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"Dig Where Your Stand", Swedish rallying cry for workers, translated into English for the first time Elías Villoro
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carceral state The case for getting rid of America's corrupt, expensive, barbaric prisons Elías Villoro
prison The Drapetomania Collective in Arizona is researching conditions of imprisoned women Elías Villoro
History The long arc of counter-revolution to fascism, according to historian Gerald Horne Elías Villoro
History English commoners' rights come from The Charter of the Forest, not the Magna Carta Elías Villoro
History "The Christmas Uprising" in Jamaica, 1831, heralded the end of slavery in the British Empire Elías Villoro
books Book Gift Ideas: Black Feminist memoirs on justice, Africanfuturism, theoretical physics, and abolition. Elías Villoro