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TIDBITS – OCT. 6, 2022 – READER COMMENTS: WOMEN PROTEST IRAN AND
US; LABOR ORGANIZING-NOW GEICO; ANTISEMITISM; UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF
THE NEW DEAL; WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY; WORKING CLASS RESURGENCE; TELL
THE STORIES, TEACH THE HISTORY  
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Geico; Antisemitism; Unfinished Business of the New Deal; World
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Oct. 6, 2022, xxxxxx

 

Morality Police  --  cartoon by Rob Rogers
Re: GEICO Workers Launch Union Effort, Management Says Call the Cops
(Peter DeJesus, Jr; Maggie Cohen)
Iranian Women Protest  --  cartoon by Morten Morland
Re: Last Term: Reproductive Rights. This Term: Voting Rights. (Norm
Littlejohn)
Re: Modeling the New USPS Delivery Network (Gina Klein)
Re: Grassroots Voices: How We Won Georgia (Max Elbaum)
Re: 1-2-3-4; We Don’t Want Your F—Ing War! (Leonard Ramirez; Ngaka
Sehlare)
Re: What Antisemitism Is, What It Is Not, and Why It Matters (Stan
Nadel; Arlene Halfon)
I Support Your Right to Choose  -- cartoon by Mike Luckovich
Re: Lula’s Lead Over Bolsonaro Widens Days Before Brazil Election
(Anne Murray)
Re: Long Live Jeff Perry (EJ Bader; Joy Schulman; Kathy Black; Joe
Berry)
Re: Sidney Poitier Was an Icon. But Oprah Winfrey’s Documentary
Sidney Is Too Worshipful a Tribute.(Peter Ruark)

RESOURCES:

The Unfinished Business of the New Deal - A Roundtable Discussion led
by Kevin Baker (The Living New Deal)
World Digital Library Collection (Library of Congress)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Webinar: Ukraine War - Russia, China & the United States  -  October
11 (Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy)
A Working Class Resurgence? - New York - October 21 (CUNY School of
Labor and Urban Studies)
14th Annual Langston Hughes Literary Arts Festival: "Tell the Stories,
Teach the History." - Queens, NY - October 22 (Queens Public Library)

 

MORALITY POLICE  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

Rob Rogers
October 5, 2022
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RE: GEICO WORKERS LAUNCH UNION EFFORT, MANAGEMENT SAYS CALL THE COPS

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This should be interesting

Peter DeJesus, Jr

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YAY!!  

Maggie Cohen

 

IRANIAN WOMEN PROTEST  --  CARTOON BY MORTEN MORLAND

 

Morten Morland
September 26, 2022
The Times
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RE: LAST TERM: REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS. THIS TERM: VOTING RIGHTS.
 

“... When the lawmakers [in Alabama] drew new congressional maps in
2021, they included only one district likely to elect a Black member
of Congress, despite the fact that Black voters are more than a
quarter of the electorate. Three federal judges, two of them named by
Donald Trump, ruled that the map was racially discriminatory.

“Through its shadow docket, however, the Supreme Court stayed the
lower court ruling and reinstated the map — thus the 2022 election
will be held using a map already declared discriminatory....”

Norm Littlejohn
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RE: MODELING THE NEW USPS DELIVERY NETWORK
 

If this does not result in greater TOTAL cost efficiency or improve
environmental impacts, what is the reason for these revisions? In
fact, according to this article, the changes seem to increase total
costs and negatively impact the environment. Can these changes be
STOPPED?

Gina Klein
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RE: GRASSROOTS VOICES: HOW WE WON GEORGIA
 

Thanks to xxxxxx for posting an excerpt from the chapter "Change a
State and Shock a Nation: Georgia in the 2020 Election" in the book
"Power Concedes Nothing." Very timely with the 2022 contests in
Georgia again both bitterly fought and very high stakes:

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Max Elbaum
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RE: 1-2-3-4; WE DON’T WANT YOUR F—ING WAR!
 

Why aren't we hearing the other side. The Ukrainians that have fled
the country or deserted the NATO proxy war? 

Leonard Ramirez

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You should have returned the article to its author asked the author
not to use F-word. There are so many words, the author should have
used. The fact that you published the author's article with this word
is not acceptable. So many people around the world do not use this
word among themselves particularly in the presence of children

Ngaka Sehlare

 

RE: WHAT ANTISEMITISM IS, WHAT IT IS NOT, AND WHY IT MATTERS
 

But when "criticism of Israel" is formulated with the same themes and
memes as classical Antisemitism, just substituting "Israel" or
"Zionists" for "Jews", then it is Antisemitism. Unfortunately too many
leftists are so ignorant about the themes and memes of Antisemitism
that they fail to recognize when they are crossing the line between
legitimate criticism and Antisemitism.

