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TIDBITS – APR. 6, 2023 – READER COMMENTS: TRUMP INDICTMENT;
NASHVILLE STUDENTS PROTEST, TENN LEGISLATORS DIXIECRAT POLICIES;
ISRAELI PROTESTS; DOLLY PARTON; RUSSIAN NEO-IMPERIALISM; THE MEASURES
TAKEN-LIVE THEATER PERFORMANCE OF BERTOLT BRECHT PLAY;  
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Announcements AND cartoons - Apr. 6, 2023,
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* RE: ACT LIKE A MOB BOSS, BE INDICTED LIKE ONE  (KARL EDLER; BRIAN
DE LEO)
* TRUMP 2024  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON
* GOLDEN ESCALATOR: FELONIOUS TRUMP IS GOING DOWN  --  CARTOON BY
LALO ALCARAZ
* RE: AS YOUNG PEOPLE MARCH FOR THEIR LIVES, TENNESSEE CRUSHES
DISSENT AND OVERRIDES DEMOCRACY  (KIPP DAWSON)
* RE: NASHVILLE STUDENTS RALLY FOR GUN CONTROL AHEAD OF APRIL 5
NATIONWIDE WALKOUT  (ROBERT LAITE)
* RE: 55 YEARS AFTER MLK’S DEATH, HIS RADICAL VISION SHOULD
GALVANIZE OUR STRUGGLES TODAY  (CHARLES EZRA FERRELL)
* RE: TAX THE RICH, BECAUSE INEQUALITY IS BAD FOR ALL OF US  (JOHN
GEHAN)
* RE: WHY THE MAIN PLAYERS BEHIND THE ISRAELI PROTEST MOVEMENT ARE
BRINGING THE CONFRONTATION TO A HEAD  (PAUL BUHLE; LETA CAPLINGER)
* RE: THE ISRAELI RIGHT’S ARROGANCE HAS MADE A NEW STRUGGLE
POSSIBLE  (NORM LITTLEJOHN)
* RE: FIRST GRADERS NOT ALLOWED TO SING ‘CONTROVERSIAL’ DOLLY
PARTON SONG ABOUT ACCEPTANCE  (SHERRY BRIDWELL; MARCE ANDERSON; PAM
BOULDIN; APRIL RODRIGUEZ; REGGIE BIXLER; DONNA DATZ; LEE HUDDLESTON;
KARIN WEINFURTNER; MARA GIULIANTI)
* BURNT BOOKS  --  CARTOON BY P. C. VEY
* RE: THE REVOLUTION AGAINST SHADY LANDLORDS HAS BEGUN  (ALYSSA
BONILLA)
* RE: CAN THE UAW RISE AGAIN?  (JIM YOUNG)
* RE: MEL KING, WHOSE 1983 MAYORAL CAMPAIGN USHERED IN A NEW ERA IN
BOSTON RACE RELATIONS, DIES AT 94  (CHARLES PATRICK LYNCH)
* RE: THE COLD WAR WAS NEVER ABOUT DEMOCRACY  (HOWARD SCOTT; HOWARD
KAPLAN)
* RE: ABOUT RUSSIAN NEO-IMPERIALISM  (JONATHAN NACK)
* AFTER EVERY SHOOTING  -- CARTOON BY TED LITTLEFORD
* RE: BERNIE UNLOADS ON HOWARD SCHULTZ AT SENATE HEARING  (CAP'N
STEVE & ADMIRAL DUFFY)
* FOUR SEASONS  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

Announcements:

 

* LIVE THEATER PERFORMANCE - THE MEASURES TAKEN BY BERTOLT BRECHT -
NEW YORK - APRIL 26 (CUNY SCHOOL OF LABOR AND URBAN STUDIES)
* WHY DO RUSSIANS SUPPORT THE WAR? - APRIL 27 (OPENDEMOCRACY)
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RE: ACT LIKE A MOB BOSS, BE INDICTED LIKE ONE
 

Now we'll see how many people want elite criminals treated differently
from the rest of us.

