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Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 06:38 AM
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Today in labor history Jan 13 Mounted police charged into the crowd, beating men, women and children

January 13


The original Tompkins Square Riot. As unemployed workers demonstrated in New York’s Tompkins Square Park, a detachment of mounted police charged into the crowd, beating men, women and children with billy clubs - 1874

Chicano citrus workers strike in Covina, CA - 1919

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dcsmart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 04:08 PM
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1. sadly, i will not be surprised if we see something like that again. n/t
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