[ Reader Comments: Palestine, Israel; George Floyd Changed the
World; Society Without Landlords; Military Spending; Chile; Asian &
Asian American Books for Children & Teenagers; Solidarity with
Palestine Resources; Memorial Day; Music Therapy; more...]
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TIDBITS - MAY 27, 2021 - READER COMMENTS: PALESTINE, ISRAEL; GEORGE
FLOYD; SOCIETY WITHOUT LANDLORDS; MILITARY SPENDING; CHILE; ASIAN &
ASIAN AMERICAN BOOKS FOR CHILDREN & TEENAGERS; SOLIDARITY WITH
PALESTINE RESOURCES; MEMORIAL DAY; MUSIC THERAPY;  
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
May 27, 2021, xxxxxx

 

Re: Israeli Social Fabric is Ripping at the Seams (Judyth Hollub)
Re: Israel: Police Begin Mass Arrests of Palestinians (Joseph
Maizlish; Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression)
#GeorgeFloyd One year anniversary of his death, RIP. #BlackLivesMatter
 --  Lalo Alcaraz
Re: We Want a Society Without Landlords (Judy Atkins)
Re: To 'End the Absurdity' of Wasteful Military Spending, Sanders
Introduces Bill to Audit the Pentagon (Joe; David Culver)
They're Coming for Us  --  Mike Luckovich cartoon
Re: Chile is Reborn by a (Political) Earthquake that Emerged from the
Streets (Andrew Thomas)

RESOURCES:

Black and AAPI Relations: Unpacking the systemic origins of conflict
and the solidarity (San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, South Bay,
San Mateo and Sacramento Labor Councils; IFPTE Local 21)
Before George Floyd…. — Poster of the Week (Center for the Study
of Political Graphics)
Solidarity with Palestine: Resources (CodePink)
180+ Asian & Asian American Books for Children & Teenagers (Colours of
Us)
Nostalgia & Reality: Black & Jewish Relationships in the 1960s and
Beyond (Judaism on Our Own Terms, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
(JFREJ), and Jewish Currents)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Memorial Day - Remembering All Those Whose Lives Were Taken by War
(New York City Veterans for Peace)
Music Therapy for the Performing Artist - June 2 (Louis Armstrong
Center for Music & Medicine and Local 802 AFM)

 

RE: ISRAELI SOCIAL FABRIC IS RIPPING AT THE SEAMS
 

They are doing unto others as was done unto them ... and they should
know better.

Judyth Hollub
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RE: ISRAEL: POLICE BEGIN MASS ARRESTS OF PALESTINIANS
 

This is all that is left of policy: Arrest the people who will not
disappear or accept the imposed status of refugees in their homes.

Hans Kohn in a 1929 letter, (as quoted in Anthony Bing's /Joseph
Abileah, Israeli Pacifist/, p.69)

"The means determine the goal.  If lies and violence are the means,
the results cannot be good. . . . We have been in Palestine for twelve
years without having even once made a serious attempt at seeking
through negotiations the consent of the indigenous people. . . . I
believe that it will be possible for us to hold Palestine and continue
to grow for a long time.

This will be done first with British aid and then later with the help
of our own bayonets -- shamefully called Haganah [defense] -- clearly
because we have no faith in our own policy.  But by that time we will
not be able to do without the bayonets.  The means will have
determined the goal.  Jewish Palestine will no longer have anything
of that Zion for which I once put myself on the line."

Joseph Maizlish

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Palestinian citizens of Israel call the 48-hour operation, set to
arrest 500 people, a 'declaration of war'

Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
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#GEORGEFLOYD ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH, RIP. #BLACKLIVESMATTER
 --  LALO ALCARAZ
 

Lalo Alcaraz
May 25, 2027

 

RE: WE WANT A SOCIETY WITHOUT LANDLORDS

This is a very interesting article! I learned a lot from it about the
history of politics of housing in Germany, and what's going on there
now. Neoliberalism, besides privatizing so much that was previously
publicly owned, tries to erase from memory social and socialist
reforms that worked in the past. We recently had a 9 part forum on
housing here in Franklin County Mass. If others want to view it - it
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HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT: WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN - A Virtual
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Judy Atkins
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RE: TO 'END THE ABSURDITY' OF WASTEFUL MILITARY SPENDING, SANDERS
INTRODUCES BILL TO AUDIT THE PENTAGON
 

IF the pentagon continues to get the money, my hope is that ALL of it
is spent and NOTHING is produced and no soldiering is done.  The
world will be better off.