Karl Edler
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Donald Trump makes Benedict Arnold look more like Honest Abe.

Brian De Leo
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TRUMP 2024  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON

 

Nick Anderson
April 4, 2023
Pen Strokes
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GOLDEN ESCALATOR: FELONIOUS TRUMP IS GOING DOWN  --  CARTOON BY LALO
ALCARAZ

 

Lalo Alcaraz
April 4, 2023
Pocho.com
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RE: AS YOUNG PEOPLE MARCH FOR THEIR LIVES, TENNESSEE CRUSHES DISSENT
AND OVERRIDES DEMOCRACY
 

Power to the children! And look what the "leaders" in the state do to
punish those who are inspired by and follow the kids. But the struggle
is on (and how appropriate it is that once again it's the young people
of Tennessee, following in the footsteps of those who started the
student civil rights movement by sitting in at Jim Crow lunch counters
63 years ago).

Kipp Dawson
Posting on Facebook

 

RE: NASHVILLE STUDENTS RALLY FOR GUN CONTROL AHEAD OF APRIL 5
NATIONWIDE WALKOUT
 

While I severely doubt anything will change the minds of current law
makers protests like give me hope. If they can keep this determination
into adulthood they will be able to effect real change either through
running for office themselves or by voting for those who will bring
about the changes needed.

Here's some numbers for you to chew on. There have been 377 school
shootings in the US since Columbine. 199 students and educators have
been killed and another 425 injured in those shootings. More than
349,000 kids have experienced (been present in the building or
directly witnessed) gun violence in that time. Young people know this
is wrong and should never have had to go through this in the first
place. It IS an important issue to them and they WILL do something
about it as they become eligible to vote or run for office themselves.

Robert Laite
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RE: 55 YEARS AFTER MLK’S DEATH, HIS RADICAL VISION SHOULD GALVANIZE
OUR STRUGGLES TODAY
 

Assassination not Death.

Charles Ezra Ferrell

 

RE: TAX THE RICH, BECAUSE INEQUALITY IS BAD FOR ALL OF US
 

The "tax the rich" essay focused on income inequality, not wealth
inequality. In addition to revising the income tax regime, a more
powerful approach is to focus on assets. We should be talking about
taxing the assets of the rich. A 50% tax on assets over $10 million
would quickly address inequality.

John Gehan

 

RE: WHY THE MAIN PLAYERS BEHIND THE ISRAELI PROTEST MOVEMENT ARE
BRINGING THE CONFRONTATION TO A HEAD
 

a very shrewd and persuasive analysis of events in Israel and their
deeper meaning

Paul Buhle
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You can't have a religious democracy. It doesn't exist in nature. You
may use the ballot in your theocracy. Voting alone does not create or
maintain a democracy. A Constitution that guarantees separation of
church and state. Freedom of the press and the right to speak and
assemble to request redress from the government. Israel cannot become
or create a democracy while fighting religious wars with their
neighbors or having second class citizens because of a difference in
religion.

Leta Caplinger
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RE: THE ISRAELI RIGHT’S ARROGANCE HAS MADE A NEW STRUGGLE POSSIBLE
 

The mass protests have opened the possibility, however slight, that
Israelis will begin to demand fundamental changes we haven't seen
since 1948.

Norm Littlejohn
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RE: FIRST GRADERS NOT ALLOWED TO SING ‘CONTROVERSIAL’ DOLLY PARTON
SONG ABOUT ACCEPTANCE
 

Ridiculous! We should be protecting our children from being shot
instead.

Sherry Bridwell
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There you go. Exactly. Maybe if we sang more Love and Respect each
others songs, like this one. We'd have less mass murderers.

I just read the entire lyrics. WTF? Nothing in there but, let's all
get along and be respectful of each other. THAT'S being BANNED?
Wisconsin, you are sliding down the hate slope to hell. How can you
find fault in love and respect?

