[ Reader Comments: States Can Tax the Rich; Black Studies Vital,
Necessary; History of Seeing Socialism Under Every Bed; Ukraine War;
Ohio Train Derailment; Holly Near Tribute; Paul Robeson 125th Birthday
Celebration; Cartoons; lots of Announcements;]
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TIDBITS – FEB. 16, 2023 – READER COMMENTS: STATES CAN TAX THE
RICH; BLACK STUDIES VITAL, NECESSARY; HISTORY SEEING ‘SOCIALISM’
UNDER EVERY BED; UKRAINE WAR; OHIO TRAIN DERAILMENT; HOLLY NEAR
TRIBUTE; PAUL ROBESON 125TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION; MORE…  
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February 16, 2023
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_ Reader Comments: States Can Tax the Rich; Black Studies Vital,
Necessary; History of Seeing 'Socialism' Under Every Bed; Ukraine War;
Ohio Train Derailment; Holly Near Tribute; Paul Robeson 125th Birthday
Celebration; Cartoons; lots of Announcements; _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Feb 16, 2023, xxxxxx

 

* RE: STATE LEGISLATORS CAN FINALLY MAKE BILLIONAIRES PAY WHAT THEY
OWE (DANIEL MILLSTONE)
* RE: BIDEN FORGES A NEW DEMOCRATIC PARADIGM (GIL LEIB)
* RE: WILL THE CHILDREN TORTURED AS A TRUMP POLICY TOOL RECEIVE
JUSTICE? (AMY HENDRICKSON)
* RE: BLACK STUDIES PIONEER JOHN H. BRACEY JR. JOINS THE ANCESTORS
(KENTUCKY ALLIANCE AGAINST RACIST AND POLITICAL REPRESSION)
* YOUR CHILD CAN LEARN ABOUT BLACK HISTORY
* HISTORY REPEATS   --  CARTOON BY MICHAEL DE ADDER
* RE: BELIEVE IT: A DESANTIS PRESIDENCY COULD BE EVEN WORSE THAN
TRUMP (ELEANOR ROOSEVELT; ALAN HART; EDGAR ARACENA)
* RE: ISRAEL’S GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO TURN THE FILM INDUSTRY INTO
A PROPAGANDA ARM (RACHEL DEARAGON)
* RE: DEMOCRATIC LEADERS’ CRAVEN “SOCIALISM” VOTE IS A SYMPTOM
OF POLITICAL CLUELESSNESS (ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ; KIPP DAWSON; RAUL A.
CARDENAS)
* SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON
* RE: YOU’VE GOT TO BE CAREFULLY TAUGHT (RE: YOU’VE GOT TO BE
CAREFULLY TAUGHT (ARLENE HALFON)
* RE: 92 PERCENT OF EX-NFL PLAYERS SHOW BRAIN TRAUMA (EMILY SUE
ROSNER; JENNIFER WATSON; ROBERT LAITE)
* RE: POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY IS A “NON-STARTER” WITHOUT
DISCARDING THE QUALIFIED IMMUNITY DOCTRINE (PETER J. NICKITAS)
* RE: FEARS OF RENEWED FBI ABUSE OF POWER AFTER INFORMANT
INFILTRATED BLM PROTESTS (SPICER BLOUNT)
* RE: WASHINGTON POST RUNS MEDICARE NEWSLETTER SPONSORED BY
INSURANCE LOBBY FRONT GROUP (E BETH DAVIS)
* RE: HYUNDAI SUPPLY CHAIN AND CHILD LABOR (NORM LITTLEJOHN)
* RE: UNION KITCHEN WORKERS WIN BACK PAY IN NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS
BOARD SETTLEMENT (PETER RUARK)
* RE: MEXICAN PRESIDENT VOWS GLOBAL PUSH TO END ‘INHUMANE’ US
EMBARGO OF CUBA (DAVID MILLER)

 

War in the Ukraine:

* RE: GERMAN TANKS AGAINST RUSSIA? A HISTORIC MISTAKE (DR. VALERIE
KULETZ)

