[Reader Comments: Could Trump Win-Is He Planning a Coup?; Women
Given Hysterectomies Without Consent by ICE; There Cannot be Peace
without Freedom-Thoughts on the "Peace Deal"; Scourge of Racism; Use
Art to Raise Antiracist Kids; Lots of Announcements]
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TIDBITS - SEPT. 17, 2020 - READER COMMENTS: COULD TRUMP WIN-IS HE
PLANNING A COUP?; WOMEN GIVEN HYSTERECTOMIES WITHOUT CONSENT BY ICE;
NO PEACE WITHOUT FREEDOM-THOUGHTS ON "PEACE DEAL"; SCOURGE OF RACISM;
USE ART TO RAISE ANTIRACIST KIDS; ANNOUNCEMENTS  
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_ Reader Comments: Could Trump Win-Is He Planning a Coup?; Women
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Sept. 17, 2020, xxxxxx

 

Re: Why and How Trump Could Win (Patricia Dossett; Ann Davis; Phyllis
Aldrich; Ralph Stalter Jr)
Re: Is Trump Planning a Coup d’État? (Frank Waddle; Richard A.
Villanueva; Lydia Evangelista)
Wingman  --  cartoon by Rob Rogers
Re: It’s Showtime: Rolling Up Our Sleeves to Beat Trump (Ron Knaub)
Re: Democrats Build Big Edge in Early Voting (Vickie McKibben)
Re: Rhode Island's Progressive Wave Was Four Years in the Making
(Daniel Millstone)
Don't Panic. This Is Fine  --  cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz
Re: Women in ICE Detention Centers Were Reportedly Given
Hysterectomies Without Informed Consent (Dr. Amin Irwin; Jay; Miriam
Bensman; Lenny Intreglia)
Re: 'Do No Harm': An Open Letter From Stanford Medical Faculty (Sue
Speir; Jeff Pettit; Aida Rivera; Anne Schedeen; Anne Marie Freeburger;
Vivian Williams; Kaje Harper; Evelyn Laux; Cindy Trame Weiher)
There Cannot be Peace without Freedom - Thoughts on the "Peace Deal"
(Linda Sarsour)
Trump Is Not a Barbarian - He's a Psychopath (Robert Supansic)
Re: Fighting Evictions: The 1930s and Now (Steve Smith)
Re: The Great White Heist (Eileen LLorens; Kate Lager-Friesner; Philip
Specht)
Re: Nearly Two-Thirds of US Young Adults Unaware 6m Jews Killed in the
Holocaust (Thomas Spellman)
Killing Time  --  cartoon by Mike Stanfill
Re: I Danced in the Streets after Allende’s Victory in Chile 50
Years Ago. Now I See its Lessons for Today (Sam Webb; Nora Vargas
Acosta)
Re: Understanding Socialism (Marlena Santoyo)
Re: The Revolutionary Life and Times of Ruth First, and Her Legacy
(Jay Schaffner; Marilyn Albert; Tito Delgado)
Re: The Labor Abuses of Ellen DeGeneres (Jennie Diaz; Kay Crete;
Magali Cardec; Maggie Rodriguez)
 

YOUR ACTION NEEDED:

DEMAND CHILE DROP CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST FEMINIST ARTS GROUP (CENTER
FOR THE STUDY OF POLITICAL GRAPHICS)
 

RESOURCES:

Yo! Semite! by Si Kahn - A Song for Today's Times
A Powerful Tool For The Conversations We Need To Be Having - Use Art
to Raise Antiracist Kids (Radici Studios)
 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Webinar: No New Cold War: Chinese Foreign Policy and US Aggression -
September 20 (Socialist Sunday School on China - Committees of
Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism)
The Intricacies and Intersections of Climate, Abolition, and
Decolonization - September 23 (Peoples Climate Movement NY and March
for Science New York City)
Metro New York Labor Communications Council - 45th Annual Convention -
September 30
Call for Papers  -  LAWCHA Conference: 2021 - Workers on the Front
Lines May 26-28, 2021 - Paper Submissions due by October 1
Ta-Nehisi Coates to Address “Racial Equity and Housing Justice
During and After COVID-19” on October 6 (National Low Income Housing
Coalition)

