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TIDBITS - JULY 8, 2021 - READER COMMENTS: CONDO COLLAPSE; RUMSFELD
DEAD; VOTING RIGHTS; CRITICAL RACE THEORY; FILIBUSTER; HOW TO DEFEAT
CAPITALISM; MAGGIE PHAIR REMEMBERED; TAKE ACTION - SYRINGES TO CUBA;
BOOK SALE; SUMMER ORGANIZING INSTITUTE;  
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_ Reader Comments: Condo Collapse; Rumsfeld Dead; Voting Rights;
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
July 8, 2021, xxxxxx

 

Re: The Surfside Condo Collapse and Its Environmental Warning Signals
(Alberta Maged)
Re: War Criminal Found Dead at 88 (Jerry Neal; Bruce Powers; Gordon
Gland)
Voting Rights Act R.I.P.  --  cartoon by Bill Bramhall
Re: Critical Race Theory and the Scopes Trial (Robert Supansic)
Re: What Manchin and Sinema Can Learn From the Lincoln Republicans on
Voting Rights (Elena Marcheschi)
Weisselberg  --  cartoon by Rob Rogers
Re: How One Union Uses Kitchen Table Economics to Advance Medicare for
All (Gina Klein)
Re: Know Your Enemy: How to Defeat Capitalism (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Justice for Women  --  cartoon by Drew Sheneman
Maggie Phair Passes Away
 

TAKE ACTION:

SYRINGES TO CUBA (GLOBAL HEALTH PARTNERS)
 

RESOURCES:

Movement Veterans Stand With Teachers (SNCC Legacy Project and the
Civil Rights Movement Archive)
40% Off ALL Haymarket Books! (Haymarket Books)
 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Summer Organizing Institute - last week to apply! (Center for
Community Alternatives)
Black Arts Movement School Modality - Chicago - August 2 - 14

 

RE: THE SURFSIDE CONDO COLLAPSE AND ITS ENVIRONMENTAL WARNING SIGNALS
 

A most Comprehensive article re the sea and building on costal lands.

Alberta Maged
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RE: WAR CRIMINAL FOUND DEAD AT 88
 

America's legacy was marred by arrogance, greed, and amoral
strategies. The cost in human fatalities, including women and
children, and trillions of dollars have been a huge economic and
ethical blow at home plus an enormous loss for our stature around the
world. History may show the USA may never fully recover from these
idiotic and unnecessary events.

Jerry Neal
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good riddance 

Bruce Powers
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Who’s worse; Rummy or MacNamara?

Gordon Gland
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VOTING RIGHTS ACT R.I.P.  --  CARTOON BY BILL BRAMHALL
 

Bill Bramhall
July 2, 2021
New York Daily News
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RE: CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND THE SCOPES TRIAL
 

Who gets to name things? Since the 1970s a growing effort has been
made to update American history to include voices long left out:
African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, gay
people, and of course women, who not incidentally form a majority of
the population. One of the most egregious examples was that for a
century histories of slavery completely omitted the testimony of the
people who were enslaved, suggesting that slavery and the slave owners
weren’t so bad.

Most people accept such rewriting of history as a normal thing, one
needed as new information becomes available. But Republicans have
chosen to attack it. However, they generally do not attack the “1619
Project.” That is too close to the real object of their ire. Instead
they have concentrated their fire on something called “critical race
theory.” Even though it is something only taught in law schools, the
label is better suited to their propaganda purposes. Why are our
children being taught “theories” instead of the “facts?” And
“critical” means they are criticizing America! And when will they
ever be done with this “race” thing?

The media has fallen for this bullshit hook, line, and sinker. As
happens so often, they have adopted the Republican labeling of the
issue. Even those who criticize what the Republicans are trying to do
repeat the label and thereby give it a credibility it does not
deserve. How about this instead: “Republicans are trying to stop the
updating of American history.” In other words, the truth rather than
Republican propaganda.

Robert Supansic

 

RE: WHAT MANCHIN AND SINEMA CAN LEARN FROM THE LINCOLN REPUBLICANS ON
VOTING RIGHTS
 

By the standards Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have
set for federal action on voting rights, the 14th and 15th amendments
to the Constitution -- two pillars of the post-Civil War effort to
ensure equality for all Americans -- would never have become law.

Elena Marcheschi
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WEISSELBERG  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS
 

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Rob Rogers
July 7, 2021
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RE: HOW ONE UNION USES KITCHEN TABLE ECONOMICS TO ADVANCE MEDICARE FOR
ALL
 

All unions need to use this approach and support M4A.

Gina Klein
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RE: KNOW YOUR ENEMY: HOW TO DEFEAT CAPITALISM
 

What the "anyone can succeed" mantra fails to acknowledge is that
capitalism defines "success" in very narrow terms -- you're counted a
"success" if and only if you fall in line and produce, not for the
benefit of your community, but for the benefit of the capitalist
class. There will never be real social progress until we, as a
society, reject the belief that work resulting in the upward movement
of "wealth" is "success" and not ruthless exploitation.

