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TIDBITS - APR.23, 2020 - READER COMMENTS: REOPEN OR RE-INFECT; BLACK
PLAGUE; VOTING IMPERILED - TODAY, REMEMBERING THE 60S; CORONAVIRUS:
THE CRISIS THIS TIME; NURSES WEARING GARBAGE BAGS; THE KILLING FLOOR
AT SMITHFIELD; KILLING THE POST OFFICE  
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_ Reader Comments: Reopen or Re-Infect; The Black Plague; Voting
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, CARTOONS and Resources - Apr.23, 2020,
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Re: The Trump Reopen Effort: 'An Utter Sh*t Show' (Meredith Lee
Schafer-Garza)
Let my people golf  --  cartoon by Rex A. Jones
Re: Another Republican "Grassroots" Movement Hijacks the Media (Ivonne
Brown-Ieromazzo; Tom Trumper; Miriam Haiman-González; David Lax;
Nelson Morales; Gabriel Andres Ramos Serrano; Mateenah
Floyd-Okanlawon)
Re: The Black Plague (A Rose for Puerto Rico Grassroots)
Re: Stop Blaming Black People for Dying of the Coronavirus (Marilyn
Frankenstein)
Re: Selma 1965, Wisconsin 2020: Multiracial Democracy vs. A White
Republic (Jay Schaffner; Laura Owen; Peter Verikas; Robert Maldonado;
Jane Becker Whitaker; Edward Miessner)
Re: Canceling Rent and Suspending Mortgage Payments (Sonia)
Re: The Coronavirus and the Crisis This Time (Mariam Alunkal)
Re: Mike Davis On Pandemics, Super-capitalism and the Struggles of
Tomorrow (Making Contact)
In Lieu of Adequate PPE  -- cartoon by Drew Sheneman
Re: How Did the U.S. End Up with Nurses Wearing Garbage Bags? (Iara
Lee; Heather Squire; Leanna Noble; Jeannie Fagundo; Lynette Castillo;
Craig Gauthie; Beba Jorge)
Re: The White House Has Erected a Blockade Stopping States and
Hospitals From Getting Coronavirus PPE (Bequi Marie; Tammy Alenduff)
Re: What Wall Street Doesn't Want You to Know About Hospital Emergency
Rooms (Karen Saunders)
Re: Millions of Essential Workers Are Being Left Out of COVID-19
Workplace Safety Protections, Thanks to OSHA (Hollis Stewart; Mike
Liston)
Re: Smithfield Foods Is Blaming "Living Circumstances In Certain
Cultures" For One Of America's Largest COVID-19 Clusters (Alberta
Maged; Patricia Dranginis Shulman; Daniel Millstone; Judith Halprin;
Carol Driscoll;Mary Llenza; Suzanne Prescott; Senya Means)
Re: The Head of the Postal Workers Union Says the Postal Service Could
Be Dead in Three Months (Hillel Ben Yochanan; Therese Masters
Jacobson; Bill Mager)
Re: 'Beyond Predatory': Trump Treasury Department Gives Banks Green
Light to Seize $1,200 Stimulus Checks to Pay Off Debts (Patricia
Dowling; Judyth Hollub; Hilde Edler Souweine; Lizzi Azalia Swane; JD
Scot; Matt Dingeldein)
Re: Banks Funneled Stimulus Funds to Largest Companies to Fatten Fees,
Lawsuits Say (Emory Thompson; Yvonne Gumowitz; Alvin Jackson; Stan
Nadel)
Re: COVID-19 and the Unfunded Black Belt Commission (Ferris Ann
Branch-Crawford)
Give Me Liberty..Or  --  cartoon by Robert Ariail
Re: 1918 Flu Pandemic Killed 12 Million Indians, and British
Overlords' Indifference Strengthened the Anti-Colonial Movement
(Miguel Tamargo; Glenda Méndez)
Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Never Spoken to Joe Biden. Here's
What She Would Say (Jose Felipe Gonzalez Pabon; Claire O'Connor; Zvi
Baranoff)
Re: Joe Biden Needs to Start Acting Like a Presidential Candidate
(Radames Ortiz Ortiz; Clare Max)
Re: What Mrs America Gets Right and What It Gets Wrong About 70s
Feminism (Sonia Collins)
Revolutionary Earth Day Greeting from Italy (video)
Re: How China Broke the Chain of Infection (Steve in Wuhan; Dale
Jacobson; Philip Specht)
Re: The Crime of the Century: Remembering Sacco and Vanzetti 100 Years
Later (Joseph Kaye)
Re: Dorothy Day's Radical Faith (Pat Byrne; Marcel Rivera)

