[ Reader Comments: Defeat Trump, Defeat His Base, Elect
Progressives; Kamala Harris and another VP candidate - Charlotta Bass;
COVID; Danger - October Surprise with Iran or China; Matt Herron -
R.I.P.; Republican Voters Against Trump; Announcements]
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TIDBITS - AUG. 13, 2020 - READER COMMENTS: DEFEAT TRUMP, DEFEAT HIS
BASE, ELECT PROGRESSIVES; KAMALA HARRIS AND CHARLOTTA BASS; COVID;
DANGER - OCTOBER SURPRISE WITH IRAN OR CHINA; MATT HERRON - R.I.P.;
REPUBLICAN VOTERS AGAINST TRUMP; ANNOUNCEMENTS;  
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, Shorts, AND
cartoons - Aug. 13, 2020, xxxxxx

 

Re: To Defeat Trump, Discredit His Movement, and Elect Progressives -
Sign-on letter (Daniel Millstone; Leanna Noble; Todd Allen; Hector
Castillo)
Re: Charlotta Bass's Acceptance Speech for Vice Presidential Candidate
of the Progressive Party -1952 (Capn' Steve Krüg; Jaime Knowles)
Re: A Virus Has Brought the World’s Most Powerful Country to Its
Knees (David Frazer; Michael Munk)
Nothing Stops the Mail (American Postal Workers Union - APWU)
Postal peril  -- cartoon by Mike Luckovich
Re: Revisiting a Revolution of Mexican Art in America (Joseph Kaye)
Re: Trump’s Desperate, Last-Ditch Effort to Hike Tensions with Iran
(Donna Horton Frommeyer; Sheri FRech)
Re: What Would It Take to Avert Military Escalation With China in the
South China Sea? (Dorothy Jordan)
Re: Class Solidarity: What It Is and How You Can Engage in It (David
Richardson)
Re: The US Labor Movement Needs More of the UE’s “Them and Us”
Unionism (Eleanor Roosevelt; Lincoln Smith)
Re: Newly Revealed Documents Show How the AFL-CIO Aided US
Interference in Venezuela (Carl Foster; Mike Liston)
Greetings from Puerto Rico (Miguel Angel Reyes De Jesus)
If Trump Wins...If Trump Loses  --  cartoon by Mike Stanfill
Re: Letter to the Socialists, Old and New (Victor Grossman)
Re: What Is Portuguese-American Food? (Sonia Collins)
Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) court decision! (Lakota People's Law
Project)
Matt Herron - R.I.P. (Ron Carver)

 

RESOURCES:

Republican Voters Against Trump
F*ck La Migra — Poster of the Week (Center for the Study of
Political Graphics)
Movement Matters: Building Capacity for Change

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Webinar - The Economics of the COVID-19 Public Health and Economic
Crisis - August 14 (National Jobs for All Network)
Webinar  - "Comfort Women": The Day of Remembrance - August 14
Roundtable Discussion with Sunrise Movement, NY WFP & NYC DSA - August
26 (New York Communities for Change)
“The Internationale” - Web Showing and Discussion with Film's
Director - August 30 (Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives - ALBA)
28th Jim Perry Progressive Leadership Awards - Albany, NY - September
10 (Citizen Action)

 

RE: TO DEFEAT TRUMP, DISCREDIT HIS MOVEMENT, AND ELECT PROGRESSIVES -
SIGN-ON LETTER
 

Many friends have signed onto this letter
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(as did I) which outlines our views as to the path ahead. If you agree
as well, perhaps you'll consider signing the letter
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xxxxxx for sending this along.

Daniel Millstone

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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As a retired union member and white woman, I believe many like me are
responsible to recognize the genocidal policies and practices of the
Trump administration impacting working class POC here in USA and
globally on a daily basis as well as the escalated rape & pillaging of
Earth. This is why we must take all possible actions to defeat Trump
in 2020 elections -- including voting for Biden and as many
progressive Dems candidates as possible.

