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TIDBITS – OCT. 31 – READER COMMENTS: DONALD TRUMP – WE REJECT
YOU!; ISRAELIS, CALLING FOR GLOBAL PRESSURE ON ISRAEL TO FORCE
IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE; BARBARA DANE; REMEMBERING GUSTAVO GUTIERREZ;
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_ Reader Comments: Donald Trump - We Reject You!; Israelis, Calling
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* DONALD TRUMP  --  WE REJECT YOU !  (SOLIDARITYINFOSERVICE)
* RE: WHAT (REALLY) HAPPENS IF TRUMP WINS? – HITLER – THEN AND
NOW  (KEITH WEIDENHAFT)
* SCARY COSTUME  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON
* RE: WILL DONALD TRUMP GO FULL FASCIST AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN?
 (MICHAEL MUSSINGTON; HERB BARBOLET)
* RE: REAL MEN REJECT FASCISM  (BILL AUDETTE)
* RE: EXONERATED FIVE SUES DONALD TRUMP FOR JOGGER CASE REMARKS MADE
AT PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE  (JEFF JAMES)
* RE: WE, ISRAELIS, ARE CALLING FOR GLOBAL PRESSURE ON ISRAEL TO
FORCE AN IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE  (SANCOCHO NUYORQUINO)
* BARBARA DANE ABROAD  (VICTOR GROSSMAN)
* RE: PUERTO RICO COULD BE ABOUT TO ELECT ITS FIRST PRO-INDEPENDENCE
GOVERNOR  (REI NALDO)
* DAY OF LOVE  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS
* REMEMBERING GUSTAVO GUTIERREZ  (SAMIN SISTERS ASSOCIATION IN
MINDANAO)

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RESOURCES:

* VOTER INTIMIDATION AND ELECTION WORKER INTIMIDATION RESOURCE GUIDE
 (BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE AT NYU LAW)

* KNOW YOUR RIGHTS ON ELECTION DAY  (AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES
UNION)

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

* 1000+ AUTHORS REFUSE COLLABORATION WITH COMPLICIT ISRAELI
PUBLISHERS IN MASS DECLARATION

* NO COWARDS IN OUR BAND  -  HUDSON, NY  --  NOVEMBER 2
 (HUDSON OPERA HOUSE)

 

* WHERE ARE WE NOW? AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR OUR MOVEMENTS?  --
 WEBINAR  --  NOVEMBER 20  (CAMPAIGN FOR PEACE DISARMAMENT AND
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DONALD TRUMP  --  WE REJECT YOU !

 

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RE: WHAT (REALLY) HAPPENS IF TRUMP WINS? – HITLER – THEN AND NOW
 

Three months after Hitler promised to uphold the German Constitution,
the concentration camp Dachau was open. Its first prisoners were not
Jews, but rather Hitler’s prominent political opponents. By April,
Jews had been purged from the civil service, and opposition political
parties were illegal.

Keith Weidenhaft
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SCARY COSTUME  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON

 

I don't invoke Nazi imagery lightly. In fact, I rarely use it. But
this guy is such an obvious threat to our democracy that it is
warranted. I think there are many fervent Trump fans who loath their
fellow Americans (or undocumented immigrants) so much, that they
support Trump's authoritarian tendencies. But there are many others
who brush off Trump's talk of arresting his enemies and using the
military against Americans as just bluster. They're wrong. I hope we
don't get to find out firsthand.

Nick Anderson
October 25, 2024
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RE: WILL DONALD TRUMP GO FULL FASCIST AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN?
 

In February 1939, the German-American Bund held an infamous,
Hitler-supporting rally in Madison Square Garden. On Sunday, Trump
will be holding a rally at Madison Square Garden. The parallel is
unmistakable.

Michael Mussington
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real men reject fascism.

Herb Barbolet
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RE: REAL MEN REJECT FASCISM
 

However one might reject their premises, some fraction of the American
men who have succumbed to the lure of Trump’s fascism need to feel
seen and heard and recognized. Saving the country from tyranny needs
to become aspirational for men.

Bill Audette
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RE: EXONERATED FIVE SUES DONALD TRUMP FOR JOGGER CASE REMARKS MADE AT
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
 

"Defendant Trump falsely stated that plaintiffs killed an individual
and pled guilty to the crime. These statements are demonstrably
false,” the group wrote in federal complaint.

