[ Reader Comments: Derailment = Nationalization; Florida Bans
Black History; Syria Hit by Earthquake, too; FBI Still Uses
Informants; Amazon Labor Union; Charlene Mitchell; Communists in
Closets; Building Resilient Organizations; Cartoons; more...]
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TIDBITS – FEB. 23, 2023 – READER COMMENTS: DERAILMENT =
NATIONALIZATION; FLORIDA BANS BLACK HISTORY; EARTHQUAKE HITS SYRIA
TOO; FBI STILL USES INFORMANTS; AMAZON LABOR UNION; CHARLENE MITCHELL;
COMMUNISTS IN CLOSETS; BUILDING RESILIENT ORGANIZATIONS  
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February 23, 2023
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_ Reader Comments: Derailment = Nationalization; Florida Bans Black
History; Syria Hit by Earthquake, too; FBI Still Uses Informants;
Amazon Labor Union; Charlene Mitchell; Communists in Closets; Building
Resilient Organizations; Cartoons; more... _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Feb 23, 2023, xxxxxx

 

* RE: RAIL WORKER ALLIANCE URGES LABOR TO BACK RAILROAD
NATIONALIZATION (JAY MAZUR; DANIEL MILLSTONE)
* RE: ROBERTO CLEMENTE BOOK REMOVED FROM FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
(LAWRENCE ROCKWOOD; FRANK STRICKER; HAROLD GILSTEIN; ANNIE M SMITH;
LAURA ZAGARELL; BRAD LAIRD; LAURA SNOW)
* RE: HOW NOT TO GET HOODWINKED ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY GOING
“BANKRUPT” (DAN JORDAN)
* RE: STATE LEGISLATORS CAN FINALLY MAKE BILLIONAIRES PAY WHAT THEY
OWE (ROBERT LAITE)
* THE BLAME, RE TRAIN, FALLS MAINLY ON THIS MAN  --  CARTOON BY
LALO ALCARAZ
* RE: CHEMICAL DESOLATION IN APPALACHIA (NORM LITTLEJOHN; ANDY
HEIDT)
* RE: AS TURKEY COUNTS ITS DEAD, A RECKONING IS STILL TO COME
(DEBORAH R KINGERY; FRED NILES)
* RE: FORENSIC STUDY FINDS CHILEAN POET PABLO NERUDA WAS POISONED
(LAURA FRIEDMAN)
* RE: FEARS OF RENEWED FBI ABUSE OF POWER AFTER INFORMANT
INFILTRATED BLM PROTESTS (MARTHA BRAGIN)
* RE: WHO KILLED MALCOLM X? FAMILY TO FILE $100M SUIT V. FBI, CIA,
NYPD & OTHERS TO FIND THE TRUTH (JEAN DOUTHWRIGHT)
* THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ... AND KIDS  CARTON BY KEVIN NECESSARY
* RE: WE CAN’T LET ANTISEMITISM BE WEAPONIZED TO CRIMINALIZE
SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE (STAN NADEL)
* RE: EDDIE CONWAY - 1946–2023 (NICOLE FABRICANT)
* ESSENTIAL WORKERS  --  MEME
* RE: FIRST STEP TOWARDS THE RECOGNITION OF BREAST CANCER AS AN
OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE IN FRANCE (ROBIN ESSER)
* SPY BALLOONS  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

TAKE ACTION:
 

* TELL AMAZON: COME TO THE TABLE WITH AMAZON LABOR UNION!

