[ Reader Comments: Texas, Climate Change, Solar Energy; Cancel
Student Debt; GOP as Cult; Rush Limbaugh; Myanmar Mass Civil
Disobedience; Healthcare; End Cuban Blockade; Freedomways, Civil
Rights, Race; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; resources, announcements]
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TIDBITS - FEB. 25, 2021 - READER COMMENTS: TEXAS, CLIMATE CHANGE,
SOLAR ENERGY; STUDENT DEBT; GOP AS CULT; RUSH LIMBAUGH; MYANMAR MASS
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE; HEALTHCARE; END CUBAN BLOCKADE; FREEDOMWAYS, CIVIL
RIGHTS, RACE; LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI; MORE...  
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_ Reader Comments: Texas, Climate Change, Solar Energy; Cancel
Student Debt; GOP as Cult; Rush Limbaugh; Myanmar Mass Civil
Disobedience; Healthcare; End Cuban Blockade; Freedomways, Civil
Rights, Race; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; resources, announcements _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Feb. 25, 2021, xxxxxx

 

Re: Biden’s Civilian Climate Corps Comes Straight Out of the New
Deal (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Texas should have been building.....
Re: Is Texas’ Disaster a Harbinger of America’s Future? (Lee
Zaslofsky; Todd Allen; John Benson)
Re: Wind Turbines Can Handle the Cold Just Fine. Just Look at Iowa.
(Lee Ann Hagburger)
Re: By a 17-Point Margin, Voters Want Biden to Cancel $50K in Student
Debt (Robert Supansic; Teddy N Gavales; Howard Harawitz; Florence
Punch; Nick Corbin)
Re: How the GOP Ceased to Be a Party and Became the Cult of Trump
(Eleanor Roosevelt; Lizzi Azalia Swane; Tom Gogan; Gordon Gland;
Robert Darnell)
Kinda Over This Argument  --  cartoon by Garth German
Historicizing Rush Limbaugh (Harry Targ)
Florida man orders flags flown at half staff for Rush Limbaugh  --
 cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz
Re: Manchin Called to 'Do What's Right' and Confirm Haaland (Stan
Nadel)
Re: Myanmar’s ‘Civil Disobedience Movement’ Has Produced Many
Inventive Ways of Protesting (Stephanie Luce; Karen Master)
Re: Four More States Propose Harsh New Penalties For Protesting Fossil
Fuels (Judith Halprin)
Covid Deaths  --  cartoon by Rob Rogers
Re: Democrats Are Subsidizing Health Insurance Predators (Peter
Dreier)
Chicago City Council Unanimously Passes Resolution To End Blockade of
Cuba (Chicago Steering Committee to Normalize Relations with Cuba;
Marguerite Horberg)
Re: A Corporate, Commodified Black History Month is Taking Hold. We
Can't Let It (Aaron Libson)
Re: A New Civil Rights Movement, a New Journal (John Woodford)
Re: Cedric Robinson and the Origins of Race (Deanne Burke)
Re: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet and Founder of City Lights Bookshop,
Dies Aged 101 (Leonard J. Lehrman)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Sidewalk Memorial at City Lights Books (KQED)
Queen of the Neocon’s  --  poem by Thomas Karlson
 

RESOURCES:

The Roots of revolutionary nonviolence in the U.S. are in the Black
community (War Resisters League)
Lessons of the Sixties - A History of Local Washington, DC Activism
for Peace and Justice from 1960-1975 (Lessons of the Sixties - a
volunteer led project of the Institute for Policy Studies)
Resilience — Poster of the Week (Center for the Study of Political
Graphics)
Colorado Center for Freedom and Justice - Interviews Jennifer Bing and
Shaina Low from "No Way To Treat A Child
 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Solidarity with Striking Mexican Journalists, on the One-Year
Anniversary of their Strike - February 26 (National Writers Union)
Webinar: NUCLEAR WEAPONS: How Do We Seize Our Movement Moment? -
February 27 (Pacific Life Community (PLC))
Three Ways to End February & Support Palestine! - February 27 & 28
(Eyewitness Palestine)
Lessons from the Frontlines of 2020 Fights for Democracy & Black Lives
- March 2 (CUNY School of Labor & Urban Studies)
Virtual Launch Party for Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Committed - March 2
(Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network)

 

RE: BIDEN’S CIVILIAN CLIMATE CORPS COMES STRAIGHT OUT OF THE NEW
DEAL
 

Funny how it's taken the modern Democratic Party eighty years to catch
up.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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TEXAS SHOULD HAVE BEEN BUILDING.....
 

