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Michael Dunn
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Working Class Historical Fiction from the not so gilded age. Labor History. Social justice. An injury to one is an injury to all!

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Michael Dunn @michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social · Nov 24
ANYWHERE BUT SCHUYLKILL
Working-Class Historical Fiction

Available from these retailers:
www.keplers.com
www.greenapplebooks.com
christophersbooks.com
boundtogether.org//
www.historiumpress.com/michael-dunn

#workingclass #fiction #novel #author #writer #historicalfiction #books #strike #union
Image of a gallows headframe, above a mine, with a powder blue sky, with clouds, in the background. Caption reads: That damned headframe always gave Mike the shakes. It looked like a giant wooden gallows towering over the mineshaft, only eviler, with its cables and hoist, and the illusion of security. A gallows, at least, was honest. With a gallows, you knew exactly when you would die.
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Today History 11/30/1803: Balmis Expedition left Spain to vaccinate millions against #smallpox in Americas & #Philippines. At the time, 400,000 Europeans died/yr from smallpox. Some estimate that smallpox killed >90% of all #indigenous people of Americas. #vaccine #genocide #colonialism
An 1802 cartoon by James Gillray of the early controversy surrounding Edward Jenner's vaccination procedure, showing his cowpox-derived smallpox vaccine causing cattle to emerge from patients. By James Gillray - Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-3147 (color film copy transparency), archival TIFF version (4 MB), converted to JPEG with the GIMP 2.4.5, image quality 88., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2289666
November 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Palestine Solidarity Day

Observed since November 29, 1978 so the world would not forget the displacement that began in 1947, and it matters even more now as Palestinians live through genocide!

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

#freepalestine #EndtheOccupation #genocide #gaza #solidarity #palestine
NOVEMBER 29 IS INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF PALESTINE Image of eye within a red heart
November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Soldier, pointing to his fingers, as he answers the question: War, Who is it Good for. Ans: Lockheed Martin, Halliburton, Boeing, Ratheon. Support our brave CEOs. don't question wars.
November 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Nurse writing onto a clipboard, against a red background. Reads: Feeling San and Depressed? Are you anxious? Worried about the future? Feeling isolated and alone? You might be suffering from capitalism. Symptoms may include: homelessness, unemployment, poverty, hunger, feelings of powerlessness, fear, apathy, boredom, cultural decay, loss of identity, extreme self-consciousness, loss of free speech, incarceration, suicidal or revolutionary thoughts, death.
November 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/291832: Louisa May Alcott, author, nurse, feminist & abolitionist, was born. Most famous for “Little Women.” Also wrote “Work,” exposing exploitation of women workers. #workingclass #feminism #slavery #Abolition #nurse #poverty #books #literature #fiction #writer #author
Portrait of a young Louisa May Alcott, hair parted down the center, eyes looking directly at us, with the follow quote: A real gentleman is as polite a little girl as to a woman.
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Free Bobby Now, by the Lumpen

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2ll...

#blackpanthers #blackpower #funk #thelumpen
"Free Bobby Now" - The Lumpen (1970 "Seize The Time" Black Panther Party Productions)
YouTube video by Jason Madore
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November 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/29/1781: Crew of British slave ship Zong slaughtered >130 enslaved Africans, when ship ran low on drinking water. Insurance company refused to pay. Court ruled captain & crew at fault. #workingclass #slavery #abolition #massacre #racism
The Slave Ship (1840), J. M. W. Turner's representation of the mass killing of enslaved people, inspired by the Zong killings. Shows a slave ship, being tossed around in rough seas, as people who’ve been thrown overboard struggle in the waves, with a glaring sunset in the background. By J. M. W. Turner - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2816953
November 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/29/1969: Cover of the #BlackPanther portrayed image of pigs being killed. Created by #EmoryDouglas, the pig images helped popularize use of “pig” as a pejorative for #police. Emory also cofounded #funk band, The Lumpen
Front cover of the Black Panther, Nov 29, 1969, with an image of Huey Newton in the masthead. Main image by Emory Douglas portrays and African American man in a fedora stabbing a green pig with a knife. Pig's tongue is hanging out and eyes are squeezed shut. Other pigs are shown getting killed in the foreground. Cartoon by Black Panther Minister of Culture, Emory Douglas depicting a gagged Bobby Seale, seated in the court of Julius Hoffman, tied down by ropes, during the Trial of the Chicago Eight. A pig in a cop uniform, baton raised, is kicking Seale in the chest, as another pig stands nearby, also with a raised baton. Seale is pointing a Judge Hoffman, depicted as a bespectacled rat waving an America flag and a Confederate flag, with flies buzzing around his head. Caption reads: “An unarmed people are slaves or are subjected to slavery at any given time.” –Dred Scott, 1857 and –Bobby Seale, 1969
November 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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HOWARD ZINN BOOK FAIR
SF Bay Area next weekend

