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TIDBITS – JAN. 12, 2023 – READER COMMENTS: TODAY’S MCCARTHYISM
IN THE HOUSE; WHY NURSES STRIKE; NEW YORK’S DEMS AND PROGRESSIVES;
HOW FINLAND IS TEACHING A GENERATION TO SPOT MISINFORMATION; ROSA
LUXEMBURG ON REVOLUTION; UKRAINE SOLIDARITY NETWORK; CARTOO  
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Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Jan.12, 2023, xxxxxx

 

* TODAY'S MCCARTHYISM
* RE: THE REAL GOP STEPS FORWARD – JAN. 06 THEY FAILED, NOW THEY
ARE STOPPING THE FUNCTIONING OF CONGRESS (JILL CHESLER)
* SPEAKER OF THE MOUSE  --  CARTOON BY ADAM ZYGLIS
* RE: IS THE RIGHT TO CONTRACEPTION ABOUT TO END IN AMERICA? (E BETH
DAVIS)

* RE: ISRAEL’S NEW GOVERNMENT LEARNED FROM THE U.S. FAR RIGHT (GIL
LEIB)
* RE: WHY THE GODFATHER OF HUMAN RIGHTS IS NOT WELCOME AT HARVARD
(ARLENE HALFON)

* RE: DURING THE PANDEMIC, WORKERS WERE TOLD THEY WERE HEROES — AND
GIVEN LITTLE TO SHOW FOR IT (ROBERT LAITE)
* RE: AS NURSES STRIKE, HOSPITAL CEOS POCKET MILLIONS (BETH; SONIA
COBBINS)

* RE: ‘DISRUPTIVE’ SCIENCE HAS DECLINED — AND NO ONE KNOWS WHY
(CHRISTOPHER KOCH)
* TYRANNY AS DEFINED BY THE TEXAS GOP  --  CARTOON BY NICK
ANDERSON
* RE: GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDENT WORKERS VOTE TO UNIONIZE IN
LANDSLIDE ELECTION (THE DURANGO WORKER)
* RE: “UNACCEPTABLE”: NY PROGRESSIVES VOW TO STOP DEM. GOV’S
NOMINATION OF CONSERVATIVE JUDGE TO TOP COURT (NORA LAPIN; RACHELLE
KIVANOSKI)
* UNIONS - A MAJOR INCONVENIENCE (AFL-CIO)
* RE: THE CASE FOR A $20/HOUR MINIMUM WAGE (PHYLLIS MANDEL)
* RE: TEN SURPRISINGLY GOOD THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN 2022 (CAROL
PITTMAN)
* RE: I’M A RESTAURANT CRITIC. AM I FUELING GENTRIFICATION?
(ELEANOR ROOSEVELT)
* RE: TELLING AMERICANS TO ‘EAT BETTER’ DOESN’T WORK. WE MUST
MAKE HEALTHIER FOOD (ELAINE HUGHES)

Resources:

* HOW FINLAND IS TEACHING A GENERATION TO SPOT MISINFORMATION (JENNY
GROSS / NEW YORK TIMES)

Announcements:

* BOOK LAUNCH - ROSA LUXEMBURG: ON REVOLUTION - NEW YORK - JANUARY 15
(ROSA-LUXEMBURG-STIFTUNG AND VERSO BOOKS)

* UKRAINE SOLIDARITY NETWORK (U.S.)

 

TODAY'S MCCARTHYISM

 

RE: THE REAL GOP STEPS FORWARD – JAN. 06 THEY FAILED, NOW THEY ARE
STOPPING THE FUNCTIONING OF CONGRESS
 

We were JUST talking about this!??

Jill Chesler
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SPEAKER OF THE MOUSE  --  CARTOON BY ADAM ZYGLIS

 

Adam Zyglis
January 11, 2023
The Buffalo News
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RE: IS THE RIGHT TO CONTRACEPTION ABOUT TO END IN AMERICA?
 

This is the court case that should be getting all the attention.
Republicans have begun their war on birth control.

E Beth Davis
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RE: ISRAEL’S NEW GOVERNMENT LEARNED FROM THE U.S. FAR RIGHT
 

What about the Palestinians, the main group being persecuted by the
Israeli government?

You are so obsessed with your narrow interests--which of course are
very important--that you almost entirely overlook the people that have
been discriminated against the most for the longest time.   Nothing
about the occupation.   Shameful and selfish.

