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neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 22h

Hi, Mei. Good to see you. I hope you are well.

P.S. Crazy times, eh?

neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 22h

@BerniceKing (Oct 7, 2025):

"A cartoon about my father from the 1960s.
...
Today, his message has been distorted by many who would have hated him then, but evoke him now to deter justice and truth."

#MLK #TheKingCenter #HistoryMatters #ReThinkKing

neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 22h

John Lewis (2018):

neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 22h

Tony Wilson, Trinidadian vocalist, bass guitarist and songwriter, known for his time with the band Hot Chocolate, was born on Oct 8, 1947. #TonyWilson

Hot Chocolate - "You Sexy Thing" (Errol Brown, Tony Wilson) (1976, ZDF Disco)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DwE...

Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing (ZDF Disco, 24.04.1976)

YouTube video by Hot Chocolate

www.youtube.com

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neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks. I was listening to it on CBC over the air and thought others might like to listen to it.

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neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 1d

Gil Scott-Heron - "Revolution Will Not Be Televised" (Gil Scott-Heron) (1971)
#Music #Jazz
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSR...

Gil Scott-Heron - Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Ace Records

www.youtube.com

neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 1d

Gil Scott-Heron - "Lady Day and John Coltrane" (Gil Scott-Heron) (1971)
#Music #Jazz
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aRN...

Gil Scott-Heron - Lady Day And John Coltrane (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Ace Records

www.youtube.com

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neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 1d

@eulimnadia.bsky.social Is the linked page accessible in the U.S.?

neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 1d

#Film #Theatre #Indigenous

Graham Greene "brought nuance, humour and grit to many roles, paving a way for generations of Indigenous actors."

Remembering Graham Greene (Oct. 3, 2025, Unreserved
with Rosanna Deerchild, CBC)
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

www.cbc.ca

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

“Anti-woke crusader Pete Hegseth praised DEI and working with Democrats while at Harvard, report says” 10/7/25 (So what—and more specifically WHO—changed him so drastically?) www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Pete Hegseth praised DEI and working with Democrats while at Harvard, report says

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth raged against ‘woke garbage’ and ‘politically correct’ policies at a meeting with hundreds of military admirals and generals last week

www.independent.co.uk

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neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 1d

#Film #Theatre #Indigenous

Graham Greene "brought nuance, humour and grit to many roles, paving a way for generations of Indigenous actors."

Remembering Graham Greene (Oct. 3, 2025, Unreserved
with Rosanna Deerchild, CBC)
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

www.cbc.ca

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🔥🗽🔥SoCal Redhead🔥🗽🔥 @vlf79.bsky.social · 1d

Depression is a 🧠 killer. It's easy to fall into that hole these days. I urge you to fight it. The monsters want us to give up. They want us to feel defeated.

We don't have to give them that satisfaction.

We need to stop with this being a L/R thing as this is now a Freedom fight for all of us.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press.” 9/2/25 h/t @5gw.bsky.social … 1/
apnews.com/article/pent...

Pentagon authorizes up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press.

apnews.com

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🔥🗽🔥SoCal Redhead🔥🗽🔥 @vlf79.bsky.social · 1d

. ... Them free rein using wordplay to put us against each other. The one A was to control what government did. So that way we maintained control of our government. We can make whatever changes we want now.
There's no reason to shed blood because we are all struggling for the same thing survival.

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🔥🗽🔥SoCal Redhead🔥🗽🔥 @vlf79.bsky.social · 1d

.... Begin with how the experiment is officially dead. It was a science experiment. Only good science will bring it back. It's a science of Words & policy.

This is no longer politics. This is American Freedom on the line. No politician should ever be allowed to lie to us. The 1A wasn't to give...

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 “I refuse to let Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, and Gregory Bevino, continue on this march towards autocracy.” Posted 15 minutes ago. 1/2

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neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 1d

Sam Brown, English singer-songwriter, composer, arranger and record producer, was born on Oct. 7, 1964. #SamBrown

Sam Brown - "Horse to the Water" (George Harrison, Dhani Harrison) (2002, Concert for George)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvDS...

Sam Brown Horse To The Water 2002

YouTube video by Yuri Tabak

www.youtube.com

neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 1d

John Mellencamp, American musician, singer-songwriter, painter, actor, and film director, was born on Oct. 7, 1951. #JohnMellencamp

Colt Clark and the Quarantine Kids - "Jack and Diane" (John Mellencamp) (2022)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK2h...

Colt Clark and the Quarantine Kids play "Jack and Diane"

YouTube video by The Clark Family Creative

www.youtube.com

neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 1d

John Mellencamp, American musician, singer-songwriter, painter, actor, and film director, was born on Oct. 7, 1951. #JohnMellencamp

John Mellencamp - "Pink Houses" (John Mellencamp) (2005, Live at Farm Aid)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z13q...

John Mellencamp - Pink Houses (Live at Farm Aid 2005)

YouTube video by Farm Aid

www.youtube.com

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neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 1d

Kevin Godley, British singer, songwriter, and musician, singer/drummer of 10cc and later a member of Godley & Creme, was born on Oct. 7, 1945. #KevinGodley

10cc - "I'm Not in Love" (Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman) (1975), Godley on Moog and backing vocals
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=STug...

10cc - I'm Not In Love

YouTube video by 10ccVEVO

www.youtube.com

neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 1d

Chet Powers, American singer-songwriter, was born on Oct. 7, 1937 (d. 1994). #ChetPowers

"You hold the key to love and fear / All in your trembling hand / ... / It's there at your command."

The Youngbloods - "Get Together" (Chet Powers) (1967)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xGx...

The Youngbloods - Get Together (Audio)

YouTube video by LegacyRecordingsVEVO

www.youtube.com

neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 1d

Chet Powers [Dino Valenti], American singer-songwriter, writer of song "Get Together", was born on Oct. 7, 1937 (d. 1994). #ChetPowers

Chet Powers - "Get Together" (Chet Powers) (2007 Remaster)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8xp...

Dino Valenti - Let's Get Together

YouTube video by John1948FourA

www.youtube.com

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neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 1d

Joe Hill, Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, was born on Oct. 7, 1879 (d. 1915). #JoeHill

Phil Ochs - "The Ballad of Joe Hill" (Traditional ("John Hardy" melody), Phil Ochs) (1968)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kozW...

Joe Hill

YouTube video by Phil Ochs - Topic

www.youtube.com

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neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 1d

Joe Hill, Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, was born on Oct. 7, 1879 (d. 1915). #JoeHill

Joan Baez - "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" (Earl Robinson, poem by Alfred Hayes) (2015, Joe Hill Centenary Concert, Los Angeles)
#Music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=czVt...

Joan Baez sings "I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night" at Joe Hill Centenary Concert in Los Angeles

YouTube video by Tony Tracy

www.youtube.com

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neal 🌻🇺🇦🇨🇦🌳⚖️☮📚 @nealfig.bsky.social · 1d

Dangerously incompetent often. Signal-gate, laying off essential workers, etc.

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Jill-Duh @gildafoster.bsky.social · 2d

Actions must be sustained.
We didn't eat grapes that whole time because we don't cross picket lines in my family.

Jill-Duh @gildafoster.bsky.social · 2d

"The strike lasted for five years and was characterized by its grassroots efforts—consumer boycotts, marches, community organizing and nonviolent resistance—which gained the movement national attention."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delano_...

Delano grape strike - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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