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JANUARY 2022


** Dancing That Others May Walk ([link removed])
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As president, FDR used his birthday, January 30, to advance his most important cause—raising awareness and money to eliminate polio, a disease FDR knew first hand. In 1934, more than four thousand communities across the nation came together at 600 celebrations for what would become an annual “Birthday Ball.” They raised millions of dollars for the Warm Springs Foundation, a charity FDR founded in response to the scourge. He later chaired the March of Dimes.
Many today seem to have forgotten that such efforts led to breakthrough vaccines that eradicated polio throughout much of the world. Roosevelt likened the fight against polio to war. "It strikes with its most frequent and devastating force. And that is why much of the future strength of America depends upon the success that we achieve in combating this disease.”


** Vaccines and Church Bells ([link removed])
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** By Jonathan Shipley
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Roosevelt’s passion for finding a cure— a vaccine—made defeating polio a priority coming from the very top leader in the country. READ MORE ([link removed])


Pare Lorenz and the U.S. Film Service Take on America's Problems ([link removed])


** By Brent McKee
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Lorentz believed in the power of film to inspire social change. Were he alive today and running a U.S. Film Service, we would see documentaries about global warming, ocean pollution, wildfires and America’s growing economic inequality playing at local movie theaters.
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HAPPENINGS
Ruskin Art Club
"Necessitous Men Are Not Free Men: The Influence of Ruskin and Settlement Houses on the New Deal" ([link removed] )
Thursday, January 20, 2022, 5pm
A number of the New Dealers, including Frances Perkins, Harry Hopkins and Eleanor Roosevelt worked in settlement houses, which were inspired by John Ruskin. They saw the role of government as creating healthier individuals and a healthier society.
Gray Brechin is co-founder and Project Scholar of the Living New Deal in Berkeley, California. Free, donations welcome. REGISTER ([link removed])
THE LIVING NEW DEAL WEBINAR SERIES 2022
The Art of the New Deal
"The New Deal Artistry of Jo Mora” ([link removed]) [link removed] Peter Hiller and Harvey Smith (#)
Tuesday, January 18, 2022, 5pm PST

During his decades-long career, Uruguayan-born artist and author "Jo” Mora (1876-1947) created sculptures, illustrations, paintings, architectural adornments, dioramas, books and maps. Among Mora's most significant and lasting projects are two richly adorned public buildings he produced for the Public Works Administration—the Monterey County Courthouse and the King City High School Auditorium.

Peter Hiller is the Jo Mora Collection Curator and author of The Life and Times of Jo Mora: Iconic Artist of the American West (Gibbs Smith, 2021). Hiller will be interviewed by Harvey Smith, Living New Deal Project Advisor and author of Berkeley and the New Deal (Arcadia Press, 2014). REGISTER ([link removed])
[link removed]"A New Deal for Native Art: Indian Arts and Federal Policy" ([link removed]) ([link removed]) with Jennifer McLerran ([link removed])
Thursday, February 24, 2022, 5pm PST

Art historian Jennifer McLerran explores the New Deal’s role in promoting Native American arts and crafts. A former professor of Comparative Cultural Studies at Northern Arizona University, McLerran served as a curator of Native American art at the Kennedy Museum of Art at Ohio University and the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff. She currently is consultant to the Smithsonian on an upcoming exhibit of Native American textiles. She is author of “A New Deal for Native American Art: Indian Arts and Federal Policy, 1933-1943 (UA Press, 2012) and A New Deal for Navajo Weaving—Reform and Revival of Dine Textiles, to be published in May, 2022. REGISTER ([link removed])
THE NEW DEAL IN THE NEWS
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Can Democrats Break the Mid-Term Curse? Consider the Example of 1934. ([link removed])
Now that Joe Manchin has sounded the death knell—at least for the moment—for Joe Biden's Build Back Better package, Democrats are doomed in the 2022 midterm elections. Or, wait: Are they?
By Matthew Rozsa
Salon, December 26, 2021

Biden must reset his agenda, learn from FDR after Joe Manchin decision ([link removed])
Facing an economic crisis the likes of which America had never seen, FDR spread his legislation out over several months during this first year. Beginning with the Emergency Banking Act of March 9 ([link removed]) (five days after he took office), he secured passage of 15 major pieces of legislation during the first 100 days ([link removed]) of his presidency. But he didn’t try to do it all in one fell swoop like Biden is trying to do.
By Paul Brandus, Opinion columnist
USA Today, December 20, 2021

Black Civil Rights Icon to Replace Confederate General Statue at Capitol ([link removed])
Educator and FDR Advisor Mary McLeod Bethune,will be the first Black person to represent a state in the National Statuary Hall Collection ag the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
By Shirin Ali
The Hill, December 20, 2021

The Democratic Party is missing a big opportunity to learn from FDR's success ([link removed])
There was a time when Democrats called their party “the Party of Freedom ([link removed]) .”It’s time for the Democratic Party to begin messaging like FDR did.
By Thom Hartmann/Indepedent Media Institute
AlterNet, December 8, 2021
FDR SAYS
“During the past few days bags of mail have been coming, literally by the truck load, to the White House. Yesterday between forty and fifty thousand letters came to the mail room of the White House. Today an even greater number—how many I cannot tell you—for we can only estimate the actual count by counting the mail bags. In all the envelopes are dimes and quarters and even dollar bills—gifts from grown-ups and children—mostly from children who want to help other children get well. … It is glorious to have one's birthday associated with a work like this.”
— FDR Birthday Broadcast on defeating polio, January 30, 1938

In Case You Missed It
"A Day That Will Live In Infamy"

Delivered to Congress following the attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR’s address on December 8, 1941 is one of the most famous of all American political speeches.
WATCH VIDEO ([link removed]) : 4 minutes

View FDR’s annotations to the first draft of the “Infamy” speech from the National Archives. ([link removed])

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