Eleanor Roosevelt
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JUSTICE FOR WOMEN  --  CARTOON BY DREW SHENEMAN
 

Drew Sheneman
July 2, 2021
The Newark Star-Ledger
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MAGGIE PHAIR PASSES AWAY
 

Maggie Phair passed away on June 29, 2021, at the age of 91.

Maggie was born just before the stock market crash of 1929 and she
grew up in the shadow of the Great Depression in southern California.

Maggie’s activist career began at San Fernando High School when she
brought the director of the Urban League to challenge racial slurs
made by a teacher against Japanese, who had just been released from
relocation camps. She challenged the discriminatory standards that
enrolled all Chicano students in agriculture or home economics majors.
She was a strong advocate for free speech, even for the bad guys.

Soon after enrolling at UCLA she joined the Congress on Racial
Equality, helped to desegregate Bullock’s Tearoom, and Bimini Baths,
a popular swimming pool. Anti-racist work convinced her of the need
for full employment, and for democratic socialism. It was there that
she met lifelong friends Vern Davidson and David McReynolds while
organizing for the socialist club on campus.

In 1967 she became a founding member of the Peace and Freedom Party of
California to provide a viable alternative for voters who support
civil rights and oppose war. She remained a member for the next 50
years. She was on the Los Angeles Central Committee for the party and
ran for office several times on the party’s ballot line.

Nationally, Maggie was active in the Socialist Party USA. She had
first joined the party (then the Socialist Party of America) in the
early 1950s as a college student and remained a party member for close
to 70 years. In the SPA, she had been a member of the Debs Caucus, and
was one of the core members who helped form the SPUSA when the old SPA
split into three factions in the 1970s. She held several positions
within the party, serving at one time as National Co-Chair. She also
helped publish the party newspaper when it was in Los Angeles.

Maggie helped build the social workers’ chapter of Service Employees
International Union Local 535. She fought the company association to
its defeat and was one of the key organizers who brought the chapter
to a strength of 2000 members and its status as SEIU Local 535.

A peace activist, her opposition to war began with the dropping of the
atom bomb and has included opposition to the Korean War, Vietnam War
and to U.S. intervention in Central America and the Middle East. In
August 1990, Maggie helped to organize the first demonstration in Los
Angeles opposing a U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf.

Maggie co-founded the January 22nd Committee for Reproduction Rights
which was a leading pro-choice organization in Los Angeles.

Maggie had a lifelong enjoyment of kaleidoscopes, limericks and
hootenannies.

She is survived by her daughter, Katherine Goldman, and granddaughter,
Sydney Goldman.

The Maggie Phair Institute for Democracy and Human Rights
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SYRINGES TO CUBA (GLOBAL HEALTH PARTNERS)
 

Cuba's medical syringe shortage is the direct result of a criminal
embargo – and it's undermining the country's laudable efforts to
combat COVID

Working through Global Health Partners, friends of Cuba have raised
$450,000. We need to raise $25,000 more to complete our goal of
purchase and delivery of 6 million syringes.

If successful, the entire city of Havana can get their 2nd and 3rd
dose of the Abdala vaccine. With the population of Havana vaccinated,
Cuba can open up again to visitors. A revived tourist industry will
help break the U.S. embargo stranglehold on the Cuban economy.
Visitors will help to save lives.

Last month, the U.S. and Israel were completely isolated at the United
Nations in rejecting Cuba’s resolution to end the inhumane, illegal
U.S. blockade of Cuba. At the same time, the U.S. government continues
its regime change plans by funding people and organizations in Cuba
that are fomenting anti-government actions in the name of “human
rights” – all the while Cuba is working to develop effective
anti-corona virus vaccines and sending health brigades around the
world.

PLEASE REGISTER YOUR OPPOSITION TO U.S. POLICY BY DONATING TO THE
SYRINGES FOR CUBA CAMPAIGN. Click here to donate
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MOVEMENT VETERANS STAND WITH TEACHERS (SNCC LEGACY PROJECT AND THE
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ARCHIVE)
 

Republican demagogues are whipping up hysteria around scare-words and
boogeyman terms. They are passing laws to prohibit educators from
teaching about systemic, structural, institutional white racism from
our nation's founding up to the present day. Courageous teachers are
fighting back, pledging to defy attempts to censor the truth. The SNCC
Legacy Project (SLP) and the Civil Rights Movement Archive (CRMA)
today issued a joint statement of support "We've Seen This Before and
We Stand With You" ([link removed]
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We urge Freedom Movement veterans and all others who believe in
justice, equality, truth, and honesty to become aware of this new and
virulent form of McCarthyism and to stand against it in whatever way
you can. 

