[ Reader Comments: Peace Movement-Then, Now?; Lessons from
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Restored; Ukrainian War - Differing Perspectives on the Left; Honoring
Pathbreakers-Celebrating International Womens Day]
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TIDBITS – MAR. 02, 2023 – READER COMMENTS: PEACE MOVEMENT NOW?;
CENTRALITY OF BLACK-WHITE UNITY; ROBERTO CLEMENTINE BOOK RESTORED;
UKRAINIAN WAR – DIFFERING PERSPECTIVES; HONORING
PATHBREAKERS-CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY; RESOURCES; MORE
 
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_ Reader Comments: Peace Movement-Then, Now?; Lessons from
History-Centrality of Black-white unity; Roberto Clementine Book
Restored; Ukrainian War - Differing Perspectives on the Left; Honoring
Pathbreakers-Celebrating International Women's Day _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
Mar. 02, 2023, xxxxxx

 

* RE: 20 YEARS AGO, THE WORLD SAID NO TO WAR  (LEW GRUPPER; STEVEN
WISHNIA; KAREN LEE WALD; JAMES RODRIGUEZ; KAT TANAKA OKOPNIK; TERRY
O'BRIEN)
* RE: THE GOP’S GRAND IMMIGRATION CON JOB  (DAVID BACON)
* NATIONALIZE THE RAILS  --  MEME
* RE: A CALL FOR ONE-PARTY AUTHORITARIAN RULE  (NORM LITTLEJOHN;
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT)
* A NEW WOKE  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
* RE: EIGHT LESSONS FROM BERNIE SANDERS’S NEW BOOK  (DENISE R
YOUNG; JONATHAN NACK)
* RE: THE GREAT SLAVE STRIKE THAT HELPED END SLAVERY  (BILL
FLETCHER; DIANA J. FOX; MARTY GOODMAN)
* RE: ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS A HERO OF THE LEFT  (GERALD HORNE)
* RACE/WHITE SOUTHERN WORKERS  (KEVIN ANDERSON)
* RE: BREAKING UP (WITH CHINA) IS HARD TO DO  (MIKE LISTON; CHARLES
PATRICK LYNCH; JOHN GILBERT)
* RE: “WE BASICALLY NUKED A TOWN WITH CHEMICALS”: EAST PALESTINE
VOLUNTEERS RISK MASS TOXIC EXPOSURE  (JENNIFER WATSON; ARLENE HALFON)
* TRUMP'S NEW LUNCH BUDDY  --  CARTOON BY CLAY JONES
* RE: ROBERTO CLEMENTE BOOK REMOVED FROM FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
(KDKA(CBS) PITTSBURGH; PATTY ALLEN; JOHN HAWKSLEY)
* UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT MARTIN STUDENT GOVERNMENT CONDEMNS
RACIST ANTI-CRT LAWS  (DAVID BARBER)
* DILBERT'S NEW CUBICLE  --  CARTOON BY WALT HANDELSMAN
* RE: ‘OLD-SCHOOL UNION BUSTING’: HOW US CORPORATIONS ARE
QUASHING THE NEW WAVE OF ORGANIZING  (NORM)
* RE: SHE WAS ONCE THE BIGGEST STAR IN JAZZ. HERE’S WHY YOU’VE
NEVER HEARD OF HER  (LINCOLN BERGMAN)
 

UKRAINIAN WAR - DIFFERING VIEWS, DIFFERING PERSPECTIVES

* RE: PUTIN’S MEIN KAMPF: AN INVASION FORETOLD  (DAVID BACON; T.M.
SCRUGGS; ETHAN YOUNG; RICHARD CURTIS; DAN MORGAN; TIM KEARNEY)

* STAND WITH UKRAINE - UK SOLIDARITY STATEMENT AND CALL FOR PROTESTS
FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF RUSSIA’S INVASION  (UKRAINE SOLIDARITY
CAMPAIGN - UK)

 

RESOURCES:

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EVERYONE! (THE PEOPLE’S CDC)

 

HONORING PATHBREAKERS  -  HONORING WOMEN  -  CELEBRATING
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY MARCH 8

* HERE'S TO STRONG WOMEN [INSPIRATIONAL VIDEO]  (THE JOURNEY)

* "MAKERS: WOMEN WHO MAKE AMERICA": NEW FILM CHRONICLES PAST 50 YEARS
OF FEMINIST MOVEMENT (DEMOCRACY NOW!)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

* MARCH IN LOVE FOR LIFE  --   FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT -
ALBUQUERQUE - MARCH 5
* JOIN US FOR THE 2023 LOBBY DAY FOR THE NY HEALTH ACT! - MARCH 14
(PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM - NY METRO CHAPTER)
* BOOK TALK - HENRY MAAR- FREEZE! THE GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT TO HALT
THE ARMS RACE AND END THE COLD WAR - MARCH 15 (TAMIMENT LIBRARY)
* VIEW FILM - VOICES FROM THE HOLY LAND ONLINE FILM SALON: THE LAW
AND THE PROPHETS (VIEW FILM IN ADVANCE OF DISCUSSION) - MARCH 19

RE: 20 YEARS AGO, THE WORLD SAID NO TO WAR

 

I remember marching with 1 1/2 million people and my family filling
the streets of Manhattan on February 15, 2003, in opposition to the
Iraq War.  As Phyllis Bennis points out, we did not stop the War that
our rulers (led by George Dubya Bush) were bent on pursuing.  But we
laid the basis, when the WMD (weapons of mass destruction) were found
to be a myth and Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with September 11th,
for turning our country against the War.

