#historyfrombelow

[tildosacchinischool]

A love letter before history intervenes

February 1934: Fausta writes to Giulio, far away at officers’ school. Spring, longing, irony—and a future already moving toward war. Read an intimate voice from the past.

🔗 https://www.tildosacchinischool.it/archivio-sacchini/fausta-gualerzi-13-febbraio-1934/

[mulchthief]

For the last year, I've been working with a small group of folks down in Matewan, West Virginia on developing and opening a people's history museum called the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum. This week we've launched our online fundraising campaign, to help us collect some of the final pieces needed to open our doors to the public on May 16!

We’ve been working with grant funding and local support, but there are still costs remaining to put the final pieces in place before the grand opening. Please check out our campaign, support it if you are able, and pass this along!

[mulchthief]

(by Jeff Biggers at Zinn Education Project)

[mulchthief]

my new Celebrate People's History poster about the Luddites is available over at Justseeds! I also wrote up a long-winded "how/why I made this" post on the Justseeds blog...

[onthewhole]

I think I'm in love..... Delta Spirit "Bushwick Blues"

[jimhawkinns]

I was just wondering, where did you get your Wreck This Journal from? I saw it was in your 2011 goals hehe:) and I would love one but I haven't seen them around! xxx

i just went into waterstones in bluewater and asked for it, they said they only had one left.

it was quite weird because the women said she's never heard of it before, and in the last few days 6 people had come in and asked for one! 

so yeah, i suggest you go to waterstones or some big place like that and just ask. alternatively, my local bookshop is amazing and they order books for me if they don't have them, so i'm sure a lot of bookshops would order it in for you. 

[themetaphorsicantcreate]

Sleep, oh, sleep my Vivian, Heaven is too cold without you. Well, I'll stay right here above the clouds, Waiting to see heaven with you. Well, I'll fall for each breath as long as I could. Fighting with nothing to hold. The last breath I took blew through the wind And into nothin' at all. Sleep, oh, sleep my Vivian, Heaven is too cold without you. Well, I'll stay right here below the clouds, Waiting to see heaven with you. Well, I know it's hard to deal with the pain, You yell from your liver giving out. Well, just close your eyes and think of me, Oh, Jerry's not leavin' this gal. Sleep, oh, sleep my Vivian, Heaven is too cold without you. Well, I'll stay right here above your house, Waiting to see heaven with you. Oh, your fiery red hair and your warm brown eyes, You remember the day that we wed? Forever our souls are intertwined, Not separate even in death. Sleep, oh, sleep my Vivian, Heaven ain't nothin' without you. Well, I'll stay right here beside your bed, Waiting to see heaven with you...

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A song for my mom:

Don't you worry about us up there. We'll be okey. : [

[themetaphorsicantcreate]

May the grass below be green and the sky above be blue. : ]