 

RE: WHY AND HOW TRUMP COULD WIN
 

But what about the fact that if we don't fix the planet, there will be
no movement whatsoever? We'll all be gone. And  the first hit will be
the poor and disenfranchised! Save the planet and work on race
relations, both

Patricia Dossett

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We need to quit focusing on racism and start focusing on seeing all
people as equal and all made in the image of God.

Ann Davis
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that's what focusing on ending racism does. Focuses on equality

Phyllis Aldrich
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Let me repeat this: The majority of white voters have voted for the
party of racism in every presidential election held during the last 52
years without exception. Over the last dozen presidential elections,
an average of 55.8% of whites have voted for the political party that
has been the most publicly identified with racist philosophy,
policies, and values, and the political party that has been the least
friendly to the interests of black and brown people. Four years ago,
57% of white voters voted racist in the presidential election.

Ralph Stalter Jr
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: IS TRUMP PLANNING A COUP D’ÉTAT?
 

Frank Waddle
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For the "Moron" to have a Coup d'Etat, he would need the help of the
Military and after what he has said about our Veterans, Military
Women, Men, and Dead calling the "Losers and Suckers", along with the
knowledge of the bounties from the Russian on Military Personnel, I
really don't think he has the back up of the Military at all. They may
storm him instead.

Richard A. Villanueva
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Maybe! But it depends upon the military to follow his orders. The
dangerous thing is telling his supporters to start protesting if he
loses.

Lydia Evangelista
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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WINGMAN  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS
 

Rob Rogers
September 15, 2020
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RE: IT’S SHOWTIME: ROLLING UP OUR SLEEVES TO BEAT TRUMP
 

T=traitor, R=racist, U=unfaithful, M=male chauvinist, P=pig

Ron Knaub
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: DEMOCRATS BUILD BIG EDGE IN EARLY VOTING
 

Don't get our hopes up. Don't jinx it . Please get out and vote

Vickie McKibben
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: RHODE ISLAND'S PROGRESSIVE WAVE WAS FOUR YEARS IN THE MAKING
 

I had totally missed the growth and election victories of the left in
Rhode Island described here by Ryan Grim
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for sending it along. In the comments, a link to the Rhode Island
Political Coopérative.

Daniel Millstone
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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DON'T PANIC. THIS IS FINE  --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ
 

Lalo Alcaraz
September 16, 2020
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RE: WOMEN IN ICE DETENTION CENTERS WERE REPORTEDLY GIVEN
HYSTERECTOMIES WITHOUT INFORMED CONSENT
 

Every doctor in order to obtain their medical license must take what
is called the Hippocratic Oath. The Hippocratic Oath basically states
this- first do no harm. This is Nazi shit. The same procedures and
methods were used on Jewish women in concentration camps, the Nazis
also had programs in place to sterilize women they suspected might
have children with down syndrome or other ailments that ran against
the Nazi ideals of White superiority. This is a program under the
Trump administration, he had these people rounded up, separated from
their children, tracking the women's menstrual cycles and then
performing hysterectomies on them against their consent. Trump
supporters this is YOUR AMERICA not mine.

Dr. Amin Irwin County detention center Georgia .

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This is like the forced "medical experiments" that were conducted on
African American me at Tuskegee; or the experiments on twins conducted
by Josef Mengle in Nazi concentration camps.

Jay Schaffner
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Its what was routinely done to poor black and latinx women coming in
for abortions, births and other procedures—for decades.

Miriam Bensman
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Pure EVIL

Lenny Intreglia
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: 'DO NO HARM': AN OPEN LETTER FROM STANFORD MEDICAL FACULTY
 

Am grateful they are speaking up. We need truth, not lies if we are
ever going to get out of this pandemic.

