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Labor History on Labor Day: Trump tries to kill OT
August 31, 2018It says something about Trump that his Labor Department has spent the 80th anniversary of the Fair Labor Standards Act trying to weaken it.
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This week in history: Food Not Bombs volunteers arrested in San Francisco
August 29, 2018On September 2, 1993, 15 Food Not Bombs volunteers were arrested outside San Francisco City Hall.
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Anti-fascist film ‘La guerre est finie’ to screen in L.A.
August 21, 2018The film takes place in 1965 in France and Spain. One of the ideological issues at stake is how best to oppose Franco’s dictatorship.
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‘Yiddish Glory’ CD records Jewish pain and resistance in World War II
August 20, 2018Even as WWII was still raging, a group of Soviet Yiddish scholars undertook an ambitious project of preserving Jewish culture of the 1940s while and soon after it was created. Linguists, folklorists, and historians joined to...
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This week in history: The Oslo Accord, 1993
August 20, 2018Negotiations concerning the agreement were conducted secretly in Oslo, Norway, and completed 25 years ago, on August 20, 1993.
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