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TIDBITS – SEPT 26 – READER COMMENTS: TRUTH ABOUT SPRINGFIELD AND
HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS; DIVIDED LABOR RANKS AND ELECTIONS; CHOICES AND
PROFILES IN POLITICAL COWARDICE; ISRAELI STRIKES ON LEBANON ARE A
FURTHER ESCALATION — U.S. MUST END MILITARY AID NOW  
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September 26, 2024
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_ Reader Comments: Truth About Springfield and Haitian Immigrants; On
Divided Labor Union ranks and Elections; Choices and Profiles in
Political Cowardice; Israeli Strikes on Lebanon Are a Further
Escalation — U.S. Must End Military Aid Now; more.... _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources and Announcements - Sept 26,
2024, xxxxxx

 

* RE: IN A SPRINGFIELD HAITIAN RESTAURANT, LOVE—AND GOAT—CONQUER
HATE  (FRANCISCO GONZALEZ)
* RE: HAITIAN GROUP IN OHIO FILES CRIMINAL COMPLAINT AGAINST TRUMP,
VANCE  (JEFF JAMES)
* RE: I’M THE REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR OF OHIO. HERE IS THE TRUTH ABOUT
SPRINGFIELD.  (LINDA KURTZ; DIANNA SWARINGEN VANDERMEYDEN)
* RE: 1199SEIU CAREGIVERS CONFRONT TRUMP/VANCE’S INSANE ATTACKS ON
HAITIAN WORKERS  (JERRY FISHBEIN)
* TRUMP’S CONCEPT OF A HOUSING PLAN FOR LATINO FAMILIES  --
 CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ
* RE: WHILE CAMPAIGNING FOR CATHOLIC VOTES, TRUMP ECHOES THE KLAN
 (JOHN JONIK)
* DON’T TAKE THE BAIT  --  CARTOON BY JEN SORENSEN
* RE: HARRIS RACKS UP REGIONAL ENDORSEMENTS FROM TEAMSTERS LOCALS
AFTER NATIONAL UNION DECLINES TO ENDORSE  (JOHN CASE)
* RE: ISRAEL: ‘THE MAJORITY WANT A HOSTAGE DEAL THAT ENDS THE
WAR’  (CHARLES PATRICK LYNCH)
* PROTECTIVE STALKER  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
* RE: PROJECT 2025’S PLAN TO GUT CIVIL SERVICE WITH MASS FIRINGS:
‘IT’S LIKE THE BAD OLD DAYS OF KING HENRY VIII’  (DANIEL
MILLSTONE)
* RE: THE NEW LABOR ORGANIZING MODEL OF EWOC  (ANGAZA SABABU
LAUGHINGHOUSE)
* RE: 2024 CHOICES AND PROFILES IN POLITICAL COWARDICE  (MARK ROTH;
ASHLEY SMITH)
* RE: SUNDAY SCIENCE: PREHISTORIC EARTH WAS VERY HOT. THAT OFFERS
CLUES ABOUT FUTURE EARTH.  (MARY-ALICE STROM)
* RE: WHAT IS A BLACK FILM? THIS AND OTHER TANTALIZING QUESTIONS ARE
TACKLED IN JUSTIN SIMIEN'S NEW DOCUMENTARY, 'HOLLYWOOD BLACK'
 (LAWRENCE BLUM)
* I'LL BE YOUR PROTECTOR  --  CARTOON BY CLAY JONES

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RESOURCES:

* ISRAELI STRIKES ON LEBANON ARE A FURTHER ESCALATION — U.S. MUST
END MILITARY AID NOW   (UE OFFICERS)

 

* NEARLY 40% OF FAA AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS NEED URGENT UPDATES,
GAO REPORTS  (DAVID DIMOLFETTA / NEXTGOV/FCW)

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

* IN CONVERSATION: TA-NEHISI COATES WITH MSNBC'S AYMAN MOHYELDIN
 --   AT THE APOLLO THEATER  --  NEW YORK  --  OCTOBER 3

 

* BORIS KAGARLITSKY AND THE CHALLENGES OF THE LEFT TODAY  --
 ONLINE CONFERENCE  --  OCTOBER 8  (TRANSNATIONAL INSTITUTE)

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RE: IN A SPRINGFIELD HAITIAN RESTAURANT, LOVE—AND GOAT—CONQUER
HATE
 

While Donald Trump and J.D. Vance try to tear an Ohio town apart,
Ohioans themselves have a more heartening response. While the nasty
headlines swirl around them, Springfielders and Ohioans are making a
point of saying no to Trump and Vance’s toxic message.