What I am afraid of, if the Republicans win the presidency in 2024,
they will crush opposition to the next imperial war, much like in the
19teens and 1920s.  We need to build grassroots anti war sentiment.

Lew Grupper

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I have different memories of the February 2003 antiwar demonstration
in New York. Mayor Michael Bloomberg had police block off the area in
front of the United Nations, so most of the hundreds of thousands of
people who turned out never got anywhere near the rally, because we
were penned up on various blocks on Manhattan's East Side.

Bloomberg as mayor was worse on civil liberties than Rudolph Giuliani
was, although that comparison is distorted by circumstances. Giuliani
would have been much worse if he had been able to use 9/11 as an
excuse.

Steven Wishnia

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Serious question i think should be addressed:
When 20 years ago we saw the largest worldwide  demonstrations
against war in our generations, the warmakers paid no attention and
went right about their business.  So what conclusions should we draw
from that?

Karen Lee Wald

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And yet, war still drives the world economy

James Rodriguez
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This came to me as a targeted ad.
I’m passing it along because I think it’s an interesting
experiment in left-leaning news sharing.

Kat Tanaka Okopnik
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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Oil wars of terror continue

Terry O'Brien
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: THE GOP’S GRAND IMMIGRATION CON JOB
 

It's unfortunate that xxxxxx would repost Thom Hartmann's article,
"The GOP's Grand Immigration Con Job" without at least some
response.  Hartmann has been making the same nativist defense of
employer sanctions, the weapon used to make it illegal for an
undocumented person to have a job, for many years.  His article
professes to attack Republicans, but it actually attacks undocumented
workers. 

While he puts quotes around the phrase "illegal" immigrants, he uses
the same racist tropes he's used for years.  His claim is that "when
the jobs dry up, the immigrants just stop coming" - an argument that
says that if it becomes illegal for undocumented workers to work
because a law forbids employers from hiring them, that the migration
of people will stop.  This is factually ridiculous on its face, since
immigration law has made it illegal to hire undocumented workers since
1986, and millions of people have come to the U.S. without papers
since then. 

Hartmann even claims that the law that created this form of illegality
made it easier and more legal for employers to hire undocumented
workers.  He says, "It started in 1986, when Ronald Reagan decided to
stop enforcing the laws against wealthy white employers hiring
undocumented people," and claims the 1986 law "made it _harder_ to
prosecute employers who invited undocumented workers into their
workplaces."  The law Reagan signed in 1986, the Immigration Reform
and Control Act, was actually the first immigration law that made it a
crime for undocumented people to work and for employers to hire
them. 

Hartmann's misstatements of history include the claim, made by many
nativists, that this provision of the law penalizing undocumented
workers was suppossedly not enforced.  Because of that "the next 20
years saw a collapse of American citizens working in both the
meatpacking and construction industries, made it _harder_ to
prosecute employers who invited undocumented workers into their
workplaces."  Saying the law wasn't enforced is not only untrue, but
ignores the firings of thousands of undocumented workers since 1986,
the enormous suffering caused to them and their families, and the use
of these firings and the threat of them to break organizing efforts
time and time again. 

This is just one of Hartmann's many factual errors.  In another he
has President Eisenhower starting the bracero program (which actually
started in 1942).  This kind of guest worker program that Hartmann
advocates treated the workers involved as heavily exploited farm
laborers, and put them into competition with the farmworkers already
here, while the government at the same time deported up to a million
people each year. 

To Hartmann, undocumented workers themselves are responsible for the
breaking of unions and the lowering of wages, an argument he made
overtly in his book "Rebooting the American Dream."  He sees
undocumented people simply as passive exploited victims, and ignores
the courageous actions by thousands of workers without papers to
organize unions, and fight in defense of their rights and culture in
the face of racism and brutality.  Instead, they are simply the
enemy.  This kind of pitting of workers against each other leads to
race and nationality-based hatred, and is one of the biggest obstacles
to the ability of workers to unite and fight back.

Hartmann defends the decision by the Biden administration to keep
Title 42 in place, illegally using the pandemic as the excuse to
refuse to allow migrants at the U.S. border to apply for asylum and
refugee status.  Instead, it's somehow Republicans saying that the
border is "open" that supposedly attracts migrants to come:   "But
literally hundreds of _Republican_ politicians, just like they do
every two years, have spent the two-plus years since Biden’s
inauguration proclaiming to every despairing potential refugee south
of our border that the door is wide open."  This is beyond a
ridiculous falsification of history.  It provides political cover to
the administration in breaking Biden's pre-election promises, and its
continuation of one of the most notorious of Trump's anti-immigrant
policies.

The problem, for Hartmann, is that too many immigrants are coming. 
"Immigration that’s too rapid or comes in waves invariably produces
a local and typically racist/xenophobic backlash."  Not a word in his
article about the actions by the U.S., particularly under Democratic
administrations, that have forced people to leave home -  the trade
agreements like NAFTA and CAFTA, or the military interventions that
support this pro-corporate policy. 

Hartmann's book, Rebooting the American Dream, has a whole chapter
making the same claims.  It condemned those in the labor movement who
sought to repeal laws making work a crime for the undocumented, and
who supported amnesty for undocumented people.  I reviewed it for _In
These Times_
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Maybe you should post it too.

