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Presente! George Edwards
Sisters and Brothers --Organized labor lost a giant when Steelworker George Edwards, 94, died last week shortly after returning home from the union's Civil Rights Conference in Cincinnati. At the conference Edwards became a celebrity and got a standing ovation when Pres.
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NEW YORKER
Marriage equality bill passes in New York, tonight the word spreads from hand to hand like wildfire,how quickly everyone knows.
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casserole
casserole for laurieremember that scene in malcolm xwhere malcolm and the fruit of islamdescend upon the police stationand particularly that historico-cinematicmoment when malcolm's black- glovedhand twists rightward and the fruitdoes a left-face and marches awayalong with all of the masses who cameto the police station?do you remember that you asked meif i...
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Gerald Horne: Fighting Paradise: Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawaii
Gerald Horne, Fighting Paradise: Labor Unions, Racism, and Communists in the Making of Modern Hawaii (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press: 2011) 459 pp First let me apologize to Gerry Horne, since I promised to review this massively researched , absorbing, and important history months ago.