Leanna Noble

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Todd Allen

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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There can never be Justice if a Country is Run by "Fascist Far-Right
Anarchist Thugs"

Hector Castillo

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: CHARLOTTA BASS'S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH FOR VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
OF THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY -1952
 

Thanks for sharing this, reading her speech was inspirational! But
wait, some will say, she and the Progressives got trounced, they, like
all third parties are a waste of time! Ah, but words have power and
ideas need to be shared, where else (as she noted in her speech) were
her words and ideas to be heard? Anyone who thinks the Democrats would
have would have come to nominate Kamala Harris without leftists
nudging them along have not looked at the history of progress. Third
party idealists have long been the source of inclusion, economic and
ecological sustainability, workers rights, etc,
etc,etc.Congratulations to the Democrats, it only took you 68 years to
catch up.

Capn' Steve Krüg

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Makes KH acceptance speech seem so paltry.

Jaime Knowles

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: A VIRUS HAS BROUGHT THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL COUNTRY TO ITS
KNEES
 

How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust
mote has humbled and humiliated the planet’s most powerful nation.
America has failed to protect its people, leaving them with illness
and financial ruin. It has lost its status as a global leader. It has
careened between inaction and ineptitude. The breadth and magnitude of
its errors are difficult, in the moment, to truly fathom.

A sluggish response by a government denuded of expertise allowed the
coronavirus to gain a foothold. Chronic underfunding of public health
neutered the nation’s ability to prevent the pathogen’s spread. A
bloated, inefficient health-care system left hospitals ill-prepared
for the ensuing wave of sickness. Racist policies that have endured
since the days of colonization and slavery left Indigenous and Black
Americans especially vulnerable to COVID‑19. The decades-long
process of shredding the nation’s social safety net forced millions
of essential workers in low-paying jobs to risk their life for their
livelihood. The same social-media platforms that sowed partisanship
and misinformation during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Africa and the
2016 U.S. election became vectors for conspiracy theories during the
2020 pandemic.
 

David Frazer

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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"While countries as different as South Korea, Thailand, Iceland,
Slovakia, and Australia acted decisively to bend the curve of
infections downward,..."

Why omit China, the best example? We know why. The author is infected
with Sinophobia.

Michael Munk

NOTHING STOPS THE MAIL
 

American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO
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POSTAL PERIL  -- CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
 

Mike Luckovich

August 13, 2020
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: REVISITING A REVOLUTION OF MEXICAN ART IN AMERICA

A most interesting article.  And as a novelist, you would be
interested in Sarah E. Wright's This Child's Gonna Live,
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[[link removed]] writing in the
spirit of those you have been describing, who is being whited out of
Establishment literary history.

Joseph Kaye

RE: TRUMP’S DESPERATE, LAST-DITCH EFFORT TO HIKE TENSIONS WITH IRAN
 

Looks like he is creating an incident so he can win, and to keep our
focus off all the covid deaths

Donna Horton Frommeyer

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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From the article: 

No one officially took credit for the sabotage, but The New York Times
reported that a “Middle East intelligence” source admitted that
Israel was behind the bombing. An Israeli newspaper later identified
the source as Yossi Cohen, head of the Mossad intelligence agency.

Analysts say such a brazen attack, which constitutes an act of war,
would need the approval of officials in Washington, D.C.

“If the US did not participate in the attack directly, at the very
least it gave Israel its consent,” Muhammad Sahimi, a professor at
the University of Southern California and Iran expert, says in an
interview.

Some analysts speculate that the Trump Administration is seeking to
provoke Iran into military retaliation. Trump could then launch a war,
rally support at home, and win the election. It’s a classic
“October Surprise” or even a “Wag the Dog” scenario.

Sheri FRech

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO AVERT MILITARY ESCALATION WITH CHINA IN THE
SOUTH CHINA SEA?
 

Mr. Bone Spurs is itching to be a War time Pres. Of course No one In
His family has ever fought for This Country.

