[ Reader Comments: GOP Defends Sex Offender; Debt Crisis; Child
Labor Laws, Population Decline; Yes, I Am Latina. And No, I Am Not
Mexican -An Exchange; Vietnam 50 Years Later; Charlene Mitchell
Memorial Livestream Link; Yuri Kochiyama; more]
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TIDBITS – MAY 11, 2023 – READER COMMENTS: GOP DEFENDS SEX
OFFENDER; DEBT CRISIS; CHILD LABOR LAWS, POPULATION DECLINE; YES, I AM
LATINA. AND NO, I AM NOT MEXICAN -AN EXCHANGE; VIETNAM 50 YEARS LATER;
CHARLENE MITCHELL MEMORIAL LIVESTREAM LINK; MORE  
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May 11, 2023
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_ Reader Comments: GOP Defends Sex Offender; Debt Crisis; Child Labor
Laws, Population Decline; Yes, I Am Latina. And No, I Am Not Mexican
-An Exchange; Vietnam 50 Years Later; Charlene Mitchell Memorial
Livestream Link; Yuri Kochiyama; more _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, AND cartoons -
May 11, 2023, xxxxxx

 

Danger  --  Cartoon by Clay Bennett
Trump’s Proud Boys Finally Get to Stand Back and Stand By – IN
JAIL  --  Cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz
Re: Why I Changed My Mind on the Debt Limit  (Norm Littlejohn)
Re: Democrats Shouldn’t Fall for McCarthy’s Debt Limit Ransom
Attempt  (Arlene Halfon)
Partners  --  Cartoon by Nick Anderson
Re: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Signs Bill Aimed at Weakening
Public-Sector Unions  (Spicer Blount)
Re: A New Republican Assault on Children: Overturning Labor Laws
 (Charles)
Re: Population Decline Will Change the World for the Better  (Rudy
Acuna; Charles Patrick Lynch; David Schwartzman; Jorge; Jennifer
Nouri)
A Note on French Revolution Historiography  (Clifford D. Conner)
Re: The Real History of Queen Charlotte, and the Problem With
Netflix's Bridgerton Spinoff  (Dave; Moderator's Note)
Coronation  -- Cartoon by Rob Rogers

 

RE: YES, I AM LATINA. AND NO, I AM NOT MEXICAN  -AN EXCHANGE  (AYANA
MORSE; RAFAELLA DAUMAS-LADOUCE)

 

Resources:

 

* VIETNAM 50 YEARS LATER: BEYOND THE VIETNAM WAR  (C-SPAN AND GEORGE
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY)

 

Announcements:

 

* THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE: THE LEGACY OF CHARLENE
MITCHELL  - NEW YORK AND LIVESTREAM  - THIS SATURDAY - MAY 13

* REMEMBERING THE LEGACY OF YURI KOCHIYAMA - MAY 19  (UCLA ASIAN
AMERICAN STUDIES CENTER)

* WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE NEW LEFT?: A PANEL DISCUSSION - PHILADELPHIA
- MAY 20  (MAKING WORLDS BOOKSTORE AND SOCIAL CENTER)

* ORPHEUS WITH LIVE SCHREIBER, KAREN SLACK & WILL LIVERMAN -
BEETHOVEN'S "EGMONT" AND 125TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO PAUL ROBESON - NEW
YORK CITY - MAY 20  (ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA)

* 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MARCH FOR FREEDOM - DETROIT - JUNE 7
 (MICHIGAN LABOR HISTORY SOCIETY)

* THE ROSENBERG CASE 70 YEARS LATER: FIGHTING FASCISM THEN AND NOW -
TWO SCREENING DATES – JUNE 14TH OR JUNE 25TH  (ROSENBERG FUND FOR
CHILDREN)

 

DANGER  --  CARTOON BY CLAY BENNETT

Clay Bennett
May 9, 2023
Chattanooga Times Free Press
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TRUMP’S PROUD BOYS FINALLY GET TO STAND BACK AND STAND BY – IN
JAIL  --  CARTOON BY LALO ALCARAZ

 

Lalo Alcaraz
May 5, 2023
Pocho
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RE: WHY I CHANGED MY MIND ON THE DEBT LIMIT
 

The right question is whether Congress — after passing the spending
bills that created these debts in the first place — can invoke an
arbitrary dollar limit to force the president and his administration
to do its bidding.