Stan Nadel

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Antisemitism is one category of belief and behavior under the larger
heading of bigotry. It refers specifically to bigotry against Jews. *

As a form of bigotry, antisemitism shares characteristics with bigotry
against other, and possibly overlapping, demographic groups. As with
other demographic groups, however, there are features unique to
antisemitism.

Definition of a demographic group. "Jews and "Jewish" are one example
but this discussion applies to all demographic groups, whether racial,
religious, ethnic, educational level, income level, place of
residence, immigration status, occupation, employment status, sex,
gender, etc.

"Jewish" and "Judaism" are self-defined by individuals for a variety
of rationale that they feel apply to themselves, while not necessarily
accepting the rationale other "Jews" may use for themselves. These
rationales include, but are not limited to: religion, ethnicity,
family background (recent or distant), certain non-religious beliefs.
The rationales may overlap in the same person.

The rationales are also frequently "defined" by others, Jewish and
non-Jewish, because of appearance, actions, non-religious beliefs,
nation of origin or current residence, names, clothing, and other
means.

While there may be statistical correlations between any human
biological or personal trait and a specific demographic category, it
is corollary only. It says nothing about any specific person or group
of people, including residents of, or immigrants from, the same
country.

Bigotry: This is any action or thought, ranging from violent to
passive, that stereotypes people in a demographic group. The
stereotypes could be positive or negative. What is generally most
recognized is discrimination in housing, jobs, friendships, legal
systems, as well as violent acts.

"Feelings" can also be bigoted, even if not expressed. Thinking that
your own group is inferior or superior to another group is also
bigotry.

No organization, country, or other entity is representative of all
persons in that group or even most. Jews, just like members of all
other demographic groups are individuals. There is no country or
larger organization that speaks for all Jews. If an organization or
country commits negative actions, that says nothing about its
individual members unless membership in the organization is totally
voluntary and the negative activity is its reason for being.

One can oppose specific actions of an entity (whether a specific
country, religion, denomination, homeless encampment, employer)
without assuming all members or residents have the same
characteristics.

You can disagree with many American actions, including American wars,
but you can't blame ALL AMERICANS for the country's actions.
Similarly, you can't blame all Saudis for attacks on women's rights.
Not all Jews are responsible for Israeli actions. Criticism of Israeli
actions are not "antisemitic." Not only do many Israelis not agree
with Israeli actions, but many Jews dissociate themselves from these
actions, and certainly do not express an identity with Israel. In
fact, many are certain that there is not even an historical connection
between European Judaism and the Middle East.

NO DEFINITION OF ANTISEMITISM should include criticism of Israel.

There is even some support for Israel by antisemites. These are people
who support Israel as a path to ethnically cleansing all Jews out of
the United States and elsewhere and having them migrate to Israel. In
addition, much of the American Jewish support for Israel as "the
Jewish State" is, in itself, bigoted and by extension antisemitic.
And, of course, some of the criticism of Israel, when it is assumed
that it represents all Jews, is inherently antisemitic.

*While "Arabs" are also Semites, the term is being used here and is
generally used to speak about bigotry against Jews, specifically

Arlene Halfon

 

I SUPPORT YOUR RIGHT TO CHOOSE  -- CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

 

Mike Luckovich
October 3, 2022
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: LULA’S LEAD OVER BOLSONARO WIDENS DAYS BEFORE BRAZIL ELECTION
 

These people are like Trump. They don’t want to accept the results
of a fair election.

Anne Murray
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RE: LONG LIVE JEFF PERRY
 

Made me sad that we never met!

EJ Bader
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Gene, What a wonderful tribute! I took some classes with Jeff at the
Marxist School in NYC, about Ted Allen and Hubert Harrison. He was
knowledgeable, passionate and engaging.!

Joy Schulman
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Beautiful, Gene. Wish I’d known him. I learned new stuff about you
too.

Kathy Black
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A wonderful tribute and thanks for the info on my friend Jeff that I
did not know.

Joe Berry

 

RE: SIDNEY POITIER WAS AN ICON. BUT OPRAH WINFREY’S DOCUMENTARY
SIDNEY IS TOO WORSHIPFUL A TRIBUTE.

