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Truly Exceptional Topics Rich Gibson
Wrote About
PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY
TEACHING AND EDUCATION
Advice to First
Year
Teachers |
Ten Paths to
Becoming an Educational Artist |
Teaching
Philosophy |
| Teaching About The
Nazi Holocaust in the Context of Comprehending and Overcoming Fascism |
Questions for
Criticizing Text |
Politics of
Textbooks |
| Statistics
about School |
The
Impact of Testing in Michigan |
Whole
Schooling Consortium |
| The Michigan
Education Assessment Program (MEAP) |
MEAP tests skew
learning for worse |
The
Michigan Social Studies Standards: Beware The Dream Censors |
| For
a Social Studies Education That Counts |
WSU's Social
Studies Program Philosophy |
Ghetto Schooling |
| Real
Multiculturalism is not Disguised Nationalism |
History
on Trial in the Heart of Darkness |
Penn
State University College of Education Writing Manual |
| Leadership
and You |
Whole
Language Is A Philosophy |
Who Can Answer
the Social Crisis of the Schools? |
| Paulo Freire
and Pedagogy For Social Justice |
Partisan
Education: Taking Sides In the Schools --
LET'S
CREATE SCHOOLS FOR REAL CHANGE |
High-Stakes
Testing and Standardization: The Threat to Authenticity |
| Outfoxing the
Destruction of Wisdom |
The
Theory and Practice of Constructing Hope:
The
Detroit Teachers' Wildcat Strike 1999 |
MEAP is
Child Abuse |
Boycott the
MEAP
Michigan
Citizen March 31 2000 |
Boycott the
MEAP, part two |
Boycott
the MEAP, part three |
"Pay No
Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain"
A
Critique of Hope |
Suit in Detroit
Strikes Back at Assaults on Democracy in Education |
Introducing
Dr Burnley and His Program |
| The Struggle
for Hope In Detroit |
Education
Week Letter --
Is Test
Mania a Form of Abuse? |
Rouge
Forum Propels Definitive Action Vs High-Stakes Tests |
| A Note
To California Resisters About the Big Tests, School, and Social Justice |
Deregulate
the Libraries For Freedom and Wisdom |
What
Comprises History? |
| LEADERSHIP
AND YOU |
LEADERSHIP
AND YOU II |
High-Stakes
Testing and Standardization: The Threat to Authenticity |
| Bridging the
Gap: Whole Language, Inclusion, and Critical Social Action |
School
Shootings in San Diego: Santee |
School
Shootings in San Diego: Granite Hills |
School
Shootings in San Diego
Santee
and Granite Hills: The Search for Hope |
Note To
California Resisters Part Two: Where Are We and What Shall We Do? |
Ten
Do's and One Don't About the SAT |
| Interview
with Tony Alvarado former Chancellor of the NYC Schools |
LA Times
OP -Ed: Oppose High Stakes Standardized Tests |
The
Fascist Origins of the SAT Test |
Whole Schooling
From
The Social Studies Curriculum
edited
by Wayne Ross |
From "Talking
Points" of the Whole Language Umbrella, July 2001 --
The Bridge
Toward Unity: Whole Language, Critical Pedagogy, and Inclusive Education |
NEA Off
Strike, Off Balance |
| One More
Time On School Unions, the Big Tests, and Social Change |
Another Letter
the Union Trib Refused to print: Blueprint is for Blue Bloods |
Letter to Editor
of NY Times Magazine in response to the article on High Stakes
Tests (4-7-02) |
| Regarding
the San Diego School System and it's CEO, Alan Bersin (WSJ editorial
April 30) |
letter to
editor re "Keep Detroit's School Reform Alive" |
High-Stakes:
Tests Leave No Corporation Behind: Entry Level Exams for Future Body
Bags in the Perpetual Oil War |
| Bad Bishop
Brown Speaks to Boys and Girls |
RG
Speech WLU July 25 2002 |
Eight
Questions for Educational Artists: The Real Big Test |
| Yoking
the California Universities |
RG
Speech at University of Nebraska International Conference: 2002 |
Lonely
Privilege in Despair, Aiming for Unfeigned Hope |
| Shut them
Down, Then Open Them Up? The San Diego School Boycott |
SDSU
Teach In Speech October 2002 |
Can Communities
of Resistance and Transformation be Born From the Social Context of
School? "Teacher
Education Quarterly, Winter 2003" |
| AERA Speech
2003 Chicago |
Lie Spotters
Social Studies Manual |
Marx's
Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts as applied to Political Economy
(his), Theology (his) and modern education (mine). |
What Is It
That People Need to Know, and How Do We Need to Come to Know It, In
Order to Be Free?
