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Manufacturing Workers; Honoring Veterans - Ending War; Bolivia; the
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TIDBITS - NOV. 12, 2020 - READER COMMENTS: 2020 ELECTIONS AND WHAT
NEXT; ORGANIZING RURAL MANUFACTURING WORKERS; HONORING VETERANS -
ENDING WAR; BOLIVIA; YIDDISH IMMIGRANT LEFT FROM POPULAR FRONT TO COLD
WAR; ANNOUNCEMENTS; MORE....  
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Nov. 12, 2020, xxxxxx

 

Re: UNITE HERE, Union That Knocked On Doors of 3 Million
Voters—Including 575,000 in Philadelphia—Celebrates Victory for
Biden/Harris (Ann Bastian; Daniel Millstone; Joe Grogan; Andrew
Thomas)
Re: Post-Election Reckoning: New Hypotheses for the Road Ahead (Mike
Liston)
Losers - 1865 - 1945 - 2020
Biden widens lead over Trump in swing states  --  cartoon by Steve
Breen
Re: Can Trump Actually Stage a Coup and Stay in Office for a Second
Term? (Fred Murphy; Ted Pearson)
Election Day  --  cartoon by Michael de Adder
Los Angeles comes out to Protect the Elections
Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Biden’s Win, House Losses, and
What’s Next for the Left (Jay Schaffner; Eleanor Roosevelt)
Re: Democrats Need a Winning Message in Georgia. Bernie Sanders Says
Fight for $15 Minimum Wage (Joe Maizlish)
Re: Organizing Rural Manufacturing Workers Matters (Judy Atkins; Geoff
Mirelowitz)
Re: General Motors to Reopen Assembly Operations at Oshawa (Jamm Greg)
Re: Here's The Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas — The Most
Corrupt Supreme Court Justice (Peter Kellman)
Never Again War (Nie Wieder Krieg)  --  Käthe Kollwitz
The Greatest Honor We Could Show Our Veterans....
Re: Remembering Reuven Kaminer, the Godfather of Israel’s Radical
Left (Jean Brown; Leon Ginenthal; Gilbert Thomas; Charles Lenchner)
Re: Lobby Trying To Reshape California Education To Shield Israel
(Stan Nadel)
Re: May Hillbilly Elegy Mark the End of Trump-era Myth-Making About
the White Working Class (Eleanor Roosevelt; Judy Atkins)
Re: The Relevance of Marxist Critique (Michael Rinella)
 

RESOURCES:

Poster of the Week – Tear Down White Supremacy (Center for the Study
of Political Graphics)
A New Lesson - Teach the History of "Riots," Racism, and the Police
(Zinn Education Project)
 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Discussion of Essential Workers and A Pandemic Nurse's Diary -
November 17 (Hard Ball Press)
Bolivia's Electoral Victory: What Challenges Lie Ahead for MAS? -
November 17 (The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
(CLACS) and the North American Congress on Latin America - NACLA)
Boston - James Green Memorial Lecture and People's History Walking
Tour - November 18 (Labor Resource Center)
Workers and Just Transition: A Global View - December 5 (Labor Network
for Sustainability)
Di Linke: the Yiddish Immigrant Left from Popular Front to Cold War -
December 6 - 14 (Catherwood Library Cornell ILR School Kheel Center,
Cornell Jewish Studies Program)

 

RE: UNITE HERE, UNION THAT KNOCKED ON DOORS OF 3 MILLION
VOTERS—INCLUDING 575,000 IN PHILADELPHIA—CELEBRATES VICTORY FOR
BIDEN/HARRIS

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Thank you, many thousand times over!

Ann Bastian

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Victory has a thousand parents. Here, via xxxxxx,
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Unite-Here, the union of (especially) Restaurant, Hotel and Casino
workers tells how its members worked to defeat the Orange Monster.
Congratulations to them all.

Daniel Millstone
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Wow!!!!  I hope that many of these people join a union!!  Labour in
the U.S. of A. is in BIG trouble!!

