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TIDBITS – AUG. 25, 2022 – READER COMMENTS: TRUMPISM; TEACHING,
HISTORY, WHITE PRIVILEGE; LABOR FILMS; RESOURCES: INFLATION REDUCTION
ACT; LONG COVID; WHO GOT RICH OFF STUDENT DEBT CRISIS;
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Aug. 25, 2022, xxxxxx

 

Dictionary Definition of Trumpery
Re: The March Towards Us Fascism Began With the Corporate Hijacking of
Democracy (Jennifer Nouri)
Declassified indeed  --  cartoon by Mike Luckovich
Re: Israel Raids Offices of 7 Palestinian Organizations (Judith
Halprin)
Re: Independent Unions Can Help Break Through the Economic Crisis and
Labor’s Paralysis (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Re: I Taught My 4th Grade Class About White Privilege and Their
Response Was Eye-Opening (George Lessard)
Re: Russia-Ukraine: Five Lessons From the 19th-Century Crimean War (SB
Loveless; Phetrus Xavhad)
Liz Cheney  --  cartoon by Rob Rogers
Re: 5 Unsung Films That Dramatize America’s Rich Labor History (Jean
Brown)
Re: 5 Unsung Movies and "The Family Nude" (Judith Mahoney Pasternak)

RESOURCES:

New factsheets on the Inflation Reduction Act (BlueGreen Alliance)
New data shows long Covid is keeping as many as 4 million people out
of work (The Brookings Institution)
Who got rich off the student debt crisis? (Reveal - Center for
Investigative Reporting)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

46TH ANNUAL LETELIER-MOFFITT HUMAN RIGHTS AWARDS - OCTOBER 13
(INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES)

 

DICTIONARY DEFINITION OF TRUMPERY

 

 

RE: THE MARCH TOWARDS US FASCISM BEGAN WITH THE CORPORATE HIJACKING OF
DEMOCRACY
 

If people understood that fascism is the corporate takeover of govt,
maybe we would praise the power of govt to work harder as a regulator
of corporate power. Neoliberalism is the enemy.

Jennifer Nouri
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DECLASSIFIED INDEED  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

 

Mike Luckovich
August 24, 2022
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: ISRAEL RAIDS OFFICES OF 7 PALESTINIAN ORGANIZATIONS
 

creating the protestors they will call terrorists for generations to
come

Judith Halprin
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RE: INDEPENDENT UNIONS CAN HELP BREAK THROUGH THE ECONOMIC CRISIS AND
LABOR’S PARALYSIS

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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But before they could do that, they needed a sharpened sense of class
consciousness, not bourgeois false consciousness.

Eleanor Roosevelt
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RE: I TAUGHT MY 4TH GRADE CLASS ABOUT WHITE PRIVILEGE AND THEIR
RESPONSE WAS EYE-OPENING
 

“… Students learned about the Greensboro Four, Bloody Sunday and
the Birmingham Children’s March during our study of the civil rights
movement. They empathized with Ruby Bridges and drew inspiration from
the Little Rock Nine. They compared old photos of segregated Black and
white schools, wondering how anyone could claim they were “separate,
but equal.” Students even tackled the Louisiana literacy test, which
was given to would-be Black voters in the 1960s. Every student failed.
The ensuing conversation led them to draw parallels between past and
present, comparing literacy tests and poll taxes to current voter-ID
laws and the disenfranchisement of people convicted of felonies in
certain states.…”

George Lessard
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RE: RUSSIA-UKRAINE: FIVE LESSONS FROM THE 19TH-CENTURY CRIMEAN WAR
 

Europe would be under the rule of the Reich if Russians didn't stop
the Nazis. America had a lot of Nazi sympathizers and pearl harbor was
the only reason they acted. If Russia wasn't there, the US would've
probably gone to talks with the Nazis rather than the world seeing the
complete dismantling of the Axis powers.

SB Loveless
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"Russia’s best war", was it? I would say it was usofa's best war,
carried, sponsored and kept far from its territories, the perfect
scenario pentagon is repeating over and over again using its stooges
implemented in many so called 'governments' and Ukrainian neonazis
with Zelensky are the best examples how that works, who makes money on
it and who pays the price.

Phetrus Xavhad
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LIZ CHENEY  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

Rob Rogers
August 22, 2022
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RE: 5 UNSUNG FILMS THAT DRAMATIZE AMERICA’S RICH LABOR HISTORY
 

Matewan.

Jean Brown
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RE: 5 UNSUNG MOVIES AND "THE FAMILY NUDE"
 

This is probably stupid and maybe ungrateful, but I think you never
collected my mini-epic of American left-wing life across six decades,
"The Family Nude
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the subject matter,  I'd have thought it belonged on xxxxxx even
more than did my anti-Zionism pieces, "Nine Stops on a Long Road
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which you did collect and the poem "Goliath" along with a comment on
an earlier piece about Salt of the Earth noting the movie's staggering
beauty.

Am I wrong? Did you post the story, and did I just miss it? And if
not, is it too late to get it in?

best in any case—you folks do great work,

Judith Mahoney Pasternak

 

NEW FACTSHEETS ON THE INFLATION REDUCTION ACT (BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE)

 

If you're looking for further analysis of the investments in the
Inflation Reduction Act, here are three new factsheets from BlueGreen
Alliance that might be of use:

CLEAN MANUFACTURING FACT SHEET
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This fact sheet offers a synopsis of the IRA’s investments to expand
clean energy manufacturing, transform the industrial sector to reduce
emissions, and decouple climate action from dependency on exploitative
imports.

