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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
July 14, 2022, xxxxxx

 

Re: Cassidy Hutchinson Shows Trump’s Complicity in the Attack on the
Capitol (Neil Alan Bufler)
Secret Service  --  cartoon by Mike Luckovich
Jan 6  --  cartoon by Dave Granlund
50 Years After Watergate  --  cartoon by Rob Rogers
Re: Instagram & Facebook Remove Posts Offering Abortion Pills
(Charles)
Re: The Time Is Now for a People-Powered Backlash (Carole Travis;
Daniel Millstone)
Re: U.S. Supreme Court’s ‘Miranda’ Decision Guts 150-Year-Old
Civil Rights Law (Paul Eichhorn)
Forced Pregnancy  --  cartoon by Adam Zyglis
Re: Science and Civil Liberties: The Lost ACLU Lecture of Carl Sagan
(Seymour Joseph; Ida Montes; Fritz Neumann; AK)
Four facts to remember on the 4th of July (Bob Wing)
Re: US Drag Queens Stand Their Ground Amid Intimidation by the Far
Right (Carol Hanisch)
Re: Supreme Court EPA Climate Ruling (John Spicer Blount)
Re: The Insane Saga of ‘Salt of the Earth,’ the Only Film To Be
Blacklisted (Wanda Guthrie; Lisa Jordan; Kipp Dawson; Jamie Gibson;
Cathi Schafer; Tess Ewing; Rolande D. Baker; Errol Brown; Catherine
Russo; Theresa Squillacote; Paul Becker; Jan Bauman; Judith Mahoney
Pasternak; Paul Buhle)
Re: Before Roe - xxxxxx poetry (Donna)
Re: Why Superhero Satire the Boys Turned Off Its Rightwing Fanbase
(Adam Azzalino; Manuel Castro)

RESOURCES:

NEW BOOK  --  A GRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP & ARTS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
PRIMER FOR EDUCATORS, ORGANIZERS, ACTIVISTS & RABBLE-ROUSERS.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

HOTHOUSE 35TH ANNIVERSARY "POCKET FESTIVAL" OF JAZZ AND ART - CHICAGO
- HOTHOUSE WILL HOST A "POCKET JAZZ FESTIVAL" IN THE ICONIC SPIRIT
GARDEN IN BRONZEVILLE - JULY 23

 

RE: CASSIDY HUTCHINSON SHOWS TRUMP’S COMPLICITY IN THE ATTACK ON THE
CAPITOL
 

Anybody that says Cassidy Hutchinson is wrong must come to congress,
to the 1/6 Panel, and state their claim .... ON THE RECORD..!!!

Neil Alan Bufler
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SECRET SERVICE  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

 

Mike Luckovich
January 20, 2019
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

JAN 6  --  CARTOON BY DAVE GRANLUND

Dave Granlund
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June 30, 2022

 

WATERGATE AT 50  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS
 

Rob Rogers
June 24, 2022
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RE: INSTAGRAM & FACEBOOK REMOVE POSTS OFFERING ABORTION PILLS
 

I'm 100% on board with women's right to choose, and having access to
abortion pills.Given the current religious fanatical mindset,
forbidding birth control pills may be next on the list.

That FB and IG would so fervently block any reference to "abortion
pills", but seem to be completely OK with references to guns, is
telling.

A Handmaid's Tale is not that far off . . . at least, that's what the
delusional, far right fanatics are aiming at.

Charles,
Sebastopol

 

RE: THE TIME IS NOW FOR A PEOPLE-POWERED BACKLASH
 

If the Fillubuster is ended and we lose the Midterm elections - it
will be worse.   And yes worse is possible.  

Even if we have criticisms of Democratics for excellent reasons, it is
time for a United and thorough going effort to elect Democrats from
the top to the bottom of the ticket - including Governors, Secretaries
of State, state reps. state senators, school boards - everything. 

The long games of the ultra right have captured so many arms of
government that they are positioned to keep on rolling over all of us.
 The effort must be to get everyone out to vote for every single
office. 

We all need to also give money - even small amounts- strain our
budgets - the planet, people of color, everything depends on it. 

I suggest money to the Democratic Messaging Project they do bill
boards not TV.  They do it in swing districts of swing states.  With
$180k they already covered Arizona and Wisconsin with bill boards.
 They are now moving to Pennsylvania and Michigan.  If you have
other recommendations- share them.  

Some ground games are good.  Some will fail.  People are tired of
being contacted only about politics every 2 years.   Inflation is
hurting people who have already been hurt by job loss, pandemic
issues, opioid addiction thanks to Sachlers.   

