[ Reader Comments: GOP War on Women, starting in Texas, Going
nationwide; Costs of Post 9/11; Afghan War fallout; Climate Crisis;
Jobless Crisis; Nina Turner; Teenage Israeli Conscientious Objectors;
Ed Asner; Domestic Workers are Workers; more....]
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TIDBITS - SEPT. 9, 2021 - READER COMMENTS: GOP WAR ON WOMEN, STARTING
IN TEXAS, GOING NATIONWIDE; COSTS OF POST 9/11; AFGHAN WAR FALLOUT;
CLIMATE CRISIS; JOBLESS CRISIS; NINA TURNER; TEENAGE ISRAELI
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS; ED ASNER; DOMESTIC WORKERS  
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_ Reader Comments: GOP War on Women, starting in Texas, Going
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Sept. 9, 2021, xxxxxx

 

GOP Hypocrisy
Re: The Deviousness of Texas’s New Abortion Law (Lizzie Segarra)
Re: We Are Becoming a Nation of Vigilantes (Randolph Shannon)
Real-time documentary  --  cartoon by Mike Luckovich
Re: The Real Origins of the Religious Right (Joseph Kaye)
Re: How Arctic Warming Can Trigger Extreme Cold Waves (Tom J Thompson)
Re: 'Catastrophe' Feared as 35 Million People Are Set to Lose Jobless
Aid in 3 Days (Joe Grogan)
Re: ‘Not dealing with Rookies’: Companies Brace for Biden’s New
Labor Cops (Michael Dunn)
Re: The Costs of Post-9/11 Wars Exceed $8 Trillion for U.S. (Jeffrey
Kerr-Ritchie; Tom Spellman; Tom J Thompson)
Re: Imagine Spending $8 Trillion to Rebuild a Society Instead of
Destroying One (Rob Prince)
Re: Biden Deserves Credit, Not Blame, for Afghanistan (Neil Alan
Bufler; Todd Allen)
Re: Heeding Steve Bannon, Election Deniers Organize to Control GOP
(Craig Gauthier)
Re: The Biggest Uprising Since the Civil War Happened Here 100 Years
Ago (Craig; Scott Pearson)
Re: The Myth of the Kindly General Lee (James A Young)
Re: Why Nina Turner, the real ‘establishment,’ lost Ohio
Democratic primary race (Stan Nadel; Brad Smith)
Texas Sexual Assault  --  cartoon by Mike Stanfill
Re: Conscientious Objector: ‘I Don’t Want to Wear a Uniform That
Symbolizes Violence and Pain’ (Jose Luis Medina)
Re: Ed Asner Was a Proud Socialist in Hollywood (Alan Meyers; Karyne
Dunbar)
Re: Ed Asner Remembered  -- Michael Moore tribute - Tidbits - Sept. 2
(Kurt Jacobsen)
Re: All the Clever Books Are of No Help to Me Here (Mateo Owen)
Re: A Chair Reviews The Chair (Misa Joo; John Sayer)
Left out this Labor Day (National Domestic Workers Alliance)

RESOURCES:

ICONIC POSTER: WAR IS NOT HEALTHY FOR CHILDREN AND OTHER LIVING
THINGS (THE PEACE COMPANY)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

IN A TIME OF PANTHERS: The Lost Negatives - The Photos of Jeffrey
Henson Scales  - Exhibition: September 14 - November 6 (Claire Oliver
Gallery)
GO LIVE FOR PALESTINE  A call to boycott Duty Free Americas  -
September 12 (South Florida Coalition for Palestine and Jewish Voice
for Peace)

GOP HYPOCRISY

RE: THE DEVIOUSNESS OF TEXAS’S NEW ABORTION LAW

Give men a vasectomy , a women ovulates once a month, she can only get
pregnant once. Men can impregnate every time they have sex, so they
are the problem.

Lizzie Segarra
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RE: WE ARE BECOMING A NATION OF VIGILANTES

Conceding ground?