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It has been a very long time since I have seen “Guess Who’s Coming
to Dinner,” but I recall being bothered by the fact that while both
the Black father and the White father were opposed to the engagement,
the film ends with the White father finally being persuaded to support
it and nothing is shown about whether the Black father was persuaded.

Peter Ruark
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THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF THE NEW DEAL - A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION LED
BY KEVIN BAKER (THE LIVING NEW DEAL)

 

The New Deal transformed America, putting in place policies, programs,
and massive building projects that endure to this day. From Social
Security to bank deposit insurance and from the TVA to your local
school and post office—all of these and more came into being during
this period of spectacular growth and innovation. But what was left
undone? Consider the Four Freedoms and FDR’s Economic Bill of Rights
speech, and you begin to get a sense of the world the New Dealers
envisioned and hoped to realize. This evening’s discussion will
identify both the actual and aspirational gaps between what was done
and what wasn’t—what has endured and what has fallen by the
wayside—and suggest what progressives can do today to fulfill the
New Deal’s promise and vision.

Panel:
Kevin Baker, Teresa Ghilarducci, Darrick Hamilton, Philip Harvey,
Touré F. Reed, Margaret Crane

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* KEVIN BAKER is a speaker and moderator Kevin Baker is a novelist,
historian, and journalist. He has recently completed a book on the
history of New York City baseball and is currently completing a
cultural and political history of the United States between the wars,
for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017. He has written
for many major periodicals and is a contributing editor to Harper’s
Magazine.

* TERESA GHILARDUCCI is a labor economist, Teresa Ghilarducci has
spent her career working to ensure retirement security for all
American workers. She joined The New School for Social Research as a
professor of economics in 2008 after teaching at Notre Dame for 25
years. At The New School, she also directs the Schwartz Center for
Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA), which focuses on economic policy
research and outreach.

* DARRICK HAMILTON is a university professor, the Henry Cohen
Professor of Economics and Urban Policy, and the founding director of
the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School.
Considered one of the nation’s foremost scholars, economists and
public intellectuals, Hamilton has been involved in crafting policy
proposals, such as Baby Bonds and a Federal Job Guarantee, that have
inspired legislative proposals at the federal, state and local
levels. 

* PHILIP HARVEY is professor of law and economics at Rutgers Law
School and counsel to the board of the National Jobs for All Network.
He is an internationally recognized expert on the right to work
promoted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and recognized as a
fundamental human right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
He is the author of Securing the Right to Employment, along with
several dozen scholarly articles on the subject. He was also the
principal architect and drafter of legislation introduced in the 113th
thru 115th Congress by Rep. John Conyers and in the 117th Congress by
Rep. Frederika Wilson. 

* TOURÉ F. REED is a professor of 20th century U.S. and African
American history and co-director of the African American studies
program at Illinois State University. Reed’s research focuses on the
impact of race and class ideologies on African American civil rights
politics and U.S. public policy from the progressive era through the
presidency of Barack Obama. He is the author of Not Alms But
Opportunity: The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift,
1910-1950, and Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism. 

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WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY COLLECTION (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS)

 

This collection contains cultural heritage materials gathered during
the World Digital Library (WDL) project, including thousands of items
contributed by partner organizations
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as well as content from Library of Congress collections. The original
World Digital Library site (preserved in LC’s Web Archives here
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were translated from English and made available in six additional
languages: Spanish
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records include narrative descriptions submitted by the contributing
partners and enhanced by WDL researchers to contextualize the item and
its cultural and historical importance. Books, manuscripts, maps, and
other primary materials in the WDL collection are presented in their
original languages; more than 100 languages are represented, including
many lesser known and endangered languages. Additionally, all World
Digital Library metadata in each of the seven languages is available
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Launched in 2009, the World Digital Library was a project of the U.S.
Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO, and contributions
from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and
international organizations around the world. The WDL sought to
preserve and share some of the world’s most important cultural
objects, increasing access to cultural treasures and significant
historical documents to enable discovery, scholarship, and use.

WDL partner institutions selected content in accordance with
guidelines set by the WDL Content Selection Committee. They chose
content for its cultural and historical importance, with due regard to
recognition of the achievements of all countries and cultures over a
wide range of time periods. The materials collected by the WDL include
cultural treasures and significant historical documents including
books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, journals, prints, photographs,
sound recordings, and films.