RESOURCES:

* STOP COP CITY— POSTER OF THE WEEK (CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF
POLITICAL GRAPHICS)
* NEW REPORT ON U.S. WORKERS' ORGANIZING EFFORTS AND COLLECTIVE
ACTIONS (MIT INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH)

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

* FEBRUARY 27TH REMEMBERING CHARLENE MITCHELL (CCDS SOCIALIST
EDUCATION PROJECT SEP)
* COMMUNISTS IN CLOSETS: QUEERING THE HISTORY 1930S - 1990S - A
READING BY THE AUTHOR - BETTINA APTHEKER - FEBRUARY 28 (OUTSTANDING
LIFE-BOSTON)
* BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS ANAND GIRIDHARADAS AND MAURICE
MITCHELL - BUILDING RESILIENT ORGANIZATIONS: TOWARD JOY AND DURABLE
POWER IN A TIME OF CRISIS - FEBRUARY 28
* "FIGHT LIKE HELL: THE TESTIMONY OF MOTHER JONES WEST VIRGINIA
PREMIERE - SOUTH CHARLESTON, WV - MARCH 23 (UNITED MINE WORKERS OF
AMERICA)

 

RE: RAIL WORKER ALLIANCE URGES LABOR TO BACK RAILROAD NATIONALIZATION

This is a demand the entire labor movement should take up as their own

Jay Mazur

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The toxic train derailment in Ohio is a product of quite lax
regulation of how trains operate for which the highly profitable rail
freight folk fervently lobbied. Here David Sirota
[[link removed]], Rebecca Burns
[[link removed]], and a team from The
Lever [[link removed]] report on some of what
could be done to reduce derailments and on the history of how we got
here (if you are not following The Lever, consider doing so). In the
comments, via, xxxxxx
[[link removed]],
rail workers call for nationalization of the industry. Of course part
of what needs to change is industry naming these incidents
“accidents.” These derailments are a result of decisions driven by
the desire for profit.

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Read New York Times Opinion here
[[link removed]]

Daniel Millstone
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: ROBERTO CLEMENTE BOOK REMOVED FROM FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
 

DeSantis bans a book.
Trump call for suspension of the Constitution.
Which is more problematic?

Lawrence Rockwood
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
[[link removed]]

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yup, it is fascism and some librarians are going along with it. Gee, I
think that kind of thing on a grander scale happened in the even more
deeply fascist nations in the 20th c.

Frank Stricker

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So crazy!

Harold Gilstein
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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I saw this..it sickens me

Annie M Smith
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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What a disgrace

Laura Zagarell
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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I am really uncomfortable with this racism and book banning.

Brad Laird
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Uncomfortable? I'm angry as h**l about it! This is a prime example of
a fascist government at work...

Laura Snow
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: HOW NOT TO GET HOODWINKED ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY GOING
“BANKRUPT”

 

No, Social Security is not going bankrupt. Share with friends.

Dan Jordan
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: STATE LEGISLATORS CAN FINALLY MAKE BILLIONAIRES PAY WHAT THEY OWE
 

Tax all forms of income at the same rates. Made $100,000 in capital
gains? Tax them the same as if their salary was $100,000. There's no
way a person working minimum wage should be paying a higher percentage
in taxes than a millionaire. Close all the tax loopholes!

Robert Laite
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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THE BLAME, RE TRAIN, FALLS MAINLY ON THIS MAN  --  CARTOON BY LALO
ALCARAZ

 

Lalo Alcaraz
February 22, 2023
Pocho
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RE: CHEMICAL DESOLATION IN APPALACHIA
 

Socialism for the corporations: they cut costs, and we pick up the
bill when the results go off the rails.

Norm Littlejohn
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Bipartisan corpo fuckery. I support a corporate death penalty.

Andy Heidt
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: AS TURKEY COUNTS ITS DEAD, A RECKONING IS STILL TO COME
 

Let’s hear more about Syria.

Deborah R Kingery
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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As Syria attempts to recover it's dead, Israel continues to bomb
Syria.

see: 

Syria just suffered a devastating earthquake but Israeli bombing does
not stop

Israeli attacks on Syria continue even as Syria struggles with the
aftermath of the February 6 earthquake, in which over 5,800 were
killed.

February 20, 2023 by Peoples Dispatch
[[link removed]]

Fred Niles

 

RE: FORENSIC STUDY FINDS CHILEAN POET PABLO NERUDA WAS POISONED
 

Unconscionable.

