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Chicago Teachers May Be on the Cusp of Another Strike
The Chicago Teachers Union is locked in a standoff with the mayor as teachers defy orders to return to in-person teaching. If the mayor doesn't back down, she'll have a big fight on her hands — one that could look like the 2019 CTU strike that lasted fifteen…
You know it's funny, traditional Marxist analysis makes a pointed distinction between base (material conditions) and superstructure, (social/cultural conditions) but as capitalism goes on, the distinction fades. The term "consumer culture" is often thrown around. The idea that consumption comes to co-opt cultural concepts is an interesting one, if somewhat obvious.
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STOP SOMEONE MODDED BERNIE SANDERS INTO RESIDENT EVIL 7 IM SCREAMING
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TIL of the California Genocide, an oft-forgotten event in U.S. history due to occurring at the same time at the California Gold Rush. The Native American population of California decreased from as many as 150,000 in 1848 to 30,000 in 1870. Tribes such as the Yahi were hunted to extinction.
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TIL in 1763 the Paxton Boys massacred two villages of Susquehannock Indians. The militia proceeded to march on Philadelphia with the intention of killing every Indian in Pennsylvania. They were met by Benjamin Franklin who helped prevent further slaughter of the peaceful Native Americans
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Paxton Boys
The Paxton Boys were frontiersman from along the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania who formed a vigilante group in 1763 against local American Indians in the aftermath of the French and Indian War and Pontiac's War. They are widely known for murdering…
Friendly reminder that White American history regarding Native American was and is often bloody and horrifically overlooked in our education.
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