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DOWN, HOUSE GOES LIMBO; THE RACE TO BE SPEAKER; LOTS OF CARTOONS; IT
COULD HAVE BEEN ME BY HOLLY NEAR; INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ DAY RESOURCES;
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_ Reader Comments: Trump Says Shut It Down, House Goes Limbo; The
Race to Be Speaker; Lots of Cartoons; It Could Have Been Me by Holly
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Oct. 5, 2023, xxxxxx

 

* HEADLESS BODY IN GUTLESS HOUSE  --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ
* CATEGORY 5 THREAT  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON
* RE: FTC HITS AMAZON WITH ‘ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ANTITRUST
CASES IN US HISTORY’  (TED PEARSON)
* HOW MUCH DOES A CEO MAKE?  --  CARTOON BY DREW SHENEMAN
* MY BROWN SHIRTS  --  CARTOON BY BEN SARGENT
* THE RACE TO BE SPEAKER  --  CARTOON BY DR. JAMES MACLEOD
* RE: A BATTLE RAGES IN MAINE COULD CHANGE THE COURSE OF CLIMATE
ACTION  (C B.)
* RE: ABORTION, GUNS, DEMOCRACY: US RIGHTS AT STAKE AS SUPREME COURT
TERM BEGINS  (ELEANOR ROOSEVELT)
* RE: THE COMPLICITY THAT ENABLES SEXUAL PREDATORS  (JUDITH MAHONEY
PASTERNAK)
* RE: REJOICE, AMERICA: THESE TRIALS SHOULD BRING DONALD TRUMP TO
RUIN  (CLAIRE O'CONNOR)
* RE: HOW IDEOLOGY CAN HELP (OR HURT) MOVEMENTS TRYING TO BUILD
POWER  (CHARLES PATRICK LYNCH)
* RE: UMAINE GRADUATE STUDENTS WIN UNION RECOGNITION  (KIPP DAWSON)

* HOW DO YOU MAKE A SCAB BLEED? YOU PICKET
* RE: HELLEN KELLER’S FORGOTTEN RADICALISM  (JOHN BERMAN; JOHN
TARLETON)
* BOOKKEEPING AT THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION  --  CARTOON BY CLAY
BENNETT
* RE: THE BUND: A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF JEWISH LABOUR RESISTANCE
 (SONIA COBBINS)
* ALWAYS BLAME THE LEFT  --  CARTOON BY JEN SORENSEN
* RE: WHEN NEW YORK CITY STOOD WITH CHILE  (CAP'N STEVE)

* IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME  - LYRICS BY HOLLY NEAR

Resources:

* INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ DAY RESOURCES  (ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT)

Announcements:

* THE JOE HILL REVIVAL - BROOKLYN - OCTOBER 7, 14, 21 AND 28
 (BROOKLYN ART HAUS)

* VIRTUAL FILM SHOWING - SAN JUAN: 30 DE OCTUBRE DE 1950 - OCTOBER 13
 (MOVIMIENTO INDEPENDENTISTA NACIONAL HOSTOSIANO)

 

HEADLESS BODY IN GUTLESS HOUSE  --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ

Lalo Alcaraz
October 3, 2023
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CATEGORY 5 THREAT  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON

 

Nick Anderson
September 27, 2022
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RE: FTC HITS AMAZON WITH ‘ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ANTITRUST CASES
IN US HISTORY’
 

Wouldn't nationalization of Amazon be a better solution that breaking
it up?

Ted Pearson

 

HOW MUCH DOES A CEO MAKE?  --  CARTOON BY DREW SHENEMAN

 

 

"Strikes are so in right now. First it was the writers, then the
actors, now the auto workers. Everybody’s striking for a bigger
piece of the pie, or at least one that outpaces inflation. The case
being made by these admittedly disparate unions is one of inequality.
Why should executive pay continue to skyrocket alongside profits when
the rank and file aren’t seeing the same sort of benefit? It becomes
a pretty salient argument when you see how much the guys and gals at
the top are earning.

"Over the past three or four decades, CEO pay has absolutely exploded.
The average CEO makes more than 399 times the average worker. That
strike anyone else as obscene? Keep in mind, the CEOs in the
aforementioned industries are anything but average.

"David Zaslav made half a billion dollars over the last five years for
being the big brain behind renaming HBO’s streaming service Max.
Writer’s want a living wage and actors, the people who make the
content you watch, want to keep their image and likeness rights from
being devoured by AI. Reasonable asks from a guy with a nine figure
compensation package. There was a lot of gossip about studio execs
trying to starve the writers and actors out but now that the content
hose has been kinked for a bit the bosses are starting to get a little
sweaty.