Norm Littlejohn
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: DEMOCRATS SHOULDN’T FALL FOR MCCARTHY’S DEBT LIMIT RANSOM
ATTEMPT
 

If we let them get away with this, the demands will become more and
more draconian. It's too much already--can't confirm judges, can't
house people, remove payments that workers themselves have paid for.
Let them hit the debt ceiling and let the world see what the US has
finally descended into. If we lose, we would have lost anyway. We have
to stop the abuse; follow the advise you would give to a battered
woman. STOP THE ABUSE!!! CALL their bluff and take the risk!!!

Arlene Halfon

 

PARTNERS  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON

 

Nick Anderson
May 8, 2023
Pen Strokes [[link removed]]

 

RE: FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS SIGNS BILL AIMED AT WEAKENING
PUBLIC-SECTOR UNIONS
 

Why only today he posted 4 times about all the great things he is
doing FOR teachers. [link removed]

Spicer Blount
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: A NEW REPUBLICAN ASSAULT ON CHILDREN: OVERTURNING LABOR LAWS
 

I worked on a farm in tobacco (and other crops) one summer when I was
12 It was a good experience for me a middle class white kid, because
it was always understood that I would go back to school afterwards,
and that it was not my future. And I didn't need the small money to
eat. Farmers kids worked too.

But it was different for us and for children who HAVE to work to
survive and who do so without access to medical care or much
education. We have to recognize the class as well as the racial
segregation in such work. All workers standing side by side for a
photo are not equal. I worked with homeless teenagers, many who were
white, who also followed the crops to earn more than they could get
from begging. They should not be invisible either.

We abandon and throw away many children, especially GLBTQ kids. And
others. Americans are against abuse for their own children, OPK (Other
People's Kids) not so much. And children whom we have marginalized?
Meh. Whatever doesn't kill them or cripple them makes them stronger,
umm, maybe. Read that sentence again and think about it.

Charles

 

RE: POPULATION DECLINE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER
 

Just so the ratio is not managed

The rational fewer if better leads to nightmares. Who make the
decisions? NATO?

Who is going to do the counting? I don't trust Biden, actions speak
louder than words. I don't trust the Democrats or the Republicans so
who would I trust? I would not trust many Mexicans or Latinos, they
would broker their vote. So what do I do, go to some cave and wish for
the best? Let's talk about it.

Rudy Acuna

      =====

Well, yes and no. I have seen a number of population decline folks who
want to be able to drive their bulldozers through forests without it
mattering because there are so few of them. umm, no. The elephant in
the room is consumption and lifestyle. The elephants twin is war. It
is not just the numbers of people, it is how they live and what they
do.

If people insist on large houses on lots of land per individual, we
are well past sustainability. People who live in smaller apartments
(means having less things as well) are on the right path. Instead of
too many people, how about too many billionaires? Or rich people? How
about a lifestyle that is largely urban, and lower impact. How about
removing wars from the equation? We don't like to talk about these
things. Less poor people won't make much difference. Fewer suburbs
will help.

Finally, to get to a lower population, who will die? Most of the die
off folks I have encountered won't say it, but they mean the poor and
black and brown and yellow (Asians). We need to frame this discussion
differently. Have people read "Stand on Zanzibar" and "The Sheep Look
Up" by John Brunner? He asked a lot of questions quite a while ago.
Too much of the current population discussion is based on a Western
Middle Class framework. Can we question that?

Charles Patrick Lynch
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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This is another ruling class user-friendly neo-Malthusian argument
which diverts from the real driver of threats to biodiversity and
human well-being, militarized fossil capitalism. Barry Commoner
refuted this argument 50 years ago, and more recently Ian Angus and
Simon Butler did in their book "Too Many People?".