Gil Leib

 

RE: WHY THE GODFATHER OF HUMAN RIGHTS IS NOT WELCOME AT HARVARD
 

As with other kinds of banning, this may be among the best things that
could have happened.

The publicity is reaching a population that never before believed the
extent of the pro-Israeli/anti-Palestinian Lobby in the US. Education
does not necessarily expose you to all the truths you should have;
even if you a Harvard Alumni.

The hypocrisy should be so obvious:

You are anti-Semitic if you say that American Jews place the
well-being of Israel over that of the US;
but you are also anti-Semitic if you disparage Israel in any way;

The true anti-Semitism would be wanting to ethnic cleanse Jews out of
the US, whether because you just hate them all OR because they only
way to get your Rapture is to have all the Jews move to Israel.

Aside from the fact, that "Jewish" is self-defined as one or more of
the following: religion, culture, heritage, ethnicity; and more. Some
people include Nationality and "Israel". For most, Israel has nothing
to do with it.
And, yes, there are Atheist Jews.

Anti-Semitism is one form of bigotry and shares all its defining
characteristics. Like every other bigotry target, there are
stereotypes and even some minor correlations but these are used to
describe everyone in the group.

Maybe with this Harvard issue, many well -educated Jews and non-Jews
are finally finding out how the Israel Lobby has been deceiving them.

Arlene Halfon

 

RE: DURING THE PANDEMIC, WORKERS WERE TOLD THEY WERE HEROES — AND
GIVEN LITTLE TO SHOW FOR IT

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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I'm a nurse in Canada. We referred to ourselves as "expendable assets"
during the pandemic. We still feel like that. We asked how do we keep
our families safe while we work on the frontline or if we catch Covid?
Our managers told us to isolate to a different floor in our homes away
from our families and not share the same washroom. 

When we pointed out that many of us don't have other floors to our
homes or more than one washroom they told us to isolate to one room
and to disinfect our washrooms and food plates after every use. They
also told us if we were still concerned to "send your families to live
with relatives until the pandemic is under control." Again, as if we
all have family with guest rooms.

Robert Laite
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RE: AS NURSES STRIKE, HOSPITAL CEOS POCKET MILLIONS
 

This article has the details about the strike situation and the cause
that most news outlets are leaving out. The cause of the problem is
corporate greed.

Beth

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So true. When I worked at Mt. Sinai year after year they told us they
had no money for raises. Then a (possibly disgruntled) person from
human resources "accidentally" did a global email send with an
attached spreadsheet of salaries and bonuses, which showed the lavish
compensation of administration. Many of their bonuses exceeded the
salary of most workers there. Cuts in nursing, laboratory, transporter
and cleaning staff went right into their pockets. Apparently there are
no legal restraints for this type of behavior in "non-profits".

Sonia Cobbins
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RE: ‘DISRUPTIVE’ SCIENCE HAS DECLINED — AND NO ONE KNOWS WHY
 

The Sixties were a unique, underrated decade that really went from
about 1965 to 1975.

Christopher Koch

 

TYRANNY AS DEFINED BY THE TEXAS GOP  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON

 

Nick Anderson
January 9, 2023
Reform Austin
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RE: GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDENT WORKERS VOTE TO UNIONIZE IN
LANDSLIDE ELECTION

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"In a landslide victory, Yale’s graduate and professional student
workers have voted to unionize, marking a historic first after decades
of organizing on campus."

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RE: “UNACCEPTABLE”: NY PROGRESSIVES VOW TO STOP DEM. GOV’S
NOMINATION OF CONSERVATIVE JUDGE TO TOP COURT
 

Brian Lehrer had a very good segment a couple of weeks ago with two
lawyers who were promoting the need for a progressive appointee.
Obviously they didn’t get their wish.

Nora Lapin
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Hochul may be holding out hope that the nominee would acquit himself
so well in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that some votes
would change.

The only other remaining consideration would be how hard Hochul could
pressure Senate Leader Stewart-Cousins to have an unprecedented floor
vote and Republicans could provide the missing votes. For the life of
me, I can’t understand why she boxed herself in this way.

Rachelle Kivanoski
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UNIONS - A MAJOR INCONVENIENCE 

 

AFL-CIO

 

RE: THE CASE FOR A $20/HOUR MINIMUM WAGE

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Gotta change the language from MINIMUM to living - minimum will ALWAYS
BE on the borderline of poverty. $20 “minimum” sounds like a lot,
but that really depends upon where you live. In the SF Bay Area
$27/hour is a living wage.