 

Resources:

* AFTER A TRAIN DERAILMENT, OHIO RESIDENTS ARE LIVING THE PLOT OF A
MOVIE THEY HELPED MAKE (CNN)
* HISTORIANS MOBILIZE TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST RIGHT-WING ATTACKS
(MARGARET POWER - HISTORY NEWS NETWORK)
* NAFTA’S SHADOW OF OBSTRUCTION (ROSA LUXEMBURG STIFTUNG)

 

Announcements:

* RUSSIA OUT! SOLIDARITY WITH THE UKRAINIAN RESISTANCE - FEBRUARY 25
(THE UKRAINE SOLIDARITY NETWORK (US) AND HAYMARKET BOOKS)
* LEARNING FROM GLOBAL SOUTH UNIONS: STUDENT VOICES ON CLIMATE
ACTION AND A JUST ENERGY TRANSITION - MARCH 7 (CUNY SCHOOL OF LABOR
AND URBAN STUDIES AND TRADE UNIONS FOR ENERGY DEMOCRACY)
* INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY CELEBRATION OF HOLLY NEAR - BAY AREA -
MARCH 8 (FREIGHT & SALVAGE)
* CALL FOR PAPERS - HEMISPHERIC CONNECTIONS COLLABORATION, CRITIQUE,
COMMUNITY AND THE BLACK DIASPORA IN THE AMERICAS - RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
- AUGUST 2-4 (SUBMIT ABSTRACTS BY MARCH 20)
* PUBLIC FORUM ON LABOR, VETERANS, HEALTHCARE PROFITEERING AND THE
FIGHT AGAINST PRIVATIZATION - PORTLAND, OR -MARCH 29 (LABOR NOTES,
AFGE LOCAL 2157, VETERANS FOR PEACE PDX 72, COMMUNITIES AND POSTAL
WORKERS UNITED, ALLIANCE FOR DEMOOCRACY, HEALTH CARE FOR ALL OREGON,
NATIONAL WRITERS UNION AND PORTLAND JOBS WITH JUSTICE)
* PAUL LEROY ROBESON 125TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION - PHILADELPHIA -
APRIL 8 - 15

 

RE: STATE LEGISLATORS CAN FINALLY MAKE BILLIONAIRES PAY WHAT THEY OWE

As you may already know, I want to tax the rich. In NYS, where I live,
there is an exciting grass roots campaign Invest in Our New York
(investinourny.org) which allies Democratic Socialists of America
[[link removed]], the Working Families Party
[[link removed]], New York Communities for
Change [[link removed]] and more. What I didn’t
know is that campaigns like this are going on elsewhere. Do you live
in California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, Maryland, or
Washington? You can join your local effort. Thanks to xxxxxx
[[link removed]]
for this report. How is the campaign to tax the rich going where you
live? Here it has been very exciting.

Daniel Millstone
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: BIDEN FORGES A NEW DEMOCRATIC PARADIGM
 

Why is foreign policy totally absent from your analysis of the SOTU
address?
Why was it hardly mentioned by Biden, except for Russia and China and
the
war in Ukraine?

Gil Leib

 

RE: WILL THE CHILDREN TORTURED AS A TRUMP POLICY TOOL RECEIVE JUSTICE?
 

Thank you, xxxxxx! I heard Thom's talk this morning and wanted to
share it, and thanks to you I could, with many hundreds of people--

Amy Hendrickson

 

RE: BLACK STUDIES PIONEER JOHN H. BRACEY JR. JOINS THE ANCESTORS
 

John H. Bracey Jr.—an architect of Black studies—who helped to
create one of the nation’s first doctoral programs in African
American studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, died
over the weekend. Bracey was 81.

Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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YOUR CHILD CAN LEARN ABOUT BLACK HISTORY

 

 

HISTORY REPEATS   --  CARTOON BY MICHAEL DE ADDER

 

Michael de Adder
January 31, 2023
Washington Post
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RE: BELIEVE IT: A DESANTIS PRESIDENCY COULD BE EVEN WORSE THAN TRUMP
 

Ever wonder why there's so many right-wing Catholics on the Supreme
Court? Or are we not allowed to ask that?

