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TIDBITS – MAY 12, 2022 – READER COMMENTS: ABORTION; TRICKLE DOWN
ECONOMICS; SELF-DETERMINATION AND THE WAR IN UKRAINE; FRENCH LEFT-WING
BLOC; KATHY BOUDIN; STATE OF WORKING AMERICA; LOTS OF ANNOUNCEMENTS;
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May 12, 2022
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_ Reader Comments: Abortion; Trickle Down Economics;
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
May 12, 2022, xxxxxx

 

Re: W.E.B. DuBois’ Abolition Democracy (Carl Davidson)
Re: How Did Abortion Rights Come to This? (Van Caldwell)
For Mother's Day  --  cartoon by Ali Solomon
Arise Sisters - Fight Back Against the Republican War on Women
Re: Abortion Rights Are Workers’ Rights (Precarious life and times)
The Roberts Court - A Court to Remember  --  cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz
Making Decisions About Healthcare for Others
Re: High Crimes and Lingering Consequences: How Land Sale Contracts
Looted Black Wealth and Gutted Chicago Communities (Stephanie
Holstein)
Trickle Down Economic Has Never Gotten Billionaires to Spread the
Wealth ...  --  meme (UFCW Local 1625)
Re: Starbucks Workers Have the Company on Its Back Foot (Eleanor
Roosevelt)
Re: Self-Determination and the War in Ukraine (Susan Rosenthal; Carl
Davidson; Steve Leeper)
Re: When Should We Stop Excusing the Russian Invasion? (Rob Prince;
John Woodford)
Re: War and Peace (Stan Nadel)
Re: In France, a Left-Wing Bloc Is Uniting To Stop Macron (David
Marley; Phil Fiermonte)
Kathy Boudin - 1943–2022 (Michael Steven Smith)

RESOURCES:

State of Working America - Measuring wages in the pandemic labor
market (Economic Policy Institute)
Appeal by the independent labor unions of Ukraine - To the workers of
the world: we need your help! (Independent Union of Labor Protection
“Zakhist Pratsi”)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The opening of Political Intimacy: The R3turn - Brooklyn - May 13
(Pratt Institute's Political Intimacy class)
Global Repercussions: The Ukraine War, Russia, and U.S.-China - A
Webinar May 18 (Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy)
Book Talk - Revolution Around the Corner: Voices From the Puerto Rican
Socialist Party in the United States - May 20 (The People's Forum)
Civil Rights & Labor Relations Issues in Baseball:  Past, Present and
Future - May 25 (The New York Labor History Association)
Metro NY Labor Communications Council 46th Annual Convention - June 3
Dylan and the Beats - Three-day symposium June 3-5 (University of
Tulsa’s Institute for Bob Dylan Studies)

 

RE: W.E.B. DUBOIS’ ABOLITION DEMOCRACY
 

Excellent overview by Horne. I've long argued 'Black Reconstruction'
is one of three books all Americans need to read to understand who
they are. The other two are Ted Allen's 'Invention of the White Race'
and Amiri Baraka's 'Blues People.' Today I would add Roxanne
Dunbar-Ortiz's Indigenous Peoples History of the US',

Carl Davidson
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RE: HOW DID ABORTION RIGHTS COME TO THIS?
 

What Can Be Done?

“Whether the current trend toward loss of reproductive rights can be
turned around depends greatly on revitalizing the Women’s Liberation
Movement. That will take the work of many and a refocusing away from
fracturing “self-empowerment” and “self-expression” to uniting
women with enough collective clout to make a difference. Divisions
among feminists abound, much as they always have, but while some seek
to understand and settle them justly, others seek to maintain, if not
deepen, them. The defeatist ideology of postmodernism reduces
everything to individual perception and demands that any idea or
theory that might lead to unity be “deconstructed” and
“fractured” until it is useless. Without cogent theory and a
united movement, we will lose.”

