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TIDBITS – SEPT. 12 – READER COMMENTS: 2024 ELECTIONS – THE
DEBATE, YOUNG VOTERS; NOT ONE CHILD; ISRAELI PROTESTERS, NETANYAHU
SABOTAGES HOSTAGE DEAL; REMEMBERING MICHAEL LERNER; GOVT KNEW ETHEL
ROSENBERG NOT SPY BEFORE TRIAL; MORE…
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_ Reader Comments: 2024 Elections - The Debate, Young Voters; Not One
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Remembering Michael Lerner; Govt Knew Ethel Rosenberg Not Spy Before
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Sept 12, 2024, xxxxxx
* "POP GOES THE WEASEL" -- CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON
* THERE IS NOT ONE CHILD -- MEME
* RE: YOUNG MALE VOTERS ARE FLOCKING TO TRUMP – BUT HE DOESN’T
HAVE THEIR INTERESTS AT HEART (ELINORE KRELL)
* POLICY PROPOSALS -- CARTOON BY DR. JAMES MACLEOD
* RE: TO SACRIFICE OR FREE THE HOSTAGES? ISRAELI PROTESTERS HAVE
CHOSEN A SIDE (JAY SCHAFFNER; BILL ROGERS)
* THUMBS UP...INSPIRED BY TRUMP -- CARTOON BY CLAY JONES
* RE: RATTLED BY GLOBAL REBUKE, NETANYAHU SCRAMBLES TO FEND OFF
CHARGES OF SABOTAGING HOSTAGE DEAL (FELICE SAGE)
* RE: THE BITTER FIGHT OVER THE MEANING OF ‘GENOCIDE’ (SONIA
COBBINS)
* RE: THE INTERNATIONAL LEFT ISSUES A ‘PLEA FOR PEACE’ (DANIEL
JORDAN)
* RE: ARE YOU READY FOR SOME (PRIVATE EQUITY) FOOTBALL! (SOCIALIST
PLANNING BEYOND CAPITALISM)
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* REMEMBERING MICHAEL LERNER, 1943-2024, JEWISH VOICE OF CONSCIENCE
(JUDITH MAHONEY PASTERNAK / THE INDYPENDENT)
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RESOURCES:
* NEWLY DECLASSIFIED NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY MEMO REVEALS THAT U.S.
GOVERNMENT KNEW ETHEL ROSENBERG WAS NOT A SPY LONG BEFORE HER TRIAL
AND EXECUTION (ROSENBERG FUND FOR CHILDREN)
* REMEMBERING THE FIGHT FOR SCHOOL INTEGRATION - THE BUSING
BATTLEGROUND | FULL DOCUMENTARY (AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - PBS)
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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* WEBINAR - THE WOMEN: OUR IMPACT ON THE VIETNAM ANTIWAR MOVEMENT
-- SEPTEMBER 19 (VIETNAM PEACE COMMEMORATION COMMITTEE)
* GLOBAL WEEK OF ACTION FOR PEACE AND CLIMATE JUSTICE --
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"POP GOES THE WEASEL" -- CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON
“I drew this cartoon before the debate because, if there was one
thing I could bank on, it would be that Trump would tell a torrent of
lies, and he didn't disappoint.”
Nick Anderson
September 11, 2024
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THERE IS NOT ONE CHILD -- MEME
RE: YOUNG MALE VOTERS ARE FLOCKING TO TRUMP – BUT HE DOESN’T HAVE
THEIR INTERESTS AT HEART
Unfortunately the machismo attitude you cite reflects these young
men's attitudes toward women. It's indicative of how far we have yet
to go for men in general to recognize women as full human beings
without feeling threatened by this fact. Giving up the illusion of
male supremacy is difficult, similar to white people giving up the
illusion of white supremacy.
Elinore Krell
POLICY PROPOSALS -- CARTOON BY DR. JAMES MACLEOD
Dr. James MacLeod
September 7, 2024
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RE: TO SACRIFICE OR FREE THE HOSTAGES? ISRAELI PROTESTERS HAVE CHOSEN
A SIDE
The huge Israeli protests have been about bringing down the Netanyahu
government. They also had a deeper, more subversive message. Without
any of the speakers explicitly saying as much, Sunday’s
demonstrations were for an end to the war.
Jay Schaffner
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All very well, but is there any talk there of repatriating the 10,000+
Palestinian hostages?
