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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Dec. 2, 2021, xxxxxx

 

Re: How the Murder of Ahmaud Arbery Further Exposes America’s Broken
and Racist Legal System (Craig Gauthier)
Put on your mask  --  cartoon by Adam Zyglis
Giving Thanks 2021  --  cartoon by Michael de Adder
Re: Jury Finds Rally Organizers Responsible for Charlottesville
Violence (Gaddies E Lee)
Re: Experts Describe ‘Surrealistic’ Process Of Putting
Charlottesville’s Nazis On Trial (Charles Ford)
Re: 'Heartbroken & Angry': Anthony Huber's Parents React to Kyle
Rittenhouse Verdict (Robert Wisehart)
Who's the Threat  --  cartoon by Mike Luckovich
Can't Believe We're Fighting About Teachers Being Able to Tell the
Truth in Class  --  meme
Re: AOC Warns Democratic Leaders to Pass BBB if They Want to Keep
Getting Progressives' Votes (Joshua Freeman)
Re: The Dangerous Extremism That’s Killing the Democrats (Jerry
Neal)
Re: It's International Food Workers Week—Support Organizing That
Centers Those Who Feed Us (Jose Luis Medina)
Re: If Merrick Garland Doesn’t Charge Trump and His Coup Plotters,
Our Democracy Is Toast (Joseph Maizlish)
Re: Lincoln’s Invention of Thanksgiving Was All About How Black
Lives Matter (Judy Atkins)
Re:When Benjamin Franklin Shocked Himself While Attempting to
Electrocute a Turkey (Ed Violette)
Re: Why Health-Care Workers Are Quitting in Droves (Sonia Cobbins;
Susan Carkin; Patricia Dranginis Shulman)
Re: A Look at How Unions Lift Workers (Arlene Halfon)
Re: Oliver Stone Talks About JFK’s Killing (Jay Schaffner; Craig
Gauthier; Joe Grogan)
Re: The Fight for Chile’s Future (Jay Mazur; David Marley)
Re: Donald Duck Quacks Again as Chile Elects a New President (Joe;
Daphne Muse; David Marley)
Re: Five Reasons the Left Won in Venezuela (William Friesen)
Re: The Indian Farmers’ Movement Has Shattered Narendra Modi’s
Strongman Image (Rick Fantasia)
Re: The Russia Connection Wasn’t a Hoax (Carl Davidson; Karen
Bednarek; Eric Herde; Frank Hughes; Sid Shniad)
Re: Congress 'Asleep at the Switch' as Biden Continues Trump-Era Ploy
to Privatize Medicare (Sterling Vinson)
Re: Public-Private Partnerships Are Quietly Hollowing Out Our Public
Libraries (Susan Collier Lamont)
Re: How the Mexican Revolution Made John Reed a Red (John Berman; Jack
Radey)
Re: Interview: Jazz Star Charles Lloyd: ‘Miles Davis Wanted All the
Girls and Money’ (Magnolia Osborne; Ted R. Swedenburg)
Re: Stephen Sondheim: A Daring and Dazzling Musical Theatre Icon
(Suzanne Brown)
Re: Dark Capitalism Is the Biggest Trend in TV (John Ely)
Re: Giving Tuesday: A xxxxxx Message: Our Vision for 2022 (Kipp
Dawson)
In Memory of Dr. Marty Nathan (The Resistance Center for Peace and
Justice)

TAKE ACTION:

Boycott Kellogg's 
Please CALL, WRITE, FORWARD. Deadline extended to Dec. 3 to Lift
Sanctions on Cuba (National Network on Cuba)

RESOURCES:

Smithsonian African American museum content now available online (The
Grio)
VIDEOS: Insurgent Victory in the Teamsters (Teamsters for a Democratic
Union)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

A NEW DEAL FOR CUNY - NEW YORK CITY - DEMONSTRATION DECEMBER 11
(PROFESSIONAL STAFF CONGRESS (PSC))

