[Students show their antifascist colors]
[[link removed]]
DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – MAY 23, 2023
[[link removed]]
May 23, 2023
xxxxxx
[[link removed]]
*
[[link removed]]
*
[[link removed]]
*
*
[[link removed]]
_ Students show their antifascist colors _
New College of Florida graduating students attend the college’s
“alternative commencement” on May 18, 2023, in Sarasota. Credit,
Douglas R. Clifford / Tampa Bay Times/Pool Photo
* Florida New College Grads: Up Yours, DeSantis
* North Carolina Stripmines Abortion Rights
* Dodgers Pay a Price for Bowing to the Right
* RFK Jr Takes On Biden
* Fashion and Feminism
* Child Labor Abuses in Fast Food
* Trans Care Scandal
* White Nationalists of Color
* MAGA Circus Madhouse
* The Great Debate: Race and Class
FLORIDA NEW COLLEGE GRADS: UP YOURS, DESANTIS
[[link removed]]
By Meghan Bowman
WUSF Public Media
Sarasota Art Museum became a bastion of hope and celebration Thursday
evening as New College of Florida graduates attended an Alternative
Commencement they called “On Our Terms.” The student-organized
ceremony was held in protest of the Trump administration’s COVID
advisor, Dr. Scott Atlas, who is the keynote speaker at the official
graduation. [See the response to Atlas HERE
[[link removed]].]
NORTH CAROLINA STRIPMINES ABORTION RIGHTS
[[link removed]]
By Natasha Marcus
Newsweek
Now that Republicans used their veto-proof majority in the North
Carolina General Assembly to enact severe abortion restrictions, many
women and girls here will be forced to remain pregnant against their
will and/or face near insurmountable hurdles in order to get
reproductive health care.
DODGERS PAY A PRICE FOR BOWING TO THE RIGHT
[[link removed]]
By Ben Blanchet
Huffpost
Two California LGBTQ+ groups dropped out of the Los Angeles
Dodgers’ annual Pride Night event due to the team disinviting The
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a charity whose members dress in
drag. The group had been denounced by Sen. Marco
Rubio (R-Fla.), the Catholic League and CatholicVote.
RFK JR TAKES ON BIDEN
[[link removed]]
By Scott Waldman
Climate-wire
The long shot presidential candidate and onetime crusader for
environmental protections has transformed into a font of anti-vaccine
misinformation and conspiracies. In the first weeks of his
presidential campaign, Kennedy now claims that climate policy is part
of an international conspiracy involving Bill Gates and the World
Economic Forum.
FASHION AND FEMINISM
[[link removed]]
By Tyler McCall
Fashionista
Major fashion brands — particularly those owned by public companies
— are limited in their ability to ever be _true_ changemakers in
society. So long as financial gains are the ultimate bottom line —
and, under late-stage capitalism, they always will be — the brands
are not our allies. They’re just brands.
CHILD LABOR ABUSES IN FAST FOOD
[[link removed]]
By Ariana Bindman
SFGATE
Two high school students alleged that management at a Popeyes in
East Oakland forced them to work long hours late into the night,
violating California’s child labor laws. One employee was just 13
years old when they first started working at Popeyes and toiled at the
establishment for up to 45 hours per week. Employees went on strike
Thursday, temporarily shutting down the restaurant.
TRANS CARE SCANDAL [[link removed]]
By Ray Hartmann
Raw Story
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been accused of citing illegally
leaked children’s medical records as part of a vendetta against
trans kids and their families. The Texas Legislature recently passed
a bill that would bar minors from receiving puberty blockers, hormone
therapy and related surgery — though such surgery is rare for
minors.
WHITE NATIONALISTS OF COLOR
[[link removed]]
By Edwin Rios
The Guardian
Unlike the white supremacists who rioted in Charlottesville in 2017,
men of color attracted to white supremacist ideologies believe less in
a white ethnostate and more that the state has failed them in the past
and it will take violence to suppress threats and restore their
perceived sense of order.
MAGA CIRCUS MADHOUSE
[[link removed]]
By Tim Dickinson
Rolling Stone
Trump’s Miami property played host to a one-two punch of reunions
for Pastors For Trump — the charismatic evangelical body hyping up
the Trump ’24 campaign as a gift from the Lord — and the Re-Awaken
America tour, the traveling MAGA circus that platforms retired Gen.
Mike Flynn and an unhinged band of shofar-bleaters, conspiracy
theorists, and zealots who relate their visions of the spirit world.
THE GREAT DEBATE: RACE AND CLASS
* WHEN RACIAL JUSTICE MEANT UNIVERSAL SOCIAL BENEFITS
[[link removed]]
By Adolph Reed Jr, The Nation
* THE EDGE OF REVELATION
[[link removed]]
By Joshua Clover and Nikhil Pal Singh, Verso Books
* Florida
[[link removed]]
* New College of Florida
[[link removed]]
* Ron DeSantis
[[link removed]]
* North Carolina
[[link removed]]
* abortion rights
[[link removed]]
* Los Angeles Dodgers
[[link removed]]
* LGBTQ
[[link removed]]
* The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
[[link removed]]
* marco rubio
[[link removed]]
* Robert F. Kennedy Jr
[[link removed]]
* Joe Biden
[[link removed]]
* Fashion
[[link removed]]
* Fascism
[[link removed]]
* Oakland
[[link removed]]
* child labor
[[link removed]]
* Popeyes
[[link removed]]
* trans rights
[[link removed]]
* Ken Paxton
[[link removed]]
* white supremacists
[[link removed]]
* people of color
[[link removed]]
* Donald Trump
[[link removed]]
* Pastors For Trump
[[link removed]]
* race and class
[[link removed]]
*
[[link removed]]
*
[[link removed]]
*
*
[[link removed]]
INTERPRET THE WORLD AND CHANGE IT
Submit via web
[[link removed]]
Submit via email
Frequently asked questions
[[link removed]]
Manage subscription
[[link removed]]
Visit xxxxxx.org
[[link removed]]
Twitter [[link removed]]
Facebook [[link removed]]
[link removed]
To unsubscribe, click the following link:
[link removed]