Presentation
at Rouge Forum Summer Institute 2003 |
Letter to the Editor -- Making the Grade,
LA Times, August 19, 2003
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NCLB will Fail in the Same Ways the Oil
Invasion Failed But People Will Lose Until
We Get Beyond Capitalism
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| Letter To Literacy For All February 2004
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What to
Do with the Not-so Public Schools in the Midst of Perpetual War? |
The
many arguments against standardized tests --Union Tribune OpEd -- May 8, 2004
(and here)
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What
Should School Workers Do Before World War Three? May 2004 |
The Debate in Whole Language: Whose
Campaign is John Kerry's Campaign? |
| Paulo
Freire and Critical Education, Book Chapter 2004 |
Glen
Rikowski and Rich Gibson Edialog, 2004 |
Letter to Editor of Detroit News: Boycott
the Tests that Cause School Failures |
Justice Demands Organization
A Note To California
Resisters, October 10 2004 |
San Diego Heats up |
Letter to the Editor of San Diego
Union-Tribune -- “Lynching Alan Bersin” |
| Ten
Principles of Methods (and Content) |
Book
Reviews: The Search for What Should Be, Within What Is |
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On
Teaching Evaluations, Part 2
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Against
Racism and Irrationalism; Toward an Integrated Movement of Class
Struggle In Schools and
Out: Critical, Dialectical, and Materialist
Approach |
The
MEAP
(letter to the editor--Detroit News) |
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Stop Soldiering-Start Fighting: Justice
Demands Organization
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Enron and the Question of Public Schooling
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Students Defy Lockdowns, Protests Surge Forward
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Rescue Education and Society from the Ruling Classes!
The Rule of Capital, Imperialism, and its Opposition: Radical Education for Revolution and Justice |
| First to Worst: LA ,CA, and USA---"Substance" Submission |
On Jonathan Kozol's Manifesto by Rich Gibson |
WHY NEA SELLS OUT ON THE NCLB |
| Why Does NEA Really Support NCLB? |
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An Email Exchange About School Workers, Our Unions, and Imperialist War |
| Opportunism: Who Wins? |
Re: MEAP Scores Plummet at "Scary" Rate |
Beware the Trojan Horse Filled with US Teacher Union Leaders |
| Detroit Teachers Strike Again |
Resisting Racism, Opportunism and Profiteering: Detroit Teachers Strike Again |
Freedman letter to NY Times.... |
| Detroit Teachers Strike Again |
Detroit and Oaxaca Battles Continue, What Can We Do? |
Detroit Kids Lose? |
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Detroit Teachers Strike 2006: Lessons from the Class Struggle |
| Lessons from the Class Struggle: The Detroit Teachers' Strike, 2006 (Counterpunch) |
Detroit Teachers Drag Back To Work and California Profs Issue a Warning by Rich Gibson |
A Discussion About What is to Be Done Within the Testing and School Reform Movement |
| A MORE Astute political analysis of NCLB reauthorization |
The rule of capital, imperialism, and its opposition: Radical education for equality and justice (Social Change : September 2006) |
NCSS International Assembly 2006 Washington DC Roundtable Discussion |
| The Only Way Out of Iraq |
Detroit: New Union Leaders Meet Massive Closures, Layoffs |
Editorial Submission for CSM on NCLB |
Cut the Schools-to-War Pipeline--Rescue Education From the Ruling Classes--Nullify the NCLB!
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Questions and Answers About What is to Be Done Within the Testing and School Reform Movement |
“I put the question to all other reformers: Toward What End? |
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Schools and Teachers Should Not Be Missions |
Icing on the Dead Armadillo |
| Merrow on San Diego: Phooey |
Beyond Kozol, Toward a School Action Plan |
California Road Tour Survey |
| Report on CalCARE Road Trip, September 2007 |
The Schools To War Collision: Whither the Resistance? |
Small Schools, Democracy, and Capitalist Education |
| San Diego Schools Statement February 2008 |
The Coming Collisions: War, Stagflation, NCLB, and School Life |
What are the unions doing on nclb? |
| Why Have School? An Exercise |
The Role of Schools and of “No Child Left Behind” in a Rotting Imperial System: How Educators Should Resist |
School Winds Down: Resistance Heats UpCan it be Sustained–or Make Sense? |
| Rich Gibson and E. Wayne Ross on Resisting No Child Left Behind Podcast |
Chicago, Detroit, Schools, and the Election Spectacle |
The Education Agenda is a War Agenda: Connecting Reason to Power and Power to Resistance by Rich Gibson and E. Wayne Ross |
The Obamagogue and Capital Vs the People |
Rouge Forum Update, September 7, 2009 |
Rouge Forum Update, September 14, 2009 |
| The Detroit Federation of Teachers’ Contract: The Worst Ever? |
The Obamagogues' Liars and Our Future |
For REAL Action on and Before March 4! |
| Detroit AFT Bargains Worst School Contract Ever? |
Why Have School?
