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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/31/2023
Can Activists Use Banking Regulations to Force Decarbonization?
by Bart Elmore
After Clinton-era reforms enabled consolidation of the banking industry, environmental groups in the early 2000s began to target the commercial banking sides of the firms that raised capital and provided credit to the fossil fuels industry.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
5/25/2023
"Salts" are Part of Labor's Fight to Organize. They were once Part of the Antiwar Movement
by Derek Seidman
Taking a job with the covert intention of organizing the workplace is a time-honored labor tactic that's back in the news. Some dedicated activists in the 1960s "salted" the U.S. military in the hopes of building an antiwar movement within the ranks.
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SOURCE: Slate
5/16/2023
Bull Connor's Police Dogs Shocked the Nation in 1963, but they were an American Tradition
by Joshua Clark Davis
"In 1963 liberal critics condemned the Alabama city’s K-9 unit as a relic of the Old South. The harder truth to accept, however, was that it was actually a product of a new America."
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5/14/2023
How a Little-Known Anti-Vietnam Protest Reverberates Today
by Gary B. Ostrower
A 1968 disruption of an ROTC ceremony at Alfred University in 1968 involved just 15 students and 2 faculty. It won't be remembered with Berkeley or Columbia in the annals of student protest, but it made a significant impact on the legal requirements placed on universities' policies for dealing with student protest.
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5/14/2023
Political Pundits, Apply the "Resentment" Label with Caution
by Robert A. Schneider
As the brief respite between two Trump-Biden races reaches its end, "resentment" is once again the go-to political explanation. But too often the term is used to describe voters as irrational and unhinged while obscuring some real causes of moral aggrievement in contemporary society.
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
4/21/2023
Black Mothers Bet on Themselves and Changed Las Vegas—Can Their Ideas Still Change America?
by Annelise Orleck
A courageous and politically imaginative group of women challenged the most powerful interests in Las Vegas to win better public aid and build an organization for community service and empowerment. A historian explains who they were, how she came to tell their story, and what it means today.
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SOURCE: Defector
4/26/2023
FBI Releases Bill Russell's File, Which Includes Allegation of Betting Against Own Team
The Bureau's file on the late NBA star demonstrates their suspicion of the civil rights movement and disdain for politically engaged Black athletes. It also contains a memo alleging Russell placed a significant wager against the Celtics as player-coach, although many known facts and lack of follow-up make that allegation doubtful.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
4/21/2023
What Has Black Lives Matter Achieved? A New Critique from the Left
by Jay Caspian Kang
Political scientist Cedric Johnson argues in a new book that protest movements have fixated on racial identity at the expense of making a broad critique of how policing defends an unequal and exploitative society and building a bigger coalition for change. Writer Jay Caspian Kang puts this argument in the context of debates about identity politics from the center to the left.
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4/23/2023
Annelise Orleck on "Storming Caesar's Palace" and the Lessons of the Welfare Rights Movement
by Michan Connor
A leading historian of poor people's activism joins HNN for a discussion of the new edition of her acclaimed book on the Las Vegas Welfare Rights movement, which is the basis for a documentary now streaming on PBS.
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4/16/2023
No Blood for Oil: Examining the Movement Against the Iraq War
by Charles F. Howlett
David Cortright's history of the opposition to the Iraq War places the peace movement in the context of the underacknowledged peace movements of the American past.
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SOURCE: Abusable Past
4/5/2023
Blaming Atlanta "Cop City" Protests on "Outside Agitators" is Familiar and Shameful
by Benjamin Stumpf
Blaming outsiders for grassroots objections to turning valuable parkland over to the police to create an urban warfare training center is an effort to shift blame for violence from police to protesters and to assert that local communities accept the plan. Opponents of civil rights did the same thing.
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4/2/2023
After April 4: The 1968 Rebellions and the Unfinished Work of Civil Rights in DC
by Kyla Sommers
As Congressional controversy over DC's criminal law reforms shows, there remains significant unfinished business in the longstanding quest of DC residents to govern their city on their own terms.
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SOURCE: OutHistory
3/28/2023
Historian Marc Stein Launches Database Project to Identify LGBTQ Direct Action and Protest
by Marc Stein
A project dedicating to identifying and cataloguing direct protest actions by LGBTQ advocates fills in significant gaps in our understanding of the geography, scope, targets, and demands of protests through the years.
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3/26/2023
An American Witness to the European Movement Against the Iraq Invasion
by Brian Sandberg
The European Social Forum, held in Florence in November 2002, didn't stop the US invasion of Iraq. But it did usher in an era of pan-european civic action that remains powerful today.
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SOURCE: CNN
3/18/2023
Kendi: "Anti-woke" Part of Backlash Against Antiracist Protest Movements
Critics have charged that Ibram X. Kendi's writing portrays racism as an all-powerful and unchangeable force in American society. He says that, in fact, understanding racism as "constructed" means it can be deconstructed.
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SOURCE: Miami Herald
2/17/2023
Florida Students Plan Walkouts in Protest of Administrators' Cooperation With DeSantis Trans Crackdown
Six colleges are known to have complied with a request by the governor's office for information about health services provided to transgender students, which student leaders say is part of a threat to gender-affirming healthcare in the state.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
2/14/2023
Atlanta's HBCU Students Call on Administrators to Oppose "Cop City"
Students say that the proposed training facility in south Atlanta will prepare more police to engage in paramilitary suppression of protest and denounced statements by administrators pledging support for "Cop City."
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SOURCE: Black Perspectives
2/14/2023
HBCUs and the 1950s Red Scare
by Candace Cunningham
South Carolina officials were able to use the purse strings to coerce public HBCU administrators to expel student activists. When private HBCUs became centers of sit-in organizing, state legislators turned to accusations of Communism.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/14/2023
The Network Helping Russia's War Resisters Escape
“In a situation where everyone is against you, including your own relatives, who think that you are a traitor and are ready to hang you from the nearest lamppost, I was extremely pleased to discover that there are people who don’t know you at all, who’ve never seen you, and they are ready to help,” said Oleg Zavyalov, 31.
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2/12/2023
Russia's Courageous War Resisters
by Lawrence Wittner
While most Russians have chosen silence in the wake of Putin's harsh anti-dissent measures, and many military-aged men have opted to leave the country, a core of protesters have braved violence and imprisonment to denounce the Ukraine invasion.
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