Laura Friedman
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: FEARS OF RENEWED FBI ABUSE OF POWER AFTER INFORMANT INFILTRATED
BLM PROTESTS
 

time to send out "when the FBI knocks" fact sheets again. I found it
very helpful back in the day

Martha Bragin
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: WHO KILLED MALCOLM X? FAMILY TO FILE $100M SUIT V. FBI, CIA, NYPD
& OTHERS TO FIND THE TRUTH
 

We've been lied to for decades of course.

Jean Douthwright
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ... AND KIDS  CARTON BY KEVIN NECESSARY

 

Kevin Necessary
May 18, 2018
WCPO Cincinnati [[link removed]]

 

RE: WE CAN’T LET ANTISEMITISM BE WEAPONIZED TO CRIMINALIZE
SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE
 

he IHRA does not do what this claims (as anyone can see by reading
what it actually says, rather than relying on excerpts taken out of
context) and the only explanation for these dishonest attacks on it is
that in solidarity with anti-Israel activists who sometimes cross the
line into antisemitism, the anti-IHRA activists prefer to distort what
it actually says in order to protect those of their allies when they
engage in anti-Semitic rhetoric. Of course charges of antisemitism
aren't always justified, but the IHRA is very careful to establish
criteria that would help distinguishing between real and false
charges--and that's what these attacks are designed to obscure.

Stan Nadel

 

RE: EDDIE CONWAY (1946–2023)

 

I know. He was a dear friend and comrade. I am glad that this piece
made xxxxxx. What a huge loss for Baltimore.

Nicole Fabricant

 

ESSENTIAL WORKERS  --  MEME

 

 

People's Chancellor - Economics For The Many
February 19, 2023
post on Facebook [[link removed]]

 

RE: FIRST STEP TOWARDS THE RECOGNITION OF BREAST CANCER AS AN
OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE IN FRANCE

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

In response to this article, stating that studies have found an
increase of 30% in breast cancer in women who work night shifts, I
wonder whether the actual cause of that has been tracked down - bc it
seems to me that people who work night shifts are going to eat more
junk food, more fatty food- more comfort food, while they are working.
More junk food and a fattier diet would definitely increase breast
cancer risk. Therefore, the increased breast cancer incidence in women
who work night shifts could be only a dietary or life style risk,
rather than an actual work place cancer. 

If you are aware of any studies which control for diet during the
night shift and during the daytime when the women are at home, could
you please send me the link.

Robin Esser, Ph.D. Physiology & Membrane Biophysics, Pharmacology,
Cardiac Electrophysiology and Neurophysiology

 

SPY BALLOONS  --  CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

Rob Rogers
February 14, 2023
robrogers.com [[link removed]]

 

TELL AMAZON: COME TO THE TABLE WITH AMAZON LABOR UNION!

 

Amazon workers at the JFK8 fulfillment center on Staten Island made
history last year when we voted to form the first-ever union at an
Amazon facility in America. It was a great victory, but it was also
just the beginning.

Since Amazon Labor Union won that vote, Amazon hasn’t just ramped up
its union-busting behavior at other warehouses, they’ve refused to
even come to the table and negotiate with the union.

IT’S TIME FOR AMAZON TO COME TO THE BARGAINING TABLE. The
workers’ demands are simple: Better pay, better benefits, and better
working conditions. Amazon’s choice to spend money union-busting --
firing organizers in other warehouses and flooding workers with
anti-union propaganda -- instead of bargaining in good faith goes
against the spirit of American labor law.

SEND A MESSAGE TO AMAZON’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS: IT’S TIME TO COME
TO THE BARGAINING TABLE AND WORK OUT A CONTRACT WITH THE AMAZON LABOR
UNION.

Amazon is one of the most profitable companies in the world -- and its
profits soared during the pandemic. Amazon warehouse worker Poushawn
Brown _died_ after Amazon forced her to conduct Covid tests without
providing any PPE. Instead of using its wealth to protect the workers
who kept it running, Amazon treated the human beings who make it run
as disposable.

TELL AMAZON: STOP UNION BUSTING AND START BARGAINING WITH AMAZON LABOR
UNION!

