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#OTD September 9th 1971 the Attica prison uprising began in upstate New York when over 1,000 imprisoned people took control of the facility.
2,200 people were detained in the prison designed to hold only 1,600. 54% of those imprisoned were Black, while 100% of the guards were white.

https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10956/attica-prison-uprising

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"Demokratie ist das, was Aristokraten einführen, wenn sie die ständigen inner-aristokratischen Revolutionen satt haben, weil sie für sie viel zu risiko-behaftet und annoying sind."

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