Randolph Shannon
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REAL-TIME DOCUMENTARY  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

Mike Luckovich
September 5, 2021
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: THE REAL ORIGINS OF THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT

Absolutely right!  It is time that Movement people grasp the
centrality of racism in this country's history -- not merely one on a
shopping list of social ills but CENTRAL.No significant progress can
be achieved in the fight for fundamental social change until the role
of African-Americans as subjects and as objects is placed front and
center.

Joseph Kaye

RE: HOW ARCTIC WARMING CAN TRIGGER EXTREME COLD WAVES

“The Arctic is warming more rapidly than any other region, at a rate
more than twice the global average.  Unexpected consequences can be
quite severe.”

Tom J Thompson
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RE: 'CATASTROPHE' FEARED AS 35 MILLION PEOPLE ARE SET TO LOSE JOBLESS
AID IN 3 DAYS

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Terrible.  This in itself is a form of terrorism because of the
impact/effects on people and families and especially children.

Joe Grogan

RE: ‘NOT DEALING WITH ROOKIES’: COMPANIES BRACE FOR BIDEN’S NEW
LABOR COPS

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Excellent. When American workers win America wins

Michael Dunn
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RE: THE COSTS OF POST-9/11 WARS EXCEED $8 TRILLION FOR U.S.

Assuming Brown University’s think-tank estimate of costs of
post-9/11 wars exceeding $8T was wrong by 50 percent, it would still
 exceed the $3.5T bill facing Congress. Compare the potential good to
social welfare from the latter with the destruction, waste, and
immorality of the former.

Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie
Howard University

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Note:  NONE of it has been paid for   as the debt has risen by more
trillions than 8 in the 20 years since    But that is a detail that
the rich know about and the rest of us will suffer when it all comes
down that is except the rich

Peace

Tom Spellman

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8 trillion would have built a lot of sustainable cities and bullet
trains.

Tom J Thompson
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RE: IMAGINE SPENDING $8 TRILLION TO REBUILD A SOCIETY INSTEAD OF
DESTROYING ONE

That would be un-American...

Rob Prince
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RE: BIDEN DESERVES CREDIT, NOT BLAME, FOR AFGHANISTAN

Hundreds of politicians clamed they wanted to and would end his
war...Only one had the balls to do it.!

Neil Alan Bufler
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21 trillion war.
Started on a lie.
Saudi Arabia went Scott free. millitary lied about outcome for years.
wall street.got rich 
Our children pay the bill
The Vietnam War was started on a lie and the fall of Saigon ended in
the same sad way.
Anybody tired of listening to the Gregory gardens of the world,Yet.
We learned nothing.

Todd Allen
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RE: HEEDING STEVE BANNON, ELECTION DENIERS ORGANIZE TO CONTROL GOP
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White supremacists aren't just gonna go away, war mongers like Steve
Bannon, want continue the lies and misinformation about elections and
immigrants, keep people fighting among themselves,

Craig Gauthier
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RE: THE BIGGEST UPRISING SINCE THE CIVIL WAR HAPPENED HERE 100 YEARS
AGO

Incredible story of courage and commitment, fighting for the right to
unionize and have voice in working conditions, wages and benefits, 

Craig
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Today's story to celebrate and contemplate Labor Day...

Scott Pearson
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RE: THE MYTH OF THE KINDLY GENERAL LEE

The piece on General Lee was very well done.  To the slaughters you
could have added the feckless Pickett's Charge, but that may have only
complicated the overall picture.

James A Young
Professor of History emeritus
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

RE: WHY NINA TURNER, THE REAL ‘ESTABLISHMENT,’ LOST OHIO
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY RACE

This was very enlightening--thanks for publishing it.

Stan Nadel

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If you are a Republican or Independent you can still vote in a
 Democratic primary in Ohio. How much money was spent encouraging
Republican and Independent voter to vote in the primary.  How much
was spent against Turner that she was anti-Israel and [therefore]
"anti-Semitic"

Brad Smith

TEXAS SEXUAL ASSAULT  --  CARTOON BY MIKE STANFILL

Mike Stanfill
September 8, 2021
Raging Pencils
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RE: CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR: ‘I DON’T WANT TO WEAR A UNIFORM THAT
SYMBOLIZES VIOLENCE AND PAIN’

Shahar Perets, who was sentenced to prison for refusing to join the
Israeli army, talks about meeting Palestinians for the first time, her
visits to the West Bank, and how Israeli society represses the
occupation.