RESOURCES:

Poster of the Week - 50th Anniversary of Earth Day (Center for the
Study of Political Graphics)
The America We Need - Special New York Times Magazine

 

RE: THE TRUMP REOPEN EFFORT: 'AN UTTER SH*T SHOW'
 

I hope there area lot of wrongful death suits

Meredith Lee Schafer-Garza
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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LET MY PEOPLE GOLF  --  CARTOON BY REX A. JONES
 

Rex A. Jones
April 22, 2020
Rex A. Jones Krazy Karwonz [[link removed]]

 

RE: ANOTHER REPUBLICAN "GRASSROOTS" MOVEMENT HIJACKS THE MEDIA
 

following the precepts of Joseph Goebbels:
    
"The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine.
Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitive.
In the long run, basic results in influencing public opinion will be
achieved only by the man who is able to reduce problems to the
simplest terms and who has the courage to keep forever repeating them
in this simplified form, despite the objections of the intellectuals."

Ivonne Brown-Ieromazzo
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Billions of dollars isn't enough for the Koch brothers, they want
power over the people as well.

Tom Trumper
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Miriam Haiman-González
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Sponsored by DeVos and friends.....

David Lax
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Don't let them in the emergency room ,when they come knocking.

Nelson Morales
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Lacking total state control over the media, Republicans employ
AstroTurfed street theater to hijack our free press for propaganda.
There are salt-of-the-earth working folk, battered by economic
hardship, who just want their jobs back. However misguided, their
motives generally aren't questioned. Wrong, among them were neo-Nazis,
Confederates, NRA extremists, anti-vaxxers, etc. Who could imagine?

Gabriel Andres Ramos Serrano
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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I am angry! As a retired E R nurse I am outraged at the treatment of
nurses, doctors and all the frontline workers that are being
needlessly sacrificed because of incompetent leadership in Washington.
Please read and get mad!

Mateenah Floyd-Okanlawon
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: THE BLACK PLAGUE
 

The old African-American aphorism "When white America catches a cold,
black America gets pneumonia" has a new, morbid twist: when white
America catches the novel coronavirus, black Americans die.

Thousands of white Americans have also died from the virus, but the
pace at which African-Americans are dying has transformed this
public-health crisis into an object lesson in racial and class
inequality. According to a Reuters report, African-Americans are more
likely to die of covid-19 than any other group in the U.S. It is still
early in the course of the pandemic, and the demographic data is
incomplete, but the partial view is enough to prompt a sober
reflection on this bitter harvest of American racism.

A Rose for Puerto Rico Grassroots
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Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: STOP BLAMING BLACK PEOPLE FOR DYING OF THE CORONAVIRUS
 

Excellent analysis, but I would add another point: in addition to the
institutional racism that has led to Corona so disproportionately
affecting Black people, there is also the fact that Blacks and Latinx
are disproportionately front line workers, risking their lives to save
everyone and getting paid crap and often disrespected for that work
(e.g., I'm including janitors as vital public health workers). 

One of the ways I hope we come out of this pandemic glimpse of what so
many, in the same and different ways, live every day (waiting for the
next bomb to drop, searching for food in a world aplenty with food,
and so on) is with strong support and strong organizing for real
respect and compensation (in salary and other benefits like shorter
hours) for the workers who hold up our society.

Marilyn Frankenstein

 

RE: SELMA 1965, WISCONSIN 2020: MULTIRACIAL DEMOCRACY VS. A WHITE
REPUBLIC
 

Please read - great piece by my friend Max Elbaum
[[link removed]] - only way out of the
multi-faceted political-economic-health-societal crisis is a path that
lifts up those most oppressed and suffering, while fighting the dire
situation for all that we find ourselves in.