In that sense, I'm for MORE fraud in military spending.

However, there are even better uses for the money, we can all think of
them.

As for a transition:  Keep paying all the people now getting the pay
on condition they don't produce anything or fight anyone, and spend
their time planning ways they can work on what they and their
communities really need.

Joe

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“Wasteful” military spending? It’s ALL wasteful! Fighting for
peace is like fucking for chastity. Eliminate ALL military spending.

    “We have met the enemy and he is us.” -Walt Kelly

David Culver

 

THEY'RE COMING FOR US  --  MIKE LUCKOVICH CARTOON
 

Mike Luckovich
May 25, 2021
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: CHILE IS REBORN BY A (POLITICAL) EARTHQUAKE THAT EMERGED FROM THE
STREETS
 

As someone who remembers the first 9/11- in 1973- and has read or
remembers the fates of similar rebirths in the Dominican, Guatemala,
Nicaragua, Panama, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia,
Haiti (cannot count the number there), I wish you well. I suspect that
there is already a multi-agency ad hoc committee at work somewhere in
the swamp in D.C. to destroy everything you are trying to do. 

And, with the sole exceptions of Cuba, where the efforts to destroy
what has been accomplished there for 60 years, and Venezuela, which
hangs on despite horrors inflicted by ‘bipartisan’ criminals in
the US Congress, every effort has been smashed. Watch the comings and
goings of your upper crust and its pols, as well as the US embassies
and their ‘diplomatic’ personnel very carefully. As well, of
course, of your military. Good luck, and try to stay safe.

Andrew Thomas

 

BLACK AND AAPI RELATIONS: UNPACKING THE SYSTEMIC ORIGINS OF CONFLICT
AND THE SOLIDARITY (SAN FRANCISCO, ALAMEDA, CONTRA COSTA, SOUTH BAY,
SAN MATEO AND SACRAMENTO LABOR COUNCILS; IFPTE LOCAL 21)
 

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The Social Justice and Climate Action Committee of the San Francisco
Labor Council presents
BLACK AND AAPI RELATIONS: UNPACKING THE SYSTEMIC ORIGINS OF CONFLICT
AND THE NATURAL SOLIDARITY OF INTER-MINORITY RELATIONS.

Panel members will speak to the realities of harm inflicted on
communities of color as a result of white supremacist culture and the
resulting symptomatic consequences that often cause a breakdown of
trust between communities of color. In an effort to re-imagining
public safety, speakers will unpack the recent legitimization of
anti-Asian hate and the historical undercurrents of anti-blackness and
anti-Asian racism in America. Panel speakers will also highlight some
powerful instances of multi-racial alliances and explore ways to
continue on a path towards coalition building between labor and
community organizations for long term people power.

Panelist’s Bios

STEVEN PITTS came to the Labor Center in August of 2001 from Houston,
Texas. Steven received his Ph.D. in economics with an emphasis on
urban economics from the University of Houston in 1994. His master’s
degree is also from the University of Houston and he holds a
bachelor’s degree from Harvard University. For the fifteen years
prior to his arrival at the Labor Center, Steven taught economics at
Houston Community College and, for five years, he was an adjunct
lecturer in the African American Studies Program at the University of
Houston. At the Labor Center, Steven focuses on issues of job quality
and Black workers. In this arena, he has published reports on
employment issues in the Black community, initiated a Black union
leadership school, and shaped projects designed to build solidarity
between Black and Latino immigrant workers. Currently, a major area of
his work involves providing technical assistance to efforts in
developing Black worker centers around the country.

SHAW SAN LIU is the Executive Director at the Chinese Progressive
Association. In her 14 years at CPA, Shaw San led the development of
grassroots organizing and leadership development programs with the
Tenant Worker Center, which includes services for low-wage Chinese
immigrant workers and tenants living in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
She also spearheaded campaign and alliance building to advance policy
on labor and economic issues in the Bay Area.

