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On anniversary of Great Depression, 25 million collecting unemployment
October 29, 2020Nine decades after the first Great Depression started, we are now in the midst of another, with a president who has no plan to get us out of it.
Read more‘My Psychedelic Love Story’: A flashback down memory lane to meet Timothy Leary
October 27, 2020Morris’s cinematic sensibility meshes well with Leary’s psychedelic psyche.
Read morePhiladelphia’s MOVE and Black political culture on film at TIFF
October 26, 2020It wouldn’t be incorrect to compare much of what we learn about the history of MOVE to current struggles for social justice.
Read moreThe anti-communist history of Communist labor organizers on the waterfront
October 23, 2020Vernon L. Pedersen’s “orthodox” biases steer what would otherwise be a useful and informative study into the murky waters of anti-communism.
Read moreWhen Canada became a dictatorship: 50 years after Quebec’s ‘October Crisis’
October 20, 2020When the tensions of national oppression boiled over in October 1970, for a brief period Canada effectively became a dictatorship.
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