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TIDBITS – OCT. 13, 2022 – READER COMMENTS: LOS ANGELES CITY HALL
RACISM; SEGREGATION; AMAZON WORKERS; UKRAINE WAR DISSENT; COVID-19
PROTOCOLS AND FEMINIST ETHICS OF CARE; ABORTION ACCESS-A WORKERS’
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_ Reader Comments: Los Angeles City Hall Racism; Segregation; Amazon
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Protocols and Feminist Ethics of Care; Abortion Access-A Workers'
Issue; Cartoons; Announcements; more; _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Oct. 13, 2022, xxxxxx

 

Postcard from the Edge: Los Angeles City Hall  --  cartoon by Lalo
Alcaraz
Re: Our Segregation Problem (Synnachia Mcqueen; Black Awareness)
Leave Herschel Alone  -  cartoon by Clay Jones
Re: Three Amazon Warehouses Catch Fire; Workers Protest Unsafe
(Jennifer Watson)
Re: Alabama Paper Mill Workers Want Their Lives Back—And They’re
Giving Up $30,000 To Get It (Linda Gillison; Ellen Shaffer)
Re: Russian Protest and Exodus (Bernard Sampson)
Re: When Texas Cowboys Fought Private Property (Stan Nadel)
Re: Sacheen Littlefeather, Who Delivered Marlon Brando’s Oscar
Rejection Speech, Dies at 75 (Genevieve Gen Davidson)
Head Covering  --  cartoon by Rob Rogers

RESOURCES:

Covid-19 Protocols and Feminist Ethics of Care (Department of Women's
and Gender Study, Syracuse University)
Give No Ground: Defeating MAGA Mayhem (Indivisible)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Death in the Making - Reexamining the Iconic Spanish Civil War
Photobook - New York - Sep 29, 2022 – Jan 09, 2023 (International
Center of Photography)
Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean present "Organize, Fight, Win:
Black Communist Women's Political Writing" - Baltimire - October 15
(Verso Books)
It's a Workers' Issue! Abortion Access and the Right to Healthcare -
October 19 (Labor Campaign for Single Payer)

 

POSTCARD FROM THE EDGE: LOS ANGELES CITY HALL  --  CARTOON BY LALO
ALCARAZ

 

Lalo Alcaraz
October 11, 2022
Pocho.com
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RE: OUR SEGREGATION PROBLEM
 

Our segregation problem ???

Synnachia Mcqueen
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Racial separation in living conditions ???

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LEAVE HERSCHEL ALONE  -  CARTOON BY CLAY JONES

 

Clay Jones
October 11, 2022
Sarasota News Leader
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RE: THREE AMAZON WAREHOUSES CATCH FIRE; WORKERS PROTEST UNSAFE
 

“Our plant caught on fire again,” an Amazon worker at the HSV1
told WAFF. “This time it was in the same area, but it was a couple
aisles over. You could still smell smoke in there. Half the warehouse
was off limits.”

Jennifer Watson
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RE: ALABAMA PAPER MILL WORKERS WANT THEIR LIVES BACK—AND THEY’RE
GIVING UP $30,000 TO GET IT

Sometimes--IMAGINE IT!!-- workers' dignity is more valuable than
money.

Linda Gillison
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Alabama Papermill Workers: Want their money AND their lives! 

Ellen Shaffer
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RE: RUSSIAN PROTEST AND EXODUS

What an ignorant article. The mobilization is for reservists only.
Students all have a deferment. Over 70,000 have already volunteered.
This is just parroting the war mongering neo cons in the US
government. Read both sides ,wait I'm sorry the other side's info is
banned.

Bernard Sampson
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RE: WHEN TEXAS COWBOYS FOUGHT PRIVATE PROPERTY

"away with your foreign capitalists; " is neglected here. In fact
British corporations bought up large portions of Texas grazing
land--the largest Cattle Baron in the world was the British owned King
Ranch so the fence cutters were also anti-imperialists.

Stan Nadel

RE: SACHEEN LITTLEFEATHER, WHO DELIVERED MARLON BRANDO’S OSCAR
REJECTION SPEECH, DIES AT 75

RIP, dear one.

Genevieve Gen Davidson
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HEAD COVERING  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

Rob Rogers
October 12, 2022
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COVID-19 PROTOCOLS AND FEMINIST ETHICS OF CARE (DEPARTMENT OF WOMEN'S
AND GENDER STUDY, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY)

 

Statement about campus Covid-19 protocols
Department of Women's and Gender Study, Syracuse University
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(Sign at Occupy Portland, October 21, 2011.  --  Flickr/K.Kendal via
Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 2.0.  //  OpenDemocracy)
In light of the university's announcement that masking is now an
individual decision on our campus, we, as a feminist community, want
to offer a counter-practice grounded in feminist ethics of care,
disability justice, accountability, and the notion of collective
access. We believe that health is more than an individual
choice/decision, and we understand health as part of a larger ecology
of care and responsibility towards each other and to our communities.

