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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Shorts, AND cartoons - Aug. 4, 2022,
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Re: Abortion Decision Demands Disruption (Roberta Schine)
The Red Wave  --  cartoon by Mike Luckovich
Re: How the Fight To Ban Abortion Is Rooted in the ‘Great
Replacement’ Theory (Eileen Oxendale)
Re: The Nazification of American Education (David Benton)
Re: To Avert Election Disaster, Democrats Need To Run a Fiercely
Pro-Worker Campaign (Eleanor)
Secret Service  --  cartoon by Rob Rogers
Re: Rebuilding Collective Intelligence (Eric Arnould)
Re: Guam: The Sharpening of the Spear’s Tip (Jennifer Nouri)
Re: Pelosi Visit to Taiwan Will Increase Tensions Between US and
China, Experts Say (Mike Liston)
Re: Ukraine and the Peace Movement (Jonathan Nack; Karen Lee Wald; Ken
Parks; Bernard Sampson; Dan; Joe Harris)
Power Flower  --  cartoon by Mike Stanfill
Re: Gun-Makers Made Over $1.7 Billion in Assault Weapon Sales in Past
Decade: House Probe (Robert Laite)
Re: Lev Gleason: Crime Comics’ Communist Czar (Eleanor Roosevelt;
Dan Morgan; Ethan Young; Dan Morgan)
Free Enterprise or "Socialism"  --  John Baer cartoon
Re: Elvis: A Study in Talent Mis-Management (Gil Leib)

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UNION WORKERS WIN 17.4% RAISE AT ALASKA AIRLINES, BECOME HIGHEST PAID
AIRLINE EMPLOYEES IN THE COUNTRY (KAVITHA GEORGE - ALASKA PUBLIC
MEDIA)

 

RE: ABORTION DECISION DEMANDS DISRUPTION
 

Well done, Kansas.

Roberta Schine
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THE RED WAVE  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

 

Mike Luckovich
August 4, 2022
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: HOW THE FIGHT TO BAN ABORTION IS ROOTED IN THE ‘GREAT
REPLACEMENT’ THEORY
 

This is irrational as many Hispanic and African Americans will
arguably suffer from the antiabortion laws more than white women .
Demographics clearly show that privileged white women can now (and
have also historically) been able to access abortions more than
minorities . All this means is that abortion is not accessible if you
are poor. I see their actions as a way to keep all women and the
minorities in particular poor and oppressed . Don’t want those poor
minorities getting ahead in society now do they?

Eileen Oxendale
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RE: THE NAZIFICATION OF AMERICAN EDUCATION

DeSantis is the most dangerous man in America. He doesn't have Trump's
baggage and he is far smarter than Trump will ever be. If he is
elected President in 2024, our democracy is doomed!

David Benton
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RE: TO AVERT ELECTION DISASTER, DEMOCRATS NEED TO RUN A FIERCELY
PRO-WORKER CAMPAIGN
 

Agreed, but the Democrats stopped being pro-worker after FDR died. Get
rid of the third-wayers, the Blue Dogs, the Clintonites, and the rest
of that bunch first.

Eleanor 
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SECRET SERVICE  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

Rob Rogers
July 27, 2022
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RE: REBUILDING COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
 

Yes, build towards a new deal for people AND planet, otherwise the
former will fail.

Eric Arnould
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RE: GUAM: THE SHARPENING OF THE SPEAR’S TIP
 

Guam is our staging area for war on China. Never mind what the
inhabitants want.

Jennifer Nouri
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RE: PELOSI VISIT TO TAIWAN WILL INCREASE TENSIONS BETWEEN US AND
CHINA, EXPERTS SAY
 

If the American people were not for the most part  paying attention
to this dangerous charade aside from the daily task of trying to live
paycheck to paycheck including the use of a multiple credit cards,
they might realize just how their demented, most certainly corrupt
 gov't is behaving. Anyone sane watching the behavior of the USA
these days must most surely be shaking a head in dismay. Imagine
 going out of your way for no good reason to poke a super power in
the eye and just for good measure, take a pee on their shoes. And this
is (not) some dingbat from some hopelessly lost third world American
state but the Speaker of the House from San Francisco. Most would
shudder, I can't help but laugh. You scary morons! Get on your knees
and thank the stars that  the Chinese government is  not as drunk
and dangerously deluded as yours, 

Mike Liston

 

RE: UKRAINE AND THE PEACE MOVEMENT
 

"Russia out now" is not an antiwar or peace slogan for the U.S.  It
is a slogan for fighting the war with Russia. That is actually what
the authors of this article argue for - to arm Ukraine in its war with
Russia.  While Russia's invasion of Ukraine needs to be denounced,
the U.S. proxy war with Russia needs to also be denounced.  That
would be a true antiwar position instead of this pro-war statement
masquerading as an antiwar statement.

