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TIDBITS - MARCH 10, 2022 - READER COMMENTS: WAR IN UKRAINE - xxxxxx
READERS RESPOND; BOYCOTT RUSSIAN ARTISTS??; BASEBALL; ODETTA;
STARBUCKS; INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY; PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICES;
RACHEL CORRIE REMEMBERED; MORE....  
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Mar.10, 2022, xxxxxx

 

Re: As Battle Wages Over Critical Race Theory, Schools Fail at
Teaching Reconstruction (Jane Collins)
Happily ever after  --  cartoon by Theo Moudakis
Re: Arms Industry Sees Ukraine Conflict as an Opportunity, Not a
Crisis (Jim Price)
Re: Putin, Lenin, Imperialism and the (Real) History of Ukraine
(Natalia Kuzmyn)
Re: Ending Ukraine Crisis and How U.S. Shock Therapy in Russia Enabled
Putin (Allan Fisher)
Re: The Racist Double Standard in War Coverage (Miriam
Haiman-González)
Re: Demoralised Russian Soldiers Tell of Anger at Being ‘Duped’
Into War (Timothy Page; Anne Murray; Kathryn Evann Wegner)
Re: ‘Key to White Survival’: How Putin Has Morphed Into a
Far-Right Savior (Jim Maynard)
Re: Thousands of Russian Artists Denounce Invasion in Open Letter (Tom
Gogan)
Russian Artists, the War and Putin  --  statement of Aleksey
Igudesman
Re: A Letter to the Western Left From Kyiv (Sonia Cobbins; Melvin Hugo
Carlos Pritchard; Ben Bath)
Ukraine in Our Hearts  --  cartoon by Pat Bagley
Re: Arms Industry Sees Ukraine Conflict as an Opportunity, Not a
Crisis (Arlene Halfon)
MAGA Dilemma  --  cartoon by Rex A. Jones
Re: This is How We Defeat Putin and Other Petrostate Autocrats (David
Schwartzman)
Re: Congress Just Recognized Lynching as a Hate Crime. Here’s What
That Means. (Timothy Page)
Re: How Union Drives in Mexico Help All Workers (Mexican Solidarity
Coalition / Coalicion en Solidaridad con Mexico)
Re: The Lords of Baseball Think You’re Stupid (Tom Koecke; Norm
Littlejohn)
Re: A Labor Movement to Challenge the Billionaires (John Case)
Re: How Odetta Revolutionized Folk Music (Deb Louis)
Re: Technology Is Terrifying in Steven Soderbergh’s Kimi (Van
Caldwell)
When War Makes a Child  --  poem by Tatiana Dolgushina
Tell Starbucks to Stop Union Busting (SEIU)

RESOURCES:

Taking feminism back to its radical roots (Verso Books)
Celebrate International Women’s Day — Poster of the Week (Center
for the Study of Political Graphics)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Emergency Relief Fund Concert for Ukraine - Philadelphia - March 14
(featuring musicians from the Philadelphia Orchestra and The Curtis
Institute)
Not Without Us! Pathways to a Feminist Just Transition - March 14
(MADRE and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)
Angela Davis: In Conversation - March 14 (Toronto Public Library)
A Concert for Ukraine - March 14 (Metropolitan Opera)
Why US Prescription Drug Prices are So High… and How to Treat It --
March 15 (Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) - NY Metro
Chapter)
Holding Israel Accountable - March 16 (Rachel Corrie Foundation for
Peace and Justice)
Nation Conversation: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution - March
16
Book Talk: Ellen Schrecker - The Lost Promise: American Universities
in the 1960s - March 31 (Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor
Archives)

 

RE: AS BATTLE WAGES OVER CRITICAL RACE THEORY, SCHOOLS FAIL AT
TEACHING RECONSTRUCTION
 

Whenever somebody uses the phrase Critical Race Theory, we should all
immediately, politely, and firmly, say "You mean racism. You don't
want schools to teach kids about racism."

Jane Collins
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
[[link removed]]

 

HAPPILY EVER AFTER  --  CARTOON BY THEO MOUDAKIS

 

Theo Moudakis
March 8, 2022
Toronto Star
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RE: ARMS INDUSTRY SEES UKRAINE CONFLICT AS AN OPPORTUNITY, NOT A
CRISIS
 

Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon, United Technologies and many others would
not  be publicly  traded companies without government contracts.
 So yes, this is why they exist.  War is how they stay alive.

Jim Price
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: PUTIN, LENIN, IMPERIALISM AND THE (REAL) HISTORY OF UKRAINE
 

Gary Leupp seems to get much of his material on Ukraine from Putin's
recent press conferences. A Tufts history prof bought the fake news of
Neo-Nazi control of Donetsk. xxxxxx featured another version of this
same lie. With articles and teachers like these, small wonder 40% of
the US population supported Trump, and backward state legislatures are
those that Republican control.

