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The Man is always up to his dirty little
tricks. Let's take a step back and review the timeline of The Man
and the fight against Him in history:
December 16:
1991 - Activists in Brussels, Belgium, protesting Vatican
funding for an observatory desecrating sacred Apache site at Mount Graham,
Arizona, pull a bulldozer up to a prominent local cathedral.
December 17:
1944 - U.S. approves an end to the internment of Japanese
Americans. During World War II, U.S. Major General Henry C. Pratt issues
Public Proclamation No. 21, declaring that, effective January 2, 1945,
more than 110,000 Japanese American "evacuees" from the West
Coast could return to their homes after being relocated to remote internment
camps built by the U.S. military for approximately two and a half years.
December 18:
1865 - Ratification of 13th Amendment to U.S. Constitution;
legal slavery abolished in U.S.
1946 - Birth of Steven Biko, South African/Azanian leader
of the Black Consciousness Movement; murdered by South African police
in 1977.
December 19:
1842 - U.S. recognizes Hawaiian independence. Fifty-five
years later, the U.S. would unilaterally annex Hawaii instead. (More
Info)
December 20:
1989 - U.S. invades Panama. Thousands of Panamanians die,
leader Manuel Noriega jailed in U.S., drug running and corruption continue
but with U.S. investor-friendly government.
December 21:
1865 - Illegal executive order removes lands from the
Oregon Coast Indian Reservation, cutting the territory in half.
December 22:
1830 - State of Georgia makes it unlawful for Cherokee
to meet in council, unless it is for the purpose of giving land to whites.
December 23:
Bernhard Goetz, gunslinger for The Man, who shot four
young black men on a subway car the previous day, flees New York City
and heads for New Hampshire.
On the afternoon of December 22, Troy Canty, Barry Allen,
Darrell Cabey, and James Ramseur reportedly approached Goetz as he was
riding the subway and demanded $5. Goetz, who pulled out a .38 caliber
S&W revolver and shot each of the boys in response, allegedly then
said, "You seem to be all right, here's another," to Cabey
before shooting him a second time and severing his spinal cord. When
the subway train made an emergency stop, Goetz told the conductor, "They
tried to rip me off." After refusing to give up his gun, he walked
to the end of train, jumped onto the tracks, and disappeared.
Goetz was later found not guilty on all criminal charges
but was found guilty for violating one minor gun statute, for which
he received a one-year sentence. However, in the civil trial, Goetz
was ordered to pay a multimillion-dollar sum for paralyzing Darrell
Cabey, although it is unlikely that Cabey will ever see any of that
money. (More
Info and Still
More Info)
December 26:
1971 - Two dozen Vietnam Veterans Against the War "liberate"
the Statue of Liberty and fly an inverted U.S. flag from the crown.
December 27:
1900 - Listen up America! When you're fightin' The Man,
don't mess with the malt liquor supply - Carrie Nation's first public
smashing of a bar at the Carey Hotel, Wichita, Kansas.
December 28:
1849 - Work in the corporate world with a stuffy dress
code? Well, here's somebody you can thank for that annoying dry cleaning.
It is said that dry-cleaning was accidentally discovered, on this date,
when M. Jolly-Bellin, a tailor, upset a lamp containing turpentine and
oil on his clothing and noticed it had a cleaning effect. (More
Info)
December 29:
1994 - A state court rejects property rights advocates
and reaffirms the fishing harvest rights of 15 Indian tribes in Washington
state.
December 30:
1971 - Daniel Ellsburg indicted by a federal grand jury
for releasing Pentagon Papers to news media.
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