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TIDBITS – MAR.28 2024 – READER COMMENTS: CEASEFIRE, STANDING WITH
PALESTINIANS; RFK, JR; GOVERNMENT NUMBERS ABOUT…; SINGLE-PAYER
SAVES-REPORT FRANCE; GREATEST BASEBALL FILMS; SEAFOOD’S POTENTIAL;
KÄTHE KOLLWITZ – NEW EXHIBITION AT MOMA IN NEW YORK  
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Mar 28, 2024 - Reader Comments, Announcements, Cartoons
March 28, 2024
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_ Reader Comments: Demand for Gaza Ceasefire, Standing With
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Saves-Report France; Greatest Baseball Films; Seafood's Potential;
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Announcements AND cartoons - Mar. 28,
2024, xxxxxx

 

* LIFELONG BATTLE FOR DEMOCRACY  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
* RE: ANGELA DAVIS: STANDING WITH PALESTINIANS  (KENTUCKY ALLIANCE
AGAINST RACIST AND POLITICAL REPRESSION)
* RE: AS ISRAEL DEFIES UNSC DEMAND FOR GAZA CEASEFIRE, UN HUMAN
RIGHTS BODY SLAMS  (LLOYD)
* RE: BOBBY, THINK IT OVER: YOUR CANDIDACY MAY DOOM DEMOCRACY
 (ELEANOR ROOSEVELT; CHARLES PATRICK LYNCH)
* ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR. UPDATES BRANDING IN NEW APPEAL TO LATINO
VOTERS  --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ
* BRIDGE COLLAPSE AS POLITICS IN ERA OF TRUMP  --  CARTOON BY DR.
JAMES MACLEOD
* RE: (MOSTLY) USEFUL GOVERNMENT NUMBERS ABOUT POVERTY, JOBS, AND
UNEMPLOYMENT, INCLUDING THE LATEST EMPLOYMENT REPORT FOR FEBRUARY 2024
 (LITA KURTH; NATALYA PANTELEYEVA)
* BOEING  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON
* RE: SINGLE-PAYER HEALTHCARE WOULD SAVE MONEY AND LIVES  (FRANK
ZUBACK)
* RE: WHY HAS NIGER DECLARED US MILITARY PRESENCE IN ITS TERRITORY
ILLEGAL?  (ALLAN BALUYOT)
* RE: THE GREATEST BASEBALL FILMS  (MARCOSA SANTIAGO)
* RE: ASSESSING SEAFOOD'S POTENTIAL TO REDUCE GLOBAL HUNGER, IMPROVE
HEALTH  (CAP'N STEVE)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

* KÄTHE KOLLWITZ’S WORKING-CLASS WOMEN  -  NEW EXHIBITION  --
 NEW YORK CITY - MUSEUM OF MODERN ART  -  MARCH 31 - JULY 20, 2024

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LIFELONG BATTLE FOR DEMOCRACY  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

 

 

Mike Luckovich
March 26, 2024
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: ANGELA DAVIS: STANDING WITH PALESTINIANS
 

Reflecting on the past 60 years.

"This is the first time in my own political memory that the Palestine
solidarity movement is experiencing such broad support both throughout
the U.S. and all over the world."

"Despite efforts to persuade the public that any critique or even
questioning of the state of Israel is equivalent to antisemitism,
astute young people, including radical Jewish activists, are pointing
out that the most effective struggles against antisemitism are
necessarily linked to opposition to racism, Islamophobia, and other
modes of repression and discrimination. This is the first time in my
own political memory that the Palestine solidarity movement is
experiencing such broad support both throughout the U.S. and all over
the world. Here in the United States, despite the McCarthyist
strategies employed against those who call for freedom and justice for
Palestine on campuses, in the entertainment industry, and elsewhere,
we are in a new political moment, and we cannot - we must not -
capitulate to those who represent the interests of racial capitalism
and the legacies of colonialism."

Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
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RE: AS ISRAEL DEFIES UNSC DEMAND FOR GAZA CEASEFIRE, UN HUMAN RIGHTS
BODY SLAMS
 

I agree with this analysis, you decide for yourself  The genocide in
Palestine is a calamity that will live forever in the minds of people
throughout the world who support justice and peace

Lloyd

 

RE: BOBBY, THINK IT OVER: YOUR CANDIDACY MAY DOOM DEMOCRACY
 

Even the other Kennedys don't like him.

Eleanor Roosevelt
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the guy is an anti-Vaxer who took a bunch to Samoa to convince people
to let their kids get measles. He has no pride, no honor. Just another
rich bum, who cares what his family name is? We are not a monarchy and
should not worship celebrities! IMHO.

Charles Patrick Lynch
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ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR. UPDATES BRANDING IN NEW APPEAL TO LATINO VOTERS
 --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ

 

 

Lalo Alcaraz
March 21, 2024
pocho.com
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BRIDGE COLLAPSE AS POLITICS IN ERA OF TRUMP  --  CARTOON BY DR.
JAMES MACLEOD

 

 

Dr. James MacLeod
March 26, 2024
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RE: (MOSTLY) USEFUL GOVERNMENT NUMBERS ABOUT POVERTY, JOBS, AND
UNEMPLOYMENT, INCLUDING THE LATEST EMPLOYMENT REPORT FOR FEBRUARY 2024

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Can you pass this info on to Frank Stricker?

I learned from students who worked as baristas or for fast food places
that their unemployment benefit was so low ($20/week or less) that it
wasn't worth applying for. So their numbers also aren't counted.

It's so sick that those who need the benefit the most get the least.

Cordially,

Lita Kurth

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Does this help?

The salary a single person needs to live comfortably in 25 major U.S.
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Natalya Panteleyeva

 

BOEING  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON

 

 

Nick Anderson
March 25, 2024
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RE: SINGLE-PAYER HEALTHCARE WOULD SAVE MONEY AND LIVES
 

I am now living in Nice, France and have access to the French
single-payer system.

It is UNBELIEVABLY GOOD and INEXPENSIVE.

Prior to getting m Carte Vitale (admission into the system, I paid
100% of the cost of everything here.

Yup!

MRI?  Approx. $60.00

12 blood tests (results of all – the NEXT DAY and sent directly to
you and your doctor – $110.00

Cataract surgery (both eyes) approx.. $2,700.00

Oh, and I have 2 cancers. I was informed that all of my cancer
treatments will be FREE for life!

All prescription drugs are negotiated by the state for ALL PEOPLE and
are almost embarrassingly cheap.

I had a nurse come to our apartment to remove stitches near my eye?
 $20.00( house call on a Saturday!)

IT WORKS and don't believe anyone who tells you it doesn't!

Frank Zuback

 

RE: WHY HAS NIGER DECLARED US MILITARY PRESENCE IN ITS TERRITORY
ILLEGAL?
 

We are not wanted there, Unless we have other ulterior or evil motives
we should respect the Niger's People's decision. We should not engage
in intervention, destabilization, and sabotage. Let Niger chart their
destiny. Bring our SOLDIERS HOME! UPGRADE THEIR BENEFITS TO LIVING
WAGES AND SALARIES NOT JUST A SURVIVAL ONE.

Allan Baluyot

 

RE: THE GREATEST BASEBALL FILMS
 

Peter Dreier left one of the greatest baseball films I have ever seen
out of his otherwise excellent list.  That was "American Pastime"
(2007).  This film involved a game played between Japanese-Americans
held in a concentration camp during WW2 and local townspeople.  The
film is a critical but warmhearted melodrama, showing both racial
animosity and developing tolerance.

Marcosa Santiago MD
Rumney NH

 

RE: ASSESSING SEAFOOD'S POTENTIAL TO REDUCE GLOBAL HUNGER, IMPROVE
HEALTH
 

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
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Recently, for the first time in human history, the sea stopped being
the major source of food for humans. This is a paradigm shift we
[have] not felt the full effect of.

