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Robots; Art and Culture Under Billionaire Assault; Reds-The Movie,
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TIDBITS - DEC. 16, 2021 - READER COMMENTS: ABORTION RIGHTS;
MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL-CONGRESSIONAL COMPLEX; DISASTROUS DRUG WAR;
ROBOTS; ART AND CULTURE UNDER BILLIONAIRE ASSAULT; REDS-THE MOVIE,
LOTS OF COMMENTS; RACE AND 1776; BOOKS; MORE  
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Dec. 16, 2021, xxxxxx

 

Re: Justice Sotomayor Expertly Exposed the Bullshit of Mississippi’s
Attack on Abortion Rights (Steve Nathan; Charles Ford)
Aiding and abetting  --   cartoon by Kevin Siers
Re: Sanders Calls on Biden to Slash 'Outrageous' Medicare Premium Hike
(Robert William Edwards)
Re: American Views on Abortion (Lee Zaslofsky)
Re: Dispatches From the Culture Wars - Dec. 7, 2021 (Maria Schafer)
What Government Can Do  --  cartoon by Dr. James MacLeod
Re: How Congress Loots the Treasury for the
Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex (Sonia Cobbins)
Re: Fearing a Repeat of Jan. 6, Congress Eyes Changes to Electoral
Count Law (Pat Kennedy)
Re: In Historic Speech, Deb Haaland Honors Native Activists Who Took
Over Alcatraz (Susan Dupont)
Re: How Oregon is Turning the Page on America's Disastrous Drug War
(Charles; Jack Radey)
Smash-And-Grab  --  cartoon by Rob Rogers
Re: What I Learned from Jerry Meyer (Buzz Davis; Joseph Wilson; Jay
Mazur)
Re: Claiming Our Right to Study: Building Working-Class
Intellectualism in the Struggles for Health Care and Education (Mariam
Alunkal; Lee Zaslofsky)
Re: World's First Living Robots Can Now Reproduce, Scientists Say (Jim
Maynard; Norm Littlejohn; Susan Roland; Karyne Dunbar; Anthony Rivera)
Re: Our New Art ‘Appreciation,’ Billionaire-Style (Susan Collier
Lamont; Mary Bang)
Re: Novelist Almudena Grandes Told the Truth About the Spanish
Dictatorship (Jose Luis Medina)
Re: Forty Years Later, Reds Is Still One of the Best Films Ever Made
About Revolutionary Politics (Van Caldwell; John Dietzel; Chris
Townsend; Nora Hussey; Al Cholger; Paul Buhle; David Thomas Sr.;
Jeremy Radabaugh; Ira Shor; Chip Berlet; James Smethurst; Brian
Mitchell; Michael Steven Smith; Dan Brent)
Re: Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the
Declaration of Independence (William Clay; John G Mason; Roxanne
Dunbar-Ortiz)

RESOURCES:

PEOPLE'S HISTORY FOR YOUNG ADULTS (ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT)

EARLY BIRD TITLES JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS (HARD BALL PRESS)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Online Conference on “Unwinding Privatization –
(Re)municipalism and the Public Interest” - December 10 (Great
Cities Institute)
DC Labor Chorus Winter Concert -- Sunday, December 12 (live-streamed)

RE: JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR EXPERTLY EXPOSED THE BULLSHIT OF MISSISSIPPI’S
ATTACK ON ABORTION RIGHTS

She is a hero! A true American patriot,

Steve Nathan
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Unlike the clueless Breyer!

Charles Ford
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AIDING AND ABETTING  --   CARTOON BY KEVIN SIERS

Kevin Siers
December 7, 2021
Charlotte Observer / News & Observer
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RE: SANDERS CALLS ON BIDEN TO SLASH 'OUTRAGEOUS' MEDICARE PREMIUM HIKE

My increase for cost of living next year was completely done away with
the premium hike.

Robert William Edwards
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RE: AMERICAN VIEWS ON ABORTION

Yes, but what are all these people doing to defend Roe v Wade?

It's nice to know that polls show that Americans agree with just about
everything in the progressive agenda. Very reassuring!

But if their "support" is limited to answering the occasional poll
question, what is it really worth? The Republicans know the answer:
very little if anything at all. That's why they ignore these poll
results and do the opposite of what the polls say Americans "support".

The idea that "the [only] time to make your voice heard is on Election
Day" is a cop out -- "you mean I don't have to do anything until
November?"

