Quoting Arundhati Roy

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In the Name of Labor [1912]

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Summary: Illustration shows a gigantic man wearing a crown labeled “Protected Monopoly” holding upright a wooden figure of an American laborer labeled “Protected American Labor” and a sign that states “Protection Maintains for American Labor the American Standard of Living”; the wooden figure holds a dinner pail in one hand and a booklet labeled “Savings” in the other. A diminutive man labeled “American Laborer”, in the left foreground, looks at the viewer and gestures with his thumb back at the wooden figure. On the right, from a ship at dock, a stream of “Foreign Labor” disembarks, passing through a gate labeled “Starvation Wages”, and heading for factories in the background.

Caption: How much longer can he get away with it?

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The Flies Got Wise [1913]

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Summary: Illustration shows a large spider labeled “Flim Flam Finance” with a disgruntled look on its face, sitting on a cobweb labeled “Wall Street”, looking at a bunch of flies labeled “The Public” hovering just beyond the cobweb, mocking the spider.

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Where Is The Peace?

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It’s time for peace to arise within
It’s time for love to live without end
It’s time for us to reinvent the wheel
… It’s time for us to love without the kill

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Monopoly [1909]

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Summary: Illustration shows on the left a cartoon drawn by L.M. Glackens that shows “The Trusts” as bloated, clownish figures that frighten “The Common People”, and on the right, a large gorilla-like monster with human head, holding Liberty in one arm and a large coin in the other, as it topples the dome on the U.S. Capitol with one foot.

Caption: For years the Trust has been pictured as this, – and laughed at. Why not know Him for what He really is – a Brute with brains?

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Quoting Malcolm X

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Sleeping Beauty [1905]

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Summary: Illustration shows Uncle Sam as a sleeping Swiss guard of the “Public Funds”, being overtaken by trees and cobwebs, two dogs are also asleep at this feet. A building on the right labeled “Public Funds” is being overgrown by a tree labeled “Corruption” with spreading limbs labeled “National, State, [and] City”, a snake labeled “Lobbyism” hangs from the branches; rats flee with coins from its coffers. Two spiders labeled “Graft” and “Bossism” ply the webs, a tree on the left is labeled “Ring Rule”, and an alligator labeled “Greed” prowls the foreground among tree roots labeled “Dead Conscience”. In the background, a vulture labeled “Monoply” keeps an eye on a candlelight vigil by a person labeled “Dead Letter Laws” for a female figure labeled “Honesty”; the candle glows with “Hope”.

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Wall Street Bubbles – Always the Same [1901]

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Summary: Caricature of JP Morgan as a bull blowing bubbles “inflated values”, for which a group of people are reaching.

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Hard Times [1908]

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Summary: Illustration shows Uncle Sam working at the “Free Pie Kitchen” offering daily distribution of free pies labeled “Long Term Franchise, Graft Tariff, Land Grant, [and] Special Privilege” to crooked businessmen labeled “Public Service Corporation, ‘Infant Industry’, Trust, Public Land Thief, [and] Predatory Wealth” standing in a long line or already enjoying their “Free” pies.

Caption: The pie line.

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Decolonize

 

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decolonize |dēˈkäləˌnīz|
verb [ trans. ]
(of a country) withdraw from (a colony), leaving it independent : they must decolonize American Indian Tribal lands.