Joe Grogan/Retired OPSEU member
Canada

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While you were doing all of this the DNC gave $67 million to
Republican hacks for press releases supporting Biden, and assuring the
corporate state that ‘nothing will change.’ Let’s try to make
sure that promise goes in the toilet.

Andrew Thomas

 

RE: POST-ELECTION RECKONING: NEW HYPOTHESES FOR THE ROAD AHEAD
 

Bravo, there's been a slew of articles summing up the situation and
advising us as to what we need to do but this has been, if not one of
the best, the best, 
thanks, 

Mike Liston

 

LOSERS - 1865 - 1945 - 2020
 

 

BIDEN WIDENS LEAD OVER TRUMP IN SWING STATES  --  CARTOON BY STEVE
BREEN
 

Steve Breen
November 5, 2020
The San Diego Union-Tribune
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RE: CAN TRUMP ACTUALLY STAGE A COUP AND STAY IN OFFICE FOR A SECOND
TERM?"
 

there isn’t a "constitutional path forward for him to remain
president" - 
Isn't the whole point of a "coup" that it's NOT constitutional?!

Fred Murphy

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“If the country continues to follow the rule of law, I see no
plausible constitutional path forward for Trump to remain as president
barring new evidence of some massive failure of the election system in
multiple states,”

Give us a break! Does anyone really think that the law means anything
to the Trumpers? All he needs is competing sets of electors and it
goes to the House, where voting is by state, not by representative.

Th whole thing boils down to whether the ruling class will allow it. I
don’t put a lot of faith in our ruling class. They have demonstrated
an ability to rationalize anything. It’s really up to all of us –
the people – to make it clear that WE WON’T ALLOW the election
results to be overthrown.

Ted Pearson

 

ELECTION DAY  --  CARTOON BY MICHAEL DE ADDER
 

Michael de Adder
November 6, 2020
Toronto Star
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LOS ANGELES COMES OUT TO PROTECT THE ELECTIONS
 

United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) leads the celebration of Trump's
defeat, November 7.
 

RE: ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ ON BIDEN’S WIN, HOUSE LOSSES, AND
WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE LEFT
 

The congresswoman said Joe Biden’s relationship with progressives
would hinge on his actions. And she dismissed criticism from House
moderates, calling some candidates who lost their races “sitting
ducks.”

Jay Schaffner
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Before the DNC kicks up its $800 shoes and sits back on its fat
bourgie backside to congratulate itself on a job well done, it needs
to realize that an awful lot of Biden's margin came from those of us
who held our noses to vote for him. And we're still gonna be here in
2024.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: DEMOCRATS NEED A WINNING MESSAGE IN GEORGIA. BERNIE SANDERS SAYS
FIGHT FOR $15 MINIMUM WAGE
 

Sanders probably means increase to $15 by a stepped process.

If he does, it's best that he says so.  Because if he doesn't, he and
those who take up his call, are leaving the door open to opponents
focusing on how unrealistic a jump to $15 from the current level would
be.

If he does mean a jump right to $15, OK, just build into the message a
couple of words about how that will work, e.g. "an increase in
effective wage to $15 with fed. income support," or some other way to
explain it.

In this discourse-deprived political culture, people are so unprepared
to give serious consideration to radical plans (the only way to match
the radical needs, by the way), that we have to give one-sentence
educations. Very difficult.  Very needed.

Joe Maizlish, Los Angeles

 

RE: ORGANIZING RURAL MANUFACTURING WORKERS MATTERS

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Good article on organizing - my concern is that this is a huge project
and needs cooperation among unions and progressive people in general
in order to make a dent in the numbers of workers and plants that need
to be organized. In addition the unions have to see this as a
community effort and the communities have to see union organizing as a
way to build strength for progressive goals such as voting rights and
health care. There have been some great examples of this kind of
cooperation in the South and elsewhere - the Southern Workers Assembly
- is an example of this kind of organizing work.