A healthy democracy requires continuous participation, continuous
organizing, continuous activism. Without that, it is dead, or a Big
Show paid for by the billionaires every two or four years to make
people think they have some say in what happens.

Lee Zaslofsky
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RE: DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS - DECEMBER 7, 2021

I’m Catholic, but there are too damned many Catholics on this court.
I want to live in a secular society, and choose my religious
preference, not a theocracy that imposes its notions on the rest of
us! Reform the Court! NOW!

Maria Schafer
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WHAT GOVERNMENT CAN DO  --  CARTOON BY DR. JAMES MACLEOD

Dr. James MacLeod
December 2, 2021
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RE: HOW CONGRESS LOOTS THE TREASURY FOR THE
MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL-CONGRESSIONAL COMPLEX

There is no country in the world that threatens to invade us. Yet we
are rattling our sabers about some conflict between Russia and
Ukraine, for example. What in the world would be our role there? We
always create an enemy to ramp up support for military spending.
Disarmament is a worthy goal, but it would be economically traumatic.
Military manufacturing and the salaries it generates are an important
part of the economy in every state and locality. We really need a
creative program to transition from military to environmental
protection programs with good paying jobs.

Sonia Cobbins
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RE: FEARING A REPEAT OF JAN. 6, CONGRESS EYES CHANGES TO ELECTORAL
COUNT LAW

How about ditching the totally anti democratic Electoral College??

Pat Kennedy
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RE: IN HISTORIC SPEECH, DEB HAALAND HONORS NATIVE ACTIVISTS WHO TOOK
OVER ALCATRAZ

A heart-warming tale of righteous activity by and for native
Americans.  Thank you to all who participated.

Susan Dupont

RE: HOW OREGON IS TURNING THE PAGE ON AMERICA'S DISASTROUS DRUG WAR

One thing that is absolutely certain, the "war on drugs" has been an
absurdly expensive, ineffective, socially toxic (and often corrupt)
failure at controlling anything.  It's the demand side of the
equation that creates such lucrative profits for the drug cartels and
gangs that profit from other people's addictions.

If the profit lure was neutralized, this would force a radical change
in the entire illegal drug industry.

It's an experiment at least worth trying, as nothing else has worked
at all, except having prisons filled with drug related crimes, and
keeping the worst of the violent gangs and cartels in profitable
business.If anything, it may be those violent gangs and cartels who
will be the worst enemy of this effort, rather than the usual sort of
resistance by law enforcement and conservatives.

It should be worth noting that local law enforcement (and the DEA)
have a vested interest in keeping the perpetual war on drugs just like
it is, as it's actually quite profitable for money and property
seizures, and of course, guaranteed job security.  Many lifelong
careers have been connected to the drug trade in perpetuity, and of
course, the prisons have been doing a full time business fueled by the
same.

I hope that something positive comes out of this experiment in Oregon.

Charles
Sebastopol, CA 

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Ah, before we get to euphoric about Oregon's decriminalization of
small quantities of drugs, perhaps just a hit or two of reality? 1)
The notion of not arresting and charging people with felonies for
having a small amount of meth, heroin, or coke (etc) in their
possession is a good idea.  It both saves people from being flushed
out of society and into the prison system, which is bad for them and
expensive, and has all sorts of other negative effects.

2) The idea of the initiative was if stopped and found to have a few
hits of some illegal drug on them, they were to receive a citation,
which would require them to appear in court, where they would receive
a referral to drug treatment services.  Unfortunately, this is not
working, for two reasons.  Some law enforcement jurisdictions don't
bother handing out citations.  Their view is it doesn't do anything,
and it requires a certain amount of staff time.  They have some solid
grounds for this belief. Others have made it a focus, and hand out
lots of citations. Unfortunately, what they have discovered is that a
depressingly low number of those who have received citations ever show
up in court.  They are simply ignored.  The citations each has a
phone number on it, a 24/7 hotline for persons seeking drug treatment,
it provides a referral service.  Its operators report getting 1-3
calls a day.

