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Sam Colt's
Real
Legacy
God created
men, Colt
made them
dead
Moving
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Digital Hartford: Anti-war rallies, strikes, health care for all and more !
Strange
Fruit
A local
history
of lynching
People of Faith

Caterwauled

Queers w/o Borders

Mira Hartford
Unions Against the War!
Activities by working people  and their local unions against the Iraq war.
the workers' republic
Unionized workers occupy the Republic Windows and Doors factory in Chicago. It's a lesson for the future, grounded in past struggles from Flint to Hartford. 
Eyewitness report here
Three Mile Island 30 years later...
New Nukes?  No way!
How can we trust an industry that can't keep
us safe?

May Day
Art Alert
On May 1, 2009. the cultural workers struck. Who put banners up honoring artists and those who care for the art?
Hiroshima in Hartford
It’s August 6, 2009. On this warm summer night, the Diaz family is walking through Riverside Park in Hartford. The kids are thirsty and they’re on the way home across the highway to their house in the new Stowe Village.  (more)


Bagels and Oatmeal
FnB activists defy authorities and set up shop August 11th in Hartford to protest Middletown harrassment.
Forty years ago:
No Business As Usual:
Ten Thousand March
in Bushnell Park
Against Vietnam War
On a cool and sunny fall day in Hartford, ten thousand people jammed into Bushnell Park with one goal: to stop the war in Vietnam. As the single largest protest of its kind in the city’s history, October 15, 1969 was historic.
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Louis Sockalexis
First native American professional  ballplayer in Hartford
Hartford's
Sex Trade
Politics and Prostituion in the Capital City
Rumble on Congress Street
Ray Adams refuses eviction
Insurance Companies: The real death panels
Calling out Aetna and its pals who stand in the way of health care for all