Marce Anderson
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Oh for God’s sake
The song includes lyrics like “wouldn't it be nice to live in
paradise. Where we're free to be exactly who we are.”

Pam Bouldin
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They’re coming after Dolly now?!!!! What in the world?! We’re
headed towards dictatorship guys. Put your boots on.

April Rodriguez
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What I understand is it was banned because the word rainbow is in the
title, that they also removed the Muppet Movie song Rainbow
Connection.

Reggie Bixler
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I guess a few of my Favorite things from Mary Poppins needs to go too?

Donna Datz
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Truly stupid. But what do you expect from people who have turned
Christianity into a political party.

Lee Huddleston
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Absurdity, insanity, insane how can humans be sooo effin stupid ?

Karin Weinfurtner
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Neanderthal Republicans, who pretend to be good Christians but have
mostly hate and prejudice in their hearts and very little in their
brains.

Mara Giulianti
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BURNT BOOKS  --  CARTOON BY P. C. VEY

 

P. C. Vey
April 3, 2023
The New Yorker
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RE: THE REVOLUTION AGAINST SHADY LANDLORDS HAS BEGUN
 

As one of the countless, working class, elderly people forced out of
their home, I pray these brave tenant activists are sussessful in
their work. Housing should be for humans to live in, not for predators
to extract blood.

Alyssa Bonilla
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RE: CAN THE UAW RISE AGAIN?

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Many thanks for publishing Alex Press's piece on the UAW dynamics. As
a namesake of my grandfather Jim Gallivan, a founding member of UAW
Local 14, the first GM plant organized (spearheaded by Bob Travis),
and a member of Local 1981 until its demise, I valued the account very
much. May even carry me back to Jacobin. 
Splendid choice.

In solidarity,

Jim Young
President, PA 
Labor History Society

 

RE: MEL KING, WHOSE 1983 MAYORAL CAMPAIGN USHERED IN A NEW ERA IN
BOSTON RACE RELATIONS, DIES AT 94
 

He was an amazing man. During desegregation, he led a march on the
public beach in South Boston which by tradition had been whites only.
Local folks gathered to throw stones and bottles from behind a police
line. Mel Ignored them and calmly walked up to his thighs in the water
showing great courage. He is truly an important part of Boston History
and will be missed by many.

Charles Patrick Lynch
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RE: THE COLD WAR WAS NEVER ABOUT DEMOCRACY
 

quite a read, and then after Indonesia, the powers-that-be tried the
same thing in Vietnam with different results

Howard Scott
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Awful.CIA inspired regime change in Indonesia. Killed hundred
thousands

Howard Kaplan
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RE: ABOUT RUSSIAN NEO-IMPERIALISM
 

A good piece for understanding the nature of modern Russian
imperialism, the development of it’s capitalist oligarchy, the
emergence of Putin as a strongman, and motivations behind Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine.

While the author condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and
criticizes those on the left that doubted Russia would invade, he does
not take the side of Ukraine’s U.S.-led capitalist backers.
 Instead he calls for an independent view of the war.  He also
doesn’t get into what many have described as Russian opposition to
Ukraine’s western-backed provocations, nor the civil war in Donbas,
nor Russian intervention in Donbas prior to it’s invasion.  Nor
does the author deal with the most critical question: how the war in
Ukraine can be ended.

This piece is helpful in discrediting those on the left who have taken
Russia’s side in the war in Ukraine and who mistakenly argue that
Russia’s invasion of is somehow playing a progressive role in
confronting U.S.-led western capitalist imperialism.

Jonathan Nack
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AFTER EVERY SHOOTING  -- CARTOON BY TED LITTLEFORD

 

Ted Littleford
March 28, 2023
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RE: BERNIE UNLOADS ON HOWARD SCHULTZ AT SENATE HEARING

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It was wonderful seeing Bernie Sanders rip Schultz a new one. In a
quarter of an hour he demonstrated  why we need socialists and why
the rich want to destroy/eviscerate government!

