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antiquie

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3. This is close:
Mon Nov 25, 2013, 09:58 AM
Nov 2013
One thousand men stood shivering in the drizzling rain in Market square yesterday afternoon in answer to a call made upon the Socialists to meet and express their reasons for not giving thanks to the Lord on the National day of thanksgiving. Around the speakers’ stand, which consisted of half a dozen empty chicken crates plied one on the other, were grouped banners and rudely-constructed shields bearing such inscriptions as “Our capitalistic robbers may well thank their Lord that we, their victims, have not yet strangled them”; “Thanks to our ‘Lords,’ who have the kindness to feast on our earnings”; “Shall we thank our ‘Lords’ for our misery, destitution, and poverty?”; “The turkeys and champagne upon the tables of our ‘Lords’ was purchased by us”; “Why we thank? Because our capitalistic brothers are happily enjoying our turkeys, our wines, and our houses.”


http://glessnerhouse.blogspot.com/2012/05/upcoming-nato-summit-recalls-protest.html

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Revolutions can be born when Ilsa Nov 2013 #1
A banner from an 1884 Thanksgiving Day protest in Chicago: Brigid Nov 2013 #2
This is close: antiquie Nov 2013 #3
I'm not familiar with the image, enlightenment Nov 2013 #4
Yes. Brigid Nov 2013 #5
A recipe, yes - enlightenment Nov 2013 #8
k&r for the truth, however depressing it may be. n/t Laelth Nov 2013 #6
Eat the rich! JEB Nov 2013 #7
A smart and orderly society would ban hoarding, and evil rich fucks who play with the machinery. byronius Nov 2013 #9
Yes. It is almost impossible. raging moderate Nov 2013 #10
Message auto-removed Name removed Nov 2013 #11
welcome to DU gopiscrap Nov 2013 #12
Well said and welcome to DU! JNelson6563 Nov 2013 #13
oh boy, so much to say... FirstLight Nov 2013 #14
This shit is so true and it is heartbreaking. Threedifferentones Nov 2013 #15
How sad, to live without hope. CFLDem Nov 2013 #16
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