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TIDBITS – JUNE 16, 2022 – READER COMMENTS: JAN 06 COUP
CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS; KARL MARX WAS RIGHT – CAPITALISM EXPLOITS;
LESSONS ON LABOR’S PAST; UKRAINE WAR – WHY DID xxxxxx RUN THIS
ARTICLE; 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CASE OF PUERTO RICO
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Announcements, AND cartoons - June 16,
2022, xxxxxx
What Caused Jan. 6th - Trump Told Me To Do It -- cartoon by Mike
Luckovich
Texas School Security -- cartoon by Nick Anderson
Re: What the Boudin Recall Does—and Doesn’t—Mean for SF Politics
(Anthony Timmons)
Re: Poland Establishes ‘Terrifying’ Pregnancy Register After
Banning Almost All Abortions (Arlene Halfon)
Insurrectionists Club -- cartoon by Rob Rogers
Re: Medicare for All Could Have Prevented More Than 338,000 Us COVID
Deaths: Study (Kathryn Evann Wegner)
Re: Karl Marx Was Right: Workers Are Systematically Exploited Under
Capitalism (Eleanor Roosevelt; Robert Wayne Johnson; Steven Temesvari;
Quentin Mark; Caleb Peterson; Kyle Benson; Revend Joshua A Jackson;
Felice Sage)
Re: Labor’s John L. Lewis Moment (Staughton Lynd and Gary Stevenson)
Re: The War in Ukraine May Be Impossible To Stop. And the U.S.
Deserves Much of the Blame (Stan Nadel; Hollis Stewart; Dan Jordan)
Re: Gangsters of Capitalism (Michael O'Rourke)
The Facts Are Coming -- cartoon by Brian Narelle
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Historic Rally on the 50th Anniversary of the Case of Puerto Rico
Before the United Nations - Independence for Puerto Rico Now - June
20
Virtual Book Event - Labor, Democracy, and the Common Good: Where Do
We Stand and What Must be Done? - June 28 (Common Good and the
Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor)
WHAT CAUSED JAN. 6TH - TRUMP TOLD ME TO DO IT -- CARTOON BY MIKE
LUCKOVICH
Mike Luckovich
February 10, 2021
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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TEXAS SCHOOL SECURITY -- CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON
Nick Anderson
June 9, 2022
Reform Austin
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RE: WHAT THE BOUDIN RECALL DOES—AND DOESN’T—MEAN FOR SF POLITICS
As Varoufakis said, of his brief time as finance minister of Greece.
"There is a difference between being in office, and being in power"
Anthony Timmons
RE: POLAND ESTABLISHES ‘TERRIFYING’ PREGNANCY REGISTER AFTER
BANNING ALMOST ALL ABORTIONS
So if a man kicks his wife in the stomach for arguing with him, she
can be charged with "abortion" since she knew he beats her and kicks
her when she argues.
Will she be burnt at the stake because she must be a witch?
Arlene Halfon
INSURRECTIONISTS CLUB -- CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS
Rob Rogers
June 8, 2022
robrogers.com
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RE: MEDICARE FOR ALL COULD HAVE PREVENTED MORE THAN 338,000 US COVID
DEATHS: STUDY
We don’t need any more studies. We need a government that isn’t
bought by the predatory healthcare insurance cartel
Kathryn Evann Wegner
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: KARL MARX WAS RIGHT: WORKERS ARE SYSTEMATICALLY EXPLOITED UNDER
CAPITALISM
_"Wage Labour and Capitalism"_ is still well worth reading by any
worker who wants to really understand why they never seem to get
anywhere no matter how hard they work.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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The LTV is true by definition; Thorstein Veblen’s distinction
between business (money-making) and industry (production of goods and
services) is more interesting and makes the same point: capitalists
are parasites.
Robert Wayne Johnson
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Capitalism is not the problem. Government messing with labour laws and
taking power from employment unions has upset the balance of power
between employee and employer.
Steven Temesvari
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just a fun fyi, it was Adam Smith, the father of capitalism, that
first formed the idea of LTV. Perhaps your vanguard forgot to tell you
that?
