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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – FEBRUARY 13, 2024  
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February 13, 2024
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_ Breakthroughs and roadblocks _

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib takes a selfie. Credit, Jim West / Alamy
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* How the Election Could Go
* Tracy Chapman Never Went Away
* San Francisco: The Town That Tech Ate
* The Stop Cop City Movement Busted but Unbeaten
* Anti-Abortion Rights Agenda
* Breaking the Texas Book Ban
* Feds Break From Rearming Israel Policy
* Privatizing Public Schools
* The Right Has a New Use for Antisemitism
* Rashida Taps into Pro-Palestine Sentiment

HOW THE ELECTION COULD GO
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By Michael Podhorzer
Substack

We already know all we need to know ahead of Election Day: The outcome
will be determined by narrow margins in six battleground states –
the three northern states that once constituted the “Blue Wall”
(Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin), and three more diverse states
(Arizona, Georgia and Nevada). Democrats have won there only when
voters were fully aware that the alternative was MAGA. 

TRACY CHAPMAN NEVER WENT AWAY
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By Alex Abad-Santos
Vox

From interpretations about how the “Fast Car” lyrics that cite
living in poverty and alcoholism are _actually_ hopeful, to
explanations of how upward mobility was _actually_ possible when it
was written in 1988, to soliloquies about how Chapman
is _actually _an unknown figure — it seems that no one online can
be normal about this song.

SAN FRANCISCO: THE TOWN THAT TECH ATE
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By Rebecca Solnit
London Review of Books

Though the city has survived a series of local and national recessions
in recent decades, San Francisco is said to be in a ‘doom loop’
because so much office space and so many shops have been abandoned
since the pandemic. The city remains the densely urban place it always
was, but the way people inhabit it is increasingly suburban, looking
to avoid strangers and surprises.

STOP COP CITY MOVEMENT BUSTED BUT UNBEATEN
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By Michael K. Logan
The Conversation

A protest was launched nearly three years ago against the clearing of
about 300 acres of woodlands near Atlanta to construct a proposed
police and firefighter training center that critics fear would lead
to greater “police militirization.” “Forest defenders”
rallied to “Cop City” to block construction workers by sitting in
trees, setting fires and damaging construction vehicles. Repression
followed.

ANTI-ABORTION RIGHTS AGENDA
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By Tara Murtha and Jenifer McKenna
Ms.

The theme for this year’s annual March for Life and the companion
legislation anti-abortion lawmakers advanced in Congress featured a
different message. Anti-abortion strategists are not eager to remind
the public of their plans to criminalize all abortion, or of the
consequences.

BREAKING THE TEXAS BOOK BAN
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By Jessica Corbett
Common Dreams

Texas bookstores, national trade associations, and other critics of
book bans celebrated after a panel from an ultraconservative U.S.
appeals court affirmed a decision to temporarily block part of a new
state law intended to restrict what's allowed in public school
libraries.

FEDS BREAK FROM REARMING ISRAEL POLICY
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By Eric Katz
Government Executive

Feds United for Peace, a group that says it represents employees at
more than two-dozen agencies, implored federal workers to take leave
on Jan. 16 as a form of opposition to the U.S. government’s resolute
support of Israel in the face of tens of thousands of civilian deaths
in Gaza. 

PRIVATIZING PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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By Roberto R. Aspholm
Jacobin

In 2013, a movement of working-class New Jerseyans halted Cory
Booker’s plans to privatize Newark public schools. A new book shows
how a group of neoliberals co-opted this victory, securing consent for
school charterization under the banner of anti-racism.

THE RIGHT HAS A NEW USE FOR ANTISEMITISM
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By Arvind Dilawar
Truthout 

On January 31, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed House Bill 30,
codifying the definition of antisemitism, as formulated by the
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), into state
law. Pro-Palestinian activists fear it may open them up to
prosecution, and even hate crimes charges, simply for organizing
against the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza or occupation of
Palestine in general.

RASHIDA TAPS INTO PRO-PALESTINE SENTIMENT
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By Oren Schweitzer
Jacobin

Michigan Congress member Rashida Tlaib just announced a whopping $3.7
million fundraising haul for the last quarter of 2023, after being
censured by Congress for her support of Palestine. Her fundraising
success shows pro-Palestine politics can go head-to-head with the
Israel lobby.

* 2024 Elections
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* Tracy Chapman
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* San Francisco
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* gentrification
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* Stop Cop City
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* Anti-abortion movement
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* texas
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* book bans
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* Feds United for Peace
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* privatization
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* public schools
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* THE RIGHT
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* Antisemitism
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* Rashida Tlaib
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* Israel Lobby
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