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This Week in Peoples’ History, Sep. 3–9, 2025

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A padlocked door marked "FIRE DOOR: DO NOT BLOCK" No Job Is Worth Dying For (1991), Racist Terror in Mississippi (1875), Max Roach Lays Down the Freedom Suite (1960), ‘Never Again’ (2000), ‘They Shall Beat Their Swords Into Plowshares’ (1980)

We Could Not Do Otherwise

Abby Zimet Common Dreams
"Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise.” -- Remembering the Catonsville 9.

Anti-Nuke Activists Get Years Behind Bars While 'Real Crime' Continues

Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams staff writer Common Dreams
Injustice in Knoxville - Anti-war trio took part in plowshares action in 2012 at the Y-12 Highly-Enriched Uranium Manufacturing nuclear weapons production facility. An 84-year old nun and two others were just sentenced to up to five years in jail.
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