Bill Rogers
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THUMBS UP...INSPIRED BY TRUMP -- CARTOON BY CLAY JONES
Clay Jones
September 6, 2024
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RE: RATTLED BY GLOBAL REBUKE, NETANYAHU SCRAMBLES TO FEND OFF CHARGES
OF SABOTAGING HOSTAGE DEAL
All this is true but it's taking the easy way out to place all the
blame on Netanyahu as if Israeli policy toward Palestinians is newly
brutal. The entire illegal settler movement has been brutally
appropriating Palestinian land in the West Bank, creating facts on the
ground to make any future Palestinian state impossible for decades
including via terrorism against the rightful residents, arson,
beatings, murders. All of this has been carried out with the tacit or
active encouragement of democratically elected governments for
decades. Don't mistake present demonstrations against Netanyahu for
opposition to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians for the purpose of
attaining sole ownership by Israel of all the "disputed" territory,
which is not in fact disputed but recognized as belonging to the
Palestinians by international law. There would be small demonstrations
against this "war" if there were no hostages but the massive protests
would not be taking place.
Felice Sage
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RE: THE BITTER FIGHT OVER THE MEANING OF ‘GENOCIDE’
Once some people sat down and wrote a definition of genocide. Now
families wander through ruins, being bombed and deliberately starved,
having limbs amputated without anesthesia because of a military force
whose philosophy is shot through with desire to have the target group
annihilated. Diplomats and scholars sit in rooms, sipping coffee
perhaps, and pick apart words deciding whether the situation fits the
definition crafted 80 years ago.
Sonia Cobbins
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RE: THE INTERNATIONAL LEFT ISSUES A ‘PLEA FOR PEACE’
Consider a hypothetical. Putin has claimed he has rights to Alaska,
Hawaii, and California, apparently because Russians were in these
spaces in times past - or something. He invaded Alaska a decade ago
and occupies it. He now makes a frontal attack on California, destroys
cities and tens of thousands of lives and continues to occupy the rest
of the State. He has made it clear, that Russia's mission is to
destroy Western decadence," to paraphrase his advisor Aleksandr Dugin,
and therefore has the right, the "moral obligation" to invade and
occupy all of North America "from Alaska to the Falkland Islands."
Under such circumstances, what exactly should the US, Canada, Mexico,
Chile, Brazil, et al. do? Should we begin by letting him continue to
hold Alaska (read: Crimea)? Should we now let him hold those regions
of California that he has occupied for the past two years? Should we
"negotiate peace" and let him regroup, rebuild his armies, use
California's great Central Valley to feed his armies as they prepare
to invade Nevada, Arizona, Utah? Because in fact that is exactly what
he would do.
There is only one acceptable outcome. Russia returns to - is forced to
return to - Ukraine's territorial boundaries including leaving Crimea,
is forced to pay reparations, and its leaders are tried at the Hague
for war crimes. To "negotiate peace" is to accept that Putin has
started WW III, that Ukraine is just his first incursion, and that he
will proceed to try to occupy all of Europe. The US and NATO have
willfully failed from the start to admit that Putin has larger goals.
The US and NATO (and the EU) have failed to provide supports to a
friendly neighbor that would help them beat back this invasion. Biden
and his administration have waffled, dithered, held Ukraine hostage to
fighting only on its own territory, force Ukraine to literally aid and
abet Russia's destruction of its own cities. We have failed to help a
neighbor, we have allowed them to be harmed, and now we are to tell
them that they just have to settle for the harm we helped create. An
analogy would be to tell a battered woman she just has to continue to
take her beatings.
With disgust
Daniel Jordan, PhD
RE: ARE YOU READY FOR SOME (PRIVATE EQUITY) FOOTBALL!
Desperate finance capital infest professional football
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REMEMBERING MICHAEL LERNER, 1943-2024, JEWISH VOICE OF CONSCIENCE
The influential rabbi and publisher of Tikkun magazine urged Jews to
reconnect with their spiritual traditions while he resoundingly
supported Palestinian self-determination.
Judith Mahoney Pasternak
September 7, 2024
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Rabbi Michael Lerner (Tikkun Magazine)
Michael Lerner, the influential author, editor, anti-sectarian rabbi,
co-founder of _Tikkun_ magazine, and for decades an indefatigable
curator of any and all perspectives that could help heal a broken
world, died August 28 in Berkeley, CA. He was 81.
For half his life he had believed that contemporary Jewish life had
lost its connection to the sacred, and that that connection could be
restored. The mid-80s was “a time when the liberal voices were being
increasingly marginalized in the Jewish world,” Lerner told
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The Jewish News of Northern California_ earlier this year. “And
there was no intellectually serious magazine at the time that could
provide such a voice.”
