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CEASEFIRE, STOP THE BOMBING, FREE THE HOSTAGES; STOP ETHNIC CLEANSING;
STAGGERING OIL PROFITS; BELA LUGOSI; ARTISTS CALL FOR CEASEFIRE NOW;
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ISRAEL - GAZA WAR

* RE: EVEN IN THEIR ANGUISH, THESE ISRAELI SURVIVORS SAY INVADING
GAZA WON’T HELP  (NORM LITTLEJOHN)
* WAR AND PEACE POSTER  -- DESIGNED BY ARMANDO MILANI
* “I WISH IT WAS A DREAM.”  --BY PALESTINIAN ARTIST: MAHMOUD
SALAMEH
* RE: I RUN THE UN AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES. HISTORY WILL JUDGE
US ALL IF THERE IS NO CEASEFIRE IN GAZA  (PETE SEIDMAN)
* BOMBING GAZA  -- ROB ROGERS CARTOON
* RE: TAKE ACTION: NEVER AGAIN. FOR ANYONE.  (DANIEL MILLSTONE)
* THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE WILL NOT BE DESTROYED  --  GRAPHIC
* RE: TO DEFEAT INJUSTICE FOLLOW MANDELA’S, CASTRO’S EXAMPLE
 (OTIS)
* WHEN SETTLERS BECOME CIVILIANS  (MOHAMMED JAMEEL ABDULLA)
* GAZA SIEGE: THE 'ETHICAL' CLEANSING.  --  SWAHA CARTOON
* RE: IS THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION DEAD?  (STAN NADEL)
* LETTER TO VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS  (JAMES E VANN)

READER COMMENTS; CARTOONS:

* NEW SPEAKER CROWNED  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
* RE: THE EMERGING COALITION THAT COULD REVITALIZE OUR POLITICS
 (ELEANOR ROOSEVELT)
* RE: YOUTH LEAD THE WAY ON ADDRESSING THE CLIMATE CRISIS  (NORM
LITTLEJOHN)
* EXXON AND CHEVRON JUST ANNOUNCED STAGGERING Q3 PROFITS.  (GIVE A
SHIFT ABOUT NATURE)
* RE: BELA LUGOSI: THE PEOPLE’S HORROR STAR  (JODDA MITCHELL;
SANDER FEINBERG; JOHN EMERSON; MONIKA RIESENBERG; AMY MCCARTHY; MIKE
PONZILLO)
* NEW GOP HOUSE SPEAKER...AND MEDICARE  (ARLENE HALFON)
* RE: TUMULTUOUS TIMES FOR THE LEFT IN EUROPE  (DAVID BACON; STAN
NADEL)
* RE: CHICAGO IS CONSIDERING OPENING A MUNICIPAL GROCERY STORE
 (EDWARD CLOONAN)
* RE: U.S. LABOR MOVEMENT FACES BIG OBSTACLES DESPITE SURGE IN
STRIKES AND UNION WINS  (NATALYA PANTELEYEVA)

RESOURCES:

* WAR IS NOT HEALTHY.....(ANOTHER MOTHER FOR PEACE)

* ARTISTS CALL FOR CEASEFIRE NOW

* OH RASCAL CHILDREN OF GAZA - A POEM BY KHALED JUMA

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

* WORKERS UNITE FILM FESTIVAL - NEW YORK AND VIRTUAL - OCTOBER 27 -
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RE: EVEN IN THEIR ANGUISH, THESE ISRAELI SURVIVORS SAY INVADING GAZA
WON’T HELP  

“I just don’t think it will bring us any closer to a better
position,” Yonatan Zeigen, whose mother, Vivian Silver, is believed
to be a hostage in Gaza, said. “Vengeance is not something to build
foundations on. It is not a strategy. How many dead Palestinians will
be enough for us to feel safe? I don’t think there’s any number.
And it’s just the wrong thing to do.”

If even people like him, personally shattered by a barbaric terror
attack, can muster the clarity to understand that relentless
bombardment and a ground invasion may not help, perhaps there’s hope
for the rest of us. May we learn from their wisdom and humanity.

