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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Nov. 18, 2021, xxxxxx

 

Re: Countries Strike Deal at COP26 Climate Summit (Michael Henry
Starks)
Re: Report Outlining How to Cut $1 Trillion From Defense Budget Is
Just a Start (Arlene Halfon)
Kenosha killer Kyle Rittenhouse pleads self defense  -- cartoon by
Lalo Alcaraz
Re: Here Are the 6 House Democrats That Voted No (Joseph Maizlish)
Steve Bannon - The Con  --  cartoon by Steve Sack
Re: Last Week’s Elections Actually Gave Leftists Plenty to Cheer
(Sharon Beals; Timothy Page; Ned McGuire)
Re: White Supremacists Declare War on Democracy and Walk Away
Unscathed (Matt Owen; David Heatherly; Bryant Hardison; Burt Cohen)
Re: How Textbooks Taught White Supremacy (Joe Grogan; Edan Noelle;
Becky Atess Faith Amose; Jason Blanchard; Karen Freeman; Van Caldwell)
Re: How the FBI and Kenosha Police Received Wisconsin’s BLM
Protester List (Judith Halprin)
Energy Dinosaur  --  cartoon by Rob Rogers
Re: Moments of Rupture: The 1930s and the Great Depression (The CUNY
School of Labor and Urban Studies; Michael Funke; Mark Solomon)
Re: Ted Cruz Condemns Big Bird For Advocating Covid Vaccines For Kids
(Craig Gauthier)
Re: Highly Paid Union Workers Give UPS a Surprise Win in Delivery Wars
(Henry Fulkerson; Art Lindsay; Elrick Somar)
Re: ‘A slap In the Face’: Nurses’ Strike Signals Kaiser’s End
As Union Haven (Norm Littlejohn)
Re: Medicare Advantage Plans Costing Billions More Than They Should
(Gavrielle Gemma)
Re: The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan … Stalin Did (Jason D Capell;
Lawrence Rockwood; John Aldis; Joseph Kaye; Dan Morgan; Timothy John
Tiedemann; Jack Radey; Owen Williamson; John Marienthal; Ron Ingle)
Re: Israel Moves to Silence the Stalwarts of Palestinian Civil Society
(Stan Nadel)
Re: ‘The Harder They Fall’: A Big, Star-Studded Black Western
(Olori Bae Omowale; Robert Skidmore)

 

RESOURCES:

A NEW ARCHIVE SHOWS WHERE TO STREAM HUNDREDS OF CLASSIC BLACK FILMS
(HYPERALLERGIC)

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States on Stage, Screen,
and in Classroom - December 7 (NYU's Social Studies Program,
Educational Theatre Program, Tamiment Library, Brooklyn College's
Social Studies Program)
TWENTY YEARS OF WAR - Coalitions of War and Anti-War - December 7
(Cornell University)
Strategically Passing Ballot Measures – Even in Red States! -
December 14 (Action Together Network)

 

TODAY IN HISTORY - THE BLACK SPARTACUS - NOVEMBER 18, 1803 - LAST
BATTLE OF THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION (ROSALUXHISTORY)

RE: COUNTRIES STRIKE DEAL AT COP26 CLIMATE SUMMIT

Reading about COP26 has brought me to tears more often than anything
else in my life.

Michael Henry Starks
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RE: REPORT OUTLINING HOW TO CUT $1 TRILLION FROM DEFENSE BUDGET IS
JUST A START

Cutting the (War) Budget

When will we stop using the word, "defense" when talking about
weapons, wars and military. At a minimum we should say,
"euphemistically called 'defense.'" "Defense" could be used if talking
about true 'homeland security' which would include subjects such as
climate change, gun control, universal health care, education.
housing, food, transportation, etc. If we talk about killing, maybe
call it "offense" or just plain "killing."