We reject the language and ideologies behind the notion of the
“vulnerable minority” as the only members of our society who must
take extra precautions to stay safe. We believe that people should not
be required to declare their health status in order to ensure their
safety. Instead we want to prioritize the knowledge and tools that we
have collectively gained throughout the (ongoing) pandemic, which
recognize the fact that we all are connected and, therefore, share the
responsibility to keep each other safe.

COVID-19 not only poses a threat to our collective well-being, but
also, and consequently, directly impacts access to education. We are
troubled by efforts to place the responsibility for ensuring equal
educational access onto individuals with higher health risks. We are
literally putting the onus for their well-being on them alone.
Further, we see the implicit or explicit requirement of health and
individual vulnerability disclosures as practices that perpetuate
power inequities. They further privilege those who appear “fit”
and “strong” while enabling them to show or deny compassion and
concern for those required to disclose sensitive information.

Individualizing issues of health during an ongoing public health
crisis appears to relieve institutions of any responsibility for
ensuring the health and educational access of all members of their
community.

Read full statement here
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GIVE NO GROUND: DEFEATING MAGA MAYHEM (INDIVISIBLE)

 

It’s no secret that we love Guides here at Indivisible. After all,
it’s how this movement got its start five years ago. THIS GUIDE IS A
LITTLE DIFFERENT, THOUGH, AND WE WANT TO BE UP FRONT ABOUT THAT. 

Over the last several weeks, Indivisible has been working with groups
in Pennsylvania and Arizona to pilot some of this work, learn lessons,
adjust plans, and offer our best advice to you as your group thinks
about the work ahead of November. This Guide is a first attempt. We
want you to read it, begin to use it, learn your own lessons, and
offer us feedback on how it’s going so we can capture what _you_
learn along the way. We’ll use that feedback to offer trainings,
learnings, and updated thinking to Indivisible groups across the
country.

The Defeating MAGA Mayhem Guide is a living document — and for it to
do what it needs to do for Indivisible groups across the country, we
need to hear from you. Once you’ve tried some of what’s below,
want to hear from you. CLICK HERE TO OFFER FEEDBACK AND YOUR THOUGHTS
ON THE STRATEGY
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Here’s the quick summary of the Guide. While this section summarizes
the top-level takeaways, the full guide has substantially more details
about the thinking behind this new strategy and how to carry out these
actions.

INTRODUCTION: Why we need to flip the script. We explain that in order
to win in November, we need to go on offense and put MAGA Republican
extremism front and center for voters. 

WHO IS THIS GUIDE FOR?: You! If you are already part of an Indivisible
group, these tactics will help your group build a narrative for both
national and local races. If you aren’t yet part of an Indivisible
group, now is the perfect time to join one!

WHAT DOES SUCCESS LOOK LIKE?: Our goal here is to build a long-term,
sustainable narrative focused on MAGA Republican extremism. We explore
escalating tactics to build that narrative like LTEs, calling into
radio shows, billboards, or birddogging candidates or Members of
Congress. 

WHY IS EXPOSING MAGA EXTREMISM IMPORTANT AT THIS MOMENT?: MAGA
Republicans are incredibly good at message discipline and building
long-term narratives. They distract voters from their extremist views
and blatant power grabs with hate and fear mongering. If we’re going
to win in November, we must face MAGA extremism head on, expose MAGA
Republicans as the extremists they are, and redefine this election on_
our terms_. Put simply, if we can make this election a referendum on
their extremism, they lose.

WHAT ISSUES SHOULD WE FOCUS ON?: We recommend specifically focusing on
issues with broad public support where MAGA Republicans are in the
minority. Currently, we think there are three broad buckets of issues
that fit this criteria: MAGA attacks on people and our rights (think:
abortion), attacks on schools (book banning, censoring our history,
and more), and attacks on our democracy (the Big Lie, January 6th, and
election subversion).

TACTICS TO FORCE MAGA ON THE RECORD: All of our recommended tactics
are designed to generate earned media and shine the spotlight on MAGA
Republican extremism. That said, you know your district and your
community the best so choose tactics that make the most sense in your
local context. 

