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SCHOOL SHOOTINGS: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE DISCUSSION
posted by Noel Ignatiev Following the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, someone posted the following comment on Facebook: Everyone wants to make school shootings about guns, but no one wants to consider that they might also ...
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“Hard Crackers, Come Again No More”
I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with two editors fromย Hard Crackers,ย Noel Ignatiev and James Murray.ย Hard Crackersย ย is a periodical founded in 2016 that deals with race from a perspective that has deeply informed my own. ...
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Time for a global anthem
by Julia Ward Howe and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment (forwarded by Noel Ignatiev) In Counterpunch ofย Oct. 3, Ishmael Reed suggests it is time for a new national anthem, perhaps one written by Stevie Wonder. I am ...
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Rainbow Coalition or Class War?
by Noel Ignatiev In 1892 Thomas E. Watson ran for Congress on the Peopleโs Party ticket (also known as the Populist Party) in Georgiaโs tenth district. Watson himself was a native Georgian, son of a Confederate ...
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Preach deliverance to the captives
by Noel Ignatiev โThirteenth-Amendmentโ marches are planned for August 19th in various cities. They are sponsored by a list of notable figures; it would not surprise me to see Bernie Sandersโ or Elizabeth Warrenโs name among ...
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Legitimacy
In declaring Trumpโs presidency illegitimate, Representative John Lewis opened a discussion that may go beyond what he had in mind. Lewis based his statement on the supposed role of Russian hacking in determining the outcome of ...
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Abolitionism: A Study Guide
Abolitionism: a Study Guide By John Garvey and Noel Ignatiev We think it would be useful to study American abolitionismย as a home-grown radical movement launched in inauspicious times. To further that end, we have ...
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CLR James on Abolitionism
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Lesson of the Hour: Introduction
Lesson of the Hour: Introduction ย By Noel Ignatiev During the winter of 1860โ61, as South Carolina and other states responded to Lincolnโs election by announcing their intention to secede, the great Abolitionist Wendell Phillips ...
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Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock
The Black Lives Matter movement has caused great fear and loathing in white people across the country. Police administrators have referred to them as terrorists and claimed to be โAt war,โ with BLM members or those ...
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