 

RE: IS TEXAS’ DISASTER A HARBINGER OF AMERICA’S FUTURE?
 

The Texans who brought this disaster on their state were those who
hold power in Texas, namely the oil and gas industries and their
stooges in politics.

Lee Zaslofsky
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Republican Run State Republican values.
You are nothing more than a revenue stream to them. Now they raise
your prices to fix their problem.

Todd Allen
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Its a sad thought that money not people has been and still will be the
overriding force in getting things done, this is the stupid we need to
change before it kills us.

John Benson
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: WIND TURBINES CAN HANDLE THE COLD JUST FINE. JUST LOOK AT IOWA.
 

And Kansas and Oklahoma.

Lee Ann Hagburger
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: BY A 17-POINT MARGIN, VOTERS WANT BIDEN TO CANCEL $50K IN STUDENT
DEBT
 

It is often forgotten how we got here.  In 1980, Reagan began cutting
aid to higher education.  This contributed to tuition costs that at
times rose even faster than health care costs. At the same time he
reduced government funding of student aid, turning education loans
over to private banks which found a new lucrative source of revenue.
 The result reduced an entire generation of students to debt peonage.
The Federal Government, which created this mess, should be responsible
for fixing it

Robert Supansic

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Education should be free that's how we create a great nation and a
great planet Earth. Education is the true foundation of civil
liberty...

Teddy N Gavales
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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The debt holders should organize a payment strike.

Howard Harawitz
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Maybe we should be pushing to do something about the interest rates -
I just don’t understand how after studiously making payments for 10
years you still owe either the same amount or more! Or push to apply
the interest paid to the principal.

Florence Punch
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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The student debt today’s students face is indeed a crime.
A crime perpetrated most recently by Betsy DeVos and Trump

Nick Corbin
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: HOW THE GOP CEASED TO BE A PARTY AND BECAME THE CULT OF TRUMP
 

It was the cult of Reagan and the cult of Gingrich before, which made
Trumpism inevitable.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Stop with the trump addiction and move on or I’m dumping you as a so
called news source. He lost. NEXT!!!!

Lizzi Azalia Swane
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Not useful.  I'm surprised xxxxxx chose to run this one. Leave
Meyerson to his favorite historical topics, labor's rise during the
New Deal and immediate postwar period and its subsequent stumbling.

Tom Gogan

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A century ago, Spengler noted that one sure sign of impending
Caesarism is the simplification of politics.

In its heyday, the Roman Republic enjoyed robust political competition
between the conservative Optimates and the liberal Populares.

In the Republic’s final years, all that went away; there were only
Crassus’s men, Pompey’s men, Caesar’s men, etc.

Hmmm...

Gordon Gland
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Robert Darnell
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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KINDA OVER THIS ARGUMENT  --  CARTOON BY GARTH GERMAN
 

Garth German
January 27, 2020
garthtoons.com [[link removed]]

 

HISTORICIZING RUSH LIMBAUGH
 

We need to revisit the history of policies of the Federal
Communications Commission. When radio became popular, the prevailing
sentiment was that the public airwaves belonged to the society at
large and should reflect the public interest, and society rather than
profits for the few.

This idea, which still warrants support, was frittered away with media
consolidation and greater and greater control of the print media,
radio, and television by smaller numbers of huge corporations. In
1987, Congress with encouragement from President Reagan, repealed the
Fairness Doctrine, a 1949 law that required radio and later television
to communicate a diversity of points of view and "balance" in the
presentation of material.

With the abolition of the Fairness Doctrine, Limbaugh emerged as the
first rightwing, racist, reactionary to offer a model of radio and
television discourse in defiance of any meaning of fairness or
balance. Now corporate elites and politicians conjoin to limit and
distort what passes for news and information.