Arlene Halfon
Colony of Colombia

KENOSHA KILLER KYLE RITTENHOUSE PLEADS SELF DEFENSE  -- CARTOON BY
LALO ALCARAZ

Lalo Alcaraz
November 17, 2021
pocho.com
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RE: HERE ARE THE 6 HOUSE DEMOCRATS THAT VOTED NO

An alternative would have been to support the physical-emphasis
infrastructure bill system way back in August, and then spend their
energy since then talking about the human service needs and the damage
being done by the political culture's fixation on money budget
deficits while ignoring the "quality of life" budget deficits.  They
were, and are, the people who can best do that -- recall Bush's
camp-in outside the Capitol.

Can't blame them, though, in frustration about the damage and pain
being caused daily, for choosing to try to use whatever slim leverage
they had (or thought they had) to compel the majority that doesn't
share their views to support their programs.

Joseph Maizlish

STEVE BANNON - THE CON  --  CARTOON BY STEVE SACK

Steve Sack
August 22, 2020
Minneapolis Star Tribune

RE: LAST WEEK’S ELECTIONS ACTUALLY GAVE LEFTISTS PLENTY TO CHEER

Is this inspired by Rebecca Solnit's piece in the Guardian?
Heartening. 

Sharon Beals
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News media loves to stir up drama.
Even the "liberal" media.

Timothy Page
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Good news after all!

Ned McGuire
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RE: WHITE SUPREMACISTS DECLARE WAR ON DEMOCRACY AND WALK AWAY
UNSCATHED

The US was built on white supremacy, first slavery and genocide, then
on perpetuating the injustices they produced. Now it is a place where
the overwhelming majority is forced to sell power over their work for
paychecks...

"American democracy" is but a reshaping of "Athenian democracy:" the
fascists are but removing the veil, giving those fighting for genuine
democracy a clear target to smash... ??

Matt Owen
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well, yes... it's a bit more complex than Athens, because in Athens
99% of the population were slaves. You would think that would be
unsustainable, but it was a totally different model than plantation
slavery. There were so few citizens in Athens, that they didn't have
senators or representatives, they just voted directly on major issues.
So they had a direct democracy, but without universal suffrage.So what
I discovered, from reading the Federalist and anti-Federalist papers,
is that the "founders" had kind of a fetish for ancient Roman history.
Especially Plutarch and Livy. And one of those historians, I think it
was Livy or Tacitus, came up with this idea that every civilization in
history follows the same political path, with 3 major moments. The
first moment is democracy, the second moment is oligarchy, and the
third moment is monarchy. Monarchy ultimately leads to revolution and
a return to democracy, and the cycle starts up again.

So this is what some of the Romans believed, and it's very fatalistic
because they didn't really believe that you could change the course of
history as an individual. You're just a participant in the natural
course of things. Of course, this wasn't based on any kind of science,
just their observations of history based on their knowledge. And the
"founders", they were steeped in this kind of stuff. The central
concept of the American government is to try to create a state of
continual stale-mate between what they identified as the only 3
possibilities for human government. What we call the "balance of
powers" between the 3 branches of the Federal government.

David Heatherly
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Every person charged for attempting to destroy our Capitol, our
Constitution and democracy should face the most severe of penalties
and politicians even more severe if possible.

Bryant Hardison
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In the Philippine coup of 86, the perpetrators on the ground were
punished, but not the powers behind them. So they did it again,
better.

Burt Cohen
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RE: HOW TEXTBOOKS TAUGHT WHITE SUPREMACY

hank you.  We have similar problems here in Canada and I am sharing
the article with others here. Increasingly here in Canada, we are
increasing the effort to address racism in our public educational
system, especially with respect to our Indigenous Peoples and other
minority populations.

Joe Grogan
Caledon

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I attended a fancy college-prep high school in the late '80s, and I
had a friend who was taking the AP US history class. One day, I
started flipping through her textbook. I was looking for passages
about chattel enslavement in the US, of course. Know what I found? Two
whole paragraphs. Yep, 2! You know what the first sentence of that
entire, 2-paragraph section said? "The lives of black people developed
along much different lines than the lives of white people, and the
black people weren't happy." Yes, it was so absurd that I memorized
it. Not that memorizing that stupid sentence was hard. It's
outlandishness made it quite memorable.