Judy Atkins
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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I think this is a vitally important idea. The U.S. working class is
diverse in many different ways and they all matter if we are seeking
to unify the class to fight for our common interests.

Geoff Mirelowitz
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: GENERAL MOTORS TO REOPEN ASSEMBLY OPERATIONS AT OSHAWA

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Building vehicles in Canada while making the majority of sales in the
US has made sense (cents?) for decades given the currency exchange
rates. GM pays expenses in our lower value currency while generating
revenue in their higher value currency. Of course it’s more
complicated than that including such things as income tax rates,
labour costs, quality & availability of labour/skilled trades, etc.

Given that the Oshawa truck plant had always produced superior quality
vehicles while maintaining operating efficiencies, I shouldn’t have
been surprised that they decided to re-open that plant. I’m
certainly happy for the workers that get re-hired...if it actually
happens, part of me is skeptical that it will come to fruition.

Jamm Greg
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: HERE'S THE CASE FOR IMPEACHING CLARENCE THOMAS — THE MOST
CORRUPT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE 
 

Blum writes
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as many do, that FDR's court packing attempt failed. Technically that
is true but the reality was he didn't need to. In 1936 FDR ran against
the economic royalist and the Supreme Court. The reason he ran against
the Court was it had found all his New Deal Legislation
unconstitutional. In 1936 he won all the states except for Maine and
Vermont. 

In late 1936 going into 1937 a strike took place in Flint, Michigan
against the General Motors Corporation which at the time was run by
the DuPont family which was number one of the economic royalist on
FDR's list. This was a sit-down strike where workers take and hold the
property of their employer. A sit-down was then, as now, illegal.
However the strikers had the power to hold the property until the
DuPont family came to the table and settled. 

Shortly thereafter the Supreme Court, seeing the writing on the wall
of a possible workers revolution in the making, reversed itself and
found the New Deal legislation constitutional. Obviously there is more
to this story but suffice to say FDR no longer needed to stack the
Supreme Court and Congress didn't pass legislation to that effect
because it was no longer necessary

Peter Kellman

 

NEVER AGAIN WAR (NIE WIEDER KRIEG)  --  KÄTHE KOLLWITZ
 

Käthe Kollwitz
Mitteldeutsher Jugendtag / Leipzig 2.-4. August 1924
National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) -- not currently on view
 

THE GREATEST HONOR WE COULD SHOW OUR VETERANS....
 

 

RE: REMEMBERING REUVEN KAMINER, THE GODFATHER OF ISRAEL’S RADICAL
LEFT
 

Such a complicated history. It is good to learn about the Israeli
Left, and the people who led the way in one of the long struggles
against Israeli expropriation (stealing) of Palestinian land and
culture.
#BDS

Jean Brown
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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There is another side/view of Israeli politics.

Leon Ginenthal
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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From anti-occupation activism to anti-capitalist pedagogy, Reuven
Kaminer inspired generations of activists to maintain a lifetime of
political engagement.

Gilbert Thomas
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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A great man.

Charles Lenchner
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: LOBBY TRYING TO RESHAPE CALIFORNIA EDUCATION TO SHIELD ISRAEL
 

When efforts to counter Antisemitism are automatically designated as
part of a Zionist plot to defend Israel reasonable people will see
that it is really an effort to defend Antisemitism. When Jackie Walker
was criticized for blaming Jews for being the main actors in the
Atlantic slave trade her defenders told us that she was being attacked
because she opposed Israeli policies even though her Antisemitism was
unmistakable. Here we see the same line, same crap. The contents of
Ethnic Studies is about American ethnic groups, not Israel-Palestine
and efforts to exclude Jews and Antisemitism from them reek of
Antisemitism.

