Apr 02 2009
April 2, 2009
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” — Rachel Carson …
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Archive for April, 2009
Apr 02 2009
Prospects for Iraqi Peace
Even as President Obama shifts troops and resources away from Iraq into Afghanistan, fresh fighting has erupted in Baghdad that threatens to unravel any nascent stability. The fighting broke out over the weekend in response to the arrest of Adel Mashadani, a key figure in the Sunni “Awakening” movement, whose fighters were paid by the US to lay down their …
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Apr 02 2009
Organization Calls for Local Solutions to Housing Crisis
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According to data released this Tuesday, American home prices plunged in January at a record pace. The S&P/ Case Shiller index recorded that nationwide home prices declined 2.8 percent in value in January compared to 2.6 percent in December. Overall, home prices nationwide have declined nearly thirty percent from their peak in 2006. Locally in Los …
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Apr 02 2009
Saving Blair Mountain: The Battle Against Mountain Top Removal
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Earlier this week, Blair Mountain in West Virginia made it onto the list of the National Register of Historic Places. In an often overlooked historical moment, the site was home to what many historians consider as the largest armed insurrection in the post-Civil War period. In 1921, thousands of union coal miners took up …
Apr 02 2009
Subversive Historian – 04/02/09
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Jeannette Rankin Takes Her Seat
Back in the day on April 2nd, 1917 Jeannette Rankin was sworn in as the first Congresswoman in the history of the United States. It didn’t take long for this pacifist woman from the state of Montana to make trouble in the halls of Congress. Just four days into her term, …
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Apr 01 2009
April 2, 2009
As attention shifts from Iraq to Afghanistan, we’ll look at how Iraqi stability may be unraveling. And, in a victory against mountaintop removal in Appalachia, we’ll hear how Blair mountain was recently saved. Plus, as the housing market continues to crash nationally, a local group is demanding a Mixed-income housing ordinance to fight the housing crisis in Los Angeles. …
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Apr 01 2009
Uprising Special: Robert Jensen on White Supremacy, Patriarchy, and Capitalism
The month of March marked an anniversary that barely went noticed. Forty years ago in March, an action on the campus of UC Berkeley called “Third World Strike,” led to the creation of ethnic studies programs to college campuses that many of us take for granted today. Four ethnic student groups and their allies led a campaign that lasted near two months to demand …
Apr 01 2009
Subversive Historian – 04/01/09
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NY Assembly Expels Socialists
Back in the day on April 1st, 1920, the New York State Assembly voted by an overwhelming margin to expel five socialist members from its legislative body. Finding the democratic will of the people to be an “April Fools Joke,” the action taken against them was not enough for one Assemblyman, …
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Apr 01 2009
April 1, 2009
“The great problem that confronts the American people to-day is a national problem — whether this great nation of ours is great enough to live up to its own convictions, carry out its own declaration of independence, and execute the provisions of its own constitution.” –- Frederick Douglass …
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