Edan Noelle
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Scientific racism was taught in schools in Scandinavia countries

Becky Atess Faith Amose
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Wow,

“White supremacy is a toxin. The older history textbooks were like
syringes that injected the toxin of white supremacy into the mind of
many generations of Americans.”

Jason Blanchard
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Starting with the assumption that the only people who were really
people were white men.

Karen Freeman
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“Yacovone, who co-authored “The African Americans: Many Rivers to
Cross” with Henry Louis Gates Jr. in 2013, is now writing
“Teaching White Supremacy: The Textbook Battle Over Race in American
History.”

Van Caldwell
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RE: HOW THE FBI AND KENOSHA POLICE RECEIVED WISCONSIN’S BLM
PROTESTER LIST

critical race reality, looking to help a murderer get off. Defunding
wasn't the worse thing said in 2020. Police officers acting as a
dictator's gestapo and shock troops were far worse and in fact, need
to be defunded, disarmed and indicted.

Judith Halprin
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ENERGY DINOSAUR  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

Rob Rogers
November 17, 2021
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RE: MOMENTS OF RUPTURE: THE 1930S AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Occasionally, in politics and social-economic struggles, there occur
"moments of rupture," periods of dizzying and dramatic change when
hosts of opportunities present themselves and existing arrangements of
power are radically altered. Via xxxxxx
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The CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies
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Are you sure that photo of striking Steelworkers is "circa 1935-45"?
Their signs read AFL-CIO. That merger took place in 1955.

Michael Funke

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Goldfield and Melchar do a good job of surveying the long and often
bloody struggles of the US working class to defend its interests.
Among those struggles were massive efforts to build and sustain labor
unions – efforts that represent some of the most militant battles in
all of labor history. Unfortunately, the article’s inspiration and
insight are negated when falling into the old sectarian trough of
anarchism and conjuring the timeworn artificial separation of economic
battles from political engagement (and vice versa). 

The writers gratuitously express “no objection” to labor’s
legislative battles, but “we do not think that should be a major
focus of resources.” That posture, voiced with varying degrees of
insistence throughout, reflects the schematic and baseless separation
of economic and political struggles. Battles for unions and for
justice on the shop floor and battles against capitalist domination
and control of political power are inseparable sides of the same
historic coin. That truth is understood today, as in the past, as
working class communities fight for economic survival and for building
political beachheads to break the stranglehold of anti-labor
legislation. 

The article also misrepresents the historic record of labor advances
in the thirties. It is true that a rising crescendo of “small
strikes” in 1934, culminating in the mass San Francisco General
Strike, pressured Roosevelt into endorsing the National Relations Act
(Wagner Act) that largely removed impediments to collective
bargaining. FDR doubtlessly wished to guide the content and direction
of a labor upsurge to keep it in “safe” channels while rising
unions were to aid in building working class purchasing power to cope
with the Depression. Roosevelt did not aspire, to say the least, to
abetting the growth of a powerful union movement. John L. Lewis, the
crafty mine leader and head of the rising CIO did perceive a powerful
jolt to labor organizing in the Wagner Act and famously proclaimed
that “your president wants you to join a union.” While the Wagner
Act grew out of the turmoil of 1934, a massive qualitative leap in
union growth took place from 1935, spurred by legislative collective
bargaining. It was after the Wagner Act became operational in 1935
that the unions of the CIO in auto, packinghouse, electric, steel,
garment, etc. grew into powerful formations.

