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TIDBITS – SEPT. 5 – READER COMMENTS: 2024 ELECTIONS – PUBLIC
SCHOOLS, ACTION ON CORPORATE POWER, HIGH PRICES, INFLATION;
ISRAEL-GAZA: A WAY OUT OF THIS MESS – PLEASE TAKE IT; LEARNING ABOUT
UNIONS, PUBLIC EMPLOYEES PAY GAP; REMEMBERING PAUL MISHLER;  
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_ Reader Comments: 2024 Elections - Public Schools, Action on
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Out of This Mess - Please Take It; Labor Day, Learning About Unions,
Public Employees Pay Gap; Remembering Paul Mishler; _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Sept 5, 2024, xxxxxx

 

* RE: THE HARRIS-WALZ VISION FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS  (WENDY ANES
HIRSCHEGGER)
* WHY ARE THINGS EXPENSIVE  --  MEME
* RE: POLLING SHOWS VOTERS WANT TO SEE ACTION ON CORPORATE POWER
 (JOE GRAY)
* RE: ARE DEMOCRATS ACTUALLY LISTENING TO JESSE JACKSON?  (MARSHALL
MAYER)
* MEET THE CANDIDATES  --  CARTOON BY MIKE STANFILL
* RE: ISRAEL WILL COLLAPSE WITHIN A YEAR IF THE WAR OF ATTRITION
AGAINST HAMAS AND HEZBOLLAH CONTINUES  (MARY-ALICE STROM)
* RE: THERE IS A WAY OUT OF THIS MESS, JOE AND KAMALA. PLEASE TAKE
IT.  (BILL ROGERS)
* DEADLY MOSQUITO --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS
* RE: COVID-19, FLU AND RSV SHOTS - AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST EXPLAINS WHY
ALL THREE MATTER THIS FALL  (DANIEL MILLSTONE)
* GESTAPO TACTICS  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON
* RE: LAUGHTER  (JOHN JONIK)
* RE: AMERICA’S WAR ON THEATER  (PHIL OLENICK)
* THIS LABOR DAY, THANK THE FARMWORKERS FOR THE FOOD WE EAT  --
 CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ
* LEARNING ABOUT UNIONS  --  MEME

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RESOURCES:

* UNIONS HELPED NARROW GROWING PAY GAP FOR STATE AND LOCAL
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES  (ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE)

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

* 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NEW INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER  --
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* REMEMBERING PAUL MISHLER: ACTIVIST, HISTORIAN, MENTOR, COMRADE

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RE: THE HARRIS-WALZ VISION FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
 

Their agenda breaks with decades of Democratic thinking about
education. The Harris-­Walz education agenda is often inseparable
from the campaign’s economic priorities. Both are part of what the
candidates describe as a pro-family platform.

The contrast with the goals of a second Trump administration
couldn’t be starker. Eliminating the Department of Education—a GOP
talking point for decades and a regular Trump promise on the campaign
trail—would result in deep cuts to federal funding for
under-resourced schools. Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s
detailed policy blueprint for a conservative transformation of
government, calls for a host of policy changes that would make
education more expensive for families, including eliminating Head
Start, shrinking the federal school meals program, and the eventual
dismantling of public education.

The emerging Harris-Walz education agenda, with its emphasis on
supporting families outside of school, also breaks with decades of
Democratic thinking about education. Since Bill Clinton, as inequality
deepened and wages stagnated, Democrats pointed to public schools, and
especially their teachers, as the problem, and competition and
privatization as the solution.

Wendy Anes Hirschegger
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WHY ARE THINGS EXPENSIVE  --  MEME 

 

 

RE: POLLING SHOWS VOTERS WANT TO SEE ACTION ON CORPORATE POWER
 

“The most notable finding is that when provided with a set of
options, 61 percent of the polling respondents, including two-thirds
of Democrats and 63 percent of independents, selected corporate greed
as the main cause for rising costs they’re experiencing. The
second-highest is government spending at 51 percent—an explanation
certainly favored by Republicans—and behind that is the pandemic
supply chain crunch at 46 percent.”