3) There is a fact that the very well intentioned authors of the
initiative apparently didn't consider worth consideration.  Of those
addicts who successfully cope with their addictions, become "clean and
sober" and maintain that status, roughly half do so initially
involuntarily.  The truism, "you have to want to get well", does not
work all that well with a variety of "behavioral health" conditions
including addiction.  The overwhelming number of addicts are not
interested in quitting, they are interested in their next hit.  One
way for them to get clean is to be locked up where they cannot get
drugs, (yes, I know prisons are hardly drug free), and required to go
to treatment sessions.  Many resist, and gain nothing from it.  But
for many, it is their ONLY opportunity to be off drugs for a while,
and in therapy for a while.  Studies in AA have found that of those
who successfully get sober (defined as not drinking and continuing to
breath), about half were required by a court to go to meetings, they
did not walk in voluntarily.  And at some point in the dumb,
repetitive, boring meetings, they heard something that clicked, and
they got interested.

4) Despite all the burbling in the article about the amount of funds
being funneled into drug treatment, its effects in Oregon are far from
obvious. Consultants, behavioral health administrators, and the like
are no doubt thriving.  Meanwhile, there have been several busts of
up to 20 lbs of meth at a time locally.  And every day or two there
is another person whacked out, mostly on meth, waving a gun or knife
around, assaulting people, driving crazy.

This was a sample of really well intentioned and poorly thought out
and implemented ideas we've seen passed by initiative.  (Yes, I voted
for it.) Another that came out of the legislature, on guns.  Private
sales, of course, are notoriously difficult to monitor or enforce.
 But there is now a law on the books requiring for a private sale to
be reported to the authorities.  A number of right wing sheriffs,
elected on "keep-the-damn-gummint-offa-our-guns" platforms, publicly
announced they would not enforce the law.  Our own sheriff explained
it like this.  Lets say someone is arrested for a crime involving a
gun.  If the gun was purchased privately, and this happened after the
law passed, and there was no report submitted, the suspect could be
charged with violating the new law.  Which is a misdemeanor.  Any
crime involving the gun would be a felony.  In order to tack a
misdemeanor charge onto the felony would require detective work, to be
able to prove in court that the gun was purchased since the law was
passed.  The sheriff pointed out he has two (2) detectives on his
small staff, and he has to cover a very large county with them, from
the coast to the mountains.  Should he invest some of his available
detective time on such a case, which would mean some other
investigation could not be done, could at best produce a misdemeanor
charge, which would be unlikely to add much to the penalty for the
felony. If he got more funding with the bill to provide staff to
enforce it, it is a loser for the county.  Local gun control
advocates got angry with him, but they didn't catch that the
legislature, when it takes a position on guns, tends to lean hard
towards the symbolic.  After an attempt to seize the capitol by an
armed mob (with the aid of a Republican member of the legislature who
let them in a back door), the legislature voted to ban carrying
firearms.  In the capitol building or on its grounds.  Don't you
feel safer now?

Jack Radey

SMASH-AND-GRAB  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

Rob Rogers
December 3, 2021
robrogers.com [[link removed]]

RE: WHAT I LEARNED FROM JERRY MEYER

Thanks much another good human being!  

Peace 

Buzz Davis, 
Vets for Peace in Tucson

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I worked with Jerry as an adjunct at Hostos back in the day..when Herb
Aptheker taught there. Jerry was salt of the earth…a really good
person!

Joseph Wilson
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Meyer's bio of Marcantonio was excellent and very helpful in
understanding New York City politics from the mid thirties until his
death in 1955. I regret that Gerald Meyer never completed his history
of the American Labor Party, it would have filled in the blank spaces
in our understanding of that dynamic period in left history

Jay Mazur
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RE: CLAIMING OUR RIGHT TO STUDY: BUILDING WORKING-CLASS
INTELLECTUALISM IN THE STRUGGLES FOR HEALTH CARE AND EDUCATION

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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More words, words, words. Healthcare is a right to all. Just implement
'Medicare for All' (no, it is NOT Socialism) and with the resultant
appropriate pricing of healthcare (particularly for health care
providers like doctors), there is a chance that a better understanding
of human pain will follow. And with that, a truer understanding /
education of human frailty would follow.

Mariam Alunkal
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Back in the day, the socialists and communists had a strong commitment
to educating the workers so they could see through the propaganda of
the bosses (and learn to read and write, learn labor history. and
learn how to organize and advocate.

Lee Zaslofsky
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: WORLD'S FIRST LIVING ROBOTS CAN NOW REPRODUCE, SCIENTISTS SAY

This will not end well…. I watch Sci-fi movies, I know what's
coming!