Jonathan Nack

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I was stunned by xxxxxx’s publication of the viciously rightwing
article which attempts to undermine or debunk everything progressive
people have been saying about what is happening in Ukraine and why.
For the first time I am not widely sharing your issue to all of my
lists and online posts, feeling that you could have called this issue
“Starboard” instead of “xxxxxx”.

While I think it is worthwhile knowing what the rightwing is thinking
and saying, I don’t believe that is the case when you put their
arguments forth as just another article rather than point out their
insidious attempt to oppose everything progressive people (and
publications)have been saying. I hope you will be publishing sharp
responses to this article.

Karen Lee Wald

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Briefly, ignoring the context of the Gehlen Organization ,  the
Maidan Coup and its CIA fascist character , defacto NATO relations,
the Minsk Accords, the plans to invade Donbas with NATO support, is
dangerous. NATO and Russia out

Ken Parks

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How about NATO out ! or Oppose US Imperialism ! Russia out doesn't
deal with the root cause of the coming world war. Its US imperialism
,NATO, etc which are the threats to world peace.

Bernard Sampson
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Full of wilful ignorance - no mention of extreme right-wing
nationalism, leading to fear and opposition among Russian speakers. No
mention then, of long lines to get Russian passports in the East of
Ukraine, and support for the return of Crimea to Russia. Above all, no
regard for the USA's aim to try and regain world dominance and crush
any opposition or competition.

Dan 
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I write in response to an article by Stephen Shalom and Dan La Botz
from “Foreign Policy in Focus” that xxxxxx reprinted. The
article is entitled “Ukraine and the Peace Movement” with the
subheading: “It is urgent to end the war in Ukraine. But to achieve
this goal, “Russia Out New” is a better slogan than “Diplomacy
Now.”

With this article, Shalom and La Botz have proven their
respectability. I am jealous. I’ve wanted to agree with my
government’s foreign policy all my adult life (1962 - ). It would
feel so good to be “accepted” by the powerful…to come in from
the cold. But I can’t—I know, down to the depths of my soul, that
the US government and the billionaires who control both the government
and the media are liars and low-lives and hypocrites to their core.
All they care about is protecting their profits and their power. It
isn’t that they don’t care about democracy; they oppose people’s
power because real democracy would reduce their power and profits.

I know that I receive distorted and fake news from our monopoly-owned
press. That is why I also read the news presented by the enemies of my
government: Cuba, China, Iran, South Africa, Venezuela, Russia, etc.
If I read many sides, I’ll be better able to discern the truth.

Please, someone, tell me a time in your lifetime when the US
intervened in another country to actually help the people. I know that
every time our government trumpets its intentions to “defend
democracy” or “oppose a dictatorship,” the results are the same:
right-wing, fascistic brutality; inciting racial and religious
schisms; breaking unions; destroying public health care systems;
privatizing natural resources, etc.

I deeply admire and respect the Cuban government. When it says NATO
wanted war with Russia and provoked the Russia vs. Ukraine/NATO war, I
believe it. I also respect the South African government, whose
president Ramaphosa recently wrote: “The war could have been avoided
if NATO had heeded the warnings from amongst its own leaders and
officials over the years that its eastward expansion would lead to
greater, not less, instability in the region.” And, “There are
those who are insisting that we should take a very adversarial stance
against Russia,” Ramaphosa added. “The approach we are going to
take [instead] is … insisting that there should be dialogue.”

I’ll take my leadership on imperialism’s actions from the Cuban
and South African and other developing countries, including China, who
know much more about the real world and imperialist aggression than
Shalom and La Botz do.

Joe Harris

 

POWER FLOWER  --  CARTOON BY MIKE STANFILL

 

Mike Stanfill
July 28, 2022
Raging Pencils
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RE: GUN-MAKERS MADE OVER $1.7 BILLION IN ASSAULT WEAPON SALES IN PAST
DECADE: HOUSE PROBE
 

It's not surprising. Outside of traditional long guns used for hunting
the entire industry is built on stoking feelings of fear and paranoia
to drive sales.

