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TIDBITS - OCT. 3, 2019 - READER COMMENTS: IMPEACHMENT; GLOBAL CLIMATE
STRIKE; PEGGY LIPSCHUTZ REMEMBERED; SCIENCE EDUCATION; VENCEREMOS
BRIGADE; HOLOCAUST PARTISANS; CHINA AT 70; RESOURCES; ANNOUNCEMENTS -
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_ Reader Comments: Impeachment; Global Climate Strike; Peggy
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Partisans; China at 70; Mexico; Women's Work; Resources; Announcements
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements AND cartoons -
Oct. 3, 2019, xxxxxx

 

Global Climate Strike Update (SolidarityINFOService.org)
Re: The Left Needs to Seize Impeachment From Centrist Elites (Emile
Schepers)
Re: Trump Can't Get Away With It Anymore (Maureen Curtin)
Walk the Plank  --  cartoon by Steve Kelley
Re: Is It Too Late to Impeach Trump?; The Whistle-Blower's Complaint
Is Devastating for Donald Trump (Patrick Suzeau)
Another Shrimp On The Barbie  --  cartoon by Clay Jones
Re: Bernie Sanders' and Elizabeth Warren's Wealth Taxes, Compared
(Susan Vago Webb)
Re: Sanders and Warren: The Need For a Progressive Front (John Kailin;
Alan Hart; Idwell Twiss Shanon)
Re: Until Her Death at 100, Chicago Artist Peggy Lipschutz Loved Two
Things: Art and Politics (Fred Whitehead; Jay Schaffner; Judith Disla;
Patricia Dowling; Mark Dvorak)
Re: Why Public Places Like Libraries and Parks are Critical for
Bringing People Together (Judith Eisenscher Schaffner)
Re: Jazz and Justice (Monthly Review)
Re: Science Education Is Under Legislative Attack (Rob Prince; Gordon
Galland; Manuel Tamargo; Jim Price)
Re: Evil in the Delta: Elaine, Arkansas, 1919 (Christopher Peragine)
Re: Why is Greta Thunberg so Triggering for Certain Men? (Ariel Cotte
Lugo; Valishandra Kothari)
Re: The Venceremos Brigade at 50: Challenging Empire, Uplifting
Solidarity Since 1969 (Ethan Young; Carl Davidson; Bruce Goldberg;
Allen Young)

RESOURCES:

Progressive Directory Launched - 7000 listings - Add Your Group
(ActLocal)
Remembering Ayotzinapa | Poster of the Week (Center for the Study of
Political Graphics)
Discover the Unknown History of the Holocaust (Jewish Partisan
Educational Foundation)
How China Continues While the USSR Did Not: A Modest Summary (Online
University of the Left)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Dissident Arts Festival 2019 -Silent No More - Brooklyn - October 5
Valuing Women's Work and Building Women's Empowerment: The Centenary
of the ILO and the Future of Women's Labor Rights - New Haven -
October 10 - 12
Come Build the People’s Sukkah! - Embrace sanctuary and solidarity,
not policing, racism, or militarism - New York - October 15 (Jewish
Voice for Peace)
Book launch - Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Who
Opposed the War - New York City - October 18
Beaten Down, Worked Up: An Evening With Author Steven Greenhouse - New
York City - October 28 (Community Service Society)

 

GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE UPDATE
 

SolidarityINFOService.org [[link removed]]

 

RE: THE LEFT NEEDS TO SEIZE IMPEACHMENT FROM CENTRIST ELITES
 

Trump has done huge damage to the international working class,
especially minorities, women, migrants and refugees, organized labor
and the environment. Since impeachment is a political and not a
juridical matter, all of these things could be cause for his
impeachment, were it not for the class composition of the current
membership of Congress. So the official impeachment narrative is very
unsatisfactory from the point of view of the left. I want him gone,
but I agree with the xxxxxx article
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that we should be giving voice to our own arguments on this rather
than those of the corporate democrats. And galloping to the defense of
Hunter Biden and his pa is not part of that argument;.