She co-founded the Progressive Worker Alliance, an alliance of
low-wage worker centers in San Francisco and has extensive experience
with labor and community organizing.

DR. RUSSELL JEUNG is a Professor of Asian American Studies at San
Francisco State University. He is the author of books and articles on
race and religion. He's written Family Sacrifices: The Worldviews and
Ethics of Chinese Americans (Oxford U Press, 2019); Mountain Movers:
Student Activism and the Emergence of Asian American Studies (UCLA AAS
Center, 2019); and At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus Among My Ancestors
and Refugee Neighbors (Zondervan, 2016).

In March 2020, Dr. Jeung co-founded Stop AAPI Hate with Chinese for
Affirmative Action and the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council.
It tracks incidents of COVID-19 discrimination to develop policy
interventions and long-term solutions to racism.

DR. SHERYL EVANS DAVIS is the Executive Director of the San Francisco
Human Rights Commission (HRC). Prior to joining the HRC, Director
Davis was Executive Director of Collective Impact, a community-based
organization in the Western Addition neighborhood of San Francisco
where she oversaw Mo’MAGIC, Magic Zone, and the Ella Hill Hutch
Community Center. During her tenure at Collective Impact, Director
Davis forged private and public sector partnerships to provide
critical health and social services to historically underserved
communities across San Francisco.

She has also recently overseen the impressive re-allocations of city
funds into San Francisco’s Black community through a coalition of
stakeholders known formally as MegaBlack SF. She holds a BA degree
from San Francisco State University, a Master's in Public
Administration from the University of San Francisco and a Ph.D. from
USC.

 

BEFORE GEORGE FLOYD…. — POSTER OF THE WEEK (CENTER FOR THE STUDY
OF POLITICAL GRAPHICS)

 

Demand Federal Action to Stop Lynching
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BEFORE GEORGE FLOYD THERE WAS:

* Emmett Till
* James Chaney
* Andrew Goodman
* Michael Schwerner
* Fred Hampton 
* Manuel Ramos
* Ruben Salazar 
* Eula Love 
* Arturo Jiménez
* Anastasio Rojas
* Andy López
* Trayvon Martin
* Tamir Rice
* Kenneth Harding, Jr. 
* Oscar Grant
* Michael Brown
* Ezell Ford
* Rekia Boyd 
* Sandra Bland
* Joyce Curnell
* Elijah McClain
* Ronald Greene
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* ….and too many more.

SINCE GEORGE FLOYD:

* Rayshard Brooks
* Breonna Taylor
* Jacob Blake
* Walter Wallace Jr.
* Casey Christopher Goodson Jr.
* Andre Hill
* Angelo Quinto
* Daunte Wright
* Adam Toledo
* Andrew Brown, Jr.
* …and too many more. 

THIS MUST STOP!

In 2018, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics
produced “To Protect & Serve? Five Decades of Posters Protesting
Police Violence,” a traveling exhibition with a fully illustrated
and annotated bilingual catalog. This exhibition is meant to educate
the public about the history of police violence and inspire people to
action. A digital version is available online:  

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For a free copy of the 51 page catalog, please send a $5 donation
which will cover the cost of shipping and handling (click button
below).

In the special instructions field please note:

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Sources:

* A Timeline of What Has Happened in the Year Since George Floyd’s
Death
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* A Cry of ‘I Can’t Breathe’ United a Generation in a Gasp for
Justice
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* Justice for George Floyd: Free Downloadable Poster from
Counterfire
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* GEORGE FLOYD: Free Downloadable Poster from Wayne Brezinka
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SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE: RESOURCES (CODEPINK)
 

 

As Palestinians resist in Gaza, the West Bank and 1948 Palestine,
people around the globe are standing in solidarity with them. In the
words of Lula da Silva, “Those in power can kill one, two, or three
roses, but they will never be able to stop the coming of spring”.
The world is a better place when more people stand for justice. Join
us in amplifying these voices, and using our own to stand with
Palestine!