Dorothy Jordan

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: CLASS SOLIDARITY: WHAT IT IS AND HOW YOU CAN ENGAGE IN IT
 

Before I saw this I'd never heard of Teen Vogue, let alone thought I
would recommend an article from it.

David Richardson

RE: THE US LABOR MOVEMENT NEEDS MORE OF THE UE’S “THEM AND US”
UNIONISM
 

Driving the CPUSA out of the CIO was the beginning of the end for the
American labor movement.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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UE and ILWU are the two unions that withstood George Meany's AFL-CIO
purge of progressives and Communists from the Labor Movement,,both
unions were led by progressives (accused of being Communists).

There's a story that ILWU's Harry Bridges used to tell about when he
and UE President James Matles compared their pay to see who was the
most progressive judging by how much each made. Bridges would laugh
and say in his Aussie brogue he won hands down.

Lincoln Smith

RE: NEWLY REVEALED DOCUMENTS SHOW HOW THE AFL-CIO AIDED US
INTERFERENCE IN VENEZUELA

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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My question to the AFL-CIO is this, how has this helped the cause of
rank and file members such as myself?

Carl Foster

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Despite the best intentions of millions of workers and even union
officials, this is just one more sordid example of why the US labor
movement needs to tear down its current administrative structures to
the very basement and completely rebuild. Until it does, American
workers, workers all over the world, will never have the
representation they need and deserve, 

Mike Liston

GREETINGS FROM PUERTO RICO.
 

[Re: Newly Revealed Documents Show How the AFL-CIO Aided US
Interference in Venezuela - posted on xxxxxx Labor
[[link removed]]]

Saludos desde Puerto Rico.

En vista de la gran informacion que proven y que con ella ampliamos
nuestro conocimiento del uso que, los EE. UU. , le a dado al
movimiento sindical de su territorio, para, desarticular los
movimientos sindicales progresistas en otros paises. Me gustaria que
si es possible, me envien informacion sobre la ingerencia de la
AFL-CIO y la SEIU, no solo en nuestro movimiento syndical, Tambien en
los asuntos politicos para afectar adversamente nuetra lucha por
nuestra independencia.

Miguel Angel Reyes De Jesus
 

_[Goggle translation:]_

Greetings from Puerto Rico.

In view of the great information that comes from and that with it we
expand our knowledge of the use that the United States has given to
the union movement in its territory, to dismantle progressive union
movements in other countries. I would like you to send me information
if possible about the interference of the AFL-CIO and the SEIU, not
only in our union movement, but also in political affairs to adversely
affect our fight for our independence.
 

IF TRUMP WINS...IF TRUMP LOSES  --  CARTOON BY MIKE STANFILL

Mike Stanfill

August 10, 2020
Raging Pencils
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RE: LETTER TO THE SOCIALISTS, OLD AND NEW
 

Dear Chris Townsend, I just read your letter to socialists, old and
new, young and old. As one of the oldest (at 92) I wish to tell you
that I agree completely with all you wrote. In fact, I wrote a whole
book basically saying the same ideas - but based on my own personal
experience living most of my life in a country (the GDR) trying to
build up socialism - with all its blunders and worse but also all its
important successes - all things to learn from. I would be over-happy
if you would read and analyze it. But any response would be welcome.
(The title is "A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee
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Salud! 

Victor Grossman

RE: WHAT IS PORTUGUESE-AMERICAN FOOD?

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
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I loved kale soup with chorizos and lots of garlic. Thought it was
authentic at the time.

Sonia Collins

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE (DAPL) COURT DECISION! (LAKOTA PEOPLE'S LAW
PROJECT)
 

In case you haven’t yet heard, yesterday an appellate court dropped
a big decision in the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s lawsuit to stop
the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL). Unfortunately, the court’s ruling
did not support immediately shutting down oil flow as we hoped.
However, the court also failed to reverse the lower court’s decision
to vacate DAPL’s permit to pass under Lake Oahe, Standing Rock’s
primary source of drinking water. DAPL’s continued operation is now
officially as illegal as it is dangerous.