Tonight on the news in northeastern Pennsylvania was coverage of the
mob that descended on the state capital of Harrisburg. Signs included
those that COVID was a hoax, and "fake news". This while the national
death total soars past 40,000 - double what it was a week ago, with
the preponderance of those loosing their lives as African American and
Latino. 1366 of those in Pennsylvania.

40,000+ dead in our country, 170,000+ throughout the world, no
vaccine, no testing, and this is just heating up.

This reminds of the German people after the war saying that they just
had no idea, no knowledge of the round-up of Jews and others, no
knowledge of the concentration camps. That is what the Trumpsters
remind me of. That is why it is so vital to defeat Trump and the GOP
in this election.

Jay Schaffner
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Well guess what white NEO Nazis there's a new kid in town a powerful
disease called Covid-19, your Guns , your Rhetoric ain't gonna save
your sorry asses, it's gonna wipe you out like nobody's business, and
your Savior Trump is absolutely not gonna save you

Laura Owen
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Dr King was opposed to the so called right to work legislation . It is
ironic that this anti union law is a kind of Jim Crow against workers
of all colors!

Peter Verikas
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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to them everything is a hoax, except the Hoax of the POTUS#45.
But only until it hits one of theirs.

Robert Maldonado
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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A Milwaukee polling place has become a COVID hotspot. Blood on their
hands.

Jane Becker Whitaker
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Not just a White Republic but a Right-winged Straight Male White
Republic

Edward Miessner
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Re: Canceling Rent and Suspending Mortgage Payments
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In NYC, the huge Kushner style real estate companies regularly get 20
year tax abatements when they build speculative luxury towers. They do
not pay their fair share. In this emergency, if a small owner cannot
pay bills because their tenants cannot pay rent, the debt forgiveness
has to go upward to the mortgage holding banks, the water authority,
the taxes etc. In general the burdens of this crisis should be borne
by those who can afford to take the hit.

Sonia
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: THE CORONAVIRUS AND THE CRISIS THIS TIME
 

One of the best articles I have read. Well Done, xxxxxx
[[link removed]]. The
author is admirably capable of original thinking.

Mariam Alunkal
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: MIKE DAVIS ON PANDEMICS, SUPER-CAPITALISM AND THE STRUGGLES OF
TOMORROW
 

" What are the underlying political, economic and environmental
structures that paved the way for this global outbreak? Where do
pandemics emerge from? Is our capitalist way of life biologically
sustainable?" Thx xxxxxx
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Making Contact [[link removed]]
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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In Lieu of Adequate PPE  -- cartoon by Drew Sheneman

Drew Sheneman
April 16, 2020
The Star-Ledger (Newark)

 

RE: HOW DID THE U.S. END UP WITH NURSES WEARING GARBAGE BAGS?
 

America watched, shocked, as doctors and nurses pleaded for protective
gear and medical equipment such as ventilators. What followed was an
inside glimpse of the dysfunction emanating from Trump's Washington in
the midst of the pandemic, a crash course in the breakdown that has
led to nurses in one of the wealthiest countries in the world wearing
garbage bags to protect themselves from a virus whose outbreak the
President downplayed until it was too late to prepare for its
consequences. (via xxxxxx
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Iara Lee
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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"Independent reporting has corroborated what Ries and other volunteers
saw for themselves: "a fragmented procurement system now descending
into chaos," as the Associated Press put it. The news agency found
that not a single shipment of medical-grade N95 masks arrived at U.S.
ports during the month of March. The federal government was not only
disorganized; it was absent. Federal agencies waited until mid-March
to begin placing bulk orders for the urgently needed supplies, the
A.P. found. The first large U.S. government order to the big U.S.
producer 3M, for a hundred and seventy-three million dollars' worth of
N95 masks, was not placed until March 21st-the same day that Ries got
his first phone call about the Kushner effort. The order, according to
the A.P., did not even require the supplies to be delivered until the
end of April, far too late to help with the thousands of cases already
overwhelming hospitals."

Heather Squire
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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For years now health care and every other "service" industry has been
corporatized with every manufacturing, privatized capitalist trick
possible to maximize PROFITS. Nurses & other health care workers have
fought this by unionizing. Now ALL of us as workers and patients re
paying the price with our LIVES. Medicare4All is now to save lives!

Leanna Noble
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Its a disgrace! These professionals deserve protection. They risk
their lives everyday. Very sad.