Emile Schepers
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: TRUMP CAN'T GET AWAY WITH IT ANYMORE
 

Trump is mentally unfit to be president. He has committed a number of
impeachable offenses. He has no sense of right & wrong. Impeach!!!

Maureen Curtin
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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WALK THE PLANK  --  CARTOON BY STEVE KELLEY
 

Steve Kelley
October 2, 2019
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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RE: IS IT TOO LATE TO IMPEACH TRUMP?; THE WHISTLE-BLOWER'S COMPLAINT
IS DEVASTATING FOR DONALD TRUMP
 

In the days following the phone call, I learned from multiple U.S.
officials that senior White House officials had intervened to "lock
down" all records of the phone call, especially the official
word-for-word transcript of the call that was produced-as is
customary-by the White House Situation Room. . . . White House
officials told me that they were `directed' by White House lawyers to
remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which
such transcripts are typically stored for co-ordination, finalization,
and distribution to Cabinet-level officials. Instead, the transcript
was loaded into a separate electronic system that is otherwise used to
store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive
nature. One White House official described this act as an abuse of
this electronic system because the call did not contain anything
remotely sensitive from a national security perspective.

Patrick Suzeau
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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ANOTHER SHRIMP ON THE BARBIE  --  CARTOON BY CLAY JONES
 

Clay Jones
October 1, 2019
Tucson Weekly
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RE: BERNIE SANDERS' AND ELIZABETH WARREN'S WEALTH TAXES, COMPARED
 

Warren's approach makes sense in being broader than Bernie's. Why is
some of the left insisting on pitting Bernie and Warren against each
other? The essential issue is who can run the broadest, most widely
energizing campaign? We can love Bernie and also Warren.

Susan Vago Webb
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: SANDERS AND WARREN: THE NEED FOR A PROGRESSIVE FRONT
 

The link
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to the WFP explanation of their process gives me pause, need to look
further at their process. But even if their Warren endorsement was a
fair reflection of their constituency, that doesn't make it a good
decision. A party that dissed Teachout and AOC  needs to be taken to
account.

John Kailin

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Only if you subscribe to the PEP (Progressive Except for Palestine)
perspective, and don't think opposing U.S. militarism is important. As
a socialist for the past 50 years, I have no desire to support a
candidate who says she's "capitalist to my bones" and who stood and
applauded when Trump said, in the SOTU, "America will never be a
socialist country." (ESPECIALLY when there's a socialist in the race
with a solid chance of winning.) As a 45-year member of one of the
most consistently progressive unions in the US, I am proud that UE
unhesitatingly endorsed Bernie Sanders. I will bust my ass, from now
through the primaries, to elect Bernie and defeat Warren and the rest
of the fauxgressives in the race.

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Elizabeth Warren's approach to Palestine resembles failed Obama
policies.
Gage Skidmore  //  The Elecronic Intifada
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Alan Hart
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Provided the dnc doesn't interfere. But they have. So it's only bernie
for me

Idwell Twiss Shanon
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: UNTIL HER DEATH AT 100, CHICAGO ARTIST PEGGY LIPSCHUTZ LOVED TWO
THINGS: ART AND POLITICS
 

Peggy came to a cultural conference in Kansas City in 1978, and
recalled that during the WPA era of the 1930, the federal govt
provided artists with materials for their work, and a modest stipend
for living expenses PLUS venues for public exposure in schools, govt
buildings such as post office murals, etc. Artists did NOT have to
depend on corporate largess, apply for grants among hundreds of others
while only a few receive support. A valuable lesson from history, then
and now.

Fred Whitehead
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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It was such a treat growing up and seeing Peggy draw and perform; and
then getting to know her; and to work with her in so many different
movements and activities. This is an incredible salute to Peggy
Lipschutz - the person, the artist and the activist - from the Chicago
Tribune.

