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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – JANUARY 28, 2025
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January 28, 2025
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_ Will limitless power meet unlimited resistance? _
, Ruben Bolling
* Will Government Workers Stand Up?
* Fighting Back for Immigrant Rights
* Mutual Aid Amid LA Fires
* Revanchist Racism
* The Deal With Elon
* How Amarillo Stopped Abortion Travel Ban
* Religious Schools Grab For Tax Dollars
* Climate Challenges
* Naming Babies After Weapons
* Criticism and “Talking Shit”
WILL GOVERNMENT WORKERS STAND UP?
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By Judith Levine
_The Guardian_
How can the civil service fight back? By serving. A union’s most
potent weapon is the strike. Paradoxically, these workers’ most
radical act today would be to refuse to stop working. Americans must
recognize and support the myriad, often invisible, services that these
public servants provide us and demand that they be protected and paid
to keep providing them.
FIGHTING BACK FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
• ICE UNCHAINED
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By Eleanor Bader, _Truthout_
• LABOR CAN FIGHT BACK
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By Natascha Elena Uhlmann and Sarah Lazare, _Labor Notes_
• STARTING AN ICE WATCH
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By Nikki Marín Baena, _Teen Vogue_
REVANCHIST RACISM
• DOJ CUTS
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By Antonio Pequeño IV, _Forbes_
• DISABLING THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
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By Judd Legum and Rebecca Crosby, _Popular Information_
• TEACHING LIES
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By Jesse Hagopian, _The Nation_
MUTUAL AID AMID LA FIRES
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By Schuyler Mitchell
_Truthout_
Since the Palisades and Eaton fires roared to life, Los Angeles
residents have rapidly mobilized to help each other. Dozens of mutual
aid networks, already in place before the wildfires, sprung into
action; organizations were flooded with supplies, money and
volunteers. Mutual aid organizing of this depth isn’t new in Los
Angeles.
THE DEAL WITH ELON
• YOU GOTTA BELIEVE
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By Zachary Shahan, _Clean Technica_
• PAGING WALTER BENJAMIN
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By Robert Zaretsky, _Forward_
HOW AMARILLO STOPPED ABORTION TRAVEL BAN
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By Shoshanna Ehrlich
_Ms._
On Nov. 5, 2024, voters in the Texas Panhandle city of
Amarillo resoundingly defeated (59 to 41 percent) a proposition that
would have declared their town a “sanctuary city for the unborn.”
Amarillo now enjoys the distinction of being the first city in the
U.S. where voters rejected a post-_Roe_ abortion travel ban.
RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS GRAB FOR TAX DOLLARS
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By Alec MacGillis
_ProPublica_
One of the most dramatic expansions of private school vouchers in the
country is making it possible for all Ohio families — even the
richest among them — to receive public money to pay for their
children’s tuition.
CLIMATE CHALLENGES
• THE BIG FIX
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By David G. Victor and Charles Sabel, _Boston Review_
• THE CLASS ASPECT
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By Keerti Gopal, _Inside Climate News_
NAMING BABIES AFTER WEAPONS
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By Caroline Bologna
_HuffPost_
Weapon-inspired monikers that parents have chosen in recent years
include Caliber, Shooter, Trigger, Blade and Cannon, as well as
brand-related names like Wesson, Remington, Colt, Ruger and
Winchester. Arson, Cutter and Dagger are among the other names with a
violent edge in recent data from the Social Security Administration.
CRITICISM AND “TALKING SHIT”
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By Seph Rodney
_Hyperallergic_
The general understanding of public critique is that it’s reductive,
but it can also look to create an imagined future. More than being
punitive or dismissive, public criticism can provide an opportunity
to _collectively_ look at a thing differently, and writing such a
piece can be a collaborative venture. It can also be interrogative.
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* immigrant rights
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* Donald Trump
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* ICE
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* Labor
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* Los Angeles
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* Elon Musk
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* Walter Benjamin
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* abortion travel ban
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* Amarillo TX
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* religious schools
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* naming babies
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