[Reader Comments: Impeachment; Deal of the Century; Socialist
History of Martin Luther King Jr; Anti-Semitism on Rise; Germany;
Chicago, Israel - Living by Occupation and the Sword; Charlie Chaplin
and Flint Sit-Down Strike; Resources; Announcements]
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CENTURY; SOCIALIST HISTORY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR; ANTI-SEMITISM ON
RISE; GERMANY; ISRAEL - LIVING BY OCCUPATION AND THE SWORD; CHARLIE
CHAPLIN AND FLINT SIT-DOWN STRIKE; ANNOUNCEMENTS  
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_ Reader Comments: Impeachment; 'Deal of the Century; Socialist
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Chicago, Israel - Living by Occupation and the Sword; Charlie Chaplin
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements AND cartoons -
Jan. 30, 2020, xxxxxx

 

Re: An Impeachment Trial Without Witnesses Would Be Unconstitutional
(Judy Atkins)
Re: The Republicans Have Revealed Their Impeachment Strategy—Lying
(Alba Grace Pereira Medina; Roberto Rosario; Marisol Febo; John
Benson; David Jones; Miriam Bensman)
Coming Revolution  --  cartoon by Mike Luckovich
Re: Introducing the Teen Vogue 2020 Youth Voter Committee (Showing Up
for Racial Justice-Rural SURJ of NorCal; Suzanne Prescott)
Re: The ‘Deal of the Century’ is Apartheid (Mona McCurley Wright;
Philip Specht; Walter Lippmann; Nesbit Crutchfield; Linda Crowley;
Barry Cuthbert; Bonnie Rodriguez; John Meyerson; Susan Radosh; Jane
Bush; Yakov Pipman; Julia Bruno)
Spin Cycle  --  cartoon by Mike Thompson
Re: The Injustice of This Moment Is Not an `Aberration' (Hope de
Waardt-Jemerson; Disraelly Gutierrez Jaime)
Re: The High Cost of Having a Baby in America (Jim Price)
Re: The Forgotten Socialist History of Martin Luther King Jr. (Ivan
Avilés Medina; Joe Grogan; Geoffrey Jacques; Dale Jacobson; Calvin
St. James)
Re: Black Abolitionists Believed in Taking Up Arms (Leanna Noble)
Re: Why Anti-Semitism Is on the Rise in the United States (Kipp
Dawson; Jeanne Paradise; Robert Supansic)
Re: Defender and Spearheads (Carl Davidson)
Re: When Capital Threatens to Strike in Your City (Miguel Tamargo)
Re: 'We Are Living by the Sword': The Regrets of an Israel Founder's
Son (Mike Glick; Kipp Dawson)
Re: Israel Is Systematically Poisoning One Million Palestinian
Children (Susan Crews; Yvette Potts Crumpley; Barry Cuthbert)
Re: Charlie Chaplin and Truly Modern Times (Dan Morgan; Carole Travis)
Re: Meet the CEOs Raking It in from Trump’s Aggression Toward Iran
(Mary Kay Baum)

RESOURCES:

THE UNION MEMBER'S COMPLETE GUIDE: POWER TOOL FOR LABOR! (HARD BALL
PRESS)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Jane McAlevey has it out with Nato & Francesca - San Francisco -
February 1 (PianoFight)
Book Talk - Stuart Schrader - Badges Without Borders: How Global
Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing - New York - February
6 (NYU Center for the United States and the Cold War)
Romero Troupe of Colorado Presents “I Didn’t Choose Palestine; It
Chose Me: Personal Stories of Transformation - Denver - February 20
(Friends of the Center for Freedom and Justice)
125,000 Paper Cranes to Washington, D.C. in June 2020 for Tsuru for
Solidarity’s “National Pilgrimage to Close the Camps” - June 5 -
7 (Manzanar Committee)

 

RE: AN IMPEACHMENT TRIAL WITHOUT WITNESSES WOULD BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL
 

I think it’s time for those who are in states with Republican
Senators to put the pressure on them to vote to release us from the
tyranny of Trump and vote for truth and impeachment

Can some one start an online petition aimed at the Republican
Senators?