Norm Littlejohn
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WAR AND PEACE POSTER  -- DESIGNED BY ARMANDO MILANI

Designed by the Italian artist Armando Milani
August 2021 for UN/Department of Global Communications
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“I WISH IT WAS A DREAM.”  --BY PALESTINIAN ARTIST: MAHMOUD
SALAMEH

Mahmoud Salameh
October 30, 2023
The Art of Occupied Palestine
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RE: I RUN THE UN AGENCY FOR PALESTINE REFUGEES. HISTORY WILL JUDGE US
ALL IF THERE IS NO CEASEFIRE IN GAZA  

Pete Seidman
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BOMBING GAZA  -- ROB ROGERS CARTOON

Rob Rogers
October 31, 2023
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RE: TAKE ACTION: NEVER AGAIN. FOR ANYONE.  

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Daniel Millstone
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THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE WILL NOT BE DESTROYED  --  GRAPHIC

RE: TO DEFEAT INJUSTICE FOLLOW MANDELA’S, CASTRO’S EXAMPLE  

This a very short and great article. It’s also a good response to
August’s piece though it was not written as that.

In solidarity

Otis

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WHEN SETTLERS BECOME CIVILIANS  

By Mohammed Jameel Abdulla

October 12, 2023
Africa Is A Country
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The tragedy of settler-colonialism.

When settlers first arrive cosmic violence befalls those they
dispossess.

The settlers bring with them destruction, death, and desolation. They
erase and render your history, knowledge, spirituality, and humanity
null. They enact the original sin that diverts the fated future of a
people away from Possibility, to one of Dispossession.

The settlers are clear enemies of the Dispossessed because of this.
Invaders. Murderers. Thieves. It can only mean war. There are no
allusions. All lines are clear. The logical conclusion to the settler
question is unambiguous.

But years, decades, and centuries after the original sin of
dispossession takes place, a secondary travesty befalls the
Dispossessed.

After the settler settles, they birth families, build communities,
develop independent histories, learn and form relationships with the
land and some even mix with the Dispossessed—whether through
partnership, shared experiences, human connection, or political
allegiance.

At this stage, the original sin still remains but the Dispossessed are
no longer dealing with weapon-wielding, crusading insurgents. Now they
are dealing with their children, the beneficiaries of violence, who
have developed a sense of belonging to the space. The beneficiaries
are now building toward a future of Possibility there, which may
include some of the Dispossessed, under certain conditions.

A secondary cosmic violence befalls the Dispossessed. The invaders
have become normalized. The conquest is complete. The settlers have
become civilians.

When this tragedy takes place, the original sin becomes unendingly
complex to resolve. To pursue the logical conclusion to the settler
question means warfare. To adopt an attitude of warfare toward
civilians defies common-sense morality.

In pursuing this path of justice for the original sin, a third cosmic
horror befalls the Dispossessed: the Dispossessed become terrorists.

_[Mohammed Jameel Abdulla works at Tshisimani Centre for Activist
Education in Cape Town as a social media specialist, content creator
and digital activism educator.]_

GAZA SIEGE: THE 'ETHICAL' CLEANSING.  --  SWAHA CARTOON  

 

Swaha Cartoons
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October 2023

RE: IS THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION DEAD?  

It is, but not for the reason these 2 Israel haters claim. It is dead
because Hamas now leads the "Resistance" and is opposed to any and all
possible 2 state solutions--only a one Judenfrei state will satisfy
them, and almost all Israelis now recognize that reality and
understand what it means--October 7 on a mass scale. Giving Hamas a
bigger state would, in their eyes, be suicidal. Are they wrong?

Stan Nadel

LETTER TO VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS

Dear Vice President Kamala Harris

The world is on fire -- including US voters -- with anti-Israel
rallies calling for a "humanitarian stoppage" of Israel's
indiscriminate slaughter and leveling to rubble all Palestinian
buildings, housing, and essential infrastructure.

The Biden Administration's silence in response to the anti-Geneva
Conventions "genocide" being carried out essentially uncontested by
Israel against the innocent Palestinian people will itself lose the
presidency for Biden-Harris.

While the wildly disproportionate thousands of Palestinians, children,
and babies die, or vanish due to denial of food, water, shelter, fuel,
medicine, communication access ... the "sick" and "maddening" response
from the entire administration is: "ISRAEL HAS THE RIGHT TO DEFEND
ITSELF."

Everyone who hears that idiotic reply knows what it really means:
 "WHILE ISRAEL "ETHNICALLY CLEANSES" THE PALESTINIANS FROM THEIR
MIDST ... THE US WILL STAND BY SILENTLY, BUT COMPLICIT, IN SUPPLYING
ALL THE ADVANCED MILITARY WEAPONRY ISRAEL DESIRES."