Jay Schaffner
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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A good story about a good life

Judith Disla
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Rest in Power, Ms. Peggy Lipschutz

I had the privilege of seeing her do one of her "chalk talks," swiftly
illustrating with colored chalk whatever song the musician with her
was singing. It was like the birth of MTV - music and visual art. She
was a very cool lady and I wish her a safe journey.

Patricia Dowling

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Peggy Lipschutz: True, Beautiful & Strong

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Watch here [[link removed]].

"From the Old Town School" is a series of interviews produced for WLUW
fm 88.7 in Chicago. Host Mark Dvorak interviews artist Peggy
Lipschutz, who created the famed portraits of Big Bill Broonzy, Woody
Guthrie and Pete Seeger, which have hung at the Armitage Avenue
location since 1970.

Post by Mark Dvorak [[link removed]]

 

RE: WHY PUBLIC PLACES LIKE LIBRARIES AND PARKS ARE CRITICAL FOR
BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER
 

I have always felt this way about libraries. They are important
community resources and sources of information beyond lending books
and other materials.

Judith Eisenscher Schaffner
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: JAZZ AND JUSTICE

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
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Gregory Heires reviews Gerald Horne's "Jazz and Justice" for xxxxxx
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Monthly Review [[link removed]]
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: SCIENCE EDUCATION IS UNDER LEGISLATIVE ATTACK
 

This is what happens when Evangelicals are let loose on the body
politic ..

The need to restore the separation of Church from State

Rob Prince
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Ignorance is religion's handmaiden...

Gordon Galland
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Just so you know, there are different views of evolution theory
amongst scientists and tweaks are made on a regular basis as
archeology and DNA science, as well as geological analysis make
discoveries. This means that if someone wants to claim that it is set
in stone, they are talking about religion of evolution not science.
Science is open to inquiry.

Manuel Tamargo
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Along with music, art, foreign languages, special ed and actual
teachers

Jim Price
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: EVIL IN THE DELTA: ELAINE, ARKANSAS, 1919
 

" ... In 1919, the United States was in the grip of a racist,
anti-labor and anti-communist fervor. The Russian Revolution, the
Seattle General Strike, and union unrest set off a massive propaganda
campaign by the media and government against the left, unions,
immigrants, Latinos and African Americans. Mass deportation of
immigrants, shootings, and arrests followed. But racism lent a special
viciousness and violence to the Red Summer, weaponizing white workers
and white ethnics to attack black neighborhoods and black workers,
some of them brought in by employers to break strikes.

In 1919, employers played off workers against each other to kill a
national strike of 350,000 Steel Workers, destroy interracial
packinghouse worker organizing in Chicago, and undermine unions
everywhere. ... "

Christopher Peragine
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: WHY IS GRETA THUNBERG SO TRIGGERING FOR CERTAIN MEN?
 

At least she's trying, what are you doing to make this better? With
opinions you don't do shit, were supposed to help each other! Hell is
going to be a paradise for some people!

Ariel Cotte Lugo
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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But who's the real freak - the activist whose determination has
single-handedly started a powerful global movement for change, or the
middle-aged men taunting a child with Asperger syndrome from behind
the safety of their computer screens?

Valishandra Kothari
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: THE VENCEREMOS BRIGADE AT 50: CHALLENGING EMPIRE, UPLIFTING
SOLIDARITY SINCE 1969
 

The Venceremos Brigade was an important event in US left history. I
was on the first one, and a bunch of others with me (most of whom I
didn't know) went on to make a big mark, particularly in the New
Communist Movement. I only encountered them later. Some temporarily
rejected Cuba to side with China's anti-Soviet position. Others joined
the CP. One went on to single-handedly topple a nuclear plant tower.
Many became union organizers, feminists, gay rights activists (!). A
writer for the Chicago Daily News with CIA connects claimed we were
trained in guerrilla warfare - we weren't, but few would have minded.

I made it into the Congressional Record when someone quoted me from an
interview in a neighborhood paper, calling Fidel "a dynamite cat!" I
was 17.