Limbaugh was the beneficiary of changed policies, consolidation of the
corporate media, and the rise of the right in political life.

Harry Targ

 

FLORIDA MAN ORDERS FLAGS FLOWN AT HALF STAFF FOR RUSH LIMBAUGH  --
 CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ
 

Lalo Alcaraz
February 23, 2021
Pocho.com [[link removed]]

 

RE: MANCHIN CALLED TO 'DO WHAT'S RIGHT' AND CONFIRM HAALAND
 

Does Manchin have a problem with women, or just with women who aren't
white?

Stan Nadel

 

RE: MYANMAR’S ‘CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE MOVEMENT’ HAS PRODUCED MANY
INVENTIVE WAYS OF PROTESTING
 

Lots of creative protest going on now in Myanmar!

* the “supernatural campaign” involves fortune-tellers and
spiritual leaders who cast spells on superstitious military generals.
* crossing traffic circles then all slowing down to tie your shoes
(so that you are not technically violating the law)
* The “Lets’ report pro-military Facebook pages” is an online
campaign that encourages Facebook users to report dubious pages
spreading misinformation in support of the coup.

Stephanie Luce
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Movements like this overseas are why we are seeing far more foreign
medical grads in recent years coming into residency in NYC ready to
speak up and speak out.

Karen Master
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: FOUR MORE STATES PROPOSE HARSH NEW PENALTIES FOR PROTESTING FOSSIL
FUELS
 

how do they feel about insurrection and sedition?

Judith Halprin
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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COVID DEATHS  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS
 

Rob Rogers
February 23, 2021
robrogers.com [[link removed]]

 

RE: DEMOCRATS ARE SUBSIDIZING HEALTH INSURANCE PREDATORS
 

THIS ARTICLE IN JACOBIN IS BULLSHIT. The headline and the article
blame the "Democrats" for supporting subsidies to private health
insurance corporations. "For Democrats in Washington, it's the only
way," the article says. 

In fact, more than half of all Democrats in the House support Medicare
for All, which is a single-payer system. But that's not enough votes
to pass it, since every Republican is opposed to M4A. Almost all the
other House Democrats, as well as Biden, support a public option - a
government-run insurance agency to compete with private for-profit
insurance companies. All Republicans oppose this too.

Jacobin's reflexive and obsessive knee-jerk opposition to "the
Democrats" distorts political reality and leads to cynicism,
hopelessness, and paralysis. The real world is more complicated than
Jacobin's holier-than-thou views.

Peter Dreier
Post on Facebook [[link removed]]

 

CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY PASSES RESOLUTION TO END BLOCKADE OF
CUBA (CHICAGO STEERING COMMITTEE TO NORMALIZE RELATIONS WITH CUBA)
 

Jose Marti statue at Parque Libertad square in the center of Matanzas,
Cuba
 

WE DID IT !
On February 24, 2021 The Chicago City Council unanimously voted to
pass R2020-616, Voting to End the Embargo of Cuba

We want to thank all the people who worked on this campaign for more
than two and a half years

This vote today sends a strong message to the Biden administration
 
Please join the steering committee in our continued push to change the
antiquated and harmful US policy. We will be back in touch soon with
national actions.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
 
Sincerely,

Steering Committee
Marilyn McKenna
Marguerite Horberg
Cheryl Johnson Odim
Peggy Hopson Valdes
Kimberly Waller
Otis Cunningham
Sarah Staggs

Chicago Steering Committee to Normalize Relations with Cuba
[email protected]

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Today the Chicago City Council unanimously passed Resolution R2020-616
calling for the End of the Blockade of Cuba. The vote passed 50-0
making Chicago the 14th and the largest US city to call for the
cessation of antiquated and hostile federal policies and an immediate
rollback from the additional sadistic impositions from the Trump era.
I am so proud to have been part of this citywide effort that took more
than 2 years of organizing - constituents from all 50 Wards visited
their Alderman, wrote letters, made calls and worked to pass this
measure -a bill that while symbolic sends a strong message to the
White House. The testimonials from doctors, academics, cultural
leaders, from the religious community, educators, and solidarity
activists is truly a moving record of what Cuba has meant to our
lives. Thank you everyone and now onward to Biden and DC!

