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TIDBITS – AUG.31, 2023 – READER COMMENTS: RACIST GUN VIOLENCE
FUELED BY MAGA; MARCH ON WASHINGTON, CHICANO MORATORIUM; GOP
“DEBATE”; CAPITAL DESTRUCTION, MAUI; HOLLYWOOD RUNS ON LOW PAY;
DOLLY PARTON–THE BOOK LADY; 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF CHILE COUP;  
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_ Reader Comments: Racist Gun Violence Fueled by MAGA; March on
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Maui; Hollywood Runs on Low Pay; Dolly Parton - The Book Lady; 50th
Anniversary of Chile Coup; Cartoons; more.... _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Aug.31, 2023, xxxxxx

 

* RACIST ASSAULT  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS
* RE: THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON ADVANCED A RADICAL VISION FOR SOCIETY
THAT REMAINS UNFULFILLED  (DAVE LOTT)
* AUGUST 29, 1970 CHICANO MORATORIUM  (ROBERTO ROIBAL)
* THE OTHER LETHAL HURRICANE CHURNING THROUGH AMERICA  --  CARTOON
BY NICK ANDERSON
* RE: THE GOP DEBATE – TRUMP AND THE MAGA PARTY  (CATHY DEPPE)
* THE GOP FIELD  --  CARTOON BY CLAY BENNETT
* IF  (SEYMOUR JOSEPH)
* RE: EMPIRE AND CAPITAL SET MAUI ABLAZE  (THE SHALOM CENTER)
* RE: NYCHA RESIDENTS IN CHELSEA RESIST DEMOLITION PLAN THAT COULD
DISPLACE THEM  (JOHN TARLETON)
* RE: WHY ARE SAG-AFTRA AND WGA ON STRIKE? HOLLYWOOD RUNS ON LOW PAY
AND EXPLOITATION  (PATTY BIRD; JOSH REILLY)
* RE: NLRB: COMPANIES THAT TRY TO UNION-BUST WILL BE FORCED TO
RECOGNIZE UNION  (KEN KUKOVICH)
* FLORIDA IS HISTORY  --  CARTON BY CHRISTOPHER WEYANT
* RE: 20 GROUPS DEMAND PASSAGE OF BOWMAN AMENDMENT TO DISCLOSE COST
OF US MILITARY FOOTPRINT  (NOEL KENT)
* RE: WE OPPOSE MCCARTHYISM AND APOLOGIZING FOR CHINA  (HARRY TARG;
MODERATOR'S NOTE; CHARLES PATRICK LYNCH)
* RE: HEALTH CARE WORKER UNIONS ARE ON THE SIDE OF PATIENTS
 (ELEANOR ROOSEVELT)
* RE: THE IMPACT OF THE RAISE THE WAGE ACT OF 2023, BY CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT  (ROCKY DOOLSTER)
* RE: WE DID NOT EVOLVE TO BE SELFISH  (WILLIAM HANSEN)

RESOURCES:

* DOLLY PARTON - THE BOOK LADY

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

* 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE COUP IN CHILE - SPECIAL SHOWING OF FILM
MISSING BY COSTA GRAVAS - NEW YORK CITY - SEPTEMBER 9 AND 10 - AND
OTHER EVENTS AND DATES AROUND THE COUNTRY

RACIST ASSAULT  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

Rob Rogers
August 30, 2023
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RE: THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON ADVANCED A RADICAL VISION FOR SOCIETY THAT
REMAINS UNFULFILLED  

The march served as a pivot point taking the civil rights movement
beyond the stage of racial equality before the law. It set forth an
agenda that challenged capitalism at its roots and sought to remake
the country along the lines of democratic socialism. The sixty years
since the march have seen a retreat from this vision, which places
racial inequality in the context of the broader political economy. The
result has been a precipitous decline in the living conditions for the
majority of black working people, and an accelerated class divide
between them and their middle- and upper-class counterparts.

The radical demands of the March on Washington have still not been
fulfilled. Recovering the true legacy of the march and its aftermath
can help us establish the root causes of racial inequality today and
what to do about it.