Jim Maynard
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I, for one, am prepared to welcome our new robot overlords.

Norm Littlejohn
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This is horrifying.

Susan Roland
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What could possibly go wrong?

Karyne Dunbar
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Its just talk.
Money has to be declared for Science

Anthony Rivera
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RE: OUR NEW ART ‘APPRECIATION,’ BILLIONAIRE-STYLE

And it costs a fortune to go to a museum.

Susan Collier Lamont
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Taking art away from the "commoners" to demonstrate their elitism. Sad
on so many levels.

Mary Bang
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RE: NOVELIST ALMUDENA GRANDES TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SPANISH
DICTATORSHIP

Spanish author Almudena Grandes, who died last week, aged 61, was
famed for her novels portraying ordinary Spaniards’ experience of
civil war and dictatorship. Against attempts to veil the past in
silence, she insisted that unearthing historical memory was
fundamental to building a democratic Spain.

Jose Luis Medina
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RE: FORTY YEARS LATER, REDS IS STILL ONE OF THE BEST FILMS EVER MADE
ABOUT REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
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“Released in 1981, Reds is one of the best movies of its era. The
most amazing thing about the film is perhaps the fact that Beatty was
able to make it in the first place. Just consider: Reds depicts the
Russian Revolution in the same heroic light as a Hollywood film might
the signing of the Declaration of Independence or the invasion of
Normandy. It presents Reed and Louise Bryant — played by Warren
Beatty and Diane Keaton — as entirely correct and justified in
giving up everything to support the Bolsheviks.”

Van Caldwell
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Haven't watched this.  Need to.

John Dietzel
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I have always wondered where the surplus footage is of what Beatty
called the "Witnesses", all the oldtimers who knew Reed and Bryant.
One of the curious things about this movie. Through odd happenstance I
met several of them when I lived in Florida in 1979-80-81 and I
remember seeing them in the move=ie and being quite impressed. Back
then with no internet you really didn't know who these people were.
Some were legends, as I know now. Back on the footage - in the right
hands a documentary just on the old timers would be a good watch, to
me at least. CT

Chris Townsend
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It was impressive then. Haven't seen it since...time to check out
again I THINK!

Nora Hussey
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I have said it before, but: read the book Ten Days That Shook The
World, before you see the movie. It really helps to understand what is
fleeting by on the screen.

Al Cholger
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Gerda Lerner's son ran the filming crew for the 2nd half. Almost no
script but a whole lot of action. And way over budget. Still:
magnificent.

Paul Buhle
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Agreed, just finished watching it last night.
Only $10 on YouTube. Now I can watch or review part any time I want.

David Thomas Sr.
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One of the Best movies from the US, ever!
Warren Beatty hates it, and he was the director!

Jeremy Radabaugh
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Remarkable film...

Ira Shor
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When several of us saw journalist George Seldes interviewed in the
film, we were stunned. We thought he had died years ago. We started to
drive up to Vermont to visit him.

Chip Berlet
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I saw Reds at a theater in NJ. During the intermission I talked with a
guy who had been one of the children in the Paterson Silk Strike
pageant that Reed wrote. That was memorable.

James Smethurst
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Thank you so much for this wonderful article. We all need to see this
timeless movie again.

Brian Mitchell

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A most stirring was when they played the Internationale. Imagine that
for a Hollywood film.

Michael Steven Smith
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I agree it's a wonderful movie. I don't agree that it is so positive
about the Russian revolution or the virtue of the main characters. I
think the author is missing some of the nuance of the movie.

Dan Brent
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RE: THIRTEEN CLOCKS: HOW RACE UNITED THE COLONIES AND MADE THE
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
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What about Author and Scholar Dr. Gerald Horne's "The 1776
Counter-Revolution" which raised this point of view, backed by
original scholarship, a number of years ago.

Maybe the starting point of research for "13 Clocks" needed to be Dr.
Horne's book...or maybe it was?

William Clay

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Political paranoia and racial panic mobilized colonial opinion against
the King.  Sound familiar?

John G Mason
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Looks like an essential read. I hope it becomes a best seller.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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PEOPLE'S HISTORY FOR YOUNG ADULTS (ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT)

Here are just a few of our favorite 2021 young adult non-fiction and
historical fiction titles.