Van Caldwell
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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FOR MOTHER'S DAY  --  CARTOON BY ALI SOLOMON

 

Ali Solomon
May 5, 2022
The New Yorker
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ARISE SISTERS - FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE REPUBLICAN WAR ON WOMEN

 

 

new poster based on original painting by Paul Honore,_ "The Spirit of
Woman Power"._

 

RE: ABORTION RIGHTS ARE WORKERS’ RIGHTS

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The Supreme Court’s plan to strike down reproductive freedom is an
attack on workers everywhere. The labor movement should treat it that
way—by taking urgent action. At this very moment, protesters are
gathering in cities across the country to decry the Supreme Court’s
looming decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that
established a person’s constitutional right to have an abortion.

Politicians, civil rights organizations, and reproductive rights
groups have released statements railing against this latest rollback
of our rights. Several unions and labor leaders have also stepped up
by issuing impassioned responses to the decision, including National
Nurses United Co-President Jean Ross, Association of Flight
Attendants-CWA (AFA) President Sara Nelson, and AFL-CIO President Liz
Shuler, who wrote that, “Access to health care without fear and
intimidation is every person’s right. We must be able to control our
own bodies — which has a direct impact on economic justice and the
ability of working people to make a better life for themselves and
their families.” This public dissent is welcome, but the labor
movement needs to do more. Anything less than a full-throated defense
of workers’ rights — including their right to make their own
decisions about their health, body and sexual life — is
unacceptable.

There is no time to mince words: Abortion rights are a labor issue,
and this is a moment in which the labor movement needs to make clear
that bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom are core issues that
unions will fight tooth and nail to preserve. The right to control our
bodies is part and parcel of our centuries-old battle to control our
labor, and they cannot be separated from one another...

Precarious life and times
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THE ROBERTS COURT - A COURT TO REMEMBER  --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ

 

Lalo Alcaraz
May 5, 2022
Mexican Judge
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MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT HEALTHCARE FOR OTHERS
 

This is the best way to show case the absurdity of men in elective
office or the courts, making decisions about women's healthcare
choices.

 

RE: HIGH CRIMES AND LINGERING CONSEQUENCES: HOW LAND SALE CONTRACTS
LOOTED BLACK WEALTH AND GUTTED CHICAGO COMMUNITIES
 

Contract sellers bought houses, often from white families attempting
to flee racially changing neighborhoods, then marked up the prices of
the homes and sold them to Black buyers on contract. The buyers would
pull together hefty down payments, followed by monthly payments at
higher-than-average interest rates. Contract buyers also were
responsible for covering the cost of all home maintenance. Despite
making payments, buyers did not build equity in their homes—and
importantly, contract sellers kept the titles until the last contract
payment was made. If a buyer missed even one payment, the seller could
evict them and the buyer lost the money they invested in the home,
without recourse to recover it.

Making the case for reparations in a 2014 article in The Atlantic,
author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates described contract buying as
“a predatory agreement that combined all the responsibilities of
homeownership with all the disadvantages of renting—while offering
the benefits of neither.” Indeed, scores of contract buyers got an
exceptionally raw deal and were ultimately left with nothing to show
for it.

Stephanie Holstein
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TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMIC HAS NEVER GOTTEN BILLIONAIRES TO SPREAD THE
WEALTH ...  --  MEME (UFCW LOCAL 1625)

 

Our job is to create better working conditions for those who work in
health care, at Disney, truck drivers, and more. You are the Union. We
support you!
 

UFCW Local 1625 [[link removed]]
5600 US Hwy 98 N
Lakeland, FL 33809
(863) 686-1625

 

RE: STARBUCKS WORKERS HAVE THE COMPANY ON ITS BACK FOOT

(posting on xxxxxx Labor)
 

There are no "progressive companies." Sooner we all realize that the
better. Capitalism is exploitation whether it comes in a pinstripe
suit or a flannel shirt.