David Bacon

 

NATIONALIZE THE RAILS  --  MEME

 

 

RE: A CALL FOR ONE-PARTY AUTHORITARIAN RULE
 

It’s a call for the “red states” to become a very poor nation.

Norm Littlejohn
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Where's General Sherman when we need him?

Eleanor Roosevelt
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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A NEW WOKE  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

 

Mike Luckovich
March 1, 2023
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: EIGHT LESSONS FROM BERNIE SANDERS’S NEW BOOK
 

I love this clarity. I know you were very hesitant about support for
Bernie in a presidential run, it is extremely problematic. Having said
that, is there another candidate that will emerge with this political,
framework and understanding? someone who commands the respect an
audience that he does?

Denise R Young

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As good as Bernie is compared to all the other Senators, there is
apparently nothing in his book about U.S. imperialism, it's perpetual
wars, or the U.S. military industrial complex, which are the scourges
of the earth.

Jonathan Nack
Cuenca, Ecuador

 

RE: THE GREAT SLAVE STRIKE THAT HELPED END SLAVERY
 

There is no mention of Dubois or Black Reconstruction in America.
 Dubois highlighted what he called the Great General Strike of the
African slaves.

Bill Fletcher

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This article about the Great Slave Strike is appreciated but "walked
off their jobs" is a twisted distorted  statements about enslavement
-that cruel, genocidal, institution of forced labor. Not a job!! It is
irresponsible to print those lines. 

Diana J. Fox, PhD
University Director
Institute for Gender and Development Studies
Regional Coordinating Office
The University of the West Indies

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Did you forget the role of revolutionary Haiti? Haiti's 1804
revolution was finally recognized as a nation in 1862 by Lincoln who
also ended a U.S. trade embargo. Haiti had inspired the Nate Turner
rebellion.

Marty Goodman

 

RE: ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS A HERO OF THE LEFT
 

I understand why there is a felt need by many—especially
Euro-Americans of the left—to identify with the US project.  Still,
how could an analysis of the perception of Lincoln by progressives
ignore the fierce intervention by the late Lerone Bennett, one of the
most prominent Black Public Intellectuals from his perch at EBONY
magazine?  He excoriated the 16th US President for, inter alia,
seeking to deport African Americans en masse; we barely escaped that
plot—allowing Lincoln to “evolve”.   Bennett could have focused
on mass executions of Indigenes and how the Civil War accelerated
their dispossession.  I do not find it coincidental that Bennett was
a journalist for some of the most important historiographical
interventions have come from Black reporters—see Nikole Hannah
Jones—as the structure of training for professional historians often
leads to an intellectual and political straitjacket.

Gerald Horne

 

RACE/WHITE SOUTHERN WORKERS
 

Varon's book on Civil War has some important insights on origins of
idea that white workers of South are also victims of a white oligarchy
-- that it goes back not just to Marx, but to the Abolitionist
movement.

Kevin B. Anderson

    Democracy and the White Working Class vs. “Oligarchy” in
the South
    by Kevin B. Anderson
    February 20, 2023
    Hollywood Progressive 
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The U.S. freedom road is long and winding, and people dedicated to the
struggle have been traveling it for many decades now.

"Elizabeth Varon’s book, Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the
Civil War, has just come to my attention, although it was published
four years ago, in 2019. Whether intentionally or not, the book gives
important illumination to Marxist debates over race, class, and
slavery. And a briefer level, it also offers new insights the origins
of fascist and right-wing populist movements in the U.S."
 - Kevin B. Anderson (Hollywood Progressive

 

RE: BREAKING UP (WITH CHINA) IS HARD TO DO

A perfect parable of how to get ensnared to the point of no escape
through one's greed. I guess the last laugh will be China's

Mike Liston

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What a load of xenophobic silliness. Articles attacking Russia, Iran,
Cuba and Venezuela to follow. One big China hater I know used to be a
Japan hater, and easily switched. Same slogans and arguments. How's
this, some American companies make most of their profits in China
selling to Chinese people. If the Chinese did like the author wants
Americans to do, a whole buncha American companies will go under.
Secondly made in China is just a label, the Chinese may assemble goods
with parts from Malaysia (well the US hates them, do we even know
where it is), Indonesia (same), Thailand (ditto) and so on. Hatred is
a terrible thing. I expect to see writing like this in the Washington
Post or New York Post, not on xxxxxx. Please someone tell me what is
"left" about this?

Charles Patrick Lynch

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This seems to be a very reactionary anti-Chinese article. "Containing
China"? The real problem is containing the United States. Why did
xxxxxx publicize this horrible article?

John Gilbert
University of Florence
Florence, Italy

 

RE: “WE BASICALLY NUKED A TOWN WITH CHEMICALS”: EAST PALESTINE
VOLUNTEERS RISK MASS TOXIC EXPOSURE
 

This what we mean by capitalism kills. From toxic waste and chemicals
to crumbling infrastructure like water lines poisoning people, to the
exploitation and abuse of bodies for profit.

Jennifer Watson
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I understand the need to protect individuals by Corporate
responsibility when a legitimate mistake is made or some other unknown
happens.

