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Laurel Krause

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Seeking peace and healing. Allison's sister, demanding Kent State Truth RE the May 4, 1970 massacre 55 years later. Working on #Peace at the #AllisonCenter for Peace, Building #Memorials https://bit.ly/2oUcH4Q

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Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · Aug 20

Pondering the May 4, 1970 #KentState massacre and the public's right to #TRUTH bit.ly/4oL3FRN ☮️🌺

When Will “We, the People” Know the Truth?

Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 17h

NYTimes reports on how Nixon called students protesting the war “Bums” just two days before the May 4, 1970 Kent State massacre. nyti.ms/2Hce6eY

Check out spacing in the archived NYTimes piece. An example of the narrative management described in Long Time Gone (read the NYT piece before fixed).

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Doug Holst @doug-holst.bsky.social · 1d

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 21h

LOL

Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 22h

Little did I know some of #Allison's friends founded #DEVO. Members of the band DEVO were present at the May 4, 1970 #KentState massacre. Have a listen to their version of Neil Young's Ohio bit.ly/1pFl8wN ☮️

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Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises Ohio · Devo When Pigs Fly: Songs You Never Thought You'd Hear ℗ 2002 Xemu Records, Inc. Released on: 2002-05-21 Producer: Cevin Soling Auto-generated by YouTube.

Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 22h

By the late 70's I scored a rent-controlled Russian Hill apartment in #NorthBeach with a view of the Bay & Alcatraz. Days began with a cafe latte from Yolanda at Caffe Trieste. In 1977 there was a cool new Ohio band playing at the #MabuhayGardens. www.stardumbrecords.com/products/dev...

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Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 1d

An archive of the CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS from the first West Coast Computer Faire. Back then, it was too expensive for me to buy. bit.ly/48i0MlQ #HistoricDocument! ☮️

DigiBarn Documents: West Coast Computer Faire Proceedings & Program (1977-78) : DigiBarn Computer Museum : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

DigiBarn Documents: West Coast Computer Faire Proceedings & Program (1977)Program and Proceedings edited by Jim Warren announced and detailed the April...

Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 1d

When I arrived in the #BayArea I wanted to help bring in personal computing and all the cool stuff bubbling up down the peninsula. That spring in 1977 I was stoked to attend the first West Coast Computer Faire - my dream come true.

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Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 1d

From a cherished album #Allison and I bought together in the late 60's, We're Only In It for the Money by #FrankZappa and the MOI, I was brainwashed to go to #SanFrancisco as soon as I was free -- and I did just that. Have a listen bit.ly/35O8lhZ ☮️🌺

Frank Zappa & The Mothers - Who Needs the Peace Corps ?

What's there to live for? Who needs the peace corps?

Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 1d

Folks in other countries have ALWAYS known more about the May 4, 1970 #KentState massacre. Outside the U.S., they have access to evidence and facts, unlike the propaganda U.S. media has force-fed Americans. Please READ my view bit.ly/3r5fh92 @KentStateTruth @MendoCoast

Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 1d

Crossing the #GGB at 21 years old with my life before me, my college years studying with Dr. #HowardZinn fortified and bolstered me for this continental leap into the unknown. Thanks Howard bit.ly/2IgBR4w ☮️🌺

Laurel Krause - Howard Zinn

Class of 1976 • Boston University "Learning from Howard helped me heal, fostering thoughts of a just, peaceful world without war took root despite the chaos of those times."

Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 1d

Driving over the #GGB for the first time, I was struck by the hills of rainbow colored houses and, in my mind, heard #MalvinaReynold's wonderful song #LittleBoxes: bit.ly/42z2jAp

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Provided to YouTube by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Little Boxes · Malvina Reynolds Ear to the Ground ℗ 2000 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Released on: 2000-05-23 Auto-generated by YouTube.

Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 1d

Arrived in the Bay Area summer of '76 straight out of college in Boston. After driving down the coast through #Christo's #RunningFence, I crossed the Golden Gate Bridge with a toll $.75. Today the #GGB toll is $9.75.

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1976 Christo's Running Fence

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Robert Dominy @robert.dominy.com · 3d

Moon over Laurel Street, Fort Bragg, CA
#photography #MendocinoCoast #Mendocino #photographersofbluesky #fortbraggca
#fujifilm #fujifilmxt50

Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 6d

Appreciating your kindness. We still stand for #Peace and for the protection of #Protesters today bit.ly/2oUcH4Q ☮️🌺

Honor Thy Protesters. Protect Protest in America!

May 2, 2017 by Laurel Krause As protest season opens across America, citizen concern for the safety and protection of protesters comes to the fore. Like so many Americans raised in the Sixties, I e…

Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 7d

About NOW and #KentState bit.ly/4pP3w0n ☮️

Burcum: Americans are not the enemy, Mr. President

"Let’s defuse, not reassemble, the powder keg that led to May 4, 1970," Jill Burcum writes.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 8d

History has many painful lessons.

A screenshot of an X post by Q. Anthony Ali (@NobleQAli
, 12h ago) featuring a black-and-white historical image of a person lying on the ground while others, including a woman kneeling and several standing figures, are around them in what appears to be a park or open area. Below this, a reply by Antonio Benetto (@Tony_Benetto
, 1d ago) to @drmistercody
states: "I don't believe US troops will fire on American citizens."

Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you for remembering the May 4, 1970 #KentState massacre, @georgetakei.bsky.social - when the National Guard shot and killed students protesting the #VietnamWar. Please learn more about that painful lesson bit.ly/4oL3FRN ☮️🌺

When Will “We, the People” Know the Truth?

Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 9d

Comparing now to the May 4, 1970 #KentState massacre of #StudentProtesters bit.ly/4pP3w0n ☮️🌺

Burcum: Americans are not the enemy, Mr. President

"Let’s defuse, not reassemble, the powder keg that led to May 4, 1970," Jill Burcum writes.

Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 18d

Last year at my front door 🐸

Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 22d

Correction: Ward Reilly crossed over on September 13, 2025 😢🌺☮️

Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · 22d

Friend #WardReilly crossed over today, September 17, 2025. 😰 More about Ward bit.ly/4n9YutH who stood for truth, peace and love. ☮️🌺

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 24d

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

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TomDispatch @tomdispatch.bsky.social · Sep 6

Not The Onion (@commondreams.org) on the latest plan for Gaza: "genocide packaged as real estate" which would include an "Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone," and a "Gaza Trump Riviera & Islands" similar to the Palm Islands in Dubai.

Trump Admin Circulating Plan to Transform Depopulated Gaza Into High-Tech Cash Cow | Common Dreams

Under the proposal, the US would take control after "voluntary" relocation of Palestinians from the strip, where proposed projects include an Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone and Gaza Trump Riviera & Islands.

www.commondreams.org

Laurel Krause @laurelk.bsky.social · Sep 2

READ Mary Ann Vecchio's #KentState #Truth bit.ly/2f3Qn3i ☮️

Mary Ann Vecchio and Laurel Krause