RE: HOW THE MURDER OF AHMAUD ARBERY FURTHER EXPOSES AMERICA’S BROKEN
AND RACIST LEGAL SYSTEM

We are not finished, look at all the recent releases of Black men held
for year in prison, now found to be innocent, that's because of
systemic racism, for those who need a definition,

Craig Gauthier

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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PUT ON YOUR MASK  --  CARTOON BY ADAM ZYGLIS

Adam Zyglis

May 9, 2020
The Buffalo News
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GIVING THANKS 2021  --  CARTOON BY MICHAEL DE ADDER

Michael de Adder

November 24, 2021
Washington Post
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RE: JURY FINDS RALLY ORGANIZERS RESPONSIBLE FOR CHARLOTTESVILLE
VIOLENCE

So many people were focusing on the Arbery trial and the Kyle
Rittenhouse trial, They didn't give as much attention to this case.

Gaddies E Lee

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: EXPERTS DESCRIBE ‘SURREALISTIC’ PROCESS OF PUTTING
CHARLOTTESVILLE’S NAZIS ON TRIAL

I agree! This is an unprecedented danger to our Republic. And most
people are indifferent to it.

Charles Ford

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: 'HEARTBROKEN & ANGRY': ANTHONY HUBER'S PARENTS REACT TO KYLE
RITTENHOUSE VERDICT

I am awaiting civil charges that I hope are soon be placed against
that Brownshirt wannabe who crossed state lines with his military
style assault rifle to kill two men and injure a third in "self
defense."

Robert Wisehart

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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WHO'S THE THREAT  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

Mike Luckovich

December 1, 2019
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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CAN'T BELIEVE WE'RE FIGHTING ABOUT TEACHERS BEING ABLE TO TELL THE
TRUTH IN CLASS  --  MEME

RE: AOC WARNS DEMOCRATIC LEADERS TO PASS BBB IF THEY WANT TO KEEP
GETTING PROGRESSIVES' VOTES

And I don't think people who are taking money from drug companies
should be blocking Medicare from negotiating drug prices (yes, you,
Sen. Sinema!)

Joshua Freeman

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: THE DANGEROUS EXTREMISM THAT’S KILLING THE DEMOCRATS

Materialism is the work of the devil!

Sadly, the reality may well be that the conservative Democrats will
still support Wall Street, big corporations, and the super rich. The
demise of Democracy will create a third-world existence for our middle
and lower classes. Just follow the money for the far right and the
DINOs (Democrats in name only). 2022 and 2024 will be a victory for
the GOP and a heinous loss for the majority of Americans. This, if
ever reversed, probably will require many decades to rid the USA of
excessive inequality and inequities.

Jerry Neal

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: IT'S INTERNATIONAL FOOD WORKERS WEEK—SUPPORT ORGANIZING THAT
CENTERS THOSE WHO FEED US

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Corporate greed has long been at the root of human rights violations
in workplaces along the supply chain. Throughout the COVID-19
pandemic, big food companies that control much of the U.S. food supply
and its infrastructure have posted record profits. Meanwhile, food and
farmworkers were deemed "essential"—even as they struggled to get
basic protections and fair pay at work. What we have witnessed
throughout the pandemic is nothing new. There's a long history of
over-exploiting and under paying the people who do the vital, yet too
often unseen, work that keeps grocery stores stocked with food. But
there's an equally long history of resistance led by those same
people.

Jose Luis Medina

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: IF MERRICK GARLAND DOESN’T CHARGE TRUMP AND HIS COUP PLOTTERS,
OUR DEMOCRACY IS TOAST

My concern is the inequality the process is exemplifying.

What moral standard which permits such hesitation in treatment of the
well-placed powerful ought not be applied in the cases of hundreds of
thousands of federal and other prosecutions of the relatively
powerless?

That is not a statement favoring or opposing any particular
indictment. The difference in treatment exposes the judicial system as
a sponsor of social inequality.

If that cannot be cured under the present plea-bargaining
threat-soaked system, and it appears it cannot be, then the situation
becomes an argument for a harm-reduction, non-punitive, safety-based,
restorative system (which does not exclude the use of custody when
that can be justified on the basis of safety).