For some the high point was meeting Fidel. For others, including me,
it was meeting young Vietnamese communists from the historic town of
Hue. That made me grow a spine.

I never did get the hang of cane cutting though. And the cane harvest
failed to reach its goal, which was a big lesson in the importance of
combating idealism.

Ethan Young
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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The VB probably has many parents. But two of them were myself and Tom
Hayden, who proposed it in our meeting with Fidel in 1968.

Carl Davidson
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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And a third: Carl Oglesby also proposed it and received an official
"yes" as part of the SDS contingent during the 10th Anniversary in
Havana in 1968-. (Success has a thousand parents...)

Bruce Goldberg
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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     =====

I do not accept the "pretty picture" of the Cuban Revolution or the
Venceremos Brigade (VB) itself that characterizes the Diana Block
article. I continue to be proud of my role, as a journalist and gay
activist and original organizer and treasurer of the VB, revealing the
truth about Cuba's homophobia and repression. I maintain that Cuba is
still a police state where dissidents are jailed and civil liberties
are non-existent. My 1982 book, "Gays Under the Cuban Revolution," is
truthful and well-researched, though obviously not current. These VB
alumni are narrow-minded leftists who won't face the facts and who
continue to denigrate the exiles -- more than a million people -- who
have another more honest perspective on what's happened to their
beautiful island under the tyrannical Castro regime.

Allen Young

 

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allyship and coordination, and creates infrastructure to strengthen
leaders and activists across the progressive movement.

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REMEMBERING AYOTZINAPA | POSTER OF THE WEEK
 

43
Szymon Szymankiewicz
Digital print, 2015
Designed: Poland; Printed: Mexico
On September 26, 2014—five years ago today—students from the
Escuela Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa in the Mexican state of Guerrero
boarded buses towards the town of Iguala, where they planned to
protest a political event hosted by the mayor and his wife. As the
students arrived in Iguala, the buses were stopped by local police.
While details of the violent confrontation remain unclear, the police
eventually opened fire, killing six and wounding 25. Another 43
student teachers were herded into police vehicles—and never seen
again.

After months of inaction, the Mexican government released an official
statement claiming that the Iguala police had handed the students over
to a local drug cartel, the Guerreros Unidos, who later incinerated
all 43 bodies in a nearby garbage dump. While the Mexican government
hoped to close the case on the missing students, experts pointed out
that their claims were implausible, inconsistent, and scientifically
unsound. The families of the missing students—with the support of
the international community—continue to search for the truth.

Just eight weeks after the disappearances, internationally renowned
artist and activist Francisco Toledo—who died Sept. 5, 2019—in
conjunction with the Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca (IAGO),
launched an open call encouraging artists from all over the world to
submit work about the 43 missing students for an exhibition titled
Carteles de Ayotzinapa.

Over 700 designs were submitted by artists from Mexico, Iran, Poland,
Spain, Portugal, China, Greece, and other countries. Forty-three were
displayed at the Museo de Memoria y Tolerancia in Mexico City along
with an installation of 43 kites—each displaying the face of one of
the missing students—created by Toledo and participants of an “Art
and Paper” workshop in Oaxaca. Proceeds raised by the exhibition
went to the families of the disappeared students.

Recordando Ayotzinapa

El 26 de septiembre de 2014— hace cinco años hoy—estudiantes de
la Escuela Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa en el estado mexicano de
Guerrero abordaron autobuses con rumbo a la ciudad de Iguala, Guerrero
donde planeaban protestar un event politico organizado por el alcalde
y su esposa. A medida que los estudiantes llegaban a Iguala, los
autobuses fueron detenidos violentamente por la policía local. Aunque
los detalles de la confrontación siguen sin estar claros, la policía
finalmente abrió fuego, matando a seis personas e hiriendo a otras
veinte y cinco más. Cuarenta y tres estudiantes fueron conducidos en
vehículos propriedad de la policía y de los cuales nunca más fueron
vistos o se supo de ellos.

