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ELECTIONS; PALESTINE, GAZA, ISRAEL; HAITI; KENYA; SING IN SOLIDARITY;
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May 16, 2024, xxxxxx

 

* MICHAEL COHEN  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON
* RE: NETANYAHU IGNORED EVERY WARNING. NOW BIDEN IS TELLING ISRAEL:
‘ENOUGH IS ENOUGH’  (BEN CUPP; ED)
* PUTTING HIS FOOT DOWN  --  CARTOON BY ADAM ZYGLIS
* RE: WHY I’M NOT CALLING THE POLICE ON MY STUDENTS’ ENCAMPMENT
 (EARL MARTY PRICE)
* PINOCCHIO ON TRIAL  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS
* RE: WILL THE PALESTINIAN GROUPS CREATE A NEW PALESTINIAN POLITICAL
PROJECT?  (DONNA CARTER)
* RE: PALESTINE AND HISTORY: MACKLEMORE V. HILLARY CLINTON  (DAVE
LOTT)
* RE: WHO CREATED THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT?  (ARLENE HALFON)
* RE: A SIMPLE FACT: THERE WILL BE A PALESTINIAN STATE. ITS
LOCATION: PALESTINE  (SAM ANDERSON)
* THE EARLY WORM GETS THE RFK JR.!  --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ
* RE: THE US PLAN TO OUTSOURCE ITS IMPERIALISM IN HAITI TO KENYA
 (A READER IN AFRICA; BUZZ DAVIS)
* RE: WHAT BEETHOVEN’S NINTH TEACHES US  (SONIA COBBINS)
* FROM THE WEST-EASTERN DIVAN ORCHESTRA TO THE BARENBOIM-SAID
AKADEMIE
* RE: REPO MAN AT 40: A JOURNEY DEEP INTO THE HEART OF LA PUNK IN
THE AGE OF REAGAN  (LORRAINE SUZUKI)
* GROWING HYPOCRISY  --  CARTOON BY JEN SORENSEN

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* LIST OF UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES WITH ENCAMPMENTS AND PROTESTS -
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Announcements:

* Radical Nonviolence:100 Years of the War Resisters League  --
 Brooklyn  -- May 16 - September 13  (War Resisters League (WRL)
and Interference Archive)

* Witnessing Palestine   --  Chicago  --  June 2  (Eyewitness
Palestine)

* Sing in Solidarity Presents: The World is My Country  --  New
York  June 16

 

* Song Nights For Social Change: Commemorating The 60th Anniversary
Of Mississippi Freedom Summer & Celebrating The Lives Of Goodman,
Schwerner, & Chaney - Free Virtual Concert  --  June 23

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MICHAEL COHEN  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON

 

Nick Anderson
May 14, 2024
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RE: NETANYAHU IGNORED EVERY WARNING. NOW BIDEN IS TELLING ISRAEL:
‘ENOUGH IS ENOUGH’
 

Way too little, way too late.

Ben Cupp
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I have one criticism: Netanyahu has been asking for a swift kick in
the ass for years not weeks or months. He has consistently challenged
the U.S. and Joe Biden: announcing the development of new housing in
the West Bank while Biden was visiting as Vice President, the
notorious speech to Congress at the invitation of the Republicans and
invitation Bibi may have solicited and other occasions of thumbing his
nose at the U.S.  It might have been beneficial for Israel had the
rebuke come much earlier.

Aside from the proprieties, it is not very clever for a small country
to antagonize a great power especially when the small country is
dependent upon the large one for critical materiel. Noone thinks an
Israeli Prime Minister should bow down before an American President
but showing respect for the views of an important ally is common sense
something, unfortunately, that  Netanyahu lacks. ..

Ed

 

PUTTING HIS FOOT DOWN  --  CARTOON BY ADAM ZYGLIS

 

Adam Zyglis
May 9, 2024
The Buffalo News
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RE: WHY I’M NOT CALLING THE POLICE ON MY STUDENTS’ ENCAMPMENT
 

Sac State has a president that created a dialog between groups

Earl Marty Price
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PINOCCHIO ON TRIAL  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

Rob Rogers
May 14, 2024
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RE: WILL THE PALESTINIAN GROUPS CREATE A NEW PALESTINIAN POLITICAL
PROJECT?
 

I disagree. As long as there is not a solid agreement and plan by the
various Palestinian political groups so as to negotiate with their
full power, Israel will continue its military power to continue war
against the people of Palestine even with world opinion on the side of
them.  Power comes from the central elements not the peripheral
support.

So get it together, Palest together Palestinian Factions.

Donna Carter

 

RE: PALESTINE AND HISTORY: MACKLEMORE V. HILLARY CLINTON
 

“I have never understood the trope that Israel made generous offers
to the Palestinians (it never did) but that the Palestinians rejected
them, and therefore the Palestinians should be deprived of all their
basic rights forever.”