The biggest reason for Putin to invade and "peace-keep" in east
Ukraine is the disastrous Russian economy. Dnieper-Donets oil reserves
are situated on the border between Russia and Ukraine, but most of it
is on the Ukraine side. Putin doesn't give a damn about NATO
encroachment, nor Neo-Nazis; he is simply offering pretext to steal
neighboring wealth, as per Soviet-era tradition. Dnieper-Donets is
possibly an even greater prize, if the rumours of its abiotic oil
prove true. Taking the rest of the package will give Russia control of
the Black Sea ports, while the terrorized, newly impoverished citizens
become the work-slaves of tomorrow's Russia--as happened in WWII when
Germans seized the western regions of Ukraine.

Putin's actions are straight out of Hitler's playbook, and to think
otherwise is beyond naive. Leupp also seems to support Putin's claim
that Russia made a country of Ukraine. Try going back past Yeltsin to
late 9th-10th C, when Kiev Queen (Saint) Olga and her son St. Vladimir
initiated the transition from paganism to Christianity, and passed it
on to Russia. From then to 1448, the Russian church was headed by the
metropolitans of Kiev (past spelling). As with most early countries,
religion etched out future borders. Perhaps Leupp chooses to ignore
how the Cossacks shaped the unique culture and statehood. But then,
perhaps Putin considers the Holodomor of 1932-33 sound nation-building
stuff, and the concentration camps culture what every older Ukrainian
raves about. Leupp needs to meet with a few Ukrainians that went
through those nation-destroying times with dictators who were much
like Putin. He also needs to refrain from equating Biden to a "cracked
and dangerous" Putin. Putin is a psycho, and psychos are incapable of
empathy. Biden may be a hard-core capitalist, but he is fully capable
of empathy, and Leupp should thank his lucky stars and stripes that
Trump or some other anti-vaxxer is not in the Oval Office, wilfully
turning millions away from the only sane, scientifically proven
solution to Covid-19, and thereby killing off potentially millions
more Americans. Short memory, this professor has.

Heaven forbid that Putin continue to advance, leading with the nuke
card. To avert this, we need a committed peace-keeping force, and
unfortunately all we have is the UN, or NATO, beyond Ukraine's
borders. Not great, but Ukrainians want Western nations' support, not
Putin's style of mass murder and oppression. Though true that the US
and NATO have screwed up many countries to date, I suspect I would
sooner have Biden as a US leader than anyone Leupp rationalized as
appropriate. In Canada, we held our breath for four years of Trump,
terrified over his alliances, and positively exhaled with relief upon
learning Biden had won. It's possible no other Dem could have
successfully run against Trump, so duped are the US masses by Fox
news, capitalist Evangelical doctrine, and Russian style
misinformation.

Portraying Putin as a potential victim of NATO expansionism and asking
the world to appreciate this p.o.v. is beyond poor taste; it is the
ready-made garbage of today's sick Republican party, whose knowledge
of history is conveniently revised, and whose white supremacist
cheerleaders can't make the leap to ask, "If Putin is going after
Neo-Nazis to liberate Ukraine, why did he support white-supremacist
Trump?"

xxxxxx really needs to clean house. We enjoy most of your articles,
but Leupp is no friend to democracy, and certainly not to Ukraine in
its hour of need.

Natalia Kuzmyn,
Vancouver Island

 

RE: ENDING UKRAINE CRISIS AND HOW U.S. SHOCK THERAPY IN RUSSIA ENABLED
PUTIN
 

What about Ukraine being a neutral country?

Allan Fisher

 

RE: THE RACIST DOUBLE STANDARD IN WAR COVERAGE
 

"...It can happen to anyone." Shocked because unlike impoverished and
uncivilized in brown countries. They don't view them as humans. NOW
they can emphasize!? Never heard of "there but for the grace of God go
I?" Apparently NOT.

Miriam Haiman-González
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: DEMORALISED RUSSIAN SOLDIERS TELL OF ANGER AT BEING ‘DUPED’
INTO WAR
 

Cannon fodder: the lucky ones.

Timothy Page
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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I don’t think Putin would care about his soldiers knowing why
they’re going to war. So sad for all these people. God bless them
all.

Anne Murray
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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I don't believe any western media anymore

Kathryn Evann Wegner
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: ‘KEY TO WHITE SURVIVAL’: HOW PUTIN HAS MORPHED INTO A
FAR-RIGHT SAVIOR
 

Russia has a much bigger “Neo-Nazi” problem than Ukraine… Russia
is now the White Nationalists favorite country and Putin is their
leader

Jim Maynard
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: THOUSANDS OF RUSSIAN ARTISTS DENOUNCE INVASION IN OPEN LETTER
 

... and speaking of yeast in what ONCE was the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics...