Widespread frustration, disillusion, humiliation, and anger at the
White House is rapidly expanding while hungering for simple
rationality ... This is anger that is not going away, and -- if not
satisfactorily consoled -- will find its outlet at the voting booth
next November.

James E Vann,
Longtime community and political advocate
in Oakland California

NEW SPEAKER CROWNED  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH

Mike Luckovich
October 26, 2023
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: THE EMERGING COALITION THAT COULD REVITALIZE OUR POLITICS  

Remember when women workers were on the front lines of labor battles?
Not just with picket signs, but with clubs and blackjacks fighting off
cops and goons? Spirit of '37, baby.

Eleanor Roosevelt
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RE: YOUTH LEAD THE WAY ON ADDRESSING THE CLIMATE CRISIS  

A district court judge ruled that state agencies were violating the
plaintiffs’ constitutionally guaranteed right to a clean and healthy
environment. The case is the first of its kind to successfully use a
state constitution to ensure intergenerational climate justice.

 The momentum of the youth initiative in Montana extends far beyond
its borders. Our Children’s Trust has filed youth-led climate
lawsuits and other legal actions in all fifty states. The nonprofit
currently also has ongoing litigation in Florida, Hawai‘i, Utah, and
Virginia.

Norm Littlejohn
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EXXON AND CHEVRON JUST ANNOUNCED STAGGERING Q3 PROFITS.

Give A Shift About Nature
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Exxon, Chevron Profits Surged Ahead of Megadeals
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RE: BELA LUGOSI: THE PEOPLE’S HORROR STAR  

Anti-fascists, leftists, socialists, radicals, and revolutionaries
looking for a horror film to watch this October should seek out one of
Bela Lugosi’s classics. But please broaden your horizons beyond
Dracula. You won’t regret it.

Jodda Mitchell
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Bela Lugosi: The People's Horror Star was very timely since a new
detailed bio of Lugosi was just announced on Kickstarter. It was
written by Robert Cremer and based on extensive interviews with Bela's
family and friends.

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Sander Feinberg

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Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre were also on the left, and that's part
of why they played in B movies.

John Emerson

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Great stuff thanks !!!

Monika Riesenberg

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Bela Lugosi was performing in summer stock. My parents, were also
performing. When my mom had me in 1949, they made him my godfather.
His passion was H. O. trains! Elaborate tracks on a huge board filled
his Living Room!

Amy McCarthy
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A legend.

Mike Ponzillo
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NEW GOP HOUSE SPEAKER...AND MEDICARE  

He talks about being a good Christian. Yep, Jesus would have cut
social security, food, lodging, health care, etc. I'm not a Christian
but everything i'm told about real Christianity conflicts with this
man's values. What am I missing.

Arlene Halfon

RE: TUMULTUOUS TIMES FOR THE LEFT IN EUROPE  

Thanks for reposting Nick Wright's brilliant analysis of the crisis of
the left in France and Germany.  The NYT ran a hit piece on
Wagenknecht, the only article on the left in Germany I can remember
their running in years.  Nick makes the politics very clear.

David Bacon

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The Wagenknecht party

She combines some socialist policies with nationalist anti-immigrant,
anti-green, anti anti-racism, and other right wing themes. Nationalism
and socialism, hmm, now what would we call that? Maybe we could find a
precedent in German history.

Stan Nadel

RE: CHICAGO IS CONSIDERING OPENING A MUNICIPAL GROCERY STORE

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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The state store system of liquor and wine sales has been fantastically
profitable for the people of Pennsylvania since 1933 for ninety years
each and every year and operated in a way that protected the common
good selling a dangerous drug.

The government is capable of making money while operating in the
public interest.

Edward Cloonan

RE: U.S. LABOR MOVEMENT FACES BIG OBSTACLES DESPITE SURGE IN STRIKES
AND UNION WINS

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The current share of manufacturing in the US is very low. This
explains in part low union participation that in now increasing in the
"services" sector.

We have shortage of business people. Those capable of starting,
growing and scaling their businesses.

Low wages and underappreciation of the workforce is a cultural
phenomenon. Carnegie's war on his workers was a mistake stemming from
political and cultural beliefs in his era. The same misguided beliefs
are imbalancing and distorting the economy now.