Judy Atkins
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RE: THE REPUBLICANS HAVE REVEALED THEIR IMPEACHMENT STRATEGY—LYING
 

They probably can't be stopped now, but when November comes around you
can eliminate them with your vote.

Alba Grace Pereira Medina
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If Trump and the GOP gets away with this...this will be the beginning
of the end.

Roberto Rosario
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The people in the USA have to realize that they have let this man have
the power to do whatever crime or corrupt act there is against the law
and the constitution. Now he is publicly admitting his obstruction of
justice and nothing happens. People in the USA should be in the
streets protesting 

Marisol Febo
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Its worked for the President and repeated like gospel by the shills of
Fox News, what will break this is the next election.

John Benson
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The Senate is going to insult the intelligence of the nation. This is
political suicide. They will lose any chance of controlling any power
in house or senate for years. America will seek the truth and hold
them accountable.

David Jones

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In a normal trial, the judge is empowered to stop advocates like
Cipollone from openly and obviously lying to the court and the jury.
In a normal trial, the judge would have been empowered to cut
Cipollone off, mid-lie if necessary, and demand that he “approach
the bench.” There, he’d be admonished for lying to the jury. If he
continued with the lie or did it again, a judge could hold Cipollone
in contempt, or even declare a “mistrial” and force the whole
process to start again.

Chief Justice John Roberts has no such power here. Mitch
McConnnell’s rules do not allow Roberts to hold anybody in
“contempt.”

Miriam Bensman
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COMING REVOLUTION  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
 

Mike Luckovich
January 30, 2020
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: INTRODUCING THE TEEN VOGUE 2020 YOUTH VOTER COMMITTEE
 

As part of Vogue's #TeenVote2020 project, 12 young people will be its
sounding board for all things related to the presidential campaign.

Showing Up for Racial Justice-Rural SURJ of NorCal
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THIS TEENVOGUE ARTICLE POINTS OUT THE PAINFULLY OBVIOUS

"We noticed that pundits and politicians often talk about the
importance of the “youth vote,” but ultimately don’t pay much
attention to how young people feel about presidential elections, much
less politics and the social issues that matter to them."

How can parents and other older voters approach younger voters in a
meaningful way to create useful discussions about voting?
If you have an article with data about younger voters and the coming
2020 election, please cite it here

Suzanne Prescott
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RE: THE ‘DEAL OF THE CENTURY’ IS APARTHEID
 

    “The ‘Deal of the Century’ resurrects and restores grand
apartheid, a racist political system that should have been left in the
dustbins of history.“

Mona McCurley Wright
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This plan is similar to when South Africa established "homelands" for
blacks, totally surrounded by, and controlled by, the dominant
government.

Philip Specht
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Under President Trump’s newly unveiled peace plan, the Palestinians
will be granted limited autonomy within a Palestinian homeland that
consists of multiple non-contiguous enclaves scattered throughout the
West Bank and Gaza. The government of Israel will retain security
control over the Palestinian enclaves and will continue to control
Palestinian borders, airspace, aquifers, maritime waters, and
electromagnetic spectrum. Israel will be allowed to annex the Jordan
Valley and Jewish communities in the West Bank. The Palestinians will
be allowed to select the leaders of their new homeland but will have
no political rights in Israel, the state that actually rules over
them.

President Trump’s plan for racial control and segregation should
sound disturbingly familiar. Indeed it should immediately bring to
mind the Bantu homelands which were the cornerstone of South
Africa’s ‘grand apartheid’. While ‘petty apartheid’ was the
term used to describe racial segregation on buses and public
facilities, ‘grand apartheid’ referred to the many laws which
enforced territorial and political separation between black and white
South Africans.

Walter Lippmann
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Back to the racist future. Shame. Nazi's fascists, and advocates of
Apartheid.