That historic experience confirms the inseparability of political
engagement, including left populist factions in the Democratic Party,
the American Labor Party, the Democratic Farmer-Labor Party, Labor’s
Non-Partisan League, etc., combined with strikes, sit-ins,
community-labor alliances that all contributed to new directions in
the thirties. To surrender or downgrade either politics or economics
in the struggle against inequality is tying one hand of the working
class behind its back. That was true in the thirties and it is true
today.

Mark Solomon

RE: TED CRUZ CONDEMNS BIG BIRD FOR ADVOCATING COVID VACCINES FOR KIDS

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It's an insult to any intelligent reasoning where these politicians
are going with their anti anything, I'd like to know what's their
solution to this deadly disease, but....

Craig Gauthier
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RE: HIGHLY PAID UNION WORKERS GIVE UPS A SURPRISE WIN IN DELIVERY WARS

Once again, proof of a wage shortage, not a labor shortage.

Henry Fulkerson
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A surprising and fascinating look behind the business models of the
two package delivery giants. Two very different business models. One
old school the other fully optimized for the future. Guess which one
is winning?

Art Lindsay
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Helsinki's dream industry has lately become more of a nightmare
scenario at rival FedEx Corp. The massive labor shortage that’s
rocked the U.S. since the pandemic and disrupted long-established
employment relationships hasn’t had much impact on UPS, which pays
its unionized drivers the highest wages in the industry. That’s
helped it maintain a stable workforce and rising profits throughout
the current disruptions. Meanwhile, lower-paying, nonunionized FedEx
racked up $450 million in extra costs because of labor shortages. And
while UPS easily beat earnings expectations and predicted a rising
profit margin in the U.S. for the fourth quarter, FedEx signaled that
its profit margin will fall further. The lack of workers is taking a
toll on its reliability, too. FedEx’s recent on-time performance for
express and ground packages has sunk to 85%, while UPS has met
deadlines on 95% of those packages, according to data collected by
ShipMatrix Inc

Elrick Somar
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RE: ‘A SLAP IN THE FACE’: NURSES’ STRIKE SIGNALS KAISER’S END
AS UNION HAVEN

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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“Kaiser Permanente and the Alliance of Health Care Unions reached a
tentative agreement on Saturday after more than 30,000 Kaiser
Permanente employees threatened to strike on Monday due to a labor
dispute. The deal is on a 4-year contract and covers nearly 50,000
Kaiser Permanente health care employees in 22 local unions, the
company said, adding that a strike has been averted.

“The agreement includes wage increases, health and retirement
benefits and bonus opportunities.”

Kaiser health care worker strike averted as tentative deal is reached,
company says
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Norm Littlejohn
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RE: MEDICARE ADVANTAGE PLANS COSTING BILLIONS MORE THAN THEY SHOULD

I sent this to F. Schulte but would like it posted to xxxxxx.  I
know you don't take piece from ordinary non professionals but that is
why you are always off point on many issues.

Insurance industry control of medical care is a result of both parties
gift to the industry. In return all get campaign contributions (more
accurately bribes). Every step of the way profits are the root of all
the problems.  Carving out one or the other example of the inherent
corruption is fine, but makes it seem that if that is cleaned up, then
care will be good. The whole system is graft, corrupt and most
importantly parasitic and unneeded.  Exposes are cited by the right
wing to say there is fraud in the system, etc etc.  They spin it
always to make it seem we poor folks are cheating.  That is the real
world you are falling into.  

You should know that this type of expose only results in the poorest
losing the advantage plans that combine Medicare and Medicaid
including eyes, dentist and prescriptions.  It never results in just
cleaning up the excess.  It distracts from the major issue.  Not
your intention perhaps, though I have seen critics call for an end to
all advantage programs and go back to "original Medicare." Obviously
most who raise this have private insurance or can afford good
supplemental programs.

