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1/17/2020
Restoring Civil Society by Executive Order?: An Inaugural Reverie
by John L. Godwin
Joe Biden should defend the First Amendment right to peaceable assembly by a temporary emergency order criminalizing the carrying of firearms at public protest events and make clear that the threat of force is not part of the democratic process.
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SOURCE: Forward
12/15/2020
After an Online ‘Onslaught’ over Exhibit on Racial Justice, a Florida Holocaust Museum Vows Not to Back Down
A Florida Holocaust museum's decision to feature an exhibition of photographs taken during recent protests over police killings of Black Americans raised questions about the museum's mission and whether the Holocaust can be remembered and its victims honored by comparing the genocide of European Jews to other instances of systemic racism.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/11/2020
Gloria Richardson Pushed Aside a Bayonet as a ’60s Civil Rights Activist. Now 98, She Wants the New Generation to Fight On
Gloria Richardson remains a fierce advocate for racial justice and a proponent of disrupting the status quo decades after being photographed pushing aside a National Guardsman's bayonet during protests in Cambridge, Maryland.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/16/2020
Virginia Sen. Louise Lucas Cleared of Charges of Conspiring to Topple Confederate Monument
Virginia state senator L. Louise Lucas, who is Black, was cleared of charges related to this summer's protests against public monuments to the Confederacy.
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11/15/2020
Recovering Acts of Progressive Patriotism: Teaching Through Protest Music
by Matthew Lindaman
A history professor reflects on a course teaching critical perspectives on patriotism through protest and music that articulates an inclusive and progressive nationalism.
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SOURCE: Texas Monthly
11/4/2020
Olympic Protester Tommie Smith Reclaims His Legacy in a New Documentary
"There’s a lot of people out there who lived the history I lived way back then. That history is not gone, and it will never die."
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SOURCE: The Nation
11/3/2020
Aaron Sorkin’s Inane, Liberal History Lesson
by Charlotte Rosen
Aaron Sorkin's Chicago 7 film strips away the radical, anti-imperialist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist politics of the 1960s New Left to make the defendants heroic defenders of liberal democratic politics.
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SOURCE: CNN
11/2/2020
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Black Lives Matter Organizer
"The Supreme Court has long recognized that peaceful protesters cannot be held liable for the unintended, unlawful actions of others," said American Civil Liberties Union National Legal Director David Cole.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/2/2020
‘I Am On Your Side’: How the Police Gave Armed Groups a Pass in 2020 (video)
Armed groups showed up to scores of racial justice protests since May. Video shows how police officers at times let them operate freely.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
10/26/2020
In Gettysburg, Trump Supporters Clash with Black Lives Matter Protesters as Election Nears
Gettysburg's symbolic importance in the divided America of 2020 is not always rooted in the significance of the 1863 battle for the defeat of the Confederacy.
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SOURCE: Current Affairs
10/22/2020
The Real Abbie Hoffman
by Nathan J. Robinson
While The Trial of the Chicago 7 is sympathetic to Hoffman, it also softens him in a way that ultimately amounts to historical fabrication.
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SOURCE: Miami Herald
10/19/2020
After Chicago 7 Trial, Mrs. Jean Fritz Helped Change the Course of History
A look back at the Chicago 7 conspiracy trial through the eyes of one of the jurors reveals an America that was less completely polarized than one might think.
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SOURCE: Mother Jones
10/13/2020
A Scholar of American Doom Doesn’t See How Capitalism Can Fix This Crisis
"There are probably a billion and a half people, maybe more, maybe 2 billion, in the informal working class who have simply been triaged already in advance. So the fate of a very large minority of humanity has been determined now."
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SOURCE: The Hill
10/12/2020
Portland Protesters Topple Statues of Lincoln, Roosevelt in 'Day of Rage'
Droves of protesters in Portland, Ore., took down the statues of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln on Sunday in demonstrations that had reportedly been billed online as “Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage” by organizers.
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SOURCE: Lexington Herald-Leader
10/6/2020
In Louisville, Looking to Life-Changing Past Civil Rights Protests to Move Forward
Historian Tracy E. K'Meyer says that, despite the mutual misgivings of older and younger activists, Louisville's legacy of civil rights protests in the 1960s is highly influential today as activists seek justice and policing reform in the wake of the killing of Breonna Taylor.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
10/13/2020
'I Was Hit and Knocked to the Ground': The True Story of the Trial of the Chicago 7
“There are some things that I wouldn’t agree with how Sorkin has characterised certain figures in the trial, myself included. But the impact of the movie is there and I certainly endorse and support it," says Chicago 7 defendant and antiwar activist Rennie Davis.
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SOURCE: TIME
10/9/2020
'My Faith in This World Is Gone.' For Protesters Injured by Police, There's No Real Recovery
Historian Heather Ann Thompson says that the use of violence against peaceable protest has been historically common in the United States, though access to military weaponry by civilian police departments is a new factor.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
10/7//2020
Getting to Freedom City (Review)
by Robin D.G. Kelley
Historian Robin Kelley reviews Mike Davis and Jon Weiner's "Set the Night on Fire," which chronicles the growth of resistance to inequality and miltarized policing in 1960s Los Angeles.
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10/11/2020
Paul Revere Made the Boston Massacre a Flashpoint for Revolution.
by Philip Gerard
The incident that became known as the Boston Massacre didn't have to happen, and didn't have to become a flashpoint for violence after. As political tensions break into violence today, it's worthwhile to think about Boston in 1770.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
10/5/2020
Chile at the Barricades
"To walk the streets of Santiago was to read a collective, anonymous scroll of inchoate rage: Abort the police, Die Piñera, ACAB, Bankers to the gallows. The graffiti was on seemingly every wall and sidewalk in the central districts of the city."
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