An Inquiry Through Dialectical Materialism |
Against Ravitch |
| March 4th Actions and Beyond, a Critical Approach |
Opportunism, Sectarianism, Ravitch, Education and Change |
March 4th: Why Have School? |
| The NEA Representative Assembly Proves the Education Agenda is a War Agenda (2010) |
The NEA
Representative Assembly of July 2010: A Longer View |
The Los Angeles Times, Value Added Teaching, and Control of the Value of Education |
| The
Education Agenda is a War Agenda: Fight Back on October 7th! |
Education Versus Schooling as a Commodity Fetish (Sept. 2010) |
An
Unhappy Anniversary as the Education Agenda Continues as a War Agenda
-- All
Out On October 7th! Real Hope vs Despair!
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| The NEA Representative Assembly of 2010: A Longer View of Crisis and Consciousness--Workplace November 2010 |
Radicalism and Numbers Drained From March 4th Movement as Liberals, Dues Eaters, and Zombie Sects Fished for Recruits But All Out Against the Cutbacks and Again on March 2nd and Mayday! |
Detroit Federation of Teachers Schedules Runoff Election For January |
| Lawsuit Limits Power of Detroit schools chief Bobb... Or does it? |
DFT Election Close and Perhaps Undetermine - Reflecting a Rising Tide of Teacher Resistance |
Talking Points: Public Education or Capitalist Schooling? |
| Detroit and San Diego: Vastly Different in Form, Similar in Essence; And On Wisconsin! |
Toward A Genuine Movement For Social Justice |
Against Ravitch, Part 2 |
| The Sky is Falling and the People May Be Rising in Michigan Or Not |
Detroit Schools: The System Now At Ground Zero |
Detroit Schools’ Boss Announces Unilateral 10% Wage Cut–and Worse |
| The Save “Our” Schools Actions and Comic Con West |
Making Sense, Making Change, and Protecting Rebels |
Why Have School? An Exercise (Nov. 2011) |
| ANALYSIS: Upheaval in San Diego teachers union over massive cuts adopted by a school board the union helped elect |
Welcome To Detroit! A Guide to the City for Delegates to The American Federation of Teachers Convention July 27th-30th, 2012 |
US History Summary Before 1865 Notes |
| Barbarism Rising Detroit and the International War of the Rich on the Poor |
Against Quisling Ravitch |
Education and Empire: Education for Class Consciousness |
| Education For Revolutionary Class Consciousness and Action |
Students and Teachers! The Unasked Question: Why Have School? |
Why it is Possible and Imperative to Teach Capital, Empire and Revolution-and how. |
| Texas Education Review: “Neo - Liberalism?” Bullshit! Revolutionary Thought and Action Against Capital and Empire |
Why Have School? Blood and Money versus Reason |
School Is Back! Rescue Education from the Ruling Classes! |
| Rethinking Critical Pedagogy Interview series: An interview with Dr. Rich Gibson |
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For Other's Work on Education, click here |
LABOR AND UNIONS
| Labor History, a
Short Outline |
Issue
Organizing, an Outline |
Lessons of the
Detroit News- paper Strike |
| A Primer for
Job Actions |
Teacher Unions |
The AFT and
Albert Shanker |
Which Side Are
You On? (The
NEA/AFT
Merger) |
NEA
Leaders: Were You Told the Truth? Top Ten Reasons To Oppose the
AFL-CIO Merger |
What
Is The Future Of Teacher Unionism? |
NEA-AFT-AFL-CIO?
