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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – JULY 18, 2023
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_ Choosing sides in the longest, hottest summer _
, Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press
* Science Activism is Surging
* Education and Climate in MAGAland
* Dutch Ban on Hoarding Housing
* The Witch Hunt Resumes
* Hard Times for Public Ed
* Iowa Women Throw Down for Abortion Rights
* LGBTQ Phobia and Moral Panic
* Re-Shaping Wildfire Policy
* Georgia Gremlins Who Almost Rigged the 2020 Vote
* Losing Your Mind? Fair Enough
SCIENCE ACTIVISM IS SURGING
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By Scott Frickel and Fernando Tormos-Aponte
The Conversation
Scientists today are speaking out on a variety of political and social
issues related to their own research fields and in solidarity with
other social movements. The election of Donald Trump in 2016 triggered
a wave of political mobilization not seen in the United States since
the Vietnam War era.
EDUCATION AND CLIMATE IN MAGALAND
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By Stan Cox
City Lights
In June, 16 young, environmentally conscious plaintiffs asked a
Montana judge to strike down a law that bars state agencies from
taking greenhouse-gas emissions into account when considering whether
to issue permits for fossil fuel–related projects. Unfortunately,
surging attempts to MAGAfy red-state education systems could stymie
young activists trying to challenge the fossil-fuel juggernaut.
DUTCH BAN ON HOARDING HOUSING
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By Mark Gloom
CBC News
Netherlands Housing Minister Hugo de Jonge proposed a law that would
have allowed municipalities to force homeowners, whose homes were
worth up to €355,000 to put their property on the market only to low
and middle-income earners. Local governments could refuse to grant
residency permits to wealthy potential buyers and keep them out of
the market for homes up to that value.
THE WITCH HUNT RESUMES
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By Branko Marcetic
Jacobin
Montana’s State Library Commission has exited the American Library
Association over the sexuality and leftist politics of the association
president, bringing together a toxic stew of hysterical homophobia and
classic red-baiting to attack public libraries.
HARD TIMES FOR PUBLIC ED
* HOUSE GOP OUT FOR BLOOD
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Jake Johnson, Common Dreams
* THE ROAD TO THE CHOPPING BLOCK
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By Nora De La Cour, Jacobin
* NEA PRESIDENT SPEAKS
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By Becky Pringle, The 19th
IOWA WOMEN THROW DOWN FOR ABORTION RIGHTS
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By Tori Otten
The New Republic
Hundreds of people gathered last Tuesday at the Iowa state Capitol to
protest a bill that would ban abortion after six weeks, targeting
people before they even know they are pregnant. The bill passed by
partisan vote and was signed into law on Friday.
LGBTQ PHOBIA AND MORAL PANIC
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By Erin Aubry Kaplan
HuffPost
The swiftly escalating campaign against LGBTQ people, notably trans
people, feels like racism in that a whole group of people is
being openly degraded simply for being who they are. For those who
are both Black and LGBTQ, this is hardly a new crisis. But for white
LGBTQ people, it must come as an unpleasant shock.
RE-SHAPING WILDFIRE POLICY
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By Colleen Hagerty
Yes!
The FireGeneration Collaborative (FireGen, for short) advocates for
centering Indigenous knowledge and bringing more young people into the
wildfire space. That includes diversifying the workforce that
responds to wildfires.
GEORGIA GREMLINS WHO ALMOST RIGGED THE 2020 VOTE
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By Doug Bock Clark
ProPublica
A vast majority of the voter challenges since Georgia SB 202 became
law — about 89,000 of 100,000 — were submitted by just six
right-wing activists. Another 12 people accounted for most of the
rest.
LOSING YOUR MIND? FAIR ENOUGH
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By Charlie Hertzog Young
Novara Media
Those whose psyches buckle upon contact with the reality of climate
change are the ones deemed mad. This pathologising is a defence
mechanism employed by the civilised to subjugate those whose minds
stray from accepted norms. But blessed are the cracked, for they let
in the light.
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