SHARE YOUR STORY - RECEIVE A BOOK

HOW THE WORD IS PASSED

Share a story [[link removed]] about
using any of the lessons or discussion questions
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Clint Smith's How the Word Is Passed
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we'll send you a people's history book.

In appreciation for your teaching story
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choose Eyewitness: A Living Documentary of the African American
Contribution to American History
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compilation by William Katz of hundreds of first-person stories and
primary documents, or Faces and Masks
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second volume in his brilliant, student-friendly Memory of
Fire trilogy.

Teaching Climate Justice

Thanks to a donation by the author, we will send you a copy of 
[[link removed]]Paradise on
Fire
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Jewell Parker Rhodes
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appreciation for your teaching story about any of the lessons in
the Teach Climate Justice campaign
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We also recommend The Mystery Woman in Room Three
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de León, a new young adult novel on immigration
rights, climate justice, the Green New Deal, and youth activism.
Available for free download at Orion Magazine.

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"So much fiction is about escape and fantasy, but these
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the values attributed to spirituality – love, compassion, empathy
for those in need, and a lifetime commitment to bring justice into
their lives.
His book calls us to integrate that inner spiritual core into our work
to make the struggle for justice more compassionate, caring, and
sustainable. To be an activist for justice is to love humanity and all
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POLAR BEAR PETE'S ICE IS MELTING!
Polar Bear Pete tells Ahna, a young Inuit girl, that he and his animal
friends are scared because their habitats are being destroyed. Ahna
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ONLINE CONFERENCE ON “UNWINDING PRIVATIZATION –
(RE)MUNICIPALISM AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST” - DECEMBER 10 (GREAT
CITIES INSTITUTE)

DECEMBER 10 @ 8:55 AM - 4:30 PM CST FREE WITH REGISTRATION 

The University of Illinois at Chicago is organising an online
conference on “Unwinding Privatization – (Re)municipalism and the
Public Interest”, to be held via Zoom on 10th December 2021. The
purpose of the conference is to examine responses to failures of
privatisation in cities, especially in the United States and Europe,
and what to make of those responses. Since the 1970s municipalities
have sold public assets such as water, electricity, gas, waste
systems, and transport, to private companies or else transferred the
management or delivery of city services to private actors. The results
have been at best mixed. Of late, municipalities have been cancelling
contracts, letting them expire or repurchasing the resource systems,
sometimes as mandated by public referendums. On other occasions,
private firms proved either unwilling to bid for a contract or
canceled contracts early. This state of affairs has been variously
characterized as “re-municipalization,” “new municipalism,”
“in-sourcing,” “de-privatization,” and “reverse
privatization.”

The conference examines: Which actors, institutions, and forms of
finance, enable cities to take ownership of an asset or service
previously outsourced or privatized? How sustainable are these
controversial activities and what are their wider consequences? What
explanations best account for these policy directions? What outcomes
are missed by posing a private-public divide? What are the levels of
power in the political system that facilitate the local “capacity to
act”? What do (re)municipalizations portend for the future?

The conference comprises four panels: 1) Origins of Municipalism:
Historical and Conceptual Lessons; 2) Capacity to Act: Legacy and
Impact of Privatization in Cities; 3) De-Privatization in Cities:
Resistance and Adaptation; and, 4) Toward (Re)municipalism? The Future
of Urban Public Services. The event is free, but registration is
required to attend.

The event is free, but registration is required to attend. Please
register online for the event. For more information visit the official
website.

The event is free, but registration is required to attend.

Register here
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Organized by Alba Alexander (UIC, Political Science), Larry Bennett
(DePaul University, Political Science), Evan McKenzie (UIC, Political
Science) and Michael Pagano (UIC, Public Administration).

Cosponsored by UIC Department of Political Science, Great Cities
Institute, Institute for the Humanities, and College of Urban Planning
and Public Affairs.

DC LABOR CHORUS WINTER CONCERT -- SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12 (LIVE-STREAMED)

DC Labor Chorus
Winter Concert

Sunday, December 12
4:00 to 5:30 p.m.

Join the DC Labor Chorus for a concert of some of their favorite songs
with selections from folk, gospel, jazz, seasonal, and labor
traditions, including new songs inspired by recent events. The Chorus
is made up of labor and community activists who love to sing for
peace, for joy, and a belief in the power of song to touch hearts and
minds. “You’ll leave inspired and energized!” they promise.

Live‐streamed from Blue House Productions.

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