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What is Patriotism?

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Posted by Films For Action on Feb. 6, 2011
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Actress Sandra Oh reads the speech given by Anarchist Emma Goldman in San Francisco before the United States entered WWI. Part of a reading from Voices of a People's History of the United States given October 5, 2005 in Los Angeles California (Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove.) Song: Running Up That Hill. (Instrumental) By: Placebo.

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