ACTIONS:

* Urge your Congressperson to Join Sanders & AOC in blocking Biden's
new $735 million in arms sales to Israel!
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* Tell your Representative to support Betty McCollum's bill!
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* Demand President Biden and Sec. Blinken to end military "aid" to
Israel! [[link removed]]
* Sign a letter to the House Foreign Affairs Committee to stop
funding Israeli attacks with U.S. tax dollars!
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* Send a letter to MN Governor Tim Walz to divest public retirement
funds for Elbit Systems! [[link removed]]
* Attend an event hosted by your local Palestinian coalition!
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VOICES TO FOLLOW:

* Mohammed El-Kurd [[link removed]], Writer
* Omar Baddar [[link removed]], Political Analyst
* Muhammad Shehada [[link removed]], Gaza
Writer & Activist
* Noura Erakat [[link removed]], Human Rights Attorney &
Professor
* Linda Sarsour [[link removed]], Organizer &
Co-Founder of Women's March [[link removed]], Until
Freedom [[link removed]] and MPower Change
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* James J. Zogby [[link removed]], Founder of American
Arab Institute [[link removed]] & author
* Ariel Gold [[link removed]], Co-Director of
CODEPINK & U.S. Middle East Foreign Policy Expert
* BreakThrough News [[link removed]]

WHERE TO DONATE:

* Grassroots International, Emergency in Palestine Fund
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* Middle East Children’s Alliance
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ORGANIZATIONS TO FOLLOW:

* BDS: Boycot, Divestment, Sanctions [[link removed]]
* Palestine Legal [[link removed]]
* Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) [[link removed]]
* American Muslims for Palestine [[link removed]]
* U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights [[link removed]]
* MADRE: Global Women's Rights [[link removed]]
* Adalah [[link removed]], Human Rights Organization &
Legal Center
* We Are Not Numbers [[link removed]], telling the
human stories behind the numbers.
* Palestinian Youth Movement [[link removed]]

CodePink [[link removed]]
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Venice, CA 90291

(818) 275-7232

 

180+ ASIAN & ASIAN AMERICAN BOOKS FOR CHILDREN & TEENAGERS (COLOURS OF
US)
 

 

Just in time before Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage
Month ends next week, we managed to finish this extensive list of
Asian and Asian American books for childrens and teenagers! 
 
Although of course all of these books can be read throughout the year!
 
There are so many gorgeous books for all ages on this list – enjoy
browsing!
 
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South Africa

 

NOSTALGIA & REALITY: BLACK & JEWISH RELATIONSHIPS IN THE 1960S AND
BEYOND (JUDAISM ON OUR OWN TERMS, JEWS FOR RACIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
(JFREJ), AND JEWISH CURRENTS)
 

Part 2 of 3 of "Setting the New Agenda: A Speaker Series on
Anti-Blackness and the Jewish Community"

Judaism on Our Own Terms (JOOOT), Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
(JFREJ), and Jewish Currents present “Nostalgia & Reality: Black &
Jewish Relationships in the 1960s and Beyond.”

In this event, we examine relationships among Black and Jewish
activists in the Civil Rights Movement, combining insights from the
academic world with conversation between two veterans of the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

Many of us in the Jewish community grew up hearing idealized stories
about Jewish involvement in the Civil Rights Movement -- how do these
stories compare to a more complicated reality? We hope to examine many
less well-known aspects of this history -- including points of
solidarity and tension, how these relationships evolved after the
1960s, and contributions of Black Jewish activists. We also hope to
understand how these histories resonate with racial justice activism
today.

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The speakers are as follows:

PROF. LEWIS GORDON is Professor and Head of the Department of
Philosophy at the University of Connecticut; Honorary President of the
Global Center for Advanced Studies; Visiting Professor at the
University of Johannesburg, South Africa; and Honorary Professor in
the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes University, South Africa. Prof.
Gordon previously taught at Brown University, where he founded the
Department of Africana Studies, and Temple University, where he was
the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy and founder of the Center
for Afro-Jewish Studies and the Institute for the Study of Race and
Social Thought. He is the author of many books, most recently Freedom,
Justice, and Decolonization, as well as the forthcoming On Philosophy,
Decolonization, and Race and Fear of Black Consciousness.