_Tikkun _was one effort to bring about such a restoration. Lerner
also wrote close to a dozen books on the connections between the
personal and the political as they related to Jewish life,
including _Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation_
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Politics Of Meaning: Restoring Hope And Possibility In An Age Of
Cynicism_, (1994), 1994; _Jews and Blacks: A Dialogue on Race,
Religion, and Culture in America_ (1996); _Spirit
Matters_ (2000); _The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from
the Religious Right_ (2006); and _Revolutionary Love: A Political
Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World_ (2019).
Michael Lerner was born and raised in an observant conservative Jewish
family in Weehawken, NJ. His own account of his education includes
an undergraduate degree from Columbia University, after which he
headed west and was pursuing a doctorate in philosophy when the
vibrant University of California student movement drew his attention
to the interactions between social conditions and the state of the
soul. He threw himself into political action, chairing the local
chapter of Students for a Democratic Society in 1967 and ’68. In
1970, while teaching philosophy at the University of Washington in
Seattle, he was one of the organizers of a major protest against the
war in Vietnam, for which he spent some time at a federal penitentiary
on contempt of court charges.
Lerner, who was radicalized by the New Left in the late 1960s,
sought to unite political and spiritual concerns with a new
“politics of meaning.”
He returned to Berkeley, where he would remain for the rest of his
life, and where he continued to examine the impact of social
conditions in general on Jews in particular. It was while he was in
that spirit of inquiry that he first encountered Nan Gefen, neé Fink,
in a meeting that changed both their lives. A native Californian, Fink
was also a psychotherapist at the time, although over the years she
would redirect her focus to the spiritual. She converted to Judaism in
1985, and together she and Lerner articulated the hope for social,
spiritual, and political transformation that in 1986 became _Tikkun_.
They married in 1987. Eventually, Fink left both Lerner
and _Tikkun, _but to the extent that the magazine was their child,
Lerner kept custody of it_._
Lerner remarried, more than once. _Tikkun_ survived and indeed
flourished. In 1993, _The New York Times_ referred to Lerner
as _“_this year’s prophet,_”_ describing the magazine
as _“_a progressive political journal with a distinctly Jewish
outlook._”_ And in 1995, First Lady Hilary Clinton spoke
approvingly about Lerner’s “politics of meaning” in a speech
about health care. In that same year, Lerner was ordained as a rabbi.
And Lerner—and _Tikkun_—resoundingly supported Palestinian
self-determination.
But this past April, Lerner, who had co-existed with cancer for most
of a decade, announced that he could no longer run the magazine and
was closing it down. At his death, he was survived by his estranged
wife, Cat Zavis, and his son, Akiba Jeremiah Lerner.
When Lerner died, the _Forward_, the _New York Times_ of the U.S.
Jewish world, wrote at length about how Lerner had “merged
spirituality and social justice.” The actual _New York Times_ has
yet to publish an obituary.
_[Now based in Paris, JUDITH MAHONEY PASTERNAK is a long-time U.S.
writer and journalist in the progressive media and an activist for
feminism, peace, and Palestinian self-determination. Over the years,
Tikkun published a half-dozen of her articles, including her
anti-Zionist credo,“Nine Stops on a Long Road.”
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NEWLY DECLASSIFIED NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY MEMO REVEALS THAT U.S.
GOVERNMENT KNEW ETHEL ROSENBERG WAS NOT A SPY LONG BEFORE HER TRIAL
AND EXECUTION
BREAKING NEWS:
The National Security Agency (NSA) released a formerly classified
document confirming that THE U.S. GOVERNMENT KNEW THAT ETHEL
ROSENBERG WAS NOT A SPY LONG BEFORE HER TRIAL AND EXECUTION. In
response, her sons, Michael and Robert Meeropol, and the Rosenberg
Fund for Children call on President Biden to issue a
proclamation stating that Ethel was wrongfully convicted and
executed.
Ethel and her husband, Julius Rosenberg, were executed 71 years ago
during the anti-communist hysteria of the Cold War Era. They had been
convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage, in what was called “the
crime of the century.” Their sons were only six and 10 years old
when their parents were killed.
WE HAVE SAID FOR YEARS THAT ETHEL WAS NOT A SPY, AND HER EXECUTION WAS
WRONGFUL.
The release of this August 22, 1950 memo serves as the capstone for an
overwhelming body of evidence that the U.S. government knew that Ethel
Rosenberg never spied for the Soviet Union.