Eleanor Roosevelt
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RE: SELF-DETERMINATION AND THE WAR IN UKRAINE
 

What's missing from this article is the US/NATO's stated aim of
weakening the Russian empire in order to strengthen its own empire. It
cannot benefit the people of Ukraine to trade one imperial master for
another.

Susan Rosenthal
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Indeed, but who decides? At the moment, Russia is trying to impose its
will by killing Ukrainians by invading and occupying. My guesstimate
is Ukraine will force the Russians out. With that experience under
their belt, I doubt they will handily submit to being subjugated by
another, even if they join the EU. Putin made a major blunder here. It
should not be our task to clean up after him.

Carl Davidson
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Carl Davidson:  No nation ‘chooses’ to be subjugated. At every
level, our world is arranged in a power hierarchy, where the more
powerful subjugate the less powerful, and grow even more powerful.
Just as no neighborhood store can stand against Walmart, no small
nation can stand against the world's most powerful empire. Ukraine is
deeply indebted to US/NATO for billions of dollars in weaponry. There
is always a price for such support.

The American Empire is determined to defeat the Russian Empire as a
prelude to challenging the Chinese Empire. It is naïve to ignore this
larger context.

Susan Rosenthal
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Susan Rosenthal:  I immediately think of Vietnam, where the people
there waged a just war against the most powerful nation in the world,
and they won. They had many friends helping out, but that was part of
their strategy too. We need to understand how the imperialists think,
but we do not have to think like them.

Carl Davidson
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I am writing in response to Taras Bilous’ Self Determination and the
War in Ukraine.

I do not at all object to having erroneous opinions like his appear in
xxxxxx, but he is woefully ignorant of 1) the critical importance of
peace and nonviolence and 2) Western or US imperialism. His admonition
that the Western left must "take the correct stance on this war”
shows that he is either ignorant or a propagandist for Western
imperialism.

What has happened and what will happen in Ukraine is far, far worse
than what would have happened if the Ukrainians had gotten down on
their knees when the Russians arrived, offering them chocolate and
flowers for their gun barrels. They could then have fought the
Russians the way the Indians fought the British, but starting with
implementing the Minsk Accords.

This did not happen and could not happen because testosterone-driven
Neanderthals addicted to their own adrenaline have been fighting for
decades, especially in the Donbas Region, over ideology, language,
territory, race, ethnicity, wealth and power, which all comes down to
the chimpanzee concept of dominance.

Bilous’ demand that Western leftists help the Ukrainians violently
defeat the Russians is merely atavistic right-wing bullshit in
socialist garb. I hope you will now print a good defense of the
left-wing demand that both sides stop being such idiots and start
restoring both Ukraine and our planetary ecosystem. We do not have
time for this childishness.

Steve Leeper

 

RE: WHEN SHOULD WE STOP EXCUSING THE RUSSIAN INVASION?
 

a disappointing - but not surprising - piece...

Rob Prince
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What a lame piece. Nowhere is the evidence from the interception of
Victoria Nuland's (e.e. the USA's) role in setting up the 2014
government even mentioned. That's just one glaring symptom of
opportunism.  The article  amounts to an apology for NATO and an
accommodation with imperialism.

John Woodford

 

RE: WAR AND PEACE
 

Desperately seeking to find a way to blame someone, anyone, other than
the Russian leadership for this atrocious war. Here Grossman reminds
me of the anguish of US Communists desperate to hold on to their
beliefs in the USSR after Khrushchev's anti-Stalin speech.

Stan Nadel

 

RE: IN FRANCE, A LEFT-WING BLOC IS UNITING TO STOP MACRON
 

“In general, they were aware that the left-wing electorate in France
now does not want only a shy move away from Macron’s policies but
radical change. People want to tax the rich, cap the salaries of big
CEOs, take control over multinational corporations, find homes for
homeless people, increase pensions and social benefits to all the
lowest-income households, increase wages, regulate dividends, and so
on. And they also want radical action for the climate. They no longer
believe Macron’s false promises; they want immediate action, because
young people know that their very future is at stake. And I think the
Socialists finally understood that, which is a really important
move.”