Eleanor Roosevelt
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Far worse

Alan Hart
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Our very own Viktor Orban.

Edgar Aracena
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: ISRAEL’S GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO TURN THE FILM INDUSTRY INTO A
PROPAGANDA ARM
 

The New Israeli government coalition is a anti democratic fascist
government. 

Rachel deAragon

 

RE: DEMOCRATIC LEADERS’ CRAVEN “SOCIALISM” VOTE IS A SYMPTOM OF
POLITICAL CLUELESSNESS
 

What’s next? Lock us up? Put DSA on the subversive list? Present US
politics feels like a nightmare of the return of the 1959s red scare I
lived through

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Gratitude to Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz for this post (and to xxxxxx
[link removed]…
[[link removed]]
for the article.

"Some Democrats apparently thought voting for the GOP’s ludicrous
anti-socialism resolution would keep them safe from Republican
attacks. They’ll find out soon enough how wrong they were."

Kipp Dawson
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Do they even know the meaning of the word?

Raul A. Cardenas
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Right there with you, Roxanne; lived through it with my
factory-working rank-&-file CP mom being constantly harassed by the
FBI. My first visitor when I got my first apartment (1963; I had just
turned 18) was from a big guy who spoke to me by name when I opened
the door, introduced himself as being from the "SF Police Red Squad,"
"just wanting to let you know that we know where you are." Of course
for Black activists and undocumented (or US citizen)
immigrants/children of's, these "visits" were too often outright
deadly. And yes, these horrors were built up to with things like this.
It's not to be taken lightly. Thank you!

Kipp Dawson
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON

 

Nick Anderson
February 8, 2023
Reform Austin
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RE: YOU’VE GOT TO BE CAREFULLY TAUGHT
 

"Holocaust Deniers" are among the most hated people in the country.
The descendants of Germany's Nazis, that I know, don't blame
themselves or feel guilty, they work to change the hatreds in the
world. Germany has the highest numbers of emigres from Israel of any
country in the world. The feeling almost seems to be that "if you want
to escape oppression, go to Germany."

There is nobody many of us dislike more than those who won't admit
their own mistakes and responsibility for harm caused to others; e.g.,
in an accident.

Why isn't that the lesson, rather than "why should we feel guilty for
things we didn't do?" No-one is asking anyone now to feel guilty for
the past; we mostly just want everyone to know and understand "the
past" in order to understand "the now" and try to fix the damage done
in the past.

Learning ACCURATE history is necessary if we are to be proud of the
historical record we leave today for future historians.

Arlene Halfon

 

RE: 92 PERCENT OF EX-NFL PLAYERS SHOW BRAIN TRAUMA
 

Have you played a contact sport? 
This is an interesting article.
The researchers at BU CTE need your input.

Emily Sue Rosner
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Destroy your brain and body for profits.

Jennifer Watson
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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It's time to put an end to this sort of entertainment. There are many
sports where there is always a risk of this kind of injury but it's
always due to an unfortunate accident. In football it's a foregone
conclusion.

Robert Laite
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY IS A “NON-STARTER” WITHOUT DISCARDING
THE QUALIFIED IMMUNITY DOCTRINE
 

The corollary to QI abolition is establishment of vicarious liability
for officers' employers.  Sec. 1983 employs the fiction that, with
narrow exceptions, the government is not liable; only the individual.

There was no qualified immunity at Nuremberg.

Peter J. Nickitas
Attorney at Law

 

RE: FEARS OF RENEWED FBI ABUSE OF POWER AFTER INFORMANT INFILTRATED
BLM PROTESTS
 

Some things never change.

Spicer Blount
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: WASHINGTON POST RUNS MEDICARE NEWSLETTER SPONSORED BY INSURANCE
LOBBY FRONT GROUP
 

This is because we have news outlets owned by massive corporations who
work for these people instead of investigating them.