Después de una investigación inconclusa e incompetente, el gobierno
mexicano lanzó un comunicado afirmando que la policía de Iguala
habrían entregado a los estudiantes al cartel local de droga,
conocido como “Los Guerreros Unidos”, y que más tarde se dijo que
los 43 cuerpos fueron incinerados en un basurero cercano. Aunque el
govierno mexicano esperaba cerrar el caso de los 43 estudiantes
desaparecidos, los expertos señalaron que sus afirmaciones son
inverosímiles, inconsistentes y carecen de rigor científico. Las
familias de los estudiantes desaparecidos con el apoyo de la comunidad
internacional, aún continúan en la búsquedad de la verdad.

A sólo ocho semanas después de la desaparición de los estudiantes,
Francisco Toledo, artista y activista reconocido
internacionalmente—quien falleció el 5 de Septiembre de 2019—en
conjunto con el Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca (IAGO), puso en
marcha una convocatoria abierta para exhorter a artistas de todo el
mundo a crear un trabajo en base a los 43 estudiantes desaparecidos
para montar una exposición titulada Carteles de Ayotzinapa. Más de
700 obras fueron presentados por artistas de México, Irán, Polonia,
España, Portugal, China, Grecia, por mencionar algunos.

Cuarenta y tres fueron exhibidas en el Museo de Memoria y Tolerancia
en la Ciudad de México, junto con una instalación de 43
cometas-papalotes, cada uno representando la cara de los estudiantes
desaparecidos, estas piezas fueron creadas por Toledo y participantes
del taller “Arte y Papel” en Oaxaca. Los fondos recaudados por la
posición fueron destinados a las familias de los estudiantes
desaparecidos.

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

For more information please contact 310.397.3100 or visit our website
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DISCOVER THE UNKNOWN HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST - JEWISH PARTISAN
EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
 

Jewish partisans in Poland
Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
They were Jews in Europe, many of them teenagers, male and female, who
fought against the Nazis during World War II. The majority were
regular folks who escaped the ghettos and work camps
[[link removed]] and joined
organized resistance
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forests and urban underground. Non-Jewish partisans
[[link removed]] could sneak back to
their homes for security and safety. The Jews had no place to go and
so they were constantly moving through the shadows on the edges of
cities and towns.

Some, like Polish teenager Frank Blaichman, knew their village would
be turned into a ghetto; Frank escaped and joined a group of partisans
in a forest. Others, like Abe Asner, were among the very few Jewish
partisans with military training. Most partisans knew nothing about
guns and ammunition, so people like Abe became important teachers and
leaders.

People who had guns and knew how to use them were mostly welcomed with
open arms. If someone wanted to join and had no weapon, some groups
required them to get one, in whatever manner they could. Outsiders who
came to fight the Nazis – like Russian partisan
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– valued Jews who knew local terrain and could act as their scouts.

Less than ten percent of the partisans were women. Some were fighters
and scouts; the majority were part of the vital infrastructure,
cooking for the group and caring for the sick.

Those with young children often stayed in hidden enclaves in the
forests. Some partisan groups, like the Bielski Brigade
[[link removed]], accepted these
families, but most groups did not.

Jews who joined non-Jewish partisan groups often hid their Judaism
because of antisemitism
[[link removed]]. Norman Salsitz, for
example, used seven non-Jewish identities while fighting the Nazis and
was able to save dozens of Jews from certain death.

A partisan is a “member of an organized body of fighters who attack
or harass an enemy, especially within occupied territory; a
guerrilla.”

During World War II, the majority of European Jews had no idea that
the Nazis were conducting a meticulous disinformation campaign to
convince them that they were going to work camps
[[link removed]] instead of being
exterminated. Yet between 20,000- 30,000 Jews escaped from Nazi
[[link removed]] ghettos and camps
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organized resistance
[[link removed]] groups.

These Jews joined hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish partisans
[[link removed]] who fought the
Germans, but they had to worry about local antisemites. Often they
formed all-Jewish groups to protect themselves from their old
neighbors.

