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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – OCTOBER 8, 2024
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October 8, 2024
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* Leaving MAGA for the Left
* Squaring Off Over Palestine
* “Immigrants” or “Migrants”?
* The Politics of Christian Nationalism
* Racist Abuse in the WNBA
* Liberating Our History: Reproductive Rights
* Reviving Asian American Solidarity
* Building a Leadership Pipeline in Rural North Carolina
* Activist Grief
* All-Purpose Flag
LEAVING MAGA FOR THE LEFT
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By Rick Perlstein
The American Prospect
Matthew Sheffield, a former rising star in the conservative movement,
turned away from what he finally realized was an extremist, anti-truth
agenda.
SQUARING OFF OVER PALESTINE
• SCHOOL CHIEFS AND STUDENTS THROW DOWN
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Akram-Boshar, Truthout
• CIVIL SERVANTS RESIST
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By Akbar Shahid Ahmed, HuffPost
• PURGING ANTI-ZIONISTS
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By Shane Burley, In These Times
“IMMIGRANTS” OR “MIGRANTS”?
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By Debbie Nathan
The Intercept
As _Al Jazeera_ has commented, “migrant” has “evolved from its
dictionary definitions into a tool that dehumanizes and distances, a
blunt pejorative.” In recent years, voices have popped up to
renounce the use of “migrant” — as _Al Jazeera_ did in 2015
— or at least question its use.
THE POLITICS OF CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM
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By Kiera Butler
Mother Jones
The New Apostolic Reformation is a charismatic evangelical Christian
movement led by a loose network of self-appointed prophets and
apostles, who claim that God speaks directly to them, often in dreams.
They believe that Christians are called to wage a spiritual battle for
control of the United States.
RACIST ABUSE IN THE WNBA
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By Tom Lutz
The Guardian
Caitlin Clark has become one of the most high-profile sports stars in
the United States during her rookie season. That has led to a
significant amount of racist, sexist and homophobic comments online
from people purporting to defend Clark, who is white, in a league
where the majority of players are Black and many are gay.
LIBERATING OUR HISTORY: REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
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By Alanna Vagianos
HuffPost
HuffPost spoke with Renee Bracey Sherman and Regina Mahone about the
women of color who built the reproductive justice movement of today,
why police and abortion can never coexist and how the criminalization
of reproductive health is killing women.
REVIVING ASIAN AMERICAN SOLIDARITY
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By Roksana Mun and Cathy Dang
Yes!
The ecosystem for community organizing in working-class, pan-Asian
communities has to grow and meet the needs of the demographic trends
across the U.S. Otherwise, we are left responding to one crisis after
another, and with weak infrastructure for leaderful and powerful
movements.
BUILDING A LEADERSHIP PIPELINE IN RURAL NORTH CAROLINA
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By Dreama Caldwell and James L. VanHise
Convergence
Down Home North Carolina was founded in 2017 with the goal of building
community power among working-class people in small towns and rural
parts of the state. The group is somewhat unusual in that it organizes
exclusively in rural areas and prioritizes the development of
leaderful members by offering them extensive training and
opportunities to join the organization’s staff.
ACTIVIST GRIEF
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By Kelly Hayes
Organizing My Thoughts
Sarah Jaffee and Eman Abdelhad discuss the role of grief in our
movements, how leftists are treating each other right now, and how
activists should navigate a daily barrage of painful news and
information.
ALL-PURPOSE FLAG
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By Doreen St. Félix
The New Yorker
The iconography of this country is so ubiquitous as to be symbolically
moot. It is _too_ much symbol—of violence, of imperialism, of
ingenuity, of segregation, of hope. It is the spiritual deadness that
is conveyed, not the jingo pride, as the cooler kids take up the Stars
and Stripes in 2024.
* Matthew Sheffield
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