Francisco Gonzalez
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: HAITIAN GROUP IN OHIO FILES CRIMINAL COMPLAINT AGAINST TRUMP,
VANCE
 

The complaint, filed by Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA) in Clark County
Municipal Court, alleges that Trump and Vance, by amplifying those
claims, had a “direct impact” in spurring the 33 bomb threats that
rocked the southwest Ohio city.

Jeff James
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: I’M THE REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR OF OHIO. HERE IS THE TRUTH ABOUT
SPRINGFIELD.
 

Why is this wonderful governor a Republican?

Linda Kurtz

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The Springfield I know is not the one you hear about in social media
rumors. It is a city made up of good, decent, welcoming people. They
are hard workers — both those who were born in this country and
those who settled here from Haiti.

Dianna Swaringen Vandermeyden
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: 1199SEIU CAREGIVERS CONFRONT TRUMP/VANCE’S INSANE ATTACKS ON
HAITIAN WORKERS

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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“The caregivers of 1199SEIU stand in solidarity with the Haitian
community in the face of vicious, racist attacks by Donald Trump and
JD Vance,” 1199SEIU President George Gresham said in a statement. He
blasted the duo for “spreading hate and blaming immigrants for the
challenges our country is facing” because they don’t have “any
real plan to improve the lives of the American people.”

Central Brooklyn is home to thousands of Haitians and other
Afro-Caribbean immigrants, many of whom work in health care. 1199 says
it has thousands of members from the Haitian diaspora, and Gresham
praises their “extraordinary” contributions to the field of health
care and the labor movement.

Jerry Fishbein
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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TRUMP’S CONCEPT OF A HOUSING PLAN FOR LATINO FAMILIES  --  CARTOON
BY LALO ALCARAZ

 

Lalo Alcaraz
September 23, 2024
www.pocho.com
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RE: WHILE CAMPAIGNING FOR CATHOLIC VOTES, TRUMP ECHOES THE KLAN
 

The item about Al Smith and immigrants, etc., failed to note, as most
others fail as well, that Trump is son of an immigrant mother (from
Ireland), and a father who was son of immigrants (from Germany).

Point being that Trump and supporters are not "anti-immigrant" but are
anti Non-White immigrants.

John Jonik

 

DON’T TAKE THE BAIT  --  CARTOON BY JEN SORENSEN

 

Vance admitted on CNN that manipulating news coverage was the whole
point of the fake stories they were telling (while of course arguing
it was “disgusting” to suggest that the ensuing bomb threats that
closed schools and hospitals had anything to do with their rhetoric).

I recommend this excellent Jamison Foser post
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how the press should cover the lies about Springfield. To quote
Foser: 

When Donald Trump lies that Haitian immigrants are stealing and eating
pets, that should be the hook for an article about Donald Trump’s
long history of lying; about the fundamental lack of honesty,
character, and integrity that this demonstrates. The result of
Trump’s lies shouldn’t be articles about immigration, it should be
articles about Donald Trump’s lifelong dishonesty and the
consequences it poses, and articles about Trump’s lengthy history of
directing hatred at racial minorities, and about his lengthy history
of intentionally inciting threats of violence as well as actual
violence.

It _is_ possible to have a good-faith discussion of immigration
policy, but this isn’t it.

_Get my weekly newsletter and support these cartoons by joining
the __Sorensen Subscription Service!_
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Jen Sorensen
September 19, 2024
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RE: HARRIS RACKS UP REGIONAL ENDORSEMENTS FROM TEAMSTERS LOCALS AFTER
NATIONAL UNION DECLINES TO ENDORSE

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Question of the week. The report below of a split in the Teamsters
union over the leadership's non-endorsement of Kamala Harris for
president sounds good from the "Left", or "progressive", perspective.

Does this make the Teamster leadership's non-endorsement stance wrong?
What is the best stance for leaders on issues where a substantial
minority, or 50/50 division exists?

What union leader wants a 60/40 strike vote, for example?

Generally speaking, a divided union is a weaker union, since
solidarity is the overwhelming source of its strength. There are
reports saying internal union polling showed a substantial split among
members between Trump and Harris.

The Teamsters did an overall magnificent job preparing for national
UPS contract negotiations last summer and in mobilizing for an overall
labor fightback against the effects of both inflation and hellish
working conditions through the pandemic and inflation. Their
bargaining successes -- without a national strike -- were the product
of careful national preparation of the locals and districts for a
united bargaining agenda. That agenda included solidly demonstrating
the members' ability and capacity to strike.