Jewish resistance
[[link removed]] took on different
forms. Physical resistance
[[link removed]] by the partisans
was something that hurt the Germans. Spiritual resistance
[[link removed]] may not have
affected the Germans and their collaborators
[[link removed]] directly, but it was
important to the Jews, since the Nazis wanted to take away their
dignity and self-respect.

In defiance of the laws, the Jews held prayer services, or taught
children to read Hebrew; those who performed in theater groups or in
concerts, who painted pictures and wrote poems, were part of
the resistance [[link removed]],
though they had no guns.

There were smugglers who sent children to safety and couriers who
carried messages between the ghettos, as well as forgers who created
documents for use in the outside world. Jews in the work camps
[[link removed]] sabotaged guns and
other products they were making for the Germans.

Partisans with ammunition blew up thousands of Nazi
[[link removed]] supply trains,
making it harder for the Germans to fight the war. In Lithuania,
Jewish partisans were responsible for significant damage to Nazi
[[link removed]] trains. Partisans
also destroyed numerous Nazi
[[link removed]] power plants and
factories, and focused their attention on other military and strategic
targets, rather than on civilians.

Read more here
[[link removed]].

Jewish Partisan Education Foundation [[link removed]]
PO Box 159004
San Francisco, CA 94115
415-563-2244
[email protected]

 

HOW CHINA CONTINUES WHILE THE USSR DID NOT: A MODEST SUMMARY
 

TWO REVOLUTIONS - Rough Notes
By Perry Anderson
New Left Review 118
July-August 2019

Online University of the Left
[[link removed]]
 

If the twentieth century was dominated, more than by any other single
event, by the trajectory of the Russian Revolution, the twenty-first
will be shaped by the outcome of the Chinese Revolution. The Soviet
state, born of the First World War, victor in the Second, defeated in
the cold replica of a Third, dissolved after seven decades with
scarcely a shot, as swiftly as it had once arisen. What has remained
is a Russia lesser in size than the Enlightenment once knew, with
under half the population of the USSR, restored to a capitalism now
more dependent on the export of raw materials than in the last days of
Tsarism. While future reversals are not to be excluded, for the moment
what has survived of the October rising, in any positive sense, looks
small. Its most lasting achievement, huge enough, was negative: the
defeat of Nazism, which no other European regime could have
encompassed. That, at any rate, would be a common judgement today.

The outcome of the Chinese Revolution offers an arresting contrast. As
it enters its seventh decade, the People’s Republic is an engine of
the world economy, the largest exporter at once to the EU, Japan and
the United States; the largest holder of foreign-exchange reserves on
earth; for a quarter of a century posting the fastest growth rates in
per capita income, for the largest population, ever recorded. Its big
cities are without rival for commercial and architectural ambition,
its goods sold everywhere. Its builders, prospectors and diplomats
criss-cross the globe in search of further opportunities and
influence. Courted by former foes and friends alike, for the first
time in its history the Middle Kingdom has become a true world power,
whose presence reaches into every continent. With the fall of the
ussr, no formula to describe the turn of events it signified became so
canonized as ‘the collapse of communism’. Twenty years later that
looks a touch Eurocentric. Viewed in one light, communism has not just
survived, but become the success story of the age. In the character
and scale of that achievement, of course, there is more than
one—bitter—irony. But of the difference between the fate of the
revolutions in China and Russia, there can be little doubt.

Read full article here
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DISSIDENT ARTS FESTIVAL 2019 -SILENT NO MORE - BROOKLYN - OCTOBER 5
 

Dissident Arts Festival 2019 [[link removed]] -- Our
theme is #silentnomore - the fight for women’s rights - and serves
as a benefit for the Dwelling Place of NY, a transitional program for
homeless women. The Dissident Arts Festival, founded 2006, is the
annual gathering of revolutionary creativity.

