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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/16/2020
  

  Virginia Sen. Louise Lucas Cleared of Charges of Conspiring to Topple Confederate Monument

  Virginia state senator L. Louise Lucas, who is Black, was cleared of charges related to this summer's protests against public monuments to the Confederacy. 

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• 11/15/2020
  

  Recovering Acts of Progressive Patriotism: Teaching Through Protest Music

  by Matthew Lindaman

  A history professor reflects on a course teaching critical perspectives on patriotism through protest and music that articulates an inclusive and progressive nationalism.

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  11/4/2020
  

  Olympic Protester Tommie Smith Reclaims His Legacy in a New Documentary

  "There’s a lot of people out there who lived the history I lived way back then. That history is not gone, and it will never die."

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  11/3/2020
  

  Aaron Sorkin’s Inane, Liberal History Lesson

  by Charlotte Rosen

  Aaron Sorkin's Chicago 7 film strips away the radical, anti-imperialist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist politics of the 1960s New Left to make the defendants heroic defenders of liberal democratic politics. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  11/2/2020
  

  Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Black Lives Matter Organizer

  "The Supreme Court has long recognized that peaceful protesters cannot be held liable for the unintended, unlawful actions of others," said American Civil Liberties Union National Legal Director David Cole.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/2/2020
  

  ‘I Am On Your Side’: How the Police Gave Armed Groups a Pass in 2020 (video)

  Armed groups showed up to scores of racial justice protests since May. Video shows how police officers at times let them operate freely.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/26/2020
  

  In Gettysburg, Trump Supporters Clash with Black Lives Matter Protesters as Election Nears

  Gettysburg's symbolic importance in the divided America of 2020 is not always rooted in the significance of the 1863 battle for the defeat of the Confederacy. 

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• SOURCE: Current Affairs
  10/22/2020
  

  The Real Abbie Hoffman

  by Nathan J. Robinson

  While The Trial of the Chicago 7 is sympathetic to Hoffman, it also softens him in a way that ultimately amounts to historical fabrication.

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• SOURCE: Miami Herald
  10/19/2020
  

  After Chicago 7 Trial, Mrs. Jean Fritz Helped Change the Course of History

  A look back at the Chicago 7 conspiracy trial through the eyes of one of the jurors reveals an America that was less completely polarized than one might think. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  10/13/2020
  

  A Scholar of American Doom Doesn’t See How Capitalism Can Fix This Crisis

  "There are probably a billion and a half people, maybe more, maybe 2 billion, in the informal working class who have simply been triaged already in advance. So the fate of a very large minority of humanity has been determined now."

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  10/12/2020
  

  Portland Protesters Topple Statues of Lincoln, Roosevelt in 'Day of Rage'

  Droves of protesters in Portland, Ore., took down the statues of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln on Sunday in demonstrations that had reportedly been billed online as “Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage” by organizers.

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• SOURCE: Lexington Herald-Leader
  10/6/2020
  

  In Louisville, Looking to Life-Changing Past Civil Rights Protests to Move Forward

  Historian Tracy E. K'Meyer says that, despite the mutual misgivings of older and younger activists, Louisville's legacy of civil rights protests in the 1960s is highly influential today as activists seek justice and policing reform in the wake of the killing of Breonna Taylor. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10/13/2020
  

  'I Was Hit and Knocked to the Ground': The True Story of the Trial of the Chicago 7

  “There are some things that I wouldn’t agree with how Sorkin has characterised certain figures in the trial, myself included. But the impact of the movie is there and I certainly endorse and support it," says Chicago 7 defendant and antiwar activist Rennie Davis.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  10/9/2020
  

  'My Faith in This World Is Gone.' For Protesters Injured by Police, There's No Real Recovery

  Historian Heather Ann Thompson says that the use of violence against peaceable protest has been historically common in the United States, though access to military weaponry by civilian police departments is a new factor. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  10/7//2020
  

  Getting to Freedom City (Review)

  by Robin D.G. Kelley

  Historian Robin Kelley reviews Mike Davis and Jon Weiner's "Set the Night on Fire," which chronicles the growth of resistance to inequality and miltarized policing in 1960s Los Angeles.

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• 10/11/2020
  

  Paul Revere Made the Boston Massacre a Flashpoint for Revolution.

  by Philip Gerard

  The incident that became known as the Boston Massacre didn't have to happen, and didn't have to become a flashpoint for violence after. As political tensions break into violence today, it's worthwhile to think about Boston in 1770.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10/5/2020
  

  Chile at the Barricades

  "To walk the streets of Santiago was to read a collective, anonymous scroll of inchoate rage: Abort the police, Die Piñera, ACAB, Bankers to the gallows. The graffiti was on seemingly every wall and sidewalk in the central districts of the city."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  10/1/2020
  

  Black Women are Leading the Movement to End Police Violence

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Throughout the 20th century Black women have led movements in protest of police violence and unequal treatment under law. Today's protests carry on that legacy. 

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera
  9/18/2020
  

  The Danger Of Depoliticising Black Power Activism

  Both celebrities and consumer brands have appropriated the aesthetics of the Black Panther Party and other Black militants, without dealing with the substance of their politics. 

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• SOURCE: Toward Freedom
  9/19/2020
  

  Against State Capture

  by Austin McCoy

  Austin McCoy warns that the energy of today's protest movements, which demand deep changes to the organization of society, is at risk of being captured and contained by small-scale reforms. The challenge for "abolition democracy" is to involve people in deciding how to dismantle and replace repressive institutions.