Sue Speir
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In an unusual and blunt rebuttal of a former colleague, 99 Stanford
medical experts reject the "falsehoods and misrepresentations of
science" concerning Covid 19 by Dr. Scott Atlas, a Trump advisor,
warning of "immense avoidable harm."

Jeff Pettit
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He is a doctor in radiology... no expert in the field needed to fight
Covid19.

Aida Rivera
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It’s pathetic these 99 beleaguered scientists are forced to defend
settled scientific fact.

Get the GOP creeps out of governance. Stop the lies and corruption.

Anne Schedeen
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I learned that “Do no Harm” was the primary directive for doctors.
I am very disappointed by doctors who cave in to the dotard and
don’t follow that directive. Bigly SAD!

Anne Marie Freeburger
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Would you explain Sweden’s plan and how it is working???

Vivian Williams
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It's not. Deaths per million residents:
Sweden - 578
other countries that border on it -
Denmark - 109
Finland - 61
Norway - 49
even The Netherlands (highest density) - 365

Kaje Harper
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Norway and Finland locked down, Sweden didn't.

Evelyn Laux
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I applaud you and thank you for this fact based article

Cindy Trame Weiher
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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THERE CANNOT BE PEACE WITHOUT FREEDOM - THOUGHTS ON THE "PEACE DEAL"
 

A lot of folks have been asking me about my thoughts on the "peace
deals" between some gulf nations and the state of Israel. Deals being
brokered amongst dictatorships and regimes. 

I am not an expert on foreign policy but I am a Palestinian American,
daughter of Palestinian immigrants with family still living in both
the West Bank and Gaza, and a descendant of generations of
Palestinians. 

You cannot make peace without the people who need peace the most.
Palestinians are not at the table because the Palestinians don't want
peace without justice. Malcolm X once said words that never rung
truer:

“You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at
peace unless he has his freedom.”

NO ONE can negotiate the liberation of the Palestinian people but the
Palestinian people. We are a people that deserve to live with full
dignity, sovereignty and HUMAN RIGHTS.

END THE US TAX-FUNDED ILLEGAL OCCUPATION.
LIFT THE SIEGE ON GAZA.
HONOR THE RIGHT OF RETURN OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES.

These are where the conversations begin, other than that - this is all
moot. 

Listen to Palestinians. Listen to the oppressed people who will
benefit from a just resolution to this longstanding injustice. 

FREE PALESTINE.

Linda Sarsour
posting on Facebook
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TRUMP IS NOT A BARBARIAN - HE'S A PSYCHOPATH
 

In December 2015, eleven months before the 2016 election, I sent a
letter to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette which was not published. It
contained the sentence, “Now comes Donald Trump, a Visigoth in a
business suit.”

I must now apologize to Visigoths everywhere. Barbarians did not
dismiss those who died in the their wars as “losers.” As far as I
can tell, they honored them. Barbarians did not despoil their
environment. It is said that the Mongols leveled cities in an attempt
to revert them into grasslands. But even they knew they depended on
their environment because they were not shielded from it by industrial
capitalism. It is believed that the Mongols triggered the spread of
Black Death into Europe by hurling diseased corpses into the besieged
Crimean town of Kaffa in 1346. But that was directed toward enemies.
To my knowledge barbarians did not consciously promote the spread of
contagious diseases among their own people. They did not tell their
people to avoid wearing masks when they knew that a virus was
spreading through airborne droplets.

Trump is not a barbarian. He is deeply sociopathic enough to merit the
term “madman.” Traditionally madmen were thought to pose enough of
a danger to the community at large to require that they be locked up.
Remarkably the media, with a few timid exceptions, has largely refused
to connect the dots, repeating Trump’s claim that he was only trying
to “avoid creating a panic.” It is one thing to calm people’s
fears and quite another to actively promote the cause of those fears.

