[Summer of our discontent]
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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – AUGUST 1, 2023  
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August 1, 2023
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_ Summer of our discontent _

, Ben Jennings, The Guardian

 

* What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Revolution?
* ERA Centennial Convention
* The New Fascist Order for Kids
* A Bakery Challenges Ableism
* Rightist Leaders Out of the Shadows
* Prisoner-Led Organizing Saved My Life
* GOP: Slavery Was a Jobs Skills Program
* McDonald’s Walkout in LA
* Cop City Referendum in Atlanta
* Democracy Denied in an Alabama Town

WHAT DO WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT REVOLUTION?
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By Wen Stephenson
The Baffler

The task for those of us who refuse to settle, and who choose to
engage, is to urgently shift our social movements, in broad solidarity
and coalition, toward the _making or remaking of a revolutionary left
politics_. This means building a “movement of movements,”
committed to rupture, ready to take power democratically, and ready to
use it effectively.

ERA CENTENNIAL CONVENTION
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By Carrie N. Baker
Ms.

On July 22, 1923, the National Women’s Party unveiled the Equal
Rights Amendment at the First Presbyterian Church of Seneca Falls in
New York. Precisely 100 years later, contemporary ERA advocates
gathered to mark this important historic milestone and plan for the
final push for recognition of the ERA as the 28th Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution.

THE NEW FASCIST ORDER FOR KIDS
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By John Knefel
Media Matters for America

PragerU Kids is a made-for-students video series from the
right-wing propaganda organization PragerU. Florida has just
approved it for use in its public school classrooms, reflecting and
potentially accelerating the state’s hard conservative turn. 

A BAKERY CHALLENGES ABLEISM
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By Pepper Stetler
Slate

Invictus Bakery was founded in 2018 to prepare people with
intellectual disabilities to be part of an inclusive workforce as the
legal landscape opens up more work for them. The idea of bakers with
autism seemed far-fetched. “We needed to show businesses how precise
and skilled our bakers were,” said Molly Sebastian, one of the
founders.

RIGHTIST LEADERS OUT OF THE SHADOWS

* THE CHURCH OF LEONARD LEO
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Perez, The Lever
 
* CHRISTOPHER RUFO MAKES HIS CASE
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  By Ryan Grim, The Intercept (podcast)
 

PRISONER-LED ORGANIZING SAVED MY LIFE
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By Darrell Jackson
Waging Nonviolence

To survive in prison, inmates usually accept a “convict code” that
demands toughness and makes us wary of others. To thrive in prison, I
learned to embrace organizing for social change and discovered the
rewards in thinking of others first. Contributing to a collective has
helped me find deeper purpose in my life, even while serving a
sentence of life without the possibility of parole.

GOP: SLAVERY WAS A JOBS SKILLS PROGRAM
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By Chauncey DeVega
Salon

Fascists and authoritarians do not believe in empirical reality and
independent truth. Instead, reality and facts and the truth are
contingent, malleable, inconveniences to be twisted and distorted to
fit the fascist project and revolutionary struggle. DeSantis'
Orwellian thought crime campaign and targeting of African-American
history fits firmly within that mold.

MCDONALD’S WALKOUT IN LA
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By Kevin Smith
Los Angeles Daily News

Cooks and cashiers walked off the job at a McDonald’s in Los Angeles
on Friday, July 20, claiming the restaurant’s broken air
conditioning system was forcing them to work in sweltering conditions
amid Southern California’s relentless heat wave. They staged a
lunchtime rally outside the restaurant and said they don’t plan to
return until management addresses the problem. 

COP CITY REFERENDUM IN ATLANTA
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By R.J. Rico
Associated Press

Clipboards in hand, canvassers Sienna Giraldi and Gabriel Sanchez
approached shopper after shopper at a Kroger supermarket lot on a
recent evening collecting signatures for a referendum over whether
to cancel the city’s lease of a proposed police and firefighter
training center that’s become a national rallying cry for
environmentalists and anti-police protesters.

DEMOCRACY DENIED IN AN ALABAMA TOWN
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Equal Justice Initiative

Patrick Braxton, the first Black mayor of Newbern, a small town in
Alabama’s Black Belt region, has filed a federal civil rights
lawsuit alleging the white former mayor and city council members
violated the Constitution when they locked him out of the Town Hall
and barred him from office.

* China Mieville
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* Andreas Malm
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* Equal Rights Amendment
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* PragerU
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* PragerU Kids
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* Invictus Baker
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* autism
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* Leonard Leo
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* Christopher Rufo
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* Prisoners
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* Darrell Jackson
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* Ron DeSantis
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* slavery
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* McDonald's
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* Los Angeles
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* Cop City
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* Atlanta
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* Patrick Braxton
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* Newbern AL
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* Alabama
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