[A month of renewed protest and repression]
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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – OCTOBER 24, 2023
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October 24, 2023
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_ A month of renewed protest and repression _
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* Responses to the Siege of Gaza
* Pipeline Plugged
* The Anti-Abortion Movement’s New Campaign
* Has Chick-fil-A Gone Woke?
* A Historic Climate Fight in North Carolina
* A Long Game to Undercut Democracy
* Labor Education Starts in School
* Cornel West’s Erratic Campaign
* GOP, UAW and China
* Ursula Le Guin’s Radical Utopias
RESPONSES TO THE SIEGE OF GAZA
* WHY I STAND WITH PALESTINE
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Judith Pasternak, The Indypendent
* SCENES FROM A PROTEST
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By Arielle Isack, The Baffler
* GEN Z AND GAZA
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By Gabriella Borter and Joseph Ax, US News and World Report
* A SURGE IN SUPPRESSION
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By Dylan Saba, N+1
* CANCEL CULTURE FROM THE TOP DOWN
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By Timothy Noah, The New Republic
* STARBUCKS BRINGS THE WAR HOME —
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TO ITS WORKERS
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By Ryan Grim, The Intercept
PIPELINE PLUGGED
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By Julia Conley
Common Dreams
Navigator CO2 Ventures said it was abandoning plans to build the
$3.5 billion, 1,300-mile Heartland Greenway pipeline project—whose
backers included investment firm BlackRock and Valero Energy—after
South Dakota regulators denied a permit. Advocates credited
campaigning by residents who spoke out against the company's plan to
potentially use eminent domain to gain access to land.
THE ANTI-ABORTION MOVEMENT’S NEW CAMPAIGN
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By Jessica Valenti
Abortion, Every Day
More than a year after _Roe_’s demise, Americans are still furious
and Republicans are still losing at the polls—but the anti-abortion
movement is full steam ahead. They’re thinking bigger than ever,
cultural and political backlash be damned. The activists that
decimated abortion rights have quietly rolled out a new initiative to
force American women to carry doomed pregnancies to term.
HAS CHICK-FIL-A GONE WOKE?
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By Veronika Bondarenko
TheStreet
Chick-fil-A became the subject of a national firestorm when, in
2012, then-CEO Dan T. Cathy made a number of comments against LGBTQ
people and some customers dug up that the chain regularly donated to
Christian charities campaigning against same-sex marriage. The
chain committed to fully divesting from organizations opposing
same-sex marriage in 2019.
A HISTORIC CLIMATE FIGHT IN NORTH CAROLINA
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By Rund Abdelfatah, et al.
NPR
People like Dollie Burwell had figured out a way to reach people
“the old-fashioned way,” Dollie Burwell says — door to door,
church to church, friend to friend, cousin to cousin. It was
understood that the county being mostly Black and poor probably had a
lot to do with why PCBs got dumped there, and why a landfill was now
being built.
A LONG GAME TO UNDERCUT DEMOCRACY
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By Cullen Peele
Human Rights Campaign
The Alliance Defending Freedom is classified as a hate group by the
Southern Poverty Law Center. Yet many judges and lawmakers continue to
welcome its influence and guidance. This guidance includes the
peddling of false or misleading information to develop case law
restricting the rights of LGBTQ+ people through the courts.
LABOR EDUCATION STARTS IN SCHOOL
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By Sonali Kolhatkar
Z
Teaching students about the rich history of labor organizing in the
U.S. can offer a solid foundation upon which to inform them about
their own rights in the workplace. AB 800, which California Governor
Gavin Newsom just signed into law, does precisely that: teaching
younger generations about labor in a way that doesn’t reinforce
capitalist values and corporate ethos.
CORNEL WEST’S ERRATIC CAMPAIGN
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By Calder McHugh
Politico
West thinks the Greens can’t take him where he wants to go. The
Greens think West is throwing away movement politics and blowing up
his own campaign to boot. With some remove, it’s easy to see the
split as the latest example of the narcissism of small differences
that’s plagued segments of the modern left in recent years.
GOP, UAW AND CHINA
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By Jeff Schuhrke and Sarah Lazare
In These Times
Rather than actually supporting auto workers in their strike against
billionaire CEOs at the Big Three, GOP officials are instead using the
labor action to rail against electric vehicles and stoke conflict with
China.
URSULA LE GUIN’S RADICAL UTOPIAS
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By Nick Hubble
Jacobin
Only the reality of the past and the future, held within human memory
and intention, makes the present real. Not only does Le Guin’s
fiction symbolize the possibility of change for socialist readers,
then; it also gives some idea of the sheer degree of the mental work
required for us to comprehend the radical difference that would be
entailed by that change.
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* Israel
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* Palestine
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* Harvard University
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* Heartland Greenway pipeline
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* Nebraska
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* anti-abortion
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* Chick-fil-A
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* climate justice
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* North Carolina
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* LGBT Rights
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* Labor education
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* Cornel West
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* Green Party
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* republicans
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* UAW
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* China
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* Ursula K. Le Guin
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