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Nuclear abolition: Protesters confront Livermore Lab on Hiroshima anniversary
August 10, 2018Nobuaki Hanaoka was an infant in Nagasaki in August 1945 when the U.S. dropped a nuclear bomb. He recalled how, when he was a child, "death came down with the rain.”
Read moreEd Sadlowski – Remembrance of a life even bigger than the man
August 7, 2018Ed Sadlowski was a different leader, ahead in his time - opposing the war in Vietnam, tariffs and favoring a more democratic union.
Read moreThis week in history: Nixon secures 1968 nomination, riot breaks out
August 6, 2018During the last two days of the convention, Black Americans protested militantly in nearby Liberty City.
Read moreAugust 1, 1917: The murder of Frank Little
August 1, 2018Within a month of Frank Little’s 1917 lynching at the hands of the copper bosses of Montana, the U.S. government launched the fiercest attack against the working class in our history.
Read moreActivist and Black Panther co-founder, Elbert ‘Big Man’ Howard, dies at 80
July 26, 2018He, along with Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, was one of six people who founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in Oakland in October 1966.
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