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Bruce Hartford is webspinner of the Civil Rights Movement Veterans website (http://crmvet.org). During the 1960s, he was a civil rights worker in Alabama and Mississippi for Dr. King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Later he was a student activist with SDS at San Francisco State College, and then a freelance journalist covering military affairs during the Vietnam War era. For the past 30 years, Bruce has been a technical writer for Silicon Valley software firms. He was a founding member, and long-time national officer, of the National Writers Union (now retired).

"Sojourner's Blog" by Bruce Hartford can be found at: ohfreedom.wordpress.com

Blog Entries by Bruce Hartford

The Gifford Shooting & the Freedom Rides

Posted January 9, 2011 | 13:36:39 (EST)

As I try to absorb and understand the killings and attempted assassination of a Congresswoman in Arizona, my mind flashes back 50 years to the violent attacks on the Freedom Riders in South Carolina and Alabama and their mass arrest in Mississippi, a state transformed into an armed camp of...

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Arizona & Citizenship --- Some Historical Context

Posted April 28, 2010 | 15:32:31 (EST)

Arizona's Governor and the legislators who support the Arizona Immigration Bill disavow any intention or likelihood of racial discrimination or harassment, but the historical record indicates otherwise. They assure us that the rights of all Arizona citizens will be fully respected regardless of race or ethnic background, but the historical...

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Refuse to Be Abused by Your Big Bank

Posted February 17, 2010 | 10:07:08 (EST)

I refuse to be abused by my big bank. My name is Bruce Hartford, and I'm in an abusive relationship with Bank of America.

They used my money for their Wall Street gambling. Then when they crashed the economy, they blackmailed my government into bailing them out with my tax...

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