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GEORGIA INDICTMENT SPEAKS TO HISTORY; BIDEN CLIMATE BILL LEAVES
WORKERS BEHIND; GERMAN LEFT DEBATES PUTIN’S WAR; SEPT 17 MARCH TO
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Aug.24, 2023, xxxxxx

 

* RE: DONALD TRUMP, MOB BOSS — THEN AND NOW  (JAY MAZUR; SID
KIVANOSKI)
* RE: THE GEORGIA INDICTMENT SPEAKS TO HISTORY  (JAMES E VANN)
* TRUMP THREAT  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS
* THE GOP DEBATE - THE TROPHY  -- CARTOON BY CLAY BENNETT
* RE: BIDEN’S CLIMATE BILL LEAVES WORKERS BEHIND IN SHIFT TO
ELECTRIC CARS, UNION SAYS  (SONIA COBBINS)
* FOSSIL FUEL DRIVEN CLIMATE CHANGE IS A FORM OF ELDER ABUSE  --
 MEME  (SOLIDARITYINFOSERVICE)
* RE: THE CLIMATE CULPRITS HIDING THEIR ROLE IN CALIFORNIA'S EXTREME
WEATHER  (PETER AND SHARRON CHILDS)
* RE: JEOPARDY! CONTESTANTS WEIGH A SECOND SHOT AT GLORY VERSUS
CROSSING THE PICKET LINE  (JOHN THOMPSON)
* RE: BIDEN DOJ: “NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO STABLE CLIMATE”
 (JONATHAN BENNETT)
* RETURNING THE FAVOR  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
* RE: IN FAILING TO STRIKE AT UPS, THE TEAMSTERS MISSED A BIG
OPPORTUNITY  (TED PEARSON)
* RE: PRO-UNION SHIFT EXPECTED WITH LABOR BOARD MEMBER’S PENDING
EXIT  (DAVID NEWBY)
* RE: THE BLIND SIDE’S WHITE SAVIOR TALE WAS ALWAYS BUILT ON SHAKY
GROUND  (JODDA MITCHELL)
* RE: CORNELL TO END PARTNERSHIP WITH STARBUCKS BY JUNE 2025
 (PETER DREIER; TINA BRAXTON)
* RITHMATIC - SOME PARENT OBJECTED TO ARABIC NUMERALS  --  ED
BAGLEY CARTOON
* RE: ECUADORIANS VOTE TO HALT OIL DRILLING IN BIODIVERSE AMAZONIAN
NATIONAL PARK  (CHARLES)
* RE: THE NONSENSICAL ‘RIGHT AND LEFT NEED TO UNITE TO TAKE ON
ELITES’ TAKE THAT JUST WON’T DIE  (DAVID BERGER)
* DAMAGED BEYOND REPAIR  --  CARTOON BY DR. JAMES MACLEOD
* RE: WHY THERE’S JOY IN RIGHT-WING MEDIA MUDVILLE  (ELEANOR
ROOSEVELT)
* RE: THE GERMAN LEFT DEBATES PUTIN’S WAR  (INGAR SOLTY)
* RE: THE TRAGEDY OF MISUNDERSTANDING THE COMMONS  (CHARLES PATRICK
LYNCH)
* RE: STAR TREK GAVE US A UTOPIAN VISION OF AN EGALITARIAN,
POSTCAPITALIST FUTURE  (ALAN HART)

RESOURCES:

* CRITICAL CHINA SCHOLARS* RESPOND TO NEW MCCARTHYISM AND NEW YORK
TIMES

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

* ONE MONTH AWAY | ON SEPT 17TH JOIN THE MARCH TO END THE ERA OF
FOSSIL FUELS  (MARCH TO END FOSSIL FUELS)

 

RE: DONALD TRUMP, MOB BOSS — THEN AND NOW
 

An okay short article rehashing Trump's mob ties. Well worth
remembering he is a criminal and he governed like the head of a
criminal organization

Jay Mazur
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“Let’s take a stroll down memory lane.”

Sid Kivanoski
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: THE GEORGIA INDICTMENT SPEAKS TO HISTORY - CAN THERE CAN BE A
GREATER SHAME ??
 

The article by David Firestone is important in several ways.

In addition to providing a link to the 98-page indictment order, the
article, its reality, and its historic significance highlight the
unfailing courage of the members of the Grand Jury - who unanimously
returned the indictment, The County Secretary - who saw that the
complete 98-page indictment was available for publication within 2
hours of the vote, and to the absolutely amazing Fulton Co District
Attorney, Fani Willis, and her 18-member investigative team who --
barring sleep and caution -- efficiently uncovered every damning
detail to utmost undeniability.