Stan Nadel

 

RE: MAY HILLBILLY ELEGY MARK THE END OF TRUMP-ERA MYTH-MAKING ABOUT
THE WHITE WORKING CLASS

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
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I absolutely loathe this book. It's the product of the worst kind of
smarmy, self-righteous bourgeois pandering, of, by, and for neoliberal
beard-strokers. I found the copy I read dropped on the ground, and
even then I paid too much for it.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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I agree with you - it was a terrible book just full of false
stereotypes.

Judy Atkins
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: THE RELEVANCE OF MARXIST CRITIQUE

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
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Globalization and automation are completely consistent with Marx. Toss
in AI and you have to wonder what the US is going to do in a few
decades with a population of 400,000,000 and no entry level jobs.

Michael Rinella
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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POSTER OF THE WEEK – TEAR DOWN WHITE SUPREMACY (CENTER FOR THE STUDY
OF POLITICAL GRAPHICS)

 

Tear Down White Supremacy
Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes
Justseeds
Digital Print, 2017
Oakland, CA
Now that we can breathe again, there’s lots of work to do. The
talking centrist heads from both parties are saying that the Democrats
advocating for police reform and a Green New Deal almost cost Biden
the election. If anything, they brought out voters. The corporate Dems
have been working overtime to discredit their progressive wing.
Let’s not forget that the Democratic establishment ran a
conservative Democrat against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in the
June primary. Fortunately, AOC and the other 3 “squad” members won
easily last week. We had no chance to affect policy under Trump. We
have a chance under Biden. But we’ll really have to work hard to
educate, organize, and inspire people to push him in the direction we
want and need.

Download a digital copy of this poster by clicking here
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Center for the Study of Political Graphics
3916 Sepulveda Blvd, Suite 103
Culver City, CA 90230
[email protected]

 

A NEW LESSON - TEACH THE HISTORY OF "RIOTS," RACISM, AND THE POLICE
(ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT)
 

“RIOTS,” RACISM, AND THE POLICE: STUDENTS EXPLORE A CENTURY OF
POLICE CONDUCT AND RACIAL VIOLENCE

In this lesson
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Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, students examine excerpts from reports written in
1922, 1968, and 2015, about three major episodes of racial violence:
the Chicago Riot of 1919, the “long, hot summer” of 1967, and the
Ferguson Uprising of 2014. Students use evidence from these reports to
probe the long trajectory of police violence in Black communities,
from Jim Crow to today.

Wolfe-Rocca explains, "The goal of the lesson is simple but ambitious:
I want my students to recognize the continuities between past and
present, better equipping them, I hope, to dream up new solutions to
old — and very dangerous — problems."

Visit the Zinn Education Project to download this free lesson
[[link removed]].

Zinn Education Project [[link removed]]
PO BOX 73038, Washington, D.C. 20056 
202-588-7205 | zinnedproject.org [[link removed]]

 

DISCUSSION OF ESSENTIAL WORKERS AND A PANDEMIC NURSE'S DIARY -
NOVEMBER 17 (HARD BALL PRESS)

 

JOIN THE VIRTUAL BOOK DISCUSSION.

Join retired Nurse and author Timothy Sheard, along with essential
workers from across the country, as we discuss the working conditions
and the solidarity that our Essential Workers embrace during this
painful pandemic.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2020
7 PM EST.  ZOOM LINK:

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Hard Ball Press [[link removed]]
415 Argyle Rd., 6A
Brooklyn, NY 11218
917 428 1352

 

BOLIVIA'S ELECTORAL VICTORY: WHAT CHALLENGES LIE AHEAD FOR MAS? -
NOVEMBER 17 (THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN STUDIES
(CLACS) AND THE NORTH AMERICAN CONGRESS ON LATIN AMERICA  - NACLA)
 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 5:30-7:30PM ET 

A Zoom meeting link will be provided.
REGISTER HERE
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The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and the
North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) present a panel
discussion with scholars and activists on the recent Bolivian
elections.