Marguerite Horberg

 

RE: A CORPORATE, COMMODIFIED BLACK HISTORY MONTH IS TAKING HOLD. WE
CAN'T LET IT
 

And most of all forgetting Paul Robeson and Dr. Du Bois !

Aaron Libson

 

RE: A NEW CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, A NEW JOURNAL
 

Geoffrey Jacques has given us a great and highly needed introduction
to and history of "Freedomways" at  a time  when the story and
achievements of left progressive organizations is being systematically
distorted by and/or erased from the most available public records and
media. Thanks a lot for this.

(I'm also appreciative for this as a contributor to Freedomways of an
article on my trip to Afghanistan in the late '80s in which I
confronted the lies and distortions that characterized the propaganda
and policies of the U.S. government and its media mouthpieces. I noted
in that article that the elements the U.S. supported-- i.e. the
Taliban and that ilk --  were murderous, reactionary and the opposite
of the "freedom fighters" they were labeled to be.)

John Woodford

 

RE: CEDRIC ROBINSON AND THE ORIGINS OF RACE

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
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Another thinker ahead of his time.   Good to know it was resurrected
and  reprinted, and seemingly being used by scholars in the
universities but also referenced by Black Lives Matter.     Some of
the W.E.B. Du Bois quotes are being credited and used.  Perhaps that
was a lead in for this book to read and studied?

Thank you,

Deanne Burke

 

RE: LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI, POET AND FOUNDER OF CITY LIGHTS BOOKSHOP,
DIES AGED 101
 

Presente, Lawrence Ferlinghetti!

Among the musical settings of his works, list "Big fat hairy vision of
evil," set by Dale Jurgenson (1971) and by Elie Siegmeister (1975);
and my own "Pity the Nation [[link removed]]" (2020)
scheduled for performance on our monthly house concert May 4, 2021.

Leonard J. Lehrman (& Helene Williams Spierman Lehrman)

 

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI SIDEWALK MEMORIAL AT CITY LIGHTS BOOKS (KQED)
 

 

A vigil and poetry reading is held outside of City Lights Books in San
Francisco for its founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti on Tuesday Feb. 23,
2021, who died on Monday at the age of 101. Friends and fellow poets
shared remembrances, read his work and raised their glasses. (Beth
LaBerge/KQED)
 

QUEEN OF THE NEOCON’S
 

eighty years ago she would have joined Eichmann
but she was born too late
one hundred forty five years ago
she would have joined
Nathan Bedford Foster
but she was born too late
one hundred eighty years ago
she would have joined Jackson
but she was born too late

but she was not too late in 2001
in joining Bush-Chaney
in Afghanistan and Iraq
twenty year disasters
costing six trillion and
two million deaths

and not too late in 2011
to join Hillary Clinton
in Libya
killing fifty thousand Libyans
turning the #1 African country to #53

in 2012 the Queen’s target was Syria
where the regime change failed
another two hundred thousand dead

Thomas Karlson
February 23, 2021

 

THE ROOTS OF REVOLUTIONARY NONVIOLENCE IN THE U.S. ARE IN THE BLACK
COMMUNITY (WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE)
 

There are many myths that people in the United States tell and repeat
about how social change has happened in our history. One such myth is
that white people are the originators of nonviolence strategies and
philosophies. IN FACT, THE ROOTS OF REVOLUTIONARY NONVIOLENCE ARE IN
THE BLACK COMMUNITY— AND GO BEYOND WELL-KNOWN FIGURES LIKE MARTIN
LUTHER KING JR., ROSA PARKS, AND JOHN LEWIS. 

READ: TRANSNATIONAL SOLIDARITY BETWEEN ANTI-SEGREGATION ACTIVISTS IN
THE U.S. AND INDIAN INDEPENDENCE ACTIVISTS LAID THE GROUNDWORK FOR THE
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.
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Back in the 1930's, Black newspapers were reporting on the Indian
Independence movement with great interest. Transnational solidarity
between Black and white clergy in the U.S. and Indian activists abroad
brought the strategies of revolutionary nonviolence stateside. IN
1940, THE HARLEM ASHRAM WAS ESTABLISHED AS A PLACE FOR SPIRITUAL
LEADERS, ORGANIZERS, AND ACTIVISTS TO GATHER AND WORK TOGETHER USING
THESE STRATEGIES TO DISMANTLE RACIAL SEGREGATION. This incubator of
nonviolence gave rise to others. Their work influenced the strategy
and training used by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). The
Montgomery Bus Boycott gave rise to the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee grew from
Nashville and other lunch counter sit-ins. THE HARLEM ASHRAM IS THE
STORY OF MANY WHO DEVELOPED STRATEGIES AND USED NONVIOLENCE TRAININGS
TO PREPARE FOR THE STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE.