While this article mentions the need for oversight, it does not talk
about how you would go about regulating the thousands of factory
trawlers that are responsible for the ongoing collapse of ocean
fishing.

Farming ocean fish, on the other hand, has been an absolute disaster.
Look at farm raised salmon in Scotland for example, it has produced
disease riddled fish and killed off the wild salmon. The shrimp farms
in SE Asia are so awful that if you saw them you'd never eat another
shrimp.

Commercial fisherman in the US that I've talked to hate the Fish and
Wildlife Service.

The constantly changing limits set make it almost impossible for
smaller operators to make a living, yet, if not enforced, would
accelerate the collapse of fishing.

To have sustainable fishing you'd have to have international
enforcement on a scale never before seen. Major policy changes would
be needed to keep smaller operations going, the only kind that can
selectively fish and reduce harm to reefs, the taking of "trash fish",
etc.

As difficult as all this is we must do it before the ocean ecosystems
collapse.

I hope someone from the Canadian Maritimes can share their story about
what happened with cod...

Cap'n Steve

 

KÄTHE KOLLWITZ’S WORKING-CLASS WOMEN  -  NEW EXHIBITION  --
 NEW YORK CITY - MUSEUM OF MODERN ART  -  MARCH 31 - JULY 20, 2024

 
Image credit: LIFE AND WORK OF K�THE KOLLWITZ; Organizer: Women's
Museum, Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy
In the early decades of the 20th century, when many artists were
experimenting with abstraction, Käthe Kollwitz
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social purpose. Focusing on themes of motherhood, grief, and
resistance, she brought visibility to the working class and asserted
the female point of view as a necessary and powerful agent for change.
“I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an
advocate,” she wrote. “It is my duty to voice the sufferings of
men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.” The first
major retrospective devoted to Kollwitz at a New York museum, this is
also the largest exhibition of her work in the US in more than 30
years.

Born in the Prussian city of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia),
Kollwitz was based in Berlin from the 1890s through the early 1940s, a
period of turmoil in German history marked by the upheaval of
industrialization and the traumas of two world wars. Though she had
trained briefly as a painter, she quickly turned to drawing and
printmaking as the most effective mediums for social criticism. This
exhibition includes approximately 120 drawings, prints, and sculptures
drawn from public and private collections in North America and Europe.
Examples of the artist’s most iconic projects will showcase her
political engagement, while preparatory studies and working proofs
will highlight her intensive, ever-searching creative process. 

Organized by Starr Figura, Curator, with Maggie Hire, Curatorial
Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints.

Read an excerpt from the _Käthe
Kollwitz_ exhibition catalogue about
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of Berlin’s working-class mothers.

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At the end of the 19th century, the population of Berlin reached
almost two million, far exceeding its capacity. It is estimated that
by 1912, 100,000 of the city’s dwellings were inhabited by 600,000
people. Overcrowding increased the spread of disease, and
working-class districts like Prenzlauer Berg, where Käthe Kollwitz
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by poverty and unemployment. Abortion was made illegal in Germany in
1872, but by the early 1900s the law was being protested, and the
issues of women in the workforce and birth control were being debated
in the public sphere.

In a number of works made between 1903 and 1905, Kollwitz directed her
attention to the working-class women she encountered in her daily
life, a subject she revisited with even greater focus after she
completed her _Peasants’ War_ cycle in 1908. She gained firsthand
knowledge of their lives through her proximity to her husband Karl’s
medical practice. As she recalled, “[Only] when I became acquainted
with the women, who came to my husband seeking aid and incidentally
also came to me, did I truly grasp in all its power, the fate of the
proletariat. . . . Unresolved problems like prostitution,
unemployment, tormented and worried me and acted as the source of my
attachment to the depiction of the lower classes.

 
Käthe Kollwitz. Unemployment. 1909. Black chalk and white opaque
watercolor over blue pencil on gray-brown paper
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