Locals and Districts are clearly going their own way.  Given the many
existential issues rapidly emerging for the US both nationally and
internationally, an internal struggle in the Teamsters can now be
expected to intensify.

Will "solidarity" be strengthened, or weakened by this struggle?

In my lifetime there have always some "left", or "super-syndicalist --
one big union" trends that views replacing more conservative labor
leaders as the chief remedy to labor setbacks. 

I plead guilty to having been in that faction at times. 
 
As a young worker in the silicon valley electronics industry, I had an
opportunity to witness a conversation between Jim Matles, a founder of
UE, and Charles Newell, a lead organizer in the giant E. Pittsburgh
Westinghouse factory -- the first of its kind organized on an
industrial basis. They were lifelong friends and comrades in the labor
movement. Jim epitomized all the qualities of the best proletarian
fighters that led the upheaval of the 1930's. He was not quite a
Wobbly -- he believed in signing contracts! But he was with them in
spirit, and "super" or "pure" unionism was the closest to the working
class consciousness and moral values he believed in that one could get
in America.  Both Jim and Charles had been part of the socialist and
communist movements, but, as Jim said more than once: "In America the
only way to talk about socialism is to talk about baseball -- and what
is a fair game.".

"...if only the [AFL-CIO] Executive Council had not crawled on its
belly...", he would say, summarizing the long line of setbacks
organized labor suffered following Taft-Harley and the split in the
labor movement over federal demands to expel "communist" unions, and
impose sanctions against boycotts and mass, political or public worker
strikes, and permit employers to threaten workers jobs in union
certification elections under the guise of "free speech".

To this, Charles would reply: "Jim -- if unions are not schools of
socialism, then really, what is the point?"

Charles left the labor movement. Jim stayed, until his dying breath in
1975.

There is a great story about Jim's "pure, rank and file, unionism" and
it origins in his heart, not just ideology, that I learned from a
UE-GE leader in Hudson Falls, NY, who had participated in national
bargaining sessions.

The corporate bargaining team from GE was well known in big biz
circles for its "first, best, last, and final" offer approach to "good
faith" bargaining with unions. The tactic was named "Boulwarism" after
its author,  Lemuel Boulware, who was the vice president of employee
relations at General Electric. The tactic had led to a 109 day strike
by all unions party to the national GE contract.

The company wanted to set a better tone for the next contract, and
greeted the coordinated bargaining committee with a sumptuous array of
pastries, cakes, and other amenities. 

Jim always favored a stance of scrupulous integrity in relations with
the company.  "Be civil. Be respectful. Indignation -- never anger.
Shake hands -- but NO BELLY-RUBBING!". In Jim's view, if you fall for
blandishments or bribes of any description, the member trust in their
leaders will be eroded in equal or even greater proportions.

Nonetheless the pastry trays and other temptations were clearly
drawing the attention of most of the committee who were not inclined
to turn down a free feast over moral turpitude.

At which point Jim launches a brief rap on the downward path and the
road to hell -- but concludes:  "However, I am your elected leader.
If we are going to hell, I am going first."

The bargaining actually went better that time, maybe. The fatal
decline of GE from its arrogant perch as the world's most profitable
corporation and Big Daddy to Ronald Reagan, was still 20 years away.

Asked to explain himself, he is reported to have replied: "Integrity
is important in all union matters. Unity is more important."

John Case

 

RE: ISRAEL: ‘THE MAJORITY WANT A HOSTAGE DEAL THAT ENDS THE WAR’
 

Israel has been rocked by an explosion of protests in recent weeks,
with trade unions staging a general strike on September 2 and an
estimated 750,000 Israelis taking to the streets on September 7 to
demand a hostage deal with Hamas.

It is not only Netanyahu’s far-right government but the entire
Israeli political establishment that is united around policies that
reject the very basic realities of the land on which we live: there
are millions of Palestinians in this country, and none of them are
going anywhere; and there are millions of Jews in this country, and
none of them are going anywhere.

The only hope for safety and security lies in an Israeli-Palestinian
peace agreement that ends the Occupation, allows Palestinian people
their right to national self-determination in an independent state,
and respects the rights of both peoples to live in freedom, justice
and independence.

