figures, it was his encounters with Britain’s labour movement which inspired his socialist and anti-imperialist politics.

Tidbits – Feb.22, 2024 – Reader Comments: Democrats’ Immigration Policy; Presidential Immunity; Aleksei Navalny; Alabama Decision Weaponizes Religion; More Gun Shootings, Deaths; Artists Call for Ceasefire Now; Paul Robeson New Documentary; More

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Reader Comments: Democrats' Immigration Policy; Presidential Immunity !?!; Aleksei Navalny; Alabama Decision Weaponizes Religion; More Gun Shootings, Deaths; Artists Call for Ceasefire Now; Paul Robeson New Documentary; Cartoons; more.....

This Week in People’s History, Oct. 17–23

Demonstrators outside the White House calling for Nixon's impeachment Nixon's corporate funders guilty (in 1973). World's first video game (1958). Raves for Robeson's Othello (1943). Saturday Night Massacre (1973). Demonstrators shut down Tokyo's trains (1968). The truth hurts (1963). Fortress Germany (1938).
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