Tom Gogan

 

RUSSIAN ARTISTS, THE WAR AND PUTIN  --  STATEMENT OF ALEKSEY
IGUDESMAN

 

“Don’t you have anything to say about the situation in Ukraine???

As a Russian musician and a leading artist… Very disappointing, dear
Aleksey 🙁 “

As I keep on getting messages like the one above, I would like to make
my position quite clear:

I think any kind of war is horrific, pointless and does not belong in
this century.

From what I have heard and read on the sites that are available to me,
this aggression on the Ukraine from Putin was unprovoked and
unnecessary.

That is my personal belief.

I am an artist and musician and my knowledge and insights into
politics is very limited.

In general it is not the responsibility of artists to make political
statements.

That we condemn war and oppose aggression, should be a given in our
profession.

I myself have Jewish, Russian, Ukrainian, Latvian, Austrian and German
roots.
However, I personally do not care too much about any of that.

I have always felt like a human being that is not tied to any nation,
nationality, or ethnicity.

When my family and I left the Soviet Union in 1979, we had to give up
our Soviet passports.

So in actual fact, I was never actually Russian. In our passports back
then, it did not even say “Russian" - it said “Jewish”.

What is happening to the people of Ukraine is clearly a tragedy.

Presently, I am finding the right charities to work with and putting
support into place, as well as working out how I can help in other
ways.

However, I am begging everyone to stop witch-hunting and forcing them
to give political statements.

To stop programming Russian music and to cancel Russian musicians, and
other performing artists, regardless of whether they give statements
or not, is deeply racist and intrinsically short-sighted.

Tchaikovsky has nothing to do with Putin. They never met and never
will.

Imagine the following scenario:

You are a Russian artist who lives in Moscow with a family and a
child, or who has family in Russia.

If you give statements against the government, the danger of something
happening to you or your family in a regime like Russia is very real.

No-one should be forced to become a martyr and put their family and
livelihood in danger. If one does, that has to be the individual's own
choice.

Being persecuted on media and social media and disinvited from
performances just shows how deeply screwed up our beliefs and
understanding of today's world is, and how little empathy we really
have for one another.

We shout for freedom of speech, but punish people when they differ in
opinion or stay silent because they are scared of sharing their
opinion due to real threats to themselves.

We ask for political correctness, equality and empathy, but we fail to
put ourselves in other people's shoes and look at a different side or
concern besides our own.

Please, let us people in the music world focus on the things that we
can do well and are truly important coming from us, which is:

Helping the people in need in whatever way we can and spreading the
message of music, love and peace.

Aleksey Igudesman
March 9, 2022
post on Facebook
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RE: A LETTER TO THE WESTERN LEFT FROM KYIV
 

Very interesting discussion of the complexities of Ukrainian internal
politics, which are, and have long been, all over the map even within
one family. I too wish the Russian people would get rid of Putin or at
least boycott his invasion into Ukraine.

My main goal and role is to propose that the US and NATO do not pump
up the military conflict, even though it enriches Northrop Grumman
etc. We do not need to be involved in another Afghanistan / Iraq 20
year weaponized waste of people and money that leaves the area
devastated. I feel stupid suggesting negotiations to a pit of vipers,
but that is what it has to be - that or disaster.

Also, as a New Yorker, I would love to seize luxury properties of
Russian oligarchs here and use them to house the homeless who are
flooding the subways. Same for properties of Saudi oil princes who own
luxury real estate here and have been bombing Yemen for years. But
they do not count, since the Yemenis are poor and not white, and the
Saudis are our BFFs.

Sonia Cobbins
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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As a person who is internationalist, I have great hesitation with
solidarity with Ukraine. My family suffered under US Marine occupation
in the Dominican Republic in 1965. The US government spokespeople have
no right to criticize Russia when the US government intervened in the
Caribbean and Latin America numerous times without regard to the
well-being of those people--perhaps being non-white they don't
matter. 

So, explain to me the existence of fascist militias (Azov Battalion-an
inspiration for the violent Right here the US- and the mistreatment of
non-white refugees by Polish and Ukrainian authorities. I was asked to
march on Sunday in support of Ukraine. I stated I refuse. Though
Russia is a bully in this situation, the Ukrainian government is not
innocent and the Western media hands are dirty. I'd like a response to
my concerns of white supremacy in Ukraine which has a long history,
dating from some collaboration with Nazis and in Soviet times with the
harassment of African students in the 1960's or will I get silence.

Melvin Hugo Carlos Pritchard, 
San Francisco

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What a confused article. As citizens of the US we have responsibility
for what our government does. Hence we need to be focusing on what we
can pressure our government to stop contributing to the crisis and
play a constructive role.

see  “Donbass Seasons
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(English subtitles)

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Watch [[link removed]]  

Ben Bath
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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UKRAINE IN OUR HEARTS  --  CARTOON BY PAT BAGLEY

 

Pat Bagley
February 24, 2022
The Salt Lake Tribune
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RE: ARMS INDUSTRY SEES UKRAINE CONFLICT AS AN OPPORTUNITY, NOT A
CRISIS
 

I am too old and don't have the energy to get a "Movement" started.
But this should not be hard for someone. Stop using murderous
euphemisms as if they explained reality.

