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    Highlights from Fighting Bob Fest: Chris Hedges

    Starting a Revolution

    By Chris Hedges

    I would like to begin by speaking about the people of Gaza. Their suffering is not an abstraction to me. I was the Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times. I spent seven years in the region. I speak Arabic. And for much of the time I was in Gaza, including when Israeli fighter jets and soldiers were attacking it.

    I have stood over the bodies, including the bodies of children, left behind by Israeli airstrikes and assaults. I have watched mothers and fathers cradle their dead and bloodied boys and girls in their arms, convulsed by an indescribable grief, shrieking in pitiful cries to an indifferent universe.

    And in this charnel house, this open-air prison where 1.8 million people, nearly half of them children, live trapped in an Israeli ghetto, I have witnessed the crimes of occupation: the food shortage, the stifling overcrowding,

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    Fighting Bob La Follette Plaque Unveiled in State Capitol

    The Raging Grannies of Madison joined Wisconsin Secretary of State Doug La Follette and dozens of onlookers in the state capitol today to unveil a new plaque dedicated to La Follette’s great-grandfather, “Fighting Bob” La Follette.

    Robert M. La Follette was born in Primrose Wisconsin in 1855, and was elected to the US House of Representatives, US Senate, and Governor of Wisconsin at the turn of the 20th century. A staunch Progressive, Fighting Bob ran for President as a third party candidate twice, once in 1912, and igen in 1924, where he won over 16% of the popular vote. Fighting Bob died while serving as a US medlem av senat in 1925.

    Now, almost 100 years after his death, Fighting Bob is commemorated with not only a bust, but a plaque outlining his achievements and his kamp for progressive politics.

    Doug La Follette, who has served as sekreterare of State since 1982, first got the idea to install a plaque on the bust of Fight

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    524 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 18 illus., 4 figs., appends., notes, index

    • E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8078-3920-1
      Published: December 2012
    • Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-4772-5
      Published: March 1999
    • E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-7090-2
      Published: December 2012

    Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press

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    Awards & distinctions

    2000 Homer Babbidge Prize, Association for the Study of Connecticut History

    As cultural authority was reconstituted in the Revolutionary era, knowledge reconceived in the age of Enlightenment, and the means of communication radically altered by the proliferation of print, speakers and writers in eighteenth-century America began to describe themselves and their world i
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