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the colorado coalfield wars.
the nyc draft riots of 1863---the establishment of the national guard followed from this, and the national guard, before reagan made it an extension of the active military in order to reduce the possibility of instituting the draft, was about repression of internal political struggle.
much of the war on organized labor for that matter--there is a question about the status of private mercenaries on the order of the pinkertons, how one is to think about them--the situation is not that different from the "private security firms" which operate as american military proxies in iraq, for example.
how do you think about the entire military campaign against the native americans? were these peoples inside or outside?
etc.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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