I’ll be reading from my novel & leading a panel discussion with

•Tongo Eisen-Martin: San Francisco Poet Laureate
•Ananda Esteva
•Jenny Worley

Sun 12/7/2025
10:30am-12:00pm
City College of San Francisco
1125 Valencia St., Room 213
Fighting Supremacy Within Our Movements, As Portrayed in Working-Class Memoir, Poetry and Fiction Featuring Tongo Eisen-Martin, Ananda Esteva, Jenny Worley and Michael Dunn at the Howard Zinn Book Fair Sunday, December 7, 2025 10:30am-12:00pm City College of San Francisco, Mission Campus 1125 Valencia St., Room 213
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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As if you needed any more reasons to hate #RFKJr....

Same guy who who likened Gender Affirming Care to mutilation, who enacted policies ending trans healthcare services is, himself, undergoing Gender Affirming Care.

www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/27/r...

#hrt #transrightsarehumanrights
Robert F Kennedy Jr is currently receiving gender-affirming care. Yes, really
Robert F Kennedy Jr, the anti-trans US health secretary, is currently undergoing hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
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November 28, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Let's call today "Fuck Margaret Thatcher Day."

Got any good anti-Thatcher memes or jokes? Please add them to the comments.
Person in a hood, standing at a sidewalk plaque labeled: Margaret Thatcher 1923-2013, with the caption: I am at a Gender Neutral Bathroom. Originally posted by Trans Fury
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/28/1990: #MargaretThatcher resigned in tears after mass non-payment of #polltax forced her out. Nearly half of all British adults refused to pay. Led to thousands of #demonstrations. Many became #riots after #police attacked #protests.
Poll Tax Riot 31st Mar 1990 - Horse Charge. By James Bourne - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40395295
November 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/28/1944: 400 people in Rotterdam attacked a coal warehouse during #Nazi occupation. By 1944, >300,000 Dutch resisters lived underground. Tens of thousands more resisted militarily.

#workingclass #worldwartwo #resistance #occupation #solidarity #fascism #antifascism
Resistance group operating near Dalfsen, Ommen and Lemelerveld. By Een onbekend persoon van de verzetsgroep. Degenen is onbekend omdat iedereen zo min mogelijk wist wat er in de verzetsgroep gaande was om verraad na eventuele arrestatie te voorkomen. - Werkgroep Doc. '39-'45 historische kring Dalfsen, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15182742
November 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/28/1843: Kingdom of #Hawaii recognized by #UK & #France. The date is now known Hawaiian #Independence Day. In 1891, the Committee of Safety, led by US businessmen overthrew Queen Liliʻuokalani. 1898 US annexed Hawaii.
Queen Liliʻuokalani, seated on a throne, wearing a long black gown. By James J. Williams – This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID ppmsca.53150.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68080836
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Racist shit for poor people...

apnews.com/article/camp...
November 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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For those who currently get medical through their jobs, that cost is 40-50% of their compensation package. Medicare for all would free up enough money to finance raises of at least 40%, without costing employers a penny in profits.
darrigomelanie.bsky.social Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d
63% of Americans support Medicare for All:

