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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – JUNE 21, 2022  
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June 21, 2022
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_ A choice for organized baristas - if you can't get a union, buy the
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Workers celebrate the purchase of White Electric Coffee, which
reopened May 1, making it one of only a few dozen worker-owned
restaurant or café cooperatives in the country. Credit, Mindy Stock

 

* Starbucks Workers Teach the Meaning of Democracy 
* Making Juneteenth Pay
* How Anti-Abortion Crusaders Raised the MAGA Banner
* Buzz Lightyear’s Homosexual Agenda
* The Campus Scene
* CRT Lynching
* Lizzo’s Apology
* Denied a Union, The Workers Bought the Joint
* Idaho, Incubator of the Fascist Movement
* The “Good Guys With Guns” Scam

STARBUCKS WORKERS TEACH THE MEANING OF DEMOCRACY
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By Kelly Candaele
Capital and Main

Dozens of local Starbucks employees in the Los Angeles area who have
joined a national movement to unionize Starbucks stores. the day
after Starbucks workers in Anaheim voted to unionize, Starbucks CEO
Howard Schultz told a _New York Times_ reporter at a live event that
he would never embrace the union as a trusted partner. 

MAKING JUNETEENTH PAY
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By Jameelah Nasheed
TeenVogue

This year marks one year since Juneteenth was declared a federal
holiday, and we’re already being bombarded with insincere displays
of solidarity from corporations seeking to capitalize on the day.

HOW ANTI-ABORTION CRUSADERS RAISED THE MAGA BANNER
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By Sandra Hinson
Convergence

The Right used the anti-abortion crusade in its push towards minority
rule. The Left has a lot to learn from how they did it.

BUZZ LIGHTYEAR’S HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA
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By Arwa Mahdawi 
The Guardian

Lesbian lip-locking in Pixar’s “Lightyear” has produced a spate
of pearls-clutching but it’s one of the least weird clinches in the
Disney canon.

THE CAMPUS SCENE

* THE GREAT RESIGNATION
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  By Lukas Moe, Los Angeles Review of Books
 
* HERE COMES THE FAR RIGHT
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  By Kathryn Joyce, Salon

CRT LYNCHING
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By Nicole Carr
ProPublica

Inside a gabled white clubhouse overlooking the hills of a Cherokee
County golf course, dozens of parents from across the county had
assembled on a Sunday afternoon for a lesson in an emerging form of
warfare. School board meetings would be their battlefield. Their enemy
was CRT.

LIZZO’S APOLOGY
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Relevant

Online, many fans expressed hurt and frustration at Lizzo’
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use of the word “sp-z,” describing it as an ableist slur. She
could have gotten defensive, or defiant, or she could have gone the
normal celebrity route with a non-apology. Instead, she took the high
road and offered a thoughtful, sincere apology worth quoting in
full.

DENIED A UNION, THE WORKERS BOUGHT THE JOINT
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By Harry August
In These Times

In 10 months, baristas at White Electric, a coffee shop in Providence,
went from unionizing their workplace to starting one of only a few
dozen worker-owned cafes in the country.

NORTH IDAHO, INCUBATOR OF THE FASCIST MOVEMENT
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By Shaun Goodwin
Idaho Statesman

Thirty-one members of a white nationalist group were arrested in Coeur
d’Alene. Members of the Patriot Front were arrested downtown near a
Pride in the Park event. Mayor Jim Hammond referenced the city’s
history with hate groups and extremism, particularly a neo-Nazi
compound that existed in Hayden Lake, a suburb just north of Coeur
d’Alene.

THE “GOOD GUYS WITH GUNS” SCAM
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By Lucian K. Truscott IV
Salon

Even the good guys with guns wearing police uniforms took almost an
hour before they stormed the classroom where the shooter was, and 19
of them waited until they could be backed up by a SWAT team from the
Border Patrol before they finally used their guns to kill the murderer
of 19 children and two teachers.

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* Juneteenth
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* lizzo
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* White Electric
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