The first issue, as a 72 year old post transplant patient with a
yearly social security income of $10,356 or $863 a month. is the call
for Medicare for All.  If I only had Medicare without Medicaid, I
would have nothing.  Medicare is not free.  I would have to pay $140
just for part B, plus more for prescriptions through a private
insurance company for D. In addition it only pays $80%, with copays
and deductibles. I could never access any care, let alone get a kidney
transplant. While the term single payer was beyond stupid, it moved to
Medicaid for all, then in a concession to the right, it became
Medicare for all. I am in an advantage plan combining both and get
dentist, eye, money for food and otc products.  Does this make me a
fan of the companies sucking money up.  No.  National healthcare for
all would do the same without the profits.

Here in Louisiana we are one of the few southern states with the
expansion which covers 1.9 million.  In two years an extreme right
winger may become governor and the fight is on now to keep the
expansion.  A full belly never understands an empty belly or knows
how to fight the right wing of both capitalist parties.The republican
and democratic party are committed to the profits of the war machine
and this addiction can only be sustained by cutting social benefits.

The push has to be for national health care for all. Ban politicians
getting money from insurance companies.  How about an expose of how
many democrats and republicans get money from the industry.

Your are hurting more than helping.  A mere sentence that health care
for profit results in the high costs and deprivation and it is in the
dna of profit-making to find any even more corrupt means of making
profit such as.....  But the solution lies in taking the profit out
with a national health care system funded by cutting the military
death machine.

Gavrielle Gemma, 
New Orleans

RE: THE BOMB DIDN’T BEAT JAPAN … STALIN DID

I’ve known for quite some time that the dropping of nukes was
unnecessary for Japan’s surrender and a senseless destruction of
life but this article goes into far greater detail that I hadn’t
been aware of.

Jason D Capell
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Stalin, may he be damned, should be given credit for winning the
entire war. It is sickening xenophobic ignorance that there is no
monument of thanks to the Red Army in Washington DC.

The sacrifice of those fighting a monster, while under a monster,
should never be forgotten.

Lawrence Rockwood
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Wow, a long article. I guess it takes that to explain away the
obvious.

John Aldis
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Excellent article ... except for the title, for which the author may
not be responsible.  Stalin didn't defeat Japan -- the Soviet armed
forces did.

Joseph Kaye

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These details really build the case for that conclusion.

Dan Morgan
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Actually the bombs but the Russian invasion helped them realize they
were cornered. The Japanese were more worried about an invasion of
their homeland than the fate of the Kwantung Army which they were
incapable of supplying after the US destroyed their navy.

Timothy John Tiedemann
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All absolutely on target, and a great analysis of the US bombing
campaign and how the Japanese viewed it. There are a few more things
to add.

1) The entire fire bombing campaign, concocted by Curtis LeMay and
none other than Robert Strange MacNamara, was an attempt to make the
B-29 bomber, built at great expense specifically for the long range
bombing of Japan, had turned out to be a bust. It had been based on
the idea of high altitude (the plane was pressurized), high accuracy
bombing based on the Norton bomb sight. But when it was tried, they
discovered the jet stream, which meant over Japan at high altitude
they were getting 200 mph tailwinds, and the bomb sight couldn't
handle this. So instead they switched to low altitude night bombing,,
with incendiaries, where it makes no difference if you are on target
or not. Once you get a city burning, the fire will do the damage. But
the bombing campaign was not required. The US Navy (the submarines,
with help from aviation) had sunk most of the Japanese merchant fleet,
and the island was facing starvation. The Japanese navy had mostly
been sunk, it was no threat. We could have stood off and waited for
the islands to surrender or starve. Which also means the very costly
invasions of Okinawa and Iwo Jima, taken to support the bombing
campaign, were unnecessary.