E Beth Davis
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: HYUNDAI SUPPLY CHAIN AND CHILD LABOR

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
[[link removed]])
 

“A group of 33 Democratic lawmakers on Friday implored the U.S.
Labor Department ‘to take immediate action to rid Hyundai's supply
chain of child labor and hold those responsible to the fullest extent
of the law’ after a Reuters investigation revealed that dozens of
kids as young as 12 years old—most of them Central American
migrants—were working in Southeastern factories supplying the Korean
auto giant.

“Last July, Reuters began investigating allegations of children
working on the factory floor at Hyundai subsidiary SMART Alabama LLC's
metal stamping plant in Luverne after a 13-year-old Guatemalan girl
who worked there temporarily went missing.”

Norm Littlejohn
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: UNION KITCHEN WORKERS WIN BACK PAY IN NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS
BOARD SETTLEMENT

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
[[link removed]])
 

That restaurant needs to change its name!

Peter Ruark
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: MEXICAN PRESIDENT VOWS GLOBAL PUSH TO END ‘INHUMANE’ US
EMBARGO OF CUBA
 

article on AMLO's efforts to get the US to end its inhumane embargo on
Cuba was excellent. EXCEPT there is zero mention of what Biden or the
State Dept have to say about it. Your readers need to know what the
government reaction is to this pressure. Standard journalism gives an
overview of both sides' reactions.

David Miller

 

RE: GERMAN TANKS AGAINST RUSSIA? A HISTORIC MISTAKE

 

I was surprised and disappointed that you reprinted the article titled
"German Tanks Against Russia?
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by Sevim Dagdalen. Dagdalen's argument is seriously flawed. She
presents NO serious alternatives to Germany supplying tanks to Russia.
The alternative she does argue for-- diplomatic talks with Russia--has
shown to be nothing more than a calculated detraction, while Putin's
illegal and criminal forces run roughshod over Ukrainian civilians. 

Her claim that the Western wave of pro-military support for Ukrainian
sovereignty is the result of having been "swept away by a destructive
oligarchalisation" is unfounded and ludicrous especially in light of
Russia's own institutionalized aggression against Ukraine. Does she
not remember Bucha? Or Mariupol? Does she not recognize the daily
bombings of civilians? Is she not horrified at Putin's disregard for
everyone when his dictates result in a compromised nuclear plant that
even now is running only on backup generators? Or what about the
pattern of Russian aggression in neighboring territories? 

She confuses our need to support Ukraine against rape, torture,
dispossession, and death at the hands of the Russian military, the
Wagner Group, and Putin's maniacal ambitions with "an apocalyptic mood
in our society which no longer believes in real social progress."
Negotiations do not heal the likes of Bucha. 

This is not about an "apocalyptic mood" among those who wish to
support Ukraine. In fact, it is about preventing genocide; and we--the
international community-- have been shamefully tardy in our response.
I understand that xxxxxx may want to open debate on this issue but
this article lacks an intelligent rationale for any realistic
alternative. And it shows no understanding of the actual complexity of
concern and thought that is implicit in the decision that more
military power for Ukraine is necessary. 

Deciding to send tanks to Ukraine is not done lightly, nor is it a
result of an "apocalyptic mood." It is a well-considered response to
stopping genocide. Period. All countries--including Germany, no matter
its past--must respond to this horror. We have tried diplomatic
negotiations. It is shameful that this politician-writer can suggest
we continue to do this as the bombs reign down upon innocent
civilians. 

If you really think there needs to be debate on this issue among the
left (and I am not at all sure that is what we need right now) I
suggest you reprint someone other than Sevim Dagdelen. Actually, it is
my opinion that there is no articulate and intelligent argument to be
made here for not supporting Ukraine with tanks.