Jose Luis Medina
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RE: ED ASNER WAS A PROUD SOCIALIST IN HOLLYWOOD

Ed was a mensch. In the 1980s, he volunteered to come to Boston to
support the antiwar work of the Boston Committee for Health Rights in
El Salvador. He was an antiwarrior for social justice who gave himself
selflessly to the struggle. Rest in power, Ed...

Alan Meyers
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morality over money

Karyne Dunbar
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RE: ED ASNER REMEMBERED  -- MICHAEL MOORE TRIBUTE - TIDBITS - SEPT. 2

Moore's tribute is a bit rich considering his Traverse City Film
Festival turned down the chance to honor the great man in 2019 when we
offered the doc "Ed Asner: On Stage and Off" to them. It had already
played at the American Documentary Film Festival in Palm Springs, The
Santa Fe Film Festival and the Sonoma International Film Festival (and
many others since). Traverse City seemed like a natural. Moore's
gratitude to Asner only went so far. That's show biz, folks.

Kurt Jacobsen
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RE: ALL THE CLEVER BOOKS ARE OF NO HELP TO ME HERE

Whatever became of East Germans after the DDR ceased to exist?
Here's a deeply personal, authentic window into their lives...

Mateo Owen

RE: A CHAIR REVIEWS THE CHAIR

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I don’t know. Since I’m a middle school teachers and not in
academia I think I’ll pass before Moby Dick and rap. Very tired of
minimizing the importance of new and diverse voices and the same old
dead white men as still relevant. Not!! And White professors who teach
the same thing and now draw an enrollment of five should retire. And
seriously the drink friend who’s supposed to be hip I’m passing
before in his drunkenness he makes a predatory pass at the underclass
man. I’m out. And I’m Asian who does Asian sightings. Two episodes
are enough even with Oh

Misa Joo
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Seems pretty realistic though I haven’t seen ep 1 so I may not know
what I'm talking about. 

John Sayer

LEFT OUT THIS LABOR DAY (NATIONAL DOMESTIC WORKERS ALLIANCE)

Labor Day was originally established as a "workingmen’s holiday." It
was a pivotal point in the fight for labor rights – but *not* for
domestic workers.

The vast majority of nannies, housecleaners, and care workers have
always been Black and immigrant women. So when HISTORIC LABOR RIGHTS
LEGISLATION WAS INTRODUCED IN THE 1930S, DOMESTIC WORKERS WERE
EXCLUDED because conservative white lawmakers feared it could build
Black political power.

IT'S A RACIST AND MISOGYNIST INJUSTICE THAT’S BEEN ALLOWED TO FESTER
TO THIS DAY. But the next few weeks could be a turning point to
change all of that for the better.

THE HOUSE AND SENATE ARE PREPARING TO VOTE ON A ONCE-IN-A-GENERATION
OPPORTUNITY to ensure home and community-based services jobs are
good, family-sustaining jobs. We are dramatically ramping up our
congressional advocacy, media, and grassroots campaign, and your
support can supercharge this historic moment.

Domestic workers might not be at the center of the history of Labor
Day, but domestic workers have always been at the forefront of the
labor movement.

In 1866 Black washerwomen came together in Jackson, Mississippi to
petition the mayor for a uniform wage – that's just one year after
the end of slavery. In 1881 in Atlanta, 3,000 washerwomen, cooks, and
maids went on strike for 10 days leading to arrests and fines.

BUT THEN WHEN WORKERS FINALLY WON LAWS GRANTING BASIC LABOR
PROTECTIONS, DOMESTIC WORKERS WERE EXCLUDED TIME AND TIME AGAIN. In
addition to the Fair Labor Standards Act, lawmakers excluded domestic
workers from the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Civil Rights
Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Age Discrimination in
Employment Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act.