David Marley
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Thank you for this excellent interview!

Phil Fiermonte

 

KATHY BOUDIN (1943–2022)

 

By Michael Steven Smith
May 11, 2022
LA Progressive
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Kathy Boudin, a significant figure in the fight against mass
incarceration, died on May 1 in New York City. She would’ve been 79
years old on May 19, a birthdate she proudly shared with Malcolm X and
Ho Chi Minh.

Kathy was the cofounder with Cheryl Wilkins of the Center for Justice
at Columbia University in New York City. She had served 22 years in
Bedford Hills prison, a maximum-security prison for women in New York,
after pleading guilty to robbery and felony murder in connection with
the 1983 Brinks armored truck heist where she was a passenger in the
getaway van. She was a white supporter of the small Black Liberation
Army, which was formed in New York City after the government’s
destruction of the Black Panther Party. In order to raise funds for
the Black Liberation Army, Kathy had agreed to support the action by
being in the getaway van to act as a decoy.

The robbery went awry. Two police officers and a security guard were
killed. Kathy was quickly arrested. She was unarmed and did not kill
anyone but the felony murder law in New York defines a person as
guilty if they are a participant in a crime where someone dies.

Kathy Boudin was an extraordinarily kind and empathetic person, widely
admired, with many friends, including Michael Smith, the cohost of Law
and Disorder Radio She was proof of the fact that people cannot and
should not be defined by the worst thing they’ve ever done in their
lives and that they are capable of change, transformation and
redemption.

An extraordinary organizer, Kathy was able to modify the composition
of the New York State parole board. Instead of understanding the
potential for human transformation, the board at parole hearings used
to only focus on the original crime committed by the applicant, and
disregarded the good work they had performed in prison and the remorse
they had expressed for their crime.

The United States holds more people in prison, 2.3 million, than any
other country in the world. Millions of Black people are in the
criminal justice system, including on probation and parole. Hundreds
of thousands have been denied the right to vote and receive public
assistance of any kind. Michelle Alexander calls the situation “the
new Jim Crow.“

Kathy understood that the phenomena of mass incarceration was a
reaction to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. She was a
co-founder of RAPP, Release Aging People from Prison, and a leader in
prison justice reform which has led to a significant drop in the
number of incarcerated people in New York State.

Kathy was the first woman in the State of New York to earn a masters
degree while in prison, where she developed programs to educate people
about AIDS, parenting from afar, and the securing of a college
education after the Pell Grant program was discontinued.

Kathy was the daughter of the great civil liberties attorney Leonard
Boudin, who represented Paul Robeson and Daniel Ellsberg. She was the
mother of Chesa Boudin, the progressive district attorney in San
Francisco, and the sister of retired federal court judge Michael
Boudin. Her lifelong companion David Gilbert, who served 40 years in
prison for the Brinks robbery and who was released six months before
Kathy died, was by her side when her time came.

Kathy Boudin, Presente. 

More here:

The Radical Life of Kathy Boudin
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She became infamous for her involvement in acts of political violence.
Then she found her way out of the abyss.
By Rachael Bedard
May 07, 2022
The New Yorker

Kathy Boudin: A Great Life and A Great Loss
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Celebrating the life and mourning the loss of our co-founder and
co-director Kathy Boudin
May 02, 2022
Center for Justice, Columbia University

 

STATE OF WORKING AMERICA - MEASURING WAGES IN THE PANDEMIC LABOR
MARKET (ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE)

 

Report • By Elise Gould and Jori Kandra • April 27, 2022

Economic Policy Institute
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Wage growth is a key indicator of labor market health. Accurate
measurement of wage changes is important for assessing labor market
tightness, workers’ bargaining power, and the appropriate policy
response.

