Today is Bob Sheldon Day, commemorating the life and death of activist bookseller Bob Sheldon, who was assassinated in Chapel Hill, NC on Feb. 21, 1991 at the height of the antiwar movement against the First Iraq War 🕯️🕯️🕯️ Gone but not forgotten!
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Bob Sheldon has been memorialized in various media, including Sonic Youth's song “Chapel Hill” and the Indigo Girls' “Jonas and Ezekiel.” The bookstore he founded, Internationalist Books, continued operating for another 27 years and was an inspiration for Firestorm and many other radical projects!
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