Trump believes that if he creates enough chaos, people will turn to
him as a strong leader, the proverbial “man on horseback.” He is
stupid enough to fail to see that works only if people do not see him
as the cause of the chaos. In this the media is once again indulging
their penchant, not for “fake news,” but for fake ignorance. In
trying to avoid dealing with the implications of his actions, they
thereby condone it.

Robert Supansic

 

RE: FIGHTING EVICTIONS: THE 1930S AND NOW
 

What we need is a universal basic income so people can afford to live
decently. Even landlords have bills to pay.

Steve Smith
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: THE GREAT WHITE HEIST
 

Same applies about reparations to Puerto Rico.
#freePuertoRico no more slavery!

Eileen LLorens
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Really helpful information. We need more people to know this

Kate Lager-Friesner
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Both White and Black wage earners pay taxes, property taxes, sales
taxes, and income taxes.
Ever since the Civil War, almost all of that tax money has gone to
benefit Whites,

Philip Specht
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RE: NEARLY TWO-THIRDS OF US YOUNG ADULTS UNAWARE 6M JEWS KILLED IN THE
HOLOCAUST
 

If 2/3 are unaware of the 6 million how many are unaware of the ??
Millions of gays and socialist and disabled etc etc etc who were also
killed  At some point the truth needs to be expanded. It does not do
the Jewish Community any good to isolate themselves from the horror
of the HATE that was brought to the surface in the 1930 in Nazi
Germany.  Just a point in passing.

Thomas Spellman

 

KILLING TIME  --  CARTOON BY MIKE STANFILL
 

Mike Stanfill
September 14, 2020
Raging Pencils
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Killing Time

The following is what statisticians are predicting about the election:

Most Biden voters will be voting by mail. Most t-Rrump voters will be
voting in person.

As a result, t-Rump will appear to have won by a landslide on Election
Day.

Three or more days later, once all the mail-in votes have been
counted, Biden will win in a landslide with at least 400 electoral
votes.

t-Rump will declare himself President on Day One and institute the
Insurrection Act in order to raise the level of chaos. It will then be
a huge legal battle to get all the of votes counted. Especially the
mail-in votes as they're counted last.

Be aware of this situation and don't let t-Rump bullshit you.

 

RE: I DANCED IN THE STREETS AFTER ALLENDE’S VICTORY IN CHILE 50
YEARS AGO. NOW I SEE ITS LESSONS FOR TODAY
 

On September 11, 1973 the Popular Unity government led by socialist
Salvador Allende was overthrown in a bloody coup in which Henry
Kissinger and the Nixon administration played an organizing role from
afar. Allende was a heroic figure whose name will echo long into the
future and the Popular Unity government was a heroic effort to break
free from the chains of oligarchy and imperialism, whose legacy will
endure long into the future. 
When I was chair of the Communist Party --- and attempting to rethink
our history, ideology, politics, and role --- I would from time to
time say that we might have as much or more to learn from the
trajectory and fate of Allende and Popular Unity government than from
Lenin and the Russian Revolution.

Sam Webb
Posting on Facebook

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"The death of Chilean democracy and inauguration of a reign of terror
— symbolized by Allende’s death at the Presidential Palace on
Sept. 11, 1973 — also turned the country into a ruthless laboratory
for neoliberal economics, the same savage capitalism that is being
vigorously contested in the United States today"

Nora Vargas Acosta
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: UNDERSTANDING SOCIALISM

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
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Wolff argues that cooperatives where workers function democratically
as their own employers would not only radically transform the economy
but also deeply change the relationship between the everyday people
and the state. Collectively, with their greater control over the power
of the purse, workers would gain an influence on local, state, and
national politics that today is primarily enjoyed by private-sector
employers.

Marlena Santoyo
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: THE REVOLUTIONARY LIFE AND TIMES OF RUTH FIRST, AND HER LEGACY
 

Ruth First was an inspiration to those fighting apartheid. Her
assassination 38 years ago shocked the movement fighting apartheid,
including those in the United States. Here is a moving tribute to her
from one of her comrades, Ronnie Kasrils. (Kasrils was a member of
Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the ANC’s military wing, since its inception
in 1961. In 1983 he was appointed Chief of MK Intelligence.)