Jennifer Meeropol, RFC Executive Director and granddaughter of the
Rosenbergs, says, "President Biden has the power to right this
historic injustice, redress the harm done to my family, and bring
peace to my father and uncle in their lifetimes. The Rosenberg Fund
for Children was established by my father, Robert, almost 35 years ago
in memory of his parents and as a testament to the community
of progressive people who stood with him and his brother when their
family was targeted. The RFC joins my father and uncle in calling on
President Biden to act swiftly to address
this grievous injustice.”
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Fifty years ago this week, on September 12, 1974, police were
stationed outside schools across Boston as Black and white students
were bused for the first time between neighborhoods to comply with a
federal court desegregation order. The cross-town busing was met with
shocking violence, much of it directed at children: angry white
protestors threw rocks at school buses carrying Black children and
hurled racial epithets at the students as they walked into their new
schools. The chaos and racial unrest would escalate and continue for
years.
The Busing Battleground, which pulls back the curtain on the volatile
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PROJECT 2025, CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM AND AMERICAN JEWS: WHAT'S AT
STAKE? -- SEPTEMBER 19 (JEWS FOR A SECULAR DEMOCRACY)
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author and columnist Rabbi Dr. Jay Michaelson exploring the
implications of Project 2025, a policy agenda coordinated by the
Heritage Foundation that aims to reshape American governance under the
banner of Christian Nationalism. This initiative poses profound
challenges to the separation of church and state and could have
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American dream of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness meant to
privilege one kind of American over all others, by race, gender, and
religion?
RABBI DR. JAY MICHAELSON is a columnist for the _Forward_, a
contributor to CNN, and a weekly commentator on religion and politics
in his newsletter, Both/And. He has twice won the New York Society for
Professional Journalists award for opinion writing, wrote the first
long-form analysis of Christian Nationalists' redefinition of
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WEBINAR - THE WOMEN: OUR IMPACT ON THE VIETNAM ANTIWAR MOVEMENT --
SEPTEMBER 19 (VIETNAM PEACE COMMEMORATION COMMITTEE)
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The ultimate success of the movement to stop the war in Vietnam was
due to the mobilization of multiple segments of society, such as
students, academics,businesspeople, lawyers, religious activists,
unions, veterans, and humanitarians. Not least of these were
traditional women's peace organizations such as the Womens
International League for Peace and Freedom and Women Strike for Peace
that redirected their efforts toward stopping the war. Vietnam
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Canada. This webinar features the experiences of women peace
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21 - 28 (GLOBAL CAMPAIGN TO DEMAND CLIMATE JUSTICE)
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Divest from War – Invest in Climate Justice
The first annual Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice will
address the links between war, militarism and climate injustice,
promoting grassroots action and policy making for peace and climate
justice. This year’s theme is divest from war – invest in climate
justice!
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around the world, from webinars to advocacy events to demonstrations.
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* Raise public awareness of the links between war, militarism and
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War and militarism have helped to cause climate breakdown. War
destroys lands and ecosystems, polluting water, soil and air, while
leaving behind toxic remnants and unexploded weapons that cause harm
generations after a conflict ends. The world’s militaries account
for 5.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions; emissions which are still
excluded from global climate agreements. Military industries depend on
vast amounts of metals, minerals and fossil fuels; and military
spending diverts resources from climate action. But some people argue
militarism is part of the solution: that we need harder borders, more
arms and bigger armies to cope with climate breakdown. They claim that
war can be made green – but this is not the solution.
We do have alternatives that can both protect ourselves and the
planet. It is vital that movements for peace and climate justice
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world that values the safety and wellbeing of everyone; foregrounding
people and planet over power and profit. No climate justice without
demilitarisation!
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The world’s wealthiest countries have consistently failed to meet
targets to provide $100 billion in climate finance to help countries
suffering the worst impacts of climate breakdown. Meanwhile, there
always seems to be money for war: in 2023 global military spending
rose for the ninth year in a row, reaching a record high of $2.44
trillion (an increase of 6.8 per cent in real terms from 2022). 2023
also saw the hottest day – highest global temperatures – ever
recorded.
We need to invest in building a safer and fairer world in the
long-term, rather than in fueling war and militarism, which are
helping to drive climate and environmental harm. It is time to move
the money from militarisation to just forms of climate action. It is
time to break the ties with military and fossil power, for the
world’s wealthiest to reckon with colonialism and make progress on
reparations for loss and damage. Groups are welcome to focus on the
linkages between peace and climate justice that are most important to
them in their actions, but we invite people to unite behind a common
demand to divest from war – invest in climate justice!
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