It's a pattern of injustice rooted in racism and misogyny that we are
determined to end. That's why we're campaigning tooth and nail to win
a historic investment in home and community-based services jobs, which
calls for:

* $400 billion to be invested in Medicaid to create over 1 million
new care jobs,
* Increased access to critical home care services for people with
disabilities and aging adults so they can live with dignity at home,
and
* To build a durable home care system for workers and consumers.

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ICONIC POSTER: WAR IS NOT HEALTHY FOR CHILDREN AND OTHER LIVING
THINGS (THE PEACE COMPANY)

Original poster by Lorraine Schneider, 1966, for Another Mother for
Peace

The Peace Company [[link removed]]
21 Main Street
Bristol, VT 05443 
888-455-5355 (toll-free) • [email protected]

IN A TIME OF PANTHERS: THE LOST NEGATIVES - THE PHOTOS OF JEFFREY
HENSON SCALES  - EXHIBITION: SEPTEMBER 14 - NOVEMBER 6 (CLAIRE OLIVER
GALLERY)

Claire Oliver Gallery is pleased to announce the gallery’s debut
solo exhibition by photographer Jeffrey Henson Scales, In A Time of
Panthers: The Lost Negatives. The exhibition features 20 photographs
from the 1960s including Scales’ earliest forays as a photographer
during the electrifying summer of 1967 when at age 13 with his
paternal grandmother he toured the Midwest to see relatives. As a
Black teenager, he saw the poverty and oppression of Northern Black
communities and when he returned to Oakland, CA became immersed in
photographing the milieu of the Black Panther movement in Northern
California.  The images chart the emergence of his awakening as a
documentary photographer as well as a Black man in a pivotal moment in
the 20th century that echoes today’s Black Lives Matter movement.

PREVIEW "IN A TIME OF PANTHERS" EXHIBITION
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Claire Oliver Gallery [[link removed]] is located in
Central Harlem in a four-story brownstone. For nearly 30 years, Claire
Oliver Gallery has showcased and celebrated artwork, with a focus on
work by women and people of color, which transcends and challenges the
traditional art historical canon. Our forward-thinking program and
exclusive commitment to the primary market allows for an intensive
focus that has nurtured and grown the careers of our artists. Many of
the gallery’s artists have been included in The Venice Biennale, The
Whitney Biennial, and biennales in Sydney, Pittsburgh, and Lyon and
have exhibited works in major international museums including the
Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, Center
Georges Pompidou, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and The Los Angeles
County Museum of Art amongst others. Claire Oliver Gallery artists are
included in the permanent collections of many important museums
worldwide including The Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Art
Institute of Chicago, The Tate Britain, The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, The State Hermitage Museum, and MoMA, amongst many others. Claire
Oliver Gallery held the first American exhibition for the Russian
collaborative AES+F, whose work went on to twice represent Russia in
the Russian pavilion of the Venice Biennale. Gallery artists have
received prestigious fellowships including Fulbright, Guggenheim,
USArtist, and National Endowment for the Arts.

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New York, NY 10030
212.929.5949
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GO LIVE FOR PALESTINE  A CALL TO BOYCOTT DUTY FREE AMERICAS  -
SEPTEMBER 12 (SOUTH FLORIDA COALITION FOR PALESTINE AND JEWISH VOICE
FOR PEACE)

Does an innocent-seeming purchase of a bottle of perfume or liquor at
a Duty Free Americas store support the dispossession and displacement
of Palestinian families?

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2021 4:00 PM -  5:00 PM ET

REGISTER HERE:
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Join the South Florida Coalition for Palestine as we call for a
boycott of Duty Free Americas until they stop funding Israeli
apartheid! We will hear from activists on the ground in Palestine and
in South Florida about what DFA's owners are truly supporting, and
then take action together.

Duty Free Americas, whose headquarters are in South Florida, has shops
in airports and border crossings across the U.S., and in Central and
South America. The company's owners, the Falic Family, have donated
millions of dollars to the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes
and land through the Israeli government's illegal settlement
project. 

The South Florida Coalition for Palestine includes Dream Defenders,
Jewish Voice for Peace South Florida, Al-Awda South Florida, Students
for Justice in Palestine South Florida, CAIR Florida, and the South
Florida Muslim Federation.
 

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