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HUAC And New McCarthyism May 14 2025 |
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by Shaping San Francisco |
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Sixty-five years ago, in 1960, the House Un-American |
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Committee (HUAC) held its last-ever public hearings in |
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San Francisco |
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City Hall. Police turned fire hoses on peaceful student |
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protesters while |
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fiery rebukes were issued to the reactionary congressmen |
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by Communist |
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Party witnesses. This was a crucial turning point between |
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the |
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bone-chilling McCarthyism of the 1950s and the soon-to- |
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explode movements |
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for social liberation of the 1960s. We will show |
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highlights from |
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"Operation Abolition," the public film made by HUAC to |
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"prove" |
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communists dominated the protests, and Chris Carlsson |
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will briefly |
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describe the longer history of anti-communism set in |
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motion by liberal |
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democrats in the late 1930s and how Democratic President |
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Harry Truman |
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launched the Cold War after WWII. We welcome David |
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Palumbo-Liu to |
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discuss what we might we learn about today as we witness |
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transphobia on |
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the rise, efforts to stamp out all pro-Palestinian |
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speech, and other |
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attacks on resistance in a strange echo of the ghosts of |
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Cold War |
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hysteria eight decades ago. |
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Co-sponsored by Left in the Bay |
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Date Published: 2025-05-16 04:20:41 |
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Identifier: huac-and-new-mc-carthyism-may-14-2025 |
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Item Size: 2147483647 |
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Media Type: movies |
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Cold war |
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anti-communism |
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liberal Democrats |
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New Deal Democrats |
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Harry Truman |
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FDR |
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Culbert Olsen |
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Sam Yorty |
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John Tenney |
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Tenney Commission |
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Little HUAC |
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HUAC |
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Martin Dies |
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Philippines |
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security |
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spies |
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counter-insurgency |
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Palestine |
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Gaza |
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Israel |
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zionism |
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anti-zionism |
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anti-war |
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Communist Party USA |
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loyalty oaths |
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Levering Act |
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censorship |
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moral crusade |
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genocide |
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