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Demeter

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3. History repeats

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 09:22 PM

Dec 2012

1918 US trade union address by Nicholas Klein:

And, my friends, in this story you have a history of this entire movement. First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you. And that, is what is going to happen to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.

Proceedings of the Third Biennial Convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (1918), p. 53

And Occupy follows the path...

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