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TIDBITS – JAN.16 – READER COMMENTS: CEASEFIRE AND HOSTAGE DEAL
– AFTER 15 MONTHS OF GENOCIDE; DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING’S PROPHETIC
WARNING; R.I.P – MARK SOLOMON, PETER YARROW; BIDEN SHOULD PARDON
ETHEL ROSENBERG; FOR ANN TELNAES; CARTOONS; AND MORE…  
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January 16, 2025
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_ Reader Comments: Ceasefire and Hostage Deal - After 15 Months of
Genocide; Dr. Martin Luther King’s Prophetic Warning; R.I.P - Mark
Solomon, Peter Yarrow; Biden Should Pardon Ethel Rosenberg; For Ann
Telnaes; Cartoons; and more.... _

Tidbits - Reader Comments AND cartoons - Jan.16, 2025, xxxxxx

 

* YES TO A DEAL  (STANDING TOGETHER)
* RE: LA REAL ESTATE LOBBIED TO DEVELOP IN HIGH-RISK FIRE AREAS
 (JOSE LUIS MEDINA)
* THIS IS NOT A DRILL  --  CARTOON BY MATT GOLDING
* RE: DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING’S PROPHETIC WARNING, DENOUNCING THE
MERCHANTS OF DEATH  (CHUCK DINEEN)
* THE SENTENCING  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS
* RE: CANADA AS A 51ST STATE? REPUBLICANS WOULD NEVER WIN ANOTHER
GENERAL ELECTION  (JERRY STEELE; ROBERT LAITE)
* DONALD DONALD BO-BONALD BANANA-FANA FO-FONALD FEE-FI-MO-MONALD
DONALD!  --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ
* RE: WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON WITH GROWING HOMELESS RATES?  (VELVA
SPRIGGS)
* RE: SERVICE EMPLOYEES REJOIN AFL-CIO  (ANNE PRUDEN)
* RE: AOC: ‘BIGOTED FOLKS’ LOVE TRANS SPORTS BAN  (MICHAEL
HENRY STARKS; ROBERT)
* RE: GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – JANUARY 15, 2025  (ETHAN YOUNG)
* RE: MARK SOLOMON – REST IN POWER  (DANIEL MILLSTONE; MARY JO
CONNELLY)
* RE: PRESIDENT BIDEN SHOULD PARDON ETHEL ROSENBERG  (MARY-ALICE
STROM; ELEANOR ROOSEVELT; LINDA GILLISON)
* RE: PETER YARROW, SINGER WITH FOLK LEGENDS PETER, PAUL & MARY AND
CO-WRITER OF ‘PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON,’ DIES AT 86  (JAY SCHAFFNER;
JAN HILLEGAS)
* IN MY DAY  --  CARTOON BY MATT DAVIES
* RE: THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND: THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG  (KAREN LEE
WALD)
* FOR ANN TELNAES  --  CARTOON BY DR. KEITH KNIGHT
* JUDGE JUAN MERCHAN GAVE TRUMP A GIFT TODAY.  --  CARTOON BY CLAY
JONES

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YES TO A DEAL  --  STANDING TOGETHER

 

FINALLY! A ceasefire and hostage deal has been reached! After so many
months of suffering, soon the first hostages will be released and the
airstrikes on Gaza will stop. As we have been saying for so long:
agreements save lives.

Now is the time to celebrate but also to hold our leaders accountable:
there must be a full deal that leaves no hostage behind and ends the
war once and for all.

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RE: LA REAL ESTATE LOBBIED TO DEVELOP IN HIGH-RISK FIRE AREAS
 

In California, policymakers have long warned that continued
development in high-risk wildfire zones was magnifying fires. But real
estate interests have lobbied hard against any development
restrictions, helping exacerbate the LA fires.

Jose Luis Medina
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL  --  CARTOON BY MATT GOLDING

 

Matt Golding
January 9, 2025
Political Cartoons Australia
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RE: DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING’S PROPHETIC WARNING, DENOUNCING THE
MERCHANTS OF DEATH
 

Who are the criminals? U.S. news coverage of five former or current
presidents gathered for the funeral of President Jimmy Carter never
hinted that hideous wars of choice along with massive increases in
weapon sales had marked the administration of each of the five. There
was no mention of President Biden’s order to send eight billion
dollars of weapons to Gaza. This gathering of U.S. presidents is
referred to as “The World’s Most Exclusive Club.”  Exclusive
indeed. What other club of so few has caused so much suffering to so
many?

On April 7, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famously
insightful, prophetic speech about another illegal U.S. war of choice
– “Beyond Viet Nam: A Time to Break the Silence” – in which
Dr. King said:  “Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is
the role our nation has taken: the role of those who make peaceful
resolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the
pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas
investments.”

Chuck Dineen
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THE SENTENCING  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

Trump may not be punished for his crimes, but we will be.

Rob Rogers
January 14, 2025
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RE: CANADA AS A 51ST STATE? REPUBLICANS WOULD NEVER WIN ANOTHER
GENERAL ELECTION
 

For a supposed anti-interventionist, it’s odd that Trump is
enthusiastically embracing ideas from the era of intense American
imperialism.

