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Labor historian. Now on Bluesky 99% of time. 1st Gen. Receipt keeper of American evil, then & now. Academic union thug. Beer. Music. Energy is my currency.
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A Nation That Lies About Equality of Opportunity

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By Erik Loomis
| Lawyers, Guns and Money
I am of course talking about the most hypocritical nation in the world, my own. And this essay on the financing of public education demonstrates how for all people might want to talk about things like “all men are created equal,” nothing in this nation allows such a radical statement to come to fruition. In As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Public Schools, David I.
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This Day in Labor History: August 8, 1635

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By Erik Loomis
| Lawyers, Guns and Money
On August 8, 1635, a slave named Maria was killed by her master in the Philippines and he is later executed for it. This is a window into issues of sex slavery and colonialism, a topic which deserves more attention in our larger consideration of labor history. When we talk about slavery in human history, we don’t talk about enough about the sexual labor side of it.
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This Day in Labor History: August 7, 1933

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By Erik Loomis
| Lawyers, Guns and Money
On August 7, 1933, sugar beet workers strike in Oxnard, California, organized under the communist-led Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union, a communist union, went on strike. Part of a much larger set of agricultural strikes led by the CAWIU in 1933, the Oxnard strike showed the potential of interracial organizing in the fields, though victory was not to be given the larger structural conditions against rural organizing at this time.
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