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DESCRIPTION:Every July day has Laborfest events, some of which are missing from the red 
 letter listings. This "al fresco" textbook for all of us will teach the 
 importance of a general strike which we need to put an end to the profit 
 motive that is the cause of the budget "crisis" and war.   On July 20 at 7 
 p.m., Modern Times Bookstore hosts a free book reading and discussion of 
 the poor people of Oklahoma who suffered loss of their farms from the dust 
 storms, described in a book by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, a native of the 
 area.\n\nJuly 20 (Monday) 7:00 PM (Free) Modern Times Bookstore , 888 
 Valencia St., San Francisco (near 16th St and 24th St BART) \n\nDust-Bowl 
 Okies in US Culture - Reading and discussion \nBy Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 
 \nHow did a people so filled with a populist and socialist tradition in 
 Oklahoma, and in the early years as Dust Bowl migrants in California, come 
 to form the most conservative constituencies in California bringing men 
 like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan to state and eventually national 
 power? Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie, will 
 discuss and read from her own work and that of the late Wilma Elizabeth 
 MacDaniel (the “Okie Bard” of the Central Valley), Woody Guthrie, Merle 
 Haggard, and John Steinbeck. \nSee also: \nhttp://www.reddirtsite.com/ 
 \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilma_Elizabeth_McDaniel 
 \nhttp://www.woodyguthrie.org/ \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Guthrie 
 \nhttp://merlehaggard.com/ \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merle_Haggard 
 \nhttp://www.steinbeck.org/MainFrame.html 
 \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck 
 \nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2009schedule.htm \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/16/18608311.php
SUMMARY:Dust Bowl Okies in US Culture
LOCATION:Modern Times Bookstore , 888 Valencia St., San Francisco (near 16th St and 
 24th St BART) \n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/07/16/18608311.php
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