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TIDBITS – APR.3 – READER COMMENTS: ALL OUT FOR APRIL 5TH –
HANDS OFF!; THOUSANDS PROTEST ICE ABDUCTIONS; TRUMP SIGNS ORDER ENDING
UNION BARGAINING RIGHTS FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES; THE NEW DEFINITION OF
ANTISEMITISM; PUBLIC SECTOR LABOR STRUGGLES;  
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April 3, 2025
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_ Reader Comments: All Out for April 5th - Hands Off!; Thousands
Protest ICE Abductions; Trump Signs Order Ending Union Bargaining
Rights for Federal Employees; The New Definition of Antisemitism;
Public Sector Labor Struggles, Then and Now; and more.. _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Apr. 3, 2025, xxxxxx

 

* GRILLED CHEESE  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON
* RE: THOUSANDS PROTEST ICE ABDUCTION OF TUFTS STUDENT AS TRUMP
ATTACKS AT UNIVERSITIES INTENSIFY  (KENTUCKY ALLIANCE AGAINST RACIST
AND POLITICAL REPRESSION)
* AND THEN THEY CAME FOR ____  --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ
* FREE SPEECH BROUHAHA  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY CLAY JONES
* RE: CALL IT THE ‘DISMANTLING GOVERNMENT ACT’: HOUSE GOP
ADVANCES BILL BACKING MUSK-LED DESTRUCTION  (AARON STEPHENS)
* RE: DEMOCRATS JUST FLIPPED A MASSIVELY PRO-TRUMP DISTRICT
 (DANIEL BOLSER)
* GRANNY OVER THE CLIFF  --  CARTOON BY JOHN DARKOW
* RE: TRUMP SIGNS ORDER ENDING UNION BARGAINING RIGHTS FOR WIDE
SWATHS OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES  (MAURICE GIOSEFFI; MARY-ALICE STROM)
* RE: TRUMP THREATENS IRAN WITH ‘BOMBING THE LIKES OF WHICH THEY
HAVE NEVER SEEN’  (JOHN THOMPSON)
* RE: THE NEW DEFINITION OF ANTISEMITISM IS TRANSFORMING AMERICA –
AND SERVING A CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST PLAN  (ROY SCHULMAN; CAROL
FEINMAN; SHAMAR HILL; CHRIS OWENS; MATTHEW BERNSTEIN; LISA PINES; CASS
LYNCH; JENNIFER NOURI)
* DOUBLE HEADED MAGALODON  --  CARTOON BY DC CARTOONIST
* RE: HOW TRUMP WANTS TO MAKE ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS JOBS IN
AMERICA EVEN WORSE  (PETER RUARK)
* RE: A LESSON FROM ARGENTINA’S DIRTY WAR FOR TODAY  (TOM
EDMINSTER)
* RE: DEAR AMERICA  (FRED WHITEHEAD)
* RE: TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE COMMEMORATION: MARCH 25, 1911
 (BERNARD)

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* ISRAELI STUDENTS PROTEST IN FRONT OF KNESSET IN JERUSALEM
 (STANDING TOGETHER)

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GRILLED CHEESE  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON

 

Nick Anderson
April 2, 2025
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RE: THOUSANDS PROTEST ICE ABDUCTION OF TUFTS STUDENT AS TRUMP ATTACKS
AT UNIVERSITIES INTENSIFY
 

The targeting of foreign students at Columbia, Tufts, Georgetown, and
other universities has led to outcry among academics, particularly as
the ICE abductions have taken place alongside threats from the Trump
administration to pull funding...

"She was abducted by armed agents of the state because she dared take
a stand against genocide," said one supporter of Rumeysa Ozturk.  
  

More than 600 members of the Harvard University faculty signed a
letter to the school's governing board Wednesday warning that "ongoing
attacks on American universities threaten bedrock principles of a
democratic society, including rights of free expression, association,
and inquiry."

"Universities cannot pretend to hold higher education sacred while
repressing students and faculty, undermining free speech and academic
freedom, and prohibiting dissent," reads the letter.

Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
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AND THEN THEY CAME FOR ____  --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ

 

Lalo Alcaraz
April 1, 2025
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FREE SPEECH BROUHAHA  --  CARTOON AND COMMENTARY BY CLAY JONES

 

 

The so-called free speech absolutists and champions are deporting
people for what they say.

Clay Jones
March 30, 2025
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RE: CALL IT THE ‘DISMANTLING GOVERNMENT ACT’: HOUSE GOP ADVANCES
BILL BACKING MUSK-LED DESTRUCTION
 

"This bill would rubber-stamp unchecked abuses of power even further,"
said the leader of one government watchdog group.

Aaron Stephens
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RE: DEMOCRATS JUST FLIPPED A MASSIVELY PRO-TRUMP DISTRICT
 

Democrats scored key victories in Pennsylvania.