Charles Patrick Lynch
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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PROTECTIVE STALKER  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

 

Mike Luckovich
September 25, 2024
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: PROJECT 2025’S PLAN TO GUT CIVIL SERVICE WITH MASS FIRINGS:
‘IT’S LIKE THE BAD OLD DAYS OF KING HENRY VIII’

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Steven Greenhouse looks at the 2025-Trump plan to gut the civil
service and replace it with Trump folk, via xxxxxx
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Daniel Millstone
posted on Facebook

 

RE: THE NEW LABOR ORGANIZING MODEL OF EWOC 

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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THIS IS NOT NEW ! 
BLACK WORKERS FOR JUSTICE & OTHER LEFT LABOR ORGANIZERS HAVE BEEN
DOING THIS FOR THE LAST 5 DECADES !  COME CHECK OUT OUR BWFJ
ARCHIVES>>>>

ANGAZA SABABU LAUGHINGHOUSE
co- founding bwfj  member

 

RE: 2024 CHOICES AND PROFILES IN POLITICAL COWARDICE
 

Thanks for that. Now I feel less guilty about not paying my current
dues to the DSA.

What destroyed the Old Left, and broke the New Left, is happening
again. There is a phrase, "the perfect is the enemy of the good", and
that's what they want. Our way, or we'll take our ball and glove and
go home and not play.

They are utterly ignoring what has happened twice in France in the
last 15 years: when it looked like the right was going to take power,
ALL OF THE LEFT ORGANIZATIONS said "this will not happen", put aside
their differences, and voted as a block.

When I first joined the DSA in '16, I think, after a lifetime of not
joining socialist groups, they were pushing socialist candidates
within the Democratic party. This tells me they've fallen into the old
trap that broke the left before, and it's utterly foolish.

Vote for Harris, or get Trump. Those are your choices - there are no
other. Not this year.

mark roth

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It seems only fair to print my reply
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you sent his article out to your readers.

"Max Elbaum’s overheated polemic on the question of strategy for
socialists in the 2024 election. Smith argues
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Elbaum’s “Block and Build” strategy is nothing new and has
proven a disastrous failure over decades. For socialists to devote our
resources to campaigning for Harris/Walz, who have promised to
continue being active partners in the ongoing genocide of
Palestinians, is certainly a violation of principle. But Smith
persuasively argues
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is certain to marginalize the Left and ensure that the Trumpite
far-right continues to grow and to be seen as the only political
alternative in the face of the persistent crises of U.S. capitalism."

Ashley Smith

 

RE: SUNDAY SCIENCE: PREHISTORIC EARTH WAS VERY HOT. THAT OFFERS CLUES
ABOUT FUTURE EARTH.
 

Dozens of labs around the world are striving to grow models of human
embryos to study development, fertility and therapies. They are
entering uncharted ethical territory.

Mary-Alice Strom
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: WHAT IS A BLACK FILM? THIS AND OTHER TANTALIZING QUESTIONS ARE
TACKLED IN JUSTIN SIMIEN'S NEW DOCUMENTARY, 'HOLLYWOOD BLACK'

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
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Seems like a must see!!

Lawrence Blum

 

I'LL BE YOUR PROTECTOR  --  CARTOON BY CLAY JONES
 

Clay Jones
September 25, 2024
Today's political cartoons - September 25, 2024
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ISRAELI STRIKES ON LEBANON ARE A FURTHER ESCALATION — U.S. MUST END
MILITARY AID NOW  (UE OFFICERS)

Statement of the UE Officers
September 24, 2024

United Electrical Workers
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Israel’s recent strikes on Lebanon, which have killed hundreds of
people including women, children, and paramedics, are exactly the type
of regional escalation of hostilities that we predicted would happen
without a ceasefire in Gaza. Right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, whose government has faced massive protests including a
general strike, is attempting to stay in power by expanding the war
and killing additional innocent people.

He is doing so with billions of dollars of weapons and military
funding from the U.S., money that could be better spent providing
jobs, education, healthcare and housing for people in the U.S. We
reiterate our call that President Biden immediately cut off all
military aid to Israel, as the only mechanism available to get Israel
to agree to an immediate ceasefire, before the conflict escalates even
further.

Carl Rosen
General President

Andrew Dinkelaker
Secretary-Treasurer

Mark Meinster
Director of Organization

 

NEARLY 40% OF FAA AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS NEED URGENT UPDATES, GAO
REPORTS
 

By David DiMolfetta

September 23, 2024
Nextgov/FCW
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Air traffic controllers at work in the control tower of Boston's
Logan Airport in 1968. A new oversight report found that US aviation
systems are plagued by legacy equipment and are in need of upgrades. 
 (Photo: Bob Dean/The Boston Globe  //  Nextgov/FCW)
Several systems, some which aid in navigation and communications, did
not have modernization efforts in place, the GAO said.