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You likely recall that, a month ago, D.C. Circuit Court Judge James
Boasberg set a 30-day deadline for Energy Transfer to stop pumping oil
through DAPL. Yesterday’s appellate court decision is complex, but
it essentially delays that deadline while the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers decides whether to stop the oil given the absence of a
permit. The Corps can demand Energy Transfer comply with the National
Environmental Policy Act, shut down the oil, and perform a full
Environmental Impact Study.

If that doesn’t happen, we’ll see more arguments before Judge
Boasberg. Bottom line, this fight now looks likely to stretch into
2021, when a new administration could revoke DAPL’s permits for
good. I urge you to watch my video breakdown
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a positive outlook.

The struggle continues, but hope is on the horizon. We remain
optimistic, and we must keep fighting with all our collective
strength. We won’t stop until this pipeline is emptied and dug out
of our sacred ground. I look forward to the day we can gather together
at Standing Rock again — this time to celebrate the end of DAPL,
once and for all.
 

Wopila tanka — my eternal appreciation for standing with Standing
Rock!

Chase Iron Eyes

Lead Counsel

The Lakota People's Law Project

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547 South 7th Street #149

Bismarck, ND 58504-5859

MATT HERRON - R.I.P.

Matt Herron
Photo by Jeannine Herron.
RIP Matt Herron (1931-2020) A good friend and mentor, Matt was killed
Friday afternoon when his glider crashed near Lakeport, California. A
great photographer best known for his documentation of the Selma to
Montgomery march, Matt’s photographs of the southern freedom
movement were published in Life, Look, Time, Newsweek and the Saturday
Evening Post.

I am filled with sadness and admiration for a life filled with art and
purpose.

In 1964, with the encouragement and support of photographer Dorothea
Lange, Matt founded the Southern Documentary Project to cover the
civil rights movement.

That year, Matt invited me to work in his dark room at SNCC’s
headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia developing film from half a dozen
field photographers documenting the struggle against segregation and
for voting rights. As far as I know, no other civil rights
organization at the time had a full-time photography department.

If you want to see some of the best photographs for the Freedom
Movement, I recommend Matt's book "Mississippi Eyes"

Copyright and photograph by Matt Herron. Possibly the most important
photograph of the Selma to Montgomery March, the African American
museum in Washington, DC has this blown up the size of a wall.
Their photographs alerted America to the brutality of the police, the
Klan and the White Citizens Councils, similar to the exposure of
police violence that videos are providing today.

Matt later became the president of the American Society of Media
Photographers. We remained friends, working on projects together as
recently as two months ago, when he helped me by offering proof that
the those claiming to have wrested the copyright from the My Lai
Massacre photographer Ronald L. Haeberle were making false claims.

Dedicated to his family and the Albany, California Chamber Orchestra
where he played the double bass, Matt was passionate about flying
gliders…right to the end.

Matt and his wife Jeannine at a SNCC reunion in Mississippi.
Photo by Ron Carver
Read his own words written in 2016, explaining his passion for testing
his skills pushing the limits, while pursuing his dreams. It is a
"hair-raising" account of his pursuit of soaring's highest honor.

“Last Thursday, May 19, I crossed a big one off my bucket list. I
was able to fly my glider to 27,000 feet in mountain wave over Minden,
Nevada, a final requirement for the highest award in soaring, the
Diamond Badge.

“Why would I ever want to do this? That's a good question that
probably only has answers lodged in emotion. I've been flying gliders
for more than fourteen years. I've logged more than 1,400 hours in the
air. I fly contests and long cross country flights.

And I'm approaching 85, an age when fellow glider pilots begin
throwing questioning glances my way: “Is this guy still fit to fly?
Isn't it time he began flying that old rocking chair?” There's no
easy, and no single answer to those questions. In one attempt, I wrote
a piece for Soaring Magazine last year: “You Are Old Father William,
The Young (Pilot) Said.”