Nesbit Crutchfield
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Homelands? Bantustans

Linda Crowley
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An American nazi and an Israel nazi walked into Gaza one got indicted
and the other got impeached

Barry Cuthbert
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"Like South Africa’s grand apartheid, the Trump plan physically and
politically separates Palestinians by placing them within a
non-contiguous homeland (Areas A and B and Gaza), and declaring them
citizens of that homeland. Like South Africa’s grand apartheid, the
Trump plan grants the Palestinian homeland autonomy over civil matters
like education and healthcare, while critical areas such as trade,
immigration, and security will remain under Israeli control. Like
South Africa’s grand apartheid, the Trump plan is political sleight
of hand: a thinly veiled attempt to claim that Israel, a state that
rules over roughly the same number of Jews and Palestinians, is
actually a Jewish-majority state. Also like apartheid South Africa,
the Trump administration claims the homelands are a temporary
solution."

Bonnie Rodriguez
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While Trump is peddling racism across the globe take a minute to read
this article, let it sink in a couple of minutes and then tell me
I’m anti-Semitic for comparing the Israeli government’s policies
to apartheid.

John Meyerson
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This ‘Peace Plan’ is not. The world needs REAL Peace for
Palestinians and Israelis— not Apartheid. Can you tell the
difference between pre- 1990 South Africa, and current day Israel? I
cannot.

Susan Radosh
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The mockery of yesterday s’ announcement put forth by trump and
Netanyahu absolutely insults all reason and reasonable people. Both
bullies cut from the same cloth sad that these have actually climbed
their way to the top of the bully pulpits of the world.

HOW AWFUL CAN TWO HUMANS BE?
B E Y O N D !!!

Jane Bush
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A cynical joke coming from two corrupt and criminal “leaders”. The
opposition and struggle against the racist apartheid must continue.

Yakov Pipman
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The U.S. gifts Israel nearly 53 billion dollars annually so that it
can bully, steal from, and commit genocide on the Palestinians. The
Palestinians and the Hebrews have had a long-standing dispute over
their slightly differing religions which Israel uses as justification
for its land-grab.

Julia Bruno
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SPIN CYCLE  --  CARTOON BY MIKE THOMPSON
 

Mike Thompson
USA Today

 

RE: THE INJUSTICE OF THIS MOMENT IS NOT AN `ABERRATION'
 

    "No issue has proved more vexing to this nation than the issue
of race, and yet no question is more pressing than how to overcome the
politics of white supremacy...that threatens our ability ever to
create a truly fair, just and inclusive democracy."

Hope de Waardt-Jemerson
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That’s a problem of capitalism and white majority rule: “Justice
is the interest of the strongest.” (Plato) There can be no democracy
in this system. “No issue has proved more vexing to this nation than
the issue of race, and yet no question is more pressing than how to
overcome the politics of white supremacy...that threatens our ability
ever to create a truly fair, just and inclusive democracy.

Disraelly Gutierrez Jaime
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RE: THE HIGH COST OF HAVING A BABY IN AMERICA
 

another ad for Medicare for All

Jim Price
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RE: THE FORGOTTEN SOCIALIST HISTORY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
 

As Americans honor King on his birthday, it is important to remember
that the civil rights icon was also a democratic socialist, committed
to building a broad movement to overcome the failings of capitalism
and achieve both racial and economic equality for all people.

When African-Americans sought not only to be treated with dignity, but
guaranteed fair housing and education, many whites abandoned the
movement. In King’s words, as soon as he demanded “the realization
of equality”—the second phase of the civil rights movement—he
discovered whites suddenly indifferent.

Ivan Avilés Medina
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Thank you for this excellent summary of some of King's
thoughts/actions.  He continues o be an inspiration for all those
struggling for justice and peace. 