STOP using the word "defense" when talking about arms, military,
killing, wars, etc. If you are using a quote, put "(sic)" after the
word "defense." START using "defense" for real defense and security;
i.e. health care, environmental issues, education, housing, food,
infrastructure, etc. You may have to add your definitions in
parentheses at first, until it becomes routine.

Progressives and progressive media should not be using euphemisms for
killing as if they have some positive meanings.

Arlene Halfon

 

MAGA DILEMMA  --  CARTOON BY REX A. JONES

 

Rex A. Jones
March 9, 2022
Krazy Kartwonz Political Cartoons
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RE: THIS IS HOW WE DEFEAT PUTIN AND OTHER PETROSTATE AUTOCRATS
 

The U.S. and most of Europe are also petrostates and members of Nato.
The U.S./Nato are complicit in Putin's criminal, illegal and
counterproductive invasion of the Ukraine. Nato expansion to the
Ukraine could have been blocked in a negotiated settlement. Now
militarism, the enemy of climate security, is reinforced. 

In addition, the U.S. government materially supports petrostate Saudi
Arabia's genocidal war against the people of Yemen. The biggest
obstacle to preventing climate catastrophe, the Military Industrial
Complex and militarism, have long been a blind spot in McKibben’s
analysis.

David Schwartzman

 

RE: CONGRESS JUST RECOGNIZED LYNCHING AS A HATE CRIME. HERE’S WHAT
THAT MEANS.
 

How did they get republicans to vote for this?

Timothy Page
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: HOW UNION DRIVES IN MEXICO HELP ALL WORKERS

    
The Mexican Solidarity Project has been supporting this grassroots
drive to create independent unions in Mexico. This is Solidarity!
 PUEDES USAR GOOGLE TRANSLATE PARA ESPANOL.

Mexican Solidarity Coalition / Coalicion en Solidaridad con Mexico
[[link removed]]
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: THE LORDS OF BASEBALL THINK YOU’RE STUPID
 

A mentor of mine once told me when management and labor are battling,
always side with labor.

"Manfred is an arsonist who wants you to think he is a firefighter.
Even if you take him at his word that the lockout was necessary (you
should not), his actions since imposing it have been farcical.
Manfred’s side did not issue a collective bargaining proposal to the
MLB Players Association for 43 whole days after the Commissioner of
Baseball said in his first letter that the lockout was meant to
“jumpstart” things."

Tom Koecke
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
[[link removed]]

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“The lockout is [Major League Baseball Commissioner] Manfred and the
owners’ concoction. It is right there in the word: The league locked
out its players when the last Basic Agreement expired. MLB did not
have to do that, players were not poised to walk out on strike, and
the 2022 season could’ve gone ahead while the parties worked on a
new one....”

Norm Littlejohn
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
[[link removed]]

 

RE: A LABOR MOVEMENT TO CHALLENGE THE BILLIONAIRES
 

Class struggle unionism is just super syndicalism without class
struggle politics: lots of posturing, lots of impotence.

John Case

 

RE: HOW ODETTA REVOLUTIONIZED FOLK MUSIC
 

Yep!  I loved her, learned most of those songs from her albums and
got to stage-manage for her whenever she played at Cincinnati Symphony
Hall.

Deb Louis
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
[[link removed]]

 

RE: TECHNOLOGY IS TERRIFYING IN STEVEN SODERBERGH’S KIMI

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
[[link removed]])
 

“The script, written by David Koepp, is an updated Rear Window set
firmly in our COVID present: A woman, shored up by months of social
distancing, is intent on isolating herself from the world completely.
Angela Childs (played by Zoë Kravitz) is an agoraphobic audio analyst
ensconced in a Seattle loft. 

She interprets recordings for a tech company that makes an Alexa-esque
device called “Kimi.” Like all the other home assistants running
people’s lives, Kimi is a squat, nondescript speaker that turns on
your lights for you while listening to everything you say; it’s even
better at spying than Jimmy Stewart was with his telephoto lens back
in 1954.”