This flight was another answer, as much for myself as for my friends.
In the final analysis, one makes that critical judgment based on
personal evaluations of coordination, skill, judgment, and physical
conditioning. Personally, I have no doubts – I love this sport, and
I know I have some

    good years ahead!

“Mountain wave, for those not familiar with the term, is a
meteorological condition in which strong winds rising against a
mountain range generate reference waves downstream in much the same
way that a stream of fast flowing water generates reference waves
below a large rock. If conditions are right, a glider positioned at
the leading edge of a downstream wave can rise as if on an elevator to
astonishing heights. The current record of over 50,000 feet was
achieved in special wave conditions over the Southern Andes.

“At seven last Thursday morning, I stood next to a Minden runway and
watched the launch of the Perlan, a custom pressurized glider (the
only one in existence) that is being tested here for an attempted
record flight in Andes wave to 90,000 feet, the edge of the
Troposphere. Only gliders and space shuttles) can fly that high. The
air is too thin for engines. (In my much more mundane flight that day,
I outdid the Perlan, which encountered technical problems at 24,000.)

“At 10:15 that morning, I sat in my glider on Runway 16, waiting to
be hooked to the tow plane. Much preparation had gone into that
moment. This past Spring I'd installed a new oxygen system that
automatically delivered the correct amount of O2 whenever I took a
breath, and I was now wearing a high tech oxygen mask that muffled my
voice and made me feel a bit like I was trapped inside a space suit.

I also carried an emergency oxygen bottle. If my system were to fail
at 27,000 feet, I would be left with only about three minutes of
usable consciousness, but the emergency bottle would certainly get me
down to a safe altitude. I was wearing a new parachute and multiple
layers of clothing as if for the ski slopes. At the altitude I was
attempting, the temperature could be minus 20 Celsius.

“The launch was pretty wild. The wind was above 20 knots with heavy
turbulence and I had to devote all my attention to staying behind the
tow plane, which was surging above and below (and sometime beside) me.
Mountain wave conditions are often accompanied by rotor – turbulent
rolling winds sort of like ball bearings tumbling below a rotating
wheel – and there was plenty of rotor to contend with.

“Because I needed an unassisted altitude gain of 5,000 meters (about
16,300 feet) to qualify for Diamond, I had instructed the tow pilot
that I would release tow at no higher than 10,000 feet, and asked him
to wiggle his wings when he felt we were in good position for a climb.
FAA regulations set a ceiling of 18,000 for non-commercial aircraft,
but in a special exception for gliders, the FAA has established
certain “wave windows,” restricted airspace where gliders upon
request can fly above the eighteen thousand limit. The Minden wave
window has a ceiling of 28,000 feet, and Oakland Flight Center had
opened the window that day until noon. Oakland would now vector all
commercial flights around the window leaving that space theoretically
free of uncomfortably close encounters of the hairy kind!

“I got the wiggle, and released at ten, retracted my landing wheel,
and made a brief dive to leave a notch in my flight altitude recorder
so it would be clear where unassisted flight had begun. Then began the
search for lift. The rotor was pretty wild. It would suddenly and
precipitously launch me skyward and then just as quickly dump me
toward the ground. There were no clouds to guide me so a patient
search was required, but eventually I began to find little bubbles of
smooth lift, and after a bit settled into a steady smooth climb,
pointing into the wind at 42 knots (just above stall speed), almost
stationery over the ground, tracking the audible beep of my
variometer, which was showing an average climb rate of close to 1,000
feet per minute. I thought I had it made as I watched the snow capped
Sierra Massive drop below me, the blue waters of Lake Tahoe fill out
my canopy to the right, and the needle of my altimeter rotate steadily
upward.

