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TIDBITS – AUG. 11, 2022 – READER COMMENTS: KANSAS VOTE, 2022
ELECTIONS; MISSING FROM RECONCILIATION BILL; UKRAINE AND PEACE
MOVEMENT; DAVID MOBERG; NLRB ORDERS UMWA TO PAY; VISIONARY ART OF
RALPH FASANELLA; CARTOONS, RESOURCES, ANNOUNCEMENTS  
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_ Reader Comments: Kansas Vote, 2022 Elections; Missing From the
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Aug. 11, 2022, xxxxxx

 

Re: The Kansas Abortion Vote Was a Stunner. But What Does It Mean for
the Midterms? (Daniel Millstone)
Go Directly to Jail  --  Josh Gosfield cartoon
Re: Bernie – What’s Missing From the Reconciliation Bill (Daniel)
Re: Landmark US Climate Bill Will Do More Harm Than Good, Groups Say
(Jennifer Nouri)
Re: ‘There’s Never Been Anybody Like Him in the United States
Senate’ (Van Gosse)
This Is An Outrage  --  cartoon by Mike Luckovich
Re: This Hiroshima Day We Must Wake Up to the Real Danger of a Nuclear
War (Noel Kent)
Re: Ukraine and the Peace Movement (Dan La Botz and Stephen R. Shalom;
Charles Patrick Lynch)
Re: David Moberg, 1943–2022 (Carole Travis)
Re:  NLRB Orders UMWA To Pay Strike Costs (John Thompson; Kipp
Dawson)
Toilet Plunger  --  cartoon by Rob Rogers
Re: Lev Gleason: Crime (Hank Kennedy)
Re: Guns ’n’ Roses (Erika Holmstrom)
Re: Why Sci-Fi Movie Prey Moves the Needle for Indigenous American
Visibility (Shawna McKellar)

RESOURCES:

HOW MUCH WILL YOU SAVE WITH MEDICARE FOR ALL? (MEDICARE 4 ALL UPDATE
GROUP)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Lessons From The 2022 National Strike In Ecuador - August 25 (DSA
International Committee and Code Pink)
The Visionary Art of Ralph Fasanella - An Our Daily Work.Our Daily
Live Symposium - September 14 & 15 (Michigan State University)

 

RE: THE KANSAS ABORTION VOTE WAS A STUNNER. BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR
THE MIDTERMS?
 

Wasn’t the outcome in Kansas a pleasant surprise? How can we learn
from the vast outpouring of pro-abortion voters? How can we use that
to push back against the right everywhere? Thanks to xxxxxx
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for the link. In the comments? A link to a Twitter thread about the
messaging pro abortion folk used in Kansas put together by Bill Scher
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Daniel Millstone
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GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL  --  JOSH GOSFIELD CARTOON

 

I read the news today, oh boy.
Josh Gosfield
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August 10, 2022

 

RE: BERNIE – WHAT’S MISSING FROM THE RECONCILIATION BILL
 

Via xxxxxx,
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U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders [link removed]
explains what’s missing from the big bill that just passed the
senate and what’s included. Unless and until we can defeat Trump
Senators and Congress members, all measured will die the death by
filibuster that the cap on insulin prices did. With a somewhat less
reactionary Senate, we can press for an end the filibuster which will
allow for further change we need.

Daniel

 

RE: LANDMARK US CLIMATE BILL WILL DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD, GROUPS SAY
 

The only way to get this bill passed was to kiss up to big oil.

Jennifer Nouri
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RE: ‘THERE’S NEVER BEEN ANYBODY LIKE HIM IN THE UNITED STATES
SENATE’
 

A hell of a story, really

Van Gosse

 

THIS IS AN OUTRAGE  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

 

Mike Luckovich
August 10, 2022
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: THIS HIROSHIMA DAY WE MUST WAKE UP TO THE REAL DANGER OF A NUCLEAR
WAR
 

This is a crucially critical article for everyone to read.  We are
now sixty years from the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis.   Older
people like myself may reflect on those terrifying days when the U.S.
and Soviet Union faced off in the Caribbean.  We learned later that
only the cool thinking and courageous action of a few people saved us
from a catastrophe.  The Cuban  missile crisis demonstrated how
fragile peace is in the Nuclear Age and how close we are to
demolishing our civilization.

