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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – AUGUST 27, 2024  
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_ Demanding Palestinian recognition at the convention _

, Tom Tomorrow

 

* Racial Justice Defunded
* Suburban Women Support Abortion Rights
* AIPAC Won’t Just Go Away
* Insurers and Wall Street
* Disabled Oppose Mask Ban
* Whitewashing the Military-Industrial Complex
* Fallacies of Racism in the Classrooms
* Protesting for Palestine at the DNC
* MAGA Meltdown Over Gus Walz
* Dirty Olympics

RACIAL JUSTICE DEFUNDED
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By Erin Aubry Kaplan
LA Progressive

In 2024, Black nonprofits say funders and foundations are in retreat.
They are either reducing racial equity granting or watering down the
language of Blackness and anti-racism or both. The fate of racial
equity funding is at a serious crossroads. Without money and, more
importantly, without the public interest in equity, the battle for
racial justice would be severely marginalized and set back. 

SUBURBAN WOMEN SUPPORT ABORTION RIGHTS
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By Nicole Karlis
Salon

About abortion rights, J.D. Vance said: “I think most suburban
women care about the normal things that most Americans care
about.” According to a poll, 53 percent of Republican women voters
someway or strongly oppose leaving abortion rights up to the states.
Seventy-four percent of urban and suburban women said they opposed
leaving abortion rights to the states. 

AIPAC WON’T JUST GO AWAY
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By Akela Lacy
The Intercept

As the Democratic National Convention entered its final day in
Chicago, the topic of the war on Gaza and the role of the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee in elections had been largely absent
from the main stage. Progressives held protests to hold convention
delegates’ feet to the fire. And victims of AIPAC’s political
campaigns were on hand to add their voices to the demonstrations.

INSURERS AND WALL STREET
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By Josh Freeman
Medicine and Social Justice

There is already evidence that the pressure from investors to go back
to making not just great but obscene profit margins is affecting
CIGNA, CVS/Aetna, and other insurers, who are denying _more_ claims,
making it even harder to get the care that you need. 

DISABLED OPPOSE MASK BAN
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By Julia Métraux
Mother Jones

Nassau County, on New York’s Long Island, became the first
county in the US to ban the public wearing of masks. Disability
Rights NY argues in a lawsuit that the ban as written is
unconstitutional, and violates both the Americans with Disabilities
Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, both key items of
federal civil rights legislation, by denying disabled people access to
their own communities.

WHITEWASHING THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
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By William Hartung
Responsible Statecraft

A new piece in The National Interest by Arthur Herman of the arms
contractor-funded Hudson Institute, entitled “Three Cheers for the
Military-Industrial Complex.” The article repeats many of the stock
arguments of current advocates of higher Pentagon spending while
throwing around misleading statistics and dubious assumptions along
the way.

FALLACIES OF RACISM IN THE CLASSROOM
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By Jennifer Patrice Sims
Truthout

Inaccurate ideas like “Immigrants don’t pay taxes,” when
sales _taxes_ are a thing in most states, are frustrating; but
racist/sexist ideas like “Black women should stop having
children,” especially when stated matter-of-factly to my face in the
middle of class, represent one of the hardest parts of teaching.

PROTESTING FOR PALESTINE AT THE DNC
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By Amy Goodman
Democracy Now!

After the Democratic National Committee denied their request for a
Palestinian American speaker onstage, uncommitted delegates and their
allies staged a sit-in outside the convention hall. They remained
throughout the night. These are some of the voices from that sit-in,
beginning with the co-founder of the Uncommitted movement, Abbas
Alawieh.

MAGA MELTDOWN OVER GUS WALZ
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By Christina Wyman
MSNBC

In a brief amount of time, Tim Walz has offered us a clear alternative
to the subpar, and I dare say pathetic, “masculine” identities
that have historically been available to boys and men. Walz and his
wife, Gwen, raised a joyful son. The result of their raising him that
way is a young man who knows that healthy boys aren’t afraid to cry
and they’re not afraid to show love.

DIRTY OLYMPICS
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By Mireia Garcés de Marcilla
London Review of Books

It is no surprise, and certainly not a coincidence, that non-Western
athletes have been unfairly and disproportionately targeted by
eligibility rules. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, all the
athletes who have been banned or restricted from competing
internationally as women (that we know about; it’s supposed to be
confidential) have been from the Global South.

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* Gus Walz
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* Olympics
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* Global South
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