[discuss-dan] Today in Radical History

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December 8th:

1828 -- Joseph Dietzgen, socialist, lives,
       near Cologne, Germany. Important socialist
       theorist whose writings exerted
       considerable influence on the workers'
       movement. Wrote The Nature of Human
       Brain-Work (1869). 
1886 -- American Federation of Labor is
       founded. 
1886 -- Radical Mexican muralist Diego
       Rivera lives, Guanajuato. Frida's man &
       Trotsky's host. 
1969 -- US: Los Angeles police raid local
       Black Panther Party offices. 
1979 -- US: The Oneida Nation files suit in
       an effort to regain control of the three million
       acres illegally taken by New York state. 
1980 -- John Lennon permanently loses
       his voice; killed by a fan. Former Beatle
       was shot & killed outside his apartment
       building in New York City by Mark David
       Chapman, a former psychiatric patient. 
1983 -- Will Norman Mayer stop the MX
       missile? Demanding an end to nuclear
       weapons, Norman Mayer, held the
       Washington Monument hostage. After 10
       hours, police kill him. He had no explosives.
1987 -- Protestor Hatem Abu Sisseh, 16,
       killed by Israeli soldiers, igniting the
       Intifadah for self-rule. In the 7 years to follow
       1,306 Palestinians slain by Israelis, 192
       Israelis killed by Palestinians. 


taken from:
http://www.neravt.com/left/

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