"In the case of the UAW, the workers are simply asking for a degree of
parity. The CEOs of the big automakers gave themselves, or rather
their compensation committees granted, 40% raises over the past five
years. The UAW is asking for the same consideration. It’s hard to
plead poverty when the suit in the C-Suite, who couldn’t tell a
rivet from their elbow, is getting a 40% bump. For the moment labor
seems to have leverage over capital, let’s see how long it lasts."

Drew Sheneman
September 22, 2023
The Star-Ledger
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(NJ)

 

MY BROWN SHIRTS  --  CARTOON BY BEN SARGENT

 

Ben Sargent
May 12, 2016
Texas Observer
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THE RACE TO BE SPEAKER  --  CARTOON BY DR. JAMES MACLEOD

 

Dr. James MacLeod
October 3, 2023
MacLeodCartoons
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RE: A BATTLE RAGES IN MAINE COULD CHANGE THE COURSE OF CLIMATE ACTION
 

I'm glad people are working at this level.  It's going to be a tough
fight, but this is wrestling the power back from the big boys.

C B

 

RE: ABORTION, GUNS, DEMOCRACY: US RIGHTS AT STAKE AS SUPREME COURT
TERM BEGINS
 

Maybe what we really need is an extradjudicial ruling on why an
unelected, non-answerable entity like the Federalist Society and an
un-elected, non-answerable Catholic extremist like Leonard Leo is
allowed to have any authority at all over the composition of the
Supreme Court.

Eleanor Roosevelt
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RE: THE COMPLICITY THAT ENABLES SEXUAL PREDATORS
 

An important piece—thanks, Renée Graham for writing it, the Globe
for publishing it, and xxxxxx for getting it to us.

In solidarity,

Judith Mahoney Pasternak

 

RE: REJOICE, AMERICA: THESE TRIALS SHOULD BRING DONALD TRUMP TO RUIN
 

We are asked to rejoice. And yes I agree! But no one seems to be
considering if he will live to pay the price. He's not in good health,
overweight, aging and facing immense stressing events. He can't find
peace with any of it. Nor should he.

Claire O'Connor

 

RE: HOW IDEOLOGY CAN HELP (OR HURT) MOVEMENTS TRYING TO BUILD POWER
 

Interesting, but as a pragmatist, I often wonder how the theory
creates a structure, most are rigid, not flexible (which helps lead to
their demise). An ongoing debate, certainly.

Charles Patrick Lynch
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RE: UMAINE GRADUATE STUDENTS WIN UNION RECOGNITION

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And sometimes we WIN some! Congratulations to the graduate workers at
the University of Maine.

"The graduate workers union will represent about 1,000 graduate
assistants, research assistants and teaching assistants who make up a
large percentage of the teaching and research workforce across the
system’s seven campuses, according to the Maine AFL-CIO, which
announced the certification on Friday afternoon. It is affiliated with
the United Auto Workers.

“Today, after years of discussion and months of organizing, we are
thrilled to announce that we have won our union,” said Remi
Geohegan, a second-year Ph.D. student and teaching  assistant in the
Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering at the
University of Maine. “The University of Maine administration did the
right thing by agreeing to recognize our union through a majority
sign-on process, and the majority has spoken. Based on the strong
support that exists across campus, and among faculty, legislators and
community leaders, we are excited about the very real prospect of
beginning negotiations for a strong first contract.”

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Kipp Dawson
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HOW DO YOU MAKE A SCAB BLEED? YOU PICKET

 

Students Support Staff Strikes
Sydney University Education Action Group
Camperdown, Australia

 

RE: HELLEN KELLER’S FORGOTTEN RADICALISM
 

Great piece, overall but please let Jessica Max Stein and all know
that the IWW was the Industrial Workers of the World, not the
International Workers of the World

John Berman

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Whoops! We will fix that.

John Tarleton
Editor-in-Chief
The Indypendent

 

BOOKKEEPING AT THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION  --  CARTOON BY CLAY BENNETT

 

 

Clay Bennett
October 1, 2023
Chattanooga Times Free Press
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RE: THE BUND: A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF JEWISH LABOUR RESISTANCE

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
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As a teenager in the Bronx, I had never heard of the Bund until I met
some very kind and intelligent girls from Allerton Avenue.

Sonia Cobbins
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Building a better world
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Housing activist Glyn Robbins had an opportunity to spend six months
working and researching alongside his counterparts in New York City
and discovered the rich history of housing co-operatives there. He
also discovered the role of left wing Jews in creating them and their
enduring legacy.

