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This is a newsreel social and political silent documentary, one of the first ever made in the United States, produced by a leftist and communist cinema collective known as The Film and Photo League. Members would film protests and social movements...
by VPSReports
on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 12:32 AM PDT
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If March comes in like a lion, it goes out like a lamb.�
pretty calm lion
So they say. I dunno.
by strawbale
on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 07:00 PM PST
with 71 Recommends
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The Black Belt runs across the middle of Alabama and Mississippi, and although it is hallowed ground in the Civil Rights Movement, today, economically, it looks more like ground zero. I saw more, large burned out building in Selma last week than I’ve...
by CorpFlunky
on Wed Jan 31, 2024 at 11:36 AM PST
with 121 Recommends
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Daily Kos is a political website. It’s a smallish operation compared to some news organizations so I don’t expect it to have comprehensive news on every last subject. But I do expect it to be good at covering politics as it is supposed to be about...
by Peter Olandt
on Sun Sep 17, 2023 at 10:24 PM PDT
with 365 Recommends
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On Sunday, thousands of people made the pilgrimage to our nation’s capital to celebrate the 60th anniversary of civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington. Comedian and civil rights advocate Sacha Baron Cohen opened with a...
by Walter Einenkel
on Wed Aug 30, 2023 at 10:10 AM PDT
with 379 Recommends
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I didn’t see a post about this so just a quick diary to alert everyone to the rapid spread of fascism in TN. While corporate media is obsessing with ridiculous wall-to-wall coverage of Donald Trump traveling to New York for his well deserved arrest,...
by Liberal in a Red State
on Mon Apr 03, 2023 at 02:44 PM PDT
with 426 Recommends
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Good morning, Newdists!� As March appears, join us for some coffee...a nosh….some chat….and whatever silliness I’ve found!
by The Marti
on Wed Mar 01, 2023 at 07:30 AM PST
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There will be marches this Summer. Prior Summers have proven that everyone should be prepared before engaging in peaceful protest. Not everyone agrees, however. Apparently, the wearing of body armor counts as an offensive weapon in some locales even...
by annieli
on Fri Jun 10, 2022 at 04:05 PM PDT
with 21 Recommends
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March gets its name from the Roman god of war. Nineteen years ago in March a nuclear armed super power built up forces on the border of a nation that had not attacked it. Using language that hearkened back to Nazis in WW2, the president of that super...
by stilltilting
on Sun Mar 27, 2022 at 10:46 AM PDT
with 12 Recommends
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We all have heard the old adage that March “comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb,” which means that if the month starts off stormy, it will end with mild weather. There is, however, a ...
by The Marti
on Tue Mar 01, 2022 at 07:20 AM PST
with 17 Recommends
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Stories of drivers ramming into pedestrians at peaceful protests and parades have been all too common since 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests. While in most cases the drivers had malicious intent to discourage participants from expressing their views,...
by Aysha Qamar
on Tue Jun 22, 2021 at 06:02 AM PDT
with 15 Recommends
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It’s the month of March — what does it suggest to you? Like a lion, like a lamb? St. Patrick’s Day? The Ides of March? March Madness — or March Mudness as the snow retreats? For me, one of the associations is a song by Antônio Carlos...
by xaxnar
on Sat Mar 20, 2021 at 04:30 PM PDT
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“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.” ― Horace Mann As we pass the anniversary of the start of the COVID Pandemic here in the U.S. we find so many families struggling to make it day to day. Late rent notices start coming in the mail....
by Chris Townsend
on Fri Mar 19, 2021 at 03:41 PM PDT
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Welcome to Street Prophets Coffee Hour.
The weather here in Kansas can’t decide what time of year it is. Three weeks ago we had daily highs below 0 o and nighttime temperatures as low as -17 o. ...
by Aashirs nani
on Sat Mar 06, 2021 at 01:06 PM PST
with 20 Recommends
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Remember this bit from the trial? The House managers said that a march was specifically forbidden in the rally permit:
PERMIT #21-0278 (AMENDED)
PERMITTEE: WOMEN FOR AMERICA FIRST
LOCATION: ...
by Dan K
on Sun Feb 14, 2021 at 07:59 AM PST
with 27 Recommends
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Take it with a grain of salt. I have not marched since the anti Iraq war marches. And I know there will be COVID and violence. But some of the BLM people don’t want to stand idle while the Proud Boys burn black churches, harass and even knife people...
by lawnorder
on Thu Dec 31, 2020 at 01:44 AM PST
with 3 Recommends
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It’s a multiple-byline story, but whoever the main writer is managed to be both understated and brutal. Shortly after 10 a.m., Trump drove down Pennsylvania Avenue in his motorcade, greeting the cheering protesters — nearly all of them without masks —...
by AlanC
on Sat Nov 14, 2020 at 11:20 AM PST
with 476 Recommends
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The so-called Million MAGA March in DC today, as expected, featured a few thousand attendees made up of proud boys, Nazis, conspiracy theorists and assorted creatures of the right. They came, they shouted, they cried their usual MAGA...
by AKALib
on Sat Nov 14, 2020 at 11:21 AM PST
with 514 Recommends
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The House of Representatives convened a special session on Saturday, specifically to address the Postal Service crisis created by the Trump administration, passing a legislative package that includes $25 billion in funding and blocks...
by Jessica Sutherland
on Sat Aug 22, 2020 at 05:28 PM PDT
with 339 Recommends
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Here's a headline from the UK Daily Mail about Portland, Oregon: Federal Agents Tear Gas 'Wall of Moms' Protecting Portland Protesters Federal police teargassed a group of mothers who formed a 'wall of moms' to protect protesters during a Black Lives...
by Mark Taylor Canfield
on Tue Jul 21, 2020 at 09:36 AM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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