Daniel Bolser
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GRANNY OVER THE CLIFF  --  CARTOON BY JOHN DARKOW

 

 

John Darkow
March 27, 2025
Columbia Missourian
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RE: TRUMP SIGNS ORDER ENDING UNION BARGAINING RIGHTS FOR WIDE SWATHS
OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
 

Am I the only one questioning whether the president even has that
authority? What's wrong with this country? Have we forgotten what
we're supposed to do to tyrants or wannabe tyrants?

Maurice Gioseffi
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Maurice, in answer to your question, I guess that makes two of
us...because it's driving me nuts to see all the violations of
Constitutional Law that he's committing and getting away with. I think
part of the problem is that, as they say, "the wheels of justice move
very slowly", and although he's being sued by many, and there are
numerous cases before judges, it takes time for these things to "work
their way through the system". Only problem: who's going to "enforce"
a judgement that says he's committed a crime... or his copotus has

Mary-Alice Strom
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RE: TRUMP THREATENS IRAN WITH ‘BOMBING THE LIKES OF WHICH THEY HAVE
NEVER SEEN’
 

If Trump doesn't destroy the global economy with his trade war,
starting a war with Iran will. Will his billionaire backers restrain
him?

John Thompson
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RE: THE NEW DEFINITION OF ANTISEMITISM IS TRANSFORMING AMERICA – AND
SERVING A CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST PLAN
 

Redefining antisemitism in the law was never about Jewish safety. It
is about consolidating authoritarian power under the veneer of
minority protection.

The unique position of progressive Jews offers a way to push back
against the rise of the far right in the US, both with regard to
Israel-Palestine, but also more broadly. Recognizing the unique harm
caused to Jews by the new definition of antisemitism allows us to
develop new ways to combat it.

The establishment clause of the US constitution, for instance,
prohibits the state from intervening in religious disputes. By
adopting the IHRA definition into law, the US government has in effect
taken sides in an intra-Jewish debate, recruiting Zionist Jews to side
in a war against its ideological opponents. The redefinition of
antisemitism is therefore not only an attack on political dissent –
it is an intrusion into Jewish religious life.

Roy Schulman
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No it should make you a supporter of J Street and a two state
solution. For people wondering this is a good thing.

Carol Feinman
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I agree with everything you’ve said. I do hope you recognize that
Hamas wants civilians to die, that they embed themselves with
civilians, don’t wear uniforms, and it’s really an impossible war
for Israel to fight.

Shamar Hill
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So... I despise Hamas.  I accept Israel's right to exist and defend
itself from violent attacks.  I do NOT accept the bombing of
Palestinian civilians in Gaza, the expansion of illegal settlements in
the West Bank, the denial of humanitarian assistance to civilians in
need, or the cynical and manipulated failure of the Israeli government
to seriously promote either  a two-state or one-state solution for
the region.  I accept that a lasting peace means that Israelis and
Palestinians must each compromise something.  Israel is not and will
not always be "right".  I think "religious" states are antithetical
to peace, regardless of the religion involved. (I believe the City of
Jerusalem should be an international territory protected for and by
everyone.)   I stand for human and civil rights protected by
Constitutions and international treaties.  And, yes, I hold nations
who purport to be democratic to a higher standard -- including my own.
 Does that make me anti-Semitic?

Chris Owens
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Criticism of Israel is definitely not antisemitic. In the IHRA
definition of Antisemitism — adopted by many govts — it explicitly
says that. I do think you’re lacking some crucial understanding
though. Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah are committed to a one-state
solution. They have no interest in compromising to create a two-state
solution. The phrase “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be
free” is actually, in Arabic, “From the water to the water,
Palestine will be Arab.” A land that is Judenrein.

So, the discussion should really be, in defending itself against an
invading government’s forces, determined on a genocide of the only
Jewish state, what is acceptable military action? Especially when the
invading govt does not abide by the international rules of war.

Matthew Bernstein
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I would just note that Israel is not a “religious “ state - it is
a state for the Jewish people, which is the common model in Europe,
like where Germany is willing to confer German citizenship on persons
of German ancestry displaced from Poland, Lithuanian, Russia,,etc.
This model is different from the US or most countries in the Americas.
The “Right of Return” in Israel extends to various people who do
not meet the “religious “ 

Peter Winch
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Trump and ilk make the assumption that all Jews support Israel, which
includes the actions of its current government. This assumption is in
itself antisemitic. I know very few of my fellow Jews in NYC and
Israel who support Netanyahu’s government and its actions in Gaza.

I feel like Kenneth Stern at Bard has a good take on this issue.

    Weaponizing antisemitism makes students 'less safe,' says
drafter of definition
    
    By Kaity Kline
    March 20, 2025
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Lisa Pines
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Changing the spelling from anti-Semitism to antisemitism was a Zionist
move designed to erase Palestinian and other Semitic peoples. Don't
use the Zionist spelling.

Cass Lynch
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Israelis are trying to make Jews be so scared they come to Palestine
to populate the illegal settlements.