Just how will global population decline to 8 billion as this article
advocates? Most likely by mass famine, pandemics and climate
catastrophes much worse than now witnessed, outcomes we can avoid by
defeating fossil capital and its political instruments.

Rather than decline, stabilization of global population growth with a
projected level of 9 billion by 2050 is welcome, and the UN knows how:
empowerment of women in society and radical reduction of poverty. And
for countries like China, now witnessing a recent decline in their
population, they are facing a demographic challenge with a declining
active workforce needed to support an aging population.

Meanwhile India now has the biggest population of any nation on the
planet, with extreme poverty for hundreds of millions, but one of its
states, Kerala with a Communist-led government, has shown the way
forward, as the Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen pointed old years ago.

David Schwartzman

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When they "thin out the herd" who does the thinning and who is
thinned? Look at what is happening in California universities in the
name of matching enrollment to funding.

Jorge

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This is the reset. Either you get it or you are the problem. We can
not continue to over use our resources.

Jennifer Nouri
Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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A NOTE ON FRENCH REVOLUTION HISTORIOGRAPHY
 

Re: The Persistent Allure of Military Coups
 

The comment only applies to an offhand remark about the French
Revolution and has nothing to do with the author's analysis of the
current situation in Sudan.

Here's an exercise in historical writing: Summarize the meaning and
accomplishments of the French Revolution in twenty-five words or less.
This is one writer's attempt:

". . . the French Revolution that removed . . . Louis XVI from power
and ushered in the horrors of the guillotine and the despotism of
Napoleon." (1)

The simplemindedness of this synopsis would be astounding were it not
so familiar. It reflects the reactionary one-sidedness of the vast
majority of commentators on the French Revolution—the "common
wisdom" if you will—in the English-speaking world over the past two
and a half centuries. One exception was Mark Twain, who had a far more
profound historical understanding of that watershed event in human
affairs. His appreciation of its meaning runs to considerably more
than twenty-five words, but every word is worthy of deep
contemplation:

". . . it was like reading about France and the French, before the
ever memorable and blessed Revolution, which swept a thousand years of
such villainy away in one swift tidal-wave of blood—one: a
settlement of that hoary debt in the proportion of half a drop of
blood for each hogshead of it that had been pressed by slow tortures
out of that people in the weary stretch of ten centuries of wrong and
shame and misery the like of which was not to be mated but in hell.
There were two 'Reigns of Terror,' if we would but remember it and
consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in
heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted
a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons,
the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the
'horrors' of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak;
whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with
lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break?
What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at
the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that
brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at
and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled
by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful
Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity
as it deserves." (2)

_Clifford D. Conner is the author of Jean Paul Marat, Tribune of the
French Revolution, Pluto Press (2012), and Marat, savant et tribun, La
Fabrique (2021)._

FOOTNOTES:
(1) John Feffer, "The Persistent Allure of Military Coups," Foreign
Policy in Focus
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2023.

(2) Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889).
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RE: THE REAL HISTORY OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE, AND THE PROBLEM WITH
NETFLIX'S BRIDGERTON SPINOFF

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Superb article!! Would love to know more about the author.

Dave

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Moderator's Note:

NYLAH BURTON [[link removed]] is
a Lifestyle Writer at Bustle, where she covers topics related to
mental health, health, social justice, and identity.

Nylah also has bylines in New York Magazine, ESSENCE, The Nation,
Lilith Magazine, and Alma, among others. Her essays and original
reporting on issues pertaining to Jews of Color have been widely
circulated. Nylah also works as a sexual assault prevention
specialist, where she facilitates community discussions that attempt
to dismantle rape culture. She studied Caribbean literature at Howard
University.

 

CORONATION  -- CARTOON BY ROB ROGERS

 

Rob Rogers
May 9, 2023
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RE: YES, I AM LATINA. AND NO, I AM NOT MEXICAN

(posting on xxxxxx Culture
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I love xxxxxx! I pretty much appreciate every article I read and
trust your perspective. I can't say enough about how much I appreciate
what you are doing.