Dr. Valerie Kuletz

 

AFTER A TRAIN DERAILMENT, OHIO RESIDENTS ARE LIVING THE PLOT OF A
MOVIE THEY HELPED MAKE (CNN)

 

By Brenda Goodman and Kyla Russell
February 11, 2023
CNN
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When Ben Ratner’s family signed up in 2021 to be extras in the movie
“White Noise [[link removed]],” they
thought it would be a fun distraction from their day-to-day life in
blue-collar East Palestine, Ohio....

The 2022 movie
[[link removed]] was
shot around Ohio and is based on a novel_ _by Don DeLillo. The book
was published in 1985, shortly after a chemical disaster in Bhopal,
India, that killed nearly 4,000 people. The book and film follow the
fictional Gladney family – a couple and their four kids – as they
flee an “airborne toxic event” and then return home and try to
resume their normal lives.

Ratner tried to rewatch the movie a few days ago and found that he
couldn’t finish it.

“All of a sudden, it hit too close to home,” he said.

Read full story here
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HISTORIANS MOBILIZE TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST RIGHT-WING ATTACKS
 

by Margaret Power
February 6, 2023
History News Network [[link removed]]

We in Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD)  oppose any and all
attempts by right-wing groups and politicians to severely restrict or
eliminate teaching about race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and LGBTQ
rights.

On January 17, 2023, H-PAD released online a comprehensive digital
resource, Culture Wars Against Education Archive
[[link removed]].
The archive, which Molly Nolan, Professor of History Emeritus at New
York University, Ellen Schrecker, Professor of History Emeritus at
Yeshiva University, Andor Skotnes, Professor of History Emeritus at
The Sage Colleges, and H-PAD Research Associate Sarah Sklaw curated,
consists of a wide variety of official documents, articles, and
information about the main protagonists in the current attack on
democratic education. It is free and we encourage you to use it and to
share it. And we plan to update the archive periodically.

H-PAD has also launched Historians-On-Call (HOC), in conjunction with
the Zinn Education Project, [link removed], which we
have developed in conjunction with the Zinn Education
Project, [link removed], which is in direct contact
with high school teachers across the country. As we know, high school
teachers are being threatened, attacked, and fired. Members of school
boards have been either voted out of office or forced to resign.
Librarians are under intense pressure to get rid of books a particular
parent or parents or right-wing groups don’t like. University
professors are not immune from such attacks, but many of us do operate
in safer, more protected environments. The goal of HOC is to mobilize
university and college professors to work directly with high school
teachers, librarians, administrators, and school board members who are
receiving the brunt of the right-wings attacks on education. 

Read more here [[link removed]]

 

NAFTA’S SHADOW OF OBSTRUCTION (ROSA LUXEMBURG STIFTUNG)

 

In our newest study by Stuart Trew, Manuel Pérez-Rocha, and Karen
Hansen-Kuhn, the authors look into in the expired North American Free
Trade Agreement and the lingering investor legacy clauses that
undermine democratic decision-making and climate policy.

International investment treaties and investor-state dispute
settlement (ISDS) play increasingly prominent roles in debates about
the climate crisis and government efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas
emissions. Around the world, states and international governance
bodies are warming to the understanding that investment treaties
threaten progress on decarbonization, sustainable development, and the
achievement of human rights. Even in places where countries have taken
steps to roll back ISDS, as in North America with the passage of the
US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USCMA), corporate lawsuits against
democratically enacted energy and climate policies continue to put a
chill on government action.

This report looks at three such cases launched in the past two years
against Canada, the United States, and Mexico under the expiring ISDS
process in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). These
disparate cases include: TC Energy’s $15 billion challenge to the
Biden administration’s cancellation of the Keystone XL tar sands
pipeline; a dispute from Koch Industries involving the cancellation of
cap-and-trade in the Canadian province of Ontario; and about a half
dozen energy- and mining-related ISDS cases from Canadian and US firms
against Mexico, of which we will highlight the Finley Resources case.

What unites these ISDS cases, besides their links to energy and
climate policy, is that they should not have been possible to begin
with. They can only move forward because of a “legacy” provision
that temporarily extended NAFTA’s Chapter 11 investment provisions
in the replacement USMCA.