It is not to be disregarded that the anti-democratic, dictator-
seeking Trump crazies are publishing and distributing the names and
home addresses of the confidential Grand Jury members, as well as
everyone who carried out their legal duty, and are broadcasting
multiple death threats and calls for violence against each involved
agent ... including even an out-of-state Texas congresswoman.

There Can Be No Greater Shame !!!

James E Vann, a retired Architect, is a civic, housing, community, and
political activist in Oakland, California.

 

TRUMP THREAT  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

Rob Rogers
August 18, 2023
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THE GOP DEBATE - THE TROPHY  -- CARTOON BY CLAY BENNETT

 

Clay Bennett
August 22, 2023
Chattanooga Times Free Press
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RE: BIDEN’S CLIMATE BILL LEAVES WORKERS BEHIND IN SHIFT TO ELECTRIC
CARS, UNION SAYS
 

(post on xxxxxx Labor
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Plus Biden opened up a huge area in Alaska to oil drilling. Why is he
the best choice the D Party has to offer? Discouraging. Perhaps I will
end up voting for him, but he is not the choice to inspire big
turnouts of workers.

Sonia Cobbins
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FOSSIL FUEL DRIVEN CLIMATE CHANGE IS A FORM OF ELDER ABUSE  --  MEME
 

SolidarityINFOService
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RE: THE CLIMATE CULPRITS HIDING THEIR ROLE IN CALIFORNIA'S EXTREME
WEATHER
 

Imagine that there was an outfit that arranged parties, providing the
food, the entertainment, everything necessary for people to have a
good time, and making enormous amounts of money from doing so.

Imagine that they put on a gigantic party but discovered that the
party had a railroad track running right through the middle of it.
 Imagine that they 1) ignored the implications of that fact, saying
nothing about it, even when they heard the train coming. 3) actively
worked to prevent anyone knowing that the train was coming.  4)
continued to obfuscate and lie about the train that was hurtling down
on the party, even when it hit the outskirts of the party.

Imagine that.

Peter and Sharron Childs

 

RE: JEOPARDY! CONTESTANTS WEIGH A SECOND SHOT AT GLORY VERSUS CROSSING
THE PICKET LINE
 

Don't be a scab for the bosses.

John Thompson
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: BIDEN DOJ: “NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO STABLE CLIMATE”
 

You want a stable climate? Maybe you kids shoulda picked another
century to be born in.

Jonathan Bennett
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RETURNING THE FAVOR  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

 

Mike Luckovich
August 24, 2023
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: IN FAILING TO STRIKE AT UPS, THE TEAMSTERS MISSED A BIG
OPPORTUNITY
 

This seems like typical leftist minimization of every victory short of
overthrowing capitalism. Come on people. Let's get back in the real
world.

Ted Pearson

 

RE: PRO-UNION SHIFT EXPECTED WITH LABOR BOARD MEMBER’S PENDING EXIT

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Could make a real difference, if unions are aggressive in using these
new/restored rights and procedures.

David Newby
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RE: THE BLIND SIDE’S WHITE SAVIOR TALE WAS ALWAYS BUILT ON SHAKY
GROUND
 

I hated that movie. It was so reminiscent of Langston Hughes' "Poor
Little Black Fellow ".

Jodda Mitchell
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: CORNELL TO END PARTNERSHIP WITH STARBUCKS BY JUNE 2025

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Other universities should follow Cornell's example.

Peter Dreier
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Renting them space is one thing, but a partnership is outrageous.

Tina Braxton
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RITHMATIC - SOME PARENT OBJECTED TO ARABIC NUMERALS  --  ED BAGLEY
CARTOON

 

Ed Bagley
The Salt Lake Tribune
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August 11, 2023

 

RE: ECUADORIANS VOTE TO HALT OIL DRILLING IN BIODIVERSE AMAZONIAN
NATIONAL PARK
 

Excellent! This is one of the xxxxxx articles I thoroughly support
and agree with.

I can only hope this referendum lasts for years to come, kudos to
Ecuador for having the wisdom to actually approve and vote for this.

On so many levels, for the sake of the planet, irreplaceable
rainforests, the Tagaeri and Taromenane people, the nation of Ecuador
. . . this is an example that perhaps other nations in the region can
relate to and adopt.

