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Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, 11x14

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June 20, 1967 - On this day in 1967, boxing legend Muhammad Ali was given a prison sentence for refusing to join the US military and fight in the Vietnam War. He was sentenced to five years behind bars and fined $10,000, an unusually harsh sentence aimed at breaking his anti-war resistance. “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs?” argued Muhammad Ali. [source]

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(via Facebook)

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MAGA/Project 2025 blueprint.

#8 and #9 are so clearly in play.

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1920s vintage postcard

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New vid I directed and edited at the ol' day job.

All about how Bernadette Anderson raised André Cymone and supported Prince in his early years. An amazing woman whose story is worthy of a few minutes of your day.

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Isaac Hayes, Shaft

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{2o15}

(digital, laser prints)

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František Kupka (Cz 1871-1957)

Rising Forms (1922)

Oil on canvas

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Sebastiao Salgado, The Outskirts of Guatemala City, 1978

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A few more from today's protest. The best sign I saw was hanging around a young girl's neck. It read, The reason egg prices are so high is because all the chickens are in Congress.

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This needs to keep growing.

Erica Chenoweth studied nonviolent and violent campaigns from 1900 to 2006. Her major findings include:

Nonviolent campaigns are nearly twice as likely to succeed as violent ones.

No nonviolent campaign during that time failed once it had the active participation of at least 3.5% of the population.

These movements succeeded through strikes, boycotts, protests, civil disobedience, and other methods—not just mass demonstrations.

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