Dave Lott
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AUGUST 29, 1970 CHICANO MORATORIUM

 

I have been reading your articles and in particularly your histories
for some time. I have always enjoyed your reporting and they have
always been right on. But today in your weekly history section I was
extremely disappointed to see that you did not mention at all the
August 29th1970 Chicano moratorium. This march in Los Angeles was
opposing the US war in Vietnam and for economic equality. 30,000
people marched that day. There were also many other Chicano moratorium
marches that day around the country in solidarity with the Los Angeles
March.

I would think that the August 29th moratorium, with 30,000 people
marching, world be included in your weekly history.

I'm at the point where I might just unsubscribe to your reports.

Roberto Roibal, Santa Fe, NM.

THE OTHER LETHAL HURRICANE CHURNING THROUGH AMERICA  --  CARTOON BY
NICK ANDERSON  

 

If only we treated gun violence like the national disaster that it is.

Nick Anderson
August 29, 2023
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RE: THE GOP DEBATE – TRUMP AND THE MAGA PARTY  

Did that farce even deserve comment of any kind?  I say no more than
a pack of snarling dogs would.  What
a travesty and embarrassment - a shame anyone wrote anything about it
to use of ink and paper.

Cathy Deppe

THE GOP FIELD  --  CARTOON BY CLAY BENNETT

Clay Bennett
August 25, 2023
Chattanooga Times Free Press
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IF  

If Donald Trump is reelected president, he will form and reform
several agencies. He will name Jim Jordan as a new Secretary of Hate,
Lindsey Graham to head a Hypocrisy Commission, and install Rudy
Giuliani as Attorney General in the renamed Department of Injustice.

Seymour Joseph

RE: EMPIRE AND CAPITAL SET MAUI ABLAZE  

Andrea Brower is an activist and scholar from Kaua‘i. She is an
assistant professor in the Solidarity & Social Justice Program with
Gonzaga University's Department of Sociology. Her research, writing,
and teaching on capitalism, colonialism, the environment, food, and
agriculture is embedded in social movements for justice, equality,
liberation, and ecological regeneration.

In this recent article, linked below and shared today in The Shalom
Report under our "Prophetic Voices" banner, Prof. Brower traces the
roots of the disaster in Maui to “empire, capitalism, elite power,
and their ravaging of the planet and people” and, equally
importantly, highlights the transformational cooperative alternative
future embodied in the grassroots mutual-aid response — also rooted
in long historical tradition — that has abounded in the Maui
wildfire’s aftermath.

The Shalom Center [[link removed]]
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RE: NYCHA RESIDENTS IN CHELSEA RESIST DEMOLITION PLAN THAT COULD
DISPLACE THEM  

NYCHA tenants in Chelsea are fighting to save their homes from being
demolished and the land handed over to one of the largest real estate
developers in New York. H/t to xxxxxx.org
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for sharing this article from our summer intern Elsie Carson-Holt with
their nationwide audience.

John Tarleton
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RE: WHY ARE SAG-AFTRA AND WGA ON STRIKE? HOLLYWOOD RUNS ON LOW PAY AND
EXPLOITATION  

It’s so true and most people don’t see that side of the industry.
Thanks for sharing.

Patty Bird
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My parents were working actors. My Dad stayed in the business all his
working life. He made a good living, although we were never rich. He
was frugal and helped us with college, etc, getting started, and
making sure that at least some $$$ transferred across generations. He
died owning his house free and clear and with a small inheritance for
us. That way of life is almost gone. The American middle class has
been gutted and film/TV is no exception. You aren't in the industry so
you think this won't touch you? Really? Have you noticed how you have
to pay for "premium" to get what you used get for "basic"?  They are
coming for your income, your security, your future right now. Time to
remind them that they are relying on you, not the other way around.
Support the actors, writers and all the creators!

Josh Reilly
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RE: NLRB: COMPANIES THAT TRY TO UNION-BUST WILL BE FORCED TO RECOGNIZE
UNION  

Wow.   Could be significant if it holds.
Thanks!