But the pandemic labor market has distorted our picture of wage
growth. Because low-wage workers lost their jobs in disproportionate
numbers in 2020, the average wage shot up—making it look like the
U.S. was experiencing historically high wage growth. When many of
these workers reentered the workforce in 2021, the average wage fell.

While these wage fluctuations appear at first glance to be dramatic,
they are actually more modest when we take into account the shifts in
workforce composition. When we adjust for composition, we can also see
more clearly unusual patterns of wage growth occurring across the wage
distribution—most notably, wage growth that was higher for low-wage
workers than for middle- and high-wage workers.

Key findings

* Using a measure that controls for the unusual composition of the
pandemic labor market, we find that the average wage grew 4.4% in the
first year of the pandemic and fell 1.7% in the second year.
* Over the last year, low-wage workers experienced faster wage
growth than middle- and higher-wage workers.
* Despite experiencing faster wage growth, low-wage workers still
suffer from grossly inadequate wages.
* Wage levels remain vastly unequal across the U.S. labor market.
Disparities among workers by wage level, gender, and race/ethnicity
remain stark.
* Although low-wage workers have recently had more leverage to bid
up their wages, it may be short-lived if the recovery is cut short.

THE _STATE OF WORKING AMERICA_ PROJECT. This report is the latest
in EPI’s annual series looking at _State of Working America_ wage
data. For decades, EPI’s _State of Working America_ project has
been tracking wages, incomes, poverty, and wealth in order to answer
the question, “How well is the economy working for working families
in the U.S.?” Originally published biennially in book form from 1988
to 2012, the _State of Working America _data library is now
available online at epi.org/data.

Economic Policy Institute [[link removed]]
1225 Eye St. NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC xxxxxx
Phone: 202-775-8810 • [email protected]

 

APPEAL BY THE INDEPENDENT LABOR UNIONS OF UKRAINE - TO THE WORKERS OF
THE WORLD: WE NEED YOUR HELP! (INDEPENDENT UNION OF LABOR PROTECTION
“ZAKHIST PRATSI”)

 

The Independent Trade Union of Ukraine “Zakhist Pratsi” is
directly involved in the resistance to the invasion by Russian
imperialism. We are fighting along side the working class and the
Ukrainian people on various fronts of resistance. Some organizations
of our union, such as the “Zakhista Pratsi” miners’ union at the
“Selidov-ugol” firm, are protecting us and our future with weapons
in their hands and in the most difficult conditions of the
hostilities. Many activists of our union are now resisting the rocket
and bomb attacks of the Russian troops, supporting the difficult
conditions of the bomb shelters, saving their children and their
families from certain death.

The war unleashed by Vladimir Putin united the trade union and labor
movement in Ukraine. The invaders were counting on a quick lightning
victory and on being accepted by Ukrainians as “liberators.”
However, they met rejection and resistance everywhere. They failed to
win the support of the Russian-speaking population of eastern Ukraine,
who faced the Russian army as invaders and bravely resisted the armed
aggression for more than 20 days.

We have never had any illusions about the intentions of the NATO bloc
in Ukraine. And now we see all its cynicism, which convinced us of the
correctness of our criticism of NATO even before the war and of our
position against all the imperialist blocs.

Dear comrades of the labor and trade union movement: We know that
anti-war mobilizations and actions against Russia’s military
aggression are taking place all over the world. Thank you for this
support! We are facing a very strong enemy who, desperate due to the
 popular resistance to its aggression, is willing to transgress the
entire framework of international humanitarian law. Therefore, we now
need increasingly active international solidarity with our
anti-imperialist resistance movement.

We reiterate our labor appeal to the Russian working class and its
trade union organizations to stop the aggression of the Russian
government and the authoritarian-bureaucratic regime of Putin against
Ukraine. And we call on all the workers and peoples of the world, on
political, labor and social organizations to mobilize resolutely
against the war!