READ: THE ROOTS OF REVOLUTIONARY NONVIOLENCE IN THE UNITED STATES ARE
IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY
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Collaboration between activists for independence in India and those
against segregation in the United States brought revolutionary
nonviolence stateside.

Joanne Sheehan
February 15, 2021
Waging Nonviolence
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Many are wondering how to respond to the current white supremacist
threat. We only have to look to history — to those who organized
against the brutal culture and laws of segregation in this country —
for inspiration on the importance of relationship building, creative
strategies and training to dismantle it today. Few people today know
that it was transnational solidarity between Black and white Christian
clergy in the United States and Indian activists fighting for
independence from British colonial rule that introduced the
philosophies and strategies of revolutionary nonviolence to the United
States, and that this work would build the foundation leading towards
the civil rights movement.

Read full article here
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War Resisters League [[link removed]]
168 Canal St, Suite 600. New York, NY 10013
(p) 212.228.0450
[email protected]

 

LESSONS OF THE SIXTIES - A HISTORY OF LOCAL WASHINGTON, DC ACTIVISM
FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE FROM 1960-1975 (LESSONS OF THE SIXTIES - A
VOLUNTEER LED PROJECT OF THE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES)
 

LESSONS OF THE SIXTIES
A HISTORY OF LOCAL WASHINGTON, DC ACTIVISM FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE FROM
1960-1975

The 1960s and early 1970s saw widespread upheaval in America. Major
movements against the war in Vietnam and for civil rights, women’s
rights and gay and lesbian rights produced significant changes and
laid the groundwork for later gains. Washington, DC, as the nation’s
capital, is remembered by millions of participants in these movements
primarily as the heart of national protest efforts during that time.
But during the 60s and 70s there was also a vibrant and diverse local
movement for political, cultural and social change in and around the
nation’s capital. The full history of “Washington DC in the 60s”
has not yet been told.

The aim of the project has been to collect and make permanently
available oral histories and historical documents on the efforts and
lessons learned by local activists, students and organizers who
dreamed of building a better world through new ideas, political
advocacy, local organization building, and various other means in the
Washington, D.C. area in the years 1960-1975. Our goal is to make
materials easily available for future activists, historians, students,
writers, and media producers.

The major product out this effort is a series of individual and group
interviews. Below are a series of links that provide different ways to
access this collection of 60 interviews. In addition to the
interviews,  our web site has some historical documents as well as
descriptions of the documents that have been donated and now archived
at the George Washington University Special Collections Research
Center.

INTERVIEWS ON OUR LESSONS OF THE SIXTIES WEB SITE. If you would like
to see who we have interviewed, the best starting point is to browse
the short biographies
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our web site. You can then click on any interview of interest and you
will be taken to the YouTube copy of the interview. Except for very
minor editing to clean up technical problems and to add descriptive
titles, the interviews are presented exactly as recorded.

INTERVIEWS VIA YOUTUBE: Select this link to go to YouTube
[[link removed]] for
access to the interviews, and then scroll through the list
alphabetically to find an interview  of interest.
 
KEYWORD SEARCH: If you should want to search through the interview and
document collections to find resources related to a specific topic,
you can  search all the keywords that we created for each of our
interviews and document collections. You can go directly to
the keyword search page
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follow the instructions on that page for how to search. You can also
reach the keywords search page through the drop-down menus once you
are on the Lessons of the Sixties web site home page
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We plan to wrap up the project with a small number of remaining
interviews, COVID safety eventually permitting.