Dave Lott
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RE: WHO CREATED THE ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT?
 

Yes, your answer that it was US Immigration laws 100 years ago, hit
the nail on the head.

My parents stepped right off of the pages of "The Tevya Stories" and
"the stage and screen of Fiddler on the Roof."

They came to the US; that was everyone's first choice. Only when new
Immigration Laws were passed and the Polish Jews could no longer get
into the country, did they "settle" for going to Israel. That's where
my parents' siblings went when they could no longer get into the US by
changing their names to relatives who were citizens and passing as
siblings (my mother) and a little later by creating "mail order
brides" (my father's sister). Israel was no-one's first choice. (A
Chinese friend told me that her relatives used documentation from dead
relatives or bought such documentation).

To my parents, Israel was someplace that your body would roll to,
underground, on "Judgement Day". I guess it was their version of
Heaven. I have no idea how much of this they believed or what they
invented to explain to the children.

I never knew the years which of those laws were passed and have only
the sketchiest details of the processes they went through to get
themselves and their siblings in. But I remember frequent family
discussions of whether they would support Israel or the US if they had
a war. ALWAYS, first they agreed a war between the two would never
happen since they were both democracies but in the hypothetical case
of such a war, they would support the US; that was their country.

Arlene Halfon

 

RE: A SIMPLE FACT: THERE WILL BE A PALESTINIAN STATE. ITS LOCATION:
PALESTINE
 

Why is Israel in the Eurovision song contest in the first place? It's
a Middle Eastern country... unless Israelis see themselves as
Europeans who happen to be in the Middle East. If that's the case,
what are the indigenous Israelis to this assumption or assertion?
Palestinian Jews and, therefore not "white'?

Hell, if Israel can be part of the Eurovision Song Contest, so can
Jordan and Lebanon and Turkey... and for that matter, all of North
Africa.

All this reveals that the centrality of racism has its own logic that
has been developed since 1444 and nurtured and "legitimized" by the
evolution of capitalism and its global dominance.

In Struggle,

Sam Anderson

 

THE EARLY WORM GETS THE RFK JR.!  --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ

 

Lalo Alcaraz
May 9, 2024
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RE: THE US PLAN TO OUTSOURCE ITS IMPERIALISM IN HAITI TO KENYA
 

This is fantastic article. As a US citizen married to a Kenyan and
living in Kenya as expat, I have seen American military presence
increase. In fact, the tow in which I live has KDF base and American
and British military training Kenyan soldiers. This has occurred the
last year that I've noticed. They even have private military
contractors that stay at Matuu Ndallas hotel in Matuu, Machakos,
Kenya.

A reader in Africa

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Question for Mr. Al-Bulushi:  Have you heard anything about Eric
Prince, former Blackwater owner and CIA supposed front man, being
involved as a contractor to the US or Kenya to provide mercenaries or
body guard or guarding top security bldgs...  He is always trying to
make a fast buck and be a king maker.  Peace!

Buzz Davis former Army officer member of Veterans for Peace in Tucson

 

RE: WHAT BEETHOVEN’S NINTH TEACHES US

Yes. On the 200th anniversary of the 9th Symphony, we streamed, it
played by the West Eastern Divan Symphony organized by Edward Said and
Daniel Barenboim to promote friendship and understanding. Despite
everything we won't forget our hopes for peace.

Sonia Cobbins
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FROM THE WEST-EASTERN DIVAN ORCHESTRA TO THE BARENBOIM-SAID AKADEMIE
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RE: REPO MAN AT 40: A JOURNEY DEEP INTO THE HEART OF LA PUNK IN THE
AGE OF REAGAN

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As Roger Ebert would write in a review from 1984, “this is the kind
of movie that baffles Hollywood, because it isn’t made from any
known formula and doesn't follow the rules.” Adding context to these
observations, Sam McPheeters, in “A Lattice of Coincidence,”
included with the 2013 Criterion Collection edition, describes Repo
Man as “an apocalypse tale with no doomsday, a punk movie with no
concert, a science fiction story with less than ten seconds of
aliens.”

Lorraine Suzuki
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GROWING HYPOCRISY  --  CARTOON BY JEN SORENSEN

 

I’ve noticed that some people who seem fine with rampant development
— and in some cases have profited mightily from it — suddenly
become very concerned about growth when the need to build affordable
housing arises in their own neighborhood. I do think that growth
without any thought to the kind of dense development being created can
also be a disaster. Are the new buildings ugly and so cheaply
constructed that residents can hear everything their neighbors do
through the walls? Are we allowing vehicle size to increase enormously
at the same time we are trying to put people in ever denser spaces
where they walk and bike? Are we regulating vehicle noise (and leaf
blowers!) so people can live and sleep in these denser spaces? Are we
keeping some nature? It seems to me that we need to do a number of
things differently if we are to create livable cities that accommodate
more people.