Jeannie Fagundo
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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The question should be how did the USA, supposedly the most powerful
nation , ended up having a con man for president.

Lynette Castillo
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Because Trump and big business says we don't need regulations, safety
nets, healthcare for all and a plan to stop a pandemic, it's all a
hoax, it will be over by April

Craig Gauthie
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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It's called GENOCIDE!! This beast has his hands full of blood

Beba Jorge
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: THE WHITE HOUSE HAS ERECTED A BLOCKADE STOPPING STATES AND
HOSPITALS FROM GETTING CORONAVIRUS PPE
 

With the cooperation of federal employees.

Can you _imagine_ being the person who agrees to do this.

There is no such thing as a peaceful nazi.

Bequi Marie
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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This isn't right.
It will NEVER be right.
The current administration only disgraces itself even more.

Tammy Alenduff
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: WHAT WALL STREET DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT HOSPITAL EMERGENCY
ROOMS
 

Yet another reason why our hospitals should be publicly owned and
controlled, now during the pandemic and permanently. Emergency rooms
should be a public good, not an engine for profit.

    "Care of the sick is not the mission of these companies; their
mission is to make outsized profits for the private equity firms and
its investors. Overcharging patients and insurance companies for
providing urgent and desperately needed emergency medical care is bad
enough. But it is unconscionable to muzzle doctors who speak out to
advocate for the health of their patients and co-workers during the
global pandemic that is rapidly spreading across the U.S."

Karen Saunders
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: MILLIONS OF ESSENTIAL WORKERS ARE BEING LEFT OUT OF COVID-19
WORKPLACE SAFETY PROTECTIONS, THANKS TO OSHA
 

If workers aren't safe, we aren't safe. Viruses and other living
things travel by air, sea, land, our skin, our hair and our friends,
neighbors, the person/s working next to us, a person who is ill -- so
we are everyone's health helper just as they are ours.

Hollis Stewart
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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When I was in college, I worked 20 hours plus a week down on the
Anchorage docks and most of my work was on a roll on, roll off cargo
ship which meant that truck tractors would drive on board and off
hauling off wheeled container loads. The  ship had a ventilation
system installed to suck out the diesel fumes from the lower decks but
in order to save money, I'm guessing, it was often off or on low speed
and the fumes were so bad, a worker would be left with carbon monoxide
headaches that would linger for days.  Our union wouldn't do anything
about, they'd been bought off, so I took it upon myself to report the
problem to OSHA. What a farce, the inspector rolls in having made an
advance phone call, has a nice cup of coffee chumming it up with the
bosses allowing them plenty of time to turn on the ventilation on high
and for almost a good hour and then he lets himself be led by the nose
to the absolutely best ventilated part of the ship and takes some
bullshit tests after which he concludes everything is just fine and
this was back in the early 1980's!  They were a bunch of useless
a****les then so I'm sure there much worse than such now. I quit not
longer that. I figured the carbon monoxide headaches were just not
worth it, all the best, and to your health, 

Mike Liston

 

RE: SMITHFIELD FOODS IS BLAMING "LIVING CIRCUMSTANCES IN CERTAIN
CULTURES" FOR ONE OF AMERICA'S LARGEST COVID-19 CLUSTERS
 

once more, speechless ... or way too much to scream out:

Alberta Maged
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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right...that's why they have closed 3 plants in different states,
because all those people live together....the worst of corporate
america

Patricia Dranginis Shulman
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Well, of course it's their own damn fault. The workers ain't got no
culture. One of the more startling "blame the victims" has a racist
ring and more. In "certain cultures," Smithfield bosses explain people
want to live together in crowded unsanitary conditions. Thus those
flacking for this master class explain that Smithfield workers don't
live in houses (like we do; ha!). Do they mention the rotten pay? Do
they mention the appalling conditions? Of course not. What's a poor
boss to do?

One of the things the virus teaches us over and over again: an injury
to one is an injury to all. 0ur food (as here) comes to us through a
system of ruthless exploitation. We enrich the bosses and (as a reward
eat cheaper food) when the farm workers, the meat packers, the
supermarket workers, the restaurant workers, the delivery guys live in
the shadows. We can fix this. Thanks to xxxxxx
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(and Daily Kos) for sending this along.