Joe Grogan
Bolton, Ontario/Canada
Retired OPSEU member-Region 5

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It's a nice article, but kind of limited. King's democratic socialist
associations were well-known during his lifetime. He published in
periodicals like Liberation (ed. Dave Dellinger, A.J. Muste, and
Bayard Rustin), and anyone that peruses his writings knows that he was
in constant public dialogue with socialist ideas. It was, of course,
the Cold War, and public discourse about socialism was at that time a
far different thing than it is now. Then again, there's that famous
1957 Highlander School photo, taken at the famous progressive school
in Tennessee, where Martin Luther King, Jr. is sitting next to Marxist
author and editor Abner Berry. The white supremacists bought newspaper
advertisements and billboards around the South showing the photo,
captioned "Martin Luther King at Communist Training School." King's
associations with left wing unions District 65 and 1199, and his
hiring and (after Robert F. Kennedy threatened to jail the civil
rights movement if he didn't do it) the firing of Marxist theorist and
activist J. H. O'Dell (who was one of the responsible personalities in
setting up SCLC's voter registration program), were all performed in
public. King was a leftist, and though it's useful to always remind
ourselves of this fact, we must not continue to fall into the
circular-style thinking of repeatedly "rediscovering" it.

Geoffrey Jacques
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"King considered the Poor People's Campaign to be the vehicle for this
next phase of the movement precisely because it offered both material
advances and the potential for stronger cross-racial organizing. For
King, only a multiracial working-class movement, which the Poor
People's Campaign aspired to be, could guarantee both racial and
economic equality." 

I've tried to argue this with the politically correct (identity
politics) types. Not successfully. They prefer an easier formula, it
seems. Anything but working class politics.

Dale Jacobson
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It was absurd to believe that blacks leaving slavery or even
segregation would be able to benefit immediately from greedy
capitalism.. on a large scale

Calvin St. James
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RE: BLACK ABOLITIONISTS BELIEVED IN TAKING UP ARMS
 

shows importance of struggles of 1960s and70s and today by POC to win
ethnic ad labor studies in academia as well as access to source
records/documents. Onward to protect such programs' research, analysis
and writing which celebrates and arms our movements!

Leanna Noble
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RE: WHY ANTI-SEMITISM IS ON THE RISE IN THE UNITED STATES
 

Even though the Holocaust was so recently just behind us when my peers
and I were born, for most of us aware of social justice issues,
anti-Semitism took a spot way behind the anti- lack racism which was
so pervasive so violent, so in-your-face, so omnipresent, so deep,
everywhere. Including among us young Jews, anti-Semitism was mostly
(as Shakespeare would put it) “long ago and in another country, and,
besides, the wench is dead.”

Even our parents who had fought the Nazis, and our grandparents who
had escaped them and their European (and American) anti-Semitic
predecessors preferred the security they found in assuming it would
not “happen” here.

Of course, we know now we were wrong.

“During the past decade, social media has amplified the voices of
white supremacists and anti-Semites, but it is Trump who has lent them
legitimacy and emboldened them to come out of the shadows.”

Kipp Dawson
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Because of the genocide, theft and cruelty of Israelis towards
Palestinians. Why Israel? Sadly, people become what they hate.

Jeanne Paradise
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While we regularly speak of racism, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia as
separate things, in truth ethnic hatred is not divisible. When Trump
singled out Muslims as the great threat to the country, racists and
anti-Semites did not feel impelled to remain silent. At
Charlottesville, Confederate flags accompanied chants of “Jews will
not replace us!” Attacks on one ethnic group only give license to
attacks on others. The history of racism in this country was long
created space for anti-Semites and other haters. Whether Trump is
ignorant of this fact is hard to tell; certainly, he has welcomed the
support of all of them. And they may well correspond to his own
private attitudes. Consider his rather blithe anti-Semite remarks
before audiences of his Jewish supporters.