The damage that Bolsonaro rendered upon the rainforests and indigenous
peoples of Brazil was horrific, but maybe now with da Silva, Brazil
can look to Ecuador as an example to follow.

Charles
N. California

 

RE: THE NONSENSICAL ‘RIGHT AND LEFT NEED TO UNITE TO TAKE ON
ELITES’ TAKE THAT JUST WON’T DIE
 

If you read this piece of toilet paper, you’ll see that this clown
actually advocates a red-brown alliance.

Also on his list of what’s wrong with corporations, he doesn’t
mention salaries, benefits or anti-labor crap.

“The left’s criticism of Disney is the same as it is for every
corporation: that they don’t pay nearly enough in taxes, that they
use their money and influence to lobby for pro-corporate policies that
benefit them at our collective expense, and that they have too much
political power.”

More reminders that LIBERALS AREN’T LEFTISTS.

David Berger
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DAMAGED BEYOND REPAIR  --  CARTOON BY DR. JAMES MACLEOD

 

Dr. James MacLeod
August 14, 2023
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RE: WHY THERE’S JOY IN RIGHT-WING MEDIA MUDVILLE
 

Jackie Robinson, whom righties love to trot out as a plastic saint,
said in 1972 "I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the
flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world."

Eleanor Roosevelt
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RE: THE GERMAN LEFT DEBATES PUTIN’S WAR

(Posting in Global Left Midweek – August 23, 2023
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Internally and internationally, wars divide the socialist left. That
has been the case with almost every war in modern history. And it is
particularly the case with the Ukraine war, which is a "left" or at
least a "liberal war" insofar as it evokes strong and deeply rooted
leftist emotions: an anti-war stance, antifascism, and the desire to
be in solidarity both with the weak and internationally.

As a result, the Ukraine war has created rifts inside socialist and
left-wing forces. However, now that this horrific war has been going
on for exactly one and a half years today, it seems possible to talk
about the divisions in a civilized manner and identify what they are
and seek out ways to maybe overcome them.

Jan Ole Arps [[link removed]], editor at ak -
analyse & kritik | Zeitung für linke Debatte und Praxis
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debate in Hamburg in June which led to a German publication in AK that
has now been translated into English and published here at xxxxxx
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Ingar Solty
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RE: THE TRAGEDY OF MISUNDERSTANDING THE COMMONS
 

very interesting, and as a beginning approach to this, makes sense to
me. I would like to see more criticism and thought about this, as well
as some examples. Back in the hippy days, some people tried to set up
communes, but there was always an uneven distribution of power and
decision making which eventually doomed most of them. Still, can we do
it better?

Charles Patrick Lynch
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RE: STAR TREK GAVE US A UTOPIAN VISION OF AN EGALITARIAN,
POSTCAPITALIST FUTURE

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
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Star Trek, launched at the height of the Vietnam War, set out to make
U.S. Imperialism look good.

Alan Hart
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CRITICAL CHINA SCHOLARS* RESPOND TO NEW MCCARTHYISM AND NEW YORK TIMES
 

16 August 2023
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The Critical China Scholars collective writes in anger and dismay at
the situation now brewing following the New York Times (NYT) report
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Neville Roy Singham’s connections to the Chinese Communist Party and
funding of leftist organizations and news outlets, the New
McCarthyism petition
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by named organizations and individual academics and the opportunistic
escalation by Marco Rubio
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Niki Haley into red-baiting and spy-mongering. We feel the need to
disentangle a few issues and make our position clear.

For starters, little in the NYT report was news. Most of the money
trail the NYT “exposed” and the organizational information
contained in the report was known already and had been tracked by
Alexander Reid Ross and Courtney Dobson in their _New Lines_ piece
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18, 2022). What was new about the NYT report was the prominence it
lent to overblown rhetoric and innuendos, which implied guilt by
association in ways that dangerously resurrect the wholesale assault
on “the left” at the height of the Cold War. 

*This statement was drafted by three members of the steering committee
of the Critical China Scholars—Rebecca Karl, Fabio Lanza, and Sigrid
Schmalzer—and reflects the contributions of multiple others who
participated in a discussion on the CCS listserv. As we were
finalizing the statement, we learned of Dan La Botz and Stephen R.
Shalom's piece, "We Oppose McCarthyism and Apologizing for China
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which we were glad to see expresses a very similar position.

Read full statement here
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Critical China Scholars -- [email protected]

 

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