Daniel Millstone
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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because surely it can't be working conditions, right?

Judith Halprin
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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I never eat anything made by Smithfield. One of the worst companies in
America in terms of how their workers are treated.

Carol Driscoll
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Boycott their products

Mary Llenza
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Most certainly. I'll check the labels of pork products to make sure I
avoid Smithfield and buy products where the processors did a better
job of protecting employees

Suzanne Prescott
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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So not only are these MF's gonna murder the people that work for them,
they're gonna put the blame on them for dying, too.

Senya Means
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: THE HEAD OF THE POSTAL WORKERS UNION SAYS THE POSTAL SERVICE COULD
BE DEAD IN THREE MONTHS

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
[[link removed]])
 

Greed. Trump wants to divvy up the US Postal Service to private
companies so that those private companies can fund his presidential
campaign for another 4 years term. What about the possible
reprocautions after he leaves office? What about the people?

Selfish! Straight up selfish! Trump is only thinking about himself,
not the people.

Hillel Ben Yochanan
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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I use our little post office weekly. Knowing the clerk by name, and I
hope asking about her kids and grandchildren makes her feel as good as
I do, because she is an important part of the community and I want her
to know it.

Therese Masters Jacobson
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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No temporary bail out that only puts a band aid on. Get congress to
work on a long term plan that will both protect the post office but
will also assure that far into the future past, present and future
postal workers will get the benefits promised! Look around at numerous
states and cities where pension plans are in deep debt. It has to be
fixed!

Bill Mager
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: 'BEYOND PREDATORY': TRUMP TREASURY DEPARTMENT GIVES BANKS GREEN
LIGHT TO SEIZE $1,200 STIMULUS CHECKS TO PAY OFF DEBTS
 

"The Treasury Department is pointing out opportunities for banks and
debt collectors to steal Americans' relief checks out from under
them."

Patricia Dowling
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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How much more proof do we need of Trump's and the Republicans'
amorality and avarice? And yet Trump supporters will probably not
recognize that they are amongst the groups that are being victimized
the most. Let's hope they wake up to these facts before the election.

Judyth Hollub
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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This will be so helpful - for banks, that is.

Hilde Edler Souweine
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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So the banks just take them all away from the poorest people who need
them the most. What creepiness.

Lizzi Azalia Swane
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Now do you see how Republicans work?

JD Scot
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Release a "FOREVER" stamp with his mug on it. His ego and vanity will
prevent him from defunding

Matt Dingeldein
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: BANKS FUNNELED STIMULUS FUNDS TO LARGEST COMPANIES TO FATTEN FEES,
LAWSUITS SAY
 

Wells Fargo.... again....

Emory Thompson
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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No end to the mismanaged misery. 

Yvonne Gumowitz
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Use your platform to change the politically conspired public law to
reassess the small business size standard. 500 employees? Not a small
business. During the 1980's up to 99 employees. Where did we go wrong.
Or maybe we were asleep at the wheel.

Alvin Jackson

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Gee, who would have ever imagined that banks would serve their biggest
and most important customers 1st? Maximizing profits is the name of
the game--that's what banks are for when they are profit making
corporations and their officers would be derelict in their
responsibilities to their shareholders (and possibly liable as well)
if they didn't take care to do so.  Only changing the rules of the
game could change that--cooperative or government owned banks that
could put serving their customers 1st, i.e. a socialized financial
sector.

Stan Nadel

 

RE: COVID-19 AND THE UNFUNDED BLACK BELT COMMISSION
 

Hospitals in some southern states were closed due in part to
politicians keeping out federal funds until the smaller ones got
gobbled up by larger ones, this causing a monopoly effect on many
regions, coincident Al? I got some ocean front property in Nashville
if you believe that! Lol

Ferris Ann Branch-Crawford
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
[[link removed]]

 

GIVE ME LIBERTY..OR  --  CARTOON BY ROBERT ARIAIL
 

Robert Ariail
April 21, 2020
Townhall
[[link removed]]

 

RE: 1918 FLU PANDEMIC KILLED 12 MILLION INDIANS, AND BRITISH
OVERLORDS' INDIFFERENCE STRENGTHENED THE ANTI-COLONIAL MOVEMENT
 

Harbinger of things to come?