These resources are all made available under creative commons licenses
which means that the video interviews, being online, can be downloaded
and used by historians, teachers, and filmmakers with proper
attribution but without having to pay fees or seek permissions. They
already have featured prominently in a documentary about the history
of voting and statehood in Washington DC.
 

Lessons of the 60s
[[link removed]]
c/o Institute for Policy Studies
1301 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
Tel 202-234-9382

CONTACT US AT: [email protected]

 

RESILIENCE — POSTER OF THE WEEK (CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF POLITICAL
GRAPHICS)
 

Resilience
Monyee Chau
2020
Seattle, WA
Poster Text:

“Chinatown, Filipinotown, Japantown, Little Saigon

were all built on resilience.

We will survive this, too.”

————

Hate crimes have a long and ugly history in the U.S. and throughout
the world. Since the Coronavirus began, racist attacks against Asian
Americans have escalated—seniors assaulted, businesses vandalized,
and hateful graffiti has appeared in countless places, from Los
Angeles to Seattle, and from San Francisco to Wisconsin to New
York. When former President Trump referred to COVID-19 as the “Kung
Flu” or “Chinese Virus,” he promoted these hate crimes by
fanning the flames of ignorance and racism.  

Trump is no longer president, but the attacks against Asian Americans
continue. Three weeks ago, an 84-year-old immigrant from Thailand was
assaulted while taking his daily walk in San Francisco. He died two
days later. Earlier this month, a 61-year-old Filipino American man
was slashed across the face by another passenger on the New York City
subway. He needed almost 100 stitches. 

As always, artists use the power of art to fight back. CSPG’s Poster
of the Week was made a year ago, by multimedia artist Monyee
Chau. She created these "resiliency posters" after stickers from a
white nationalist group were posted around Seattle’s
Chinatown-International District. 

Sources:

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

 

COLORADO CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE - INTERVIEWS JENNIFER BING AND
SHAINA LOW FROM "NO WAY TO TREAT A CHILD
 

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Watch here [[link removed]]  

Join Sergio Atallah of CO-CFJ as he interviews Jennifer Bing and
Shaina Low on Monday 2/22/21 at 7pm Mountain Time.

The interview will cover the Israeli military detention of Palestinian
children, Jennifer & Shaina's work on HB 2407, and information on the
ways the public can help work for justice for these Palestinian
minors.

This event is being co-sponsored by Friends of Sabeel - Colorado.

JENNIFER BING directs the Palestine Activism program for the American
Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and currently works with Defense for
Children International Palestine on their joint advocacy campaign,
“Israeli Military Detention: No Way to Treat a Child.”

SHAINA LOW serves as an Advocacy Officer at Defense for Children
International Palestine and currently serves on the American Friends
Service Committee's Palestine Advisory Committee.

 

SOLIDAIRTY WITH STRIKING MEXICAN JOURNALISTS, ON THE ONE-YEAR
ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR STRIKE - FEBRUARY 26 (NATIONAL WRITERS UNION)
 

* Reinstate all workers illegally fired for participating in the
strike;
* Full severance pay for all laid-off workers;
* Stop management interference and false accusations against union
leaders.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 - 7:00 PM EST

Sign up here
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WEBINAR: NUCLEAR WEAPONS: HOW DO WE SEIZE OUR MOVEMENT MOMENT? -
FEBRUARY 27 (PACIFIC LIFE COMMUNITY (PLC))

Saturday, February 27, 3-4:30 pm PST;
4–5:30 pm MST; 5–6:30 pm CST; 6–7:30 pm EST

As part of its 14th annual Bravo Test Nuclear Memorial Weekend of
Action, the Pacific Life Community (PLC) invites you to join a
conversation with two illustrious representatives of sister
antinuclear organizations. ring: 
Featuring:

* SETH SHELDEN, Liaison to the United Nations for the International
Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), awardee of the 2017 Nobel
Peace Prize.
* JACKIE CABASSO, Executive Director, Western States Legal
Foundation; National Co-Convener, United for Peace and Justice; and
North American Coordinator, Mayors for Peace
* Introduced and Moderated by PLC member, JIM HABER

* How is the disarmament movement working to build momentum and halt
nuclear proliferation?
* How is the change in national leadership affecting nuclear weapons
policy?
* How are linkages being made with climate justice and racial
justice movements here and abroad?
* As old anti-nuclear campaigners age out, what is inspiring younger
activists to confront the nuclear legacy?