Click here to add your name
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Amazon Labor Union [link removed]
900 South Ave.
Suite 100
Staten Island, NY 10314

(718) 489-8818
[email protected] 

 

STOP COP CITY— POSTER OF THE WEEK (CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF POLITICAL
GRAPHICS)

 

 

Public outrage over police beatings and murders of unarmed people of
color is high. Demands are growing to remove funds from the police and
reallocate them to education, youth services, healthcare, and other
community-based and non-policing forms of public safety. Yet a $90
million project was just approved to build a military grade training
compound for the Atlanta Police Department. Officially named the
Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, activists and the media are
calling it “Cop City.” The police have already killed one
protester and arrested at least 18 people. Adding injury to injury,
this project will be an environmental disaster.

The plan to build Cop City became public in 2017, the full proposal
was published in 2020, and in 2021, Forest Defenders began to occupy
Weelaunee Forest to prevent it from being destroyed. On January 18,
2023, 26-year-old Venezuelan activist Manuel “Tortuguita” Paez
Terán was killed during a raid of the Stop Cop City encampment. They
were shot 13 times. Police are claiming Tort shot first at a state
trooper, the Forest Defenders are denied this and claimed they were
killed by police crossfire. Those arrested have been charged with
domestic terrorism, which is a felony, rather than with trespassing, a
misdemeanor, in order to discourage continued protests.

On January 31, 2023, permits were approved to destroy 300 acres of the
Weelaunee Forest that surrounds Atlanta. The land was originally
stolen from the Mvskoke (Muscogee) in the 1800s and later turned into
a prison farm in the early 1900s. Now it serves the local community as
a vital natural resource and biodiverse region, making it a home to
amphibians and migratory birds. Known for being “a city in a
forest,” Atlanta relies on the tree canopy of the
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Weelaunee Forest to combat climate-change-driven heat waves and floods
[[link removed]].

Police brutality is unacceptable. Greedy corporations
[[link removed]], cynical
politicians, and police continue to destroy natural resources
and the lives
[[link removed]] of
the vulnerable.
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The Atlanta Forest Defenders are calling for a Week of Solidarity

February 19th - 26th. Find a protest event near you.
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The posters used here are both are free digital downloads
on JustSeeds.org
[[link removed]]. Use
these graphics in solidarity with the Atlanta Forest Defenders!

Stop Cop City!

References:

* Atlanta Police Release Bodycam Video Amid Growing Outrage over
Activist's Killing and "Cop City" | Democracy Now
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* Autopsy Reveals "Cop City" Protester Was Shot 13 Times by Police in
Atlanta | Democracy Now
[[link removed]]

* Terrorism Charges Against Atlanta Protestors Draw Criticism |
Courthouse News Service
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* Atlanta's "Cop City" Moves Ahead After Police Kill 1 Protester &
Charge 19 with Domestic Terrorism | Democracy Now
[[link removed]]

* Documents show how 19 "Cop City" activists got charged with
terrorism | Grist
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* Police Foundations: A Corporate-Sponsored Threat to Democracy and
Black Lives | Color of Change
[[link removed]]

* Corporate Backers of the Blue: How Corporations Bankroll U.S.
Police Foundations | Eyes on the Ties
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Find a Target and Take Action | Stop Cop City Solidarity
[[link removed]]

* Defend the Atlanta Forest
[[link removed]]

* Week of Solidarity Calendar of Events | Atlanta Forest Defenders
[[link removed]]

* Stop Cop City
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* Stop Cop City Solidarity
[[link removed]]

Center for the Study of Political Graphics
[[link removed]]  
3916 Sepulveda Blvd
Suite 103
Culver City, CA 90230

 

NEW REPORT ON U.S. WORKERS' ORGANIZING EFFORTS AND COLLECTIVE ACTIONS
(MIT INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH)

 

A new report coauthored by MIT Sloan Professor Emeritus Thomas Kochan
finds that American workers are taking actions through union
organizing, strikes, and other forms of collective action to address
their pent-up demand for achieving a stronger voice and representation
at work.