I asked a similar question when Obama stated his "look to the future,
not to the past" principle.  Aren't all prosecutions about past
behavior?  So if we look as Obama was willing to in the case of mass
killing, torture, etc., what justification is there for the treatment
of, say, burglary?

Long ago just after my arrival at the first of my several federal
prisons to do my time for rejecting a student draft deferment to which
I was entitled (in law) and refusing all orders of the system, I
considered the sentences and treatment of the many I had already met
in a few jails.  What of the planners and endorsers and enablers and
performers of harm, such as at that time LBJ?  I didn't want him to
join me in prison (I thought it would damage the moral atmosphere, and
that his removal from power would suffice for world safety).
 Restitution would be a good idea to go along with that.

If that standard of safety, harm reduction, and repair was good for
the big ones, it ought to be good for all.

Joseph Maizlish, 

Los Angeles

RE: LINCOLN’S INVENTION OF THANKSGIVING WAS ALL ABOUT HOW BLACK
LIVES MATTER

Let’s give up on the Pilgrim myth and celebrate Lincoln’s idea of
Thanksgiving!

Judy Atkins

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE:WHEN BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SHOCKED HIMSELF WHILE ATTEMPTING TO
ELECTROCUTE A TURKEY

Never know until you try

Of the founding fathers, he's one of the few that isn't overwhelmed
with baggage.

Ed Violette

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: WHY HEALTH-CARE WORKERS ARE QUITTING IN DROVES

Good article. I worked in hospitals for decades and noticed the trend.
For many years hospitals have been working with a business model that
reduces staff, lays off front line workers, burdens the remaining
workers with additional tasks at no additional pay, pleads poverty
when it comes to staff raises, and then generously rewards management
for cutting costs. I am in the shop a lot, and doctors have told me
they too are fed up as are support workers. Covid has exacerbated and
exposed the shaky structure created by such policies. One thing that
could be done immediately is to cap salaries for administrators in any
hospital that gets government funds, which is almost all of them.

Sonia Cobbins

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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The Atlantic article is a hit piece bought-and-paid-for by Big Pharma.
It’s sad to see The Atlantic and xxxxxx supporting this kind of
“reporting.” There’s a Pulitzer or two awaiting the science
reporters who can read the medical research appropriately, in the
spirit of informed debate and exchange of ideas. The Atlantic isn’t
in the running.

Susan Carkin

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Now they are being forced to work in Covid cesspools with other
employees who refuse vaccination

Patricia Dranginis Shulman

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: A LOOK AT HOW UNIONS LIFT WORKERS

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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Many of the references in this article date back to the 1930s and what
was happening at the time for unionization. One problem today with
organizing unions is that the paradigm hasn't changed for 100 years.
Unions were, and still try to be, organizations that differ by
industry, location, work site and other factors. The country, however,
needs a structure that ties the rights of all labor into one.

One example of this is unions acting like major corporate entities
that are more interested in their own well-being than the rights of
workers. They compete with each other instead of working together. How
else would you explain any organization that claims to be interested
in workers, but that opposes Universal Health Care. Their claim is
that this is a benefit they provide by negotiations with management.
But it not only ignores workers who are not in the specific union but
also hinders their own members from changing careers or locations or
industries where they work because it will raise havoc with their
healthcare.

Similarly, unless and until an industry (e.g., migrant workers or
maids) develop unions, they are not covered by these benefits. Where
were the worker supporters when the meat packing industry was
operating on near-slave labor during the COVID lockdown? It was even
rare for unions to use their own "language" to describe those who
wouldn't return to work until they received better wages, working
conditions and benefits. Society was allowed to describe them as lazy
and wanting welfare instead of stating that these people were on
strike. Such examples are numerous.