And that's part of why it was so painful to open up the poem, "Yes, I
Am Latina. And No, I Am Not Mexican." I read news from many outlets.
When reading many publications, I'm prepared to encounter deeply
offensive ideas. But I've found xxxxxx to try to address a lot of
interesting and challenging issues with nuance that evades so many. To
not be reactionary. To not run racist, sexist or classist tropes.

So as a Chicana, when I opened this poem, it really hurt. I understand
this poem is struggling with some important issues about being an
immigrant and a Latina and US citizen privilege and many things. But
it's deeply problematic that this poem paints "Mexican" as the
problem. Deeply problematic and painful. And lacking both a useful
analysis of race and racism, but also a deep misunderstanding of class
and the role that scapegoating of Mexicans plays in undermining
effective class struggle and solidarity in the United States.

This poet screams the idea at us that people thinking she's Mexican is
a big problem. While that is ignorant that people assume something
incorrect, the disgust with Mexicans that this poet, either
intentionally or unintentionally, plays into, is deeply problematic.
And then she goes on to give voice to many racist things said about
Mexicans, but nothing to challenge or oppose those messages. She seems
to try to engage our sympathy at how hard it is for her to be called a
Mexican, leaving those of us who are Mexican with what? Do we deserve
the disgust and blame she describes? Absolutely not. And you chose to
publish this on Cinco de Mayo!

I hope that xxxxxx takes this poem down, apologizes for publishing
it and never publishes anything like this in the future.

Thank you for reading,
Ayana Morse
 

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Here is the response we received from the poet Rafaella
Daumas-Ladouce:

I deeply apologize if this poem is offensive to anybody of actual
Mexican descent. My poem was meant to specifically describe my
experience.  I completely understand how the stereotypes toward
people of Mexican descent are offensive and hindering with the
demographic that identifies as Mexican, but this poem refers entirely
to those that do not identify with that demographic and how harming it
is for people to generalize all of Latin America as “Mexican”. It
was never my intention to paint Mexicans as a scapegoat, but mostly
highlight how that misconception and prejudice against “Mexicans”
harms not only those that identify with that specific demographic but
also all Latin Americans that are surreptitiously attached to that
prejudicious way of thinking as well.

I understand how hard it must be to be Mexican in this country with
all of these stereotypes, and there is nothing that will undermine
that experience; the fact still remains that all Latin Americans are
generalized into that demographic. As much as it is terrible that the
ideas presented in my poem are attached to your identity through the
xenophobia and racism that is pervasive in the States, they get
attached to mine as well, simply because I speak Spanish and come from
Latin America. I sincerely apologize about not addressing the
stereotypes themselves, and maybe I should have done a better job at
creating a clearer distinction between the perceived identity (the
stereotypes) and the actual identity of Mexicans in the United States.
If my poem expressed any ignorance at all about the specific Mexican
experience in the United States, it’s because I am ignorant, since
I’m not Mexican, I am Paraguayan. I apologize if I did not make that
clear.

 

VIETNAM 50 YEARS LATER: BEYOND THE VIETNAM WAR  (C-SPAN AND GEORGE
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY)

 

Fifty years after the 1973 peace agreement ending the Vietnam War,
George Washington University hosts a day-long conference to consider
the war’s meaning and legacy.

Vietnam 50 Years Later: Beyond the War

This discussion
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about the end of the Vietnam War a half-century ago featured former
war correspondents Jim Sterba and Elizabeth Becker, and author David
Maraniss. This George Washington University conference in Washington,
D.C., was held to consider the war’s meaning and legacy

Click here for full discussion and video
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Additional videos

VIETNAM WAR REFLECTIONS
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Vietnam War veterans and former U.S. Senators Chuck Hagel and Bob
Kerrey were among those who looked back at the end of the conflict
that divided the country. Former Vietnam War correspondent, and
PublicAffairs Books founder, Peter Osnos, gave opening remarks. This
George Washington University conference in Washington, D.C., was held
to consider the war’s meaning and legacy.