But the lessons haven't been learned or acted upon.

Thanks for the article.

Noel Kent

 

RE: UKRAINE AND THE PEACE MOVEMENT
 

In the August 4, 2022 issue of xxxxxx “Tidbits” several readers
criticized our article “Ukraine and the Peace Movement” that was
reprinted in xxxxxx on July 29. One reader called our piece a
“viciously rightwing article” and other readers accused us of
apologizing for U.S. imperialism. One critic wrote that he takes
political leadership in international affairs from Cuba, as perhaps he
did when Fidel Castro supported for the Soviet invasion of
Czechoslovakia in 1968. We believe in thinking for ourselves rather
than taking political direction from any government.

Let us set the record straight. We agree with our critics on many
points. We are both longtime, lifetime socialists and
anti-imperialists who have opposed U.S. intervention abroad since we
first became active around opposition to the U.S. war on Vietnam. We
opposed the U.S. wars in Central America and the invasion of Iraq.
Like our critics, we believe that the United States remains a
rapacious and dangerous imperial power and that NATO should be
replaced with structures of common security.

Yes, we know that there are far right organizations in Ukraine, but
there are also socialists and an independent labor movement that while
fighting Putin also resist Zelensky's neoliberal, anti-labor
legislation. To a few of our critics, who seem to be sympathetic to
Russia, we would point out that Putin is an autocrat who has created a
regime where political opponents are jailed and labor organizations
coerced.

Where we disagree with our critics is that we insist on the right of
the Ukrainian people and their nation to fight to defend their
independence against the Russian invasion, occupation, and attempt to
dismember their country. We believe that supporting Ukrainian
self-defense means supporting their right to receive arms wherever
they can. We stand with the former Russian colony against imperialist
Russia, as we stood with Vietnam against the imperialist United
States. It is not a rightwing position to support the resistance to
imperialist aggression.

Dan La Botz and Stephen R. Shalom

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Great to see so many people speaking for peace who understand that
peace is not about winning wars, it is about stopping them. Cause that
is the real victory.

Charles Patrick Lynch
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RE: DAVID MOBERG, 1943–2022
 

David wrote a story about Electro-Motive Division of General Motors
where we built locomotives outside of Chicago in LaGrange and Pullman.
Our situation was troubling and complex. David listened deeply, and
told the full story, the nuanced complex story in readable language.
He was brilliant, kind, self effacing and an excellent journalist.
Love to Jo, Sara, and Carl. Condolences for their and all our loss.

Carole Travis
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RE:  NLRB ORDERS UMWA TO PAY STRIKE COSTS

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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How could this happen under most pro-union president since FDR?

John Thompson
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“This is a slap in the face not just to the workers who are fighting
for better jobs at Warrior Met Coal, but to every worker who stands up
to their boss anywhere in America,” UMWA International President
Cecil E. Roberts said. “There are charges for security, cameras,
capital expenditures, buses for transporting scabs across picket
lines, and the cost of lost production.

“What is the purpose of a strike if not to impact the operations of
the employer, including production,” Roberts asked. “Is it now the
policy of the federal government that unions be required to pay a
company’s losses as a consequence of their members exercising their
rights as working people? This is outrageous and effectively negates
workers’ right to strike. It cannot stand.”

Kipp Dawson
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TOILET PLUNGER  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

Rob Rogers
August 10, 2022
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RE: LEV GLEASON: CRIME
 

The British campaign consistently based its criticisms on a knee jerk
anti-Americanism, castigating crime and horror comics as “American
style” comics. They also based some of their analysis on fundamental
misreadings of EC Comics stories which were often progressive. Fredric
Wertham, who was cited by every anti comics campaigner included every
kind of comic, including the mild Batman and Superman stories into his
condemnation of “crime comics”. Finally, British comics like
Battle Action or 2000AD in the 70s and thereafter contained their fair
share of violence with no corresponding upkeep in violent deaths.