Not Just No, But HELL
NO! |
May Day |
Dare the IWW
Build a Revolutionary Union? |
| All American
Anarchist, Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement |
Gone Limp,
The Sellout of the UAW's Largest Local |
A Wrong TURN
for Teacher Unions |
| MEAP
bullies schools |
Labor,
Management: Can They Change? (letter to editor) |
Why
Unionism is a Dead End |
| Notes To
Test Resisters on the NEA-RA July 2002 |
One More
Time on the Unions: May 03 |
F.W. Taylor
and Clockwork Review |
| Genealogy of US Labor Groups |
Genealogy
of the U.S. Left
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LABOR STUDIES
BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| THE
HISTORIC BATTLE FOR THE
SHORTER WORK WEEK |
Godfather of New Unionism Heads for
Jail by Rich Gibson |
The
California Grocery Strike
May 2004 |
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The Demo planned at the Masonic Temple In Detroit on Saturday, the role of the unions, etc
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Creating Alternative Social Movements: Working Class Studies |
| Mayday in San Diego County |
The Torment and Demise of the United Auto Workers Union as Performed by the Auto Bosses, the Labor Leaders, Counterfeit Radicals, Fictional Revolutionaries, and All Those Who Know they Are Not Innocent Either. |
In Memoriam, Marshall Michelson --
1941 to 2006 |
| Strategic Planning and the Anti-War/Pro-Justice Movement in San Diego |
"I Participate, You Participate, We Participate…They Profit,”Notes on Revolutionary Educational Activism to Transcend Capital: The Rouge Forum |
Chavez Conference on Organizing March 2007 |
| Letter to NYT Editor re: Worthy Goal of Flawed Bill: Aiding Unions |
The UAW Sellout--Could this be the Worst in the History of Labor? |
A Better World is Possible, But Justice Demands Organization |
| Another Wave in the Tsunami |
On Insubordination |
NEA CONVENTION 2009
Duncan omnipresent as National Education Association Opens annual meeting |
NEA CONVENTION 2009
Arne Duncan attacks teachers as NEA convention cheers... The Day of Duncan |
NEA CONVENTION 2009
NEA Convention... The 'madness' of electing Barack Obama again while snuffing out any militancy? |
NEA CONVENTION 2009
NEA Continues...The Education Agenda is a War Agenda... |
NEA CONVENTION 2009
National Education Association Ends 147th Annual Meeting... A critical summary of the NEA RA |
NEA CONVENTION 2009
Subscript: Why is the NEA sponsoring San Diego Padres lunch boxes on 'Camouflage Day'? |
US Unionism–What to Do? By Rich Gibson, September 2009 |
| The NEA Representative Assembly Proves the Education Agenda is a War Agenda (2010) |
The NEA
Representative Assembly of July 2010: A Longer View
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Fake Labor’s Sham Rally Can Become Something Better!
(Sept. 2010) |
The NEA Representative Assembly of 2010: A Longer View of Crisis and Consciousness--Workplace November 2010 |
DFT Election Close and Perhaps Undetermine - Reflecting a Rising Tide of Teacher Resistance |
Detroit Federation of Teachers membership meeting votes to overturn election but divisions in the ranks still run deep |
| US Unionism–What to Do (Part Two)? |
NEA's National Phone Call and the Counterfeit Leadership of April 4th |
NEA’s President Dennis Van Roekel’s Letter to NEA Delegates of May 5 |
| NEA Tops Move to Back Obama, Again |
NEA's Van Roekel Denies Planned Funding of Obama Campaign... Which Way's the Resistance? June 18, 2011 |
NEA Endorses Obama: Strange Attraction |
| The Counterfeit Tax Fight of CTA, CFT In California |
A Summer of Resistance or Retreats? |
Southern California Sinks in Sea of Setbacks–NorCal Begins Fightback |
NEA Convention Report. Part One... The National Education Association Representative Assembly 2012... 'Patriotism! Democracy! It’s About Us! We Teach America! ' |
NEA Convention Report. Part Two, more of the same, and worse... If 'Wisconsin' was a victory, how does the NEA spell D E F E A T?... The NEA Representative Assembly Days Two and Three, 2012 Grueling Times with High and Low Lights and a Closing Kablooey! |
NEA Convention Report, Day Three... The NEA Representative Assembly Part Three “We Mis-Educate Our Members and the Nation! No Bullying! Obama! Money=Values! |
NEA Convention Report, Day Four and beyond... NEA’s Representative Assembly Part Four Mopping Up... The Budget; The Left at and After the RA. Coming: Why are Things as They Are? |
Counterfeit Unionism in the Empire |
RICH GIBSON CONSIDERS THE Nine Reasons Teachers are Unwilling to Stand Up for Their Profession |
The NEA Representative Assembly
Demonstrating Voluntary Servitude Performed by Highly Educated People
Who Use Capitalist Democracy to Consolidate Fascism
Via the Inseparable Bond of Imperialism and Opportunism |