Yusef Salaam, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and
Korey Wise were teenagers when they were accused of the 1989 rape and
beating of a white woman jogger in New York City’s Central Park. The
five, who are Black and Latino, said they confessed to the crimes
under duress. They later recanted, pleading not guilty in court and
were later convicted after jury trials. Their convictions were vacated
in 2002 after another person confessed to the crime.

After the crime, Trump purchased a full-page ad in the New York Times,
calling for the teens to be executed. The jogger case was Trump’s
first foray into tough-on-crime politics that preluded his
full-throated populist political persona. Since then, dog whistles and
overtly racist rhetoric have been fixtures of Trump’s public life.

Jeff James
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RE: WE, ISRAELIS, ARE CALLING FOR GLOBAL PRESSURE ON ISRAEL TO FORCE
AN IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE
 

More than 2,700 Israelis have signed this open letter, published in 11
languages, asking the international community to use ‘every possible
sanction’ to ‘save us from ourselves’

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BARBARA DANE ABROAD
 

Barbara's death hits me hard. Though so distant I always thought of
her as a close friend. When we first met a full 77 years ago - we were
both in Prague for the first World Youth Festival - I would have loved
to become even more than just that. I was a simple member of the
delegation, representing the small American Youth for Democracy
chapter at Harvard College, which I chaired at the time. Barbara was
the star of the USA delegation, not just a wonderful singer, also of
our beloved protest songs, but a slim, striking beauty as well. I
forsook even attempts at a closer relationship because her husband in
Detroit had treated me so very well when I stopped there in my
cross-country hitch-hike trip a year earlier. Many years later, when I
confided my one-time hopes, she laughed and said, "I had long been
separated from my husband at the time." I have never completely
overcome a feeling of regret.

I met Barbara again as interpreter for her and her later husband Irwin
Silber at the annual World Festival of Political Songs in East Berlin.
I knew Irwin from the days of the Folksay Club of the American Youth
for Democracy in 1944-1945, when we sang those songs and square danced
with him as "caller". Only when they arrived – around 1972, I think
- did I realize that this was the same Barbara I had known under a
different name in Prague, no longer quite so slim but as great a
singer as ever, and as ever a fighter! And a wonderful person!

But it was not so easy to be her interpreter. Barbara prefaced each
song with a little talk, often explaining its meaning to her and to
this non-American audience. And although she didn't know German she
knew the German word for her title song "F-ck the Army – FTA" and
she listened carefully to my translation: Was I "cleaning up" what she
said? But that word, which has now become an integral part of the
German vocabulary (unfortunately, I think) was hardly known then –
and impossible to translate literally into German (alone because of
its impossibility). I had to find an equivalent – and justify it to
Barbara, who sought full vehemence.

I had another little problem at the final concert in East Berlin's
biggest hall, which was attended by many of the top political leaders
of the GDR, including the top man Erich Honecker. Before Barbara sang
her song "Insubordination" – "Subordination is a drag, And
liberation is my bag, (oh yeah)" - she made her little speech,
whereupon I tried to avoid words which seemed to oppose the GDR, its
leaders or its army – all under daily attack by West German TV
commentators. But I did not want to dilute her sentiments either. I
steered between Scylla and Charybdis as successfully as Odysseus –
and she (with my translation) received general applause from all
sides.

A dramatic episode followed. This was during the Vietnam War years,
and Barbara, after her usual introduction, included a song which was
evidently known and loved by the people of Vietnam. (Was it the "Rice
Song"?) On the same stage, awaiting their turn in the program, was a
group of Vietnamese girls or young women. Of course they didn't
understand Barbara's introductory words or my translation into German,
and at first didn't realize that she was singing a song of theirs (no
doubt somewhat differently). But by the second verse they recognized
it and -here far from home – were overjoyed. As soon as she ended
they ran forward and they all embraced her – close together, the
American anti-war activist and the Vietnamese – in a short,
unplanned episode which was both symbolic and  extremely moving –
and a proper ending of the militant international festival.

Yes, as I've heard, Barbara was a fighter to the end; I'm happy to
have known her – but very sad, too - with a few tears - to hear of
the inevitable closing of a wonderfully inspiring life story!

Victor Grossman, Berlin

 

RE: PUERTO RICO COULD BE ABOUT TO ELECT ITS FIRST PRO-INDEPENDENCE
GOVERNOR
 

Something unprecedented is happening in Puerto Rico which, like the
U.S., will hold its general election on November 5th. For the first
time ever, the island could elect a governor who favors Puerto
Rico’s independence from the United States.

Rei Naldo
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DAY OF LOVE  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

Trump called the January 6 attack on the Capitol a "day of love." I
wonder what he would call the other deadly attacks on U.S. soil.