Robert Supansic

 

RE: DEFENDER AND SPEARHEADS
 

I had a good friend, Perry Cartwright, RIP. an old Cockranist and MR
devotee, who fought fascism 'prematurely' by joining the RAF in Canada
and then flew these bombing missions. One day a Brit top brass told
them not to bring any bombs back and not to drop them in unpopulated
areas or at sea. One flyer spoke up and said, 'but we're to destroy
the German war machine?' To which the officer replied, 'Not just the
war machine. I want you to destroy the German working class.' Perry
told me that was where he was transformed from anti-fascist to
revolutionary socialist.

Carl Davidson
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RE: WHEN CAPITAL THREATENS TO STRIKE IN YOUR CITY
 

Good argument for strong social democrat government at every level.
When speculation dictates economic policy, its time to regulate.

Miguel Tamargo
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RE: 'WE ARE LIVING BY THE SWORD': THE REGRETS OF AN ISRAEL FOUNDER'S
SON
 

From the story, “ I ask how he sees the future for the Palestinians?

“What can I say? I feel very bad about it. And I am not afraid to
say that the treatment of the Palestinians today is Nazi treatment. We
don’t have gas chambers, of course, but the mentality is the same.
It is racial hatred. They are treated as subhuman,” he says.

Yaakov is well-aware that he - a Jew - will be accused of
“antisemitism” for saying such things, but says he believes Israel
is “a criminal state”.

“I know they will call me a self-hating Jew for saying that. But I
cannot automatically support my country, right or wrong. And Israel
must not be immune from criticism. Seeing the difference between
antisemitism and criticism of Israel is crucial. To be honest, I am
amazed how in 2019 the world outside accepts Israeli propaganda. I
really don’t know why they do,” he says.

“And remember that the very aim of Zionism was to release Jews from
the curse of antisemitism by giving them their own state. But today,
the Jewish state by its own criminal behaviour is one of the most
serious causes for this curse.”

Mike Glick
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My mom was among the Jews who was (for a moment) excited by the
creation of Israel in 1948, seeing it as a strong defense against the
anti-Semitism which wrecked such havoc for so long, including the
then-so-recent Holocaust. I had my own (brief) excitement about Israel
when I read Leon Uris' "Exodus."

It did not take either of us long to recognize that the creation of
this Zionist state meant (and depended on) the oppression of the
people-like-us who were living in that land who were not Jewish, ie,
the Palestinians. My mom was active in groups like Women in Black --
Jews who stood together in solidarity with Palestinians against
aggressions by the Israeli government. I started there and soon became
convinced that Zionism in power depends on this kind of oppression,
and I am one of the Jews who is anti-Zionist. Today a growing number
of Jews are coming together to publicly oppose particular acts of the
Israeli government; some also are rejecting Zionism per se. ALL of us
across this spectrum have been called anti-Semitic by fervent
Zionists.

This article is an important contribution to an important discussion.

Kipp Dawson
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RE: ISRAEL IS SYSTEMATICALLY POISONING ONE MILLION PALESTINIAN
CHILDREN
 

A Holocaust perpetrated upon people, by the very Holocaust survivors
of WWll?
Horrendous

Susan Crews
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What Israel does to Palestine is unconscionable.

Yvette Potts Crumpley
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Why is Israel doing this? It's genocide. History will remember this as
a holocaust of Palestinians

According to the 4th Geneva Convention, Israel is required under
International Law to provide the ability for Gaza and the West Bank to
sustain an environment of livability. Israel will argue, however, that
Gaza specifically is not occupied; that it withdrew in 2005. However
it still controls the population registry, the entries and exits, all
imports and exports, the electromagnetic sphere, the armistice lines
(what Israel calls the border), the territorial waters, airspace as
well as having a monopoly on the electricity in Gaza. Israel controls
Gaza through and through; meaning that if Israel does not declare an
occupation, it is a de facto annexation of the territory.