Don’t get rid of the filibuster now, too late.  First win the
midterms.  

Carole Travis

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Can we resist the rise of the right? I think we can. Here Bill
McKibben [link removed] how. Thanks to xxxxxx
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for the link.

Daniel Millstone
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RE: U.S. SUPREME COURT’S ‘MIRANDA’ DECISION GUTS 150-YEAR-OLD
CIVIL RIGHTS LAW
 

First off, "Fuck You" to all those people that having been telling us
over the last 50 years that there was no difference between
Republicans and Democrats.
The Republicans have spent the last 50 years building this stacked 6-3
fascist Supreme Court at every opportunity with young, fascist judges
that can wreck the next 50 years of decisions.

Paul Eichhorn
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FORCED PREGNANCY  --  CARTOON BY ADAM ZYGLIS

 

Adam Zyglis
Forced Pregnancy
Buffalo News
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RE: SCIENCE AND CIVIL LIBERTIES: THE LOST ACLU LECTURE OF CARL SAGAN
 

The lecture by Carl Sagan was clearly on the side of freedom of
expression, whether in a capitalist or socialist society. But because
those systems are worlds apart a qualification is in order. One system
is based on private exploitation, and the other is based on ending
such exploitation. Therefore, that those holding power ‹
legislatively or factually ‹ fear unfettered discourse by the people
about the opposing socio-economic system is understandable.

But, because, as Sagan says repeatedly, we are fallible human beings,
such things as freedom of expression and theoretical concepts of one
system or another, are not cut-and-dried, black-and-white matters.
There have been modifications in both systems, sometimes based on the
shortcomings of how the system is functioning, and sometimes as a
result of protest.

Finally, however, as history clearly demonstrates, change is
inevitable. Despite interminable wars and devastating cruelty, such as
the Holocaust, societies have slowly advanced toward greater
democracy. I believe the socialism, however, altered in its practice,
will emerge as the next stage in socioeconomic change worldwide.

Seymour Joseph

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We are fallible. We’re only human. We make mistakes. We have a set
of new technologies that, in many cases, we barely know how to
control. Those in charge pretend otherwise.

Ida Montes
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xxxxxx quoting Quillette quoting Sagan addressing the ACLU... not
just the content but the history of this piece is fascinating! And
admirable.

Fritz Neumann
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Why write the falsehood that the Contras were "anti-Communist
insurgents"? The Sandinistas were not Communists. Please correct and
explain.

AK (taught at the UCA in Managua 1986-88)

FOUR FACTS TO REMEMBER ON THE 4TH OF JULY

* At the time of the American Revolution, there were about 500,000
enslaved Black people in the U.S. By 1860, there were 4.5 million
people held in bondage, a 900% increase!
* By contrast, in 1832 British parliament passed the Slave
Emancipation Act abolishing slavery in most of the Caribbean, South
Africa and Canada.
* More Blacks supported the British than the colonists in the
American Revolution.
* Upon the victory of the Revolution, the new U.S. controlled the
eastern part of the North American continent. By 1860, the U.S. had
massacred and displaced Native peoples "from sea to shining sea,"
seizing their land and resources and destroying their way of life

In short, the American Revolution set off an expansionist orgy of
slavery, Native extermination, and white settler colonialism.

Bob Wing

 

RE: US DRAG QUEENS STAND THEIR GROUND AMID INTIMIDATION BY THE FAR
RIGHT
 

Why is the Left so enamored with drag queens? Don’t you know that
“womanface" is humiliating to women just as blackface is to Black
people? You would be outraged (I hope) at a storytime being read by
someone in blackface. You should raise your consciousness and be
helping feminists put an end to this degrading male chauvinist
entertainment fad instead of contributing to popularizing it! I hate
to say it, but the Right is right on this (if for wrong reasons).

Carol Hanisch

 

RE: SUPREME COURT EPA CLIMATE RULING
 

I recall "the good ole day's" pre- EPA . 50 miles of Orange Grove
wiped out in a single week from acid rain from a Phosphate plant in
Fla. Got to see the River Burn in Ohio. And watched the Condors die.
Now all future Children can (briefly) see these things also.

John Spicer Blount
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RE: THE INSANE SAGA OF ‘SALT OF THE EARTH,’ THE ONLY FILM TO BE
BLACKLISTED
 

Wanda Guthrie
I saw this when I was (I think) 19. What a time! Could it happen
again? You bet.

Wanda Guthrie
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This is an amazing story…so cool.