There are other types of organizations that cover everyone in the same
way. ACLU has chapters around the country that deal with local
problems and local issues but some basics, like free speech, no matter
where it is needed and whether the complainant is a member of ACLU, or
even a supporter or not because they are interested in protecting
certain "rights"; not just the rights of certain people. Planned
Parenthood similarly works for everyone, even opponents of Planned
Parenthood, and what it stands for. But unions consider those who
benefit from unions, but are not members, to be "moochers" when even
members would have more rights guaranteed if they applied to everyone

Unions could be structured like other organizations that support such
large populations: Become a national organization that supports the
rights of ALL workers in terms of salaries and wages, safe and healthy
working conditions, benefits, etc. Stop acting like the corporations
and other employers they claim to be opposing.

Arlene Halfon,

Washington, CC

RE: OLIVER STONE TALKS ABOUT JFK’S KILLING

"After Kennedy was killed, there’s been no American president —
none! — who has been able to challenge the authority of intelligence
agencies or the military. Their budgets keep growing, and they have
carte blanche. In other words, no one can change what they’re doing,
and they’re on a course to protect our national security — which,
of course, they define in the most unrealistic terms. So, under that
aegis, you can do pretty much whatever you want. You cannot touch
national security as president — it’s a third rail in politics."

Jay Schaffner

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The military budget is so big and out of control, no politician has
the back bone or support to challenge them, they can't even audit
them,????????

Craig 

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Thank you.  Sharing this with some people who will appreciate your
thoughts and their partial basis in some facts. If some of the records
still are under lock and key, what does that show?

Joe Grogan,

Bolton, Ontario, Canada

RE: THE FIGHT FOR CHILE’S FUTURE

The disappearance of center left and right parties in the Chilean
election is noteworthy as is the low voter turnout

Jay Mazur

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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An article analyzing the current Chilean election and the tension
between progressive forces and  reactionary neo liberalism. Between
hope and fear.

David Marley

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: DONALD DUCK QUACKS AGAIN AS CHILE ELECTS A NEW PRESIDENT

Thank you for this important analysis.  Yes, cartoon characters do
communicate certain values and that was and is the case with Donald
Duck.  I was always amazed by the violence associated with this
character which certainly seems to explain its appeal among some
people.  I am circulating your relevant and timely comments as they
relate to Chile but also other places.

Joe

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I still have my original copy of this “handbook of
decolonization.“

Daphne Muse

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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The tract—conceived in 10 feverish days—caused furor and fury when
it appeared. A second massive printing was soon published the next
year, and a third one was ready to go on sale when General Augusto
Pinochet overthrew Allende in September 1973, and all those copies
were cast into the bay of Valparaíso. First water, then fire. Forty
years after the Nazis had incinerated so many “degenerate”
volumes, it was Chile’s turn. Days after the coup, in a safe house
where I was hiding, I saw, on television, no less, a group of soldiers
throwing hundreds of subversive texts into a bonfire. Among them was
Para Leer al Pato Donald.

David Marley

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: FIVE REASONS THE LEFT WON IN VENEZUELA

I never know what is actually accurate on most anything based on South
America.  I personally think  Maduro is an inept politician but if
this many people vote for the party he represents there must be a
reason.  I personally believe that if we Canada and the US kept their
nose out of other countries business they for sure would be much
better off.  Why are we constantly placing sanctions on countries
that elect  Socialist governments.  I believe it is to destabilize
them and steal their resources.  Just my thought.  I don’t know
where one could actually obtain accurate information. We don’t put
sanctions on European Socialist governments.

William Friesen

RE: THE INDIAN FARMERS’ MOVEMENT HAS SHATTERED NARENDRA MODI’S
STRONGMAN IMAGE

Well this is good…..

Rick Fantasia

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: THE RUSSIA CONNECTION WASN’T A HOAX

Thanks for this. I argued these points all along the line, seeking
truth from facts. A good number agreed. But far too many on the left
attacked my analysis as 'Russia phobia' or even a resurrection of Cold
War anti-communism. It was neither. I think many of my critics were
caught in a time warp, thinking 'Russia' was still something of the
old USSR. It was not.

Carl Davidson

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Are you fucking kidding me?

Fucking war monger David Frum?

So so disappointing?

Shame on you??

Karen Bednarek

For a very well informed rebuttal of the Russiagate narrative, I urge
you to post this fundamentally different take on the whole matter. He
provides a point by point response.