17 Frost Theatre & Gallery [[link removed]]
17 Frost Street
Brooklyn NY 11211

Admission: $20 donation

The Dissident Arts Festival, the annual assembly of “rad words and
sounds from beneath the underground”, returns to 17 Frost Theatre &
Gallery in Williamsburg Brooklyn, October 5. This year’s theme,
#SilentNoMore , is in honor of the greater feminist cause with an
accent on the voice of women. All proceeds will benefit the Dwelling
Place of NY, a transitional facility and program for homeless women in
midtown Manhattan.

The Festival will present free jazz, protest poetry, post-punk rock,
and topical song. Each set will be woman-led or inclusive of a female
artist in a primary soloist role. And this year, a visual art exhibit
will also be part of the proceedings. It will include multi-media
works of Christina Varga (Varga Gallery, Woodstock and Phonecia NY),
paintings and drawings of Denise Iacovone, photography by Sherry Rubel
(Sherry Rubel Productions) and paintings by artist/musician Joff
Wilson (Soul Cake). A local woman tattoo artist TBA will also be with
us for this special occasion.

FESTIVAL PERFORMERS:

AVANT JAZZ GRIOTS THE BEYOND GROUP- Cheryl Pyle-C flute, alto flute,
poetry; Michael Eaton-soprano saxophone; Larry Roland-bass, poetry,
spoken word; Francois Grillot-bass; Reggie Sylvester-drums

POST-PUNK NEO-BEAT DUO FLAMES OF DISCONTENT John Pietaro-poetry,
spoken word, vocals, electric guitar; Laurie Towers-lead electric
bass, backing vocals

Singer/Songwriter/Feminist Activist JUDY GORMAN vocals, guitar

“UPSURGE!” PERFORMANCE Poet Zigi Lowenberg poetry, spoken word
with Russell Dale-guitar

ROCK ‘N’ ROLL POET PUMA PERL &FRIENDS; Walter Steding-violin; Joff
Wilson-guitar; Joe Sztabnik- electric bass; John Pietaro-drums

“Where’s the Outrage?” Pianist-Composer TRUDY SILVER piano

Poet/Tiananmen Square Survivor ROSE TANG poetry, spoken word, electric
guitar; Ayumi Ishito-tenor saxophone; Wen-Ting Wu-drums

Guest Speaker SISTER JOANN SAMBS, Administrator, the Dwelling Place
NYC

John Pietaro -- DISSIDENT ARTS/NEW MASSES MEDIA RELATIONS    
    (646) 599-0060
    [email protected]
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VALUING WOMEN'S WORK AND BUILDING WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT: THE CENTENARY
OF THE ILO AND THE FUTURE OF WOMEN'S LABOR RIGHTS - NEW HAVEN -
OCTOBER 10 - 12
 

Maurice R. Greenberg Conference Center
Yale University
391 Prospect Street 
New Haven, CT 06511

_Valuing Women’s Work and Building Economic Empowerment: Celebrating
the Centenary of the International Labor Organization and the Future
of Women’s Labor Rights _is a working conference that will bring
together scholars, union members and leaders, lawyers, immigrant
rights’ advocates, entrepreneurs, and legislators from Connecticut
state government and the U.S. House of Representatives. The conference
will take place on October 10-12, 2019 at Yale University.

The event has been organized with the International Labor Organization
Office for the United States (ILO-USA) and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro
(D-CT), a long-standing leader in the U.S. House of Representatives
and Chair of the Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriations
Subcommittee.

The occasion of this conference is the centenary of the ILO, one of
the most enduring of the international normative organizations
established in the wake of World War I to create more humane work and
improve social conditions in the new industrial age. The ILO continues
to adopt international labor standards that set the framework for the
way we experience work.

Uniquely, this conference focuses specifically on women’s rights at
work and women’s labor rights within a shifting political economy.
Since the creation of the ILO, women’s labors have moved from the
periphery to the center of modern economies—in hospitals, nursing
homes, food services, hotels, schools, offices, social agencies,
building cleaning services, retail enterprises, and homes. Yet women
comprise the majority of minimum wage workers in the U.S. They also
continue to do the unpaid labor within families.

