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Man > February 16-28
The Man is always up to his dirty little
tricks. Let's take a step back and review The Man and the fight
against Him in history:
February 16:
1942 - Conscientious objectors arrested
after walking out of work camp, Merom, Indiana.
February 17:
1495: Miguel de Cueno, a member of Columbus' second expedition,
ships 550 captured Carib Indians to be slaves in Europe. 200 die at
sea.
February 18:
1933 - I don't think I need to explain why The
Man was behind this... On this date Yoko Ono was born.
February 19:
1942 -
Roosevelt signs E.O. 9066, the internment order permitting Japanese
Americans to be held in concentration camps for the duration of
the war.
February 20:
1942 - Norwegian teachers begin successful nonviolent
strike against Nazification of schools.
February 22:
1943 - Sophie Scholl, a 22-year-old
activist at Munich University, is executed after being convicted of
urging students to rise up and overthrow the Nazi government.
February 23:
2002 - Arthur Anderson executives deny knowledge of Enron
document destruction.
February 25:
1642 - Massacre of friendly Indians by Dutch Gov. Kiert
of New York and soldiers of Staten Island. 120 Wecquaesgeek men, women
and children asleep in their wigwams die.
February 26:
1974 - A U.S. Senate report reveals Ford Motor's involvement
in Nazi Germany's war efforts, for which CEO Henry Ford received the
Grand Cross of the
German Eagle from Adolf Hitler himself. Wanna feel even better? After
the war, the car company was paid nearly $1 million in reparations
by the
U.S.
government
to compensate it for one of its plants that was bombed within the Reich.
February 28:
 1964
- After a $10 million payout from big tobacco (see
February 7, 1964) The American Medical Association supports the
tobacco industry's objection to labeling cigarets as a health hazard,
writes in a letter to the Federal Trade Commission, "More than
90 million persons in the United States use tobacco in some form, and,
of these 72 million use cigarettes... the economic lives of tobacco
growers, processors, and merchants are entwined in the industry; and
local, state, and the federal governments are recipients of and dependent
upon many millions of dollars of tax revenue." (More
Info)
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