A new report
[[link removed]] finds
American workers are taking actions through union organizing, strikes,
and other forms of collective action to address their pent-up demand
for achieving a stronger voice and representation at work. But their
actions are making clear to the American public the obstacles workers
face in forming unions under the election procedures provided in
current U.S. labor law.

The report, _U.S. Workers’ Organizing Efforts and Collective
Actions: A Review of the Current Landscape
[[link removed]],_ summarizes
research evidence on the size of the voice and representation gaps
workers are attempting to fill, and provides examples of different
strategies workers are using to address the gap.

The report is the first research product of the Worker Empowerment
Research Network (WERN), a new interdisciplinary network of labor
market researchers. The faculty and doctoral students who authored the
report reviewed worker organizing activities over the past decade to
explore the wide range of approaches American workers are taking to
express their collective voices in their workplaces, companies, and
communities. By highlighting the wide range of organizing and
collective actions occurring across the country, the researchers hope
to lay a foundation for a broad-based, multi-stakeholder set of
discussions about what needs to be done to support worker efforts to
achieve more equitable, inclusive, productive, and resilient
employment relationships.

“This is a teachable moment,” says Thomas A. Kochan
[[link removed]], Professor
Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management and member of the
faculty of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER),
and one of the lead authors of the new report. “There is such an
enormous difference between the intent of labor laws and what workers
experience when they try to exercise their rights.”

KEY FINDINGS OF THE REPORT INCLUDE:

* Despite a decrease in union participation, the level of support for
unions is actually higher than in the past.
* Workers may be deterred from unionizing by labor laws and employer
responses.
* In lieu of forming unions, workers have discovered other means of
self-advocacy.

US Workers' Organizing Efforts and Collective Actions: A Review of the
Current Landscape
[[link removed]]

Download the report [PDF]
[[link removed]]

MIT Sloan School of Management
[[link removed]]
100 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
617-253-1000

 

FEBRUARY 27TH REMEMBERING CHARLENE MITCHELL (CCDS SOCIALIST EDUCATION
PROJECT SEP)

 

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

9 PM. EASTERN, 8 PM CENTRAL, 7 PM MOUNTAIN, 6 PM PACIFIC

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

REMEMBERING CHARLENE MITCHELL AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST RACISM

Charlene Mitchell, was the first African American women to run for
president of the United States in 1968 on the Communist Party ticket,
a founder of the Free Angela Davis campaign and the National Alliance
Against Racism and Political Repression, a founder of CCDS, a trade
unionist, and a lifetime activist in the struggle against racism and
class exploitation.

This webinar will examine the life and works of Charlene Mitchell as a
window into the historic and contemporary struggles for racial justice
and against worker exploitation. It will consist of a video
presentation about Charlene Mitchell’s life and a tribute by Angela
Davis. The video and comments will be followed by a panel discussion
led by her comrades followed by questions and comments.

REGISTER
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COMMUNISTS IN CLOSETS: QUEERING THE HISTORY 1930S - 1990S - A READING
BY THE AUTHOR - BETTINA APTHEKER - FEBRUARY 28 (OUTSTANDING
LIFE-BOSTON)

 

[[link removed]]

Advance Registration reguired
[[link removed]] 

 

BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS ANAND GIRIDHARADAS AND MAURICE
MITCHELL - BUILDING RESILIENT ORGANIZATIONS: TOWARD JOY AND DURABLE
POWER IN A TIME OF CRISIS - FEBRUARY 28

 

[[link removed]]

Anand Giridharadas & Maurice Mitchell Discuss The Persuaders &
Building Resilient Organizations, moderated by Dorian Warren

Maurice will be diving into his article “Building Resilient
Organizations: Toward Joy and Durable Power in a Time of Crisis,” an
examination of how we can strengthen our progressive movement by
strengthening our organizations.

He’ll be joined in conversation by Anand, who wrote The New York
Times bestseller The Persuaders. Through interviews with elected
officials like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, movement
leaders, activists, and more, The Persuaders demonstrates how we can
win support and change minds about the policies our communities need
most.