WRITING ABOUT THE VIETNAM WAR
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Authors who have written acclaimed accounts of the Vietnam War talked
about their work and lessons learned from the conflict. Speakers
included writers Philip Caputo, Frances FitzGerald, and Fredrik
Logevall. This George Washington University conference in Washington,
D.C., was held to consider the war’s meaning and legacy.

VIETNAM 50 YEARS LATER: WAR-ERA SOUNDS AND IMAGES
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Fifty years after the Vietnam War ended in 1973, this was a discussion
about the sights and sounds that defined the era. Speakers included
poet John Balaban and former photojournalist Mark Godfrey. This George
Washington University conference in Washington, D.C., was held to
consider the war’s meaning and legacy

 

THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM AND JUSTICE: THE LEGACY OF CHARLENE MITCHELL
 - NEW YORK AND LIVESTREAM  - THIS SATURDAY - MAY 13

 

In Charlene Mitchell we witnessed a unique leader and organizer in the
struggle for freedom and justice.

SATURDAY, MAY 13 · 2 - 5PM EDT

Link for the Livestream - good only on Saturday at 2:00pm EDT
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Here is the YouTube (we are NOT using zoom) Link
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LiveStream the Celebrate Charlene Mitchell program. 

Click this link on SATURDAY, May 13th at 2:00 PM (EDT)
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program will end about 4:00 PM, or shortly thereafter.

Please share this link with your contacts, and others.

IN PERSON:

The Riverside Church
490 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10027

 

REMEMBERING THE LEGACY OF YURI KOCHIYAMA - MAY 19  (UCLA ASIAN
AMERICAN STUDIES CENTER)

 

FRIDAY, MAY 19 · 3 - 4PM EDT   --  ONLINE

Get Tickets
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Celebrate the life of activist Yuri Kochiyama on what would've been
her 102nd birthday!

Special guests include:

* Akemi Kochiyama, granddaughter of Yuri Kochiyama

* Diane Fujino, author of _Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary
Life of Yuri Kochiyama
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We'll also learn more about the efforts of the Asian American Studies
Center to preserve and promote Yuri Kochiyama’s legacy, including a
newly created digital exhibition.

 

WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE NEW LEFT?: A PANEL DISCUSSION - PHILADELPHIA -
MAY 20  (MAKING WORLDS BOOKSTORE AND SOCIAL CENTER)

 

Saturday, May 20, 2023
6:00 PM  7:30 PM

Making Worlds Bookstore & Social Center
210 South 45th StreetPhiladelphia, PA, 19104

ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO RSVP.
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Please join Raina Lipsitz, author of The Rise of a New Left: How Young
Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics, community
organizer and State Representative Rick Krajewski, Senator and
cofounder of Reclaim Philadelphia Nikil Saval, and senior strategist
for the Working Families Party and City Council at-Large candidate
Nicolas O'Rourke for a lively discussion of the state of progressive
organizing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and nationwide. Joe Dinkin,
national campaigns director for the Working Families Party, will guide
the discussion. Raina Lipsitz's new book, The Rise of a New Left, will
be highlighted as apart of the discussion.

About the Panelists:
 

* RAINA LIPSITZ is the author of _The Rise of a New Left: How Young
Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics
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She writes about politics and culture. Her work has appeared in Al
Jazeera America, The Appeal, The Atlantic, The Conversationalist, The
Nation, and The New Republic, among other publications.

* RICK KRAJEWSKi is a community organizer currently serving as State
Representative for the 188th District of the Pennsylvania House of
Representatives. As a multiracial Black man raised during the War on
Drugs, he is passionate about building movement power inside and
outside institutions in order to win our common agenda.

* THE REVEREND NICOLAS O’ROURKE is the Covenant Pastor of the
Living Water United Church of Christ in Oxford Circle and the Senior
Strategist for the Working Families Party within the Mid-Atlantic
Region. He is competing in the 2023 Municipal General Election as an
Independent candidate for City Council at-Large with the Working
Families Party, campaigning for gun safety, affordable housing,
climate solutions, safe public schools, justice and radical love.