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May 8, 2024
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LIST OF UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES WITH ENCAMPMENTS AND PROTESTS - AS
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RADICAL NONVIOLENCE:100 YEARS OF THE WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE  --
 BROOKLYN  -- MAY 16 - SEPTEMBER 13  (WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE (WRL)
AND INTERFERENCE ARCHIVE)

 

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Image by Pablo Picasso and the War Resisters League

War Resisters League (WRL) and Interference Archive present a
collection of material from the archive and WRL celebrating 100 years
of the oldest secular pacifist organization in the United States.

WRL produced street literature, posters, study guides, brochures,
organizing manuals, books, and periodicals that focused on direct
action, divestment, tax and draft resistance and ending the nuclear
arms race.

Opening May 16th Curated by Christina Danielle Bartson, Ruth Benn, Sky
Hall, Ed Hedemann, Amelia Langas, Brooke Shuman, and Yifan X

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WITNESSING PALESTINE   --  CHICAGO  --  JUNE 2  (EYEWITNESS
PALESTINE)

 

 

SUNDAY, JUNE 2,2024 | 4:30-8:00 PM

📍AL HAMBRA PALACE | CHICAGO, IL

On June 2, 2024, Eyewitness Palestine will be hosting an Evening of
Witnessing Palestine Through Stories, Flavor, and Culture with an
incredible line-up of artists and speakers, including the First Lady
of Arabic Hip-Hop @shadiamansour
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award-winning Storyteller& Content Crrator @jenanmatari
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incredible @nibalmalshi [[link removed]]. Book
your tickets now for an heartfelt evening of Palestinian speakers,
culture, art and food as we take a night to honor Palestine.

Founded in 2001, Eyewitness Palestine is a transformational education
program that inspires and trains participants to be accountable
lifelong social justice advocates in the Palestine solidarity movement
and within their own communities. We are building a world where
Palestine is liberated and all are free!

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SING IN SOLIDARITY PRESENTS: THE WORLD IS MY COUNTRY  --  NEW YORK
 JUNE 16

 

 

SUNDAY, JUNE 16 2024 AT 6:30 PM

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SONGS OF PEACE AND FREEDOM FOR THE WORKERS OF THE WORLD

So capitalism is disappointing? Forget it! A better world is possible
for everyone. Sing in Solidarity, the choir of Democratic Socialists
of America, presents a cabaret of international songs for peace,
liberty, and socialism in our lifetime. Our high-energy left-wing
anthems from around the world will have you leaping from your seats
and hoisting high the red flag. Join us for a very special night of
solidarity and song and find out how you can join in the fight to
demand an end to apartheid and settler colonialism worldwide.

DOORS 6:30 PM, SHOW 7PM

“For our demands most moderate are – We only want the earth.”

 - James Connolly, Irish Trade Union Leader, 1907

“From Palestine to Mexico, all the walls have got to go!”

- 21st Century Anti-Colonial Refrain

ABOUT THE CABARET

For their second cabaret at Drom, Sing in Solidarity presents a
selection of international antiwar, anti-fascist, and anticapitalist
workers songs. Inspired by global socialist and decolonial struggles,
this anti-imperialist choral cabaret takes a voyage around the world,
touching upon movement music from Palestine, South Africa, Ireland,
and more.  With special musical guests Ongama Mhloto, Huda Asfour,
and Dorian Wallace.

ABOUT SING IN SOLIDARITY

Whether marching to “The Internationale” on May Day, leading a
picket line with “Roll the Union On,” or performing music from The
Threepenny Opera in concert, Sing in Solidarity, the choir of NYC-DSA,
uses their voices to strengthen the socialist community through song.
Begun in 2017, the choir draws its repertoire from the rich tradition
of international revolutionary song: its mission to disseminate
anti-capitalist music, build internationalism, and unite the struggles
of working and oppressed peoples through culture and song. A fully
open movement choir, we believe that anyone can sing. No auditions
necessary.  Join our choir today!

ABOUT NEW YORK CITY DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA

We’re the NYC chapter of the largest socialist organization in the
U.S., Democratic Socialists of America – DSA. We believe a better
world is possible and we’re building it right here in New York City.
New York is one of the most unequal cities in the country, but it
doesn’t have to remain that way. As democratic socialists, we’re
building working class power to challenge the dominance of the wealthy
and the powerful in the five boroughs. Together, we aim to transform
New York into a place where working people have the power to ensure
that everyone can live a dignified life. If you want to build a better
world, join us!

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SONG NIGHTS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: COMMEMORATING THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF
MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM SUMMER & CELEBRATING THE LIVES OF GOODMAN,
SCHWERNER, & CHANEY - FREE VIRTUAL CONCERT  --  JUNE 23

 

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JUNE 23, 2024 07:00 PM EDT

Musical Guests: Si Kahn, Magpie (Terry Leonino & Greg Artzner), Reggie
Harris, and Carolyn Hester
Host: Susan Erenrich

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