Cap'n Steve & Admiral Duffy

 

FOUR SEASONS  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

Rob Rogers
April 4, 2023
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LIVE THEATER PERFORMANCE - THE MEASURES TAKEN BY BERTOLT BRECHT - NEW
YORK - APRIL 26 (CUNY SCHOOL OF LABOR AND URBAN STUDIES)

 

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 2023  

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ABOUT_ THE MEASURES TAKEN:_

After mounting a successful revolution, four political agitators
report back to their party leader and reveal that in the course of
their struggle they had to execute a comrade. In order to explain
themselves they stage a play. In _THE MEASURES TAKEN_, Bertolt
Brecht leads us to question the nature of solidarity and sacrifice, as
we follow the four agitators' mission to spread class consciousness,
to organize labor movements, and to overthrow the evils of capitalist
society.

This production of _THE MEASURES TAKEN_ has sought to use Brecht’s
learning plays a way to engage people in movements and to discuss its
highly relevant issues, from the role of unions in revolutionary work
to the complexity of vanguardism.  During the spring and summer of
2022, this show was performed in public parks, community gardens, and
activist spaces throughout NYC -- including collaborations with
Brooklyn Eviction Defense, Club A, the Gym, DSA North Brooklyn,
Interference Archive, and Haymarket’s Socialist Conference in
Chicago.  Each show was followed by a facilitated conversation
focusing on building interorganizational connections and to reflect on
the current state of organizing in Brooklyn and beyond.

ABOUT BERTOLT BRECHT:

Considered one of the most important dramatists, poets, and thinkers
of the twentieth century, Bertolt Brecht (b. 1898 - d. 1956) was a
German Marxist playwright and poet who sought new ways to bring
together art and politics. His work was performed for audiences of
socialists, unionists, and a growing working-class in post WW1
era-Berlin, and has been an important touchstone for leftist artists
ever since. Brecht's The Measures Taken was written in 1930 as a
learning play, a form of radical experimental theater meant for
non-actors to embody and reflect on communism, revolution, the ills of
capitalism, and the impact of living in a class-based society.

Written by BERTOLT BRECHT

Staging and concept by JURRELL LEWIS and LUCAS KANE

Directed by LUCAS KANE

Performed by MALACHI BROWN, AVA KAPLAN, NASHWA ZAMAN, ADI
BLAUSTEIN REJTO, and KAIDEN TALESH

Music by MALACHI BROWN and LIVIA REINER

Costumes by WILLA SCHWABSKY and ZELDA MAZOR-FREEDMAN

Set design by ELIZA WILLIAMSON

Painting by ADI BLAUSTEIN REJTO

Photos by LEE RAYMENT

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WHY DO RUSSIANS SUPPORT THE WAR? - APRIL 27 (OPENDEMOCRACY)

 

One year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, surveys
demonstrate that over two-thirds of Russians still support the war.
Why do people believe that the ‘special military operation’ was
necessary? How is it possible that they don’t change their minds
even when they know about the Russian army’s devastating war crimes
in Ukraine and losses and chaos the army is suffering?

Our expert speakers will unpack these questions – and answer yours
– at this event.

Hear from:

* OLEG ZHURAVLEV Researcher with Public Sociology Laboratory
(Russia). He received his PhD in social sciences from the European
University Institute (Florence, Italy)

* ELENA KONEVA Researcher at ExtremeScan, a Russian opinion-polling
company

* JADE MCGLYNN Research fellow at the department of war studies,
King’s College London. She is the author of a new book,
‘Russia’s War’ (2023), and ‘Memory Makers: the Politics of the
Past in Putin’s Russia’

* Chair: POLINA ARONSON Debate editor at oDR, openDemocracy's
post-Soviet space project

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