These, your questions, and more will be explored in this stimulating
zoom presentation.  For the meeting link, click here.
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Password, if needed: nde (for Nevada Desert Experience, our zoom host)

THE PACIFIC LIFE COMMUNITY (PLC) IS A NETWORK OF SPIRITUALLY MOTIVATED
ADVOCATES FOR NUCLEAR ABOLITION AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN GENERAL. WE ARE
COMMITTED TO ENDING NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND WAR-MAKING THROUGH NONVIOLENT
DIRECT ACTION ALONG THE PACIFIC RIM IN COLLABORATION WITH THE GLOBAL
PEACE MOVEMENT.

For more information about this year’s (or past) Pacific Life
Community, Bravo Test Nuclear Memorial weekend, find us on Facebook
[[link removed]] or our website
[[link removed]].

 

THREE WAYS TO END FEBRUARY & SUPPORT PALESTINE! - FEBRUARY 27 & 28
(EYEWITNESS PALESTINE)
 

Virtual Delegation to the Jenin Refugee Camp
Visit Jenin with Eyewitness Palestine and your Guides from The Freedom
Theatre

More information - Click here
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PANEL: YOUTH RESISTANCE TO ISRAELI MILITARISM

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28 -- 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (PST)

_Eyewitness Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace, and the OBJECTOR Impact
Project present a conversation with young Israeli and Palestinian
leaders who are helping shape a new generation of resistance to
militarism and inequality._

_Hear from Atalya Ben-Abba, Sami Hureini, Yael Amber, and Abed Abou
Shehadeh on joint struggle in Israel/Palestine and international
solidarity in these urgent times._
_(See below for more information on the panelists)_

_This event marks the release of award-winning documentary OBJECTOR to
on-demand platforms for North American audiences, accompanied by
a __discussion guide
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meaningful reflection and conversation, and an international __letter
of solidarity [[link removed]]__ with young
Israelis who face incarceration for refusing to participate in the
occupation and oppression of Palestinians._

_Attendees are encouraged to watch the film __OBJECTOR__ before this
panel featuring its protagonists. By registering here, you will
receive an email with links to the documentary __WITH__ __A DISCOUNT
CODE__, and to the Zoom discussion event._

_THIS EVENT IS FREE OF CHARGE. The spoken language will be English
and unfortunately interpretation will not be available. Attendees are
welcome to pose questions to the participants._

_PANELISTS:_
_ATALYA BEN-ABBA and YAEL AMBER are organizers with __Mesarvot
[[link removed]]__, a network of activists whose goal is to
support conscientious objectors, and to promote discourse on civil
disobedience among the Israeli public. Atalya is the main subject of
the documentary OBJECTOR._
_SAMI HUREINI is an organizer with __Youth of Sumud
[[link removed]]__, a group
of Palestinians in South Hebron Hills committed to peaceful popular
resistance as a means to end the Israeli occupation._
_ABED ABOU SHEHADEH is a __political activist
[[link removed]]__, and Tel
Aviv's first Palestinian City Council Member._

_MODERATED BY__ EMILY SIEGEL, __Program Director
[[link removed]]__ of Eyewitness Palestine
and Board Member of __Refuser Solidarity Network
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More information here
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LESSONS FROM THE FRONTLINES OF 2020 FIGHTS FOR DEMOCRACY & BLACK LIVES
- MARCH 2 (CUNY SCHOOL OF LABOR & URBAN STUDIES)
 

LEADING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE AT A CRITICAL TIME: LESSONS FROM THE
FRONTLINES OF 2020 FIGHTS FOR DEMOCRACY AND BLACK LIVES

TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021

12:30 PM – 1:45 PM EST

Webinar Link: [link removed]
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Webinar ID: 845 5378 7644

Speakers:

* RAHNA EPTING, Executive Director of Move On
* MAURICE MITCHELL, National Director of the Working Families Party
* moderated by GARA LAMARCHE, President and CEO of The Democracy
Alliance and a Senior Fellow and Instructor at the Colin Powell School

To work on race, equity and justice is to deal with permanent crisis,
but the past year has been a perfect storm of reckoning with racial
violence and white supremacy, assaults on the basic practices of
democracy, and a pandemic that yet again laid bare the fundamental
inequities of the American economy – while the existential threat of
climate change looms larger than ever, after four years of government
neglect and denialism. How have organizations and coalitions managed
to weather all the grief, fear, rage and divisiveness – while
changing the terms of debate, staving off authoritarianism and winning
key victories. What leadership qualities are needed to hold us
together in times like this?