_This event is free and will be accessed via Zoom._

On November 8, Luis Arce of the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) party
will be sworn in as Bolivia’s President after a sweeping victory
with 55.1 % of the vote in the October 19th elections. Arce declared
on social media: “Now our great challenge is to rebuild our homeland
in peace, to regain joy, stability and hope for a better tomorrow for
all Bolivians." David Choquehuanca, Vice Presidential candidate,
similarly spoke of unity, respect, healing and the necessity to
recuperate the path of “Vivir Bien” [Living Well].

The return of the MAS to government ends the ultra-rightist government
of Jeanine Áñez, marked by the Senkata and Sacaba massacres,
political repression, corruption scandals, gross incompetence and the
weaponization and political use of the pandemic. For many, the
electoral outcome heralds a restoration of democracy in Bolivia after
Evo Morales’ ouster last year. For others, including many
indigenous, labor, feminist and environmental organizations and
movements, the results represent an opportunity to assess and redress
deep contradictions in the MAS party and Morales government’s
policies and practices. For all except the most recalcitrant, it is a
sound repudiation of the racist, rightist government of Áñez and its
coterie. Against this backdrop of restoration versus transformation,
attention is now turning to the immense immediate challenges ahead for
the MAS party and Bolivian people.

This panel brings together scholars and activists to discuss some of
these challenges: How will the new government navigate the prospect of
economic recession, a global pandemic and enduring political
polarization? Will MAS’ pact with agro-industrial elites change (or
not)? and how will the government quell far right resistance? How will
the new government work with (rather than against) social movements to
define the future development goals of the country? How will these
social movements’ power and autonomy evolve in relations with the
new administration? Will there be an opportunity for debate and reform
in the MAS?

About the Speakers:

MARXA NADIA CHÁVEZ, Sociologist at the Universidad Mayor de San
Andrés in La Paz, Bolivia. She is also part of Colectivas de Mujeres
y Feministas.

GABRIEL HETLAND is a political sociologist who uses ethnographic and
comparative historical methods to study democracy, the state, urban
and national politics, labor and social movements in Latin America and
the US. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University at
California, Berkeley in 2015. He is working on a book (based on his
dissertation) that compares participatory democracy in cities governed
by Left and Right parties in Venezuela and Bolivia. This project
challenges the idea that participatory reform can only succeed in
cities governed by Left parties and in contexts in which civil society
enjoys autonomy from the state and ruling party.

CARWIL BJORK-JAMES is an Assistant Professor at Department of
Anthropology, Vanderbilt University and a cultural anthropologist t
whose work focuses on strategies of grassroots autonomy and disruptive
protest in Latin America. His book manuscript, The Sovereign Street:
Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia (to be published in 2020), analyzes
the takeover and use of urban space by grassroots social movements,
particularly in the cities of Cochabamba, Sucre, and La Paz. Using
both anthropological and historical methods, he explores how pivotal
public events generate political legitimacy, contribute to major
(sometimes revolutionary) transformations in the balance of power, and
provide models for future political action. The ethnographic evidence
collected about these events—of social life as experienced through
the human body, the meanings attached to places, and social movement
practices—explains how grassroots movements exert leverage upon the
state through protest.

KATHRYN LEDEBUR has researched coca production, development, drug
policy and human rights in Bolivia since 1999. She is the director of
the Andean Information Network and is a visiting fellow at the
University of Reading. Ledebur studied at FLACSO in Quito, Ecuador and
has lived in Bolivia for three decades. AIN is dedicated to
investigation, analysis, education and dialogue on the impacts of U.S.
and other internationally-funded drug control efforts in Bolivia. She
has worked as an instructor at the Bolivian Diplomatic Academy and the
International Honors Program of the School for International Training
and an expert international consultant. She has written extensively on
coca and development dynamics in Peru and Bolivia.