However, this SHOULD NOT APPLY to conscious decisions by knowledgeable
(or should be knowledgeable) decision-makers. They have no right to
decide what "risks" are appropriate and what the statistics are behind
those risks when dealing with anyone other than themselves.
Responsibility should not just be on the company; there must be
criminal, along with financial, responsibility against decision-makers
who just don't give a damn about anyone else.

We know we have decision-makers that decide their own increases in
wealth are worth the lives of all residents of some other countries;
why would we be surprised that they don't feel the same way about the
"lesser" humans in their own communities, especially the ones they
don't even live in.

I never considered myself a Marxist, but more and more his predictions
on the future of Capitalism, on its way to total Fascism (did he even
have that word?) is right on target. It's interesting how the
"Corporatist" aspects of businesses providing for their employees are
referred to as "Socialist" as if they were on their way to a
"Communist" future.

NOTE: My quotes around financial system words in that last paragraph
indicate that there are no real definitions we can all agree with.
When people use those words, I always ask them to define them.

Arlene Halfon

 

TRUMP'S NEW LUNCH BUDDY  --  CARTOON BY CLAY JONES

 

Clay Jones
February 28, 2023
claytoonz
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RE: ROBERTO CLEMENTE BOOK REMOVED FROM FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOLS

 

FLORIDA (KDKA) - A children's book about Roberto Clemente is being
returned to school library shelves in Florida. 

Last year, Duval County schools removed the book "Roberto Clemente:
The Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates" from classrooms.

Full story here
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KDKA(CBS) Pittsburgh

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Only nutjobs would've thought they had to "review" it in the first
place!

Patty Allen
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People need to protest this censorship effort by the republicans at
every opportunity. Read the books they’ve banned. If you have kids
or grand kids, read them the banned kids books.

John Hawksley
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT MARTIN STUDENT GOVERNMENT CONDEMNS RACIST
ANTI-CRT LAWS

 

Following a campaign by a campus group, People for Black History, the
UT Martin Student Government Association voted to condemn two pieces
of white supremacist "education" laws enacted in Tennessee -- the
anti-CRT law of 2021 and the divisive concepts law of 2022. People for
Black History continues its campaign and is attempting to get the
University's Faculty Senate to pass a similar resolution.

UTM Martin student government votes in favor of resolution condemning
Tennessee's 'anti-CRT laws' as racist

February 23, 2023
WPSD-Local 6
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(Paducah, Kentucky)
    

The University of Tennessee at Martin's Student Government Association
has passed a resolution condemning two Tennessee laws as racist. After
debating the issue Thursday night, the SGA resolution passed in a 16-4
vote

A new organization at UTM, People for Black History, has been
petitioning for the resolution since the second week of the spring
2023 semester. The group's issue is with Tennessee's passage of the
Anti-Critical Race Theory or CRT law of 2021, and the Divisive
Concepts Act of 2022. 

Read full story here
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David Barber

 

DILBERT'S NEW CUBICLE  --  CARTOON BY WALT HANDELSMAN

 

Walt Handelsman
February 28, 2023
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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RE: ‘OLD-SCHOOL UNION BUSTING’: HOW US CORPORATIONS ARE QUASHING
THE NEW WAVE OF ORGANIZING

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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“ ‘We’re seeing the same situation over and over — workers
going up against billionaires and billion-dollar companies with an
endless amount of resources while our labor laws are far too weak,’
said Michelle Eisen, a barista in Buffalo who helped lead the early
unionization efforts of Starbucks in that city. ‘We’re all
fighting for the same thing against different companies. We’re all
in the same boat. No one denies that there are a lot of obstacles to
overcome.’

“ ‘The labor board is doing its job with the limited resources it
has,’ she added. ‘But Starbucks continues to break the law
flagrantly.’ The union asserts that Starbucks has engaged in illegal
retaliation by firing 150 pro-union baristas and closing a dozen
recently unionized stores.

Norm

 

RE: SHE WAS ONCE THE BIGGEST STAR IN JAZZ. HERE’S WHY YOU’VE NEVER
HEARD OF HER

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
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Thanks for the article on Hazel Scott! There is a great short film on
her with excellent footage that would be an excellent link for you to
share as a follow up to the article. The film is by Eve Goldberg and
is on YouTube and I know she'd be happy to have it shared by
xxxxxx. 

It's called "Whatever Happened to Hazel Scott?" and the link is
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Lincoln Bergman

 

RE: PUTIN’S MEIN KAMPF: AN INVASION FORETOLD

 

It's bad enough reading the war-boosting coverage in the Times every
day, but Palast demonizes anyone who wants peace even more than the
Times does, which usually just ignores that anyone opposes this war.
 The war is caused by more than the views of one man, as powerful as
Putin may be, and understanding its causes and what it means to us
here in this country is very important in the midst of the current
jingoistic atmosphere.  This article doesn't help us to find common
ground facing the huge growth in war hysteria, and we desperately need
that.

David Bacon

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This is disappointing that one of xxxxxx's editors would choose this
article for distribution. The ultra-left, but mostly dogmatic blind
support for Russia's invasion can't even use that word, "invasion." On
the other hand, here Mr. Palast has abandoned his tools of
investigation and analysis that he uses so well exposing voter
suppression in Georgia (USA) and elsewhere. The intervention by the
U.S. in Ukraine this century has been massive, and was decisive in the
overthrow of the government in 2014 and handpicking the replacement,
as U.S. ambassador Nuland crowed both publicly and in hacked phone
calls. Imagine the Chinese government doing the same in northern
Mexico: the U.S. government would consider that an existential threat
and do whatever it took to eliminate Chinese sway over Mexico.

