January 2021
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Links to Recent Articles of Interest “The Great Evasion” By Lawrence Wittner, History News Network, posted January 17 A capsule history of nuclear-weapons policies, with emphasis on the role of popular pressure in securing such steps that have occasionally been taken to reduce the risk of catastrophic war. The author is a professor emeritus of…
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We call for the immediate removal of President Trump from office and fully support all legal efforts to remove him. The AAUP’s leadership issued the following statement on January 8. Two days ago, while white supremacist, Trump-supporting insurrectionists stormed the United States Capitol, we wrote that we were appalled by the assault and noted that…
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Historians for Peace and Democracy shares in the widespread outrage about the Presidential inspired violence in the nation’s capital. We view this effort to overthrow the results of a democratic election as the culmination of four years of attacks against the constitutional rights of the American people. It is the obvious product of the Trump Administration’s…
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Prof. Kimberlé Crenshaw appeared in a segment of On the Media that aired today, on how post-Civil War appeasement allowed for the perpetuation of white supremacy in the United States. Prof. Crenshaw is doing the compelling historical analysis we all need of the end of Reconstruction under Hayes’ “Compromise,” which further encouraged and enabled white supremacists,…
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I think we should ask people to call their representatives and indicate we support the expulsion of all those who voted to violate the will of the U.S. people and the vote of the electoral college: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative? link_id=1&can_id=efc95ee77274d39bb4e87d368bea95bb&source=email-this-week-in-the-cdsa-january-10-january-17&email_referrer=email_1038782&email_subject=shocked-but-not-surprised Share List