“Those are the grand moments of any wave flight. It's a magnificent
feeling, and I often imagine I can hear the sonorous strains of the
Blue Danube Waltz (from the film Two Thousand And One) ringing in my
one good ear.

“But of course all good things have to end. I climbed into the wave
window at eighteen and rose at a diminishing rate to about 20,000
feet. Now I began noticing icing on my canopy as my breath frosted the
inside surface, and I began to worry that the whole canopy might soon
ice over and I would lose outside vision. That could be a fatal error
and I would have to give up the flight and descend long before I lost
outside vision. I opened the canopy vent to let more (very cold) air
flow through, which exhausted my frosty breath and prevented further
icing. But the wave was clearly dying. My rate of gain fell from ten
knots to 2-3 knots, barely enough to sustain altitude, and I began
searching to the South and drifting upwind and downwind within the
wave band. The success of the flight was now in doubt, but using all
my thermalling instincts to locate the best lift, I was able to
sustain a very slow ascent. I passed 25,000 and then 26,500,
theoretically enough for a Diamond, but I pushed on, adding a safety
factor to 27,226 feet the high point of the flight. Was I happy to
have made it? And was I more than ready to leave that hostile
environment? Take a guess.

“So it was with considerable relief that I pulled spoilers and began
my descent. Now my only problem was a safe landing. I learned that
ground winds at the airport were now gusting to 32 knots. I've landed
before in cross winds (angled to the runway) of 20 knots. It's hairy,
but doable. But 32 knots??? I flew over the Minden airport at about
4,000 feet trying without success to get a good fix on a wind sock.
Finally I just flew straight into the wind, judging my drift against
the runways below, and discovered that I would experience significant
cross wind on any of them. The only favorable runway was one that had
been abandoned years ago and had large white “X's” painted on each
end. But I knew it was landable – rough but landable and I chose
that one. I entered pattern high with full spoilers and fought my way
down to about 100 feet where the wind moderated and everything got
easy. I was soooo grateful to be safe on the ground!

“The rest, of course is anti-climatic: check the certification of
the Flight Recorder, coordinate with my "Official Observer," the guy
who witnessed my flight, fill out all the paperwork, and hope that all
the ducks sit nicely in a row. I won't know until I receive
confirmation from the Soaring Society of America, but I'm pretty sure
I made a qualifying flight. Wish me luck!”

Ron Carver

posting on Facebook
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REPUBLICAN VOTERS AGAINST TRUMP
 

“I’D VOTE FOR A TUNA FISH SANDWICH BEFORE I’D VOTE FOR DONALD
TRUMP AGAIN.”

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Trump for president this fall.

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F*CK LA MIGRA — POSTER OF THE WEEK (CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF
POLITICAL GRAPHICS)
 

F*ck La Migra
Xico Gonzalez, Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF)
Silkscreen, 2006
Sacramento, CA
25960
On Friday, July 31st, Border Patrol agents, under the premise of
executing a federal search warrant, arrested more than 30 migrants at
the medical aid camp run by the humanitarian group No More Deaths.
Agents surrounded the camp after sunset in several armored vehicles,
ATVs, and two helicopters as they arrested both undocumented
immigrants receiving care, and medical volunteers. The camp is located
in Arivaca, Arizona, and serves as a medical site for people passing
through one of the deadliest desert corridors.

Three years ago, No More Deaths published documents revealing that the
Border Patrol’s national union had ordered a crackdown on the
organization’s humanitarian work. Last month’s violent and public
raid marks the second time in two years that the Border Patrol has
terrorized No More Deaths’ aid stations as a form of retaliation for
exposing their corruption.

Some of the agents that took part in the raid appeared to be members
of the Border Patrol’s Tactical Unit, known as BORTAC. They are
considered to be the Customs and Border Protection equivalent of a
SWAT team. These are the same commando-style units that were filmed
kidnapping protesters into unmarked cars in Portland.