RICH GIBSON CONSIDERS THE Nine Reasons Teachers are Unwilling to Stand Up for Their Profession |
Open Letter Sent to NEA Representative Assembly delegates on February 8, 2017... Open letter to the National Education Association Representative Assembly exposing NEA's Clinton debacle and slavish bowing to conservative Democratic Party politicians... |
"Students and Teachers! The Unasked Question:
Why Have School?" |
NEA RA continues the con game policies of its very very well-paid leadership...'All That is Pretense Dissolves into Delusions: The NEA Representative Assembly 2017' |
NEA RA 2017: All That is Pretense Dissolves into Delusions |
| School Workers: What Did Our Unions Do on Our Summer Vacation? |
The sellout of the LA teachers strike |
Seize Solidarity House |
| Milliken Flyer |
Faking a Strike |
The Sting is Stung |
| Beating a Dead Horse to Death, Again. CFA This Time. |
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For Other's Work on Labor and Unions, click here |
RACISM AND SEXISM
FASCISM
GRENADA
VIETNAM
CALIFORNIA ISSUES
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (and Others)
| Letter to the Editor of the New York Times RE: Frank Rich, Has He Started Talking to the Walls? |
Letter to the Editor of Detroit News: Iraq Study Group |
Regarding "Expectations" by Katherine Boo Letter to New Yorker |
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Letter Responding to Detroit News Article on NCLB |
Re James Glanz, "US Presents Evidence of Iranian Weapons In Iraq" |
| Regarding JROTC Offers More to Kids than Critics |
Re Hardly a Union Hotbed, Toyota’s Kentucky Plant Is a Test for Organizers |
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Re: Defunding the CSU and UC Systems: Less Funding to Bank On (original) |
Re "Less to bank on at state universities," Oct. 7 (edited/published version) |
| Regarding Students De Stress Before Taking Tests |
To NY Times Re: NCLB |
Letter to the Editor (Detroit News) Re: UAW ad push aims to change its image |
Regarding "State of the Unions," by Krugman (As published in New York Times online edition) |
The Penn Stater: The Plame edition--To The Editor |
NYT: Regarding School Pay For Performance Plan (March 2008) |
| Re Educators or Kingmakers (March 2008) |
Teaching Change (March 2008) |
Reich: Totally Spent (February 2008) |
| RE: Schlosser--Burger With a Side of Spies (NYT, May 7, 2008) |
Cut off mayor's funding |
Re: The Truth About the War---Times Editorial (NYT, June 6, 2008) |
| Re: A Change at the Airport (Union-Tribune, June 13, 2008) |
Dear New York Times |
Where is the Business Community? |
| War |
To the Editor, New York Times Re: Ayers and Obama |
Against the Coming NCLB Assault |
| Re: Former radical distances himself from Obama (Detroit Free Press) |
Letter Re: Ayers Op Ed |
DFT candidate doesn't 'froth' |
| Improving my New York Times |
To the Editor, New York Times Re: China Rules |
Letter to My Students on the Afghan Betrayal |
| Letter re Weathermn Kathy Boudin |
Re: UAW Hurt By Scandals Weighs Leadership Change |
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MISCELLANEOUS
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Rouge Forum Education For Action Detroit Conference Urges Organization |
Strategic Planning recommendations |
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"I Participate, You Participate, We Participate ... They Profit,"
Notes on Revolutionary Educational Activism to Transcend Capital: The Rouge Forum
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RG on Kosovo's Leave-Behind Operation |
| 40 Years On |
A Discussion in the Radical Caucus on Unions, War, Fascism, and Social Change |
Some thoughts on the period, why there are not mass fightbacks now |
| A Discussion on Entrenching the NCLB and War |
Education, Empire, Economy, and Ethics At the Crossroads: What Do We Want to Know and How Do We Want to Come to Know It? |
Capitalism |
| Crisis Analysis and the Election |
Dear Ruling Class |
Critique of Tyranny--and the emergence of fascism |
| Optimism and Obamagogue |
How Shall We Live as Lambs Among Wolves? Reason–Passion–Power and Organization What to Do? (January 2009) |
March 2009, Literacy For All, Hope and Hitlers Financiers |
| Liberals Have it All Wrong |
Occupy Wall Street... Can it Move from What it is To What it Could Be Beyond Chris Hedges's Promotion of Salvation |
Connecting Reason to Power Chart |
| Weatherman, Review of Days of Rage |
“Neo-Liberalism?” Bullshit! Revolutionary Thought and Action Against Capital and Empire |
The Detroit Collection: 2015 |
| Whoever Wins--It’s Perpetual War and your side is losing Here’s Why |
Discussing Sun Tzu in the Past and Present |
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December 20, 2023
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