Allerton Coop in the Bronx

 

ALWAYS BLAME THE LEFT  --  CARTOON BY JEN SORENSEN

 

 

To put it simply, blaming Democrats (or the left) for the right’s
behavior — or for Trump possibly getting re-elected — is relying
on a false paradigm. Elections don’t hinge on rational responses to
policy minutiae in a vacuum. Everything passes through media of some
sort, and the right’s sources of information are dominated by a
top-down, antidemocratic movement that seeks to enrich itself and
entrench corporate power at any cost. After all that has been revealed
about Fox over the last year, we know this to be true, yet some people
like to pretend it never happened! As far as the left’s behavior is
concerned, the worst and very non-representative examples of
overzealousness from someone on social media or elsewhere will always
be cherry-picked and blown out of proportion.

As a commenter mentioned below, there is a name for this assumption
that Democrats are responsible for everything Republicans do:
“Murc’s Law.” According to David Roberts, who is quoted in the
post:

This is not some quirk, it is central to reactionary psychology. Every
fascist (and fascist-adjacent) movement ever has told itself the same
story: our opponents are destroying everything, they’re forcing us
to this, we have no choice but violence.

Jen Sorensen
October 4, 2023
jensorensen.com
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RE: WHEN NEW YORK CITY STOOD WITH CHILE
 

Could you just provide a link to the song itself? It is, to this day,
a powerful and beautifully sung song.

Cap'n Steve
 

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IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME LYRICS
 

By Holly Near

It Could Have Been Me
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lyrics

It could have been me, but instead it was you
So I’ll keep doing the work you were doing as if I were two
I’ll be a student of life, a singer of songs
A farmer of food and a righter of wrong
It could have been me, but instead it was you
And it may be me, dear sisters and brothers, before we are through
But if you can work for freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom
If you can work for freedom I can too

Students in Ohio two hundred yards away
Shot down by a nameless fire one early day in May
Some people cried out angry "You should have shot more of them down!"
But you can’t bury youth my friend... youth grows the whole world
round

It could have been me, but instead it was you
So I’ll keep doing the work you were doing as if I were two
I’ll be a student of life, a singer of songs
A farmer of food and a righter of wrong
It could have been me, but instead it was you
And it may be me, dear sisters and brothers, before we are through
But if you can die for freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom
If you can die for freedom I can too

The junta broke the fingers from Victor Jara’s hands
They said to the gentle poet, “Play your guitar now if you can!”
Well Victor started singing until they shot his body down
You can kill a man but not his song when it’s sung the whole world
round

It could have been me, but instead it was you
So I’ll keep doing the work you were doing as if I were two
I’ll be a student of life, a singer of songs
A farmer of food and a righter of wrong
It could have been me, but instead it was you
And it may be me, dear sisters and brothers, before we are through
But if you can sing for freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom
If you can sing for freedom I can too

A woman in the jungle so many wars away
Studies late into the night, defends a village in the day
Although her skin is golden like mine will never be
Her song is heard and I know the words and I’ll sing them 'til
she’s free

It could have been me, but instead it was you
So I’ll keep doing the work you were doing as if I were two
I’ll be a student of life, a singer of songs
A farmer of food and a righter of wrong
It could have been me, but instead it was you
And it may be me, dear sisters and brothers, before we are through
But if you can live for freedom, freedom, freedom, freedom
If you can live for freedom I can too

 

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ DAY RESOURCES  (ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT)

 

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THE JOE HILL REVIVAL - BROOKLYN - OCTOBER 7, 14, 21 AND 28  (BROOKLYN
ART HAUS)

 

"Workers of the World, Unite! Songwriter and union activist Joe Hill
(executed in 1915) steps into a 21st century tavern, updating his
legacy with new songs and stories and bringing a message of hope for
our troubled times."

Performances will take place at:

Brooklyn Art Haus [[link removed]]
20-26 Marcy Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11211

CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS
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On Saturday I had the good fortune to see the premiere performance of
The Joe Hill Revival [[link removed]] at Brooklyn Art
Haus in Williamsburg. I went knowing almost nothing about it but its
name, and I had no idea what to expect. I was blown away. It's  a
musical pageant with a very talented cast  portraying Joe Hill,
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and others, singing the tale of Joe's martyrdom
and the struggle of the IWW. I loved everything about it, the songs,
the dancing, the dramatic way the story is presented, you name it. And
if you've never heard of Brooklyn Art Haus, its brand-new, fyi.

And if you'd like to know a little more about the show, there's this:
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VIRTUAL FILM SHOWING - SAN JUAN: 30 DE OCTUBRE DE 1950 - OCTOBER 13
 (MOVIMIENTO INDEPENDENTISTA NACIONAL HOSTOSIANO)

 

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