Van Caldwell
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
[[link removed]]

 

WHEN WAR MAKES A CHILD  --  POEM BY TATIANA DOLGUSHINA

 

Tatiana Dolgushina
[[link removed]]
March 6, 2022

_[TATIANA DOLGUSHINA: “Russia and Ukraine are both my homeland, and
I am a child refugee of the Soviet Union collapse of the ’90s. I was
born in Russia and grew up in both countries before having to leave
due to increasing violence and after my father was kidnapped in
Ukraine. My poems deal with forever losing one’s home, the violent
effect of war on a child, and the confusion and the loss that a child
experiences before they can understand any of it. The western world
has little understanding of witnessing war on their doorsteps,
especially when young and vulnerable. The current Russia-Ukraine war
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brought up many memories and emotions for me, recreating my childhood
experiences all over again. I fear for the children and their families
who are undergoing the same trauma that I experienced, which will
displace and haunt them for the rest of their lives.”]_

 

TELL STARBUCKS TO STOP UNION BUSTING
 

Starbucks is the perfect example of a “progressive” company saying
one thing to the public and another thing behind closed doors.

Starbucks is giving the world a classic example of why we're demanding
the rules be rewritten so workers who want a union can have one. On
February 8th, almost the entire union organizing committee that formed
at the Memphis, TN Starbucks / Poplar & Highland store was fired with
flimsy excuses—a clear attack on their right to form a union.

Just a few weeks earlier—on January 17th, Martin Luther King Jr.
Day—the organizing committee spoke with news outlets about their
plans to join together in union.

"Starbucks is trying to silence us, but just let it be known, we will
not be silenced," said Nikki Taylor, Starbucks Shift Supervisor in
Memphis who is a member of the union organizing committee _(More
Perfect Union)
[[link removed]]._

TELL STARBUCKS:  REINSTATE THOSE MEMPHIS WORKERS YOU FIRED AND STOP
UNION-BUSTING! STARBUCKS WORKERS NATIONWIDE ARE JOINING THE
#UNIONSFORALL MOVEMENT.

They’re running the same backward anti-worker games as other greedy
corporations like Amazon. Workers deserve #UnionsForAll. Tell them to
stop union-busting.

Tell Starbucks -- click here [[link removed]]

 

TAKING FEMINISM BACK TO ITS RADICAL ROOTS (VERSO BOOKS)
 

Taking International Women's Day back to its radical roots, we bring
you books that advance the ideas of revolutionary feminism. See our
reading here
[[link removed]].

This week we publish two books that we're really excited about.
Originally published in French in 1974, Feminism or Death: How the
Women’s Movement Can Save the Planet
[[link removed]] by Françoise
d’Eaubonne proposed a politics of ecofeminism that went on to
define the movement. Never before published in English, this edition
situates d’Eaubonne’s work within current feminist theory. 

Second, Making Space: Women and the Man Made Environment
[[link removed]].
This pioneering work, first published in 1984, challenges us to look
at how the built environment impacts on women’s lives. Written
collaboratively by the feminist collective Matrix, this book provide
a full blown critique of the patriarchal built environment.

Both feature on our 10 Books to Read on International Women's Day
[[link removed]] reading
list.

[[link removed]]

Click here
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Click here

Verso Books [[link removed]]
6 Meard Street
London, W1F 0EG
United Kingdom

 

CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY — POSTER OF THE WEEK (CENTER
FOR THE STUDY OF POLITICAL GRAPHICS)

 

International Women's Day
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United States
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On March 8, 1857, women from the garment and textile industry in New
York demonstrated to protest low wages, the 12-hour workday and
increasing workloads. They asked for improved working conditions and
equal pay for all working women. Their march was dispersed by the
police. Some of the women were arrested and some were injured. Three
years later, in March 1860, these women formed their own union and
again called for their demands to be met.

On March 8, 1908, thousands of women from the needles trade industry
demonstrated for the same demands. They also asked for laws against
child labor and laws for the right of women to vote. They declared
March 8 to be Women's Day.

In 1910, Clara Zetkin, a German labor leader, proposed that March 8 be
proclaimed International Women's Day in memory of those women who had
fought for better lives. For almost 80 years, March 8 has been
celebrated in many countries, but has only been commemorated widely in
the United States since 1970 with the development of the Women's
Liberation Movement.

Center for the Study of Political Graphics
[[link removed]]
3916 Sepulveda Blvd, Suite 103
Culver City, CA 90230

 

EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND CONCERT FOR UKRAINE - PHILADELPHIA - MARCH 14
(FEATURING MUSICIANS FROM THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AND THE CURTIS
INSTITUTE)

 

MONDAY, MARCH 14TH, 2022, AT 7:30PM.

Saint Mark's Church
1625 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103

A free concert for peace.
Donations for emergency relief fund for Ukraine are only suggested but
not required. Please join us!

Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Curtis Institute of Music

 

NOT WITHOUT US! PATHWAYS TO A FEMINIST JUST TRANSITION - MARCH 14
(MADRE AND ROSA LUXEMBURG STIFTUNG)
 

For this year’s meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women
(CSW66), the thematic focus is gender equality in the context of
climate change. RLS and the global women’s rights group MADRE will
be supporting indigenous and local women’s representatives
participating in CSW. RLS will also host a Parallel Event on MARCH 14
(10-11:30AM ET) — “Not Without Us! Pathways to a Feminist Just
Transition,” which will examine the need to transform society and
the economy to ensure gender equality and a truly feminist just
transition away from a high carbon economy. Read more and register to
attend here [[link removed]].