T.M. Scruggs
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The peace movement is split between those who demand "Russia Out"
(like Greg Palast), and those who focus on "Hands Off Russia" (like
ANSWER and Code Pink). The second position can't gain traction with
the public. This is sometimes for the worst reasons -- Russophobia and
military jingoism. But it is most often for the best reason -- it was
Putin who chose to invade, and everyone knows it. The US and NATO
provoked, maneuvered and manipulated, but the army that crossed the
Ukrainian border and blew civilian targets to bits, was Putin's. Putin
is the perpetrator of the actual violence in this war, which has been
a gift to those in the West who are ginning up the new cold war. 

Ethan Young

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Pretty sad to see a great activist reduced to peddling nonsense.
 Palast is clearly reading into the essay and ignoring everything
else the Russians did to complain about NATO for the last 20 years.
 Any sober analyst will tell you the war was provoked.  That does
not justify it, but it does mean one has to understand US motives for
prolonging the war to understand why it happened and continues.  It
is simply naïve hysterics to believe everything Biden says.  This is
as much Biden's war as it is Putin's.

Richard Curtis

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The USA poured millions into the Ukraine before 2014 to help the
bloody coup, which Victoria Nuland was manipulating. The Minsk accords
were used as a diversion, to give time for building up the Ukrainian
forces. This has been admitted now by Angela Merkel and Francois
Hollande. The post-coup regime banned the Communist Party, the largest
opposition force and neo-Nazis set about intimidating all opposition
to them. The Russian language and culture was gradually forced out.
The reaction, in Crimea and the Donbass les to Ukraine shelling
civilians for 8 years: a UN report in 2020 spoke of the humanitarian
crisis there, with over 10,000 civilians killed. Putin acted to
protect people with strong historical links to Russia, speakers of
Russian. Do they have no rights, do not exist? All sides are losing -
the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, the European economies - except for
the USA, especially the arms industry. Extreme nationalists in the
Ukraine are being used to prolong the war. Prospects of negotiations
last April were stopped when Boris Johnson (then the UK Prime
Minister) went to Kyiv and told Zelensky to stop them. The geopolitics
are clear: US imperialism wants to prolong the war to destroy or
gravely weaken Russia, weaken Europe and stop competition to its world
domination.

Dan Morgan
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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I think you left out most of the story. You cherry picked your facts
and you sound as if you are too personally involved. The Rage Against
the War Machine was a good rally and march to the White House, home of
your Emperor.

Tim Kearney

 

STAND WITH UKRAINE - UK SOLIDARITY STATEMENT AND CALL FOR PROTESTS FOR
THE ANNIVERSARY OF RUSSIA’S INVASION  (UKRAINE SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN
- (UK))

We are calling for and supporting protests
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actions and meetings in solidarity with Ukraine in the last week of
February –  during the global week of action organized by the
European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine and others, marking the
anniversary of Russia’s invasion. 

The casualties of Russia’s war in Ukraine are counted in tens of
thousands, the displaced in many millions, the damage in tens of
billions of pounds. The invading forces are systematically committing
crimes including intentional killing of civilians, rape, destruction
of vital infrastructure, and forced displacement and deportations,
including of children. Meanwhile the war is transforming Putin’s
Russia into an even more violently reactionary and authoritarian
regime. 

A democratic, lasting peace for the peoples of Ukraine and Russia
requires the defeat of Russia’s brutal imperialism. We stand with
Ukraine’s military resistance to Putin’s war, and with the
anti-war resistance in Russia. 

We demand the immediate withdrawal of all invading troops from the
territory of Ukraine to its internationally recognized borders; the
right for all refugees and displaced persons to return in conditions
of safety; for those responsible for war crimes to be held fully
accountable, and for meaningful justice for their victims. 

We demand governments increase humanitarian aid, and for the gifting
to Ukraine of all the surplus UK military equipment due to be
replaced, especially the 79 Challenger tanks, 170 Scimitar
reconnaissance vehicles, all Warrior infantry fighting vehicles,
Typhoon fighter aircraft - to help Ukraine win more quickly, with less
suffering.

We commit to building renewed and expanded solidarity with Ukraine’s
resistance; with Ukraine’s labour movement and left in their fight
for independence, to defend workers’ rights, human rights and
democracy during the war, and for a more just and democratic post-war
reconstruction; and with the anti-war movement and independent labour
organisations in Russia. 

We call for the UK to increase its support and welcome for the victims
of this conflict, and to end the hostile environment facing
refugees. 