Aaron Mate's Show Debut: Russiagate reckoning?

In the premiere of AM Live, I’ll discuss why the media’s
Russiagate reckoning should go far beyond Steele dossier stories to
include Pulitzer winners as well. I’ll also debunk the excuses that
Russiagate dead-enders like David Corn, David Frum, Max Boot, and
Jonathan Chait are making to salvage their Trump-Russia fantasies
after Steele’s collapse. Plus, your questions and comments. Debate
strongly encouraged.

Why is a piece from GWB’s speechwriter in xxxxxx? I thought this
was a collection of left takes.

Eric Herde

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Russia has 3 priorities. rebuilding its economy after its pillaging by
western interests and not during the Yeltsin years, protecting its
borders against constant NATO provocation, and ensuring the security
of ethnic Russians in the former republics

Frank Hughes

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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For a very well informed rebuttal of the Russiagate narrative, I urge
you to post this fundamentally different take on the whole matter. He
provides a point by point response.

Aaron Mate's Show Debut: Russiagate reckoning?

In the premiere of AM Live, I’ll discuss why the media’s
Russiagate reckoning should go far beyond Steele dossier stories to
include Pulitzer winners as well. I’ll also debunk the excuses that
Russiagate dead-enders like David Corn, David Frum, Max Boot, and
Jonathan Chait are making to salvage their Trump-Russia fantasies
after Steele’s collapse. Plus, your questions and comments. Debate
strongly encouraged.

Podcast:
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Sid Shniad

RE: CONGRESS 'ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH' AS BIDEN CONTINUES TRUMP-ERA PLOY
TO PRIVATIZE MEDICARE

Is congress asleep at the switch or complicit?

Sterling Vinson, Ph.D. 

RE: PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS ARE QUIETLY HOLLOWING OUT OUR PUBLIC
LIBRARIES

Public-Private partnerships will be the end of everything you know and
love. But your representatives in government - local, state and
national - just love them.

Because those private entities do everything they can to avoid paying
taxes, governments don't have enough money to pay for services - like
libraries. Then the folks who created that situation step in as heroes
to save the day and make off with as much of your tax money as they
can.

Pretty sweet deal - don't pay taxes, but collect ours.

Susan Collier Lamont

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: HOW THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION MADE JOHN REED A RED

Shame on Meagan Day and Jacobin for not fact checking that Reed joined
the Industrial Workers of the World, not the International Workers of
the World. (which would have been a redundant name)

And the movie “Reds" was not critically acclaimed, it was panned by
many critics for sentimentalizing Reed’s life and fixating on his
love life more than his politics.

John Berman

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Very nice, except for one real clanger. John Reed did not join the
International Workers of the World. That would be the Industrial
Workers of the World, the IWW. The former, used by the author, is
redundant, and ignorant.

Jack Radey

RE: INTERVIEW: JAZZ STAR CHARLES LLOYD: ‘MILES DAVIS WANTED ALL THE
GIRLS AND MONEY’

Great story.

Gratitude  !!

Magnolia Osborne

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Do read this, amazing story of jazzman who played with Howlin Wolf,
The Beach Boys, and Lucinda.

Ted R. Swedenburg

RE: STEPHEN SONDHEIM: A DARING AND DAZZLING MUSICAL THEATRE ICON

Wonderful article about a great artist.

Suzanne Brown

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: DARK CAPITALISM IS THE BIGGEST TREND IN TV

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
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A bit off topic except as re: Succession. Has anyone else had an
uneasy if not disturbed impression regarding the zeal with which
Yellowstone and the rest of Taylor Sheridan's stuff is coming across.
Yellowstone is a mix of Dynasty and Clint Eastwood at his vengeful
worst. Obviously a less influential figure than the latter, but
Sheridan carries more that a little (far) right wing zeitgeist in his
work....