Lisa Jordan
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A story for you. It is mine lived and thus mine to share, but I tell
it with the awe and memory of a child of, perhaps, seven years of
age. 

It is the middle of the McCarthy witch-hunt years. I am sitting in the
balcony of a movie somewhere near the West Berkeley projects where my
family lives. My mom is next to me. She is sitting at the edge of her
seat, and her quiet excitement sets my tone as well, though I am not
sure why. She has whispered to me, as working-class Communists did to
their children in those days, clueing to us that this was one of the
things we did not talk about in school or on the playground — only
when we were in the car or at home, and even there, out of hearing
distance from the bugs we had to assume were part of our telephones.
But I am confused, because we are in a public movie theater. Sitting
in the balcony because that is where kids have to sit.

“This theater is being very brave,” my mom whispers. “This movie
is blacklisted, you know!” (Kids like me have learned that term. We
are living in the shadow of the Rosenberg case, with constant FBI
harassment of our parents and homes. “We don’t know if we will be
able really to see it, but I want you to, if it can happen today.” I
can’t remember my mom being so happy/worried/happy and I am so proud
to be with her.

The lights dim, and *Salt of the Earth* comes on the screen, and my
mom is transfixed. People who look like her friends I see at her union
meetings fill the screen. A woman who looks like my mom, though she
speaks Spanish, emerges as a strong leader, and my mom is right there
with her. All I know is what I feel: awe and respect and love for my
mom.-

Now I can understand more, but still that awe and respect and love are
what fill me, seventy or so years later.

Here is a link with which one can watch this movie, thanks to xxxxxx
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Kipp Dawson
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Thank you for this, Kipp. It touched me. Every year or so I watch the
movie “The Front” to remind myself of that era. I watch until the
end when the credits roll and you can see the name of each blacklisted
person and the year they were anathematized. That’s when my tears
fall.

Jamie Gibson
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And still? In every labor law class? We watch it. When someone
doesn’t understand the meaning of the right to organize, or the
concept of a “company store”, or thinks that paying dues is enough
because the fight is over? It’s never over. There will always be the
need for unions to help empower and protect the working class. I’d
be on the streets without the pension and benefits I earned on the
job. Billionaires would rather risk outer space travel than pay decent
wages and enrich the communities they operate in! ??#UnionsForAll

Cathi Schafer
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Wow, that is cool. Salt of the Earth is one of my favorite movies, but
not being a red diaper baby myself, I did not have this personal
connection, or know about it, until the '70s

Tess Ewing
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Excellent article about the "Red Scare" and especially about "Salt of
the Earth"! I showed that film every year in my classroom at Sunnyside
High School when I taught the history of unions in this country.
And yes, those words of Michael Wilson in 1976 are profilic about what
we are living today.

Rolande D. Baker
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Actually saw this movie about 40 years ago. I recommend it highly. A
brave movie that deals with class struggle, racism and gender
equality.

Errol Brown
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Such a great film
I did not know the history

Catherine Russo
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First saw it in Barcelona in 1979. Thousands were there.

Theresa Squillacote
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Having lived through that time as a teacher who saw some off my
colleagues in the teaching profession fired and blacklisted in the
same way for the same reasons as the Hollywood blacklist victims, I
was moved by the film when I saw it in the 50's at a small theatre in
a New York City hotel. The teachers I knew were (in the very words of
the head of the New York City Board of Education who, nevertheless,
fired them) "the cream of the profession." The McCarthy period has had
a lasting effect on our politics for a long time and we should keep
that disgraceful time in mind today when we face the ongoing threat
from a Republican party that has been captured by the most extreme
right-wing elements in our country.

Paul Becker
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You can find Salt of the Earth on YouTube
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Jan Bauman
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I always knew it was brave but only discovered recently how beautiful
it is

Judith Mahoney Pasternak
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the creators themselves had been blacklisted as former communists who
refused to testify against friends; thus the film would be
blacklisted.]

Paul Buhle
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RE: BEFORE ROE - xxxxxx POETRY

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Thank you so much for this moving poem.

The Court has a lot to answer for, whether Roe, gun safety, climate
change, etc. A huge setback for this country. I hate the thought of
leaving this planet in far worse shape than when I arrived. xxxxxx
surely helps as a witness for truth.

Donna

 

RE: WHY SUPERHERO SATIRE THE BOYS TURNED OFF ITS RIGHTWING FANBASE

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It had a right-wing fan segment? From the gate, the show engaged with
like capitalism, fascism, and corporate ties to the Nazis.