2) The critical question in the negotiations was the status of God,
also known as the Emperor Hirohito. The Japanese had thought deeply
before going to war. They knew that if they could not persuade the US
and its allies to come to terms in one year, the US industrial power
would guarantee a Japanese defeat. After one year, and the Battle of
Midway, the Japanese knew they were going to lose. But how to lose in
such a way that what was essential was maintained. God. Hirohito ran
Japan. The cabinet, generals, etc, made the public pronouncements. But
the Emperor's word was final. Hirohito took the bust of Bismark off
his desk, and replaced it with one of Abraham Lincoln. A group of
princes were designated the "peace faction" and the police began
assembling dossiers on them. It was planned to arrest some of them
closer to the end, to make them credible partners for the US to
negotiate with. The nation might starve, its cities burn, its fleet
sink, but if the Emperor remained, what was essential in Japan
remained. And Hirohito gave not one shit for the lives of the people
killed. So, the US demanded unconditional surrender. The Japanese
negotiators stood firm, you can't touch the Emperor. Guess who made
the concession to get the surrender? Not Japan.

3) But if the war had gone on, and the Soviet Union crushed the
Kwantung Army, and invaded the islands, there was going to be no way
to keep them out of the Occupation Authority. And while the US was
happy to swallow the lie that "Japanese Militarists" were in charge,
the Soviet sense of humor was not quite as generous, they wanted
Hirohito's head on a stick, and the abolition of the position of
emperor. Uh oh. The US didn't want the Soviets to have even a toehold
in Japan, or to disrupt our deal. In many ways, the Bomb was dropped,
consciously by Truman and Jimmy Byrne, not so much to intimidate the
Japanese as to intimidate Stalin.

4) The Bomb also not only highlighted US military strength, and
technological superiority, but also was an outstanding ammunition for
the US aviation industry, already bursting with wartime cash, and the
fliers of the US Army Air Force (which had begun the war as the Army
Air Corps and was eager to be an independent service) with ammunition
for fighting the Army and Navy for its independence and a huge budget.

Jack Radey
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It was not the "Norton" bombsight, it was the "Norden" bombsight. My
father helped develop it.

Owen Williamson
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There is a Japanese historian Tsuyoushi Hasegawa in 2005 who wrote
Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman and the surrender of Japan. His idea
is essentially the same. Stalin had pledged to declare war on Japan
within 90 days of the end of war in Europe. The Russians did so by
invading the northmost four tiny small islands of Japan AND
simultaneously smashing the Japanese army in Manchuria. The Americans
did not know if and how Stalin  would keep his pledge. So they
proceeded with their plans.

Hiroshima was targeted because it had been spared fire-bombing so the
Army Air Force could assess the effectiveness of the bomb. WHAT is
unforgivable is the decision to drop the second bomb 72 hours after
the first. There was simply no time for the Japanese government to
respond to the bombing- thru neutral diplomatic channels. Within the
bomber mafia, -those officers and civilians in charge of the bombing
including future Sec. of defense Robert McNamara- the mafia wanted to
drop the second weapon because it was a different type of atomic bomb.
 Under the very real of the Russian army seizing a Japanese main
island as revenge for its humiliation in the Russo-Japanese War of
1895, Japan surrendered.

John Marienthal

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In general, I do not agree with the author. Certainly, the soviet
entry into the war was significant, but simply closed the door to a
negotiated peace. there was a faction that still did not want to
surrender at all but the emperor finally made the decision. The bombs
had a huge effect on the emperor and that really pushed him over the
edge.

Ron Ingle
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RE: ISRAEL MOVES TO SILENCE THE STALWARTS OF PALESTINIAN CIVIL SOCIETY

If this were true the Israelis would not have limited their terrorist
designations to NGOs with clear links to the PFLP--more than 70 people
who were leaders  of or salaried employees of these PFLP front NGOs
were either high ranking PFLP officials or were engaged in terrorist
activities. That was already on the public record before this action
by the Israelis. The widespread defenses of these NGOs reminds me of
the defenses of Stalin's USSR-- defending the Moscow trials and
denying the Antisemitism in the post WWII purges. What Lenin is
supposed to have called "useful idiots.