Initial signatories:

* Gary Smith, GMB General Secretary
* Barbara Plant, GMB President
* Mick Whelan, ASLEF General Secretary
* Chris Kitchen, NUM General Secretary
* Simon Weller, ASLEF Assistant General Secretary
* John Moloney, PCS Assistant General Secretary (pc)
* Oksana Holota, Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (in
UK)
* Pavlo Holota, Independent Union of Mineworkers of Ukraine (in UK)
* John McDonnell MP
* Nadia Whittome MP
* Clive Lewis MP
* Rachael Maskell MP
* Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP
* Ian Lavery MP
* Mick Antoniw, Member of the Senedd
* Paul Sweeney, Member of the Scottish Parliament
* Alena Ivanova, Sacha Ismail, Chris Ford, Ukraine Solidarity
Campaign
* Paul Mason, writer and campaigner
* Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner
* Yuliya Yurchenko, Sotsialnyi Rukh, Ukraine Solidarity Campaign,
UCU activist
* Matthew Hull, Trade Union Liaison Officer, Green Party of England
& Wales (pc)
* Tessa Milligan, Open Labour Co-Chair
* Amen Tesfay, Open Labour Co-Chair
* Mark Boothroyd, Unite and RCN activist, Guys’ and St Thomas’
* Zoe Williams, journalist
* Daniel York Loh, writer, performer, filmmaker
* Mike Davis, editor, Chartist
* Julie Ward, Chartist, former Member of the European Parliament
* Cathy Nugent, Workers’ Liberty
* Vijay Menezes-Jackson, Chair, National Young Members' Committee,
PCS (pc)
* Vera Horton, Belarusian activist, BelDiasporaTV
* John-Paul Himka, historian

See here for list of additional Initial signatories - Stand with
Ukraine – UK solidarity statement and call for protests for the
anniversary of Russia’s invasion – Кампанія
Солідарності з Україною
(ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org)
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This statement was launched by the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign
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PRESERVE AND EXPAND THE PUBLIC HEALTH RESOURCES UNDER THE COVID STATE
OF EMERGENCY DO NOT END THE STATE OF EMERGENCY! PROTECT EVERYONE! (THE
PEOPLE’S CDC)

 

The US has suffered more from Covid-19 than other high-income nations.
The state of emergency increased access to Medicaid, and assured free
access to vaccines, tests, masks, and treatments for all US residents,
including more than 30 million uninsured Americans. Even with these
additional resources, the poor US government response has led to a
nearly 3-year decline in average life expectancy, and larger declines
in low-income and communities of color. Removing resources such as
tests and care during the ongoing pandemic will cause a deadly
disaster and worsen these intolerable inequities. The pandemic has NOT
ended, and the US lacks sound public health policy to move to
long-term management. _We must fight to preserve and expand these
wins. Moving forward, the US public deserves better._

These facts demonstrate the dangers of ending the emergency:

* Covid-19 continues to _kill more than 450 people a day as of
February 2023_. Over 93% of Americans live in areas with substantial
or high transmission rates.
* There are _14,000 new cases reported per day nationwide_, despite
diminishing access to testing (NYT Tracker).
* Approximately 30,000 people with Covid-19 are _hospitalized in
the US_, nearly 40% of them under age 60 as of early February (NYT
Tracker).
* Covid-19 continues to mutate rapidly, and future mutations may be
more severe. New vaccines will be needed, and people must be able to
afford them. Without  federal funding under the state of emergency,
drug companies will charge the public over $100 per shot, clearly not
affordable for millions.
* Most people will lose access to free rapid and PCR tests.  It’s
vital to diagnose people who get Covid-19 so they can isolate and get
needed care in order for the US to control the pandemic and decrease
deaths and Long COVID.
* _Filling a prescription for Paxlovid_, which can reduce the length
and severity of Covid-19, will cost between $100-130 and require a
doctor’s visit, clearly unaffordable for most people.
* As many as 15 million people could be cut off from Medicaid
(depending on state policies) starting in April, losing access to
general medical care as well as Covid-19 care.
* Seniors on _Medicare_ will lose access to free telehealth in
2024.
* _Data collection and reporting_ on Covid-19 test positivity,
hospitalizations, and more will diminish, leaving the nation without
good warnings of virus trends.

For more information, contact the People’s CDC
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The People’s CDC is a coalition of public health practitioners,
scientists, healthcare workers, educators, advocates and people from
all walks of life working to reduce the harmful impacts of COVID-19.

 

HERE'S TO STRONG WOMEN [INSPIRATIONAL VIDEO]

 

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Here’s To Strong Women; We May Know Them. We May Be Them. We May
Raise Them. 

Here’s To Strong Women who are now the leaders of the new
generation. We need more girls growing up and tackling the stereotypes
to lead our Parliaments, our Boardrooms, our Courtrooms and
Universities. 

We need more girls like YOU to be able to be the future leaders and
future decision-makers. This video is a simple motivational and
inspirational reminder for all the strong women out there. 

Here is to all the women founders, the women influencers and the
heroes who are not planning to give up and have no incentive to quit
the battle. 

Please help us to share and spread the word!

 

"MAKERS: WOMEN WHO MAKE AMERICA": NEW FILM CHRONICLES PAST 50 YEARS OF
FEMINIST MOVEMENT (DEMOCRACY NOW!)

 

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Feb 26, 2013
[link removed] - We look at a major new documentary that
tells the story of how women have shaped the United States over the
last 50 years through political and personal empowerment. It's called,
"Makers: Women Who Make America" and it premieres tonight in a
three-hour special on PBS. Narrated by Meryl Streep, the film explores
the women's movement from the publication of Betty Friedan's "The
Feminine Mystique" published 50 years ago this month in 1963 to the
Anita Hill v. Clarence Thomas hearings in 1991. "Makers" shares the
story of legendary figures such as Gloria Steinem and Oprah Winfrey,
to lesser known pioneers such as Kathrine Switzer. In 1967, Switzer
became the first woman to officially enter and run the Boston
Marathon. Her run made headlines when a top race official tried to
forcibly remove her from the race. She finished the race. 

