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• Murders of Women Ignite Outrage [post from Workers World]

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 157
  Sign up to get EMAIL UPDATESFollow workers.org on RED HOT: ANTI-WAR, HEALTH CARE, CUBA,JOBS JOBS JOBS, AFGHANISTAN,STOP FORECLOSURES, IRAN, IRAQ,CAPITALIST CRISIS, IMMIGRANTS, LGBT,POLITICAL PRISONERS, KOREA, CHINA, HONDURAS,HAITI, AFRICA, WOMEN, SOCIALISM, GAZA, WWP 2009 CONFERENCE CLEVELAND Murders ...
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• Watch American Experience: The Crash of 1929 Movie Trailer Online

  
  Watch-Free.TV :: Stream Movies and TV for Free! — Authority: 165
  This program is part of the PBS series AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. In this episode, the camera turns to that dark day in America when the economic foundations of the country came tumbling down. The stock market crash, which occurred on October 29, 1929, changed the American experience forever. Fortunes were lost and ...
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• Carlos in D.C. on not being Hispanic, and on being Native American

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 157
  I did not find this YouTube video until now. It was posted during the U.S.s insulting and problematic "Hispanic" Heritage Month. Carlos points out how this erases and invisibilises Brown, Native American, and African American peoples non-european heritage.Some points in this message from Carlos:"Hispania" = Spain and ...
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• Surviving the Dust Bowl- Documentary Film and Lesson

  
  Blogging on the Bay — Authority: 131
  Lured by the promise of rich, plentiful soil, thousands of settlers came to the Southern Plains, bringing farming techniques that worked well in the North and East. The farmers subsequently plowed millions of acres of grassland, only to have the rains stop in the summer of 1931. The catastrophic eight-year drought ...
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• Film on Freedom Riders to World Premiere at Sundance

  
  NPT Media Update — Authority: 119
  Back in March of this year, we told you director Stanley Nelson was in town to interview several Nashville-based individuals who were involved with The Freedom Riders in 1961, among them the host of NPT’s A Word on Words , John Seigenthaler , Dr. Bernard Lafayette , Frederick Leonard and Reverend ...
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• Jerryell Myesha Foster of Baltimore is missing: will you get this news from any national media?

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 157
  Jerryell Myesha Foster of Baltimore was last seen Tuesday November 24 2009 at approximately 8:20p.m. Thank you to La Reynas blogpost for alerting me to this latest missing person case.See also: http://www.letstalkhonestly.com/missingblackwomen.html, for more information about other missing Black women; it is at that ...
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• Buffalo Bill Cody - Video, Documents, and Lessons

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 574
  Buffalo Bill Cody is one of the most iconic figures of the American West. American Experience, produced by PBS, has an excellent one hour program about Buffalo Bill. You can view the entire program for free on the PBS video website. In true PBS form, there are some excellent lesson plans for teachers to use in ...
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• We Shall Remain: After the Mayflower

  
  'Imagine' A World Of Peace,Understanding,Tolerance — Authority: 135
  Program: American ExperienceEpisode: We Shall Remain: After the Mayflower, Pt. 1 of 5In March of 1621, in what is now southeastern Massachusetts, Massasoit, the leading sachem of the Wampanoag, sat down to negotiate with a ragged group of English colonists. Hungry, dirty, and sick, the pale-skinned foreigners were ...
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• The Official Mediavore Thanksgiving Survival Guide

  
  The Mediavore — Authority: 134
  When we were kids, Thanksgiving meant sleeping in, watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, and growing hungry as breakfast and lunch fell victim to the kitchen’s single-minded obsession with producing Thanksgiving dinner. Now that we’re grown-ups, we get up early to delete answer old emails, the parade ...
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• November 22

  
  Single for a Reason — Authority: 118
  I have spent the day watching television just as I once did on this date in 1963. It began with PBS “Bill Moyers Journal”, an hour-long program of Lyndon Johnson’s telephone tapes with his military and civilian advisors trying to wrestle with the complications of Vietnam. Take out “Vietnam” from the ...
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