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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – MARCH 28, 2023  
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March 28, 2023
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_ Apocalypse is the new normal _

, Clay Jones, claytoonz.com

 

* Electeds Fight GOP Book Banning
* Conservationists Sue Biden Over Willow Drilling
* State Takeover of Houston Schools
* A Welsh Town Hears From the Far Right
* Return of Child Labor
* LGBTQ+ Exhibition in Hong Kong
* Hidden Injuries of Class
* Where Woke Goes to Die
* The Guthrie Family is Pissed
* Apocalypse is the New Normal

ELECTEDS FIGHT GOP BOOK BANNING
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By Julia Conley
Common Dreams

Progressive lawmakers and education advocates on Friday condemned the
passage of House Republican lawmakers’ “Parents Bill of Rights
Act.” The legislation bans books and further ostracizes marginalized
communities, while providing no improvements to children's safety at
school. 

CONSERVATIONISTS SUE BIDEN OVER WILLOW DRILLING
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Center for Biological Diversity

Earthjustice filed a lawsuit on behalf of conservation groups to
stop the massive Willow oil drilling project in Alaska’s Western
Arctic, which the Biden administration approved March 13. This
approval of an enormous new carbon pollution source undermines
President Biden’s promises to slash greenhouse gas emissions in half
by 2030 and transition the United States to clean energy.

STATE TAKEOVER OF HOUSTON SCHOOLS
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By Domingo Morel
The Conversation

The state of Texas took over Houston’s public school district on
March 15. Research on state takeovers of school districts suggests
that the Houston takeover, like others, is influenced by racism and
political power. Negative consequences often include the removal of
locally elected school boards. They also involve decreases in teachers
and staff and the loss of local control of schools.

A WELSH TOWN HEARS FROM THE FAR RIGHT
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By Ashitha Nags
BBC News

Patriotic Alternative has been staging anti-migrant protests across
the UK, and leafleting communities where there are existing tensions
about the provision of accommodation for asylum seekers. In one town
in south Wales, a local community has banded together and is planning
a peaceful counter-protest.

RETURN OF CHILD LABOR

* COMING TO YOUR STATE
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  By Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News
 
* MIGRANT CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS 13 WORKING FULL-TIME
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  By Ayesha Rascoe, NPR
 

LGBTQ+ EXHIBITION IN HONG KONG
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By Lisa Movius
The Art Newspaper

Billed as “the first major survey exhibition on LGBTQ+ perspectives
in Hong Kong”, _Myth Makers—Spectrosynthesis III _tests the
current waters for free speech in a fast-changing city. Though
censorship has been ramping up in Hong Kong, only one work has been
removed from the show.

_HIDDEN INJURIES OF CLASS_ THEN AND NOW
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By Richard Sennett
Verso Books

The Hidden Injuries of Class, which recounts the lives of working
class families in the early 1970s, seems to tell the story of a
vanished world: people held jobs for decades; unions were strong;
“globalization” did not mean much on the shop floor. But rereading
this book now I’m struck by how some of the worst ills of that era
have persisted, indeed grown worse in a new age of capitalism. 

WHERE WOKE GOES TO DIE

* FLORIDA MAN TELLS ALL
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 By Dan Kois, Slate
 
* FLORIDA ATTACKS THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS
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  By Megan O’Matz, ProPublica
 
* BAD GUYS BEWARE! THE GUNSHINE STATE IS READY FOR YOU
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  By Caroline Light, Tampa Bay Times
 

THE GUTHRIE FAMILY IS PISSED
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By Daniel Desrochers
Kansas City Star

Sen. Josh Hawley referenced Woody Guthrie last week when he sponsored
a bill to prevent people associated with the Chinese Communist Party
from owning U.S. farmland and called it the “This Land Is Our Land
Act.” Woody’s daughter wrote in an email, “We do not consider
Josh Hawley in any way a representative of Woody’s values,”

APOCALYPSE IS THE NEW NORMAL
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By Henry A. Giroux
Salon

Creeping calamities have become routine, matched only by a civic
culture that is under siege by the apostles of neoliberalism promoting
privatization, consumerism, anti-intellectualism and a brutal market
ideology. Historical consciousness has become the target of white
supremacists and a far-right Republican Party that is silent about the
dark past of its authoritarian politics.

* republicans
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* book bans
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* The Squad
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* Houston
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* schools
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* Wales
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* far right
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* Patriotic Alliance
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* child labor
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* LGBTQ
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* Hong Kong
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* Artists
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* Florida
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* Michelangelo's David
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* League of Women Voters
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* Gun Control
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* Woody Guthrie
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* Jeff Hawley
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* crisis
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