Barry Cuthbert
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RE: CHARLIE CHAPLIN AND TRULY MODERN TIMES
 

Also: A King in New York is a 1957 British comedy film directed by and
starring Charlie Chaplin in his last leading role, which co-stars,
among others, his young son Michael. The film presents a satirical
view of the McCarthy communist-hunt era and certain other aspects of
United States politics and society. The film, which was produced in
Europe after Chaplin's exile from the U.S. in 1952, did not open in
the United States until 1972 (Wikipedia).

Dan Morgan
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Charlie Chaplin personally sent a copy of the movie to the Flint
SitDown strike in January 1937.   My father told me about how
wonderful it was and how much he and everyone enjoyed it.  So
surprisingly perfect and funny.

Bob Travis was the leader of the 1937 Flint Sit Down Strike, a turning
point in the inclusive organization of working people beyond craft
tradesmen. The strike won recognition for the United Auto Workers as
the sole recognized bargaining agent for all of the manufacturing
workers (production and skilled trades) at 14 General Motors plants
across the United States.  Travis was officially chosen as the
Director of the Flint SitDown Strike by the UAW leadership. At the
time Travis was the first president of UAW Local 14  the Local for a
Chevrolet transmission plant in Toledo Ohio.  Travis was the first
union leader to win a strike against GM, albeit a short small one.
 Travis successfully negotiated a settlement with GM's powerful
William Knudsen.  Travis was sent from Toledo in the summer of 1936
to replace his friend, mentor, comrade Wyndham Mortimer from the
Cleveland GM plants.  Travis was the leader and strategist of that
breakthrough strike that physically occupied General Motors property
for 44 days and nights, crippling production and bringing General
Motors, at the time the biggest employer in the country, to its knees.
 Travis was the first UAW official to raise the idea of local
leadership councils by employer.

Carole Travis

 

RE: MEET THE CEOS RAKING IT IN FROM TRUMP’S AGGRESSION TOWARD IRAN
 

"look at how the CEOs at the top five Pentagon contractors were
affected by this surge, using the most recent SEC information on their
stock holdings."

Mary Kay Baum
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JANE MCALEVEY HAS IT OUT WITH NATO & FRANCESCA - SAN FRANCISCO -
FEBRUARY 1
 

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2020  --  5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST

PianoFight
Main Stage
144 Taylor St
San Francisco, CA 94102

At long last, the labor organizing book talk & live podcast recording
in a night club with alcohol and obscenities that everyone has been
waiting for.

Organizer Jane McAlevey in conversation with comedians Nato Green &
Francesca Fiorentini. Jane's new book out from Harper Collins called
"A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for
Democracy" provides an excellent occasion to upend the normal book
chat with a comedians.

JANE MCALEVEY is an organizer, author, and scholar. She is currently a
Senior Policy Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley’s
Labor Center, part of the Institute for Labor & Employment Relations.
Her third book, A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the
Fight for Democracy, argues that despite, if not because of, the
withering attacks on working people from the US Supreme Court,
conservative state and local governments, and the corporate class, the
survival of American democracy depends on rebuilding unions.

Her first book, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell), published by
Verso Press, was named the “most valuable book of 2012” by The
Nation Magazine. Her second book, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power
in the New Gilded Age, published by Oxford University Press, was
released late in 2016. From 2010-2015, she earned a Ph.D., followed by
a two-year Post Doc at the Harvard University Law School. She is a
regular commentator on radio and TV.

San Francisco native NATO GREEN is the country’s only
semi-functional hybrid of comedian, writer, and union organizer.

Nato Green released his second comedy album The Whiteness Album on
Blonde Medicine Records, appeared in the film Sorry to Bother You. The
Whiteness Album was named by the NPR show Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
one of the best comedy albums of 2018.

Nato’s writing has appeared in the LA Review of Books, the San
Francisco Examiner, In These Times, VICE, Truthdig, Huffington Post,
the San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Rumpus, and The Bold Italic.