Miguel Tamargo
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
[[link removed]]

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"Influenza became one more example of British injustice that spurred
Indian people in their fight for independence. Mahatma Gandhi wrote,
"In no other civilized country could a government have left things so
much undone as did the Government of India"

Glenda Méndez
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ HAS NEVER SPOKEN TO JOE BIDEN. HERE'S
WHAT SHE WOULD SAY
 

No doubt about it, Alexandria is not only my candidate, she is the
fundamental voice of awareness in the Democratic party. Winning the
presidency and replacing Trump is crucial. But not just by
superficially polishing what's considered 'controversial' issues.
There must be a commitment to tackle those issues with firmness and
resolution regardless of the expected 'backfire' from big interests.

Jose Felipe Gonzalez Pabon
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
[[link removed]]

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Like many I started out this election season with iron solid knowledge
that no matter what, I would not for BIden. Well, like others, a touch
of today's accumulating disasters, i have softened. And I share the
anger and bitterness as both Warren and Sanders face the reality of
the domination of the democrats machine. With my anger still very
live, I think it is time to turn away from considering the sh*t we are
being handed and toward finding answers to the question "What are we
going to do about it?" On the optimistic side we can organize to make
sure that people will get to vote and the votes will all be counted.
SO THEN the question - as we wonder what we are going to do with Their
candidate masquerading as OUR president. And the answer is - we the
people are going to rise up and make him give us a fair and just
society and fight the forces for our planet extinction.

Now lets get to that job.

Claire O'Connor
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
[[link removed]]

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"Ms. Ocasio-Cortez made clear that she intended to support the
Democratic nominee, but said his current overtures to progressives
must go further. She made a distinction between supporting Mr. Biden
in November and offering a full-throated endorsement of his campaign.
Where she lands, she said, is up to him."

Zvi Baranoff
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
[[link removed]]

 

RE: JOE BIDEN NEEDS TO START ACTING LIKE A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
 

1st step let Trump be Trump. 2nd Trump will beat Trump. 3rd go out
vote for best Biden.

Radames Ortiz Ortiz
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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This would be nice, wouldn't it? I'm not holding my breath though.

Clare Max
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: WHAT MRS AMERICA GETS RIGHT AND WHAT IT GETS WRONG ABOUT 70S
FEMINISM

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
[[link removed]])
 

"Chisholm is portrayed not as the one-dimensional martyr that feminist
history so often makes her, but as an earnest, principled advocate who
suffers deep pain at the racist and sexist determination of those
around her to underestimate and overlook her talents." Must see! 

Sonia Collins
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REVOLUTIONARY EARTH DAY GREETING FROM ITALY (VIDEO)
 

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RE: HOW CHINA BROKE THE CHAIN OF INFECTION
 

Nice to see this on xxxxxx. What I particularly liked about this
piece is the attention to the community volunteers and the grassroots
implementation of the patriotic health campaign. I live in a complex
of six thirty story towers on Guangba road in Wuhan, those volunteers
figured out work arounds for all sorts of mundane problems I had over
the ten weeks of the lockdown as well as assisting all of us residents
stay healthy and well fed.

Steve in Wuhan

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"In the World Health Organization's February report after a visit to
China, the team members wrote, "In the face of a previously unknown
virus, China has rolled out perhaps the most ambitious, agile and
aggressive disease containment effort in history.""

And what did we do? Trump ignored it all for a month and a half. Then
congress give more money to the rich.

Dale Jacobson
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"In the face of a previously unknown virus, China has rolled out
perhaps the most ambitious, agile and aggressive disease containment
effort in history."

Philip Specht
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RE: THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY: REMEMBERING SACCO AND VANZETTI 100 YEARS
LATER

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Yes, to be followed by the judicial murder of Ethel and Julius
Rosenberg.

Joseph Kaye

 

RE: DOROTHY DAY'S RADICAL FAITH

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And a Saint she should be!!

Pat Byrne
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An American Saint!

Marcel Rivera
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POSTER OF THE WEEK - 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF EARTH DAY (CENTER FOR THE
STUDY OF POLITICAL GRAPHICS)

 

It Takes Roots to Weather the Storm
Micah Bazant
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
Digital print, 2015
Berkeley, CA 45974
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. 