Stan Nadel

RE: ‘THE HARDER THEY FALL’: A BIG, STAR-STUDDED BLACK WESTERN

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I’m hella f*****g irritated with any and everybody who been hyping
this damn show. It’s LITERALLY the same stereotypical bullshit they
keep replaying such as how we kill each other and have no love for
another. I’m not happy about the movie at all. Idc if it does come
from some type of truth. I’m literally tired of seeing the same
fucking shit played our people ......

Olori Bae Omowale
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Interview with the editor, Tom Eagles:

In “The Harder They Fall”, currently streaming on Netflix,
Jonathan Majors and Idris Elba are opposing outlaws, leading their
respective gangs into a classic Old West showdown through a series of
expectation-defying twists. Film Editor Tom Eagles speaks with me
about the journey from page to screen for this stylish western, the
first feature-length film from Director Jeymes Samuel.

Below the Line
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November 18, 2021

Robert Skidmore
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A NEW ARCHIVE SHOWS WHERE TO STREAM HUNDREDS OF CLASSIC BLACK FILMS
(HYPERALLERGIC)

Hyperallergic speaks to Maya Cade, creator of the Black Film Archive,
about showcasing an “abundance of Blackness across time.”

by Cydnii Wilde Harris
Novemmber 16, 2021
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From Carmen Jones (1954), dir. Otto Preminger 
image courtesy Cinémathèque québécoise  //  Hyperallergic
Streaming platforms abound with homogeny. I used to scroll them
seemingly endlessly, looking for icons with faces that looked like
mine. The irony of erasure is that you can’t unsee your own
invisibility. You’re relegated to “Black Voices” subheadings far
down the page, only trotted out during the shortest month of the year.
Then came the summer of 2020. Streaming sites have given us more prime
real estate. As the saying goes, they _Heard_ us, and now
we _See_ ourselves more.

Writer and digital strategist Maya Cade
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things a step further. She long understood that Black films online
lack not just visibility but also _accessibility_. “Everything I do
is in service of Black people.” That’s one of the first things she
shared with me about the Black Film Archive
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for years, she was able to bring it to fruition this past August.
It’s a database of classic Black films, with links to where they are
available to stream. Currently it catalogues over 200 films, ranging
from 1915 to 1979 and spanning multiple genres and countries of
origin. But that description is too clinical; Cade wants the BFA to be
a living platform that constantly evolves, though with its service of
Black film and people always at the forefront. Cade and I spoke about
the Archive over Zoom – a fitting venue in which to discuss an
online resource.

Read full interview here
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HOWARD ZINN'S PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES ON STAGE, SCREEN,
AND IN CLASSROOM - DECEMBER 7 (NYU'S SOCIAL STUDIES PROGRAM,
EDUCATIONAL THEATRE PROGRAM, TAMIMENT LIBRARY, BROOKLYN COLLEGE'S
SOCIAL STUDIES PROGRAM)

NYU's Social Studies Program, Educational Theatre Program, Tamiment
Library, Brooklyn College's Social Studies Program Present: 

Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States on Stage, Screen,
and in Classroom
December 7 (5:00 PM ET)

Featuring

ANTHONY ARNOVE
Executive Producer of _The People Speak_
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co-editor with Howard Zinn of _Voices of A People's History
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STACEYANN CHIN
poet and actor, performer in _The People Speak_
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BRIAN JONES
Director, Center for Educators and Schools, 
The New York Public Library, actor who performed in Zinn's _Marx in
Soho [[link removed]]_

SONIA MURROW & ROBERT COHEN
co-authors of _Rethinking America's Past: Howard Zinn's A People's
History of the United States in the Classroom and Beyond_
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RSVP USING THIS FORM
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Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives/ NYU Special
Collections
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012

TWENTY YEARS OF WAR - COALITIONS OF WAR AND ANTI-WAR - DECEMBER 7
(CORNELL UNIVERSITY)

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2021, 3PM EST

REGISTER NOW [[link removed]]

In 2001, the Global War on Terror (GWOT) was inaugurated under U.S.
leadership. Since then, U.S. Armed Forces have conducted significant
operations in at least ten countries and been implicated in military
operations and incarceration in dozens more. Several other countries
have also waged their own GWOT security-state campaigns. But to what
ends? This year, the 20th anniversary of the GWOT is an opportunity
for timely, nuanced reflection.

