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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – DECEMBER 5, 2023
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_ Alan Moore's appeal for democracy _
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* The Comic Book Bard Who Saved Brazil
* Israel, Palestine and Politics
* Florida High School Students Walk Out for Trans Rights
* History is a Battlefield
* Women Held the SAG-AFTRA Strike Together
* The Fall of an Arizona Border Wall
* Thinking About Free Speech
* It’s Hard Down Here for a MAGAt
* Kids Tell Moms for Liberty to Eff Off
* Remembering Amber Hollibaugh
THE COMIC BOOK BARD WHO SAVED BRAZIL
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By Rich Johnston
Bleeding Cool
“This journalist was saying that I do have apparently quite a big
following in Brazil. And would I write a letter explaining why
everybody should vote for Lula rather than Bolsonaro to end fascism in
Brazil forever? ... I wrote this letter that started dearest Brazil
and I really wrote my heart out. Apparently he sent it to da Silva and
da Silva posted it... and got in by a very very narrow margin.”
ISRAEL, PALESTINE AND POLITICS
* LEFT AND RIGHT
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By Avishay Artsy, Vox
* AIPAC BEING AIPAC
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By Amos Barshad, The Lever
* GAZA AND THE MEMORY OF THE HOLOCAUST
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By Enzo Traverso, Verso Books
* ZIONISM AND THE GREAT DENIAL
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and Darryl Li, The Baffler
* HOW TO READ THE ISRAELI “KIDNAPPED” POSTERS
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By Greg Grandin, The Intercept
FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WALK OUT FOR TRANS RIGHTS
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By Richard Luscombe
The Guardian
Hundreds of students at a south Florida high school walked out of
lessons on Tuesday in support of a principal and senior staff who were
reassigned for reportedly violating Ron DeSantis’s law on
transgender athletes. The students staged a short protest on school
grounds at lunchtime, many wearing pink clothes and carrying placards
with messages including “Free Cecil” and “Let her play.”
HISTORY IS A BATTLEFIELD
* TEXAS MYTHS
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By Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor
* D. W. GRIFFITH’S DISTORTED LENS
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By Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch
WOMEN HELD THE SAG-AFTRA STRIKE TOGETHER
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By Cynthia Littleton
Variety
Some did it out of a sense of obligation. Some did it out of fear of
being idle. Some leaned on maternal instinct, and some acted purely
out of anger. Whatever the motivation, female writers and showrunners
stepped up in record numbers to serve as strike captains during the
Writers Guild of America’s five-month contract battle.
THE FALL OF AN ARIZONA BORDER WALL
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By Makepeace Sitlhou, Trilce Estrada Olvera and Hakob Karapetyan
Yes!
The Arizona governor used his office to invoke an executive
order that authorized the state to build a border wall on federal
land to “mitigate the disaster” of migrant influx. A resistance
movement spread through traditional word of mouth, and thus the crowd
of local activists, artists, and concerned citizens grew by the day.
THINKING ABOUT FREE SPEECH
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By Lorna Finlayson
New Left Review
The most vociferous opponents of ‘cancel culture’ have been
strangely silent – or worse – in recent weeks on the suppression
of speech in support of the Palestinians or critical of Israel.
‘Free speech’ has a political function. Elaborate twists,
somersaults and pirouettes are performed to make this most sacrosanct
of freedoms do the bidding of those who invoke it.
IT’S HARD DOWN HERE FOR A MAGAT
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By Amanda Marcotte
Salon
Men who love Donald Trump struggle on the dating market. This is
neither surprising nor regrettable. Supporting Trump is a repugnant
habit that makes you repulsive to normal people. Yet our sexist
culture remains too enamored by stories of female self-sacrifice to
accept that it's just fine if Trump voters never get laid.
KIDS TELL MOMS FOR LIBERTY TO EFF OFF
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By Chris Walker
Truthout
Students at a school in the Seattle Public School District sent a
batch of letters to Moms for Liberty, encouraging the recognized hate
group to end its crusade against LGBTQ people. Instead, the
organization blasted the school in a social media post that included
images revealing the school’s address, and falsely claimed that the
letters were part of a classroom curriculum that was
“indoctrinating” students.
REMEMBERING AMBER HOLLIBAUGH
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By JoAnn Wypijewski
The Nation
Amber Hollibaugh, a self-described “lesbian sex radical Marxist
ex-hooker incest survivor rural Gypsy working-class poor white trash
high femme dyke”, spent a lifetime breaking silences around sex,
insisting that not only is ecstasy fundamental to human _being_ but
that any political movement that fails to grasp the totality of
people’s complex desiring lives will never achieve the goal of
liberation.
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* The Holocaust
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* Monarch High School
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* trans rights
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* U.S. history
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* Birth of a Nation
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* Women
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* SAG-AFTRA
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* Arizona
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* Free Speech
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* Donald Trump
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* Moms For Liberty
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* Amber Hollibaugh
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