READ AND ACCESS THE FULL GUIDE HERE
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DEATH IN THE MAKING - REEXAMINING THE ICONIC SPANISH CIVIL WAR
PHOTOBOOK - NEW YORK - SEP 29, 2022 – JAN 09, 2023 (INTERNATIONAL
CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY)

 

_Death in the Making: Reexamining the Iconic Spanish Civil War
Photobook_ brings together nearly 75 original photographs and related
ephemera to tell the story of Robert Capa’s iconic 1938 photobook
about the Spanish Civil War. In addition to work by Capa, the
exhibition presents new insights into the contributions of Polish
American photojournalist David “Chim” Seymour, who was only
recently credited for his work in the book, and German photojournalist
Gerda Taro. Taro’s death in the Spanish Civil War spurred the
production of the book, which is dedicated to her.

The exhibition is accompanied by a 2020 edition of _Death in the
Making_, published by Damiani/ICP. Curated by Cynthia Young, former
curator of the Robert Capa and Cornell Capa Archive at the
International Center of Photography, the exhibition represents the
first in an ongoing series of exhibitions that revisit and highlight
the ICP permanent collection and celebrate ICP’s history.

Cynthia Young has curated numerous exhibitions on photojournalism in
the 1930–50s, including _Capa in Color_; _We Went Back:
Photographs from Europe 1933-1956 by Chim_ and _The Mexican
Suitcase: The Rediscovered Spanish Civil War Negatives of Robert Capa,
Chim and Gerda Taro_. These exhibitions traveled widely to multiple
venues in France, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Hungary and Sweden.
She was until 2020 the curator of the Robert Capa and Cornell Capa
Archive at ICP, where she worked since 2000.

AVAILABILITY
This exhibition is available for tour. If you are interested in
finding out about availability or to reserve a slot on the tour,
please contact [email protected].

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New York, NY 10002

 

CHARISSE BURDEN-STELLY AND JODI DEAN PRESENT "ORGANIZE, FIGHT, WIN:
BLACK COMMUNIST WOMEN'S POLITICAL WRITING" - BALTIMIRE - OCTOBER 15
(VERSO BOOKS)

 

October 15, 2022
7.00pm - 8.30pm
Red Emma's
Baltimore, MD 21218

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Join Charisse Burden-Stelly and Jodi Dean at Red Emma's!

The first collection of its kind, Organize, Fight, Win brings together
three decades of Black Communist women’s political writings. In
doing so, it highlights the link between Communism and Black
liberation. Likewise, it makes clear how Black women fundamentally
shaped, and were shaped by, Communist praxis in the twentieth century.

Black Communist women throughout the early to mid-twentieth century
fought for and led mass campaigns in the service of building
collective power in the fight for liberation. Through concrete
materialist analysis of the conditions of Black workers, these women
argued that racial and economic equality can only be achieved by
overthrowing capitalism.

_Organize, Fight, Win_ includes writings from card-carrying
Communists like Dorothy Burnham, Williana Burroughs, Grace P.
Campbell, Alice Childress, Marvel Cooke, Esther Cooper Jackson, Thelma
Dale Perkins, Vicki Garvin, Yvonne Gregory, Claudia Jones, Maude White
Katz, and Louise Thompson Patterson, and writings by those who
organized alongside the Communist Party, like Ella Baker, Charlotta
Bass, Thyra Edwards, Lorraine Hansberry, and Dorothy Hunton.

“Charisse Burden-Stelly is a sharp engaged radical thinker,
representing the best of the Black radical tradition. Along with
co-editor Jodi Dean, Burden-Stelly has curated a powerful and
enormously valuable collection of writings by Black socialist and
communist women, rightly placing their voices at the center of US and
international left histories. A great teaching tool and a much needed
source of inspiration for contemporary activists.” —BARBARA
RANSBY, HISTORIAN, AUTHOR AND ACTIVIST

CHARISSE BURDEN-STELLY (@blackleftaf) is Assistant Professor of
Africana Studies and Political Science at Carleton College. She is the
author, with Gerald Horne, of _W. E. B. Du Bois: A Life in American
History_.

JODI DEAN teaches political, feminist, and media theory in Geneva,
New York. She has written or edited thirteen books, including _The
Communist Horizon_ and _Crowds and Party_.

 

IT'S A WORKERS' ISSUE! ABORTION ACCESS AND THE RIGHT TO HEALTHCARE -
OCTOBER 19 (LABOR CAMPAIGN FOR SINGLE PAYER)

 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2022 • 8:00 PM • EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME

Join us and SARA NELSON (International President of AFA-CWA), DEE
DUNN (BMWED/IBT), MAGGIE CARTER (Starbucks Workers United,
Knoxville), MARTHA VALADEZ (News Guild, CWA Michigan),
and REBEKAH NELSON (Minnesota Nurses Association) to learn about:

* what unions have been doing in response to the Supreme Court
decision
* why it's bad to rely on your employer for reproductive health
coverage
* how single-payer / Medicare for All will cover not only abortion
access but the broader scope of reproductive rights such as wellness
visits, birth control, in vitro fertilization, and gender-affirming
care.

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