Jay
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a great heroine

Marilyn Albert
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Thank you excellent article very educational and inspiring. Keep up
the good work xxxxxx

Tito Delgado

 

RE: THE LABOR ABUSES OF ELLEN DEGENERES

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I really am in shock over this

Jennie Diaz
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Not at all surprised - simpering on the outside - diabolical within.

Kay Crete
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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$$$$$power

Magali Cardec
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She works very very hard, has people on her when she goes out for a
walk, people on her when she walks in at work, has to perform, every
day, tops. She’s not god and not perfect. Went thru hell when she
first came out, getting all kind of blows, opening a path for others.
She has made the day for zillions of people everyday, year after year.
Cut her slack people!

Maggie Rodriguez
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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DEMAND CHILE DROP CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST FEMINIST ARTS GROUP (CENTER
FOR THE STUDY OF POLITICAL GRAPHICS)
 

Ni Miedosas, Ni Obedientes, Ni Submisas
Not Afraid, Not Obedient, Not Submissive 
Gran Om & Kloer
Digital print, 2020
Mexico City, Mexico
On Sept 11, 1973, 47 years ago today, the democratically elected
government of Chilean President Salvador Allende was overthrown by a
U.S.-supported military coup. During the 17-year-long brutal military
dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, more than 3,000 were killed
or disappeared and over 40,000 were tortured and imprisoned. Although
the Pinochet regime officially ended in 1990, much of the
dictatorship’s legal system remains, including the Chilean
constitution. 

Military police in Chile recently filed charges against Las Tesis, the
interdisciplinary feminist collective whose protest performance, “Un
Violador En Tu Camino/A Rapist in Your Path” became a viral
sensation in 2019. Authorities claim that the collective is
“inciting hatred and disobedience against authority.” One of the
lines stated, “And the fault wasn’t mine, not where I was, not how
I dressed. You are the rapist.”

Last month, Special Rapporteurs of the United Nations Human Rights
Council asked the Chilean state to drop criminal charges. “Las Tesis
has been key in denouncing police violence and violence against women
in Chile. The State has an obligation to protect human rights
defenders. It should not prosecute them for exercising their freedoms
of expression and peaceful assembly."

The charges filed against Las Tesis are a flagrant attempt to
intimidate and silence not only the collective, but all Chilean women,
and validates their activism. Femicide in Chile and around the world
is one of the leading causes of death for women, often at the hands of
partners and men known to them. Internationally, at least 66,000 women
and girls are murdered each year.

‘A Rapist in Your Path,’ is a protest performance bringing
attention to the violence women face on a daily basis. It was first
performed at a protest in the city of Valparaíso in Chile in November
2019, and became a viral video almost instantly. Since then, the
protest has also been performed in Colombia, Mexico, France, India,
and in the U.S. This collective display of international solidarity
serves as another reminder of the violence and injustices women across
the world face on a daily basis.

The green scarves represent “La Marea Verde” (the Green Wave), a
massive international women’s movement demanding sexual and
reproductive health, and other rights. This movement began in
Argentina, then spread to Chile and beyond, and its green scarf is now
a symbol of women’s resistance throughout the world.

Sources:

* Chile’s political crisis is another brutal legacy of long-dead
dictator Pinochet
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* Chile urged to drop criminal charges against Las Tesis over
‘Rapist in Your Path’ performance
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* Chile Must Drop Criminal Charges Against Feminist Arts Group
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* How the viral protest ‘A Rapist in Your Path’ became a defiant
anthem for 2019
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* ¿Quiénes son Las Tesis, el colectivo feminista detrás de “El
violador eres tú”? Who are Las Tesis, the feminist collective
behind the "The Rapist in Your Path"?
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Center for the Study of Political Graphics
3916 Sepulveda Blvd, Suite 103
Culver City, CA 90230
[email protected]

 

YO! SEMITE! BY SI KAHN - A SONG FOR TODAY'S TIMES
 

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Words and music to “Yo! Semite!" by Si Kahn.  © 2020 by Joe Hill
Music LLC.

