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  1. RE: piefed.social/c/historyphotos/

    According to my father, who grew up in LA in the 30s and 40s, this picture was taken near the corner of 3rd and Spring in downtown Los Angeles. Eagleson's Big and Tall was at that corner. In the background is the 3rd street tunnel so the woman is walking east on third street.

    Also according to my father, in the 40s in left-wing circles "immigrants" in this context meant Japanese, both native-born and immigrants, because the word "Japanese" was never said out loud except by racists/nativists. His parents were CPUSA in LA at this time, so he heard them talking about it a lot.

    #LosAngeles #DTLA #ImmigrationRaids #FuckICE #CPUSA #Protests #LA

  2. #Protest in #FortWorth #dfw today, #NoKings. According to organizers the #FBI closed airspace around the event, which might explain why the helicopter was hanging pretty far back. There *was* a quadcopter hanging out closer to the event though. Probably had about a thousand people milling around, give or take a couple hundred.

    Saw reps from #CPUSA, #RCA, and #PSL #PartyForSocialismAndLiberation too, as well as #AFLCIO. #socialism #communism #marxism.

  3. Added to my "must read" list: "The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis: #McCarthyism, #Communism, and the Myth of #AcademicFreedom", Steve Batterson's chronicle of a leftist #Michigan professor and his impressive battle against those who wished him silenced. Fascinating review in #SolidarityUSA journal #AgainstTheCurrent. #Academia #History #Socialism #RedScare #CPUSA #Politics #UM #UMich #UniversityOfMichigan #Literature #Books againstthecurrent.org/atc229/c