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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 1:
1960 - Four black students sit in at
a Woolworths' lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina to protest
segregation. Similar protests later take place all over the South and
in some northern communities.
February 3:
1977 - After legal secretary Iris
Rivera loses job for refusing to make coffee, secretaries across
Chicago join
in protest. Right on sweet sistahs!
February 4:
1987 - Congress overrides Pres. Reagan's veto of Clean
Water Act.
February 5:
A memo from Brown & Williamson consultants
recommended the company use a "sweet flavor" cigarette: "It's
a well-known fact that teenagers like sweet products. Honey might be
considered." (Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 1972, from
John Schwartz, Documents Indicate Strategy of Targeting Teen Smokers,
Washington Post, February 5, 1998, p A3) (More
Info)
February 7:
1964 - In cahoots with The Man... The
American Medical Association (AMA) accepts a $10 million grant for tobacco
research from six cigarette companies. The AMA shelves its previous
plans to issue a report on smoking's relationship to cancer; the official
AMA word on smoking and health won't be issued for another 10 years.
(More
Info)
February 8:
 1910
- The homophobic organization knows as the Boy Scouts was founded today
by
Lord Robert Baden-Powell, a repressed
homosexual who recommends in his 1908 manual Scouting for Boys that
a young man beset by impure thoughts should drive them away by plunging
his "racial
organ" into
icy water. (More
Info)
February 9:
1950 - Senator Joseph McCarthy charges that the State
Department is infested with 205 communists.
February 13:
1968 - Five soldiers arrested at pray-in
for peace, Fort Jackson, SC.
2003 - On this day a 2,700-page report from the Joint
Committee on Taxation said the former energy trading giant Enron Corp.
manipulated
the U.S. tax code so aggressively that from 1996 through 1999 it paid
no federal income taxes.
February 14:
2002 - Hero of the people and Enron executive Sherron
Watkins testifies before a House Committee, sharply disputing previous
testimony and implicating Jeffrey Skilling and Andrew Fastow as culpable
for Enron's demise.
2002 - Documents reveal Enron executive offered Kenneth
Lay public relations advice on how to blame others for Enron's rapidly
increasing financial troubles. (More
Info)
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