The U.S. government’s top auditing shop on Monday said that 51 of
the Federal Aviation Administration’s 138 air traffic control
systems are “unsustainable” and are in urgent need of
modernization.

The Government and Accountability Office report
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following a January 2023 FAA outage
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to a faulty ATC system, found that 37% of the systems have outdated
functionality, lack spare parts and require specialized maintenance in
order to overhaul them.

_Nextgov/FCW_ first reported
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of the report on Friday.

FAA “did not prioritize or establish near-term plans to modernize
unsustainable and critical systems based on its operational
assessment. Until FAA reports to the Congress on how it is addressing
all critical systems, Congress will not be fully informed on how FAA
is mitigating the risks of these systems,” GAO said in its analysis.

The ATC systems undergird weather, navigation, communications, traffic
optimization and other airline operations. Specific systems deemed
unsustainable were not provided for security reasons but GAO noted
that “29 unsustainable and 29 potentially unsustainable systems have
a 

critical operational impact on the safety and efficiency of the
national airspace.”

For 15 of the systems, FAA did not have any modernization investment
plans, the report said.

Legacy equipment has been a prevailing issue in modern government
networks, said Rob Joyce, the former head of the NSA’s cybersecurity
directorate. Besides stolen credentials or compromised passwords,
outdated IT often creates pathways for hackers to break into federal
networks, he noted.

The White House’s FY2025 FAA budget request
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$8 billion over five years for facility replacement and radar
modernization. It also requests $140 million for its Enterprise
Network Services
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the agency says can help with cybersecurity and resilience needs.

Many of the highlighted critical out-of-date systems are not expected
to be updated under current modernization plans until the 2030s, GAO
said.

House Transportation Committee leadership, including heads of its
aviation subcommittee, had asked GAO to review aging FAA systems, the
report indicated. Those lawmakers did not return requests for comment.
The audit was conducted from August 2023 to September 2024.

Modernizing these systems will be key for adapting to cyber threats
and preventing related issues, said Mark Weatherford, the former
undersecretary for cybersecurity at DHS. “[Legacy systems] are a
threat that, not just the government, but every private sector company
on the face of the earth should be concerned about.”

The Transportation Department, which oversees FAA, concurred with most
of GAO’s recommendations. 

“The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is committed to the
safety of the National Airspace (NAS) and recognizes the importance of
system modernization and is working diligently to maintain and upgrade
all NAS systems,” said Philip McNamara, DOT’s assistant secretary
for administration, in embedded replies to the GAO findings.

Aviation security became a top-of-mind issue in recent weeks after
Washington State’s Seattle-Tacoma International Airport was
subjected to a ransomware attack after hackers breached the Port of
Seattle’s systems and demanded some $6 million in a ransom payment.
A Sea-Tac official and others testified
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the Senate Commerce Committee last week about the incident.

The FAA itself is in the midst of a rulemaking
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to shore up the cybersecurity of aircraft and aviation equipment.
Comments on the proceeding are due in late October with a final rule
expected in 2025.

 

IN CONVERSATION: TA-NEHISI COATES WITH MSNBC'S AYMAN MOHYELDIN  --  
AT THE APOLLO THEATER  --  NEW YORK  --  OCTOBER 3 

 

OCT 1 at The Apollo: Ta-Nehisi Coates takes centerstage for a candid
and robust conversation with MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin to discuss his
ground-breaking new book of essays, The Message! 

BOOK NOW - CLICK HERE
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Join _New York Times_ bestselling author, McArthur Genius and Apollo
Master Artist-In-Residence alum, TA-NEHISI COATES in conversation on
the evening of the release of his timely new book of essays, _The
Message_.‍

ABOUT _THE MESSAGE_

‍The #1 _New York Times_ bestselling author of _Between the World
and Me _journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how
the stories we tell—and the ones we don’t—shape our realities.

“[Coates] is intellectually fearless . . . unshackled by political
or racial ideology, humane in his judgments, respectful of facts,
acutely aware of the difference between what is knowable and what is
not.”—_The New Yorker__‍_‍

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, in
the tradition of Orwell’s classic “Politics and the English
Language,”_ _but found himself grappling with deeper questions
about how our stories—our reporting and imaginative narratives and
mythmaking—expose and distort our realities.