* NIKIL SAVAL is a State Senator representing the First Senate
District in Philadelphia. He is a co-founder of Reclaim Philadelphia.
From 2012 through 2019, he was an editor of n+1, and he is the author
of Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace (Doubleday, 2014).

* JOE DINKIN is the national campaigns director for the Working
Families Party. He is a veteran political strategist who currently
manages the WFP's independent expenditure campaigns, helping to elect
six progressive members to Congress in competitive Democratic
primaries in 2022. Joe got his start at the Working Families Party on
a 2004 campaign to raise the minimum wage in New York. Joe lives in
South Philadelphia with his wife and two cats.

MAKING WORLDS BOOKSTORE & SOCIAL CENTER
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ORPHEUS WITH LIVE SCHREIBER, KAREN SLACK & WILL LIVERMAN - BEETHOVEN'S
"EGMONT" AND 125TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE TO PAUL ROBESON - NEW YORK CITY -
MAY 20  (ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA)

 

Heroes Unite
Concert Duration: 2 hours (includes intermission)

Jasmine Barnes
Songs of Paul (125th birthday tribute to Paul Robeson)
World Premiere, commissioned by Orpheus

Karen Slack, soprano
Will Liverman, baritone

Orpheus stands up for justice and freedom in this homage to courageous
voices. Beethoven, an unyielding critic of despots, channeled his
ardor and rage into music for Goethe’s historical drama about a
local hero defying foreign occupiers. Live Schreiber narrates an
incisive new translation by Philip Boehm, while the clarion voice of
Karen Slack and Orpheus illuminate the eternal truths of Egmont. Will
Liverman, the “muscular-voiced baritone,” (The New York Times)
joins for the World Premiere of Songs of Paul by Jasmine Barnes, a
125th birthday tribute to the singer-activist Paul Robeson.

The original narrative text by Franz Grillparzer to accompany
Beethoven’s incidental music to Goethe’s Egmont was translated and
adapted by Philip Boehm for Orpheus in 2020.

About the artists

Live Schreiber - Narrator

Heralded as “the finest American theater actor of his generation”
by the New York Times, Live Schreiber’s repertoire of resonant,
humanistic, and often gritty performances have garnered him praise in
film, theater, and television.

Schreiber will next be seen with Tom Hanks, Margot Robbie, Scarlett
Johansson, and Maya Hawke in the upcoming Wes Anderson film Asteroid
City, which follows the attendees of a Junior Stargazer convention in
a fictional desert town circa 1955. The film will premiere at The
Cannes Film Festival. Schreiber also stars as ‘Otto Frank,’ father
of Anne Frank, in the National Geographic limited drama series for
Disney+ A Small Light.

Karen Slack - Soprano

Hailed as possessing a voice of extraordinary beauty, celebrated
American soprano Karen Slack has garnered international renown for her
artistic versatility, charisma and entrepreneurial endeavors. A
recipient of the 2022 Sphinx Medal of Excellence, Slack is known for
her dynamic and passionate performances in both lead operatic roles
and on the concert stage; as a sought-after collaborator, curator, and
artistic advisor; and for her ground-breaking approach to engagement.
She is an Artistic Advisor for Portland Opera, Co-Chair of the Women's
Opera Network with Opera America, and serves on the board of the
American Composer’s Orchestra. In January 2022, Slack was appointed
Creative Partner with Brooklyn’s National Sawdust, opening with a
solo recital and continuing through multiple programs throughout the
season.

Will Liverman - Baritone

Called “a voice for this historic moment” (Washington Post),
GRAMMY-winning baritone Will Liverman is the recipient of the 2022
Beverly Sills Artist Award by The Metropolitan Opera. He opened the
Met’s 2021-22 season in a celebrated “breakout performance” (New
York Times) as Charles in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My
Bones, which received the 2023 Grammy for 'Best Opera Recording.'
Following Fire’s success, the Met announced that Liverman will star
in Anthony Davis’ X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, which will be
the third opera by a Black composer in the company’s history,
premiering in the fall of 2023.

