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TIDBITS – APR4 2024 – READER COMMENTS: DEMAND CEASEFIRE, STOP
KILLING CIVILIANS; ISRAELIS THREATENED BY CEASEFIRE?; WORSE THAN
DOBBS?; THE BLACK SCHOLAR JOURNAL: LEGACIES, FUTURES OF BLACK
RADICALISM-APR 6&7; CELEBRATING PITTSBURGH’S ANNE FEENEY-MAY1  
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_ Reader Comments: Demand Ceasefire, Stop Killing Civilians; Why Do
Israelis Feel So Threatened by Ceasefire?; Worse Than Dobbs?; The
Black Scholar Journal: Legacies and Futures of Black Radicalism-Apr 6
& 7; Celebrating Pittsburgh’s Anne Feeney-May 1 _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Announcements AND cartoons - Apr. 4, 2024,
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* IF YOU DIDN'T WANT US TO KILL ALL THOSE PALESTINIANS  --
 CARTOON BY JEFF DANZIGER
* RE: WORSE THAN DOBBS? NOT AN APRIL FOOL  (DAVE LOTT)
* RE: WHY DO ISRAELIS FEEL SO THREATENED BY A CEASEFIRE?  (R.
PRINCE)
* WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON
* RE: FIRST CITY-WIDE RENT REDUCTION IN THE HISTORY OF NEW YORK
STATE UPHELD BY APPELLATE COURT  (DANIEL MILLSTONE)
* I AM A CROOK  --  CARTOON BY JEFF STAHLER
* RE: REPUBLICANS’ NEW BORDER TARGET: MIGRANT AID GROUPS  (DAVE)
* RONNA MCDANIEL'S NEW GIG  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
* RE: THIS WEEK IN PEOPLE’S HISTORY, APR 2–8  (JON WEISSMAN)
* RE: THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF HITLER’S ESTABLISHMENT ENABLERS
 (ELEANOR ROOSEVELT; DANIEL MILLSTONE)
* RE: MAKER OF WEGOVY, OZEMPIC SHOWERS MONEY ON U.S. OBESITY DOCTORS
 (TANYA MARQUETTE)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

* ONLINE  -  THE BLACK SCHOLAR JOURNAL : LEGACIES AND FUTURES OF
BLACK RADICALISM  -  APRIL 6 & 7

* CELEBRATING PITTSBURGH’S HELLRAISER ANNE FEENEY  --
 PITTSBURGH  --  MAY 1

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IF YOU DIDN'T WANT US TO KILL ALL THOSE PALESTINIANS  --  CARTOON BY
JEFF DANZIGER

Jeff Danziger
March 29, 3024
The Rutland Herald
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RE: WORSE THAN DOBBS? NOT AN APRIL FOOL
 

If the court rules against the use of Mifepristone my understanding is
that it will potentially carry over to cover the ability of various
government agencies like the FDA to establish regulations and
protections over all aspects of life, e.g. the EPA. Congress
establishes general guidelines and then the agencies and their experts
write the guidelines. If the SCOTUS rules against Mifepristone it will
undermine a basic functioning of government that we take for granted.
Already corporations have a big influence over many of these
regulations but this would make it worse. It would be Steve Bannon’s
dream of ending the administrative state, much of corporate
America’s goal to eliminate barriers to profits.

EXCERPT:
“On the way to overturning Roe, conservatives made it both harder
for doctors to provide abortions and for patients to feasibly access
them. Never mind that these policies were shown to drastically
increase maternal mortality and infant death because of how they
hampered access to reproductive health care, especially for people of
color. Conservatives never cared and pressed on, chipping away at
access and destabilizing the legal basis of universal abortion access.

That’s where we are now with contraception. Mifepristone is one
medication used along the continuum of reproductive care. Destabilize
the authorities and processes associated with its distribution and
you’ve begun to pave the path for attacks on other reproductive
medications: First, mifepristone, then Plan B, then the pill.”

Dave Lott
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RE: WHY DO ISRAELIS FEEL SO THREATENED BY A CEASEFIRE?
 

This is a profoundly "spot on" piece. You, Meron Rapoport, have nailed
it

Thank you

I do some speaking on this issue - tomorrow in Raton, New Mexico and I
shall refer to this piece

R. Prince
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WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON
 

Nick Anderson
April 2, 2024
Reform Austin
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RE: FIRST CITY-WIDE RENT REDUCTION IN THE HISTORY OF NEW YORK STATE
UPHELD BY APPELLATE COURT
 

One of many effects of the election of socialists and progressives to
office in NYS has been the expansion of rent regulation statewide. NYS
municipalities were allowed to opt into rent regulation in 2019 and
Kingston, a lovely city on the Hudson Rivers did so. It voted to lower
rents. The story of  decision, upheld by an appellate court, is the
subject of John Mage's report here. As Democratic Socialists of
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expand the power of the left, strong housing and environmental
protections are in the balance. Which servants of the land and fossil
fuel lords will you work to defeat? Thanks to xxxxxx
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for circulating the essay which I had missed.

Daniel Millstone
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I AM A CROOK  --  CARTOON BY JEFF STAHLER
 

Jeff Stahler
March 26, 2024 (original cartoon 2019)
Editorial & Political Cartoons
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RE: REPUBLICANS’ NEW BORDER TARGET: MIGRANT AID GROUPS
 

Demonizing migrants, building taller walls, putting up dangerous razor
wire, calling for unrealistic mass deportations, and bussing migrants
to cities unprepared to meet them or forcing them to remain in Mexico
in unsafe circumstances—38 died in a migrant shelter fire in Ciudad
Juarez last March, while in recent years thousands have been
kidnapped, raped, murdered, drowned or died in the desert—will not
make America safer.

