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Trump’s ‘Mandate’ Shrinks As Vote Totals Come In -- Cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz
Lalo Alcaraz
December 5, 2024
https://www.pocho.com/
Re: Mexican President Sheinbaum’s Letter to Donald Trump
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sent a letter to president-elect Donald Trump, addressing the issues of border crossings and labor mobility, the fentanyl epidemic, illegal arms trafficking, and tariffs
David Benton
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Re: Election Aftermath
“I never realized before that men hate us so much.” That was the lesson drawn by one of my fellow organizers in Reno, Nevada, the morning after the 2024 general election. She’d turned 21 during the campaign, a three-month marathon she approached as a daily opportunity to learn as much as she could about everything she encountered. “Of course, they hate immigrants, too,” she added, “and I’m both.”
That morning of November 6th, I sat down with her and four other women to face the election results. The six of us had spent almost every day together over the previous three months, recruiting, training, and deploying volunteers in northern Nevada in the campaign to elect Kamala Harris president and return Jacky Rosen to the Senate..."
Jay Schaffner
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Re: Democrats Much Touted Ground Game Was Not Enough. Here’s How To Fix It
Democrats should stop mocking trump’s ground game and start learning from it. Cable ads and bussed-in volunteers don’t cut it any more. If the party wants to win, it must engage voters in a collective push for change.
Since Kamala Harris’s defeat, even moderate commentators are waking up to the fact that Democrats need to shift their messaging in order to increase their appeal to working class voters who have turned away from the party or toward Trump.
Ben Cupp
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Long, but it makes the point. Door knocking without a message is a waste of time, mostly.
Judy Atkins
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
Re: Analysis: Kamala Harris Turned Away From Economic Populism
Pressed by influential corporate advisors, Kamala Harris ran away from a winning economic populist message and ended up losing a campaign. We have the proof
Louisiana Caribbean Cultures
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Yes, this article rings true. I saw her move towards the center- right as the campaign went on. Whoever was advising her should take the blame for losing as well as the candidate herself. I hope they were fired and the party never hires advisors like that again. The criticism by Bernie and Thomas Frank are the ones to be learned from. I think this campaign will turn out to have alienated many voters from the Democratic Party at least on the national level. If only this country had a working class party. Oh well, good article.
PS To the author and all: I really disagree with the definition of the working class as being those without a college degree. There are thousands if not millions of workers who are educated beyond high school and have higher degrees. All wage workers and some salaried workers no matter their education are working class and as well as those who are temporarily unemployed. Let’s all present a true picture of the male/female racially diverse working class from now on.
Judy Atkins
Re: How To Build a Culture of Organizing: A Conversation With Marshall Ganz
Campaigns—they are about change. They are the rhythm of change. They have a specific objective. And they may accomplish the objective or not. But what is being built? That’s often missing. That is where organization comes in, which is the rhythm of continuity. When I was working with the farmworkers’ union, we had lots of different campaigns, but we were building a union.
So, that’s the missing piece. To the extent that we can bring mobilizing back into the context of organizing, then it becomes a tactic, which is all it is. A lot of mobilizing is tactics in search of a strategy. There is no strategic context to it because there is no organizational venue in which that strategy is being developed.
Mary-Alice Strom
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
Pete Hegseth -- Cartoon by Rob Rogers
It looks as though Pete Hegseth will go the way of Matt Gaetz. The lack of vetting continues to cause chaos.
Rob Rogers
December 5, 2024
TinyView
Re: How US Sanctions Torpedoed Kamala Harris
In "How US Sanctions Torpedoed Kamala Harris" by Arun Gupta, he rightly remarks that price rises started becoming a major problem in 2021. This was in significant part due to the capitalism-induced COVID pandemic. Yet somehow Gupta sees the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and its economic and political consequences, as causing these price rises in 2021. A lot of people who call themselves "left" or progressive seize on any argument to attack Ukrainians.
Sam Friedman
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The Biden administration’s sanctions on Russia didn’t just tank global markets; they also helped Kamala Harris lose the election. The Democrats’ fate was sealed by a Wall Street–fueled commodity frenzy that sent gas prices and grocery bills soaring.
Kerry Shawn Keys
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Re: Global Left Midweek – December 4, 2024
The unions are front and center in South Korea.