Rob Rogers
October 24, 2024
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REMEMBERING GUSTAVO GUTIERREZ

 

Gustavo Gutiérrez, the Peruvian Dominican priest considered the
”father” of liberation theology, died Oct. 22 at the age of 96.

His 1971 book “A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and
Salvation" leaves a profound impact on church people working with the
poor and advocating for social change.

SAMIN Sisters Association in Mindanao
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VOTER INTIMIDATION AND ELECTION WORKER INTIMIDATION RESOURCE GUIDE
 (BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE AT NYU LAW)

 

Federal and state laws provide protection from the new threats facing
voters and election officials this year.

Brennan Center for Justice
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CLICK HERE FOR OUR LATEST GUIDE TO LAWS AGAINST INTIMIDATION OF VOTERS
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This year, many voters and election workers are increasingly concerned
about threats of intimidation from official and private actors both at
the polls and beyond. Since 2020, there have been more threats,
politicization, and violence around the election process. While these
are not new concerns, the sources and the targets of these threats
have shifted in 2022. Thankfully, the many federal and state laws
addressing intimidation are flexible enough to account for this, and
officials are already working to ensure free and fair elections.

This resource provides an overview of the federal and state laws that
serve as guardrails against the intimidation of voters and election
workers and the disruption of the voting process. We focus on 10
states where the risk of disruption has been especially high based on
the volume of false allegations and anti-voter activity: Arizona,
Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin. We have also created
state-specific resources detailing the relevant safeguards under state
law that protect voters and officials from intimidation.

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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS ON ELECTION DAY  (AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION)

 

 

1000+ AUTHORS REFUSE COLLABORATION WITH COMPLICIT ISRAELI PUBLISHERS
IN MASS DECLARATION

 

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October 28, 2024 | More than 1,000 authors, including winners of the
Nobel Prize, Booker Prize, Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award
have launched a mass boycott of Israeli publishers complicit in the
dispossession of the Palestinian people. 

THIS IS THE LARGEST CULTURAL BOYCOTT AGAINST ISRAELI INSTITUTIONS IN
HISTORY. Heeding the call made by the absolute majority of Palestinian
civil society more than twenty years ago, the signatories of this
declaration are taking a collective, sector-wide stance for
Palestinian liberation. 

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Monday, October 28, 2024:

We, as writers, publishers, literary festival workers, and other book
workers, publish this letter as we face the most profound moral,
political and cultural crisis of the 21st century. The overwhelming
injustice faced by the Palestinians cannot be denied. The current war
has entered our homes and pierced our hearts. 

The emergency is here: Israel has made Gaza unlivable. It is not
possible to know exactly how many Palestinians Israel has killed since
October, because Israel has destroyed all infrastructure, including
the ability to count and bury the dead. We do know that Israel has
killed, at the very least, 43,362 Palestinians in Gaza since October
and that this is the biggest war on children this century. 

This is a genocide, as leading expert scholars and institutions have
been saying for months. Israeli officials speak plainly of their
motivations to eliminate the population of Gaza, to make Palestinian
statehood impossible, and to seize Palestinian land. This follows 75
years of displacement, ethnic cleansing and apartheid. 

Culture has played an integral role in normalizing these injustices.
Israeli cultural institutions, often working directly with the state,
have been crucial in obfuscating, disguising and artwashing the
dispossession and oppression of millions of Palestinians for decades.

We have a role to play. We cannot in good conscience engage with
Israeli institutions without interrogating their relationship to
apartheid and displacement. This was the position taken by countless
authors against South Africa; it was their contribution to the
struggle against apartheid there.

Therefore: we will not work with Israeli cultural institutions that
are complicit or have remained silent observers of the overwhelming
oppression of Palestinians. We will not cooperate with Israeli
institutions including publishers, festivals, literary agencies and
publications that:

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Are complicit in violating Palestinian rights, including through
discriminatory policies and practices or by whitewashing and
justifying Israel's occupation, apartheid or genocide, or
 

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Have never publicly recognized the inalienable rights of the
Palestinian people as enshrined in international law. 

To work with these institutions is to harm Palestinians, and so we
call on our fellow writers, translators, illustrators and book workers
to join us in this pledge. We call on our publishers, editors and
agents to join us in taking a stand, in recognising our own
involvement, our own moral responsibility and to stop engaging with
the Israeli state and with complicit Israeli institutions. 