 

A POWERFUL TOOL FOR THE CONVERSATIONS WE NEED TO BE HAVING - USE ART
TO RAISE ANTIRACIST KIDS
 

“The work of Antiracism is becoming a better human to other
humans.” 
- Austin Channing Brown

I love this framing. I want to be a better human to other humans. Most
people I know want to be a better human to other humans, and the
teachers, caregivers, and parents I know want to raise humans who are
better humans to other humans. And yet, the _“how”_ can feel
overwhelmingly complex.

We read the books, we listen to the podcasts, and yet it can still
feel so hard to know how to take action and talk to the kids in our
life about these issues. We may even try to have these conversations,
only to find that it comes out wrong, or the kids get confused, or
scared, or just look at us blankly.  

This is where the arts can be a powerful tool. Kids instinctively make
art, and tell stories, and dance, and play. They don’t instinctively
have complex conversations about the impacts of historical and
ongoing harm committed against communities of color. We have to
nurture and guide this work. The arts are an incredible entry point
into the self-reflection, connection and community healing necessary
for real, systemic change to take place.

So… how do we use the arts to make this happen? I’ve been working
on developing answers to this very question for years, and I’d love
to share my strategies to empower you to engage with the children in
your lives, too!
 

5 Ways to Use Art to Raise Antiracist Kids

A FREE WEBINAR

SEPTEMBER 22ND, 8:15 PM PST

Art is a great tool to help parents, teachers, and caregivers have
hard conversations about racism and white supremacy with kids. In this
free hour-long webinar we will explore 5 tangible ways to incorporate
art in your own journey of raising and educating anti-racist kids.
There will also be time for talking through your questions. No
experience with art-making required. If you can’t make the webinar
time, a recording will be sent afterwards. To sign up click the button
below and you will be sent the zoom link- For more information about
the Webinar teacher, Jen Bloomer, click here
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longer 5-week class on Raising Anti-Racist Kids Through Art click
here. [[link removed]]

I know not all of you have young kids in your life, but I would be so
appreciative if you would be willing to forward this on to anyone you
know who might be interested, and if you can post it on parent
networks or listserves you are a part of- amazing! As a side note, I
don’t think you have to have kids to benefit from the webinar,
though that will be the lens. 

Please reach out with any questions. As a white woman raising
multi-racial kids, this work is close to my heart, and was born of
many years of art facilitation, activism, studies in expressive art
therapy and ongoing learning from those closest to me. I hope it finds
resonance out in the world.

P.S. As I mentioned above, I’m also launching a more in depth
version of this class- Raising Anti-racist Kids Through Art: A 5 Week
Course for Parents, Caregivers and Teachers
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I will share more about in the coming weeks.

P.P.S. There’s still time to support the Radici We Rise We Vote
Fundraiser- check out the new totes, and t-shirts here
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All proceeds go to Woke Vote
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Mijente
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and Alliance for Youth Action
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Radici Studios [[link removed]]
San Francisco, CA 94110

 

WEBINAR: NO NEW COLD WAR: CHINESE FOREIGN POLICY AND US SGGRESSION -
SEPTEMBER 20 (SOCIALIST SUNDAY SCHOOL ON CHINA - COMMITTEES OF
CORRESPONDENCE FOR DEMOCRACY AND SOCIALISM)
 

President Trump meeting with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, center
right, in Japan last year.
Credit: Erin Schaff/The New York Times
Socialist Sunday School on China
Sept. 20, 2020 Sunday
4:00 - 5:30 pm (eastern time), 3:00-4:30 pm (central time)

Zoom link and registration below

US imperialism seeks hegemony, it sees rising China as a growing
obstacle to US unilateralism and dominance.
 