Hank Kennedy
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RE: GUNS ’N’ ROSES

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I don't know if anyone will read this but if you do, thank you for
writing that moved me.

Thank you for stirring something in me to understand how there is so
much more than just a story.

Thank you.

Erika Holmstrom

 

RE: WHY SCI-FI MOVIE PREY MOVES THE NEEDLE FOR INDIGENOUS AMERICAN
VISIBILITY

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I hate movies like Predator. I never saw the others, but this one, my
brother insisted I see with him and I loved it! It is beautiful to
watch, it has great characters, and it is frequently historically
accurate. I would definitely recommend it.

Shawna McKellar
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HOW MUCH WILL YOU SAVE WITH MEDICARE FOR ALL? (MEDICARE 4 ALL UPDATE
GROUP)
 

Below is a link to the new MEDICARE FOR ALL CALCULATOR
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which anyone can input their current health costs, and find out what
they will save under a single payer system. 

It was designed for Californians, but is useful for everyone. 

Marilyn Albert
Medicare 4 All Update Group

SINGLE PAYER HOUSEHOLD COST CALCULATOR
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Check out how improved Medicare for All with progressive financing
will affect your household medical costs.
 
This translates the recent Healthy California for All Commission
findings into a net cost for households.
 
Spoiler alert: The vast majority of families will save money. This is
because the tax plan (which replaces premiums and out-of-pocket costs)
protects low and middle income families. (More detail in the
calculator FAQs.)
 
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LESSONS FROM THE 2022 NATIONAL STRIKE IN ECUADOR - AUGUST 25 (DSA
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE AND CODE PINK)

THURSDAY, AUGUST 25TH AT 7:30PM ET/6:30PM CT/5:30PM MT/4:30PM PT

Lessons From The 2022 National Strike In Ecuador will be a public
webinar in English and Spanish on the Indigenous-led protests in
Ecuador this past June. 

For 18 days in June, the people of Ecuador, led by the Indigenous and
poorest, fought austerity to a halt. Tens of thousands barricaded
highways, paralyzed the capital and much of the nation. Eight people
were killed and hundreds injured by police. Led by the Confederation
of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), poor and working
people won major economic and political concessions, and other demands
are in negotiation.

This webinar will present the voices of Indigenous leaders and
grassroots activists that participated in these historic protests.

FLORESIMO SIMBAÑA of Conaie Comunicacion will present an overall
analysis of the protests, what happened, what was achieved, and what
comes next. Simbaña is a top leader of CONAIE and is a well known and
respected analyst and author.

KASHA ROJAS, TOA TITUAÑA, MIGUEL GUAICHICO are local leaders. They
will speak about the basic practicalities of organizing support,
turnout, and logistics for the national strike (known in Ecuador as El
Paro), marching to Quito, protesting within Quito, and facing violent
government repression.

The webinar will also feature dramatic images from the protests. This
webinar is jointly organized by the DSA International Committee and
Code Pink.

The webinar will also feature dramatic images from the protests. This
webinar is jointly organized by the DSA International Committee and
Code Pink.

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THE VISIONARY ART OF RALPH FASANELLA - AN OUR DAILY WORK.OUR DAILY
LIVE SYMPOSIUM - SEPTEMBER 14 & 15 (MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY)

 

"The Visionary Art of Ralph Fasanella" which will be Zoom and
live/streamed from Michigan State University in September. All
sessions are free, but you must register her
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This symposium is a hybrid event with an in-person (and simulcast)
plenary, poster sale and book signing, and in-library exhibit
featuring the Ralph Fasanella paintings from the MSU collection. All
other panels and museum tours will be held virtually via Zoom.

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