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almost all of us from Mexico are communists

At one point, Maurie comes out with a bunch of flyers. The flyers are urging us to return to work and threatening us if we don't. They also single me out as a "communist member of Progressive Labor Party." I tell the other workers that I am insulted by the Progressive Labor Party accusation. As for…

—p.57 Living and Dying on the Factory Floor: From the Outside In and the Inside Out 1977-1978: There Ain't No Justice . . . Just Us (15) by David Ranney
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Since When Has Working Been a Crime

[...] The manager of the Gayety Theater in South Chicago agrees to stop the film and turn on the lights and allow us to speak about immigration rights. I work with others distributing the National Lawyers Guild leaflet and also collect contributions from people in the theater to offset the costs of…

—p.13 1976-1977: You'll Get Used to It (1) by David Ranney
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we are borrowing our lives from people who disdain those lives inspo/anti-capitalism

[...\ The places in which your life takes place, the places you love so radically, belong to wealthy corporations, to a tiny handful of families with unthinkably old money, to the Sacklers and their industry of death, to the Catholic Church, to NYU, to Google, to Donald Trump. We are borrowing our …

Griefbacon scaffolding by Helena Fitzgerald
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carrying in their slow blue hours inspo/setting

This is the time of year to love New York if you are going to love it. Springtime in this city is a cheat code, an overripe and irresistible metaphor. The light is all at once kind, the afternoons that float into evening are longer, carrying in their slow blue hours the memory of every past springt…

scaffolding by Helena Fitzgerald
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carrying in their slow blue hours inspo/setting

This is the time of year to love New York if you are going to love it. Springtime in this city is a cheat code, an overripe and irresistible metaphor. The light is all at once kind, the afternoons that float into evening are longer, carrying in their slow blue hours the memory of every past springt…

scaffolding by Helena Fitzgerald