Progressives, socialists and the Left should unite to oppose the US
policy of competition, tension and pressure on China.  A new cold war
could lead to conflict or hot war.  We should support the
independence and sovereignty of all countries, especially in the
Global South.  

There needs to be global cooperation on issues like pandemics, climate
change and peace.   Support the recent trend in the movement to stop
a war on China.

A powerpoint on US/China relations and Chinese foreign policy will be
presented by Duncan McFarland, co-chair of the CCDS socialist
education project, who has made numerous visits to China since 1981.
  Followed by Q&A and discussion. 

For more information contact Duncan McFarland [email protected]

Register in advance
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for this meeting:

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing
information about joining the meeting.

 

THE INTRICACIES AND INTERSECTIONS OF CLIMATE, ABOLITION, AND
DECOLONIZATION - SEPTEMBER 23 (PEOPLES CLIMATE MOVEMENT NY AND MARCH
FOR SCIENCE NEW YORK CITY)
 

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2020 AT 6 PM EDT – 8 PM EDT

A two hour workshop on climate justice and racial justice for Climate
Week 2020.

** PLEASE REGISTER
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The RACIAL JUSTICE, CLIMATE JUSTICE WEBINAR will be an interactive
workshop highlighting the intersection of abolition and climate
organizing. Our webinar will kickoff with talks from two local climate
organizers and then break out into small groups to discuss case
studies.

TOPICS TO COVER:

* Connecting Prison & Police Abolition to Climate Justice
* Histories of Abolitionist & Climate Aligned Organizing
* Renewable Rikers & New Jails
* Pipeline Defenders & Standing Rock

 

METRO NEW YORK LABOR COMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL - 45TH ANNUAL CONVENTION -
SEPTEMBER 30
 

SEPTEMBER 30, 10AM-NOON

Join us as we honor STEPHANIE LUCE and RUTH MILKMAN from CUNY/SLU.
Academics making a difference for workers, women, immigrants and their
communities.

Followed by a panel discussion on ADVANCING ANTIRACIST PRACTICES IN
LABOR COMMUNICATIONS.
Panelists: BILL FLETCHER JR, activist and author. HASANI GITTENS,
Deputy Editor for THE CITY. CARA D. NOEL, Communications Director at
1199SEIU United Workers. Rep from the NEW YORK STATE NURSES
ASSOCIATION. Moderator: GARRY PIERRE-PIERRE, Pulitzer-prize winning
journalist.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: [link removed]
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Metro NY Labor Communications Council [[link removed]]
Affiliated with the International Labor Communications Association,
AFL-CIO/CLC

 

CALL FOR PAPERS  -  LAWCHA CONFERENCE: 2021 - WORKERS ON THE FRONT
LINES MAY 26-28, 2021 - PAPER SUBMISSIONS DUE BY OCTOBER 1
 

LAWCHA Conference: 2021 Call for Papers
Workers on the Front Lines
University of Illinois, Chicago. May 26-28, 2021

The Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA), an
organization of scholars, teachers, students, labor educators, and
activists, welcomes proposals for its 2021 conference at the
University of Illinois, Chicago, May 26 to May 28.
[[link removed]] The conference theme will be
Workers on the Front Lines. Our conference will overlap with that of
the United Association for Labor Education (UALE), which is scheduled
May 24 to 27, allowing for shared programming and dialogue. UALE is a
network organization dedicated to worker and workplace training and
education.

Be it in pandemics, natural disasters, industrial “accidents,” or
wars, workers always have been and remain on the front lines. The
coronavirus crisis has put many workers in harm’s way. Too many are
deemed “essential” and then underpaid while workers better paid
and sheltering in place also suffer during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Globally, precarious workers take home poverty wages while forced by
employers to undergo new bodily policing procedures and risk their
health and safety and that of their communities. This crisis has
widened and deepened when it intersected with protests exploding in
the wake of George Floyd’s murder. The pre-existing conditions of
racism and police brutality—combined with COVID-19—further exposed
the problems of a capitalist society designed to put profits above
workers at all costs. Collectively, these intertwined crises reveal
the deep significance of labor and working-class history to
understanding our current moment. In 2021, LAWCHA seeks presentations
that explore the experiences of workers on the front lines,
interrogating the meanings of “essential” and “front line”
across time and place, examining the stories of workers at the
forefront of movements for democracy, sovereignty, rights, and
freedoms, and what those histories mean for us today. Truly, there is
no better place to hold this conference than Chicago.