Joe Gray
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RE: ARE DEMOCRATS ACTUALLY LISTENING TO JESSE JACKSON?

Party leaders pay tribute to civil rights icon, but they don’t
always practice what he preached.

In Annapolis, the few legislators who most vocally embrace Jackson’s
most radical positions and tactics — on economic equality, on making
the rich and corporations pay their fair share, on Palestinian
statehood, on tenants’ rights, on workers’ rights, on
Medicare-for-all, on aggressive climate action — are often
marginalized, if not outright ostracized.

As U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), a forceful progressive despite
representing Silicon Valley, said in Chicago, “We can’t celebrate
Rev. Jackson without listening to what Rev. Jackson is calling on us
to do.”

Marshall Mayer
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MEET THE CANDIDATES  --  CARTOON BY MIKE STANFILL

 

Mike Stanfill
September 4, 2024
Raging Pencils
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RE: ISRAEL WILL COLLAPSE WITHIN A YEAR IF THE WAR OF ATTRITION AGAINST
HAMAS AND HEZBOLLAH CONTINUES
 

What Israel could have achieved earlier with a hostage/cease-fire
agreement has become impossible due to the new conditions that
Netanyahu introduced into the proposed deal. Those involved in the
negotiations in Doha claim that they have no maneuvering space to
negotiate because their hands are tied.

All of the paths chosen by Israel's political and military leadership
are leading the country down a slippery slope. One dictator controls
the fate of the country, and a flock of sheep follows him blindly.

Mary-Alice Strom
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RE: THERE IS A WAY OUT OF THIS MESS, JOE AND KAMALA. PLEASE TAKE IT.
 

"A long-overdue cut-off of U.S. arms to Israel and recognition of the
Palestinian right to self-determination would provide exactly the
shock to the system that is needed."

Indeed, but I'm not holding my breath.

Bill Rogers
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DEADLY MOSQUITO --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

The rising cases of mosquito-borne diseases in the U.S. like West Nile
virus and Eastern equine encephalitis are frightening. Yet another
reason to take climate change seriously.

Rob Rogers
September 3, 2024
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RE: COVID-19, FLU AND RSV SHOTS - AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST EXPLAINS WHY ALL
THREE MATTER THIS FALL
 

I plan to get my Flu and Covid vaccine shots next week. I was a test
subject for the RSV study and, because I got the study  vaccine, I
won’t get an RSV inoculation this year. Thanks to this xxxxxx
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Daniel Millstone
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GESTAPO TACTICS  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON

 

A Latino voting rights group called Monday for a federal investigation
after its volunteers said Texas authorities raided their homes and
seized phones and computers as part of an investigation by the
state’s Republican attorney general into allegations of voter fraud.

Nick Anderson
August 30, 2024
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RE: LAUGHTER

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Hmmm...a lot of laughter these days is out of total cruelty...sexism,
racism, etc etc.  Just watch, and notice laughing at the "jokes" at a
Trump rally or the like.   Oy

John Jonik

 

RE: AMERICA’S WAR ON THEATER

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No mention of _The Cradle Will Rock_? Not only was it the most famous
of the shows they closed down, the recent film (with the same name)
expanded its focus to show the hearing described in the article and
the era it was set in, underlining that its was talking about the real
world.

Phil Olenick

 

THIS LABOR DAY, THANK THE FARMWORKERS FOR THE FOOD WE EAT  --
 CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ

 

Lalo Alcaraz
September 2, 2024
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LEARNING ABOUT UNIONS  --  MEME

 

 

UNIONS HELPED NARROW GROWING PAY GAP FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
EMPLOYEES  (ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE)
 

Unions made the difference: How collective bargaining helps narrow a
widening pay gap between public- and private-sector workers 

THE PUBLIC-SECTOR PAY GAP IS WIDENING. UNIONS HELP SHRINK IT.
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Who are public-sector employees?  They are state and local government
workers, who are likely to earn less than their private-sector
counterparts.