The only way to make America safer is to provide enough funding so
migrants and refugees can be adequately vetted, cared for, and
resettled in communities that want and need their labor.

Dave

 

RONNA MCDANIEL'S NEW GIG  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

 

Mike Luckovich
March 28, 2024
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: THIS WEEK IN PEOPLE’S HISTORY, APR 2–8
 

I very much appreciate these emails. But there is no such thing as
snail mail. Real people collect, distribute, and deliver real mail.

Jon Weissman

 

RE: THE FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF HITLER’S ESTABLISHMENT ENABLERS
 

One point --to consider the "volkisch" movement a form of simple
populism leaves out its "blood and soil" elements, the idea that a
people and its physical land are inextricably linked. There was a
weird mysticism to the "volkisch" movement that has more in common
with some of the woo-woo new agey stuff of today than what Americans
think of as simple economic "populism." Hence the otherwise
bizarre-seeming crossover that produces "crunchy Neo-Nazis."

Eleanor Roosevelt
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For a focus on Hitler accession to power, try Adam Gopnik's
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Daniel Millstone
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RE: MAKER OF WEGOVY, OZEMPIC SHOWERS MONEY ON U.S. OBESITY DOCTORS

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I am quite bothered by this super detailed and lengthy article on
Wegovy and the amount of money showered on the medical profession
pushing this drug.  It reads more like an endorsement than anything
akin to a critical analysis of the politics of the medical industry.
 What would have been more honest is a critique of the dangers of
almost every drug on the market.  It would have been more informative
if it was an analysis of the corporate, profit making structure that
is funded by the US taxpayer $$$$$.

It would have been super important to note that more than 50% of all
drugs are no better or worse than placebos and everyone of them causes
harm, either short or longer term or both.  The data always seem to
show how few people benefit and how they are never curative, including
this drug which even your article notes has the goal of life long use
by patients.

Obesity is not an inherent disease or biochemical defect.  It is a
problem of life style, heavily based on toxic and nutrient deficient
foods.  It is an environmental problem of assaulting our body with
endocrine disrupting chemicals in foods, household cleansers, body
products and the general environment that are artificially imposed on
people.  The rest of the world does not suffer from obesity unless
and until those people are bombarded with the toxic foods from the US
like GMO and glyphosate treated foods or agriculture chemicals or
other toxic products.  Peoples from other countries with normally
slender and healthy people develop the same problems as Americans when
they immigrate here and start eating American foods which are
deficient and toxic even is they try to eat their ancient diet.  Our
soils just cannot
produce the same quality food as they are deficient of critical
minerals for the plants and animals.

Without this kind of critical analysis your article reads more like an
endorsement of these drugs being pushed onto the public and makes me
wonder how much funding you receive from this nefarious industry.

FYI, Ozempic has also come under heavy criticism as it harms when
normative body biochemistry can produce a healthier response when fed
properly with clean food and supplements and other holistic protocols
that are neither harmful nor required for life except for the clean
food.

Tanya Marquette

 

ONLINE  -  THE BLACK SCHOLAR JOURNAL : LEGACIES AND FUTURES OF BLACK
RADICALISM  -  APRIL 6 & 7

 

 

Scholars and activists discuss The Black Scholar journal , including
issues of radicalism, gender, internationalism, media.

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Saturday Panel 1:

Christopher J. Lee, Nicholas Grant, Armond Towns, Mohamed Elnaiem, Ray
Black ; moderator: Lynn Thomas

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Saturday Round Table : Black Radicalism

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Saturday Panel 2:

Joe Parrott, Daniel Widener; Ray Black (paper presented by Laura
Chrisman); moderator: Raj Chetty

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Sunday Round Table 1: Black Radicalism

Sam Anderson, Horace Campbell,Jimmy Garrett, Gerald Lenoir, Jamala
Rogers; moderator: Dan Berger

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Sunday Panel

Julian Glover, Fred Moten, Femi Taiwo, James West, Komozi Woodard;
moderator, Avu Chaturvedi

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Sunday Round Table 2 : Black Radicalism

Abdul Alkalimat, Melba Boyd, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Stan West; moderator:
Armond Towns

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Conference Wrap up

ROUNDTABLES:

JONINA ABRON-ERVIN, ABDUL ALKALIMAT, SAM ANDERSON, HERB BOYD, MELBA
BOYD, HORACE CAMPBELL, BILL FLETCHER, JR. , JIMMY GARRETT, GERALD
LENOIR, JAMALA ROGERS, AKINYELE UMOJA, STAN WEST

PAPER PRESENTERS AND TOPICS:

* RAY BLACK, Black Masculinity; Pedagogy and Education (two papers)
* MOHAMED ELNAIEM, National liberation and decolonization
* JULIAN GLOVER, Theories of Black genders and sexualities
* NICHOLAS GRANT, Anti-apartheid solidarity
* CHRISTOPHER J. LEE, Black engagement with Vietnam/Asia
* FRED MOTEN, TBS Interviews and the poetics of the interview form
* JOE PARROTT, Global Third World/Tricontinental issues
* OLUFEMI TAIWO, The Erasure of African knowledge in global
discourse
* ARMOND TOWNS, Media in Black studies, TBS, and contemporary
society
* E. JAMES WEST, A Place Apart: The Black Scholar Writes Black
Chicago
* DANIEL WIDENER, Internal colonialism, Cuba, TBS as a Black and
Thirdworld space
* KOMOZI WOODARD, Malcolm X and Revolutionary Women: 21 Sisters in
the Making of Black Liberation

RESERVE A SPOT - CLICK HERE
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CELEBRATING PITTSBURGH’S HELLRAISER ANNE FEENEY  --  PITTSBURGH
 --  MAY 1

 

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 01, 2024

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