His first comedy album, The Nato Green Party, was released in 2012 by
Rooftop Comedy. Nato has been named San Francisco’s Best Comedian by
the SF Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, Huffington Post, SFist, and CBS. Nato
is the creator of Iron Comic, the hit Iron Chef-spoofing comedy game
show. His comedy has been featured in Audible Comedy Originals
including the Comedy Show Show, the Guest List, McSweeney’s Internet
Tendency, and Sounds Like America. He’s appeared on numerous
podcasts including RISK!, the Dork Forest, Pod Damn America, WTF with
Marc Maron, Put Your Hands Together, WBUR’s You’re the Expert,
KQED’s Truth Be Told, KALW’s Kamau Right Now, Porchlight, Muni
Diaries, and Fake the Nation with Negin Farsad.

Nato wrote for Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell on FX, the show that
the New York Times recently called “five years ahead of its time,”
and toured nationally with W. Kamau Bell & Janine Brito as Laughter
Against the Machine.

Nato has also been a union organizer for twenty years, working as an
organizer, union rep, and negotiator with UFCW, ILWU, CNA, SEIU Local
1021, and founding Young Workers United, the country’s first worker
center for young and immigrant workers in the low-wage service sector.
The Episcopal Archbishop once called him the antichrist.

Journalist, activist and stand up comedian FRANCESCA FIORENTINI has
spent most of her life comforting the afflicted and afflicting the
comfortable -- from the streets to the screen to the stage. Most
recently, she hosted "Red White & Who" on MSNBC.

As a host and producer, Francesca helped Al Jazeera Media Network
successfully launch the online news channel AJ+ in 2013. She has
captured online audiences with viral hits like "The Real Deal with the
U.S. Mexico Border"and "How America is Already Socialist."

In the Spring of 2016 Francesca launched Al Jazeera's first comedy
show. Newsbroke is a weekly scripted deep-dive into nuclear power, the
war in Afghanistan, immigration policy and other totally non serious
topics.

Francesca has also been a correspondent with “Explorer” on the
National Geographic Channel since 2016. For her NatGeo work on
draconian abortion laws in El Salvador she won a Media Excellence
award from Planned Parenthood in 2018.

Francesca regularly speaks dick jokes to power on stage as a stand up
comic. She has been featured on the podcast Lovett or Leave It (2018),
the BBC Arts Hour (2018), and is a regular contributor to The Young
Turks.

PianoFight’s not just a theater, it’s also a restaurant and bar!

PianoFight's restaurant, bar, and both theaters are fully ADA
accessible.

Welcome to PianoFight! We are a community-driven indy arts venue that
takes pride in partnering with local artists to make great shows,
mouth watering eats and delicious cocktails adding up to a uniquely
San Francisco experience. Our two intimate theaters and cabaret stage
host music, comedy, plays, dance, film screenings, drag, magic,
variety shows and more, while our restaurant and bar serves up new
American bites and classic cocktails. We provide space and
infrastructure to hundreds of artists, who create and stage 1,500
performances for over 50,000 audience members each year.  During the
day, we are the home base for the offices and classrooms of community
non-profits like Tenderloin Walking Tours and Code Tenderloin which
runs a job-readiness program for TL residents.

Contact
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BOOK TALK - STUART SCHRADER - BADGES WITHOUT BORDERS: HOW GLOBAL
COUNTERINSURGENCY TRANSFORMED AMERICAN POLICING - NEW YORK - FEBRUARY
6
 

 

 

STUART SCHRADER will discuss his book _Badges Without Borders: How
Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing_
[[link removed]] (University
of California Press, 2019) on Thursday February 6 at 4:30 PM. TIM
WEINER will moderate the discussion. A reception with wine and
cheese will follow the lecture. This event is sponsored by the Center
for the United States and the Cold War and NYU Department of Social
and Cultural Analysis.  

STUART SCHRADER is the Associate Director of the Program in Racism,
Immigration, and Citizenship and Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University.
He previously held postdoctoral fellowships at the Center for the
United States and the Cold War and at Harvard University's Charles
Warren Center for Studies in American History. He is the author
of _Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed
American Policing_ (University of California Press, 2019), as well as
numerous scholarly and popular articles.