Ken Kukovich

FLORIDA IS HISTORY  --  CARTON BY CHRISTOPHER WEYANT  

Christopher Weyant
May 26, 2023
Daily Freeman
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(Kingston, NY)

RE: 20 GROUPS DEMAND PASSAGE OF BOWMAN AMENDMENT TO DISCLOSE COST OF
US MILITARY FOOTPRINT  

Excellent bill.  The U.S. military has been overfunded enormously for
decades and this is a major cause of why our health and education and
justice systems in this country are so underfunded and in crisis.
 This is the real threat to our viability as a society.

Noel Kent Professor Emeritus.
University of Hawaii Manoa

RE: WE OPPOSE MCCARTHYISM AND APOLOGIZING FOR CHINA  

The authors of this article criticize the McCarthyism of the New York
Times article while they themselves make baseless charges about China.
The great failure of the New York Times article was its refusal to
address the claims made by those who believe that the US and the world
are moving toward a New Cold War. Note these claims are not
celebrations of China.  In short the Times article is about guilt by
association not the substance of the issues that are animating
protest. Further, the authors of the xxxxxx article aggravate the
situation by making unfounded assertions in the name of balance. For
shame xxxxxx.

Harry Targ

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MODERATOR'S NOTE:

This was not xxxxxx's article, but was an article that was written
by Dan La Botz and Stephen R. Shalom  and published by Foreign Policy
in Focus, and clearly identified as such when it was re-posted by
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Posts on xxxxxx are chosen by individual moderators, not the
collective as a whole, so nothing we post is a "xxxxxx article." We
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Here is how to claim you are part of some imagined left while
supporting US foreign policy. LOL. Merely repeating attacks on China
et al. does not accomplish anything (Funny, I have never heard about
all of these supposed left journals, umm, where do they get their
money from?). There is no "the left" although right wingers often
claim there is. It is hilarious to see people attacking China around
Feminism, while supporting right wing evangelical missionaries who
travel there to show anti-abortion movies in college dorms. And who
preach an anti-gay message as well. Umm, I don't see the opposition to
McCarthyism. One thing that is happening on campuses are attacks on
people who oppose any aspect of US Foreign Policy. And who oppose
attacks by Gov. DeSantis and his buds. Want to stop the new
McCarthyism? Defend books, and teachers in the US. Americans love to
ignore America and attack other nations. Is any country perfect? Nah.
But really, I never heard of Roy Singham or the New Lines Journal
(award winning? wow). There is a tendency for supposed academic
leftists to form circular firing squads aimed at other supposed
academic leftists, while praising the supposed academic leftists that
agree with them. ROLFMAO.

Here is the thing, the real left is not primarily campus based but is
busy organizing workers, fighting for the homeless, trying to save the
environment, working for peace, fighting to defend immigrants, and to
stop police brutality, as well as fighting for rights of people of
color, women, LGBTQ+ folks, people facing religious bigotry, and the
list goes on and on. I do wonder why xxxxxx is so in love with these
supposed academic leftists. (supposed academic, supposed leftists??
LOL).

Charles Patrick Lynch
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RE: HEALTH CARE WORKER UNIONS ARE ON THE SIDE OF PATIENTS

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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A hospital that automatically turns you over to collections if the
bill isn't paid in full within 30 days cannot in any way whatever be
said to be operating in the interest of patients.

Eleanor Roosevelt
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RE: THE IMPACT OF THE RAISE THE WAGE ACT OF 2023, BY CONGRESSIONAL
DISTRICT  

It's time for $25....

Rocky Doolster
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RE: WE DID NOT EVOLVE TO BE SELFISH  

Marx and Rousseau said essentially the same thing...and both were
before (Rousseau) or simultaneous (Marx) with Darwin.

What is (are) indisputably wrong: Christianity (both Prot and RC),
Islam, Hobbes, Locke and American political culture.