The pool of business people is so restrictive now, it does not produce
enough with new ideas and real business acumen. It does not take an
MBA to cut jobs, depress wages and make one person work for a
department to deliver record profits. It is not sustainable. The real
business people understood that and have been sounding the alarm for a
while now that they alone with their huge compensation can't consume
at the rate commensurate with their compensation. They do not need
hundreds of pairs of dress pants, for instance.

Do you have stories of businesses and business people who are
unusually great in our economy? When the only tool is raising prices,
it makes people dumb and businesses not sustainable. Which companies
are lowering prices without overseas child labor and underpaying for
raw materials? Who are really creative, effective and efficient?

Natalya Panteleyeva

WAR IS NOT HEALTHY.....

Original Graphic by Lorraine Art Schneider for Another Mother for
Peace [[link removed]], Inc.1967

Another Mother for Peace was founded in 1967 by a group of women
strongly opposed to the war in Vietnam. Their mission was to create a
non-partisan, non-profit organization “to educate women to take an
active role in eliminating war as a means of solving disputes between
nations, people and ideologies.” Dedicated to the principle that war
is obsolete, AMP encouraged its members to take action by writing to
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AMP is a non-profit, non-partisan association.

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ARTISTS CALL FOR CEASEFIRE NOW

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Dear President Biden,

We come together as artists and advocates, but most importantly as
human beings witnessing the devastating loss of lives and unfolding
horrors in Israel and Palestine.

We ask that, as President of the United States, you and the US
Congress call for an immediate de-escalation and ceasefire in Gaza and
Israel before another life is lost. More than 5,000 people have been
killed in the last week and a half – a number any person of
conscience knows is catastrophic. We believe all life is sacred, no
matter faith or ethnicity and we condemn the killing of Palestinian
and Israeli civilians.

We urge your administration, Congress, and all world leaders, to honor
all of the lives in the Holy Land and call for and facilitate a
ceasefire without delay – an end to the bombing of Gaza, and the
safe release of hostages. Half of Gaza’s two million residents are
children, and more than two thirds are refugees and their descendants
being forced to flee their homes. Humanitarian aid must be allowed to
reach them.

We believe that the United States can play a vital diplomatic role in
ending the suffering and we are adding our voices to those from the US
Congress, UNICEF, Doctors without Borders, The International Committee
of The Red Cross, and so many others. Saving lives is a moral
imperative. To echo UNICEF, “Compassion — and international law
— must prevail.”

As of this writing more than 6,000 bombs have been dropped on Gaza in
the last 12 days - resulting in one child being killed every 15
minutes.

"Children and families in Gaza have practically run out of food,
water, electricity, medicine and safe access to hospitals, following
days of air strikes and cuts to all supply routes. Gaza’s sole power
plant ran out of fuel Wednesday afternoon, shutting down electricity,
water and wastewater treatment. Most residents can no longer get
drinking water from service providers or household water through
pipelines.... The humanitarian situation has reached lethal lows, and
yet all reports point to further attacks. Compassion — and
international law — must prevail.” – UNICEF spokesperson James
Elder

Beyond our pain and mourning for all of the people there and their
loved ones around the world we are motivated by an unbending will to
stand for our common humanity. We stand for freedom, justice, dignity
and peace for all people – and a deep desire to stop more bloodshed.

We refuse to tell future generations the story of our silence, that we
stood by and did nothing. As Emergency Relief Chief Martin Griffiths
told UN News, “History is watching.”

Supported by Oxfam America & ActionAid USA

Signers from Allison Russell, Amanda Gorman, America Ferrera + Ani
DiFranco to Margaret Cho, Tony Kushner, Mandy Patinkin, Wallace Shawn,
Jon Stewart + Wanda Sykes.

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OH RASCAL CHILDREN OF GAZA - A POEM BY KHALED JUMA

Rafah-born author and poet Khaled Juma wrote a heartbreaking tribute
to the children of the Gaza Strip amidst the missiles striking his
hometown. At least 506 Palestinian children have been killed since
Israel commenced its latest invasion (at that time) of Gaza on July 8,
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Oh rascal children of Gaza.
You who constantly disturbed me
with your screams under my window.
You who filled every morning
with rush and chaos.
You who broke my vase
and stole the lonely flower on my balcony.
Come back,
and scream as you want
and break all the vases.
Steal all the flowers.
Come back.
Just come back…

— Khaled Juma, Palestinian poet, 2014

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