OLIVIA ARIGHO-STILES (MODERATOR) is a PhD candidate in the Department
of Sociology at the University of Essex. Her research covers
environmental histories and Indigenous-campesino politics in highland
Bolivia, 1920-1990. Her PhD project traces the history of ecological
thought within Indigenous movements in the altiplano. She has a BA in
History from the University of Oxford and an MA in Latin American
Studies from University College London (UCL).

Sponsored by The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
(CLACS) and the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)

BOSTON - JAMES GREEN MEMORIAL LECTURE AND PEOPLE'S HISTORY WALKING
TOUR - NOVEMBER 18 (LABOR RESOURCE CENTER)

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2020 AT 5 PM EST – 6:30 PM EST

Hosted by LABOR RESOURCE CENTER
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Join the Labor Resource Center, the M.A. Program in History, and the
rest of our vibrant community at UMass Boston and beyond for a virtual
edition of our James Green Memorial Lecture and People’s History
Walking Tour of Boston. The event will start at 5:00 pm and will
feature Suren Moodliar, Joseph Nevins, and Eleni Macrakis discussing
their new book, A People's Guide to Greater Boston
[[link removed][0]=AZXqdMG8I9Csgi75su5wmT6IjrmhdwB7zXcvKvZHCiuHPEAWIsZmXsheMGwi2QSoTnMID9VisuEMa77k0JF_BPvpVirWTEI9JsOAgRrDpnzIiRD8D7DHgvuvhyg40vD02BQ&__tn__=q]  in
conversation with Chris Joazard and Miles Taylor of the Bellringers
Guild
[[link removed][0]=AZXqdMG8I9Csgi75su5wmT6IjrmhdwB7zXcvKvZHCiuHPEAWIsZmXsheMGwi2QSoTnMID9VisuEMa77k0JF_BPvpVirWTEI9JsOAgRrDpnzIiRD8D7DHgvuvhyg40vD02BQ&__tn__=q]  (UNITE
HERE Local 26), the union of Freedom Trail Foundation guides.

REGISTER FOR FREE HERE:
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WORKERS AND JUST TRANSITION: A GLOBAL VIEW - DECEMBER 5 (LABOR NETWORK
FOR SUSTAINABILITY)
 

With the election of a President who acknowledges the threats of
climate change and of ongoing economic devastation for working people,
we have an opportunity to seriously address how to make a transition
to a climate-safe, socially-just, worker-friendly society. The primary
objective of the Just Transition Listening Project (JTLP)
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to ensure workers and community voices are central to the
conversation of a Green New Deal and other climate policies. 

On SATURDAY, DEC. 5 AT 12 P.M. EASTERN, the Labor Network for
Sustainability and the Just Transition Listening Project Organizing
Committee will bring together labor and policy leaders to share
perspectives, stories, and strategies from the frontlines of the
struggle for a just transition globally. This will be the sixth
webinar in the JTLP series. In addition to the webinar series we
conducted interviews with more than 100 community leaders and workers
to learn of their experiences and perspectives on Just Transition. Our
report from these interviews will be available in January.

From the experiences of metalworkers in South Africa to the coal
miners in Spain, to workers across sectors in Latin America and across
the world, the struggle for a just transition is truly global. In
order to effectively address the worldwide transitions we are facing
in our jobs, environments, and homes, we must demand a worldwide
response. Join us on Saturday, Dec. 5
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we learn from each other and set the stage for finalizing and
distributing our report to help us win the struggle to protect jobs,
communities and the right to thrive as we work toward a society that
is ecologically sustainable and just. 

