March 2021
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Rejoining the Iran Deal? Legislative update Despite campaign promises to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, the Biden Administration has failed to reverse Trump’s failed “maximum pressure” policy -imposing crushing sanctions on a nation of 83 million people amidst a global pandemic. In the intervening months, AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) has lobbied members of Congress to…
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Newsletter #8, attached, updates several current H-PAD activities, and announces a future effort at the 2022 American Historical Association Conference H-PAD Executive Committee H-PAD-Newsletter-8-1.pdf Share List
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Dear supporters of H-PAD, There is an important effort underway, led by Representative Bobby Rush (D-IL) and and Defending Rights and Dissent (DRD) to seek the Department of Justice's full declassification of FBI files on slain Chicago Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton. You may sign the petition here. With the release of a major movie, Judas and the Black Messiah, documenting…
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Note: Historians for Peace and Democracy has published Empire of Sanctions, a 14-part syllabus on the nature and history of economic sanctions, focusing especially on their use by the US since the early 20th century. All the assigned readings are available on the Web. The historians who compiled it are Renate Bridenthal, CUNY (emerita); Molly…
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Dear Historians for Peace and Democracy, Renate Bridenthal, Molly Nolan and I from the Empire Working Group have finished at last the syllabus on economic sanctions–their forms, legality, and effectiveness, their history across the twentieth century and their current deployment, as well as blowback from and resistance to them. The syllabus can be used in…