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Today in labor history: IWW comic strip Mr. Block appears
November 7, 2014The character with a wooden block head and no class consciousness was created by Ernest Riebe and commemorated in a song written by Joe Hill.
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The fog that blinded the electorate
November 7, 2014There were local and geographical peculiarities, but when an election was as uniformly one-sided as this one was, deeper explanations are required.
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Iran at the Chicago International Film Festival
November 7, 2014The Best Picture Award winner at the 50th Annual Chicago International Film Festival went to the stunning Iranian film "The President."
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California bucks national GOP election wave
November 7, 2014By an impressive vote of 58.5 percent to 41.5 percent, with a majority in every county in the state, Prop 47 passed, truly a huge people's victory.
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Alice in Blunderland: “The Dance of Death” and war between the sexes
November 7, 2014This production of the Swedish playwright August Strindberg's 1900 "The Dance of Death," now playing in Pasadena, is expertly acted and directed.
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