Quentin Mark
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No, all of us Marxists know that; we also know that Smith has been
dead for over a hundred years- what we have now is plutocratic
oligopoly-capitalist imperialism.
Robert Wayne Johnson
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And employees need those unions because capitalism is inherently
exploitative if you don’t have a system to fight against it.
Caleb Peterson
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This phenomenon of "government messing with labour laws and taking
power from employment unions..." an expression of class war.
Kyle Benson
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you're sooo close to connecting the dots. SOOOO Close.
Revend Joshua A Jackson
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Pretty old news.
Felice Sage
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RE: LABOR’S JOHN L. LEWIS MOMENT
The article praising John L. Lewis by Steve Greenhouse and colleague
calls for an answer. Here it is. The article urges that new labor
insurgencies pursue the model created by John L. Lewis. We disagree.
The typical contract entered into by the major unions that made up the
CIO—steel, auto, rubber, meatpacking, and the like—were modeled on
John L. Lewis’s contract with coal mine owners. Workers who wanted
his financial help to organize were obliged to accept certain
contractual provisions.
The result was a common labor contract containing two disastrous
clauses. The first was a promise by the union not to strike for the
duration of the contract. The second was a promise granting
contracting employers sole authority to make decisions about new
investment, plant closings, and other features of a so-called
“management prerogative.” Unions that wished to negotiate had to
accept these prohibitions and were allowed to negotiate, but only for
wages, hours, working conditions and benefits.
The IWW rejects negotiations that take these management powers for
granted. We believe it is essential for workers seeking fundamental
change to insist on the freedom to settle problems by direct action as
they arise.
Staughton Lynd and Gary Stevenson
RE: THE WAR IN UKRAINE MAY BE IMPOSSIBLE TO STOP. AND THE U.S.
DESERVES MUCH OF THE BLAME.
Given that Putin has just moved to reject Russia's recognition of
Lithuania's independence the notion that he is ready to enter serious
negotiations to end his war against Ukraine on anything other than his
terms is delusionary.
At the beginning of 1991 there were mass demonstrations in Lithuania.
In the course of this, Soviet troops had been transferred to Vilnius.
In September of the same year, the USSR recognized the Republic of
Lithuania and the country became a member of the United Nations.
Now, Putin's United Russia party has proposed to the State Duma to
repeal this resolution. An explanation of the corresponding draft law
states that the resolution was passed by an unconstitutional body and
is therefore illegal. In addition, the Republic of Lithuania did not
hold a referendum on secession from the Soviet Union. "No state body
of the USSR had the power to decide neither on the secession of the
republics from the USSR nor on the termination of the existence of the
USSR as a unitary state," the explanatory note reads.
Stan Nadel
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And the US and NATO have constantly said, negotiations can not include
any negotiations with things that will meet Russian demands. So we
have put Zelensky in a position to say no to everything and win
thousands of deaths of Ukrainians.
Hollis Stewart
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Very disappointed in xxxxxx for publishing this pro-Putin
propaganda.
Dan Jordan
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM
You can listen to Butler’s book “War Is A Racket”
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time.
Michael O'Rourke
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THE FACTS ARE COMING -- CARTOON BY BRIAN NARELLE
I created this cartoon for the Union of Concerned Scientists years
ago. Unfortunately it appears to have a very long shelf life.
Brian Narelle
April 21, 2017
Daily Kos
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HISTORIC RALLY ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CASE OF PUERTO RICO
BEFORE THE UNITED NATIONS - INDEPENDENCE FOR PUERTO RICO NOW - JUNE
20
VIRTUAL BOOK EVENT - LABOR, DEMOCRACY, AND THE COMMON GOOD: WHERE DO
WE STAND AND WHAT MUST BE DONE? - JUNE 28 (COMMON GOOD AND THE
KALMANOVITZ INITIATIVE FOR LABOR AND THE WORKING POOR)
Democracy is under assault in our workplaces and across much of the
globe. How has this assault come about and how can workers fight
back, defending and extending democracy?
Please join DORIAN WARREN of Community Change
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of _The Cambridge Handbook of Labor and Democracy_, MARK
BARENBERG of Columbia Law School, ANGELA B. CORNELL of Cornell Law
School, and activist contributors to their volume, SARITA GUPTA of
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