Today we confront the imperative of generating new conversations and
strategies to advance women’s economic security. With speakers and
facilitators coming from across the U.S. and other countries, this
conference aims to forge strategic alliances and generate new
possibilities for action at the local, state, national, and
transnational level.

Conference registration is FREE
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For information about the conference, please contact
[email protected], [email protected] or [email protected].

 

COME BUILD THE PEOPLE’S SUKKAH! - EMBRACE SANCTUARY AND SOLIDARITY,
NOT POLICING, RACISM, OR MILITARISM - NEW YORK - OCTOBER 15
 

If there is one thing you do with JVP-NYC this year, this is where we
need you most: 

On October 15th at 6:30pm, march with us
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headquarters to demand an end to their US-Israel police exchanges.
It’s going to be an incredible action at a pivotal point in our
campaign! 

The tide is turning: Durham City Council voted to prohibit their
police from going on these exchanges, and the city of Northampton and
state of Vermont pulled their police off these trips. New York City is
obviously a totally different (and frankly much more challenging)
context — but that just makes your help even more important!

Come Build the People’s Sukkah!
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Embrace sanctuary and solidarity, not policing, racism, or militarism

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 6:30-8:30PM

New York New Church
114 East 35th Street 
New York, NY 10016

Last year we brought 400-people to the ADL for a People’s Menorah
action during Chanukah — were you there? If not, check it out here
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This year we’re organizing around Sukkot, the Jewish harvest holiday
of Sukkot that’s all about gathering community, sharing bounty, and
keeping all of us safe and secure.

It would mean so much if you would join us. Every person counts as we
build the pressure to stop the exchanges - and the impact they have
not only on the Israeli Police and NYPD, but ICE and CPB too.

And with the action’s mix of anger and joy, speakers and spectacle,
we promise it will be worth your time.

Jewish Voice for Peace – NYC
[email protected]

Jewish Voice for Peace [[link removed]]
P.O. Box 589
Berkeley, CA 94701

 

BOOK LAUNCH - WAGING PEACE IN VIETNAM: U.S. SOLDIERS AND VETERANS WHO
OPPOSED THE WAR - NEW YORK CITY - OCTOBER 18
 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2019  --  NOON TO 2 P.M.

Columbia University School of International Affairs
Room 1512 (15th Floor)
420 W. 118th Street, Corner of Amsterdam Avenue
Manhattan

 

BEATEN DOWN, WORKED UP: AN EVENING WITH AUTHOR STEVEN GREENHOUSE - NEW
YORK CITY - OCTOBER 28
 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2019 AT 6 PM – 7:30 PM

The Community Service Society of New York
633 Third Ave, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10017

Opening Remarks

* DAVID R. JONES - President and CEO, Community Service Society of
New York
* STEPHANIE LUCE - Chair and Professor of Labor Studies, CUNY School
of Labor and Urban Studies

Moderator

* LIZ VLADECK - Senior Labor Policy Adviser, Mayor’s Office of
Policy and Planning 

Join us for a conversation with Steven Greenhouse about his acclaimed
new book, BEATEN DOWN, WORKED UP: THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF
AMERICAN LABOR.  Greenhouse, who covered labor issues for _The New
York Times_ for two decades, recounts pivotal episodes in the labor
movement’s history and explains how unions lifted millions of
workers and helped build a fairer nation. He then examines the decline
of unions and how that has hurt workers, and concludes with inspiring
stories of recent events, like the teachers’ strikes and Fight for
$15, that are sparking a resurgence for labor.

STEVEN GREENHOUSE was a reporter for _The New York Times _from 1983
to 2014 and covered labor and the workplace for nineteen years there.
He also served as a business and economics reporter and a diplomatic
and foreign correspondent. He has been honored with the Society of
Professional Journalists Deadline Club award, a New York Press Club
award, a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial
Reporting, and the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism for his last
book, _The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker._

A book signing and wine and cheese reception will follow.

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