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Al Lewis, radicalized by his immigrant garment worker mother at a young age, became a committed Socialist by the time of the Great Depression. When landlords evicted people, Lewis and his colleagues would break back into the properties and move the tenants’ furniture back in, and when unemployed workers were denied relief, Lewis would join others in storming relief centers and fight the police. Despite living through the reactionary Reagan years, he kept his principles and remained realistic: “I’ve been in the struggle over 70 years. It doesn’t bother me that I may not win. After doing X amount of time or years, don’t throw your hands up in the air because, you see, everybody wants ‘the win.’ They want it today. It doesn’t happen. The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle for me, and I accepted that a long time ago.”
The Skinny House is a spite house that was built in Boston, Massachusetts. It’s a four story home that’s 10 feet wide and 30 feet long and the only entrance to the building is the door at the side. The story goes that a plot of land was given to two brothers to share. When one brother returned from serving in the Civil War, he found that the other had built a large home that took up the majority of their land. The returned soldier, annoyed by what his brother had done, decided to build his spite house. He built it in a location that would disrupt his brother’s view to the harbor. To this day, the house stands as a residential home.
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