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WE NEVER FORGET: Don MacGregor, Miners' Hero Who Lost His Life In Freedom’s Cause

Submitted by JayRaye on Thu, 04/14/2016 - 12:54pm
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
-Mother Jones
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WE NEVER FORGET
Don MacGregor-28
Who lost his life in freedom's cause at
Miñaca, Chihuahua, México,
March 28, 1916
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First Nations News

Submitted by Martha Pearce-Smith on Thu, 04/14/2016 - 7:01am

This is such a big story I think it deserves it's own thread. Keeping all of the info in one place where people can find it. I have gone back to some of the open threads and pulled links from there to add here to give a kind of timeline from last weekend forward... Feel free to add to the list....

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Tuesday, 12 April 2016, 10.24 EDT

Shaun King's Excellent Response To His Own Editorial Board

Submitted by LaFeminista on Thu, 04/14/2016 - 6:15am

Hammer met nail perfectly, he tore them a new one.

I like the start, it made me smirk

3. I have been given the freedom, from the day I joined this staff, to write whatever the hell I wanna write without censorship.

I really recommend reading the whole article

Backlash in South Carolina getting a head start

Submitted by Robyn on Wed, 04/13/2016 - 2:37pm

The South Carolina legislature steps up to the plate today to take its swing at the transgender piñata. Sen. Lee Bright fell in love with North Carolina's Hate Bill 2 before it was even passed.

Bright, who faces three GOP challengers in June, said he's had enough of tolerance if that means "men who claim to be women" going into a bathroom with children.

Gov. Nikki Haley and state business leaders have called the law totally unnecessary.

Sen. Bright is trying to create a political crisis that doesn't exist to save his political career.

--Ted Pitts, Chamber of Commerce

Hellraisers Journal: Report from the Front: How Don MacGregor, Miners’ Hero, Met Death in Mexico

Submitted by JayRaye on Wed, 04/13/2016 - 12:57pm

You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Thursday April 13, 1916
From the Chicago Daily Tribune: Don MacGregor Killed by Villistas

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Clintonesque greed now infects Medicine's Bible

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Wed, 04/13/2016 - 2:57am

Despite the title, HRC has nothing to do with the subject matter of this post--but she serves as a damn good role model for what is now infecting medical literature. Twin themes here are a) money buys influence and b) there is no end of sell-outs. This article isn't sexy but it is important.

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