Phyllis Mandel
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RE: TEN SURPRISINGLY GOOD THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN 2022
 

Thanks for this reminder and bit of much-needed positivity!
Happy New Year!

Carol Pittman

 

RE: I’M A RESTAURANT CRITIC. AM I FUELING GENTRIFICATION?

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Restaurants alone don't cause gentrification. The relentless and
all-engulfing monster amoeba of bourgeois "culture" causes
gentrification.

Eleanor Roosevelt
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RE: TELLING AMERICANS TO ‘EAT BETTER’ DOESN’T WORK. WE MUST MAKE
HEALTHIER FOOD

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Check the amount of salt and sugar added to processed foods.

Elaine Hughes
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HOW FINLAND IS TEACHING A GENERATION TO SPOT MISINFORMATION
 

The Nordic country is testing new ways to teach students about
propaganda. Here’s what other countries can learn from its success.

By Jenny Gross
January 10, 2023
New York Times
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A typical lesson that Saara Martikka, a teacher in Hameenlinna,
Finland, gives her students goes like this: She presents her eighth
graders with news articles. Together, they discuss: What’s the
purpose of the article? How and when was it written? What are the
author’s central claims?

“Just because it’s a good thing or it’s a nice thing doesn’t
mean it’s true or it’s valid,” she said. In a class last month,
she showed students three TikTok videos, and they discussed the
creators’ motivations and the effect that the videos had on them.

Her goal, like that of teachers around Finland, is to help students
learn to identify false information.

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BOOK LAUNCH - ROSA LUXEMBURG: ON REVOLUTION - NEW YORK - JANUARY 15
(ROSA-LUXEMBURG-STIFTUNG AND VERSO BOOKS)

Book launch for Volume IV of the Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg,
Political Writings 2, “On Revolution” (1906–1909)

 

Socialist icon Rosa Luxemburg stands out as one of the most prolific
and steadfast advocates of a revolutionary but nevertheless democratic
approach to political strategy in the classical socialist movement.
The latest, 600-page volume of her Complete Works, published by Verso
Books with the support of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, stands as a
testament to this fact.

Covering her writings on revolution from 1906 to 1909, it includes her
thoughts on the epochal 1905 Russian Revolution and its aftermath.
Over 80 percent of writings in this volume have never before appeared
in English, such as her groundbreaking essay “Lessons of the Three
Dumas”, which presents a unique perspective on the transition to
socialism, her “Notes on the English Revolution” of the 1640s, and
numerous writings on the role of the mass strike in fomenting
revolutionary transformation.

JOIN VERSO BOOKS AND THE ROSA LUXEMBURG FOUNDATION AT 19:00 CET ON
SUNDAY, 15 JANUARY, THE ANNIVERSARY OF ROSA LUXEMBURG’S MURDER AT
THE HANDS OF FAR-RIGHT THUGS, FOR A BOOK LAUNCH AND PANEL DISCUSSION
ON THE RELEVANCE OF HER THOUGHT TODAY.

Streaming on YouTube and Facebook.

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* ERIC BLANC (Author, Revolutionary Social Democracy)
* PETER HUDIS (Series editor, Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg)
* ISABEL LOUREIRO (Author, Rosa Luxemburg: Dilemas da ação
revolucionária)
* DAVID MCNALLY, (Author, Blood and Money: War, Slavery, Finance,
and Empire)
* LORI TURNER (York University, Toronto)

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EMAIL: [email protected]

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the U.S. that oppose Russia’s imperialist war on Ukraine and support
Ukraine’s struggle for self-determination. It is united around our
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THE UKRAINE SOLIDARITY NETWORK (U.S.) reaches out to unions, 
communities and individuals from diverse backgrounds to build moral, 
political and material support for the people of Ukraine in their
resistance to  Russia’s criminal invasion and their struggle for an
independent, egalitarian  and democratic country. 

The war against Ukraine is a horrible and destructive disaster in the
human  suffering and economic devastation it has already caused, not
only for  Ukraine and its people but also in its impact on global
hunger and energy  supplies, on the world environmental crisis, and
on the lives of ordinary  Russian people who are sacrificed for
Putin’s war. The war also carries the  risk of escalation to a
direct confrontation among military great powers, with  unthinkable
possible consequences. 