PROF. CHERYL GREENBERG is the Raether Distinguished Professor of
History at Trinity College. In addition to a number of articles and
anthology chapters on whiteness, racism, Jews and race, and
relationships between African Americans and Jewish Americans, she has
written three books, 'Or Does It Explode?' Black Harlem in the Great
Depression;Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the
American Century; and To Ask for an Equal Chance: African Americans in
the Great Depression. She also edited the books A Circle of Trust:
Remembering SNCC and, with SNCC worker Joe Bateman, ‘A Day I Ain’t
Never Seen Before’: Marks, Mississippi and the Civil Rights Struggle
in the Rural South, forthcoming from University of Georgia Press.

COURTLAND COX served on the executive committee of the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He served as the SNCC
representative on the Steering Committee for the historic March on
Washington and helped organize the 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi.
Mr. Cox was one of the organizers of the Lowndes County Freedom
Organization (LCFO), established in 1965 in Lowndes County, Alabama,
which only had four registered African American voters despite being
80% Black. The LFCO’s work enabled Black residents to take control
of the local government within four years. In the 1970s, Mr. Cox
served as Secretary General of the Sixth Pan-African Congress in
Tanzania, as well as on the Board of TransAfrica, which advocated for
the end of South African apartheid. In more recent decades, Mr. Cox
has served in a variety of local and federal government positions,
including being appointed by President Clinton to serve as the
Director of the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) at the
U.S. Department of Commerce. He currently serves as board chair of the
SNCC Legacy Project.

IRA GRUPPER is a veteran of the civil rights movement in Georgia and
Mississippi, and former staffer with SNCC, among other groups. His
distinguished 1960s jail record spans both sides of the Mason-Dixon
Line. In addition to later decades of labor union organizing and
disability rights advocacy, Mr. Grupper served from 1989-1993 as the
National Co-Chair of the New Jewish Agenda, which had fifty chapters
in the US and Canada and campaigned for a broad range of progressive
issues. More recently, Mr. Grupper served as a Commissioner of the
Louisville Metro Human Relations Commission, and received the
Louisville Mayor's Lifetime Achievement Award. A retired factory
worker, and adjunct faculty member at Bellarmine University, he
currently serves on the Greater Louisville Central Labor Council, the
KY Alliance against Racist & Political Repression, is a member of
Jewish Voice for Peace. He speaks to high school classes on the Civil
Rights Movement.

 

MEMORIAL DAY - REMEMBERING ALL THOSE WHOSE LIVES WERE TAKEN BY WAR
(NEW YORK CITY VETERANS FOR PEACE)
 

New York City Veterans For Peace
2021 Memorial Day Commemoration

MONDAY, MAY 31, 2 PM EDT

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What would Memorial Day look like if we commemorated all the victims
of war, and not just the military fallen from our own country? What
would it be like to honor all the dead and acknowledge all the
destruction wrought around the world by U.S. military actions?
 
Join us to explore this theme, as we pair Americans, mostly military
veterans, with speakers who have been on the receiving end of U.S.
military aggression.
 

* CHEYENNE ARAPAHO NATION: Larry Bringing Good
* AFGHANISTAN: Nematullah Ahangosh, Basir Bita, Kathy Kelly, Danny
Sjursen
* IRAQ: Matthew Hoh, Lubna Mousa
* VIETNAM: Peggy Akers, Theresa Mei Chuc, Doug Rawlings
* JAPAN: Susan Schnall, Kiyoko Takei, Masashi Takei 
* OKINAWA: Ken Mayers, Teiko Yohana Tursi
* KOREA: Soobok Kim, Stan Levin, Georgia Wever
* PALESTINE: Afaf Alnajjar, Miko Peled
* CLOSING: Leah Bolger, Rory Fanning
* MODERATOR: Susan Schnall
* MUSIC: Anthony Donovan

 
Register for the Zoom presentation
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Monday, May 31, 2 pm EDT

 

MUSIC THERAPY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTIST - JUNE 2 (LOUIS ARMSTRONG
CENTER FOR MUSIC & MEDICINE AND LOCAL 802 AFM)

 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 2021 AT 2 PM EDT

The Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine presents MUSIC THERAPY
FOR THE PERFORMING ARTIST on Wednesday, June 2 at 2pm. Presented by
Caitlin Bell and Ally Barrale. Get the Zoom link at
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