As such, these cases—and the Keystone XL dispute in
particular—provide a lesson for countries seeking to exit investment
treaties and free trade agreements containing ISDS: unless
unreasonable sunset periods are rolled back or canceled alongside
ISDS, the threat of investment arbitration to climate action will
linger.

Read more here [[link removed]]

Download full report (PDF)
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Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung [[link removed]]  
275 Madison Avenue,
Suite 2114
New York, NY 10016

 

RUSSIA OUT! SOLIDARITY WITH THE UKRAINIAN RESISTANCE - FEBRUARY 25
(THE UKRAINE SOLIDARITY NETWORK (US) AND HAYMARKET BOOKS)

 

This February marks one year since Russia’s imperialist invasion of
Ukraine. On the anniversary, people around the world are organizing
events in solidarity with Ukraine’s heroic struggle for
self-determination. On Saturday, February 25, 2023, please join our
panel of scholars and activists for a discussion of the roots, nature,
and politics of the war and the resistance.

***REGISTER THROUGH EVENTBRITE TO RECEIVE A LINK TO THE VIDEO
CONFERENCE ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT. THIS EVENT WILL ALSO BE RECORDED
AND LIVE CAPTIONING WILL BE PROVIDED
[[link removed]].***

Featured Speakers:

YULIYA YURCHENKO, Senior Lecturer at the University of Greenwich and
author of _Ukraine and the Empire of Capital: From Marketization to
Armed Conflict_.

VLADYSLAV STARODUBSTEV, historian of Central and Eastern European
region, and member of the Ukrainian democratic socialist organization
Sotsialnyi Rukh.

KIRILL MEDVEDEV, poet, political writer, and member of the Russian
Socialist Movement.

KAVITA KRISHNAN, Indian feminist, author of _Fearless Freedom_,
former leader of the Communist Party of India (ML).

BILL FLETCHER, former President of TransAfrica Forum, former senior
staff person at the AFL-CIO, and Senior Scholar at the Institute for
Policy Studies.

Including solidarity statements from among others BARBARA
SMITH, ERIC DRAITSER, HALEY PESSIN, RAMAH KUDAIMI, DAVE
ZIRIN, FRIEDA AFARY, JOSE LA LUZ, ROB BARRILL, and CINDY DOMINGO.

This event is sponsored by THE UKRAINE SOLIDARITY NETWORK (US)
[[link removed]] and HAYMARKET BOOKS
[[link removed]]. While all of our events are freely
available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation
in support of our important publishing and programming work.

 

LEARNING FROM GLOBAL SOUTH UNIONS: STUDENT VOICES ON CLIMATE ACTION
AND A JUST ENERGY TRANSITION - MARCH 7 (CUNY SCHOOL OF LABOR AND URBAN
STUDIES AND TRADE UNIONS FOR ENERGY DEMOCRACY)

 

[[link removed]]

TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2023

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM  (ET) VIA ZOOM

Click here to register.
[[link removed]]

Join us to learn from SLU students and Trade Unions for Energy
Democracy about the launch of TUED South in Africa, and upcoming
opportunities for students and other activists to learn about climate
action and organizing with unions globally for a public pathway to a
just energy transition.

CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies [[link removed]]
25 West 43rd Street
18th Floor
New York, NY 10036

 

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY CELEBRATION OF HOLLY NEAR - BAY AREA - MARCH
8 (FREIGHT & SALVAGE)

 

(photo by Susan Freundlich  //  Freight & Salvage)
The Freight and Salvage is honoring Holly Near on International
Women’s Day, March 8th. Rather than toasts and speakers, guest
artist will sing songs expressing the wide rage of Holly’s work.
Holly will sing and many duets are in the works. It is a rare evening
of love and collaboration featuring guests Linda Tillery, Mary
Watkins, Rhiannon, Terry Garthwaite, Vicki Randal, Adrienne Torf,
Emma’s Revolution, music director Tammy Hall and MC Krissy Keefer.