In this webcast, a panel of leading scholars, journalists, and
activists will take stock of the GWOT era and its widespread
consequences. In the U.S. and elsewhere, “homeland security” has
intersected with struggles over official Islamophobia, cross-border
migration, Indigenous dispossession, and mass incarceration. Join us
as Anand Gopal, Judith LeBlanc, Lyle Jeremy Rubin, Samar Al-Bulushi,
and Tejasvi Nagaraja look back on the previous two decades and ahead
to the future.

This is the second of two sessions offering expert reflection on the
Global War on Terror, hosted by Tejasvi Nagaraja, Assistant Professor
of History at Cornell University, and co-sponsored by Cornell’s
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, American Studies
Program, and the ILR School.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

* What “war” and “peace” mean for the livelihoods and labor
among, for example, U.S. military recruits, Afghan farmers, and Kenyan
working people.
* What “war” and “anti-war” mean to diverse sectors of
people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Guantanamo Bay,
Libya, Syria, Niger, and Iran.
* What “war” and “anti-war” mean to those people concerned
with Indigenous sovereignty, Black Lives, migrant, and labor movements

REGISTER NOW [[link removed]]

STRATEGICALLY PASSING BALLOT MEASURES – EVEN IN RED STATES! -
DECEMBER 14 (ACTION TOGETHER NETWORK)

Strategically Passing Ballot Measures – Even in Red States!

WEBINAR: TUESDAY, DEC. 14, 5:00 P.M. PT/8:00 P.M. ET.

REGISTER NOW: BIT.LY/ATNDEC2021
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Passing statewide progressives policies in states dominated by
conservative state legislatures may have once felt impossible. But
with the rise of our communities strategically using ballot measures
to pass everything from Medicaid expansion to minimum wage to
marijuana legalization, times have changed! Our panel of progressive
organizers will discuss best practices.

And even if your state doesn't allow citizen-initiated measures at the
statewide level, it may allow them at the city and county levels,
which can be perfect places to pass local policies in communities that
set the path for statewide change -- and make immediate change for
folks in your state!

Join us to learn from your organizing peers in Idaho, Kansas,
Nebraska, and Texas about:

* How they have qualified and run successful ballot measures on
progressive issues in red states.

* The lessons learned from signature gathering to implementation.

* Challenges to be aware of and plan for as you take this work on in
your state.

* What is upcoming in these states in 2022, and please share with us
what's coming up in your state!

* Moderator: REGINA CLEMENTE, Director, Western Rural and Plains
States Project (WRAPS Project), Movement Voter Project

If you have specific topics you want addressed, please submit them to
[email protected] by Dec 6th. We look forward to dreaming and
scheming with you!

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WE STAND INDIVISIBLE, TAKE ACTION TOGETHER, AND RISE STRONGER. WE
PERSIST, BUILD, AND RESIST BECAUSE THIS BATTLE IS FOR THE SOUL OF OUR
COUNTRY AND EACH OTHER. WE ARE IN IT FOR THE LONG HAUL. WE ARE
FIGHTING FOR OUR FUTURE.

FIND A GRASSROOTS GROUP NEAR YOU

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CHOOSE YOUR STATE - click here
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Action Together Network [[link removed]]

 

TODAY IN HISTORY - THE BLACK SPARTACUS - NOVEMBER 18, 1803 - LAST
BATTLE OF THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION (ROSALUXHISTORY)

 

BLACK JAKOBINERS : 18th November 1803 the liberated slaves won the
last battle of the Haitian Revolution against Napoleon's troops
(Photo). More about this revolution, the "Black Spartacus" and the
history of slavery starting Monday in the new episode of the
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podcast.
 

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