Aaron Goings
@aarongoings.bsky.social
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Working class. Historian. Friend to animals. Sheinbaum-affiliated. Got terminated for union activism. My website: https://www.aarongoings.com
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I wrote a new book called “Red Harbor.” See that sweet cover below

It’ll be released this summer—for once I won’t be in Finland or stuck inside during a pandemic. It’s available on pre-order from the UW Press—right now has a mighty fine sale (40% off, free shipping)

uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Red Harbor
Brings to life Grays Harbor's fiery legacy of class conflictIn the early decades of the twentieth century, Grays Harbor was the Lumber Capital of the World. ...
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He did it again for the 5 year anniversary
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Wobbly hoopers and track/fielders kicking around out there—and in all the other Finn towns
🙏 Kirsti.
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New brick addition to downtown—somewhere on the Harbor. 😂
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Two (2) MA fellowships at Concordia in deindustrialization studies.
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Big agree with this post—take a look at the gofundme below

And not the most important part of the story, but Tom Alter is a remarkable scholar—in a less repressive era/country, some fancy school would recruit him. I recommend buying/reading his work!

www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=47...
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Thank you so much for coming and for writing. It means a lot that you were able to come. And dang, what a cool bookstore! Good place for cat shirts. 🙏
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A university fired a tenured labor historian?

The terminated prof is author of one of the great books of this century. This sucks

glad this is getting the attention it deserves since it’s disgusting
houstonchronicle.com
Texas State University announced Wednesday that it had fired associate history professor Thomas Alter for “controversial statements” at a conference that advocated “for inciting violence.”
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My latest—an interview in the @uwapress.uw.edu blog to commemorate the publication of my new book, “Red Harbor: Radical Unionism and Class Struggle in the Pacific Northwest”

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read the bathroom graffiti while coming up with excuses to excuse myself, head home (in the US/Canada)

be buzzed, then drunk (in Finland)
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Thankeee, @dhprice.bsky.social for linking to my new Counterpunch article—The Far Right & the Further Right in Lumber Country.

2 sections of the American Right fighting for power.
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America’s Far Right and the Further Right: the Klan and a Coup in 1920s Lumber Country - CounterPunch.org share.google/rlEwz3zIKDJx...
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Here’s a thing or two to do for (the other) Labor Day Weekend:

1) Get Kim Kelly’s book “Fight to Win: Heroes of American Labor” as a gift for the young readers in your life: www.kim-kelly.com/booksnmerch

2) Support Labor-Left journalism by subbing to Kim’s Patreon
www.patreon.com/kimkelly
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I wrote an article for Counterpunch about the Right in US History—specifically from a century ago. Features here include the KKK, a mayoral coup, businessmen vigilantes, and the Congressman whose name is atop the 1924 immigration restriction law—Albert Johnson
www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/29/a...
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“Hey, how much lip filler does a guy gotta use to get them to put my photo on the book jacket?” 😉
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the can’t spell part is an excellent addition to this tweet. Thank you.
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Woohoo! Look what came in the mail today. At long last, decades after I started my study of community and radicalism in Grays Harbor, “Red Harbor” is here.

Big thanks to the @uwapress.bsky.social and the coolest book blurbers around.

And that’s Sabo—named for you know who 15 sweet years ago
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BREAKING: Workers at Yosemite and Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Parks just won their union elections.

They are the first national parks to unionize in several years.
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Suddenly you went from being right about class/conflict issues, metal music, and cool, non-New York parts of Jersey

To being correct about pretty much everything. Congratulations
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Did that publication get funding from some evil organization just to drive the rare non-right winger in media crazy?
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Here’s the Finnish-language Wobbly songbook