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The boogeyman is coming…..
Fun one I did awhile back for MonsterTease
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On this day, 8 October 1967 Yamazaki Hiroaki was killed by police, and around 600 people injured in Japan during an anti-war demonstration near Haneda airport. Students demonstrating against the Vietnam war had fought riot police on a bridge, forcing them back and commandeering a police van and water cannon truck. They had been driving the truck towards the airport when a cry went up that a Kyoto University student had been killed, and fighting stopped until his body was removed, and police then used tear gas, batons and water cannon to disperse protesters, sweeping some of the bridge into the river. Despite the repression, the battle marked a turning point for the radical student movement at the time which then became increasingly militant.
This is an interesting article about the Japanese student movement at this time: https://libcom.org/history/zengakuren-japans-revolutionary-students https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1825265914325217/?type=3
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Biden to Restore Three National Monuments in Utah and New England -
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Excerpt from this New York Times story:
President Biden is expected to announce on Friday that he will use his executive authority to restore sweeping environmental protections to three major national monuments that had been stripped away by former President Donald J. Trump, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Mr. Biden will reinstate and slightly expand the original 1.3 million acre boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument, and restore the original 1.8 million acre boundaries of Grand Staircase-Escalante, two rugged and pristine expanses in Utah that are defined by red rock canyons, rich wildlife and archaeological treasures.
He will also restore protections covering the Atlantic Ocean’s first marine monument, the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts, an expanse of sea canyons and underwater mountains off the New England coast.
Mr. Trump had sharply reduced the size of all three national monuments at the urging of ranchers, fishermen and many Republican leaders, opening them to mining, drilling and development.
Bears Ears and the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts had both been established by President Barack Obama in 2016. Grand Staircase-Escalante was created by President Bill Clinton in 1996.
A spokesman for the White House declined to confirm the announcement.
On his first day in office, Mr. Biden ordered a review of the elimination of protections for the monuments to “determine whether restoration of the monument boundaries and conditions would be appropriate.”
In June, Deb Haaland, the interior secretary, sent a report to Mr. Biden advising him to restore the original boundaries of the monuments.
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The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)