We resolutely oppose the anti-social policy of our government, aimed
at the adoption of anti-worker and anti-union laws to please Ukrainian
and foreign oligarchs. The armed aggression of Russian imperialist
capitalism complicated the direct struggle for workers’ rights, for
the rights of trade unions and free workers’ associations. But it
set the immediate agenda for the Ukrainian labor movement: stop the
Russian armed aggression against Ukraine!

Our classist trade union “Zakhist Pratsi” defends the demands of
the working class against the interests of national oligarchic capital
and right-wing politicians.

Many of our union members have lost their jobs, are on the front
lines, were forced to move to other cities or take shelter from bombs
in shelters. Our families are doing their best to survive without
surrendering to the Russian occupiers. For these reasons, we also
urgently need your financial and other aid. Fighting, eating and
healing wounds are daily tasks for which we need the support of the
world’s frontline workers. Therefore, we appeal to strengthen active
solidarity actions with the Ukrainian labor movement and, in
particular, with our independent trade union.

Workers of the world, unite!

OLEG VERNYK, PRESIDENT OF THE INDEPENDENT UNION OF LABOR PROTECTION
“ZAKHIST PRATSI”
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Kiev, March 18, 2022

 

THE OPENING OF POLITICAL INTIMACY: THE R3TURN - BROOKLYN - MAY 13
(PRATT INSTITUTE'S POLITICAL INTIMACY CLASS)

 

 

THIS FRIDAY, MAY 13 BETWEEN 6-8 PM at 
[[link removed]]Recess Art [[link removed]] 
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INTIMACY: THE R3TURN.  

This will be an action-packed afternoon and evening!  The celebration
will KICK OFF WITH A COMMUNITY BBQ IN FORT GREENE PARK, FROM 2-5PM.

The exhibition features 20+ collages made by different artists from
Pratt and Recess: Assembly [[link removed]] and
made collaboratively with New York City Council Members Shahana Hanif
and Chi Ossé, New York State Assembly Member Phara Souffrant Forest,
and former NY Congressional Candidate Maya Contreras.  The exhibition
will be up all summer! 

In front of Recess, a group of artists will be screenprinting on bags
for you to take home! Think: queer pride, melt ICE, no new jails

Around 7 PM, NY Gubernatorial and Congressional Candidate Paperboy
Prince [[link removed]] will be joining us too! 
You won’t want to miss this!  Come join us!

POLITICAL INTIMACY demystifies and humanizes how we interact with our
local electoral system. Through interviews and art-making sessions
with our representatives, we aim to empower young people to engage in
civic deliberations around issues they care about- abolition, housing,
environmental justice, queer and gender liberation, education, mental
health - to push for radical change in politics. The exhibition
includes individual and collaborative collages made with elected
officials, and artists from Recess: Assembly and Pratt Institute.  

RECESS: ASSEMBLY is a program that offers system-impacted young
people an inroad to art and connections to working artists while
serving as an alternative to incarceration and its intersecting
systems of oppression.

_Come join us in Fort Greene Park for a "Warm-Up Barbecue!"_

_Dan Fethke will be cooking up recipes in collaboration with Recess:
Assembly members. We'll be at the NW corner of the park (corner of St.
Edwards & Myrtle) from 2-5pm. This event will kick off a full day of
festivities as Political Intimacy: The Return Opens at Recess Art
Space from 6PM-8PM._

 

GLOBAL REPERCUSSIONS: THE UKRAINE WAR, RUSSIA, AND U.S.-CHINA - A
WEBINAR MAY 18 (COMMITTEE FOR A SANE U.S.-CHINA POLICY)

 

GLOBAL REPERCUSSIONS: THE UKRAINE WAR, RUSSIA, AND U.S.-CHINA - A
WEBINAR MAY 18, 7:00-8:30 PM EDT

CLICK TO REGISTER
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine is having global repercussions. Aside
from reordering the security architecture in Europe, it is having a
profound impact on U.S.-China relations and their mutual competition
for power and influence in the Asia-Pacific region.

