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Sacco - Vanzetti - Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti Were Italian-Born Anarchists Who Arrived in the US in 1908. Sacco Was a Shoe-Maker and Vanzetti a Fish Seller [...] - Celebrate Peoples' History

Comité Exigimos Justicia - "We Started in the 90's with 3 then 5, then 40 Cases of Innocent Guys All Framed by Crooked Cop Detective Reynaldo Guevaca" - Ruth Peña - We Demand Justice Committee - 13 ot the 56 Guys Have Been Exonerated - Exonerate Them All - Prosceute Crooked Cops - Celebrate People's History - More Welcome Homes

Las Mujeres Libres - Celebrate Peoples' History - During an Era of Extreme Gender Division in Spain, Womens' Freedom Was Severely Restricted. In Response to the Women's Situation, Two Groups of Anarchist Women in Barcelona and Madrid Had Begun Organising Two Years before the Revolution. [...]

Atenco Guanta - El Pueblo Se Levanta - Celebrate Peoples' History - San Salvador de Atenco Has a Long History of Resistance to the Central Government, Dating from Before Mexicos's Revolution of 1910. In 2001, Atenco Villagers, Mostly Small Farmers, Organized the Peoples' Front for Defense of the Land and Stopped Former President Vincente Fox from Grabbing Their Farmlands for the Construction of a New International Airport. [...]

Veterans Against the U.S. War-Machine!!! We Won't Fight Another Rich Man's War - Veterans Demand U.S. out of Southern Africa - Superpower Hands Off!! VAW-WSO - Vietnam-Never-Again! Stop the War in Central America - Dont' Listen to the Hawks - Celebrate Peoples' History!

Celebrate People's History - Cherokee Writing System - In 1821 Sequoyah Completed the Development of a Cherokee Writing System. - A Cherokee Dictionary Was Produced in the Mid-1970s, 150 Years after the First Editors and Printers of the Cherokee Phoenix Came to New Echota to Print the First Native American Newspaper. [...]

Jane - 1969 1973 - Feminist, Underground Abortion Service - 100 + Members Performed over 11'000 Illegal Abortions in Chicago - "Those of Us Who Were Members of Janes Were Remarkable Only Because We Chose to Act with Womens's Needs as Our Guide. In Doing so We Transforemd Illegal Abortion from a Dangerous, Sordid Experience into One That Was Life Affirming + Powerful." Laura Kaplan - Celebrate Peoples' History

ADAPT - Since the Early 80s, ADAPT Has Been a National Network of Activists with Disabilites That Employs Nonviolent Civil Disobedience to Demand Changes in Policies That Exclude People with Disabilites from American Society. [...] Celebrate Peoples' History

Matilde Landa (1904 - 1942) Was a Famous Militant of the PCE (Spanish Communist Party) Who Fought in the Spanish Civil War against Franco's Dictatorship. [...] Celebrate Peoples' History - Matilde Landa

Celebrate Peoples's History - El Maquis - The Spanish Maquis Were Guerillas Who Faught against the Franco Regime. They Carried out Sabotage in Spain, as welll. As Contributing to the Fight against the Nazi Germany and the Vichy Regime in France in the 1940s. [...]

Celebrate People's History - Woody Guthrie - "There's a Better World that's a Comin"

Jamaican Maroons Fend off the British - In the Early 1700s, Queen Nanny and the Windward Maroons Used Guerilla Warfare to Defeat the British from the Mountains of Jamaica. In Doing so, They Avoided Further Enslavement and Forced the British to Capitulate. In 1939-40, the British Governor in Jamaica Gave the Maroons 2500 Acres and They Were Able to Live under Their Own Governance. - Celebrate Peoples' History

"Armed with the Knowledge of Our Past We Can Charter a Course for Our Future. Only by Knowing Where We've Been Can We Know Where We Are and Look to Where We Want to Go." - In Memory El Hajj Malik Shabazz - Celebrate Peoples' History

Landless Workers' Movement - With 1,5 Million Members, the Movimento Dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra (MST). One of the Largest Social Movements in Latin America. It Fights for Land Reform and against Racism, Sexism, and Capitalism through Broad Based Squatting, Basic Healthcare, and Literacy and Education Campaigns. - Celebrate Peoples' History

Louise Olivereau 1884 - 1963 - One of Many Arrested During World War 1 for Speaking Their Mind. Heir Heinous Crime Was Merely Mailing out a Few Thousand Anti-Draft Leaflets- She Was Charged with Sedition and Served 28 Months of a 10 Year Sentence - Celebrate Peoples' History

Squamish 5 - Celebrate Peoples' History - In 1982, Five Activists from Squamish, Canada Dynamited a Hydroelectic Project as well as a Cruise Missle Factory, among Others. They Had Become Frustrated with Conventional Forms of Activism + Non-Violent Protest, so They Took to Propaganda of the Deed, and Made a Difference with Direct Action.