William Hansen

DOLLY PARTON - THE BOOK LADY

This is Dolly freakin’ Parton. The ROCKSTAR. The QUEEN OF COUNTRY.
The SONGWRITER. The LITTLE SPARROW from Tennessee.  But do you know
what’s her favorite nickname, no matter how impressive her catalogue
of songs is?

THE BOOK LADY.

The @imaginationlibrary [[link removed]] is, by far,
Dolly’s most ambitious project. Forget her crossover to pop. Forget
her crossover to rock. Forget Dollywood. Even forget her arrival to
Nashville to be a star. Dolly’s most ambitious project is to put
books in the hands of every child in the world.

For those of you who don’t know the story behind the Imagination
Library, here it goes: Dolly created it because her dad could not read
or write. So, to honor him, she started this little program in her
county in Tennessee. Her dad was mighty proud of her because of this.
The program went so well, that the governor, at the time, talked to
Dolly and she expanded her Imagination Library throughout Tennessee.
Then others states started to follow through. And now the Imagination
Library is everywhere in the US and it’s also in Australia, the UK
and Canada.

Dolly spends a lot of time promoting her Imagination Library. And here
she is in Washington, this past week, singing her song TRY. Because
yes, she’s a fairy godmother on a mission and she wants you to read
more, learn more, care more and dream more. And she also wants you to
never be afraid of trying new things until you finally succeed and
then some more.

#imaginationlibrary

Imagination Library

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is dedicated to inspiring a love
of reading by gifting free books to children from birth to age five.
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50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE COUP IN CHILE - SPECIAL SHOWING OF FILM
MISSING BY COSTA GRAVAS - NEW YORK CITY - SEPTEMBER 9 AND 10 - AND
OTHER EVENTS AND DATES AROUND THE COUNTRY

 

New Plaza Cinema is currently planning two screenings:

* SATURDAY SEPT. 9 AT 3PM AND

* SUNDAY SEPT. 10 AT 12:30 PM

Address:  35 West 67th Street, Macauley Honors College

between Central Park West and Columbus Ave.

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A question and answer session will follow the screenings.

If you cannot attend, the Criterion DVD of MISSING

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In addition, there are other movies being screened and other events in
other locales in recognition of 50 years after the 1973 Pinochet coup
against democracy in Chile:

* THE BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC/BAM IS FEATURING ALL THREE PARTS OF
PATRICIO GUZMAN'S EPIC BATTLE OF CHILE
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* THE MAGAZINE FILM QUARTERLY IS ORGANIZING A SERIES OF EVENTS IN
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FROM CALIFORNIA: On-line versions of a piece that Patricio Lanfranco,
Majo (Maria Jose) Calderon and Elizabeth Farnsworth (The Judge and the
General) regarding the legacy of U.S. interventions in Latin America,
produced at UC Berkeley (during this period before the anniversary of
the Pinochet coup).

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On-line film about the prosecution of Pinochet by Judge Juan Guzman
Tapia in Chile:

* THE JUDGE AND THE GENERAL
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* 1973 MEMORIAL AT LA PEÑA IN BERKELEY ON SEPT. 11
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* IN CHICAGO: COMMEMORATION OF THE COUP IN CHILE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER
4 ·  8:00 PM CDT
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Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Coup of Chile
featuring Rebel Diaz, La Paula, and Nelson & Paola Sosa
4545 N Lincoln Ave · The Myron R. Szold Music & Dance Hall

* THE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES; TODAS LAS MANOS: COMMEMORATING
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A five part mural installation by Francisco Letelier and artists from
the Latin American Youth Center,  on display Sept 9-Oct 22, 2023 at
MLK Library, floor 1, Great Hall East, Washington D.C

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* PUBLIC ART, ACTIVISM AND HISTORIC MEMORY; CHILE 1973-2023 -
SEPTEMBER 7 - LOS ANGELES
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Isabel Rojas-Williams & Francisco Letelier in Conversation with CHILE
Sin Cuenta exhibit at Ave 50 Studio

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September 7, 2023 6:30 pm Choi Auditorium, Occidental College, 1600
Campus Rd., Los Angeles, CA 90041  for more info
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