John Ely

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: GIVING TUESDAY: A xxxxxx MESSAGE: OUR VISION FOR 2022

On "Giving Tuesday," some thoughts and an invitation:

Those of us who care about our planet and the life forms with which we
share it, and who care also about the people and peoples whose lives
have become so precarious -- we are being bombarded by requests for
money for good causes. While we give as much as we can to support
those doing the essential work, none of us is going to be able to send
as much money as we wish we could to all of the groups we value and
who need our help.

My family's list is long and includes a couple of compromises,
recognizing some differences in priorities. No organization is getting
nearly as much from us as we wish. Sound familiar?

If you would like to call attention to an organization that you think
others may not know as much about as you, which you think could be
overlooked, please feel free to mention it in the comments here. I am
doing that with two groups who quietly make available to us important
writing and though-provoking and thinking writings, and do so every
day, for free, but not without cost to them. Much of what each of them
provides to us finds its way into my posts. I give back what I can to
each of them, but wanted you to know of them as well.

One is the Anti-Racism Daily [[link removed]]. I find their
daily emails to be thought-provoking and full of links for more
thought and discussion on essential issues. Today's issue, for
example, is titled "Support Black Motherhood" and is introduced: "This
issue outlines the intersection of redlining and Black maternal
health. We've discussed both issues in our newsletter in the past (you
can peruse our archives here). But I like how Dominique touches on in
today's newsletter to remind us that the impact of racial oppression
is interconnected and complex. And although we cover topics
one-by-one, we have to remember all of them when learning about it."
You can find a link to their website as the first comment below.

I also call attention to the service that's been essential to many of
us for years. xxxxxx,
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[[link removed]] every day, sends
links to a half dozen or more articles from a wide variety of
port-side (ie, "left") publications worthy of note, sometimes on the
day of publication, but always current. I have never found a day when
I agreed with or even wanted to read every single article, and yet
there almost always are a couple from which I find myself learning,
gaining perspective, or becoming aware in ways I otherwise would not
have. So this post is going to include a direct link to their page, as
a way of thanking them and hoping to inspire others to check them out
and, if so inclined, offer them some money (or let others know of
them).

If you are so inclined, feel free to link ONE organization you think
we may not be as aware of as you think we should be, that needs
support. THANK YOU.
xxxxxx's fund appeal, and a link to their links, is here
[[link removed]].

Kipp Dawson

Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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IN MEMORY OF DR. MARTY NATHAN (THE RESISTANCE CENTER FOR PEACE AND
JUSTICE)

"Yehi zichra mahapecha”: May her memory be a revolution. These
Hebrew words were the first thing that came to me on hearing about the
loss of Marty Nathan, a person who spent such a long time being so
steadfastly, defiantly revolutionary. One of my strongest beliefs is
that we should listen most carefully to anyone who has spent a long
time being consistently on the right side of history. This is exactly
where Marty was for about a half century of activism: from health care
access to racial justice and addressing the climate crisis she was a
shining example of living and acting out the values she had. Just this
year she was such a worthy Frances Crowe Award recipient. Frances
founded what has become The Resistance Center and set the legacy we
continue working to fulfill. At TRC we are deeply grateful for all the
ways Marty supported our campaigns for peace, demilitarization, youth
advocacy, and migrant justice. 
 

Marty had some real privileges in life. She could’ve chosen just to
be happy with those. Instead she chose to share what she had through
working with groups from La Cliniquita to her more recent climate
justice work and tireless anti-pipeline organizing. Her activism came
at a terrible cost, especially when she lost her husband and was a
victim herself of white supremacist terror in the 1979 Greensboro
Massacre. Then and so many times since she could’ve given up but
instead only seemed to come back stronger and fiercer. 

As a species we are under serious threats, all of our own making. If
we respond to the escalating climate crises we continue to cause with
our same old tools of racist and white supremacist violence,
xenophobia, nationalism, increasing authoritarianism, and war with
weapons of mass destruction then humans may not survive the next
century. If we do come together to save ourselves and the planet, it
will be because we have the courage to act on the legacy of brave
activists like Marty Nathan. May her memory and example inspire all of
us to be a part of her revolution!