Since coming into office in 2016, Trump’s xenophobic and hateful
anti-immigrant rhetoric has empowered and enabled government agencies
like Border Patrol to act unchecked. Their terrorizing actions have
only escalated over the years, from the separation of families,
children being put in cages, and the ending lifeline programs, such as
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Temporary Protective
Status. These agencies need to be reigned-in, held accountable, and
defunded.

Sources:

* Multiple arrests in Border Patrol raid on migrant aid camp
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* Border Patrol Launches Militarized Raid of Borderlands
Humanitarian Aid Camp
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* Militarized BORTAC Border Patrol Raids & Ransacks Medical Camp on
U.S. Border, Arrests 30 Migrants
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MOVEMENT MATTERS: BUILDING CAPACITY FOR CHANGE
 

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​We welcome questions, thoughts, and dialogue on these tools,
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information about joining the webinar. _

PANELISTS WILL DISCUSS:

* Why reopening the economy now is economically counterproductive;
 
* Why we _CAN_ afford to float the economy and meet people’s
needs until it is safe to reopen;
 
* Why the best way to respond to the COVID-19 public health and
economic crisis is to enact legislation that meets current needs while
simultaneously laying the foundation for a permanent restructuring of
public policy in the United States to build a just, egalitarian and
anti-racist society committed to the realization of everyone’s
civil, political, economic, social and cultural human rights
everywhere in the world.

SPEAKERS:

* WALTER TSOU, former Commissioner of the Philadelphia Department of
Health and past President of the American Public Health Association.
* PHILIP HARVEY, Professor of Law and Economics, Rutgers Law School,
and author of _Securing the Right to Employment: Social Welfare
Policy and the Unemployed in the United States_.
* WILLIAM DARITY, Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of
Public Policy, Professor of African and African American Studies, and
Professor of Economics, Duke University, and coauthor, with Kirsten
Mullen of _From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in
the Twenty-First Century_.
* RADHIKA BALAKRISHNAN, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies,
Rutgers University, Faculty Director of the Rutgers Center for
Women’s Global Leadership, and co-author with James Heintz and Diane
Elson of _Rethinking Economic Policy for Social Justice: The Radical
Potential of Human Rights._
* JOEL SEGAL, Co-Founder and Board Member, Progressive Democrats of
America; Co-Convenor, US National COVID-19 Emergency Response Group;
and former Staffer to Rep. John Conyers with responsibility for
overseeing H.R. 676, Rep. Conyers’s Medicare for All Act, and H.R.
1000, Mr. Conyers’s “Humphrey-Hawkins 21st Century Full
Employment and Training Act,” also known as the “Jobs for All
Act.”
*  ALAN MINSKY, Executive Director, Progressive Democrats of
America; long-time progressive activist and journalist.

Contact:

Dr. Paul Zeitz, Executive Director, Build A Movement 2020 

mobile: +1-202-365-6786 | email: [email protected]

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WEBINAR - "COMFORT WOMEN": THE DAY OF REMEMBRANCE - AUGUST 14
 

TOMORROW, FRIDAY, 14 AUGUST AT 9PM ET, we will be hosting our
third webinar of a four-part series, "COMFORT WOMEN": THE DAY OF
REMEMBRANCE. 

_What is the Day of Remembrance and why is it particularly
significant?_

Also known as JAPANESE MILITARY COMFORT WOMEN VICTIMS MEMORIAL
DAY, it was on this day in 1991 that a comfort woman survivor, Kim
Hak-soon, became the first to testify about the hardships she went
through during WWII. It was a watershed moment, breaking decades of
silence of women who could not speak of their suffering in
the hostile societies of a post-war world.

Following her precedent, other courageous testimonies began to emerge
in other countries. It became apparent that although Kim Hak-soon was
a South Korean woman, her suffering was shared by scores of women in
China, the Philippines, Southeast Asia, and many others in Japan and
Japan-occupied territories who were forced into comfort women stations
and abused. In honour of the voices who dwelt on the margins, this
webinar seeks to introduce the problem of "comfort women" in other
countries beyond Korea. It hopes to demonstrate that this is an
international issue transcending national boundaries, and
requires global commitment to fully resolve. 