THE PERSUADERS
The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other
people’s minds in order to change things. But America is suffering a
crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the
planet itself at risk. Americans increasingly write one another off
instead of seeking to win one another over. Debates are framed in
moralistic terms, with enemies battling the righteous. Movements for
justice build barriers to entry, instead of on-ramps. Political
parties focus on mobilizing the faithful rather than wooing the
skeptical. And leaders who seek to forge coalitions are labeled
sellouts.

In _The Persuaders_
[[link removed]], Anand
Giridharadas takes us inside these movements and battles, seeking out
the dissenters who continue to champion persuasion in an age of
polarization. We meet a leader of Black Lives Matter; a trailblazer in
the feminist resistance to Trumpism; white parents at a seminar on
raising adopted children of color; Bernie Sanders and Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez; a team of door knockers with an uncanny formula for
changing minds on immigration; an ex-cult member turned QAnon
deprogrammer; and, hovering menacingly offstage, Russian operatives
clandestinely stoking Americans’ fatalism about one another.

As the book’s subjects grapple with how to call out threats and
injustices while calling in those who don’t agree with them but just
might one day, they point a way to healing, and changing, a fracturing
country.

BUILDING RESILIENT ORGANIZATIONS: TOWARD JOY AND DURABLE POWER IN A
TIME OF CRISIS
Social justice organizations are in the midst of enormous upheaval and
change. In his article _Building Resilient Organizations: Toward Joy
and Durable Power in a Time of Crisis_
[[link removed]],
Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party,
offers an assessment of the current dynamics within social justice
organizations and pathways forward to realize “...movements that
exude joy, build power, and secure critical victories for the masses
of working people.”

The solutions offered in the essay span four dimensions—structural,
ideological, strategic and emotional—and range from suggested
practices, policies and structures to how individuals see themselves
and relate to each other. 

This article is a call to action, raising the alarm about continuing
along our current path and calling on each of us to learn from our
mistakes and shift from a focus on problems to a focus on solutions.

The essay was first published in The Forge, Convergence, and Nonprofit
Quarterly and has since garnered widespread attention and praise from
organizers and activists in progressive social movements. Michelle
Goldberg called the essay “keen, insightful” in _The New York
Times_, while MSNBC’s Chris Hayes praised it for “wisdom, sense,
and vision.” Maurice discussed the piece for a feature in _The New
York Times_ podcast “First Person.”
 

ANAND GIRIDHARADAS is the author of _The New York
Times_ bestseller _The Persuaders_, the international
bestseller _Winners Take All_, _The True American_, and _India
Calling_. A former foreign correspondent and columnist for _The New
York Times_ for more than a decade, he has also written for _The New
Yorker_, _The Atlantic_, and _Time_, and is the publisher of the
newsletter _The.Ink_. He is an on-air political analyst for MSNBC.
He has received the Radcliffe Fellowship, the Porchlight Business
Book of the Year Award, Harvard University’s Outstanding Lifetime
Achievement Award for Humanism in Culture, and the New York Public
Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York. _Photo by Michael Lionstar_

_“Anand Giridharadas shows the way we get real progressive change in
America—by refusing to write others off, building more welcoming
movements, and rededicating ourselves to the work of changing
minds.” —_Robert B. Reich, best-selling author of _The System_

MAURICE MITCHELL
[[link removed]] is a nationally
recognized political strategist, a visionary leader in the Movement
for Black Lives, and National Director of the Working Families Party
[[link removed]].

Raised by Caribbean working-class parents in NY, Mitchell began
organizing as a teenager and never stopped. At Howard University, he
organized against police brutality and for divestment from private
prisons after police killed a classmate. Mitchell went on to work for
several grassroots advocacy groups in his home state and became
director of the NY State Civic Engagement Table. 

In the wake of the police murder of Mike Brown, Mitchell relocated to
Ferguson and helped build the Movement for Black Lives. He went on to
co-found and lead Blackbird, a movement anchor organization that
provides strategic support to Movement for Black Lives activists
across the country. 