-Avery J on behalf of The Resistance Center for Peace and Justice

THE RESISTANCE CENTER FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
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P.O. Box 1005

Northampton, MA 01061

In-depth news story:

Community recalls impact, contributions of environmental, social
justice activist Dr. Marty Nathan
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By Brian Steele

November 30, 2021

Daily Hampshire Gazette

BOYCOTT KELLOGG'S

Workers at Kellogg’s Cereal Production Plants Continue Strike
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_Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers
International Union (BCTGM) issued the following statement in support
of 1,400 BCTGM members in Battle Creek, Mich. (Local 3G), Omaha, Neb.
(Local 50G), Lancaster, Pa. (Local 374G) and Memphis, Tenn. (Local
252G) who are on strike against the Kellogg Company:_

The company’s last, best and final offer does not achieve what our
members are asking for; a predictable pathway to fully vested, fully
benefitted employment for all employees with no concessions.

Kellogg’s continues to insist on takeaways.  The company came to
the table insisting that there will only be an agreement if the Union
accepts the company proposal exactly as it has been written.  The
company’s proposal was filled with conditions and terms as to what
was acceptable to Kellogg’s.  These terms and conditions are
unacceptable to our members.

Therefore, the BCTGM Bargaining Committee rejected the proposal.  The
strike by 1,400 BCTGM Kellogg’s members at the company’s four U.S.
cereal plants continues.

Contact: Corrina Christensen, BCTGM Director of Communications (301)
692-2874

_Interviews with striking Kellogg’s workers and negotiating
committee members available upon request_.

BCTGM INTERNATIONAL UNION [[link removed]]

10401 Connecticut Ave., Floor 4

Kensington, Maryland

PHONE: 301-933-8600

PLEASE CALL, WRITE, FORWARD. DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DEC. 3 TO LIFT
SANCTIONS ON CUBA (NATIONAL NETWORK ON CUBA)

We still have time to get Congressional signatures to the Dear
Colleague letter to Pres Biden for lifting sanctions on Cuba.  This
'Dear Colleague' letter is a virtual picket line -- let's push our
elected representatives to join us by signing. The deadline has been
extended to Friday, December 3rd! See if your representative has
already signed on here
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Please read and follow the instructions below!

Although Cuba again has quashed COVID-19 by its successful vaccines
allowing for tourism-based economic opening and growth, Cubans are
still facing a dire humanitarian situation. Residual food shortages,
long lines, and a lack of medical supplies to address the COVID-19
pandemic are symptoms of the worst economic and humanitarian crisis it
has faced in recent history. It is critical, now more than ever, that
the United States take immediate action to allow -- i.e. stop blocking
-- humanitarian assistance to reach the Cuban people and take concrete
steps to foster constructive engagement with Cuba, leading to the
normalization of U.S.-Cuba relations.

WHAT'S GOING ON?

Representatives James P. McGovern (D-MA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Gregory
W. Meeks (D-NY), and Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) are circulating a DEAR
COLLEAGUE
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to President Biden regarding changing U.S. policy towards Cuba to
address the humanitarian and economic crisis and restore engagement
with our Caribbean neighbor.

The letter calls for the suspension of U.S. regulations that prevent
food, medical supplies, and other humanitarian aid from reaching the
Cuban people and for the lifting all restrictions on Cuban Americans
sending remittances to their families and on non-family donations,
allowing nonprofits and faith groups to provide humanitarian
assistance and start-up capital for Cuban small businesses and civil
society.

It also urges a rollback of the Trump Administration’s travel
restrictions to Cuba and calls for a return to a policy of dialogue
and engagement. These demands are welcomed by our Cuban family and
friends on the island.

 
WHAT YOU CAN DO

We need you to get in touch with your representative and urge them to
sign onto the letter NOW! The deadline for sign-ons is Friday,
December 3. Find your representative HERE.
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here’s what you do:

CALL!

    Call the number for your representative’s DC office.

    Ask to speak to the office’s foreign policy aide.

    Once connected, read (or adapt) the script below.

    You might be asked to just leave a message, either with the
front desk or on voicemail. Should that happen, read the same script.

