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Helen Keller a socialist? Who knew!


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Keller (in dark dress) received in Japan after World War II. Photo: American Foundation for the Blind.
Walk into any book store, and you are sure to find at least one children’s book about Helen Keller but you will have trouble finding any that mention she was a socialist. You would be lucky to find one that calls her an activist, or talks about her adult life at all. Even some books for adults only talk about Keller as a disability rights activist, stripping her lifelong work of its true revolutionary politics. 
July 26 is the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act which passed in 1990, the same year of the first Disability Pride Parade in Boston. Although Keller died more than three decades before the ADA, her name is often invoked around this anniversary because her generation laid the groundwork for the political organizers of the 1970-90s who fought for and won the act.  ....

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Martin's Must Reads: 'The Cold Millions'


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“Rye turned back to watch the sunrise over the Selkirks - a smoky red gash where someone had set a fire to get a job fighting it. Last year, Rye might have paid to get a shovel on that blaze, but Gig had gone and joined the IWW, the union fighting the corrupt employment agents who charged a buck for job leads.”
I’m Betty Martin and that’s a quote from the beginning of Jess Walter’s newest novel
The Cold Millions. It’s 1909 and times are tough for the cold millions, the millions of unemployed who live out in the cold while the wealthiest spend their days in warm personal libraries and clubs devising ways to suppress the unions and keep wages low. ....

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