WORKERS AND JUST TRANSITION: A GLOBAL VIEW - WORLDWIDE TRANSITIONS
DESERVE WORLDWIDE RESPONSE
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Moderator: RICHARD LIPSITZ, President, Western New York Area Labor
Federation

Saturday, December 5, 2020
12 p.m. Eastern | 11 a.m. Central | 10 a.m. Mountain and Mexican
Pacific Standard Time | 9 a.m. Pacific
9 p.m. GMT+2 | 8 p.m. GMT+1

Panelists:

* ANA BELÉN SANCHEZ - Regional Specialist in Green
Employment, INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION
* SAMANTHA SMITH - Director, Just Transition Centre, INTERNATIONAL
TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION 
* WOODRAJH AROUN - Former Education and Parliamentary
Officer, NATIONAL UNION OF METALWORKERS OF SOUTH AFRICA
* DINGA SIKWEBU - Education Director, NUMSA
* MARIANO SANZ LUBEIRO - Confederal Secretary of Environment and
Mobility, WORKERS’ COMMISSIONS, SPAIN

Register now »
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Please note special time to encourage worldwide participation.

This webinar is the 6th in a series of the Just Transition Listening
Project hosted by LNS and the Just Transition Listening Project
Organizing Committee.

REGISTER NOW -
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Labor Network for Sustainability
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P.O. Box #5780
Takoma Park, MD 20913

DI LINKE: THE YIDDISH IMMIGRANT LEFT FROM POPULAR FRONT TO COLD WAR -
DECEMBER 6 - 14 (CATHERWOOD LIBRARY CORNELL ILR SCHOOL KHEEL CENTER,
CORNELL JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAM)
 

Cartoon with Tanks and Jewish Heroes
Cartoon depicting Hitler cringing before a company of tanks labeled
"American Jews," "Soviet Jews," "Canada Jews" "English Jews," and
"Palestinian Jews". The tops of the tanks have varied Jewish heroes:
Bar Kokhba, Yehuda Maccabi, Haym Solomon, Baruch Spinoza and Hirsh
Lekert. Cartoon is signed "Gropper". The drawing is part of the
IWO/JPFO's war effort campaign to buy Jewishly named tanks for the
Soviet Union to support the appeal made by the Jewish Anti-Fascist
Committee of the USSR (JAFC)
Artist: William Gropper
International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276. Kheel Center for
Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University
Library.
Collection: International Workers Order (IWO) and Jewish People's
Fraternal Order (JPFO)

This conference will explore the complex history of the Jewish
People’s Fraternal Order (JPFO) a crucial yet largely unknown
component of the immigrant Jewish Left. Founded in 1930, the JPFO
flourished for two decades as the Jewish division of the multi-ethnic
International Workers Order (IWO) before being shut down during the
Cold War.

One critical resource for the history of this organization is the
IWO/JPFO archive previously confiscated by New York State’s
Insurance Department, housed at Cornell’s ILR School Catherwood
Library. [link removed]
[[link removed]] This
partially-digitized archive offers a wealth of information about War
effort organizing, as well as post-War relief for Jewish communities
in Poland, France and Belgium, and Mandate Palestine.

These documents provide a window into the politics and culture of the
Yiddish-speaking immigrant Left, including how questions of
anti-Semitism played out in the postwar period in the Soviet Union,
Europe, the U.S. and Canada. Not least, they offer a window into the
intersections of feminist Jewish and Black identity in programmatic
political work and cultural productions prior to the 1960s mainstream
civil rights movement.

SUN, DEC 6: "America: Communism, the Jewish Left, and Unity"
MON, DEC 7: "A Fraternal Society with Emmas: Mutual Aid, Insurance,
Acculturation, Civil Rights & Feminism"
TUES, DEC 8: "Virtual Tour of the Archives and Library"
WED, DEC 9: "The Internationale"
THUR, DEC 10: "Kultur Arbet: Creativity & Repression"
MON, DEC 14: "The Art of Resistance"

Support provided by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, Cornell
Center for Social Sciences, Catherwood Library Cornell ILR School
Kheel Center
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Jewish Studies Program, Syracuse Jewish Studies Program, Cornell
Departments of History, Anthropology, Near Eastern Studies,
Government, and the American Studies Program.

Co-sponsored by Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation

All sessions will be 1-2 hours.

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DEC 6, 2020 01:00 PM

DEC 7, 2020 03:00 PM

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DEC 9, 2020 03:00 PM

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