SAMPLE SCRIPT:

“My name is [FIRST AND LAST NAME] and I’m a constituent calling
from [CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE]. Cuba is currently facing the worst
economic and humanitarian crisis the island has seen in recent
history. Food shortages, long lines, and a lack of medical supplies to
combat the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated the suffering of Cubans
on the island and of their families in the United States who are
desperate to help but often unable to.

I’m calling you to urge Rep. [YOUR REP’S LAST NAME] to sign onto
Rep. Jim McGovern’s dear colleague letter to President Biden, urging
him to advance a U.S. policy towards Cuba that addresses the
humanitarian and economic crisis and restores a policy of engagement.
The letter calls for immediate and concrete actions to alleviate the
crisis, such as lifting specific licenses required to send medical
supplies and ending restrictions on sending family remittances and
lifting restrictions on travel. These are just a few actions President
Biden can take to improve the quality of life in Cuba. These actions
will also guide us down a path of engagement with Cuba in areas such
as migration, disaster response, and climate change. Protecting human
rights in Cuba, including the right to protest, can only be achieved
through engagement, rather than unilateral isolation, which has proven
time and time again to be a failed policy.

Is this something Representative [YOUR REP’S LAST NAME] can support?
I hope you will consider my request, and thank you for your time.”

WRITE!

Fill out this FORM
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send a message to your representative. We’ve already written it for
you (though feel free to edit)! All you have to do is enter your
contact information.

How much longer will we repeat the failed Cuba policies of the past?
Time is of the essence, and we cannot keep bargaining with Cuban
lives.

PLEASE FORWARD this alert to at least three friends! This is an
important opportunity to tell President Biden to come through on his
promises to establish dialogue with Cuba.

For more information or to work on legislative messaging and outreach,
please contact Alliance for Cuban Engagement |
[email protected]

NATIONAL NETWORK ON CUBA [[link removed]]

PO Box 22455

Oakland, California 94609

SMITHSONIAN AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM CONTENT NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE

The exhibits on the first floor of the museum are currently available

By Aisha Powell

Nov 27, 2021
The Grio
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The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and
Culture has gone virtual.

The critically acclaimed museum in Washington D.C., which features 10
floors of Black history from the 15th century to present day, has
digitized some of its exhibits so that museumgoers from anywhere can
experience the content.

he first floor of the museum which covers the tumultuous era of
slavery, called Slavery & Freedom, is the first exhibit to be
transferred to the museum’s online platform Searchable Museum. It
was made available on Thursday.

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived — but if
faced with courage, need not be lived again,” says Maya Angelou‘s
voice, as she speaks over the opening video on the site, while images
from the past 600 years of Black history move across the screen.

Read full story here
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VIDEOS: INSURGENT VICTORY IN THE TEAMSTERS (TEAMSTERS FOR A DEMOCRATIC
UNION)

Teamsters for a Democratic Union
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November 18, 2021

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O’Brien-Zuckerman Teamsters United has swept the International Union
election by a more than two-to-one margin. Check out must-see videos
of the grassroots organizing that helped pave the way and Sean
O’Brien’s message to TDU and corporate America.

Five Ways to Turn the Election Rout Into Real Union Power

Teamsters for a Democratic Union
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November 20, 2021

O’Brien-Zuckerman Teamsters United didn’t mince words about the
choice in the election. They told members if they liked the union’s
direction under Hoffa to vote for Vairma and challenged members who
want to fight the employers to vote Teamsters United. The result was a
two-to-one rout. Here are five ways to turn the election victory into
member engagement and union power.

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Other videos:

* A Message to Corporate America [[link removed]]

* Uniting Teamsters for Union Power [[link removed]]

* Hoffa: “This Can’t Be Happening”
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TEAMSTERS FOR A DEMOCRATIC UNION [[link removed]]

PO Box 10128

Detroit, MI 48210

(313) 842-2600  |  [email protected]

A NEW DEAL FOR CUNY - NEW YORK CITY - DEMONSTRATION DECEMBER 11
(PROFESSIONAL STAFF CONGRESS (PSC))

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