Before the war began, Russia and China avowed that their cooperation
has “no limits,” but after its onset, China has sought to play a
neutral role, neither condemning Moscow for its invasion nor, from
what can be determined, providing Russia with significant material
assistance. But as the war has drawn on and the casualties have
mounted, many in Washington are calling on Beijing to play a more
assertive role in forcing Putin to desist in Ukraine – or face
negative consequences itself. Anger over the Russian invasion is also
leading many U.S. leaders to call for tougher measures aimed at
deterring a Chinese invasion of Taiwan – measures that are sure to
infuriate Beijing and increase tensions in the Asia-Pacific.

With the world’s geopolitical disorder undergoing its most profound
and dangerous upset since the end of the Cold War, the Committee for a
Sane U.S.-China Policy has organized this uniquely important webinar
to assess the impact of the Ukraine war on strategic developments in
Asia.

Our panelists will include:

* SHIHOKO GOTO is Director for Geoeconomics and Indo-Pacific
Enterprise and Deputy Director for the Asia Program at the Wilson
Center. Her research focuses on the economics and politics of Japan,
Taiwan, and South Korea, as well as U.S. policy in Northeast Asia. A
seasoned journalist and analyst, she has reported from Tokyo and
Washington for Dow Jones and UPI and serves as a columnist for The
Diplomat and contributing editor to The Globalist

* MICHAEL T. KLARE, The Nation’s defense correspondent, is
professor emeritus of peace and world-security studies at Hampshire
College, senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in
Washington, D.C., and co-founder of the Committee for a Sane U.S.-
China Policy. His most recent book is All Hell Breaking Loose: The
Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change

* ZHIQUN ZHU is Professor of Political Science and International
Relations at Bucknell University. He was Bucknell’s inaugural
Director of the China Institute (2013–2017) and MacArthur Chair in
East Asian politics (2008–2014). He previously taught at Hamilton
College, University of Bridgeport, and Shanghai International Studies
University. His books include U.S.-China Relations in the 21st
Century: Power Transition and Peace.

This webinar is organized by the Committee for a Sane U.S.-China
Policy [[link removed]].
Co-sponsored by the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common
Security

The Committee for a SANE U.S.-China Policy
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[email protected] / Follow us on Twitter at @NoWarWithChina
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BOOK TALK - REVOLUTION AROUND THE CORNER: VOICES FROM THE PUERTO RICAN
SOCIALIST PARTY IN THE UNITED STATES - MAY 20 (THE PEOPLE'S FORUM)

 

 

Join us for an in-person book talk on _Revolution Around The Corner:
Voices From the Puerto Rican Socialist Party in the United
States_ with Moderator KAZEMBE BALAGUN, Co-Editors JOSÉ E.
VELÁZQUEZ & CARMEN VIVIAN RIVERA, and book contributors TED
GLICK & LENINA NADAL.

_Revolution Around the Corner_ chronicles this unique social
movement, describing various mass campaigns and the inner workings of
the organization. The editors and contributors—all former members,
leaders, and supporters of the PSP—offer a range of views and
interpretations of their experience.

Combining historical accounts, personal stories, interviews, and
retrospective analysis, _Revolution Around the Corner_ examines
specific actions such as the National Day of Solidarity ( _El Acto
Nacional_), the Bicentennial without Colonies, the Save Hostos
struggle, and the Vieques campaign. Testimonies recount the pros and
cons of membership diversity, as well as issues of loyalty
and _compañerismo_. In addition, essays describe the PSP’s
participation in coalitions and alliances with Left and progressive
movements. The book concludes with the editors’ reflections on the
PSP’s achievements, mistakes, and contributions.

This event will be hybrid and streamed on our YouTube
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please be prepared to show proof of vaccination and ID at the door.

