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Movies you might have missed: “Fateless”
August 9, 2012The capitalist industrialists of Nazi Germany were instrumental in the political rise and installation of Adolph Hitler as master of Germany.
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Today in history: UFCW formed
August 8, 2012UFCW union was formed when the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers of North America merged with the Retail Clerks International Union.
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“Activist New York” displays history of social movements
August 7, 2012It explores the "drama of social activism" in New York City from the 17th century up to the present.
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Hiroshima, Nagasaki anniversaries marked around the world
August 7, 2012In Japan and around the world, tens of thousands are marking one of the worst atrocities in modern history, the only time atomic weapons were ever used against human populations. They are vowing to never let...
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Today in labor and people’s history: “Rebel Girl” born
August 7, 2012Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, legendary union organizer and later a leader of the Communist Party USA, was born Aug. 7, 1890.
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