Ethan Young
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
Re: As US Celebrates Thanksgiving, Israel-Imposed Starvation and Suffering in Gaza Intensifies
"The war in Gaza is a war on children. There is no plainer way to illustrate this than to look at the people who make up the death figures—over 4 in every 10 people verified killed in Gaza are children."
Maldo Carlos
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Re: The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus
Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state. A new reality set in for ob-gyns in Texas - “The standard of care can now be construed as a felony.”
Escaping Gilead
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Re: Wisconsin Unions Score Major Win With Court Ruling Restoring Collective Bargaining Rights
(posting on xxxxxx Labor)
Wisconsin public workers have won a major legal victory with a ruling that restores collective bargaining rights they lost under Act 10, a 2011 state law forced through by then Governor Scott Walker. Seven unions and 3 labor leaders filed the suit.
Rita Matthews
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Re: Amazon Workers Planning To Strike From Black Friday to Cyber Monday
(posting on xxxxxx Labor)
‘Make Amazon Pay Day’ is becoming a global act of resistance against Amazon’s abuse of power.”
Valerie Bradshaw
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
Trump Naughty List -- Cartoon Mike Luckovich
Mike Luckovich
December 5, 2024
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Re: 6 Thanksgiving Myths and the Wampanoag Side of the Story
The Thanksgiving Day Celebration originated From a Massacre - Let's Hear the Wampanoag side of the story. Here are some of the most common misconceptions about the November holiday.(from Indian Country Today, original published 2017.)
Mittal Kishor Kamal
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Re: The Great American Turkey
(Posting on xxxxxx Culture)
The turkey was semi-domesticated and kept in pens in the American Southwest some 2,000 years ago—but not for the reason you think.
Joppel Reimer
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
Re: Madeleine Riffaud, ‘The Girl Who Saved Paris,’ Dies at 100
Humiliated by a Nazi officer as a teenager, she joined the French Resistance. By the time she was 20, she had killed a German soldier, survived torture and captured a supply train.
“Hundreds of young women like me were involved,” Ms. Riffaud recalled. “We were the messengers, the intelligence gatherers, the repairers of the web. When men fell or were captured, we got the news through, pulled the nets tight again. We carried documents, leaflets, sometimes arms.”
Ms. Riffaud played down her acclaim as a hero of the liberation of Paris. “I refuse to be a symbol,” she wrote. “I was just a young girl caught up in history.”
“The essential was not to give in,” she once said. “When you resisted, you were already a victor. You had already won.”
Tina Braxton
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Experts Explain Why America Voted for Plague -- Cartoon by Jen Sorensen
When you substitute “plague” for “Trump,” some oft-repeated post-election analyses become obviously absurd. At this point the whole conversation is starting to feel tedious, and I find myself getting annoyed by simplistic arguments.
The bird thing in the last panel is a plague doctor. When treating the plague in the 17th century, doctors wore a mask in the shape of a giant bird beak filled with aromatic herbs, on the theory that this would enable them to avoid scents that they thought caused the illness. The costume may have shielded them from bodily fluids and thus been useful, if in a slightly different way than they imagined.
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Jen Sorensen
December 4, 2024
https://jensorensen.com/
[Jen Sorensen is a cartoonist for Daily Kos, The Nation, In These Times, Politico and other publications throughout the US. She received the 2023 Berryman Award for Editorial Cartooning from the National Press Foundation, and is a recipient of the 2014 Herblock Prize and a 2013 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. She is also a Pulitzer Finalist.]
Model of Local City Officials Protecting Targeted Communities Against Authoritarian Governments
Looking for a model of local city officials protecting targeted communities against authoritarian governments deporting them en mass? I got one. During WWII, Traian Popovici, the mayor of Chernovitz (now in Ukraine, a town where some of my people are from), saved 19,000 Jews from the Nazi camps. Under Nazi occupation, he refused the first governor's order to create a ghetto, and refused the second governor's orders for deportation of the Jews to the camps, citing the inhumanity of the orders. He said that City Hall was behind him, that the leadership of the city stood with him. He wrote publicly that the deportation, called an "evacuation" by the governor, was about hate, not protection as the governor claimed, and that he would not be part of the annihilation of the Jews. In the end, he was allowed to create a list of Jews "required for the functioning of the local economy." He listed all 20,000 Jews of the city, and nearly all of them remained there through the war. There are models like these all over the world. Let’s organize to protect each other.
Dove Kent
Posted on Facebook
(re-posting with author's permission)