Jennifer Nouri
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DOUBLE HEADED MAGALODON  --  CARTOON BY DC CARTOONIST

 

DC Cartoonist
March 28, 2025
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RE: HOW TRUMP WANTS TO MAKE ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS JOBS IN AMERICA
EVEN WORSE

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Welcome to “The Jungle.” Again.

The president’s cruel, reckless plan to speed up slaughterhouse
lines, explained in one chart.

Peter Ruark
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RE: A LESSON FROM ARGENTINA’S DIRTY WAR FOR TODAY
 

In Buenos Aires we visited Memorial Park, the monument dedicated to
the 30,000 who were perished by the junta during the Dirty War. There
were seven panels, for each of the seven years, organized
alphabetically, with people’s ages. Nearly everyone was in their
20s, early 30s or a teenager.

My message – Those of us boomers – We have a vital role to play in
organizing and fighting the MAGites march to fascism.

Please read..
All out for Saturday!!

Powerful and first person story & family history extremely important..
Thank you

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Tom Edminster
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RE: DEAR AMERICA

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California poet Marsha de la O, herself an outcast, notices the many
outcasts who live in America, nobody's home.

Fred Whitehead
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RE: TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE COMMEMORATION: MARCH 25, 1911

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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First off, thank you for you work.

Secondly the article "Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Commemoration:
March 25, 1911
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states:

"UNITE HERE is a proud successor union to the International Ladies
Garment Workers Union, the union to which some Triangle factory
workers belonged. Most years, UNITE HERE staff and members gather at
the union headquarters in New York to remember the victims with a
reading of their names and testimony from one of the survivors."

In actuality Workers United, SEIU is the successor union to the
clothing and garment unions of the past. Plus this annual memorial is
organized by the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition which includes a
broad section of labor, community, scholastic and other allies working
together to use this memory to effect change in the present.

Take care,

Bernard

 

ISRAELI STUDENTS PROTEST IN FRONT OF KNESSET IN JERUSALEM  (STANDING
TOGETHER)

 

Refuse the war on Gaza. The killing of Palestinians. The abandonment
of the hostages. That was the message of dozens of students in our
student chapter in Jerusalem as they protested in front of the Knesset
a few days ago.

We won’t be led quietly toward more killing and death, toward more
of the same catastrophic, politically motivated war that endangers us,
Palestinians and Jews, on this land. We won’t be quiet as our
government continues to drop bombs on Palestinians and to promise
generations to come nothing but more bloodshed and war. On our
streets, on our campuses, we’re choosing another way. We refuse.

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APRIL 5, 2025 – HANDS OFF! – REMOVE, REVERSE, RECLAIM!
 (INDIVISIBLE, 50501 MOVEMENT AND THE WOMEN’S MARCH AND HUNDREDS OF
NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS)
 

 

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RECLAIM OUR DEMOCRACY

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Organizations as diverse as the AFT, NEA, PSC CUNY, SEIU, CWA, UAW,
Greenpeace, Roots Action, Color of Change, Stand Up for Science,
Consumer Federation of America, League of Women Voters answered the
call; as did MoveOn, Working Families Party, Our Revolution, and Third
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PUBLIC SECTOR LABOR STRUGGLES, THEN AND NOW  --  ONLINE  --  APRIL
8  (CORNELL UNIVERSITY’S SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL AND LABOR RELATIONS)

 

_Given the turmoil unfolding currently in the federal workforce and
the ramifications for civil servants at every level of
government—particularly those working in health and educational
services—now would be an apt time to talk about what’s happening
in terms of organizing and advocacy for public-sector workers, to help
put these struggles in historical context, and to think broadly about
the impact of these attacks on the public workforce and social
services. This conversation will yield ideas about how communities,
educational institutions, and labor groups might defend crucial public
resources going forward._

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* A professor of labor studies at Rutgers University, ERIC
BLANC is author of the substack _Labor Politics
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well as the new book _We Are the Union: How Worker-to-Worker
Organizing is Revitalizing Labor and Winning Big
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* JOSEPH MCCARTIN is a professor of American history at Georgetown
University and Executive Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for
Labor and the Working Poor. McCartin's scholarship focuses on the
intersection of labor organization, politics, and public policy. He is
the author of more than 130 articles, chapters, and reviews in the
fields of labor history and labor studies.

* TODD DICKEY is an assistant professor of public administration
and international affairs at Syracuse University where his research
and teaching centers on workplace conflict management, federal sector
labor relations, and labor-management partnership in the public and
nonprofit sectors.  From 2022-2024, Todd served as Advisor to the
Chairman at the Federal Labor Relations Authority where he assisted
with the implementation of the White House Task Force on Worker
Organizing and Empowerment’s federal sector labor relations
recommendations.

* AURORA ROJER is a public school social studies teacher and
secretary of the Ithaca Teachers Association (ITA). She is also
co-chair of the ITA Contract Action Team, who are currently bargaining
a contract.

* MT SNYDER is a MILR graduate and Field Examiner with the National
Labor Relations Board in San Francisco. She is a rank and file member
of the National Labor Relations Board Union and an organizer with the
Federal Unionists Network.

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