Initiating Signatories Include:

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Kaveh Akbar, Michelle Alexander, Fatima
Bhutto, Dionne Brand, Jericho Brown, Judith Butler, Amit Chaudhury,
Anne Chisholm, Siddhartha Deb, Junot Díaz, Natalie Diaz, Inua
Ellams, Annie Ernaux, Nick Estes, Percival Everett, Eve L. Ewing,
Shon Faye, Mary Gaitskill, Greg Grandin, Guy Gunaratne, Abdulrazak
Gurnah, Marilyn Hacker, Isabella Hammad, Mohsin Hamid, Omar Robert
Hamilton, Afua Hirsch, Cathy Park Hong, Leslie Jamison, Ha Jin, Daisy
Johnson, Owen Jones, Naomi Klein, Hari Kunzru, Rachel Kushner, Jhumpa
Lahiri, Raven Leilani, Ben Lerner, Jonathan Lethem, Layli Long
Soldier, Valeria Luiselli, Carmen Maria Machado, Miriam Margolyes,
Hisham Matar, Maaza Mengiste, China Miéville, Pankaj Mishra, Viet
Thanh Nguyen, Tea Obreht, Torrey Peters, Max Porter, Casey Plett,
Derecka Purnell, Sally Rooney, Jacqueline Rose, Arundhati Roy, Sarah
Schulman, Kamila Shamsie, Christina Sharpe, Nikesh Shukla, Leanne
Betasamosake Simpson, Gillian Slovo, Ahdaf Soueif, Astra Taylor,
Jacques Testard, Miriam Toews, Jia Tolentino, Justin Torres, MG
Vassanji, Cecilia Vicuña, Ocean Vuong and Mirza Waheed.

_TO SEE THE FULL LIST OF SIGNATORIES, PLEASE GO TO
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NO COWARDS IN OUR BAND  -  HUDSON, NY  --  NOVEMBER 2  (HUDSON
OPERA HOUSE)

 

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What does freedom mean to you? Who fought for it? In "No Cowards in
Our Band", Frederick Douglass' words are interwoven with Negro
Spiritual music, resulting in a moving, visceral, and achingly timely
theatrical experience. One night only at Hudson Hall in Hudson, NY.

NO COWARDS IN OUR BAND
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Saturday, November 2 at 7pm
Hudson Hall, 327 Warren Street, Hudson NY

No Cowards in Our Band is a musical drama telling the story of
renowned activist and abolitionist Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)
through his own words. 

Based on a libretto by Anthony Knight, Jr. and interwoven with Negro
Spirituals arranged by GRAMMY-nominated jazz artist Orrin Evans, No
Cowards in Our Band stars actor, artist, and TV personality Masud
Olufani as Frederick Douglass performing with a trio of opera singers,
the “moving and electrifying performer” (Wall Street Journal) Nia
Drummond, soprano – who went viral last year for a rendition of
Happy Birthday that made Busta Rhymes cry – Metropolitan Opera tenor
Edward Washington II, and Opera Ebony and Syracuse Opera’s Gregory
Sheppard, bass.

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WHERE ARE WE NOW? AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR OUR MOVEMENTS?  --
 WEBINAR  --  NOVEMBER 20  (CAMPAIGN FOR PEACE DISARMAMENT AND
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On November 5 we face the most important U.S. election since 1860. It
also marks Guy Fawkes Day, the anniversary of a failed coup d’etat
in Britain. As we read in the press “it may take even longer to
declare a winner than it did in 2020" when it took four days for news
organizations to affirm Joe Biden’s victory. The racist and
authoritarian Republican candidate in this year’s election has yet
to accept his 2020 loss or to commit to accepting this year’s
election results.

And, even as we hope that it will not be the case,  with  attempts
to distort election outcomes that have already been put in motion, and
with the legal challenges that are being prepared, it could be weeks
before we know what the political landscape will look like and what
that will mean for justice, peace, democracy, and our responses here
in the U.S. and internationally. What are the implications for
immigrants, for the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, for our
economy?

Please plan to join three exceptional peace, justice, and labor
movement leaders as they help us to understand that landscape,  its
meanings, and suggest answers to the age old question “WHAT MUST BE
DONE?”

* KEVIN MARTIN – President, Peace Action and the Peace Action
Education Fund

* REV. DR. LIZ THEOHARIS - Director of the Kairos Center for
Religions, Rights, and Social Justice & Co-Chair of the Poor People's
Campaign

* HARRIS GRUMMAN -  Executive Director of the Massachusetts Service
Employees International Union (SEIU) State Council

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