That pay gap has widened in recent years. That pay gap is narrower in
states where public employees have stronger collective bargaining
rights.

SUMMARY: Public-sector employees earn less than their private-sector
counterparts, and that pay gap has widened in recent years. The pay
gap is narrower in states where public employees have stronger
collective bargaining rights.

Key findings

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Nationally, the public-sector pay gap has widened in the last four
years.

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State and local government employees earned, on average, 17.6% less
than similarly educated private-sector employees, compared with a
pre-pandemic pay gap of 13.9%.

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Even when factoring in more robust public-sector benefits packages,
total compensation is approximately 14.5% lower for public-sector
workers than for private-sector workers.

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Collective bargaining rights for public employees vary widely across
states, and this has an effect on pay gaps between public- and
private-sector workers. When compared with private-sector workers,
public-sector workers with strong bargaining rights (-14.9%) have a
narrower pay gap than those with weak (-20.1%) or no bargaining rights
(-22.9%).

Why this matters

State and local governments are facing acute and growing staffing
shortages as public-sector pay lags farther behind the pay of
private-sector workers. Moreover, the public-sector pay gap
disproportionately affects women and Black workers, who are more
likely to be employed in public-sector jobs and who are disadvantaged
in the broader labor market. Strengthening collective bargaining
rights for government workers would narrow the pay gap and reduce
racial and gender inequality.

How to fix it

At the national level, Congress should pass the Public Service Freedom
to Negotiate Act to ensure that state and local government workers
across the country have the right to bargain collectively over pay and
working conditions. This is particularly important since public
employees have been excluded from federal labor law, leaving little
consistency in their rights across states.  At the state level,
policymakers should ensure that all state and local government workers
have collective bargaining rights at least equivalent to those
guaranteed to private-sector workers under federal law.

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50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NEW INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER  --
 SEPTEMBER 12  --  NEW YORK CITY  (PROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL)
 

 

On September 12, the Progressive International is returning to New
York City for a special evening of debate and discussion with some of
the world’s leading thinkers — ISABELLA WEBER, ADAM TOOZE, BRANKO
MILANOVIC, JAYATI GHOSH, OLÚFẸ́MI O. TÁÍWÒ and more — and we
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The event marks the 50th anniversary of the New International Economic
Order, when the nations of the Global South came together to propose a
vision for full decolonization — and won the 1974 UN Declaration for
its establishment at the General Assembly.

Today, we are again in a moment of rapid geopolitical transformation
— but we lack a common vision for the world’s most pressing
challenges. How will we confront the crises of climate change, viral
pandemic, and extreme poverty that threaten billions across the
planet?

Over the past two years — from Brussels to Havana and beyond — the
Progressive International has convened scholars, diplomats, and
policymakers in a series of conferences and congresses to develop the
answers to those questions in a new NIEO Program of Action.

NOW, WE ARE PLANNING THE LAUNCH OF THAT PROGRAM OF ACTION IN A SPECIAL
CEREMONY AT THE NEW YORK SOCIETY OF ETHICAL CULTURE — AND WE WOULD
BE HONORED TO WELCOME YOU THERE ALONGSIDE THE INCREDIBLE CAST OF
WORLD-LEADING POLITICAL ECONOMISTS.
 

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, so we encourage you to
invite friends, colleagues, and comrades along for a vibrant evening
of debate and discussion. Together, we will be there to welcome you
all and mark this historic occasion at the start of this year’s UN
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REMEMBERING PAUL MISHLER: ACTIVIST, HISTORIAN, MENTOR, COMRADE
 

Paul's research focused on left-wing social movements and the ways
radicals attempt to transmit their values to future generations

Paul Chaim Mishler died on August 25, 2024, at the age of 71, after a
long battle with cancer, complicated by other health issues. His
beloved wife, Gerrie Casey, and their beloved son, Max Mishler, were
at his side. Paul was a brilliant activist, historian, professor, and
mentor, a loving husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, cousin,
and a friend and comrade to many.