MARCH IN LOVE FOR LIFE  --   FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT - ALBUQUERQUE -
MARCH 5

 

UNITE! MARCH IN LOVE FOR LIFE!   FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT!
 

From Morningside Park to Sandia Weapons Lab Gate!

On MARCH 5, 2023 we celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the entry into
effect of the UN Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons. Let us unite! May
our children speak through their arts, written word, spoken word, time
to be seen and heard. It’s time.

SUNDAY, MARCH 5TH FROM 1 TO 5:00 PM

MEET: AT MORNINGSIDE PARK IN ALBUQUERQUE AT 1:00 PM.

219 MORNINGSIDE DR SE

Sag vehicles for those who would march part of the route or none of
the route

GATHER AT 1:00 PM AT MORNINGSIDE PARK

* Raging Grannies will sing between speeches
* On or before 2:00 PM March will start on Lead Avenue
* March will go East on Zuni to Louisiana Blvd (on the south side of
Zuni),
* South on Louisiana to gate of the Sandia Weapons Lab/Air Force
Base 
* The march finishes at the Gate by 4:00 to 4:30 PM
* Shuttles back to vehicles at Morningside Park area will be arrange
-March will go approximately 3 miles (porta-potty) along the route.

Sponsoring organization:

* Donald and Sally-Alice Thompson Chapter Veterans for Peace

Endorsing Organizations:

* Joan Duffy Chapter Veterans for Peace Santa Fe
* Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) Albuquerque
* Raging Grannies
* Demand Nuclear Abolition (DNA)
* Green Party of the ABQ Metro Area (GPAMA)
* A.S.H.U.N.M. Affordable Student Housing UNM
* International Depleted Uranium Study Group (IDUST)
* Peaceful Skies Coalition
* Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice
* Nuke Watch New Mexico

More endorsements coming!

Questions: Elizabeth Smith and Bill Tiwald, 
505-331-6676, 505-697-2545   
Email: [email protected]   [email protected]
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JOIN US FOR THE 2023 LOBBY DAY FOR THE NY HEALTH ACT! - MARCH 14
(PHYSICIANS FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAM - NY METRO CHAPTER)

 

We are excited to invite you to our annual NY HEALTH ACT LOBBY DAY
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which will take place ON ZOOM ON TUESDAY, MARCH 14TH.  

With the new year comes a number of changes to New York’s
single-payer landscape with a new Assembly Health Committee Chair, a
new Assembly lead sponsor of the New York Health Act, and new
opportunities to bring more people into our movement from across the
state. 

We look forward to joining with YOU to demonstrate that the New York
Health Act is an urgent priority for health workers and patients
across New York!

3 IMPORTANT DATES TO ADD TO YOUR CALENDAR:
We invite you to attend the following educational events leading up to
Lobby Day in preparation for our lobby visits, to help us build
knowledge, power, and momentum. All are welcome and each of these
events will be held virtually so are accessible from anywhere!

Closed captioning will be provided.

🌟 TUESDAY, MARCH 7 @ 7:30PM: Virtual NY Health Act Forum - RSVP
[[link removed]]!
🌟 THURSDAY, MARCH 9 @ 7:30PM: Virtual Lobby Skills Training
- RSVP
[[link removed]]!
🌟 TUESDAY, MARCH 14: Virtual NY Health Act Lobby Day - RSVP
[[link removed]]! 

HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! Share the link to sign up with your
colleagues, friends, and networks: bit.ly/LobbyDayNYHA2023
[[link removed]]!

RSVP
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OUR 2023 VIRTUAL LOBBY DAY GOALS:

✅ Show leadership in Albany that the NY Health Act
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a priority for NYers.
✅ Urge current co-sponsors to more actively support the NY Health
Act.
✅ Meet with skeptical legislators to address their concerns and
recruit support.
✅ Take an active role in changing our inequitable, unjust,
profit-centered healthcare system!
✅ Support other health justice-centered legislation in Albany:

☝Reproductive Freedom & Equity Act
[[link removed]] (A00361A
[[link removed]] / S00348B
[[link removed]])
will establish a fund to cover the cost of abortion —as well as
traveling expenses and childcare costs—for low-income New Yorkers
and people coming from out of state. Has already passed the state
senate!
☝Coverage 4 All 
[[link removed]](A3020
[[link removed]] / S2237
[[link removed]])
will create a state-funded Essential Plan for ALL New Yorkers up to
200% of the federal poverty level, regardless of immigration status,
by including undocumented immigrants in the state’s application for
the 1332 waiver.
☝Protect Telemedicine Abortion Across State Lines
[[link removed]] (S1066A
[[link removed]] / A1079A
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will shield clinicians and pharmacists throughout the state from:
prosecution, loss of license or malpractice, and from subpoenas of
their medical records for prescribing and sending of abortion pills to
people who need them.
☝Indigent Care Pool
[[link removed]] (Bill
numbers pending) will redistribute public funding to protect true
safety-net hospitals providing health care for low-income, people with
disabilities, and communities of color.
☝End Medical Debt package: Ounce of Prevention Act
[[link removed]] (S1366
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requires all hospitals to use a uniform application form and policy
and relates to distribution of funds from the general hospital
indigent care pool, and Fair Medical Debt Reporting
[[link removed]] (S4907
[[link removed]])
prohibits medical debt from being collected by a consumer reporting
agency or included in a consumer report.