_Who will be speaking and how are their voices relevant to the Day of
Remembrance?_

Foremost on the agenda is a testimony by a FILIPINO "COMFORT WOMEN"
SURVIVOR, as we commemorate the remarkable bravery and strength of
women who lived and spoke for justice in spite of their pain.

We are also delighted to have with us PROFESSOR PEIPEI
QIU and PROFESSOR YOSHIMI YOSHIAKI, distinguished and pioneering
scholars on the "comfort women" issue in China and Japan respectively.
Their longstanding work in this field of contested history traces the
development and history of the "comfort women" advocacy movement.
Complementarily, JUDITH MIRKINSON of the "Comfort Women" Justice
Coalition and SHARON CABUSAO of Lila-Pilipina will speak about their
experiences and leadership in their advocacy.

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Feel free to also drop us an email at
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Stay tuned for more updates in the coming days: including the detailed
webinar agenda, relevant links, and more. Follow our social media
pages below!

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Lila-Pilipina (Facebook
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ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH SUNRISE MOVEMENT, NY WFP & NYC DSA - AUGUST
26 (NEW YORK COMMUNITIES FOR CHANGE)
 

A Roundtable with Varshini Prakash, Bianca Cunningham, Sochie Nnaemeka

JOIN US AT 6:30PM ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26TH...

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NYCOFI's 11th Celebration of the Work of New York Communities for
Change!

We didn't want the pandemic to stop us from celebrating our 11th year
of organizing victories and the brilliance of our honorees:

* SOCHIE NNAEMEKA of New York Working Families Party
* BIANCA CUNNINGHAM of NYC-DSA
* VARSHINI PRAKASH of the Sunrise Movement

Join us for an intimate roundtable discussion with our special
honorees! We've heard from them about the latest climate policy,
winning electoral strategies, sustaining national grassroots movement
to radically transform the world. But how do they care for themselves?
How do they sustain themselves in this moment? From their morning
routine to the things that keep them grounded and going, hear our
honorees answer the hard and honest questions!

All donations to this page will be made to our 501c4 New York
Communities for change and are _not_ tax-deductible.

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New York Communities Organizing Fund, Inc. (NYCOFI)
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“THE INTERNATIONALE” - WEB SHOWING AND DISCUSSION WITH FILM'S
DIRECTOR - AUGUST 30 (ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE ARCHIVES - ALBA)
 

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 5 PM EDT/2 PM PDT
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Join ALBA for “The Internationale” - The award-winning documentary
about the revolutionary anthem; 

Followed by a discussion with the film’s director, ALBA Board member
Peter Miller

Other special guests to be announced!

"A stirring documentary about the radical song and its impact on
social change throughout the world." - 

- Detroit Free Press

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New York, NY
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(212) 674-5398

28TH JIM PERRY PROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP AWARDS - ALBANY, NY - SEPTEMBER
10 (CITIZEN ACTION)
 

Please join us as we celebrate the 28TH JIM PERRY PROGRESSIVE
LEADERSHIP AWARDS from 6-8pm on Thursday, September 10, 2020. This
year we'll be honoring:

* LAURA FELTS, Executive Director of United Tenants of Albany;
* LISA GOOD, Founder of Urban Grief;
* ANGELA WARNER, Director of Social Justice Ministries at St.
Vincent de Paul Church; and
* BHAWIN SUCHAK and DARIAN HENRY, Co-founders of YouthFX.

Due to the event capacity limitations brought about by COVID-19,
in-person attendance for the event will be limited to this year's
honorees, honoree-invited guests, Citizen Action staff, and Capital
District chapter board members. All other registrants will have the
ability to participate in the event virtually via Zoom; registering
using the form below will automatically register you for the Zoom
event as well. Please note that each ticket must be purchased
individually.

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