TIM WEINER is the author of five books, including _Legacy of Ashes_,
his history of the CIA which won the National Book Award, _Enemies:
A History of the FBI, and __One Man Against The World: The Tragedy of
Richard Nixon. _His journalism on secret government programs received
the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. As a correspondent
for _The New York Times_, he covered war and terrorism in
Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Sudan, and other nations.

 

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 6 AT 4:30 PM.

Tamiment/NYU Special Collections
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
Room 251
New York, NY 10012

RSVP: [email protected]

 

ROMERO TROUPE OF COLORADO PRESENTS “I DIDN’T CHOOSE PALESTINE; IT
CHOSE ME: PERSONAL STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION - DENVER - FEBRUARY 20
 

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20  --  6:30PM

Mercury Cafe in the Jungle Room
2199 California Street
Denver, CO 80205

 

125,000 PAPER CRANES TO WASHINGTON, D.C. IN JUNE 2020 FOR TSURU FOR
SOLIDARITY’S “NATIONAL PILGRIMAGE TO CLOSE THE CAMPS” - JUNE 5 -
7
 

 

Japanese Americans from across the country will gather next spring in
Washington, D.C., June 5-7, 2020, for a _NATIONAL PILGRIMAGE TO CLOSE
THE CAMPS_. We plan to bring 125,000 paper cranes, or _TSURU_, as
expressions of solidarity with immigrant and refugee communities that
are under attack today. The 125,000 cranes represent the members of
our community who were rounded up and incarcerated in U.S.
concentration camps during World War II, including both Japanese
Americans and Japanese Latin Americans.

Standing on the moral authority of our own unjust incarceration, the
protest will demand that no matter where someone came from or how they
arrived to the United States, they be treated with dignity and
respect. We will stand with immigrant communities to condemn the
policies that dehumanize them, including ICE detention; jailing and
separation of parents, families, and children; and the Muslim ban.

The planning is being led by TSURU FOR SOLIDARITY
[[link removed]], a non-violent, direct action
project of Japanese American social justice advocates.

“We expect this to be the largest gathering of Japanese Americans
since World War II, when we were forcibly removed from our homes and
incarcerated in U.S. concentration camps,” said Mike Ishii, one of
the lead organizers.

FOLD-INS: We invite supporters to organize local _Tsuru Fold-Ins_ to
bring tsuru to Washington, D.C., or mail them to us by May 1, 2020.
Details, including where to send tsuru, are available on our web
site: [link removed]
[[link removed]].

For updates and registration information: Please sign up on our e-mail
list (opt in on our web site, [link removed]
[[link removed]]) to be notified about
registration for the Pilgrimage. Information about lodging and other
costs will be provided when registration opens in early 2020.

Partners and endorsing organizations: Current endorsers and partners
include: Densho; Japanese American Citizens League
[[link removed]] (JACL) National; JACL Chicago
[[link removed]]; Portland JACL
[[link removed]]; Japanese Community Youth Council
[[link removed]]; Japanese Americans for Justice; Japanese
American Service Committee
[[link removed]] (Chicago); KAREN KOREMATSU and
the Fred T. Korematsu Institute
[[link removed]]; Manzanar Committee
[[link removed]]; Minami Tamaki LLP
[[link removed]]; Minoru Yasui Legacy Project
[[link removed]]; National Japanese American
Historical Society [[link removed]]; New York Day of
Remembrance Committee; Nikkei Progressives
[[link removed]]; Oregon Nikkei Endowment
[[link removed]]; PEGGY SAIKA; and Tule Lake Committee
[[link removed]].

We invite partners nationwide to join the D.C. action by lending their
name, organizing fold-ins, sending members, and raising funds to
support the action. Please contact [email protected] if you
would like to add your organization’s name and support.

Manzanar Committee [[link removed]]
1566 Curran Street
Los Angeles, CA 90026-2036

BY PHONE: (323) 662-5102

 

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