Librarian of Congress James H. Billington proposed the establishment
of the WDL in a speech to the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO in
June 2005. The basic idea was to create an Internet-based,
easily-accessible collection of the world’s cultural riches that
would tell the stories and highlight the achievements of all countries
and cultures, thereby promoting cross-cultural awareness and
understanding. UNESCO welcomed the idea as a contribution toward
fulfilling its strategic objectives, which include promoting knowledge
societies, building capacity in developing countries, and promoting
cultural diversity on the web. UNESCO Director-General Koichiro
Matsuura designated UNESCO’s Directorate for Communication and
Information, then led by Dr. Abdul Waheed Khan, to work with the
Library of Congress to develop the project.

In December 2006, UNESCO and the Library of Congress convened an
Experts Meeting at UNESCO headquarters in Paris to discuss the
project. Experts from all parts of the world identified a number of
challenges that the project would need to overcome to be successful.
They noted that little cultural content was being digitized in many
countries, and that developing countries in particular lacked the
capacity to digitize and display their cultural treasures. Existing
websites often had poorly developed search and display functions.
Multilingual access was not well developed.

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WEBINAR: UKRAINE WAR - RUSSIA, CHINA & THE UNITED STATES  -  OCTOBER
11 (COMMITTEE FOR A SANE U.S.-CHINA POLICY)

 

(Illustration by Thomas Gaulkin)
Webinar: Ukraine War - Russia, China & the United States

Moderator: PROF AVI CHOMSKY – Professor of History at Salem State
University and steering committee member of the Committee for a Sane
U.S.-China Policy.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 8-9:30 P.M.(EDT)

Speakers: RAJAN MENON, JOHN FEFFER & MICHAEL KLARE

The Ukraine War has become increasingly dangerous with nuclear threats
and the commitments being made for a long war. It has also deepened
and accelerated the Russian-Chinese military and economic
“partnership” with enormous consequences for the world, not least
the increasingly confrontational U.S.-Chinese competition for
Asia-Pacific hegemony.

Rajan Menon, Michael Klare and John Feffer will explore these
developments, their implications, and how peace and justice advocates
can best respond.

RAJAN MENON is recently returned from Ukraine. He is the director of
the Grand Strategy Program at Defense Priorities and the Anne and
Bernard Spitzer Chair (Emeritus) in International Relations at the
Powell School, City College of New York, a Senior Research Scholar at
the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University,
and a Non-Resident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace.

JOHN FEFFER is the director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the
Institute for Policy Studies. He has served as an Open Society Fellow
studying the transformations that have taken place in Eastern Europe
since 1989. He is the author of several books and numerous articles.
His latest non-fiction book is Right Across the World. He is also the
author of the dystopian trilogy of Splinterlands, Frostlands, and
Songlands.

MICHAEL KLARE is professor emeritus of peace and world security
studies and director of the Five College Program in Peace and World
Security Studies. He is the Disarmament Correspondent and serves on
the board of The Nation magazine, as well as the board of the Arms
Control Association. He also serves as the Co-Chair of the Committee
for a Sane U.S.-China Policy.

Co-sponsored by the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common
Security

Register here
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Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy
4 Washburn Street
Watertown, MA 02472

 

A WORKING CLASS RESURGENCE? - NEW YORK - OCTOBER 21 (CUNY SCHOOL OF
LABOR AND URBAN STUDIES)

 

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2022, 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Join us in-person at SLU or virtually via Zoom.  Reception to follow
program.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
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PLEASE NOTE:  in-person attendees must bring proof of vaccination and
be masked during event.

CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies [[link removed]]
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New York, NY 10036
(646) 313-8300

 

14th Annual Langston Hughes Literary Arts Festival: "Tell the Stories,
Teach the History." - QUEENS, NY - OCTOBER 22 (QUEENS PUBLIC LIBRARY)

 

Celebrate and learn about Black literary arts with an afternoon of
author talks, readings, and performances at #LangstonHughesLibrary
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Don't miss the 14th Annual Langston Hughes Literary Arts Festival on
Saturday, October 22! Learn More and Register Today
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This year’s theme is Tell the Stories, Teach the History!

12pm: Author Talk with Lissette Acosta Corniel: “Elena: Running to
Dance and Other Defects in Colonial Santo Domingo” (Moderated by
Jhensen Ortiz)

1pm: Open Mic - Presented by the Harlem Writers Guild

2pm: A Panel of Contemporary Caribbean Novelists: Presented by The
Center for Fiction (Moderated by Regina Bernard-Carreño)

3:30pm: Richard Wright’s Black Boy: A Literature to Life Adaptation
for the Stage

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