The program committee encourages the submission of comparative,
global, and transnational panels; sessions on “front line” or
“essential “workers; workers and global supply chains; immigration
and migration; gender, sexuality and work; the intersection of public
health, medical care, and work with eyes towards marginalized workers
including Black, Brown, Indigenous, Latinxs workers, and people with
disabilities; working-class and labor movements for justice and
democracy. We encourage presentations on the United States, across the
Americas and beyond, in all time periods; teaching and public history;
race, ethnicity, gender, disability, colonialism, citizenship status,
and sexuality; workingclass communities and social movements.
Proposals on other labor and working-class topics are also welcome.

We will consider traditional panels with 3 papers; lightning sessions
of 4-to-6 very short presentations; roundtables of 5-6 people
discussing a larger theme; workshops; performance-oriented sessions
featuring artistic work; and moderated conversations between activists
or artists and historians. All sessions must designate a comment/chair
or moderator/chair separate from presenters. Please note if your
proposal includes UALE members and/or aligns with the UALE conference.

We welcome proposals from scholars and activists in all fields, and
especially urge contingent faculty and independent scholars to submit
panel proposals and papers, not necessarily related to the labor
issues concerning employment status in the field.

We encourage the submission of complete panels rather than individual
papers. Single paper authors are encouraged to seek out others prior
to submission. To assist, the conference has created a collaboration
form
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individuals can post ideas and seek others to create panels. Proposals
for complete panels should include a one-page session description that
includes a short narrative of the session’s theme, abstracts for
each paper or short summary of each presenter’s focus, and two-page
CV for each participant including chair and/or commentator. Proposals
for individual presentations should include a one-paragraph
description and two-page CV. Include contact information for all
participants. The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2020. We
plan to announce acceptance of submissions in December 2020.

Please use this link to connect to the submission portal to upload a
proposal [[link removed]].

Please use this link to access the collaboration form to create a
panel.
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Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

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TA-NEHISI COATES TO ADDRESS “RACIAL EQUITY AND HOUSING JUSTICE
DURING AND AFTER COVID-19” ON OCTOBER 6 (NATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING
COALITION)
 

Join
[[link removed]] Ta-Nehisi
Coates, National Book Award winner and distinguished writer in
residence at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, and NLIHC
for a conversation on “Racial Equity and Housing Justice during and
after COVID-19” on October 6, at 1 pm ET. Register today for this
live-stream event at: [link removed]
[[link removed]].
Be sure to submit questions for Ta-Nehisi through the registration
page or via social media using #RacialEquityandCOVID.

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a distinguished writer in residence at NYU's
Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He is the author of the
bestselling books _The Beautiful Struggle_, _We Were Eight Years in
Power_, and _Between The World And Me_, which won the National Book
Award in 2015.  Ta-Nehisi is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.
He is also the current author of the Marvel comics _The Black
Panther_ and _Captain America_.

As an author and thought leader, Ta-Nehisi has been a vital voice in
shaping the discourse on race in the United States and globally. His
seminal article in _The Atlantic_, “The Case for Reparations
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discusses thirty-five years of racist housing policy that led to the
inequities still plaguing housing in the U.S. Please join us for this
conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates on “Racial Equity and Housing
Justice During and After COVID-19” on October 6 at 1 pm ET. Register
at: [link removed]
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_(Please note: A video recording of this live-stream event will be
available for viewing for two weeks after the livestreamed event.)_

Register Today
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Suite 500
Washington, DC xxxxxx
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