ADDITIONAL WAYS TO SUPPORT THE MOVEMENT TODAY:

❗Physicians and medical students: sign our Doctors for NY Health
Petition
[[link removed]].
❗Stories are the heart of our advocacy. Share your experience as a
health worker here
[[link removed]] to
be featured as part of our ongoing #MedStoryMonday social media
campaign on Facebook
[[link removed]], Twitter
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and Instagram
[[link removed]].
Not a health worker? Share your story here
[[link removed]]!
❗NYC residents: sign this petition
[[link removed]] requesting
the NYC Comptroller conduct a study on the financial impact
[[link removed]] of
the NY Health Act on the NYC Budget.
❗Support PNHP-NY Metro by making a financial donation today
[[link removed]]!

LIST OF COSPONSORS IS IN FORMATION: Contact [email protected] to
add your organization!

Thanks for all you do, 

The Lobby Day Planning Team

Physicians for a National Health Program - NY Metro Chapter
[[link removed]]  
131 W 33rd St 4th floor
New York, NY 10001

 

BOOK TALK - HENRY MAAR- FREEZE! THE GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT TO HALT THE
ARMS RACE AND END THE COLD WAR - MARCH 15 (TAMIMENT LIBRARY)

 

 

HENRY MAAR ON THE GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT TO HALT THE ARMS RACE AND END
THE COLD WAR
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2023  --   (5:00 PM ET)

Virtual Event (On Zoom)

JOIN AUTHOR, HENRY RICHARD MAAR III, AS HE DISCUSSES HIS RECENT BOOK
WITH PETER KUZNICK.

ABOUT THE BOOK

In _Freeze!_, Henry Richard Maar III chronicles the rise of the
transformative and transnational Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. Amid
an escalating Cold War that pitted the nuclear arsenal of the United
States against that of the Soviet Union, the grassroots peace movement
emerged sweeping the nation and uniting people around the world. Learn
more about the book on the Cornell University Press website
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

HENRY RICHARD MAAR III is the author of Freeze!: The Grassroots
Movement to Halt the Arms Race and End the Cold War. He is a Lecturer
in History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at
California State University, Northridge.

PETER KUZNICK is a Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear
Studies Institute at American University. He is the author of_ Beyond
the Laboratory: Scientists As Political Activists in 1930s America_,
co-author with Akira Kimura of _Rethinking the Atomic Bombings of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Japanese and American Perspectives_, co-author
with Yuki Tanaka of _Nuclear Power and Hiroshima: The Truth Behind
the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Power_, and co-editor with James Gilbert
of _Rethinking Cold War Culture. Active in the Civil Rights,
anti-Vietnam War and anti-nuclear movements, in 1995_, he founded
American University’s award-winning Nuclear Studies Institute, which
co-hosted major exhibits on the atomic bombings, with the cities of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1995 on the 50th anniversary and in 2015 on
the 70th. The 1995 exhibit displayed many of the artifacts that were
originally supposed to be part of the Smithsonian’s ill-fated Enola
Gay exhibit. He and filmmaker Oliver Stone co-authored the 12-part
Showtime documentary film series and book _The Untold History of the
United States (2012-2013)_. He and Stone also recently
co-authored _The Concise Untold History of the United States (2014)_,
based on the documentary scripts.

RSVP
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Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives/ NYU Special
Collections [[link removed]]
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012

 

VIEW FILM - VOICES FROM THE HOLY LAND ONLINE FILM SALON: THE LAW AND
THE PROPHETS (VIEW FILM IN ADVANCE OF DISCUSSION) - MARCH 19

 

Watch this film
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and (if you can) join the discussion.

Invitation to Online Film Salon - Sunday March 19, 2023
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What are the tools of Israeli lawfare used against Palestinians?

How can one be an effective prophet for justice in the Holy Land?

In Israel, East Jerusalem, and the West Bank, the law is whatever
Israel deems to be in the best interest of Jewish Israelis, which is
often to the detriment of Palestinians. In this, Israel violates the
civil and human rights of Palestinians as a matter of standard policy.
The Law and the Prophets explains the mechanisms of control, some
violent and some nonviolent, that have been perfected through decades
of civil and military rule of Palestinians. The documentary also
introduces us to a few of the brave and determined
individuals—prophets—who struggle to expose the abuses, reveal how
the system operates, and point the way towards a more just society.

Watch the film for free
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at your convenience; then join the Q&A Discussion with:

* JOSHUA VIS: Filmmaker, writer, activist and tour organizer
* MUHANAD AL QAISY: General Coordinator-Olive Tree Campaign and
Project Officer-Joint Advocacy Initiative
* CHASE CARTER: Communications Director-Center for Jewish Nonviolence
and community organizer
Our moderator is MERCY AIKEN: Author and Relationship Manager-Network
of Evangelicals for the Middle East.

YOU MUST REGISTER TO JOIN THE DISCUSSION & RECEIVE ACCESS TO THE FILM
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MARCH 19, 2023  --  03:00 PM IN EASTERN TIME (US AND CANADA)

* Reader Comments
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* Nuclear Disarmament
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* immigrant workers
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* International Women's Day
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* East Palestine Ohio
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* toxic chemicals
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* Bernie Sanders
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* Roberto Clemente
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* Critical Race Theory
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* CRT
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* African American history
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* Hazel Scott
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* COVID-19
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* women workers
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* Healthcare
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* Israel
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* Palestinians
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