Join us on March 2nd for a conversation about these questions with
Rahna Epting, Executive Director of Move On, and Maurice Mitchell,
National Director of the Working Families Parties. The event will be
moderated by Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Democracy
Alliance and a Senior Fellow and Instructor at the Colin Powell School
leading the development of a new social justice leadership initiative
to be jointly housed at CCNY’s Colin Powell School for Civic and
Global Leadership and CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.

CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies [[link removed]]
25 West 43rd Street, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10036

 

VIRTUAL LAUNCH PARTY FOR VIET THANH NGUYEN'S THE COMMITTED - MARCH 2
(DIASPORIC VIETNAMESE ARTISTS NETWORK)
 

The Bay Area Book Festival's year-round author conversation
series, Bay Area Book Festival #UNBOUND
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hosting the live, virtual launch event for Viet Thanh Nguyen's
forthcoming novel, _The Committed_, on Tuesday, March 2nd at 7pm PST.

DVAN is thrilled to be an official sponsor of this special event
celebrating our co-founder and co-director, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and his
highly-anticipated sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, _The
Sympathizer_.
 

FROM THE BAY AREA BOOK FESTIVAL:

Viet Thanh Nguyen burst onto the literary scene with _The
Sympathizer_, an “intelligent, relentlessly paced and savagely
funny” (_Wall Street Journal_) debut novel that won 2016’s
Pulitzer Prize in fiction. The world has been waiting ever since for
the next chapter in the life of Nguyen’s unforgettable antihero, a
half-French, half-Vietnamese double agent in the Vietnam War. The wait
is over: Nguyen is back with _The Committed_. We catch up with our
narrator in Paris, where he falls in with left-wing intelligentsia
while still reeling from his torturous post-war “reeducation.”
Nguyen has truly outdone himself; Booker Prize winner Marlon James
calls _The Committed_ “a sequel that goes toe to toe with the
original then surpasses it. A masterwork.”

If you saw our July 2020 star-studded virtual event, Coming Together
When Things Fall Apart
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caught a glimpse of Nguyen’s insight, wit, and grace in articulating
the truths we need right now — whether about war, politics, or the
complexities of human emotion. Nguyen will be joined by Laila Lalami,
author of _The Moor’s Account_, for which she was a finalist for
the Pulitzer Prize; _The Other Americans_, which was shortlisted for
the 2019 National Book Award; and most recently the nonfiction
work _Conditional Citizens_. This live conversation is part of Bay
Area Book Festival #UNBOUND in partnership with the legendary City
Lights Books, a bastion of activism and cutting-edge literature.
 

EVENT DETAILS

Each ticket includes private access to the event recording for 10 days
following the live event. Signed copies are limited and all copies
will be shipped by City Lights Books
[[link removed]] in
San Francisco starting March 2.

To purchase tickets, please visit the Bay Area Book Festival site
[[link removed]].

_The DIASPORIC VIETNAMESE ARTISTS NETWORK (DVAN)’s primary mission
is to promote voices and stories of the Vietnamese diaspora through
nurturing writers, poets and artists, and connecting their work to
readers, audience, and diasporic communities all over the globe.
DVAN’s programs rely on donations from individuals and foundations.
DVAN is part of the incubator program at Intersection for the Arts,
and a project of the San Francisco State University's College of
Ethnic Studies, both are not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organizations. Your
donations are tax-deductible._

_We define the Vietnamese diaspora as communities of people of
Vietnamese origin outside of Vietnam. We take on a diasporic
perspective because many of our family members have been pushed out of
Vietnam to many parts of the world and it makes sense for us to share
stories and engage in dialogues._

Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network
College of Ethnic Studies San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132

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