Just Transition is not only about the transfer of the energy sector,
it’s a just transition to a new form of society and economic
activity. This session will advance the understanding of the potential
of a feminist just transition and how it could lead to a higher level
policy change and climate justice. 

Based on examples, the event will explore what kinds of just
transitions hold the potential to achieve a social-ecological
transformation and why changing the value of different kinds of work,
including unpaid care work, and sectors might be necessary in order to
achieve low-carbon sustainable development.

SPEAKERS AT THIS EVENT WILL INCLUDE: 

* NDIVILE MOKOENA, Gender CC Southern Africa
* DUNJA KRAUSE, UN Research Institute for Social Development
(UNRISD)
* MELISSA MOREANO, Critical Geography Collective Ecuador
* LUCY MULENKEI, MADRE
* DAVID WILLIAMS, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung New York (facilitator)

Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung [[link removed]]
275 Madison Ave., #2114 
New York, NY 10016
United States

[email protected]

 

ANGELA DAVIS: IN CONVERSATION - MARCH 14 (TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARY)
 

MONDAY, MARCH 14, 2022 AT 7 PM – 8 PM

American political activist, philosopher, academic and author Dr.
Angela Y. Davis joins Black Lives Matter Canada co-founder Sandy
Hudson for a special in-conversation event.

**CLICK HERE TO REGISTER AND TUNE IN LIVE ON MARCH
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Angela Davis has spent more than 50 years at the forefront of Black
Liberation, Feminist, Queer, and prison abolitionist movements. Her
seminal book, Angela Davis: An Autobiography, originally published in
1974 and edited by Toni Morrison, captures Davis's formative years as
a human rights activist and the journey that led her to become one of
the most respected and recognized political activists of her
generation.

Dr. Davis's newest book, co-written alongside Gina Dent, Erica R.
Meiners and Beth E. Richie, Abolition. Feminism. Now., deftly links
together the history of abolitionist movements and the important role
that Queer, anti-capitalist, and Women of Colour continue to play in
vibrant community-based organizing.

Dr. Angela Y. Davis discusses her life-long dedication to activism and
resistance with host Sandy Hudson.

 

A CONCERT FOR UKRAINE - MARCH 14 (METROPOLITAN OPERA)
 

On Monday, March 14, at 6PM ET, the Metropolitan Opera will present a
benefit performance
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to support Ukrainian citizens under attack, with all ticket sales and
donations going to support relief efforts in Ukraine. Met Music
Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will lead the Met Orchestra and Chorus
and star soloists in a 70-minute program, featuring music by Valentin
Silvestrov, Barber, Verdi, Strauss, and Beethoven. The soloists will
be Lise Davidsen and Elza van den Heever, mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton,
tenor Piotr Beczała, bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green, and Ukrainian
bass-baritone Vladyslav Buialskyi, who will lead the Met Chorus in a
performance of the Ukrainian national anthem.

_A Concert for Ukraine _will be broadcast in the U.S. via many of the
radio stations that regularly carry the Met’s Saturday Matinee Radio
Broadcasts, as well as member stations of National Public Radio.
Please check your local listing for details. The concert will be
broadcast internationally via the European Broadcasting Union,
allowing it to be heard in most countries in the world. The concert
will also be carried live on Met Opera Radio on Sirius XM (channel
355) and streamed live here
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For more ways to help the citizens of Ukraine, visit the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Ukraine website
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All audience members must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19
and wear face masks at all times inside the Met, except when eating
or drinking in designated areas. Booster shots are also required for
everyone eligible. For more information on health and safety
policies, visit our commitment page.
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WHY US PRESCRIPTION DRUG PRICES ARE SO HIGH… AND HOW TO TREAT IT --
MARCH 15 (PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM (PNHP) - NY METRO
CHAPTER)
 

MARCH 15, 2022 AT 7:30 PM

This forum will discuss U.S. prescription drug prices specifically and
pharmaceutical industry reform more broadly.  Americans pay more than
twice the price for the same prescription drugs from the same
transnational companies as do the other rich democracies around the
world.  We are subsidizing the excess profits of the pharmaceutical
industry, which has twice the return on investment as the rest of the
Fortune 500.  We will discuss why this is, and the many harms it
causes (to patients especially but also to healthcare providers -
including pharmacists - and to the U.S. economy in general). We will
address the range of fixes being proposed, including the partial
piecemeal reforms under active discussion at the national level (e.g.,
Medicare being able to negotiate prices, stopping companies from
raising prices faster than inflation, some caps on prices or copays
for some drugs), as well those in the context of national "Medicare
for All" and the New York Health Act (our state single payer).