Adam Azzalino
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mostly conservatives are the villains or jokes in 99% of the shows

Manuel Castro
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NEW BOOK  --  A GRASSROOTS LEADERSHIP & ARTS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
PRIMER FOR EDUCATORS, ORGANIZERS, ACTIVISTS & RABBLE-ROUSERS.

 

The volume highlights authors from around the globe, who have
contributed to the ongoing effort to expand the field of leadership
from a bottom-up, collective, collaborative, and horizontally-based
perspective. The long-awaited book is now available. The anthology is
huge, so it took some time to pull all of the pieces together.

You might recognize some of the singer-songwriters in the collection
like Si Kahn, Holly Near, Carolyn Hester, Reggie Harris, Magpie, Joe
Jencks, John Flynn, Candie Carawan, Kristin Lems, to name a few.

This effort was made possible, thanks to the International Leadership
Association. Since January 2018, the organization has provided a
monthly platform for a series of guest columns that showcase the
intersection of the arts for social change with a more equitable,
diverse and inclusive way of being.

Due to the success of this experiment, we have assembled enough
material to fill a book! It is the first of what we hope will be many
volumes as the publication of our monthly guest column is ongoing.

There are approximately twenty-eight contributors, who are featured in
volume one of the primer. Their work is displayed in the following
categories: Community Engaged Theatre as a Form of Grassroots
Leadership; Interviews With Troubadours of Conscience; Exhibitions:
Art, Politics & Resistance; Grassroots Leadership & Cultural
Activists; Grassroots Leadership, Participatory Democracy & the Role
of the Arts in Social Movements; and People Power, Community Building
& the Arts for Social Change.

Their stories are accessible and engaging (as opposed to academic in
nature). In the spirit of the topic, authors were encouraged to write
for the masses. It is “Peoples’ Scholarship”.

Furthermore, the price is affordable. Proceeds from the sale of the
book will allow us to continue this important project.

For more information visit
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HOTHOUSE 35TH ANNIVERSARY "POCKET FESTIVAL" OF JAZZ AND ART - CHICAGO
- HOTHOUSE WILL HOST A "POCKET JAZZ FESTIVAL" IN THE ICONIC SPIRIT
GARDEN IN BRONZEVILLE - JULY 23

 

On Saturday July 23, 2022 The Center for International Performance and
Exhibition dba HotHouse will host a “pocket festival” to celebrate
their 35th anniversary. The multi-arts event features three
award-winning Jazz ensembles and group art–making activities. The
festival will take place in Bronzeville on the historic site of the
Chicago Youth Center 3953 S. Michigan. The program will also be
simultaneously live streamed at no charge via HotHouseGlobal channels
(YouTube, Twitch and Facebook).

Against the backdrop of the iconic cultural treasures that are
signature contributions to Bronzeville’s legacy as a destination for
Afro-arts expression, HotHouse will stage this important gathering
subtitled “unity in the community”. The event is free and open to
all ages. Guests are invited to bring their own chairs and picnic.
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Given the outdoor program, if canceled due to weather there will be no
refunds for tickets/ donations

“This program is partially supported by a grant from the City of
Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events".

SATURDAY, JULY 23, 2022

3:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT

3947 S Michigan Ave
3947 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60653

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The Featured Jazz Ensembles are:

* TRIO W.A.Z.
* EDWARD WILKERSON
* TATSU AOKI
* MICHEAL ZERANG
* WITH SPECIAL GUEST RONNIE MALLEY
* THE FRED JACKSON QUINTET WITH
* FRED JACKSON JR - ALTO / SOPRANO SAX AND PERCUSSION
* MAI SUGIMOTO - ALTO SAX / FLUTE
* COCO ELYSSES - PERCUSSION
* JOSH ABRAHAMS - BASS
* AVREEAYL RA - DRUMS
* AND BURNT SUGAR ARKESTRA CHAMBER FROM NYC
* BSAC HOLLERING HOODOO CREW
* SHELLEY NICOLE - VOCALS/CONDUCTION
* BRUCE MACK - VOCALS/SYNTHESIZER/CONDUCTION
* LEON GRUENBAUM - KEYBOARDS/SAMCHILLIAN/VOCALS
* LEWIS “FLIP” BARNES - TRUMPET
* V. JEFFREY SMITH - TENOR & SOPRANO SAXES
* BEN TYREE - ELECTRIC GUITAR
* MARQUE GILMORE THE INNA*MOST - TRAP DRUMS/ELECTRONIC
DRUMS/CONDUCTION
* JARED MICHAEL NICKERSON - ELECTRIC BASS/CONDUCTION
* EMCEE TARA BETTS

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