In the first of the book’s three intertwining essays, Coates, on his
first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a
modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind. Then he
takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he
reports on his own book’s banning, but also explores the larger
backlash to the nation’s recent reckoning with history and the
deeply rooted American mythology so visible in that city—a capital
of the Confederacy with statues of segregationists looming over its
public squares. Finally, in the book’s longest section, Coates
travels to Palestine, where he sees with devastating clarity how
easily we are misled by nationalist narratives, and the tragedy that
lies in the clash between the stories we tell and the reality of life
on the ground.

Written at a dramatic moment in American and global life, this work
from one of the country’s most important writers is about the urgent
need to untangle ourselves from the destructive myths that shape our
world—and our own souls—and embrace the liberating power of even
the most difficult truths.

Each ticket includes the purchase of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ newest
release, _The Message_. 

Book Now - Click here
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BORIS KAGARLITSKY AND THE CHALLENGES OF THE LEFT TODAY  --  ONLINE
CONFERENCE  --  OCTOBER 8  (TRANSNATIONAL INSTITUTE)

 

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OCTOBER 8 2024 , 15:15 - 23:59 CET

REGISTER FOR THE EVENT
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Ever defiant in the face of repression and a five-year jail term,
Boris Kagarlitsky, Russia’s best-known socialist thinker, has just
published his latest book, THE LONG RETREAT: STRATEGIES TO REVERSE
THE DECLINE OF THE LEFT.
[[link removed]].

This special online conference in Kagarlitsky’s honour will address
the double aspect of his contribution: his wide-ranging analysis of
the left’s dilemmas in the face of multiple global crises and the
advance of the far right; and his resistance — together with other
persecuted anti-war activists in the Russian Federation — to the
authoritarianism of the regime of Vladimir Putin.

Each session will run for 90 minutes, made up of a 10-minute
introduction by the moderator, 20-minute presentations by the speakers
and 20 minutes discussion. The main time given is Eastern Daylight
Time (US and Canada), while the times in paratheses are, respectively,
Central European Time, Indian Standard Time and Australian Eastern
Standard Time.

INTRODUCTION

09:15 – 09:30 EDT | 15:15 -15:30 CET | 18:45 -19:00 IST | 23:15 -
23:30 AEST

TREVOR NGWANE (South African socialist activist and author) and FRED
FUENTES (editor, Links, International Journal of Socialist
Renewal) PRESENT THE BORIS KAGARLITSKY INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
CAMPAIGN AND THE AIMS OF THE CONFERENCE.

OPENING ADDRESS

09:30 – 10:00 EDT | 15:30 -16:00 CET | 19:00 -19:30 IST | 23:30 -
00:00 AEST

SPEAKER: Nancy Fraser

THE LONG RETREAT (PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION)

10:00 – 11:45 EDT | 16:00 -17:45 CET | 19:30 - 21:15 IST | 00:00 -
01:45 AEST

MODERATOR: David Castle (Pluto Press(external link)
[[link removed]])
SPEAKERS: Bill Fletcher and Alex Callinicos

BREAK 11:45 – 12:00 EDT | 17:45 -18:00 CET | 21:15 - 21:30 IST |
01:45 - 02:00 AEST

THE SITUATION FOR THE LEFT IN RUSSIA TODAY

12:00 – 13:30 EDT | 18:00 -19:30 CET | 21:30 - 23:00 IST | 02:00 -
03:30 AEST

MODERATOR: Grusha Gilayeva
SPEAKERS: Greg Yudin, Ilya Budraitskis and a representative of
Feminist Anti-War Resistance

PRESENTATION OF THE DANIEL SINGER PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE AWARD

13:30 – 13:40 EDT | 19:30 -19:40 CET | 23:00 - 23:10 IST | 03:30 -
03:40 AEST

Suzi Weissman and Ksenia Kagarlitskaya

BREAK 13:40 – 14:30 EDT | 19:40 - 20:30 CET | 23:10 - 00:00 IST
|03:40 - 04:30 AEST

IMPERIALISM(S) TODAY 

14:30 – 16:00 EDT | 20:30 - 22:00 CET | 00:00 - 01:30 IST | 04:30 -
06:00 AEST

MODERATOR: Adam Novak
SPEAKERS: Robert Brenner, Ilya Matveev and Hanna Perekhoda

BREAK: 16:00 – 16:15 EDT | 22:00 - 22:15 CET | 01:30 - 01:45 IST |
06:00 - 06:15 AEST

REPRESSION AND THE THREAT TO INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM, RUSSIA AND BEYOND 

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