Jerry Steele
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I've been saying for years that if our two biggest left leaning
parties (Liberals and NDP) joined forces Canada would never see
another Conservative government.

Robert Laite
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DONALD DONALD BO-BONALD BANANA-FANA FO-FONALD FEE-FI-MO-MONALD DONALD!
 --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ

 

Lalo Alcaraz
January 14, 2025
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RE: WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON WITH GROWING HOMELESS RATES?
 

Thank you for this article. It has always been within the American
character to blame the victim. This lets politicians and policy makers
and the well-to-do and near-well-to do off the hook -no
responsibility, no guilt.  What is the point of being a society if we
can not take care of the indigent? Oh,Frances Perkins, we need you!
 Nothing is simple. But, tax cuts for the wealthy are becoming a
mainstay. MAGA duped again!  After the immigrants are cast out and
the homeless are hidden, who is next to be blamed? I hope the incoming
shadow president, the first buddy, who hold Americans in disdain, does
not become our premier policymaker.   

Velva Spriggs

 

RE: SERVICE EMPLOYEES REJOIN AFL-CIO

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SO many thks/ solidarity,

Anne Pruden, 1199SEIU retiree!

 

RE: AOC: ‘BIGOTED FOLKS’ LOVE TRANS SPORTS BAN
 

While Los Angeles is on fire right now, a trans sports ban is
Republicans' number one priority, charges Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez.

Michael Henry Starks
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It's like 0.0001% of athletes. Surely this is a bigger problem that
the worst fire in LA history.

Robert

 

RE: GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – JANUARY 15, 2025
 

Panamanians and Greenlanders have their say

Ethan Young
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RE: MARK SOLOMON – REST IN POWER
 

Thanks to Danny Rosenberg and xxxxxx
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and historian Mark Solomon
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Daniel Millstone
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Mark Ira Solomon – historian, author, teacher, organizer, and
socialist – passed away December 19, 2024, at the age of 92.

Mary Jo Connelly
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RE: PRESIDENT BIDEN SHOULD PARDON ETHEL ROSENBERG
 

A newly released classified document shows that the National Security
Agency knew Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy—and that the government
executed her anyway.

Rather than the case being closed on Ethel’s guilt, as alleged, the
Gardner memorandum absolves her, as the FBI knew at the time of her
execution. Now is the time for an historic injustice to be redressed.
Now is the time for Joe Biden to issue a full exoneration or, at the
least, a presidential pardon of Ethel Rosenberg. Truth and justice
will thereby be served.

Mary-Alice Strom
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Neither one of them did anything that justified execution. They did
not commit treason. They were not charged with treason. They were not
convicted of treason. They were killed for political reasons.

Eleanor Roosevelt
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What???!!!! And risk the recrudescence (love that word) of the red
scare that ALWAYS overtakes Americans of a certain age? It's only a
matter of justice--and, dare we say, acknowledgement of a...mistake.

Linda Gillison

 

RE: PETER YARROW, SINGER WITH FOLK LEGENDS PETER, PAUL & MARY AND
CO-WRITER OF ‘PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON,’ DIES AT 86
 

Of his recent shows, Yarrow said, “It’s really a remarkable
phenomenon because the kind of warmth and enthusiasm and caring, that
was once just expected and taken for granted, is reignited amongst
people when they sing together, songs like ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’
or ‘Leavin’ on a Jet Plane.’ It’s phenomenally moving because
it kind of asserts the spirit that bound us together so powerfully so
many decades ago and still is in our in our culture and in our hearts
and in our DNA. In the era of the animosities of our time, it’s
something that’s so restorative to people, so confirmational. No,
we’re not gone, no, we still believe in something together. Yes, we
still have positive advocacy. Truth, fact, is not a moving target.
There are real facts that exist. We have to understand that the
dangerous slide of the culture and politics into this polarized,
hate-filled perspective is not something that necessarily has to
subdue us.”

Jay Schaffner
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It's unfortunate that Peter thought there weren't movement songs like
there used to be.  I have written many, as have other members of
People's Music Network.  My problem has been finding musicians who
will consider singing them, as well as encountering rally organizers
who won't let them be sung.  In case any see this and will inquire,
write to me at [email protected].

Jan Hillegas

 

IN MY DAY  --  CARTOON BY MATT DAVIES

 

Matt Davies
March 15, 2019
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RE: THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND: THE STORY BEHIND THE SONG
 

When I learned the song (late 60s and early 70s) it didn't have the
last Teo verses listed here but it DID have the verse about the no
trespassing sign!!

Karen Lee Wald

 

FOR ANN TELNAES  --  CARTOON BY DR. KEITH KNIGHT

 

Here's my contribution in solidarity with the great Ann Telnaes. Nice
to see it blow up the way it has.

Dr. Keith Knight
January 7, 2025
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JUDGE JUAN MERCHAN GAVE TRUMP A GIFT TODAY.  --  CARTOON BY CLAY
JONES

 

Clay Jones
January 10, 2025
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