CLEAN ENERGY TAX CREDIT FACT SHEET
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This fact sheet describes the IRA's new and expanded tax credits for
clean energy and the likely impacts for reducing emissions and
creating high-quality jobs.

CLEAN VEHICLES FACT SHEET
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This fact sheet details the IRA's clean vehicle policies and the
implications for cutting emissions, creating good jobs, and supporting
mobility and air quality in our neighborhoods.

THE BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE UNITES LABOR UNIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL
ORGANIZATIONS TO SOLVE TODAY’S ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES IN WAYS THAT
CREATE AND MAINTAIN QUALITY JOBS AND BUILD A CLEAN, THRIVING, AND
EQUITABLE ECONOMY.

We are guided by the principle that we can no longer choose between
good jobs and a clean environment—that the actions we take to create
quality jobs and to protect working people and the environment must go
hand-in-hand, and that together, we will build clean, thriving and
fair economy.

Our efforts center on the immediate need to develop commonsense
solutions that protect the environment and create and maintain
quality, family-sustaining jobs across the economy. Our staff and
supporters:

* DESIGN PUBLIC POLICIES, PERFORM RESEARCH, AND RUN PUBLIC EDUCATION
AND ADVOCACY CAMPAIGNS TO ADVOCATE for practical solutions;
* FACILITATE DIALOGUE between environmentalists, union members and
other stakeholders;
* and EDUCATE AMERICA’S LABOR UNION MEMBERS AND
ENVIRONMENTALISTS about the economic and environmental impacts of
climate change and the job-creating opportunities of environmental
protections.

[email protected]
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NEW DATA SHOWS LONG COVID IS KEEPING AS MANY AS 4 MILLION PEOPLE OUT
OF WORK (THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION)

 

Brookings
By Katie Bach 
August 24, 2022
Brookings
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Since the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic through today, news about
labor shortages and missing workers has dominated
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The question everyone still seems to be asking is: Why? 

In January 2022, Brookings Metro published a report
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assessed the impact of long Covid
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the labor market. Data on the condition’s prevalence was limited, so
the report used various studies to make a conservative estimate: 1.6
million full-time equivalent workers could be out of work due to long
Covid. With 10.6 million unfilled jobs at the time, long Covid
potentially accounted for 15% of the labor shortage. 

This June, the Census Bureau finally added four questions
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Covid to its Household Pulse Survey (HPS), giving researchers a better
understanding of the condition’s prevalence. This report uses the
new data to assess the labor market impact and economic burden of long
Covid, and finds that: 

* Around 16 million working-age Americans (those aged 18 to 65) have
long Covid today. 
* Of those, 2 to 4 million are out of work due to long Covid. 
* The annual cost of those lost wages alone is around $170 billion a
year (and potentially as high as $230 billion). 

AROUND 16 MILLION WORKING-AGE AMERICANS LIKELY HAVE LONG COVID TODAY 

The Census Bureau’s June to July 2022
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survey found that 16.3 million people (around 8%) of working-age
Americans currently have long Covid.

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WHO GOT RICH OFF THE STUDENT DEBT CRISIS? (REVEAL - CENTER FOR
INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING)

 

42 million people owe $1.3 trillion in student debt. It’s a profit
center for Wall Street and the government. Here’s how we got into
this mess.
 

ConsumerReports
by James B. Steele and Lance Williams
June 28, 2016
Reveal
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A generation ago, Congress privatized a student loan program intended
to give more Americans access to higher education.

In its place, lawmakers created another profit center for Wall Street
and a system of college finance that has fed the nation’s cycle of
inequality. Step by step, Congress has enacted one law after another
to make student debt the worst kind of debt for Americans – and the
best kind for banks and debt collectors.

Today, just about everyone involved in the student loan industry makes
money off students – the banks, private investors, even the federal
government.

Read the full report here
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(and this is from 2016 - six years ago!)

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46TH ANNUAL LETELIER-MOFFITT HUMAN RIGHTS AWARDS - OCTOBER 13
(INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES)

 

The 46th Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards
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be held _in-person_ [[link removed]] on
Thursday, October 13 at the Friends Meeting of Washington, DC located
at 2111 DECATUR PLACE NW WASHINGTON, DC 20008-1912. The event will
start with a reception at 4:00 pm, followed by the awards ceremony at
5:00 pm. Following the ceremony, attendees will be invited to lay
flowers at the Letelier-Moffitt monument at Sheridan Circle. Flowers
will be provided. This year, we are hosting a hybrid event with an
option to join us either in-person or virtually via live stream.

Domestic Awardee:

AMAZON LABOR UNION – Officially formed on April 1, 2022 by the
workers at the Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York, Amazon
Labor Union is the first labor union exclusively representing Amazon
workers. Through grassroots organizing catalyzed by the treatment of
Amazon workers during the Covid-19 pandemic, the ALU achieved a
landmark victory, showing what is possible for workers attempting to
organize and collectively bargain.

International Awardee:

MOVIMIENTO POR NUESTROS DESAPARECIDOS EN MEXICO – Beginning in
2015, the Movimiento por Nuestros Desaparecidos en Mexico is a
movement of families across Mexico searching for truth and justice for
their disappeared loved ones. Made up of over 80 groups from 24
Mexican states, the Movimiento has led extraordinary efforts to
excavate mass graves across the country and pass the first piece of
legislation in Mexico on the issue while facing drug cartels, corrupt
officials, and an indifferent bureaucracy.

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OCTOBER 13 

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
 

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Washington, DC 20008-1912
 

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