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Are we all fucked? (lemm.ee)
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I'm worried for the world. All I've been thinking about is WW3 and this shit makes me want to vomit. I can't even smoke weed anymore without having a near panic attack. I feel unmotivated. I wake up and immediately just want to go back to bed. I'm not trying to spread fear but the Doomsday clock is 90 seconds till midnight, during the Cuban missile crisis, it was 7 minutes before midnight. Can we just have one day of fucking peace? Can everyone just stop for one day and enjoy one day of peace?

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[โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

You are right, I actually never read about the history of protests. Do you have any books to recommend?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago

    I would start with MLK, collected essays, no one writes about protest more eloquently.

    A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn gives a great broad overview.

    Death in the Haymarket by James Green is a great history of the first decades of the labor movement.

    Doris Kearns Goodwin's Leadership in Turbulent Times goes in depth on LBJ and the civil rights movement.

    On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau for the classic philosopher's take.

    We've Got People by Ryan Grim details the successes and failures of the movement in the last decade.

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