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Music
fromOpen Culture
1 day ago

The Powerful Messages That Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger Inscribed on Their Guitar & Banjo: "This Machine Kills Fascists" and "This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces it to Surrender"

Woody Guthrie grew up amid Indigenous dispossession and white supremacist violence, inherited racist attitudes, then later reassessed them and engaged deeply with racial politics.
History
fromThe Conversation
3 months ago

Erie Canal's 200th anniversary: How a technological marvel for trade changed the environment forever

The Erie Canal's construction accelerated commerce and urban growth while profoundly transforming landscapes, ecosystems, and Indigenous communities, revealing trade-offs between economic progress and ecological harm.
World news
fromThe Nation
3 months ago

The Blood Diamonds of Brazil

An Amazonian tribe's attempt to control illegal diamond mining escalated into deadly violence, exposing indigenous vulnerability to capitalist predation and state scrutiny.
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