As always with our forums, action steps will also be suggested.

Confirmed speakers include:

* ALEX LAWSON
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of Social Security Works [[link removed]], and
leading their Drug Prices Are Too High
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* MAURICE BP-WEEKS
[[link removed]], Co-Executive
Director Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE)
[[link removed]]+ACRE Institute
[[link removed]] and coauthor of  _Poi$on – How
Big Pharma’s Racist Price Gouging Kills Black and Brown Folks_
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* SA'RA SKIPPER
[[link removed]], Patient
Advocate with T1I-USA/#Insulin4All
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* STEVE AUERBACH, MD, MPH - Physicians for a National Health
Program [[link removed]] – NYMetro
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* Hosted and moderated by RACHEL MADLEY
[[link removed]] (former PNHP and New York
#insulin4all activist; now a staffer with Rep. Pramilla Jayapal)

This event is cosponsored by:

* Doctors For America [[link removed]]
* Lower Drug Prices Now [[link removed]]
* Social Security Works [[link removed]] - and
their Drug Prices are Too High
[[link removed]] campaign
* T1International-USA/#Insulin4All
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HOLDING ISRAEL ACCOUNTABLE - MARCH 16 (RACHEL CORRIE FOUNDATION FOR
PEACE AND JUSTICE)
 

MARCH 16, 2022, 5:00 P.M. PT

REGISTER HERE
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Join the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice and
Madison-Rafah Sister City Project Wednesday, March 16th, 5:00 PM
Pacific Time, for Holding Israel Accountable, a commemorative webinar
marking the 19th anniversary of Rachel Corrie’s stand in Gaza.

How do we hold Israel accountable for decades of oppression,
displacement, land theft, occupation and loss? At this moment, what
are the avenues for seeking peace with justice for Palestinians and
Israelis? Five guests, representing many years of experience with this
issue, will share their work and current perspectives.

 GUEST SPEAKERS:

PHYLLIS BENNIS, (Moderaator) Director of the New Internationalism
Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, and a Fellow of the
Transnational Institute in Amsterdam

Panelists

* HATEM ABUDAYYEH, son of Palestinian immigrants, Executive Director
of Arab American Action Network (AAAN) and part of US Palestinian
Community Network (USPCN)
* LUBNA ALZAROO, Lecturer at the University of Washington currently
researching the connections between settler colonial infrastructure,
necropolitics, and the environment in the U.S. and Palestinian
context 
* KATHERINE GALLAGHER, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for
Constitutional Rights (CCR)
* JOSH RUEBNER, Director of Government Relations, Institute for
Middle East Understanding (IMEU) and adjunct lecturer in Justice and
Peace Studies at Georgetown University 

Amnesty International recently published a report calling
“Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians a cruel system of
domination and a crime against humanity.” Rachel Corrie Foundation
March 16th observances are about education, community building, and
action. There is work for us all to do – locally, regionally,
nationally, and internationally. With perspectives as Palestinians in
the diaspora, representatives of solidarity organizations, and
scholars, our guest speakers will help those of us at the grassroots
level think how to effectively challenge Israel’s apartheid system
and crimes against humanity that Amnesty International, other human
and legal rights organizations, the Palestinian people, and Israeli
activists have called out. 

Donations to the Rachel Corrie Foundation on March 16th will benefit
the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme.
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Rachel Corrie

Born and raised in Olympia, Washington, human rights activist and
observer Rachel Corrie went to Gaza in 2003 with the International
Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting
the long-entrenched and systematic oppression and dispossession of the
Palestinian population, using non-violent, direct-action methods and
principles. While standing in front of a home threatened with
demolition by the Israeli military, Rachel was killed when run over by
an armored Caterpillar D9R bulldozer operated by two Israeli soldiers.
With annual March 16th remembrances, we at the Rachel Corrie
Foundation for Peace and Justice seek to bring attention to the loss
of lives, lands, freedoms, and opportunities that have continued since
Rachel’s stand in Gaza in 2003 and to build and strengthen the
community of constructive, nonviolent resisters of which she was a
part.

Madison-Rafah Sister City Project 

We are delighted to again co-host our March 16th observance with
friends at the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project. MRSCP was founded in
2003 by concerned citizens in Madison, Wisconsin, to forge
person-to-person relationships with Rafah, Palestine, to increase
public awareness of the Israeli-Palestinian issue, and to influence
public policy for the benefit of both peoples. Until COVID-19, MRSCP
annually hosted an in-person Rachel Corrie commemorative event in
Madison. Visit the Madison-Rafah Sister City website
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to learn more about their work. 

Co-sponsors

We are grateful for the support of the following partners who have
helped with technical support and getting the word out!

