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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – AUGUST 15, 2023  
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* Ohio Strikes Back
* Grim Warning for the Climate Movement
* Looking At the Teamsters Win
* Try That in a Big Country
* Striking for Green Jobs
* More on Behind the Scenes Rightist Schemers
* LGBTQ+ Library Attack Backfires
* Political Scientists Get a Test on Solidarity
* Hating the National Women’s Soccer Team
* White Man Speaks With Forked Tongue

OHIO STRIKES BACK
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By Bill Scher
Washington MonthlyClimate

Ohio’s rejection of Issue 1 proves that protecting abortion rights
is a political winner. It’s also proof that attacking transgender
rights is a political loser. It’s become more evident over the past
few months that what plays in Florida doesn’t necessarily play in
the rest of the country.  

GRIM WARNING FOR THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT
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By Sammy Roth
Los Angeles Times

The environmental movement has a different theory of decarbonization
than others in the climate coalition do. It seems very risky to double
down on one political theory of change, the
“mid-transition,” where the climate crisis and energy transition
would combine to destabilize energy systems and politics. We have to
maintain the political will for decarbonization, because it hasn’t
gotten hard yet.

LOOKING AT THE TEAMSTERS WIN
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By Amba Guerguerian with John Tarleton
The Indypendent 

UPS Teamster practice pickets were held outside scores of UPS
facilities across the country throughout during July. It was a flex
that made visible the union’s ability to mobilize its own members as
well as a broader network of support. And more broadly it reflected
the growing boldness of a resurgent labor movement that has seen a
surge in strikes and union organizing.

TRY THAT IN A BIG COUNTRY
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By Mesfin Fekadu
The Hollywood Reporter

“Try That In Small Town” includes lyrics like: “Cuss out a cop,
spit in his face / Stomp on the flag and light it up / Yeah, ya think
you’re tough / Well, try that in a small town / See how far ya make
it down the road.” Jason Aldean later sings on the song, “Got a
gun that my granddad gave me / They say one day they’re gonna round
up / Well, that shit might fly in the city, good luck.”

STRIKING FOR GREEN JOBS
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By John McCracken
Grist

Workers in Erie, Pennsylvania, are on strike, asking for familiar
items like better pay, voting rights, and health care benefits.
They’re also asking for one unique condition: to shift their
production plant to greener technology.

MORE ON BEHIND THE SCENES RIGHTIST SCHEMERS

* UN-WOKE EDUCATORS
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By Judd Legum, Tesnim Zekeria and Rebecca Crosby, Popular
Information
 
* CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS PUSHING ANTI-LGBTQ LAWS IN UGANDA
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  By David A. Love, LA Progressive
 
* CLIMATE DENIALIST THINK TANK
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  Julian Scoffield, The American Prospect
 

LGBTQ+ LIBRARY ATTACK BACKFIRES
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By Rudy Malcom
Metro Weekly

Two San Diego residents checked out nearly every single book in their
library’s Pride Month display, claiming that such materials
shouldn’t be available to children. As soon as _The San Diego
Union-Tribune_ reported on the protest, new copies of the checked-out
books began to arrive at the library. About 180 people, mostly from
San Diego, donated $15,000 to the city’s public library system.

POLITICAL SCIENTISTS GET A TEST ON SOLIDARITY
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By Mary Yang
The Guardian

The union representing thousands of hotel workers on strike in Los
Angeles is clashing with a group of political scientists over a
request to move its gathering out of the city. It has sparked tensions
within the professional group, as members – experts in power and
politics – are dissenting over how they ought to respond.

HATING THE NATIONAL WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM
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By Alex Abad-Santos
Vox

The team’s defeat has become a talking point among a group of people
who usually don’t have much to say about the sport: right-wingers,
like former president Donald Trump and pundit Benny Johnson. In the
wake of their defeat, USWNT has become subject to the claim that the
US women lost because they were too woke and too progressive.

WHITE MAN SPEAKS WITH FORKED TONGUE
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By Amanda Marcotte
Salon

Richard Hanania, a rising star of the right’s supposed
intelligentsia, is also known as “Richard Hoste,” who wrote for
white nationalist websites, where he expressed a belief that Black
people are intellectually inferior, obsessed over “miscegenation,”
and advocated for forced sterilization of those he considered “low
IQ.”

* Ohio
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* trans rights
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* climate movement
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* Teamsters
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* UPS
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* Jason Aldean
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* green jobs
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* strike
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* THE RIGHT
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* Florida
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* Black History
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* Stop Woke
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* Christian nationalists
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* white nationalism
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* Uganda
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* Think tanks
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* Climate Deniers
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* San Diego
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* Libraries
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* American Political Science Association
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* Hotel workers
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* Unite Here Local 11
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* Los Angeles
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* US Women’s National Soccer Team
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* Richard Hanania
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* Racism
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