Tag: massacre
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December 29, 1890: Wounded Knee Massacre
While we’re all sitting about in our mid-Holiday malaise, drunk on sugar and fat, filled with drink and feasting and friendship and song, it should be mandatory to sober up for a moment or two and give some thought to one of the great, horrific, historical moments of our very checkered American past. On a…
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June 5, 1989 Tian An Men
In 1989 I was a college student, largely self-absorbed and still working on figuring out how the world fit together, and disengaged from the idea that I fit in that picture as well. There was no internet. I didn’t have a newspaper subscription, and I watched very little television. So it was that the Tiananmen…
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Artist Detained Approaching Tiananmen Square 25th Anniversary
Despite fitful, stumbling progress China has yet to embrace the freedoms that should accompany its anything goes economic policies, and that has become particularly evident in the days leading up to the 25th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests and the massacre that followed. Catching my eye today was the arrest of an Australian artist,…
Old Road Apples 