In 2018, Maurice took the helm of the Working Families Party where he
is applying his passion and experience to make WFP the political home
for a multi-racial working-class movement.
 

A progressive scholar, organizer and media personality, DORIAN
WARREN has worked to advance racial, economic and social justice for
more than two decades. Like the organizations he leads, Warren is
driven by the innate conviction that only social movements – led by
the people most affected by racial, economic, gender and social
injustice – can change their communities and public policies for the
better.

Warren is co-president of Community Change
[[link removed]] – an organization founded in 1968 by
civil rights, labor and community leaders to honor the memory of
Robert F. Kennedy's fight to end poverty in America. He is also the
co-founder and co-chair of the Economic Security Project
[[link removed]], an innovative social
impact organization that has already shifted the national conversation
around cash, economic power and economic security. And he is also the
co-host of the Deep Dive podcast
[[link removed]] on
The Takeaway with Melissa Harris-Perry.

Warren taught for over a decade at the University of Chicago and
Columbia University, where he was co-director of the Columbia
University Program on Labor Law and Policy. He's the co-author of The
Hidden Rules of Race
[[link removed]],
co-editor of Race and American Political Development
[[link removed]],
and numerous academic articles
[[link removed]]. He also worked at MSNBC,
where he was a Contributor, fill-in host for "Melissa Harris-Perry
[[link removed]]" and "Now with Alex Wagner"
as well as the Host and co-Executive Producer of “Nerding Out
[[link removed]]” on MSNBC’s
digital platform (now Peacock). He was previously a Fellow at
the Roosevelt Institute [[link removed]] and
serves on the boards of Working Partnerships USA, the Leadership
Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the National Employment Law
Project, The Model Alliance and The Nation magazine. 

As a commentator on public affairs, Warren has appeared regularly on
television and radio including NBC Nightly News, ABC, MSNBC, CNN,
CNBC, BET, BBC, NPR, Bloomberg, & NY1, among other outlets. He has
also written for The Nation, Huffington Post, Newsweek, Salon,
Washington Post, New York Times, Medium, Ebony.com
[[link removed]], and Boston Review.

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"FIGHT LIKE HELL: THE TESTIMONY OF MOTHER JONES WEST VIRGINIA PREMIERE
- SOUTH CHARLESTON, WV - MARCH 23 (UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA)

 

Event by United Mine Workers of America

The UMWA has been working with Wicked Delicate Films to plan a
one-night premiere of their film: Fight Like Hell – The Testimony of
Mother Jones.

FIGHT LIKE HELL: THE TESTIMONY OF MOTHER JONES WEST VIRGINIA PREMIERE

MARCH 23, 2023  --  7:00 PM

The Labelle Theatre
313 D Street
South Charleston, WV 25303

FREE

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We were never supposed to know her name. She was a poor Irish
immigrant who survived famine and war, fire, and plague. Unable to
save her husband or their four small children, she dedicated her life
to saving working families everywhere. The robber barons called her
“the most dangerous woman in America,” but workers called her
“Mother Jones.”

Upton Sinclair said of her, “she had force, she had wit, she had the
fire of indignation; she was the walking wrath of god.” Mother Jones
said of herself “I’m not a humanitarian, I’m a Hellraiser.”
Most famously, she told her followers to, “pray for the Dead and
fight like hell for the living.” She educated, agitated, and
organized the dispossessed and showed America what it could be.

With the gap between the rich and poor growing wider by the day, the
just and democratic society Mother Jones fought for is under attack.
Her hour has come again. It is time that her story and the fierce
struggles of working families are brought back to life.

Drawn from her autobiography, letters, speeches, and interviews, FIGHT
LIKE HELL is as bold and forceful as Mother Jones herself. Adapted
from Obie Award-winning Actress Kaiulani Lee’s one-woman play
“Can’t Scare Me,” FIGHT LIKE HELL was written and performed by
Lee and directed by Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker
Ian Cheney.

Tickets are completely free! Provided by the United Mine Workers of
America. But you need to RSVP to attend!

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