Jana Sanskriti - Forum Theater in India - Jana Sanskriti (Bengali for "People's Culture) Mixes Indian Folk Theatre with the Political Action of August Boal's Theater of the Oppressed. Teams of Actors Perform Plays in Their Villages, Enacting the Problems of Rural Society-Patriarchy, Sexism, Alcoholism, Religious Hegemony, Imperialism, Political Corruption [...] - Celebrate People's History

Iraq Veterans Against the War - We Will Not Kill for Your Profit - Call to Resist the G20 - We Will Not Kill for Your Profit - We Will Not SacrificePittsburgh [...] - Celebrate People's History

1923 - The Great Kanto Earthquake - A Massacre + Scapegoating of Ethnic Koreans and Political Agitators. Vigilante Death Squads, Mass Arrests and Show Trials. - The Futeisha, "The Outlaws" Were an Anarchist Group, Founded by Pak Yol, and Comprised Largely of Korean Student Activists and Japanes Allies. [...] - Celebrate People's History

Wangare Maathai: Founders of the Greenbelt Movement - "The Greenbelt Movement Is Commited to Increasing Public Awareness of the Relationship between Environmental Degradation, Poverty, Unemployment, Malnutrition, Mismanagement of Natural Resources, and the Political and Economic Impact of These throughout Africa." - Celebrate Peoples' History - [...]

Celebrate People's History - The Funsten 500 - St. Louis MO, 1933: 500 Black Women Who Worked as Nutpickers for the Funsten Nut Company Mounted a Successful Strike against the Industry Giant, Citing Low Wages and Inhumane Working Conditions as Major Concerns. This Strike Was one of Many Midwestern Labor Revolts Organized by African-American Women in the United States.

Muhammad Ali - "Why Should I Drop Bombs and Bullets on Brown People in Vietnam While So-Called Negro People in Louisville Are Treated like Dogs?" Muhammad Ali 1967 - Celebrate Peoples' History

Phoolan Devi - "What Others Called a Crime, I Called Justice" - Februry 1981: A 24 Year Old Village Woman, Born into Poverty in India, Is Labelled 'The Bandit Queen'. She Is Charged With a Number of Major Offences Including Murder, Kidnap for Ransom and Looting Villages. Most Importantly, She Is Accused of Killing 22 High-Caste Men in the Village of Behmai, a Massacre Undertaken as Revenge for the Death of Her Lover and Repeated Gang Rape against Herself. [...] - Celebrate Peoples' History

Sojourner Truth, Born Isabella (Belle) Baumfree, c. 1797 - November 26, 1883, Was an African-American Abolitionist and Women's Right Activist. Truth Was Born into Slavery in Swartekill, NY but Escaped with Her Infant Daughter to Freedom in 1826. After Going to Court to Recover Her Son in 1828 She Became the 1st Black Woman to Win Such a Case against a White Man. [...] - Celebrate Peoples' History

"... it Was His (John Brown's) Peculiar Doctrine That a Man Has a Perfect Right to Interfere by Force with the Slaveholder, in Order to Rescue the Slave. I Agree with Him. They Who Are Continually Shocked by Slavery Have Some Right to Be Schocked by the Violent Death of the Slaveholder, but such Will Be More Shocked by His Life Than by His Death. I Shall not Be Forward to Think Him Mistaken in His Method Who, Quickest Succeeds to Liberate the Slave." Henry David Thoreau - John Brown - Celebrate Peoples' History

There Is Nothing New under the Sun, but There Are New Suns. Octavia E. Butler - Celebrate People's History

The Austin Community Is on Chicago's Far West Side and Is Anchored by a Group of Women who Look out over their Neighborhood for the Sake of the Children. These Grandmother Gatekeepers Are the Powerful Protectors of the Young. The Kind-Hearted Benefactors of Supple and Uncertain Lives. Their Steady Efforts amidst Manifold Risks Are Invisible to Many, but not Those That Depend on Them to Rise up and Grow. Bridging Wisdoms That Will not Be Erased, Tracing (Her) Stories to Know the Meanings of Today. - Celebrate Peoples' History

Celebrate People's History - Come out! - And Think How Can Love Corrupt, When There Are as Many Sexes as There Are People. The G.L.F. Is Figting for Your Freedom, As Well as Ours. - The Gay Liberation Front Was the First LGBT Activist Organization Formed after the Stonewall Rebellion in New York City in June 1969. [...]

Tengo Puertorico en Mi Corazon - The Young Lords Organization Was Born in 1968 When a Puerto Rico Chicago Street Gang Turned to Political Action and Community Service. Influenced by the Black Panther Party, They Confronted Developpers, Police and City Hall. [...] - The Young Lords Organization

Funmilayo Ransome Kuti - Francis Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas Was Born in Nigeria in 1900. Funmilayo (the Name She Went by) Was the First Female Student at Her Elementary School and Then Studied in England Before Returning to Nigeria and Becoming a Teacher. In 1932, She Gathered a Few Young Women Together to Start the Abeokuta Ladies (ALC) Which Began as a Small, Polite Group Focused on Learning Proper Etiquette, Drinking Tea, and Doing Crafts. ...] - Celebrate People's History