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OPEN LETTER FROM CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT VETERANS TO TEACHERS: WE'VE
SEEN THIS BEFORE AND WE STAND WITH YOU
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(CRMA)

We who fought and struggled to win voting rights for all Americans
during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s stand now to
fight against the new wave of voting-rights suppression and voter
nullification laws that are being promulgated across the land. And we
who marched for equality and endured jail for Freedom rise now to
fight against this new wave of teacher-intimidation and
thought-suppression laws being enacted in Republican-controlled states
to distort and deny the violent realities of racism and
white-supremacy in American life and history.

We who resisted the laws of segregation by sitting at "White Only"
lunch counters, and organized voter registration campaigns among those
historically denied the right to vote, stand now in support of those
teachers and professors who today defy this new form of McCarthyism by
pledging to continue writing, speaking, and teaching about systemic
racism, structural inequality, and institutionalized white-supremacy
past and present. These teachers continue to teach the truth.

We who were young just the day before yesterday recall our teachers
being fired because they dared to support and join the NAACP in
defiance of laws enacted by white-rule governments in the South. And
we came of age in an era when college professors, community leaders,
union organizers and famous entertainers were shamed and pilloried in
the press, hauled before the House Un-American Activities Committee
(HUAC), and dismissed from their positions because they criticized
segregation, or advocated racial equality, or spoke in favor of
anti-lynching laws, or the United Nations or the New Deal, or signed a
petition against atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons.

From our lived experience we know how bigots, bullies, and demagogues
use scare-words to stoke fear, hatred, and division for their personal
gain, and how politicians use bogeyman-terminology to confuse and
distract their constituents, and smear organizations who call upon
America to "Live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these
truths to be self-evident that all people are created equal."
Yesterday, their targets were the NAACP, SNCC, SCLC, and CORE. Today
they are taking aim at organizations such as the 1619 Project, the
Zinn Education Project, Black Lives Matter at School, Learning for
Justice, Teaching for Change, and also teachers throughout this nation
who want their students to better understand the history behind the
economic and social disparities so evident in their communities ...
and the ways every day Americans have long fought to make America live
up to its ideals.

But the ideas that these demagogues decry so stridently are not new.
Civil rights advocates, civil libertarians — and courageous teachers
-- have been discussing these same ideas for generations. We know this
because we still hold living memories of the words spoken by Septima
Clark, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Ella Baker, John Lewis,
James Forman, Fannie Lou Hamer, Harriette Moore, James Farmer, Vincent
Harding, Howard Zinn, Bob Moses, and so many others. All forthrightly
organized against the systemic, structural, and institutional racism
that has shaped American history and crippled American lives for
generations.

To all the courageous teachers who won't back down from teaching their
students the truth, we stand with you. We know you risk much in this
struggle — with threats to your jobs, safety, and your right to
teach the truth -- just as so many in generations past risked their
lives and livelihoods in the long struggle for democracy.
But...together we will win, because we must. Future generations depend
on our standing strong...together!

 

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PUBLISHING.

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struggles for social and economic justice, Haymarket has now published
over 1,000 titles. Ranging from bestselling books about current
events, to urgent interventions about activist strategy, to
indispensable histories of past struggles, to re-publications of
out-of-print classics, we strive to publish books that contribute to
the development of a critical, engaged, international left.

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sale.

 

SUMMER ORGANIZING INSTITUTE - LAST WEEK TO APPLY! (CENTER FOR
COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES)
 

APPLY NOW FOR THE SUMMER ORGANIZING INSTITUTE!
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CCA's Summer Organizing Institute is an opportunity to learn more,
deepen your skills, and fight for a world without cages. While we are
prioritizing people and families who have been directly impacted by
mass incarceration, all are welcome to apply. Sessions will start on
Saturday, July 24th and then run weekly on Tuesday evenings from July
27th through September 7th. All sessions will take place online.

Applications are due next week! Apply here by July 14th or use this
link: bit.ly/summer-organizing.

Do you know others who might want to apply? Help spread the word! Will
you share the graphic below or retweet our public announcement to loop
in your communities and networks? 

Spread the word about the Summer Organizing Institute!

If you have questions, please reach out to Marvin Mayfield at
[email protected].

Center for Community Alternatives
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Syracuse, NY 1320

 

BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT SCHOOL MODALITY - CHICAGO - AUGUST 2 - 14
 

Art for People’s Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago,
1965–1975
Duke University Press
Tap into the deeper knowledge formations and structures that played
out within the context of the Black Arts Movement. This BAM School
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ideas that informed the work, giving those historical and pedagogical
bearing.

The BAMSM offers a limited number of seats to junior-senior level
undergraduates, graduate students, and the public. We encourage
individuals from diverse backgrounds to apply. For consideration, we
require the following materials:
* A 1-2 page resume or CV.
* A 500 word single-spaced letter detailing your interests, what you
hope to achieve, and how BAMS would further your educational pursuits.

Deadline: July 17, 2021

For submissions and inquiries, contact [email protected]

BAMSM is conceived by Romi Crawford and support is generously provided
by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Northwestern
University, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture and
Arts and Public Life at the University of Chicago, and Colby College.

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