✅ everyone is covered
✅ families save money
✅ no premiums, deductibles or copays
✅ prescriptions covered
✅ you pick your doctors
✅ cuts spending by $650B per year
✅ covers dental, vision, hearing and long term care

It’s time.
November 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Standup comedian Brandy Bryant says: If trans people wanted to groom your kids we wouldn't have spent years taking hormones, blowing all of our money on surgery, or losing our friends and family. We'd have joined your churches and become pastors.
November 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Or, maybe this is precisely why you put xmas lights on palm trees.
Palm trees, covered with Christmas lights, at night, looking like giant, erect phalli. Reads: This is why you don't put Christmas lights on palm trees.
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/27/1898: Maria Vetulani was born. Woman soldier in Poland’s independence, #WWII & #antifascism. Hid #jews in her Warsaw apartment. Murdered by #Nazis during #Warsaw #uprising 1944. Husband murdered by #Stalin in #USSR.

#communism #socialism #antisemitism #holocaust
Maria Vetulani, Polish woman soldier, who fought in Battle of Lwów (1918) and Warsaw Uprising (1944). By Unknown author - Archiwa rodzinne, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23046626
November 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/27/1937: The #ILGWU-commissioned musical "Pins & Needles" opened on Broadway, with a cast of #union members. Check out Streisand from the 1962 anniversary release:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQnU...

#workingclass #union #ilgwu #broadway #theatre #musical #singer
Doing the Reactionary
YouTube video by Barbra Streisand - Topic
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November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/27/1835: James Pratt & John Smith were the last 2 people executed for sodomy in England. Convicted on testimony of landlord, who had been spying on them through the keyhole.
#workingclass #homophobia #lgbtq #prison #deathpenalty
An execution outside Newgate Prison, early 19th century. By Unknown author - http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/summer11/prison.cfm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20493402
November 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Well, I hate banks, I just can't stand 'em
Gimme a shovel and, man, I'll plant 'em
Six feet under, that's where they belong
"I Hate Banks" is the name of this song
I think I'll rob myself one or two
I hate banks, yeah, how 'bout you?
-Mojo Nixon
Hello. We see your account is $2.13 overdrawn and we know you live paycheck to paycheck. So, we went ahead and charged you a $35 eat shit and die" fee because fuck you, we're the bank.
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Today in #LaborHistory 11/27/1978: Former cop & supervisor Dan White assassinated #SanFrancisco
mayor George Moscone & its 1st #LGBTQ supervisor #HarveyMilk. Acquitted of 1st-degree murder, leading to #riots. #workingclass #police #assassination #castrodistrict #policebrutality
In this May 22, 1979 file photo, demonstrators smash glass out of the front doors of the San Francisco City Hall. Thousands marched to city hall, protesting the voluntary manslaughter conviction of Dan White in the fatal shootings of Mayor George Moscone and city supervisor and gay rights activist Harvey Milk.
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Top Panel shows a Couple looking considering buying a house. Reads: My parents in their 30s. Bottom panel shows a skeletal looking man with crazy hair and beard, sunken eyes, toothless saying, "I guess I can't afford to have teeth." Reads: Me in my 30s Posted by Guillotines For A Better America, who add: Live that American Dream, baby! If you work hard enough and long enough, you can help your boss buy a vacation home! Oh, you want a home? Nah, that's not a good...
November 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Fire your boss!
Join a union. Organize.
Direct Action gets the Goods!

#classwar #solidarity #union #organize #strike #generalstrike
Poster showing a graph of declining union membership from 1940 to 2020, with wage growth frozen and flat since 1970, versus skyrocketing productivity. It reads, in red lettering: Missing: Employee Wages. Have you seen a real raise? Last seen in 1970. Believe to have gone to executives and shareholders. How can you find lost wages? Talk to management about cost of living. Organize your workplace. find a new job. Accept nothing less than what you deserve. contact a local union rep TODAY!
November 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM