I was shocked that there was not a single book by Emma Goldman in my local public library.
So I looked her up, and came across this 1919 work I hadn't seen before.
DEPORTATION - Its Meaning and Menace
It seems deportation without due process to gulags overseas is as American as apple pie.
The Austin arts and humanities are being hit hard by the Trump mandated cuts to the NEA and NEH:
https://www.axios.com/local/austin/2025/05/07/trump-federal-cuts-austin-arts
https://www.axios.com/local/austin/2025/04/08/austin-national-endowment-humanities-grants-trump
I have no doubt that communities across the USA are also being hit by these crippling NEA/NEH grant cancellations.
The money that would have benefited a host of artists, performers, researchers, writers and , most importantly, myriad American audiences and readers is now going to be diverted to Trump's pet "history" project, The National Garden of American Heroes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Garden_of_American_Heroes
If this Garden of OFFICIAL HISTORY kitsch ever comes into being, visitors who are not distracted by parties of bored school children will be left to wonder what criteria required the commemoration of Calvin Coolidge but not LBJ, or of Steve Jobs but not Walter Reuther. They might also lament that the compilers of this list of "American" heroes did not pause before including Tecumseh, whose gallant resistance against US expansionism ended with the desecration of his body at the hands of American soldiers.
Thurs, May 8 at 6 pm in the Gawain Family Outdoor Theater at York School: Ben Jealous, Monterey County native and currently executive director of Sierra Club. Event is free and open to the public. - Report by Agata Popęda, #MontereyCountyNow
Our #transportation advisory: York School is off Highway 68, which we personally bike on frequently but as brief a distance as possible (high-speed traffic, no bike lane). Carpooling encouraged. (TMK, and it’s a Catch 22: Due to heavy traffic on CA SR 68, making it nearly impossible to keep to a schedule, it’s just not feasible for Monterey Salinas Transit to provide bus service.)
Speaking of Hwy 68: We’re about to make yet another report to #Caltrans about more broken car parts not cleared from the shoulder. (Sigh. Not unusual, e.g., https://sfba.social/@bikemonterey/113709985426108972.) Where to report: https://csr.dot.ca.gov/
“The nation of South Vietnam still exists in the people who came here after the war,” Sandy said. “It is a nation that ceased existing in 1975 on a map. But there’s this diaspora of people who became Vietnamese American and brought with them their conception of that citizenship and nationality.”
Insightful article from a few years ago on the recently deceased David Horowitz. The murder of Betty Van Patter was probably the occasion rather than the cause of his beginning his migration from the new left to the far right. One important consequence of this migration was his launching of the political career of the malignant Stephen Miller.
As an individual, Horowitz sounds awful and given the politics of his latter years, a feeling of relief or even joy at the news of his death is understandable.
Yet we need to be ready to ask what in the culture of the new left and of the US left in general nourished the loathsome politics of Horowitz. Just uttering the words "horseshoe theory" will not suffice.
https://newrepublic.com/article/162227/david-horowitz-profile-trump-propagandist-radical-leftist
"One of the first-ever uses of aerial-dropped bombs was against the miners' army in West Virginia. The Italians had done it a few years earlier in Ethiopia."
#LettersAndPolitics welcomes #RobertOvetz, author of #WhenWorkersShotBack: #ClassConflict from 1877 to 1921
https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-april-30-2025/
#labor #labour #laborHistory #labourHistory #USlaborHistory #UShistory #AmericanHistory #GreatRailroadStrikeOf1877 #WestVirginiaCoalWars #PullmanStrike #books @bookstodon @histodons
This 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War reminds me of my trip to Vietnam in 1992, and how wonderful everyone was to me. People wanted me in their photos, wanted to practice their English with me, wanted to know if Mr. Bill Clinton was going to lift the trade embargo. No one mentioned the war.
Tomorrow is Labor Day in most of the world except the USA. Never forget they changed the date in the US precisely in order to separate it from the world wide leftist labor movement. Look it up!
#laborday #leftism #us #usa #uspol #france #communism #anarchism #mayday #workersrights #solidarity #nogodsnomasters #marx #karlmarx #history #ushistory
What an amazing, informative thread! Thanks for sharing.
"This April, 50 years after the loss of their homeland, Vietnamese refugees and their descendants who helped shape San Jose and Silicon Valley are pondering their legacy and what it means to be Vietnamese American moving forward. For Vương, who goes by Lauren Vuong and now lives in San Francisco, this includes illuminating what became of those left behind after the U.S. withdrawal from the Vietnam War."
: https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/27/san-joses-vietnamese-refugees/?share=on2ye4w2ss25euwotose
80 years ago, the 855 members of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, known as the Six Triple Eight, headed to Birmingham, England, to sort an enormous backlog of mail. They were faced with millions of letters and packages addressed to American soldiers and government personnel stationed across Europe, some of whom had received nothing in years. Three months later, the predominantly Black, all-female unit, which had the motto, "no mail, low morale," had done it. In 2022, then-President Joe Biden signed into law an act that would award members of the battalion a Congressional Gold Medal. Today, the two surviving members received theirs. Here's more from @npr about the work the unit did, the campaign to get them their medals, and how the Department of Defense's DEI purge impacted their legacy.
Link: https://flip.it/jdxwB_
#History @histodons #USHistory #BlackHistory @blackmastodon #USMilitary #USGovernment #Women
US forces abandon Saigon (29.Apr.1975) #UShistory #history #empire #defeat
"Tháng Tư Đen or Black April commemorates the Fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese Communist forces on April 30, 1975 after a month-long campaign into the southlands that would end the Vietnam War and start one of the largest refugee crises in history."
America: What's In a Name?
#LettersAndPolitics welcomes historian #GregGrandin to talk about his latest book, #AmericaAmérica: A New #History of the New World
#historyOfTheAmericas #LatinAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #UShistory #ModernHistory #colonialism #colonialViolence #revolutions #books @bookstodon @histodons
Cripping Contagion: A Long History of Epidemics as Mass-Disabling Events
https://digpodcast.org/2025/04/27/cripping-contagion/
#DisabilityHistory #18thCentury #19thCentury #20thCenturyHistory #DisabilityHistory #EarlyModernEurope #HistoryOfMedicine #leprosy #polio #syphilis #USHistory #podcast #histodons #history @histodons
On March 27, Trump signed an executive order declaring the Smithsonian Museum’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. — a.k.a. The Blacksonian — and a few others as institutions that divide America.
The order states that the museums undermine the nation’s "remarkable" history by casting it "in a negative light," and directs Vice President JD Vance to clear the museum of its liberal "ideology."
Ten days before the order, Kevin Young, the NMAAHC’s director, went on indefinite personal leave. The cascade of bad news left historians on edge and Black Americans concerned that the groundbreaking museum would survive Trump 2.0.
https://wordinblack.com/2025/04/can-this-chicago-preacher-save-blacksonian/
In 1920 the NAACP began flying a flag from the windows of its headquarters at 69 Fifth Avenue when a lynching occurred. The words on the flag were “a man was lynched yesterday.”
The threat of losing its lease forced the NAACP to discontinue the practice in 1938.
https://youtu.be/R6jh0kzyieo
Every Insane US Conspiracy Theory That Turned Out to Be True
Bothwell on the negotiations over the Alaska border at the turn of the 20th century:
Now, the difference between Theodore Roosevelt, the president, and Donald Trump, is that Roosevelt was really smart, and he was very well-educated, he liked the British, he had actually worked in Canada, he knew Canada, he admired what had happened in the War of 1812 -- he was basically a rather fair man even if he had an excitable temperament. So he said, "Well, you try this, and I'll send troops." And the British had a stroke, and said, "No, no, no, we'll arbitrate it!", and Roosevelt said, "That's fine, as long as I win the arbitration." So they went through this charade in London [the Alaska Boundary Tribunal, created by the Hay-Herbert Treaty spearheaded by Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge] and the arbitration decided in favour of the United States. But in my opinion, the Americans had the better claim, and [Canadian PM Wilfrid] Laurier was just hopeless.
So it's an interesting event, because Roosevelt settled it, because he actually did not want war, he didn't want a confrontation, he didn't really want bad relations... he just thought "Well, hell, the Canadians are trying to put one over on us" -- Trump uses that language, but this is the only case where it actually applies.
And Laurier very soon forgot about it, and by 1908 Laurier was ready to tie up all the Canadian-American differences that had occurred, in a series of agreements in that date. Now ironically, this is because of the maturity and the intelligence of Roosevelt's Secretary of State [Elihu Root]. Roosevelt had an outstanding cabinet. And this guy said, "Hey, wait a minute, we don't really know the Canadians, we deal with the Brits. I'm going to catch the train to Ottawa." And so he shows up for what's announced to be a "social visit". And in Ottawa, he starts negotiating with the Canadians, and saying, "you know, we've got X, Y, Z, A, B, C differences along our 3,000-mile border, so why don't we just put them all in a package, and we'll make an agreement?" And so that's a series of agreements, compromises, very reasonable, all of them, between the United States -- via Great Britain, which still owned Canada, and the United States -- but really it's between the United States and Canada, because we were the other end of the negotiation. The Secretary of State called it "cleaning the slate", and it was perfect, it really worked very well, and for the last 120 years, it's just been accepted. ...
(dialogue continues with more historical review and commentary)
#EndFossilFuels 