The first Earth Day was in response to a major oil spill off the coast
of Santa Barbara, CA. It was the largest oil spill in United States
waters at the time, and now ranks third after the 2010 Deepwater
Horizon and 1989 Exxon Valdez spills.

50 years later we are dealing with another disaster. As the
COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, killing tens of thousands
around the world, it reveals the criminally inadequate responses by
neoliberal governments--with the U.S taking pride of place.

The poster’s message, "System Change, Not Climate Change” has
never been more urgent. 

CSPG’s Poster of the Week was produced for the 2015 United Nations
Climate Change Conference (COP21), held in Paris.

To see more posters on the environment, visit CSPG’s online
exhibition, available in both English and Spanish:

English: “Too Hot to Handle: Posters on Climate Change, Pollution &
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Environmental Justice.” Click here to see the exhibition.
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Spanish: Carteles Sobre el Cambio Climático Contaminación y Justica
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Click here to see the exhibition. Haga clic aquí para ver la
exposición.
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Center for the Study of Political Graphics
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Culver City, CA 90230
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THE AMERICA WE NEED - SPECIAL THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
 

The pandemic has shown Americans how far apart they are. But out of
this crisis there's a chance to build a better nation.

The America We Need

By The Editorial Board
April 9, 2020
The New York Times
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From some of its darkest hours, the United States has emerged stronger
and more resilient.

Between May and July 1862, even as Confederate victories in Virginia
raised doubts about the future of the Union, Congress and President
Abraham Lincoln kept their eyes on the horizon, enacting three
landmark laws that shaped the nation's next chapter: The Homestead Act
allowed Western settlers to claim 160 acres of public land apiece; the
Morrill Act provided land grants for states to fund universities; and
the Pacific Railway Act underwrote the transcontinental railroad.

Nearly 75 years later, in the depths of the Great Depression, with
jobs in short supply and many Americans reduced to waiting in bread
lines, President Franklin Roosevelt proved similarly farsighted. He
concluded the best way to revive and sustain prosperity was not merely
to pump money into the economy but to rewrite the rules of the
marketplace. "Liberty," Roosevelt said at the Democratic Party's
convention in 1936, "requires opportunity to make a living - a living
decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives man
not only enough to live by, but something to live for." His
administration, working with Congress, enshrined the right of workers
to bargain collectively, imposed strict rules and regulators on the
financial industry, and created Social Security to provide pensions
for the elderly and disabled.

The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare once again the incomplete
nature of the American project - the great distance between the
realities of life and death in the United States and the values
enunciated in its founding documents.

Over the past half century, the fabric of American democracy has been
stretched thin. The nation has countenanced debilitating decay in its
public institutions and a concentration of economic power not seen
since the 1920s. While many Americans live without financial security
or opportunity, a relative handful of families holds much of the
nation’s wealth. Over the past decade, the wealth of the top 1
percent of households has surpassed the combined wealth of the bottom
80 percent.

The present crisis has revealed the United States as a nation in which
professional basketball players could be rapidly tested
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the coronavirus but health care workers were turned away; in which the
affluent could retreat to the safety of second homes, relying on
workers who can’t take paid sick leave to deliver food; in which
children in lower-income households struggle to connect to
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their school lessons are now supposed to be delivered.

It is a nation in which local officials issuing stay-at-home orders
must reckon with the cruel irony that hundreds of thousands of
Americans do not have homes. Lacking private places, they must sleep
in public spaces. Las Vegas
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rectangles on an asphalt parking lot to remind homeless residents to
sleep six feet apart — an act that might as well have been a grim
piece of performance art titled “The Least We Can Do.”

It is a nation in which enduring racial inequalities, in wealth and in
health, are reflected in the pandemic’s death toll. In Michigan,
where the coronavirus hit early and hard, African-Americans make up
just 14 percent of the state’s population but 40 percent of the
dead
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Jason Hargrove, who kept driving a Detroit city bus as the virus
spread, posted a Facebook video on March 21
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about a female passenger who coughed without covering her mouth. He
said he had to keep working, to care for his family. In the video, he
told his wife he’d take off his clothes in the front hall when he
got home and get right in the shower, so that she stayed safe. Less
than two weeks later
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