Robert Laite
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RE: LEV GLEASON: CRIME COMICS’ COMMUNIST CZAR
 

"Friday" wasn't so much a tabloid newspaper as it was a slick picture
magazine that went straight for the market dominated by Life and Look.
There was nothing timorous or subtle about it, either -- it went
straight for the jugular in going after people like Henry Ford,
Lindbergh, Hamilton Fish, the National Association of Manufacturers,
and other fascist-leaning forces in public life. While it did follow
the CPUSA's 1940-41 line deeming the war in Europe an imperialist
conflict, it was consistently and forcefully anti-Hitler thru out its
run. It received no support at all, however, from advertisers -- and
distributors were generally unwilling to carry or promote it.

Eleanor Roosevelt
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A not very scientific analysis. The campaign in Britain (and, I
imagine in other places) was not against 'comics'. It was against the
gratuitous violence in Horror Comics which, as referred to in the
article, brutalized young people. The development of this kind of
'culture' just may have something to do with the abnormal number of
violent deaths in the USA compared with many other countries.

Dan Morgan
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Or not. Horror comics were brilliantly lurid and sometimes, luridly
brilliant. A diet of Father Knows Best drove millions of kids to seek
refuge in comics, and the artists who provided the gore and black
humor were doing god's work for us.

Ethan Young
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kids consume comics of whatever culture they find themselves in. If
you could just compare US Horror comics, and all US comics, with those
in other cultures, you just might find a trend that just might have
something to do with the individualist violence that is killing people
in High Schools and Malls in the USA every week now.

Dan Morgan
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FREE ENTERPRISE OR "SOCIALISM"  --  JOHN BAER CARTOON

 

Free enterprise or socialism? Artist John Miller Baer depicts big
farmers and the oil, aviation, trucking, and ship building industries
collecting subsidies from the US Treasury as part of free enterprise,
while the same businessmen decry government aid to the poor and needy
as socialism. From the Kheel Center collection of John Baer Cartoons
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Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives
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Collection Number:  5693 G
Creator:  Labor Magazine:  Baer, John

 

RE: ELVIS: A STUDY IN TALENT MIS-MANAGEMENT
 

A good article.

Thanks for acknowledging Jesse Winchester, who deserves greater
recognition.

Gil Leib

 

UNION WORKERS WIN 17.4% RAISE AT ALASKA AIRLINES, BECOME HIGHEST PAID
AIRLINE EMPLOYEES IN THE COUNTRY

By Kavitha George

July 29, 2022
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Alaska Airlines planes (image credit: Sahid Fawaz  July 30, 2022)
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
recently negotiated a tentative agreement for Alaska Airlines customer
service agents, cargo workers and other employees. Leadership say it
would make them the highest paid airline employees in their category
in the industry. 

Johnsen is general vice president of Air Transport for IAMAW. He and
other union leaders have been making the rounds to check in with
members and answer questions about the tentative agreement. On
Thursday they met with Anchorage-based workers, following stops in
Juneau and Fairbanks. 

The union represents around 5,300 Alaska Airlines reservations and
customer service agents, and ramp workers — the people you see
sorting baggage and guiding planes on the tarmac. About 900 of those
workers are spread out across Alaska.

Their current contract wasn’t set to expire for another two years,
but Johnsen said both the union and Alaska Airlines were motivated to
get to the negotiating table last month to address industry-wide
staffing struggles. 

“And so we went into that process and we got a contract extension in
two weeks, which under normal circumstances, seems to take two to
three years,” he said.

The tentative agreement would raise base wages as much as 17.4%
starting next month, with more scheduled raises down the line. It
includes job security clauses, as well as longevity pay increases.
Benefits would stay the same. 

Johnsen said recent staff shortages have caused a “crisis” for
airline workers, from burnout and forced overtime to higher injury
rates and having to deal with frustrated, unruly passengers. Johnsen
hopes higher wages will help attract more workers and push other
airlines to address the issue as well.

“It raises the bar,” he said. “Everybody has been put on notice.
And they know it.”

Christopher Smith is a ramp worker in Anchorage who’s been with
Alaska Airlines for 26 years. He said after a lot of pandemic
uncertainty, he’s happy with the proposed contract agreement. 

“Layoffs, early outs — this whole period has just been so up in
the air and questionable. So it’s nice to get some clarity for us,
and something that’s stable,” Smith said.

Smith added that he’s already voted yes on the agreement.

Alaska Airlines spokesperson Tim Thompson said in an email the company
is “thrilled to make a meaningful investment” in its employees. 

Voting for the tentative agreement ends August 2. If it is approved,
the new contract will go into effect August 10. 

Meanwhile, Alaska Airlines pilots are still negotiating a contract
with the airline after voting to authorize a strike in May, according
to a spokesperson from the Air Line Pilots Association.

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