It is urgent to end this war as soon as possible. This can only be
achieved  through the success of Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s
invasion. Ukraine  is fighting a legitimate war of self-defense,
indeed a war for its survival as a  nation. Calling for “peace”
in the abstract is meaningless in these circumstances. 

The Ukraine Solidarity Network (U.S.) supports Ukraine’s war of
resistance,  its right to determine the means and objectives of its
own struggle – and we  support its right to obtain the weapons it
needs from any available source.  We are united in our support for
Ukraine’s people, their military and civilian defense against
aggression, and for the reconstruction of the country in the interests
of the majority of its population. We stand in opposition to all 
domination by powerful nations and states, including by the United
States  and its allies, over smaller ones and oppressed peoples. 

We uphold the following principles and goals: 

1) We strive for a world free of global power domination at the
expense of  smaller nations. We oppose war and authoritarianism no
matter which state  it comes from, and support the right of
self-determination and self-defense  for any oppressed nation.

2) We support Ukraine’s victory against the Russian invasion, and
its right  to reparations to meet the costs of reconstruction after
the colossal  destruction it is suffering. 

3) The reconstruction of Ukraine also demands the cancellation of its
debts  to international financial institutions. Aid to Ukraine must
come without  strings attached, above all without crushing debt
burdens. 

4) We recognize the suffering that this war imposes on people in
Russia,  most intensely on the ethnic and religious minority sectors
of the Russian  Federation which are disproportionately impacted by
forced military  conscription. We salute the brave Russian antiwar
forces speaking out and  demonstrating in the face of severe
repression, and we are encouraged by  the popular resistance to the
draft of soldiers to become cannon fodder for  Putin’s unjust war
of aggression. 

5) We seek to build connections to progressive organizations and 
movements in Ukraine and with the labor movement, which represents
the  biggest part of Ukrainian civil society, and to link Ukrainian
civic  organizations, marginalized communities and trade unions with
counterpart organizations in the United States. We support Ukrainian
struggles for  ensuring just and fair labor rights for its
population, especially during the  war, as there are no military
reasons to implement laws that threaten the  social rights of
Ukrainians, including those who are fighting in the front  lines.
UKRAINE SOLIDARITY NETWORK (U.S.) ENDORSEMENTS -- Short list:

* John Feffer, Institute for Policy Studies, Foreign Policy in Focus,
Aftershock: A Journey into Eastern Europe's Broken Dreams.
* Jeffery R. Webber, Associate Professor, York University, Toronto,
The Impasse of the Latin American Left
* Sue Ferguson, Assoc. Professor Emerita, Wilfred Laurier
University, Women and Work: Feminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction
* Peter McLaren, Distinguished Professor, Chapman University,
Emeritus Professor UCLA, Emeritus Professor Miami University
* Naomi Murakowa, Assoc Professor, Princeton Univ, The First Civil
Right: How Liberals Built Prison America
* Bill Fletcher Jr., Past President TransAfrica Forum
* Suzi Weismann, KPFK Radio Los Angeles
* Don Rojas, Independent Journalist/Activist
* Eric Draitser, Author, Podcaster, CounterPunch Radio
* Molly Crabapple, Visual Artist, contributing editor VICE magazine
* Shiyam Galyon, Comms Strategist, Pub in Teen Vogue, TruthOut,
Syrian-American activist
* Dr. Ron Daniels, Institute for the Black World-21 ACTION,
International Activist
* Frieda Afary, Iranian American Feminist
* Cindy Domingo, Legacy of Equality Leadership and Organizing
(LELO), Seattle
* Meizhu Lui, Former Director United for a Fair Economy, Co-author
The Color of Wealth
* Jamala Rogers, Founder & Past Executive Director of Organization
for Black Struggles (St. Louis); author
* Matthew Zawisky, Ukrainian American Civic Center, Buffalo NY
* Jonathan Zenilman MD, Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins
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* Mindy Thompson Fullilove, The New School, People's Center for
Disease Control, From Enforcers to Guardians: A Public Health Primer
on Ending Police Violence.
* Joshua Pechtalt, California Federation of Teachers, Former
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* Dayne Goodwin, AFSCME Local 1004, DSA Salt Lake
* Howie Hawkins, Green Party Presidential Candidate 2020
* Haley Pessin, DSA Afrosocialist Caucus
* Tanya Vyhovsky, Vermont Legislature State Rep, DSA member,
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