Holly Near has been singing for a more equitable world for well over
50 creative years. She is an insightful storyteller through her music,
committed to keeping the work rooted in contemporary activism.

Respected around the world for her music and activism, Holly released
her 31st album in 2018.

One of the most powerful, consistent, and outspoken singers of our
time, her concerts elevate spirits and inspire activism. A skilled
performer, Holly is an outspoken ambassador for peace who brings to
the stage a unique integration of world consciousness, spiritual
discovery, and theatricality.

Holly’s joy and passion continue to inspire people to join in her
celebration of the human spirit. Equally compelling at her shows and
through recordings, Holly’s music fully engages listeners in the
world around them—speaking to anyone who believes in peace, justice,
and feminism; a wonderful spectrum of humanity.

Featuring:
KRISSY KEEFER as MC
Holly Near
Emma's Revolution
Adrienne Torf
Vicki Randle
Terry Garthwaite
Rhiannon
Linda Tillery
Tammy Hall
Jan Martinelli
Michaelle Goerlitz
Mary Watkins

Advance Tickets: $32.00; Tickets at the Door: $36.00; Livestream
$25.00 (plus fees)
Purchase tickets here [[link removed]]

Freight & Salvage [[link removed]]
2020 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 644-2020

[email protected]

 

CALL FOR PAPERS - HEMISPHERIC CONNECTIONS COLLABORATION, CRITIQUE,
COMMUNITY AND THE BLACK DIASPORA IN THE AMERICAS - RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
- AUGUST 2-4 (SUBMIT ABSTRACTS BY MARCH 20)
 

 

More information - [email protected]
[[link removed]]

 

PUBLIC FORUM ON LABOR, VETERANS, HEALTHCARE PROFITEERING AND THE FIGHT
AGAINST PRIVATIZATION - PORTLAND, OR -MARCH 29 (LABOR NOTES, AFGE
LOCAL 2157, VETERANS FOR PEACE PDX 72, COMMUNITIES AND POSTAL WORKERS
UNITED, ALLIANCE FOR DEMOOCRACY, HEALTH CARE FOR ALL OREGON, NATIONAL
WRITERS UNION AND PORTLAND JOBS WITH JUSTICE)

 

 

PAUL LEROY ROBESON 125TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION - PHILADELPHIA - APRIL 8
- 15

 

The Paul Robeson House & Museum 
4951 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19139

This year, the Paul Robeson House & Museum is celebrating the 125th
birthday of Paul Leroy Robeson. Robeson was a man of many talents -
football star, singer, actor, lawyer, activist, orator, linguist. He
was also an unabashed advocate for the civil and human rights of
people considered outsiders - African Americans in his own country and
oppressed people all over the world.

Robeson was outspoken during the era of McCarthyism in this country.
The U.S. government and many of its citizens considered his cordiality
with the Soviet Union as a sign that he was a communist. He was made a
pariah, and he was literally wiped from U.S. history. Those of us who
believe in him and what he stood for are destined to preserve his
legacy and praise his name. This celebration is part of our mission.
So, we invite you to participate in the acknowledgment of this
Renaissance man.

During this Black History Month, we are offering a series of vignettes
from Robeson’s life as a prelude to the birthday celebration from
April 8-15, 2023. The series will remind the country and the world of
Robeson’s contributions, and the price he paid for speaking out
against racism and oppression. Robeson was born on April 9, 1898.

As we approach his birthday, the Robeson House and its counterparts
across the United States (the Paul Robeson Alliance) are recognizing
him with a flurry of activities from April 8-15, 2023. You can find
more information about the celebration on the Robeson House website
(paulrobesonhouse.org [[link removed]]) as well as the
alliance's website (paulrobesonalliance.org
[[link removed]]).

April 8, 2023

Bus trip to Paul Robeson's Birthplace

Join us for a bus trip from Philadelphia to Princeton, NJ, on Friday
morning, April 8, 2023, for a walking tour of the Witherspoon-Jackson
neighborhood that was the birth home of Paul Leroy Robeson. The tour
will be followed by a program at the Princeton Public Library
featuring speaker Dr. Jessica J. Williams
[[link removed]], Black feminist artist and educator,
and a tour of an exhibit in the library’s Princeton Room. Lunch is
included.

