... the existence, preservation and availability of archives, documents, records in our society are very much determined by the distribution of wealth and power. That is, the most powerful, the richest elements in society have the greatest capacity to find documents, preserve them, and decide what is or is not available to the public. This means government, business and the military are dominant.
Howard Zinn, 1971.
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13,480,00 tweets
August 10, 2014 - August 27, 2014
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