REVOLUTION AROUND THE CORNER: VOICES FROM THE PUERTO RICAN SOCIALIST
PARTY IN THE UNITED STATES

FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2022 • 7:00 PM

THE PEOPLE'S FORUM

320 W 37TH ST,

NEW YORK, NY 10018 

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CIVIL RIGHTS & LABOR RELATIONS ISSUES IN BASEBALL:  PAST, PRESENT AND
FUTURE - MAY 25 (THE NEW YORK LABOR HISTORY ASSOCIATION)

 

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CIVIL RIGHTS & LABOR RELATIONS ISSUES IN BASEBALL:  PAST, PRESENT AND
FUTURE

WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2022 @ 7PM ET

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METRO NY LABOR COMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL 46TH ANNUAL CONVENTION - JUNE 3

 

 

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Please join us for Metro’s 46th Annual Convention
Friday, June 3, 2022, 10 am, Zoom event

Honoring JESSICA RAMOS, NY State Senator, and PAULA FINN, Director,
Center for Labor, Community & Public Policy, CUNY SLU

PANEL DISCUSSION: MEDIA AND LABOR – A NEW RELATIONSHIP OR A FLEETING
MOMENT?

What’s new in media coverage of labor? Is there a new attitude
towards labor in mainstream media, and if so, how do we capitalize on
this moment? What is the pandemic’s role in the recent coverage of
labor? Is the public more sympathetic to union members since they held
jobs deemed essential and helped us all deal with the pandemic.

Panelists:

* CHELSEA CONNOR, RWDSU, Communications Director
* KIM KELLY, journalist, organizer, author of the recently published
Fight Like Hell
* RICHARD STEIER, UFT, Communications Specialist, former publisher
of The Chief
* LEANNE TORY-MURPHY, Workers United Communications Director, NY/NJ
Joint Board
* Moderated by BILL FLETCHER, JR.

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DYLAN AND THE BEATS - THREE-DAY SYMPOSIUM JUNE 3-5 (UNIVERSITY OF
TULSA’S INSTITUTE FOR BOB DYLAN STUDIES)

 

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a three-day symposium this JUNE 3-5, 2022 hosted by the University
of Tulsa’s Institute for Bob Dylan Studies.  This event will mark
the centenary of Jack Kerouac’s birth and the opening of the new Bob
Dylan Center by exploring the musical, cultural and creative legacy of
the vibrant poetic movement that helped Dylan create a new American
language.

Each of the three days will have a different focus, starting first
with a deep dive into the “raging beauty” of the Beats, which
inspired Dylan’s own writing while reshaping our view of art,
politics, religion, and sexuality.  The second day’s focus will
shift to an exploration of road stories in American history, music,
and art, with panels and keynotes that examine the Rolling 

Thunder Revue, the art of being on the road, and the way our
experiences of the open road are shaped by race, gender, and
sexuality.  On the final day, we’ll widen our focus to explore
the broader contexts and legacies of the Beat movement both within
and beyond Dylan’s music, looking at everything from obscenity
trials and protest movements to blues, jazz, and rock.  We will
provide regular announcements about keynote sessions and events on
this site and across our social media channels.

The symposium will be a hybrid event with a limited number of
in-person tickets available.  We will also stream the sessions live
at a reduced price to accommodate the challenges presented by the
ongoing pandemic.  Those who join us in Tulsa will be able to visit
the new Bob Dylan Center [[link removed]] and join in a
number of ancillary events including a special exhibition on Dylan and
the Beats, an outdoor concert, and a pub crawl through Tulsa’s
buzzing Arts District.

The symposium will take place at the Henry Zarrow Center for Arts &
Education, 124 E Reconciliation Way, Tulsa, OK, 74103. Looking for a
hotel to book? Check out our hotel recommendations
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If you have questions about research access to the Bob Dylan Archive,
please email [email protected].

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