Jasmine Barnes - Composer

Jasmine Arielle Barnes is a promising composer/vocalist who has
performed and has had her music performed all over the world. She is a
multifaceted composer who embraces any writing style of music using a
variety of instrumentation and specializes in writing for the voice. A
full time composer, Barnes is managed by UIA talent for her work as a
composer, is a resident artist in American Lyric Theater's Composer
Librettist Development Program, and has held residencies as a composer
fellow at Chautauqua Opera 2021 season, as well as a residency with
All Classical Portland. Barnes has been privileged to be commissioned
by numerous organizations such as The Washington National Opera (in
celebration of the Kennedy Center's 50th year anniversary), Bare
Opera, Aspen Summer Music Festival, Baltimore Choral Arts, Resonance
Ensemble, Tapestry Choir, CityMusic Cleveland, LyricFest Philadelphia,
Burleigh Music Festival, Symphony Number One, Baltimore Musicales,
amongst others. Jasmine is beginning to be noticed for her work.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for
peace, and no one can silence me in this.
PAUL ROBESON

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Watch here [[link removed]]  - Paul Robeson: The
singer who fought for justice and paid with his life
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GET TICKETS HERE
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60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MARCH FOR FREEDOM - DETROIT - JUNE 7
 (MICHIGAN LABOR HISTORY SOCIETY)

 

Celebrate the 60th anniversary of the March for Freedom in Detroit
with the Michigan Labor History Society. Historian Ken Coleman will
speak, and food and beverages will be served. Free admission.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, AT UAW LOCAL 22, 4300 MICHIGAN AVE., DETROIT. Free
parking.

 

THE ROSENBERG CASE 70 YEARS LATER: FIGHTING FASCISM THEN AND NOW - TWO
SCREENING DATES – JUNE 14TH OR JUNE 25TH  (ROSENBERG FUND FOR
CHILDREN)

 

Film screening honoring the Rosenbergs' resistance and highlighting
anti-fascism organizing within the RFC beneficiary community

Seventy years ago on June 19th, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were denied
clemency for the last time, and their executions were allowed to go
forward. They lost their lives to the anti-communist hysteria of the
McCarthy era.

The day before their deaths, they wrote one final letter to their
young sons, Robert and Michael, sharing that they were comforted in
the sure knowledge that others would carry on after them. The
Rosenberg Fund for Children (RFC), founded as Robert’s
“constructive revenge,” justifies their faith and provides support
to the multitudes of people across generations who have continued the
fight against fascism and injustice.

Join us virtually for the premiere of a short film produced by the RFC
on either of two screening dates – June 14th or June 25th. The event
will feature long-time activist and RFC Advisory Board member Angela
Y. Davis, National Book award-winning poet and RFC Advisory Board
member Martín Espada, Highlander Center Co-Executive Director Ash-Lee
Woodard Henderson, Rosenberg sons Robert and Michael Meeropol and
other artists and activists. This 70th anniversary commemoration will
honor Ethel and Julius’ resistance and legacy and share 30+ years of
RFC beneficiary stories that illuminate the ongoing battle against
fascism.

The film will include readings and dramatized vignettes, interspersed
with art, which will draw from letters written by Ethel and Julius
Rosenberg and other activists’ stories from within the RFC
community. We’ll conclude the event with a live conversation between
Robert, RFC Executive Director Jennifer Meeropol and audience members.
Amidst the rise of racist, xenophobic and nationalistic oppression in
the U.S. across the generations, this event will highlight the
powerful current of anti-fascist activism that continues to this day.

TICKET INFO:

* A donation of $70 or more per person qualifies for our Sponsor
level ticket. As a perk, all Sponsor names will be acknowledged in the
film (unless you prefer to be listed as anonymous). PLEASE NOTE:
Sponsor tickets must be purchased by June 1st to have donor names
included in the acknowledgements.

* General Admission tickets are sold by donation of any amount of
your choosing.

* We wish for all who would like to attend to have equal access. In
that spirit, and in solidarity with community members for whom a
donation to the RFC would be burdensome, Community Share tickets are
available at no cost.

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