Paul earned his Ph.D. in History from Boston University (1988) and his
BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1975). He was an
Associate Professor Emeritus of Labor Studies at Indiana University at
South Bend.

Paul leaves behind his wife Gerrie Casey, with whom he shared a life
since they were in high school, son Max Mishler, daughter-in-law
Shauna Sweeney, and grandson Maceo (the apple of his eye), brother
Mark Mishler and sister-in-law Renee Hariton, sisters-in-law Freddie
Gillespie (Richard) and Doreen Casey (Glen), nephews Raphael Mishler
and Nikolai Mishler, step-mother Vicky Steinitz, step-sisters Rebecca
Steinitz (Sam), Sarah Steinitz (Charlie), and their children Mara,
Eli, Eva, and Liana.

Paul was a dedicated organizer for social justice his entire life. He
was deeply involved in the labor and anti-racist movements, as well as
peace movements and in solidarity with people struggling for justice
around the world. Paul brought strategic thinking, humor, commitment,
and a deep belief in the power and value of people working together to
achieve justice. Paul’s parents, Elliot and Anita Mishler, were
radicals and intellectuals who taught Paul and Mark that the world is
out there to be changed and that there is a lot of work to be done.

Paul’s research focused on left-wing social movements and the ways
radicals attempt to transmit their values to their children. His first
book, Raising Reds – The Young Pioneers, Radical Summer Camps, and
Communist Political Culture in the United States
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University Press, 1999), explored the children-based activities of the
Communist Party from the 1930s – ’50s. His most recent work, an
edited volume, is Philip Foner, Marxist Historian
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(International Publishers, 2024.)

Paul believed a better world is possible, one based on human needs
rather than greed. This was grounded in his life-long belief in
socialism. He recognized the path to a more just world was neither
easy nor clear. In the final paragraph of Raising Reds, in 1999, Paul
noted that while the vision of a just world may have proven, so far,
to “have been more of a dream than a practical possibility”,
“visions, unlike strategies, cannot fail. They can only be
forgotten”. The goal of his work was “to remember the dream so
that it may enrich our current political reality–dismal as it may
seem now.”.

Paul was an extraordinary teacher and mentor to many students and
younger scholars, always making clear his respect for their
experiences and knowledge. Many former students and mentees have
shared the transformational impact Paul had on their studies, careers,
and work.

Paul loved folk music and had remarkable expertise in the history of
political music from around the world. He approached the world with
humor. He was upbeat through many years of medical difficulties. Until
the end, Paul was much more interested in speaking with friends and
relatives about their work and activism, in particular the ongoing
Palestinian solidarity movement, than talking about his own serious
health issues.

The family profoundly thanks Paul’s amazing South Bend friends,
Rebecca Torstrick, Jeff Sutter, April Lidensky, Carol Stuart, Jorden
Giger, Spencer French, Kay Westhues, Marsha Heck, Lisa Cunningham, and
Lee Gloster, all of whom provided extraordinary love, care, and
assistance to Paul and Gerrie during Paul’s last months. East-coast
family members repeatedly mobilized for Paul, including Paul’s
cousin Kathy Lessuck, Mark, Renee, Raphael, and Nikolai. The family
deeply appreciates assistance provided by the Center for Hospice Care,
and Henrietta Cobbin.

If you choose to make a donation in Paul’s memory, please consider
contributing to Jewish Voice for Peace, an organization close to
Paul’s heart. Paul was an active member for many years, helping JVP
build a community of activists determined to ending U.S. complicity in
Israel’s genocidal treatment of the Palestinian people.
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honor of Paul C. Mishler so they can notify Paul’s family of your
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