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Taking the moral high ground despite the horrors of the enemy can be a winning strategy.

In the early 1900s, Ford Motor Company commanded strong loyalty from Detroit’s black workers. But the United Auto Workers broke Ford’s stranglehold through patient organizing, cementing an alliance that would bear fruit for decades.

Central Land Council and Antar issue statements after week of silence, with latter claiming voice defeat an ‘unparalleled act of racism by white Australia’

Minimum wage mandated (in 1938), City water comes to Boston (1848), Anyone know Choctaw? (1918), London says, Victory to the N.L.F! (1968), Good-bye to Penn Station (1963), Europe says No to nukes (1983), Mars attacks (1938)

A month of renewed protest and repression

An Immunologist Explains When Cells Decide To Die With a Bang or Take Their Quiet Leave

Ursula K. Le Guin was born on this day in 1929. She used science fiction to explore the failures of capitalist society — and the alternative worlds we could build in its place.

A snub from the White House, a controversial stay at Blair House, an encounter with Dave Chappelle’s mother and a CIA-arranged tryst — what happened when Congo’s beleaguered leader visited D.C. in 1960.

Its inhabitants are as much creatures of state power and industrial capitalism as their city-dwelling counterparts.

To Marek Edelman "never again" meant "never again for anyone." It was a statement of human solidarity, not a license to commit mass murder of those you fear or wish to dispossess.