The Rev. William Drew Robeson and his wife Maria Louisa Bustill lived
in this now-historic neighborhood with Robeson, his three brothers and
one sister. Rev. Robeson was pastor of the Witherspoon Street
Presbyterian Church until he was ousted when Paul was about three
years old. White church officials said that the pastor was derelict in
his duties; Rev. Robeson’s parishioners said that he was removed
because he spoke out against social injustices. He was pastor for 20
years before his son was born in 1898.

Witherspoon-Jackson was Princeton’s Black neighborhood, begun in
earnest in the early 19th century. Like many Black neighborhoods
during those segregated times, it was “proud, self-sufficient and
self-sustaining,” as noted by the Witherspoon-Jackson Historical and
Cultural Society. Black people built their own churches, beauty and
barber shops, ice cream parlors, restaurants, clothing stores, school
and cemetery. They were also trained carpenters, teachers, lawyers and
physicians.

The society has erected 29 plaques that relate the story of the
establishments important to the history of the neighborhood, including
Witherspoon and three other churches; the School for Colored Children,
founded in 1873; Pearl Moore Allen Tavern, a meeting place, and the
Elks Home, still in operation.

Robeson recalled later that Blacks lived a “communal” life in the
neighborhood, bound together by the churches.

April 9, 2023

Bus trip to Mother A.M.E. Zion Church

Join us for a bus trip from Philadelphia to Easter-morning services at
Mother A.M.E. Zion Church in Harlem, NY, on April 9, 2023, the
birthdate of Paul Leroy Robeson. The pastor is Rev. Dr. Malcolm J.
Byrd. Brunch is included, on Columbia University campus.

Mother A.M.E. Zion was the church of the Robeson family for more than
50 years. Robeson’s brother the Rev. Benjamin C. Robeson pastored
there from 1936 to 1963, and was an activist minister. Robeson sang
and spoke there often during his brother’s tenure. It was one of the
few institutions that welcomed him after the U.S. government and much
of the country made him a pariah because of his activism and his
cordiality toward the Soviet Union. Robeson’s funeral service was
held at the church in 1976.

The church was founded in 1796, and its current building was designed
by George W. Foster Jr., a Black architect. Throughout its history,
the church attracted such Black luminaries as Langston Hughes, W.E.B.
DuBois, Marian Anderson, Joe Louis and Roland Hayes.

Mother A.M.E. Zion was called the “Freedom Church” because of its
role in the abolitionist movement, and it was an Underground Railroad
hideaway for enslaved Africans escaping slavery. Among its members was
Sojourner Truth

Friday night, April 14, 2023

Panel Discussion on Black America

Join us for a timely panel discussion on Black Americans featuring
longtime activist Fredrika Newton, president and co-founder of the Dr.
Huey P. Newton Foundation in Oakland, CA. Newton, widow of Huey
Newton, is a former Black Panther Party member.

The event will be both live and virtual. It will be held at the
Historic Belmont Mansion.

The aim of the foundation is to provide an accurate history of the
Party based on Huey’s archives, to preserve its legacy and
commemorate its work. The archives are located at Stanford University.
Huey and Bobby Seale founded the party in 1966.

The foundation has developed educational materials, organized forums
and exhibited historical documents from the Party archives. In 2021, a
bust of Huey was installed in Oakland, and the street where he was
killed in 1989 was designated “Dr. Huey P. Newton Way.” The
foundation’s seeks to ensure that the Party has a permanent space in
Oakland’s history through a monument, pop-up exhibits and a museum.
Fredricka believes that the Party helped set the stage and cleared the
path for the Black Lives Matter movement.

The panel will also feature Solomon Jones,
commentator/author/columnist; activist Michael Africa Jr. of the MOVE
Archival Project, among others. A reception will be held before the
panel discussion.

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