* AMERICANS UNITED FOR PALESTINIAN HUMAN RIGHTS [link removed]
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* BRIGHT STARS OF BETHLEHEM-MADISON brightstarsbethlehem.com
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* BISHOP’S COMMITTEE FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE IN THE HOLY LAND
[link removed]
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* TASK FORCE FOR PALESTINIAN HUMAN RIGHTS, EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF
OREGON [link removed] [[link removed]] 
* FRIENDS OF SABEEL NORTH AMERICA (FOSNA) [link removed]
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* THE GAZA MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
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* JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE – MADISON
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* JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE-TACOMA [link removed]
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* JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE – SEATTLE
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* STUDENTS FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE AT UW-MADISON
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* STUDENTS UNITED FOR PALESTINIAN EQUAL RIGHTS – UNIVERSITY OF
WASHINGTON  (SUPER-UW) [link removed]
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* TREE OF LIFE – WEST COAST
* US PALESTINIAN COMMUNITY NETWORK [link removed]
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Visit our website [[link removed]] for developing
info about this event and to learn more about the work of the Rachel
Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice
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NATION CONVERSATION: A BLACK GUY’S GUIDE TO THE CONSTITUTION - MARCH
16
 

MARCH 16, 2022  --  12:00 PM PT | 3:00 PM ET

ONLINE

$10

TICKETS HERE
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ELIE MYSTAL, _The Nation_’s justice correspondent—covering the
courts, the criminal justice system, and politics—has quickly become
one of America’s most sought-after legal minds offering cutting
commentary with an eloquence and ferocity unique in this moment.

His new book _Allow Me to Retort_ is an essential argument about
what rights we have, what rights Republicans are trying to take away,
and how to stop them. Mystal explains how to protect the rights of
women and people of color instead of cowering to the absolutism of gun
owners and bigots. He explains the legal way to stop everything from
police brutality to political gerrymandering. He strips out all of the
fancy jargon conservatives like to hide behind and lays bare the truth
of their project to keep America forever tethered to its slaveholding
past.

On March 16, Mystal will bring his trademark humor and deep expertise
to bear in conversation with the eminent legal writer DAHLIA
LITHWICK, whose incisive writings on the courts and law
for _Slate_ magazine have helped shaped the way a generation
understands their rights. PLEASE JOIN MYSTAL AND LITHWICK IN
DISCUSSING ANTIDOTES TO THE POISON OF OUR CURRENT POLITICAL SYSTEM.

There will be ample time devoted to audience questions and engagement.
All proceeds directly support _The Nation_’s journalism. We hope
you will join us!

Co-sponsored by The New Press [[link removed]].

 

BOOK TALK: ELLEN SCHRECKER - THE LOST PROMISE: AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES
IN THE 1960S - MARCH 31 (TAMIMENT LIBRARY & ROBERT F. WAGNER LABOR
ARCHIVES)
 

A BOOK TALK WITH AUTHOR, ELLEN SCHRECKER
 

Join author Ellen Schrecker and historian Jeremy Varon to discuss
Schrecker's _The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s_.
_The Lost Promise_ is a magisterial examination of the turmoil that
rocked American universities in the 1960s, with a unique focus on the
complex roles played by professors as well as students.

The 1950s through the early 1970s are widely seen as American
academia’s golden age, when universities—well funded and viewed as
essential for national security, economic growth, and social
mobility—embraced an egalitarian mission. Swelling in size, schools
attracted new types of students and professors, including radicals who
challenged their institutions’ calcified traditions. But that
halcyon moment soon came to a painful and confusing end, with
consequences that still afflict the halls of ivy. In _The Lost
Promise_, Ellen Schrecker—our foremost historian of both the
McCarthy era and the modern American university—delivers a
far-reaching examination of how and why it happened.

Schrecker illuminates how US universities’ explosive growth
intersected with the turmoil of the 1960s, fomenting an unprecedented
crisis where dissent over racial inequality and the Vietnam War
erupted into direct action. Torn by internal power struggles and
demonized by conservative voices, higher education never fully
recovered, resulting in decades of underfunding and today’s woefully
inequitable system. As Schrecker’s magisterial history makes
blazingly clear, the complex blend of troubles that disrupted the
university in that pivotal period haunts the ivory tower to this day.
 

ELLEN SCHRECKER is a retired professor of history at Yeshiva
University and the author of numerous books, including _No Ivory
Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities_, _Many Are the Crimes:
McCarthyism in America_, and _The Lost Soul of Higher Education:
Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the
American University_.

JEREMY VARON is an Associate Professor of History at the New School
for Social Research and Eugene Lang College, specializing in modern US
history, European and American intellectual history, and German
history. In 2004 he published _Bringing the War Home: The Weather
Underground_, _the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in
the Sixties and Seventies_ (University of California Press). He
co-edits The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, an
academic journal that features interdisciplinary and international
research on the “long Sixties” (1954-1975).

This event is presented in Zoom. Live closed captioning will be
available.

RSVP
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Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives/ NYU Special
Collections
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Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012

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